''Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn.''
''Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed.''
''Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land.''
''Let him not breed in great numbers,
for he will make a desert of his home, and yours.''
''Shun him... for he is the harbinger of death.''
Nova.
- Where will you go? - Follow the shoreline.
Don't try to follow us. l'm pretty handy with this.
Of that l'm sure.
All my life l've awaited your coming and dreaded it.
You're afraid of me and you hate me. Why?
The forbidden zone was once a paradise.
Your breed made a desert of it ages ago.
lt still doesn't give me the why.
A planet where apes evolved from men.
There's gotta be an answer.
Don't look for it, Taylor.
You may not like what you find.
Zira. Cornelius. Untie me.
What will he find out there, Doctor?
His destiny.
Damn you all to hell!
- Food... - No. No, no, skipper. lt's me again.
Just me.
- Brent... - Sir?
- Did you contact Earth? - l tried to, sir. Not a crackle.
Skipper, l took an Earth time reading just before reentry.
What'd you get?
3-9-5-5.
Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-five.
- AD. - Almighty God.
Well, we were following Taylor's trajectory.
Whatever happened to us must have happened to him.
What about us? Where are we?
Well, in my opinion, skipper,
we've passed through a Hasslein Curve, a bend in time.
l don't know what planet we're on, but the fact is, we're both of us here,
we're breathing, we're conscious, we got plenty of oxygen, water...
Here.
No, we're gonna be all right, skipper. We're gonna be all right.
As soon as you feel better, we'll run a navigational estimate.
God, if l could only see the sun.
lt's up there all right.
You can feel it.
Yes. But which sun?
l don't know. l don't know. Our computer's shot. We're lucky to be alive.
Lucky? No.
lf it's 3955 AD, l...
Oh, my God. My wife.
My two daughters.
Dead.
Everyone l ever knew.
Everyone.
Who are you?
l... Don't be afraid. l just...
Just tell me where l am.
Can you understand me?
My name's Brent.
Brent.
No. No, no, l don't wanna hurt you. l...
l just wanna know where l am.
Where are you from? l mean, your people. Where are they?
How do l... How do l get to them? Which way?
Can you... Can you talk?
Right, right. So you can't talk.
What's that?
Taylor!
Where is he?
Taylor. Taylor.
Nova.
Come on.
That's the idea. Taylor.
Nova. Here.
Taylor.
Here. There's a prize. You go to the head ofthe class.
Why don't we just settle down and found a colony?
All the kids'll learn to talk.
Sure they will.
Now, where in hell do we go from here?
We might make it yet.
Taylor. Taylor. Just tell me what happened to him.
ls he hurt? ls he alive?
Where is he?
That wasn't here.
A minute ago, that wasn't here.
l'm not the only one. She sees it too.
Listen. Listen, now.
lf you lose me...
lf you lose me,
try to find Zira.
Remember? Zira. Go find Zira.
Zira.
This tag. Did he give it to you?
Where did you get this?
Look, is there... is there someone...
some other... someone who can talk?
Look, you take me
to Taylor.
Taylor.
Taylor. Now. Which way?
My God! lt's...
lt's a city of apes!
l'll tell you one thing that every good soldier knows.
The only thing that counts in the end is power!
Naked, merciless force!
Members ofthe Citizens' Council, l am a simple soldier.
And as a soldier, l see things simply.
l don't say all humans are evil, simply because their skin is white.
No! But our great Lawgiver tells us
that never, never will the human have the ape's divine faculty
for being able to distinguish between evil and good.
Because the only good human is a dead human!
lt's a bloody nightmare.
But those fortunate enough to remain alive
will have the privilege of being used by our revered minister of science,
the good Dr Zaius.
- Zira, stop. You're in danger. - So is the future of science,
with that rabble-rouser fomenting a senseless military adventure.
The forbidden zone has been closed for centuries, and rightly so.
However, we now have evidence that that vast barren area is inhabited.
By what or by whom, we don't know.
But ifthey live, and live they do, then they must eat.
Now we must replenish the lands that were ravaged by the humans
with new, improved feeding grounds.
And these grounds we can obtain in the once forbidden zone.
lt is therefore our holy duty to put our feet upon it,
to enter it, to put the marks of our guns and our wheels and our flags upon it!
To expand the boundaries of our ineluctable power!
And to invade!
lnvade!
lnvade! lnvade!
- Zira, as your husband, l beg you to stand. - Only for my principles.
All right. For your principles and mine. Only please stand.
l gotta get out. Yeah, l gotta get back up there.
l don't know how, or what with, but l'm not staying here.
Well, General, l only pray you know what you're doing.
How can you have any doubt, Dr Zaius?
You're aware ofthe reports we've received
of strange manifestations in the forbidden zone.
Manifestations which you, if l might add,
as minister of science have been unable to fathom.
Twelve. Twelve of my finest scouts just disappeared. Vanished into thin air.
Eleven.
Very well, eleven. Eleven.
And the twelfth returned with incredible stories of huge walls offire,
strange, violent earthquakes,
his mind gone, shattered no doubt by some un-simian torture.
Well, General, l still think you're being hasty.
No, Doctor. Decisive. So we invade, or we stop.
- lt's as simple as that. - And as dangerous.
What is more dangerous than famine, Doctor?
The unknown.
lf l had any proper sense of scientific purpose, Cornelius,
l shouldn't cut up the healthy heads of humans.
l should dissect the diseased brains of gorillas to find out what went wrong.
And how would you put it right?
l'd wet-nurse their babies on the milk of chimpanzees.
The milk of kindness.
At least our child when it's born won't be breast-fed on bile.
You know, my dear, the trouble with us intellectuals
is that we have responsibilities and no power.
l think l'll make a chocolate icing. Do you like chocolate?
- What, dear? - No, no, no. Of course you don't.
- But l do. - lfwe had that power here in our hands,
we'd be worse than them.
l don't agree. Gorillas are cruel because they're stupid.
- All bone and no brain. - Zira, my dear,
l wish you would not talk like that.
Somebody is liable to hear you.
- Nova! - What are you doing here?
Taylor?
No, not Taylor. My name's Brent.
You talked.
That's impossible.
ln a whole lifetime devoted to the scientific study of humans,
l've only found one other who could talk.
- Yes. Taylor. - Taylor. ls he alive? Have you seen him?
- Where? Where? Tell us. - Where? Where? l don't know where.
l'm trying to find him.
The longer l stay around here, the less l'm beginning to care.
We loved Taylor. He was a fine, a unique, specimen.
Why, if it had not been for Zira here, he would still be here,
a stuffed specimen in the great hall of the Zaius Museum with his two friends.
With his two friends?
l don't plan to stay here quite that long.
Can you get me some food, some water?
A map, so at least l'll have some idea where l'm heading?
- You want that taken care of, too. - l'll get the map.
Now, ifyou will look up here...
Yes, towards the north. This was the last place that we saw Taylor and Nova.
- What is that damn stuff? - You wouldn't know if l told you.
Just relax. Among other things, l'm a trained vet.
- Great. Go on. - Taylor was riding with Nova here,
between the lake and the sea.
They were heading into the territory we call...
Yes, l know, the forbidden zone.
- Who told you that? - Your glorious leader back there.
- Zira! - Quick. Quick.
- Cornelius, open the door. - Put the things away.
Open it!
Dr Zaius. How nice. We were just about to have something to eat.
Not until l've talked some sense to that headstrong wife ofyours.
- Where is she? - Good day, Dr Zaius.
- Good heavens. Has there been an accident? - Cornelius hit me.
For my bad behavior at the meeting.
- l don't blame him. - l don't resent it.
But his nails need clipping.
Enough ofthis nonsense. Are you so blind, you two psychologists,
that you're unaware that we're on the verge of a grave crisis?
- You heard the Ursus' speech. - Militaristic tripe!
- Zira! - Perhaps.
But now he has the incident he requires to go on a rampage of conquest.
- But that is appalling! - To remain silent while this bully Ursus
is permitted to destroy everything in his path is no longer possible.
As minister of science, it is my duty to find out whether some other form of life exists.
- Where are you going? - lnto the forbidden zone, with Ursus.
Another manhunt, Doctor?
Someone, or something, has outwitted the intelligence ofthe gorillas.
- That shouldn't be difficult. - Zira.
We apes have learned to live in innocence.
Let no one, be it man or some other creature, dare to contaminate that innocence.
Why, is innocence so evil?
- lgnorance is. - There is a time for truth.
And the time is always now.
Are you asking me to surrender my principles?
l am asking you to be the guardians of the principles of science during my absence.
l am asking for a truce with your personal convictions in an hour of public danger.
And you shall have it, Dr Zaius, or l shall hit her again.
Let us have no violence, Cornelius.
- Now, l'm relying on you both. - And we are counting on you too, Doctor.
lf l should fail to return from the unknown,
the whole future of our civilization may be yours to preserve - or destroy.
So think well before you act.
Well, goodbye, Dr Zaius, and good luck.
Now we can finish this up and get you out of here!
Yeah, get me outta here, please!
l've seen the humane way they treat humans here. l don't much care for it.
- Have you a horse? - Yeah, out in the scrub.
l'd better get you another set of clothes. The kind fit for humans like yourself.
You'll pass. Get rid ofthis.
And this too.
lf you are caught by the gorillas, you must remember one thing.
- What's that? - Never to speak.
What the hell would l have to say to a gorilla?
But you don't understand. Only apes can speak. Not her, and not you.
lf they catch you speaking, they will dissect you, and they will kill you, in that order.
Cornelius is right. Be very careful.
And get out ofthose things that you're wearing as soon as you can.
Thanks.
Thank us by finding Taylor.
Yeah, if he's still alive.
Four.
Seven inches.
Sergeant, wait!
This is a type E cranium. Very unusual.
Weak occipital development, and substandard lobe...
Female. lt's been a long time since we've been able to study specimens
of such extraordinary clinical interest.
- Bring them inside. - No!
No, you can't have them. They are marked for target practice.
Take them away.
- l'll take the key. - To the target range!
Wait! Wait! l'd better double-lock the door.
Good luck.
All right!
God Almighty!
This used to be my home.
l lived here, worked here.
What happened? What could have happened?
My God, did we finally do it?
Did we finally really do it?
O God, bless, we pray You,
our great army and its supreme commander
on the eve of a holy war, undertaken for Your sake.
And grant, in the name of Your prophet, our great Lawgiver,
that we, Your chosen servants, created and born in Your divine image,
may aspire the more perfectly to that spiritual godliness and bodily beauty
which You in Your infinite mercy
have thought fit to deny to our brutish enemies!
So be it.
There they go, Dr Zaius trotting along beside them.
Don't be too hard on the old boy, Zira. His motives are honest.
He has only one motive: to keep things exactly as they have always been.
l say that it's time for a change.
But Zira, we chimpanzees are too few.
How can we take initiative when they are in control?
Love yes, war no!
- No more lies, no more crud! - No more guns, no more blood!
Stop! Stop! Stop the war!
- Freedom! Freedom! - Whoa!
- Freedom! - Peace!
Peace and freedom!
- Get offthe road, young people. - Freedom!
- We want freedom! - Get 'em out ofthe way.
- Wait. - We want freedom! We want peace!
We don't want martyrs, do we?
We want peace! We want freedom!
- Sergeant? Do it quietly. - No clubs, no clubs.
We want peace! We want freedom!
Gorilla brutality!
Sergeant!