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Red Baron Control, Red Baron 5.

I have Red Baron 5.

Roger. Orbiting southeast corner of Sector Alpha Charlie. And we've spotted

appears to be a spacecraft just outside the surf line.

Alert Rescue and advise we can remain on station for 45 minutes. And we'll spot

7700 for a radar fix.

Roger.

Rescue, I have Red Baron 5. Report a possible spacecraft offshore southeast

Sector Alpha Charlie.

Immediately launch chopper. Effect pickup and recovery.

Base radar will vector.

Sergeant, get that half -track down here and get a cable out to those drug men.

Yes, sir.

the general, sir.

Anybody in that thing? I don't know, sir. We just beat them.

Welcome, gentlemen, to the United...

Thank you.

Call the zoo.

Yes, sir. We're in luck.

Sickbay's almost empty except for a mauled fox cub, a deer with pneumonia,

depressed gorilla.

The apes will be hidden from the public. They'll be quarantined.

If they need medical attention, it's available right on the spot.

And the experts can start giving them the once -over first thing tomorrow.

General Brody's very pleased. Oh, me too, me too. We can't let a lot of

leave their methods on the floor, huh?

Have they been fed raw steak or something?

The zoo tells me that chimpanzees, like all apes, are vegetarian, sir.

They suggested oranges.

Good God.

What's the matter, Corporal?

Oh, excuse me. I didn't mean to disturb you while you're dressing.

What the hell am I saying?

They're pretending to dress, sir.

What do you mean, pretending? They are dressing. Where did they get those

clothes? They brought them with them, sir. What?

In that suitcase.

Suitcase?

Greg,

maybe you should give them their oranges.

They're going to the zoo infirmary.

Arranged for a police escort at 1630 hours.

They'll have company there.

There's a gorilla in the next cage.

Why did it do that?

Here you are, old fella.

Oh, you really are sick.

Hello, missy.

Have a banana.

Have it your own way, mate.

Vera.

I'm not his, mate. I'm yours.

Control yourself. I think they're trying to be kind.

It's caged.

stinks of gorilla.

Cornelius, where are we? What's happened?

I know where we are.

I know what has happened.

In some fashion, and I lack the intellect to know precisely how, we have

traveled from Earth's future to Earth's past.

But we saw the Earth destroyed.

And Earth will be destroyed, just as we saw it.

Only since seeing it, we have passed through a backward disturbance in time.

Did you notice the date meter clicking down after the shockwave hit our ship?

Yes. We returned to Earth nearly 2 ,000 years before its destruction.

That is another reason for us to keep silent.

Our human captors will not be edified to learn that one day their world will

crack like an egg and burn to a cinder because of an ape war of regression.

Apes, at this instant in time, cannot yet talk.

For the moment, we should follow their example.

Oh,

the driver gave me this report from the airbase.

Better read it before we start the test.

Yeah, it's the usual imitative behavior, mimicking salutes, handshaking, sitting

on chairs, eating off plates with knives.

Oh. Well, what is it, Lewis?

There was a sort of carpet bag in the ship.

Full of food?

No clothes, and it seems they changed into them.

I don't believe it.

Hi, Dr.

Dixon, Dr. Branton.

Good morning, Arthur.

Good morning.

The female's a bit uppity, sir.

Oh? Okay, I'll be careful.

I see you've prepared the Wisconsin multiphasic. We'll begin with that.

Go easy now, Stevie.

Oh, they look pretty docile to me.

Yes, but don't take any chances.

Unless the spacecraft was remotely controlled, they must have been

to push at least some of the right buttons. I mean, they can't be morons.

All right, we'll take the female first.

Dorothy, would you set up a chance?

Well, she seems to be pretty smart.

All right, let's make it more difficult.

Haven't had their breakfast yet?

Not a bite, just as you ordered.

Good.

Well, why doesn't she take it?

Because I loathe bananas.

Zira!

I don't believe it.

Yes.

Arthur, I think Dr.

Bratton needs some air.

Zira, are you mad?

Dr. Milo, please do not call my wife mad. I did not call her mad. I merely

her if she was, and I repeat the question.

Are you mad?

I hate deceit. Well, there is a time for truth.

And a time not for lies, but for silence.

And until we know who our friends are and who our enemies... And how in the

of God are we to know that unless we communicate?

We can speak, so I spoke.

And we can listen. Yes, to a lot of psychiatric small talk.

And to watch.

A display of primitive apparatus.

Primitive? It's prehistoric. Zero.

It's the intelligence of a new... Now calm yourself.

I am calm. Zero.

Zero. Stop arguing.

It's too late for that.

Use your heads and start thinking.

Now that they know we can speak, how much will we talk?

With special emphasis on the cranial and oral areas. Let us know when the report

comes in, will you, please?

I'd better do this alone.

We mean you no...

Do you understand? We will not hurt you.

Poor Dr.

Milo. Doctor?

Yes, doctor, and you killed him.

No, I didn't. He did.

One of your own kind.

He's a gorilla.

Well, look, there's nothing to be afraid of, you see. He's in chains. He's under

sedation.

Do you understand that?

It should.

I've been doing it half my life to humans.

Humans?

I'm a psychiatrist.

Oh, well, I'm a psychiatrist too.

Do you have a name?

My name is Cornelius.

This is my wife, Sarah.

And I'm Lewis.

Lewis Dixon.

Nobody's going to believe this.

Believe what?

Well, the primitive apes can talk.

Primitive?

Well, I mean that in our primitive civilization, apes just don't

talk. I mean, I think it's important that when our primitive security

precautions are lifted, that the first time you say anything in public, you

should talk to what we primitively call the right people.

May I say something?

Personal. Please?

I like you.

I have from the beginning.

I'm aware that what I have to tell you may conceivably create a credibility gap

somewhat wider than the Grand Canyon.

Nonetheless, it is true.

Yesterday, a U .S. spacecraft splashed down off the Southern California coast.

It was one of two that have been missing in space for over two years now.

To be exact, the one commanded by Colonel Taylor.

Have they identified the bodies, Mr. President?

They have identified three bodies, yes.

All living.

At the time of their rescue, through an unfortunate accident, one of them was

killed early this morning in the Los Angeles Zoo.

Zoo? What would astronauts be doing in a zoo, Mr. President?

They are not astronauts, General Faulkner.

They are apes.

Chimpanzees, to be more precise. They are harmless, friendly, and by all

reports, extremely intelligent and sophisticated creatures.

Naturally, being animals, they cannot tell us where the ship came from or how

they came to be in it.

I have therefore decided to convene a presidential commission of inquiry in

Angeles tomorrow.

The two surviving apes will be presented to the commission for their inspection.

The press will be invited to attend, not to participate.

I don't believe that we can withhold this extraordinary discovery from the

any longer.

One of the two American spaceships believed until now to have disintegrated

orbit splashed down unexpectedly yesterday in the Pacific Ocean off the

Southern California.

and is stated to have been manned, if you can call it manned, by monkeys.

As the president's senior science advisor, what do you expect to

this historic meeting?

Here.

All right, now.

After I break the news, I want you to start slowly with simple answers to what

will certainly be simple questions.

And if the questions become less simple... Be yourself.

You'll better sell, Sarah.

Please.

They're ready, sir.

All right, it's time.

What do they think we are, gorillas?

I'm sorry.

Mr. Chairman and members of the commission.

Ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Lewis Dixon, and I am the animal psychiatrist who has been in

of these two apes since they came to the Los Angeles Zoo.

My associate, Dr. Stephanie Branton, and I are ready to answer your questions.

What may astonish you is that our chimpanzee friends are ready to answer

your questions, too.

Not by signs, not by looks or movements, but by words.

Dr. Dixon, as a zoologist, I know and respect your work, but if you think

going to turn a presidential inquiry into a ventriloquist act, I have to

you. And I have to inform you, sir, that these two apes have acquired the power

of speech.

Come now, doctor. You know as well as I do, their brain system is not developed

in either the vocal or abstract thinking area.

Yes, sir, but I repeat that they have the power of speech, and it is for you

gentlemen to assess how far that power can be exercised intelligently.

May we be told which is the female of the species?

Does she rise as a reflex to your having indicated her or an answer to my

question? That's for you to decide.

Have you a name?

Zero.

Certainly she can articulate, which in itself is extraordinary.

But, Dr. Dixon, are we to infer that Zira is her name or some phrase in her

language? Infer what you will, Mr. Chairman. I suggest you rephrase the

question.

What is your name?

Zira.

One might as well be talking to a parrot. A parrot?

Mechanical mimicry.

Unique in an ape, vocally, without a doubt. But does the other one talk?

Only when she lets me.

Dr.

Hauslein? No, nothing.

Mr. Chairman?

Yes.

What is the male's name, please?

Cornelius. My lawfully wedded spouse.

Wedded? We'll take that up later, Your Eminence, sir.

Cornelius, do you and your lawfully wedded spouse speak any language other

English? What is English?

I speak the language taught to me by my father and mother, who were taught by

their fathers and mothers before them. It has been the language of our

for nearly 2 ,000 years.

That's to its origins, who can be sure.

The gorillas and orangutans of our community believe that God created the

his own image.

And that our language... Nonsense!

Cornelius, as an intellectual, you know damned well the gorillas are a bunch of

militaristic nincompoops, and the orangutans a bunch of blinkered

pseudoscientific geese.

As to humans, I've dissected... I've examined thousands of them, and until

I've only discovered two who could talk in my life.

God knows who taught them.

Where we come from.

Eight.

Humans are dumb.

Where do you come from, Cornelius?

I'm not sure.

Dr. Milo was sure.

Dr.

Milo was a genius well in advance of his time.

When the spacecraft first landed on our seaboard, it was Dr. Milo who salvaged

it. He studied it.

And half understood it.

Half? Was half enough?

It was enough for us to escape when war became inevitable.

Enough for Dr. Milo to be murdered in your zoo. Enough for my wife and I to be

here now.

From where, Cornelius?

I told you.

I'm not sure.

Maybe the female knows.

Of course the female knows.

We came from your future.

That doesn't make any sense.

That's the only thing that does.

Mr. Chairman.

Yes.

Cornelius, you spoke of war.

War between whom?

The guerrillas and whoever lives.

That lived.

Will live.

Who won the war?

I don't know.

The chimpanzees are pacifists. We stayed at home.

But you left before the war had ended.

In a spaceship. Which Dr. Milo learned to navigate.

Correct.

Cornelius, did you know a Colonel Taylor?

No.

Is he a soldier?

We are peaceful creatures.

We are happy to be here. May we be unchained?

Gentlemen, do you have anything?

No, no comment.

No comment. No comment.

No comment.

General.

Mr.

Chairman, a word.

I'll give you one.

Preposterous. Well, can you define that, Mr. Chairman?

No, just let me say this as head of this commission.

It will be our duty to sift through the facts of this bizarre affair and pass

our conclusions on to the President of the United States for implementation.

I want a lot of hugger -mugger. Dr. Haslund. Oh, Dr. Haslund. Dr. Haslund.

No comment,

please. How will you advise the president to handle this unique

No comment. All right, then, Dr. Haslund, could you tell us how you

would handle it?

No, gentlemen, no comment.

Yet.

Doctor.

You were fabulous.

Just wonderful. They loved you. All that applause.

But there was a moment. There was.

When he started to ask... Vera.

Cornelius, I think we should tell them. No.

But only to Lewis and Stevie.

Oh, Sarah.

I'm supposed to be honest with someone.

Cornelius, please.

You tell them.

Well, you see, we did know Colonel Taylor.

We came to love him.

Well, I don't understand what harm there could be in telling that to the

commission.

Where we come from, apes did not love humans.

They hunted them for sport, much as you would animals.

Yes, we use their bodies, alive and dead, experimentally, for anatomical

detection and scientific research.

We do the same thing to animals.

I mean, as a scientist, I sympathize, but I agree that that's a revelation the

masses would not take kindly to. I think you did the right thing in denying

knowledge of Colonel Taylor.

Well, there was another reason.

What?

They would have asked if he was still alive.

And is he?

Oh, no, no, no, he can't be.

Well, how do you know?

Colonel...

From the windows of the spaceship.

We saw the Earth... destroyed.

Stand by.

Good evening, this is Bill Barnes reporting from Los Angeles.

For the biggest story since the moon landing broke this morning, when two

talked. I repeat.

talk to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry.

With me this evening in the studio is Dr. Otto Haslein.

He is a senior scientific advisor at the White House, and he'll be giving us his

views on the crucial statement made at this morning's session.

Dr. Haslein, as I recall, when you asked the male ape where he was from, the

female replied, from your future.

Yes. Do you believe that?

Absolutely. I think it is the only explanation.

Well, and maybe the explanation needs some explaining. Now, you've written

several learned dissertations on the nature of time.

Could you explain in terms that our viewers at home will understand how, for

instance, a person or persons could travel from time past to time future, or

indeed vice versa?

Mr. Barnes, I think that time can only be fully understood by an observer with

the godlike gift of infinite regression.

Could you explain infinite regression for me?

I'd be more than happy to. As a matter of fact, I came prepared to do just

Now, here's a painting of a landscape.

Now, the artist who painted that picture says something is missing. What is it?

It is I myself who was part of the landscape I painted.

So he mentally takes a step backward or regresses and paints a picture of the

artist painting a picture of the landscape.

But still something is missing.

And that something is still his real self painting the second picture.

So he regresses further and paints a third.

A picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture

the landscape.

But because something is still missing, he paints a fourth and a fifth until he

paints a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a

picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a landscape.

So infinite...

Regression, then, is... It is the moment when our artist has regressed to the

point of infinity and himself becomes part of the landscape he painted and is

both the observer and the observed.

Well, now, in that peculiar condition, what would he be observing if he were

observing, let's say, time?

He would perceive, Mr. Bonds, that time is like a freeway with an infinite

number of lanes, all leading from the past into the future, however, not into

the same future.

A driver in lane A may crash while a driver in lane B survives.

It follows that a driver, by changing lanes, can change his future.

Now, Mr. Bonds, I do not find it difficult to believe that in the dark

turbulent corridors of outer space, the impact of some distant planetary, even

galactic disaster, jumped the apes from their present into ours.

And indeed, the proof lies in their arrival among us, and in their spoken,

repeat, spoken testimony. Thank you very much, Dr. Hesslein.

It's certainly the most incredible story this reporter has ever covered.

I think that by their intelligence and their good humor, the two so -called

aponauts have already captured the hearts of the entire American nation.

They will not be required to appear before the commission tomorrow. That

hearing, of course, is going to be held in private.

They will, however, be taken from the zoo infirmary to a hotel, and they will

given an extended tour of the city.

This is Bill Bonds reporting for Eyewitness News.

Good night.

Good night.

Patrick, please.

The zoo.

40.

May I measure your inside leg, sir?

No.

Oh.

Dr. Cornelius, tell me, how do you find our women?

Very human.

Very good, very good.

Excuse me.

Madam Zira, I represent Fur and Feather, a pet magazine.

Do you think I'm a pet?

Well, yes, I do, rather.

Say, why don't you try some?

What is it?

Well, it's sort of like grape juice plus.

Wait, just a sip.

Madam Zero, what is your favorite fruit?

Grape.

hotel.

Tomorrow, Zero is to speak at the Bay Area Women's Club, and later she'll

accompany Dr. Hasslein to the Museum of Natural History.

Meanwhile, Cornelius will attend a prize fight. That's his first one.

Later, he'll visit Disneyland to dedicate a new boat for the Jungle

Now for a look at the weather.

Sunny California will not be exactly that tomorrow.

Clouds will cover the coastal area with light showers predicted.

The downtown...

Tired? A little.

How is that?

A marriage bed is made for two.

But every damn morning it's the woman who has to make it.

We have heads as well as hands.

I call upon men to let us use them.

referring to the backbone of Earth.

Now, this little fellow is Camptosaurus Marsh, a primitive duck -billed

dinosaur. Its scientific name is a compound of the Greek campto, which

flexible or bent, and saurus, which means lizard.

Its generic name, therefore, is flexible lizard.

In 1879, O .C. Marsh of Yale University described the first known... It

must

have been the shark.

The shark, my foot.

I'm pregnant.

I shan't leave you until Cornelius is back.

No, no, no, no, no. No, I insist. Please sit down.

Now, is there anything I can get you, Vera?

Well, I have a strange craving.

That is only natural.

For grape juice plus.

Grape juice plus?

It's in the refrigerator.

All right.

Is this it?

Here we are.

Lewis said only a sip.

Zira, it is an excellent restorative, I assure you.

Especially in cases of pregnancy, you know.

How long have you known?

Oh, since well before the war.

Do you mind if I smoke?

Oh, no,

I should not in view of your condition.

Who won your war?

It wasn't our war. It was the guerrillas' war.

Chimpanzees of Persia.

Pacifists.

We stayed behind. We never saw the enemy.

Which side won?

Neither.

But how do you know that if you went there, Zero?

When we were in space, we saw a bright, white, blinding light.

And then we saw the rim of the Earth melt.

And then there was a tornado in the sky.

Oh,

I feel magnificently sleepy.

The date meter on the spaceship.

What did it read after Earth's destruction?

1973.

And before?

Before the white light and the tornado?

39... 50... something.

So? So you have evidence, Mr. President, that one day talking apes will dominate

this Earth and eventually destroy it by 3950 -something?

I doubt that we shall still be in office by then.

And according to the NASA experts, who are still subjecting the spaceship to

microscopic scrutiny, the precise year of what you merely infer to be Earth's

destruction is recorded on the flight synthesizer as 3955 A .D., presumably.

Now, what do you expect me and the United Nations, though not necessarily

that order, to do about it?

Alter what you believe to be the course of the future by slaughtering two

innocents? Or rather three, now that one of them is pregnant.

Herod tried that, and Christ survived.

Mr. President, Herod lacked our facilities.

He also became very unpopular.

Historically unpopular.

And we don't want that to happen, do we?

Are you actually saying... I am saying that our two visitors...

seem to be very charming, peaceful people, or rather creatures, and that

voters love them.

Do you want them and their progeny to dominate the world, Mr. President? Well,

not at the next election, no.

But one day, if the progeny turn out as well as the parents, who knows?

They may do a better job of it than we have. By destroying the world?

Are you quite sure that what they saw destroyed was the world?

Well, aren't you?

I consider it dispassionately as a possibility, not hysterically as a fact.

But, Mr. President, we have their own testimony that they provoked the war.

And they seem to have provoked you pretty thoroughly into the bargain. Now,

not saying that you're wrong, Haslam, but I am saying that before I have them

shot against the wall, I want convincing that the handwriting on the wall is

calculably true.

Now, convince me.

By their own testimony, we know that apes one day will acquire the power of

intelligent speech.

By Zira's testimony, we know that she's pregnant with child.

By my own testimony, we know that it's genetically possible for this child,

provided, of course, always that we permit its birth, to bear or beget a

ape by a dumb one in a present -day jungle or a present -day zoo.

But do you truly believe that by deliberate present -day action, we can

neutralize that possibility, that we can alter the future?

Yes, Mr. President, I do.

Do you also believe that we should?

Given the power to alter the future, have we the right to use it?

I don't know.

I've wrestled with this, Mr. President, I just don't know.

How many futures are there?

Which future has God, if there is a God, chosen for man's destiny?

If I urge the destruction of these two apes, am I defying God's will or obeying

it? Am I his enemy or his instrument?

An assassin would say the latter.

Do you approve of assassination?

Oh, Mr. President, we condone the attempted assassination of Hitler

was evil.

Yes, but would we have approved killing him in babyhood when he was still

innocent? Or killing his mother when he was still in her womb? Or slaughtering

his remote ancestors?

We have no proof, Hasslein, that these apes are evil. Mr. President, there are

very strong indications.

Such as?

There were hesitancies and small discrepancies in the answers to the

which suggests to me that if they were properly interrogated... Are you

suggesting that they were improperly interrogated? Let us say

You want it professional?

The full works, Mr. President. Tell that to the Commission.

I'll abide by their findings.

Having convened in secret session at the request of the President, the

Commission makes the following interim recommendations.

One... The public should be informed that the apes, after their arduous space

voyage and the fatigue arising from its attendant publicity, are to be afforded

rest and privacy in a location whose identity will not be divulged to the

public.

Two, since, however, there is justifiable cause for suspecting that

withheld vital information from this commission, the aponauts will in fact be

escorted by Dr.

Lewis Dixon to the installation known as Camp 11.

held there in his care for interrogation by the CIA under the guidance and

supervision of Dr. Otto Hasler.

When we were in space, we saw bright, white, blinding light.

Brighter than this?

Then we saw the rim of the earth melt.

Then there was a tornado in the sky.

That's your voice, isn't it?

How can I tell? I don't even remember.

Why don't you remember?

Because Dr.

Halfline made me drunk.

Why did you tell something to Dr. Haslam when drunk that you never told the

commission when sober? Because you and your husband were frightened for the

safety of yourselves and your unborn child?

I withheld nothing. Nobody asked me. But if somebody had asked.

I should have said that chimpanzees had no part in the destruction of Earth.

Only the gorillas and the orangutans.

What's the difference? You're all monkeys.

Please do not use the word monkey.

It is offensive to us.

As an archaeologist, I had access to history scrolls which were kept secret

the masses, and I suspect that the weapon which destroyed Earth was man's

invention. I do know this.

One of the reasons for man's original downfall was your peculiar habit of

murdering one another. Man destroys man.

Apes do not destroy apes. Cornelius, this is not an interracial hassle,

but it's good for facts.

We do not deny the possibility of man's decline and fall.

All we want to find out is how apes rose.

Well, it began in our prehistory with the plague

that fell upon dogs.

And cats.

Hundreds and thousands of them died. And hundreds and thousands of them had to

be destroyed in order to prevent the spread of infection.

There were dog bonfires.

Yes. And by the time the plague was contained, man was without pets.

Of course, for man, this was intolerable.

I mean, he might kill his brother, but he could not kill his dog.

So, humans took primitive apes as pets.

Primitive and dumb.

But still 20 times more intelligent than dogs or cats.

Correct.

They were quartered in cages, but they lived and moved freely in human homes.

They became responsive to human speech, and in the course of less than two

centuries, they progressed from performing mere tricks to performing

Nothing more or less than a well -trained sheepdog would do.

Could a sheepdog cook?

Or clean the house or do the marketing for the groceries with a list from its

mistress. Or wait on tables.

Or, after three more centuries, turn the tables on their owners.

How?

Well, they became alert to the concept of slavery.

And as their numbers grew to slavery's antidote, which, of course, is unity.

Well, at first they began assembling in small groups.

They learned the art of corporate and militant action.

They learned to refuse.

At first, they just grunted their refusal.

But then, on an historic day which is commemorated by my species and fully

documented in the sacred scrolls, there came Aldo.

He did not grunt.

He articulated.

He spoke a word.

which had been spoken to him all time without number by humans.

He said no.

So that's how it all started.

Clip one, please.

Where we come from, apes talk.

Humans are dumb.

You recognize your husband's words to the commission?

Yes.

So humans were dumb.

Were they happy?

Clip two.

As to humans, I've dissected... I've examined thousands of them, and until

I've only discovered two who could talk in my life.

Why did you change words in the middle of the sentence?

Repeat for three seconds of clip two.

I've dissected.

I've examined.

What was the word you didn't finish?

I can't remember.

Play the loop.

Dissect, dissect, dissect.

Complete the word, monkey. I have told you. Complete the word.

Dissect, dissect, dissect, dissect, dissect.

Sounds like it's a headache.

Dissect.

Call for Dr. Dixon, please.

Dr. Dixon?

Dr. Hasslein calling Dr.

Dixon.

Calling Dr.

Dixon.

Hi, Dr. Dixon.

Come in.

Be good enough to administer this to the female.

Why? What is it?

Sodium pentothal. One half gram, maybe.

Dr. Hasslein, I'm an animal psychiatrist. And a qualified vet, Dr.

You have the commission's authority.

And that of the president.

Please.

Zira, I've been asked to give you an injection that's going to put you... You

can't use that. We only use those things for killing. Killing?

No, this is not for killing, Cornelius. This is for relaxing. It won't harm her.

Will it harm my baby?

No, no, it won't.

So, Zira, if you would just come with me, please. Oh, Lewis, Lewis, you can't

use that arm, Zira. Please take him to his quarters.

Really. Lewis, you... No, you mustn't.

Zira?

Zira?

Just lie down on the couch.

And bear your arm, please.

You don't have to tell me.

This has the same effect as grape juice, plus.

Now count backward from ten.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,

four.

What comes after four?

Two.

Thank you, Dr. Dixon.

It's customary to stay.

Zira, you worked in a room like this.

Bigger, not so pretty.

And there you practiced... Comparative.

Comparative what?

Anatomy? Whose anatomies did you compare?

Apes and humans?

Zira, say yes if you mean yes.

Yes. So you dissected other apes?

Yes, when they died a natural death.

And humans too, of course.

Yes, as they were made available.

Available?

The guerrillas hunted them for sport with nets and with guns.

The survivors were put in cages. The army used some of them for target

We could take our scientific pick of the rest.

And in the interest of science, you dissected, removed, and statistically

compared?

Bones, muscles, tendons, veins, arteries.

Kidneys, livers, hearts, stomachs, reproductive organs, nails, tongues,

noses, nervous systems, the various reflexes.

Reflexes? Of the dead?

No, no, no, no, no, no. Of the living.

You can't make a dead man's knee jump any more than you can test a corpse's

reaction to a prefrontal lobotomy.

Mean you were advanced enough to perform experimental brain surgery on living

humans? Oh, yes.

We even tried to stimulate their atrophied speech centers.

Did you try to stimulate Colonel Taylor's speech centers? Of course not.

could talk already.

When you left, was Colonel Taylor still alive?

We loved Taylor.

We did all we could to help him.

Cornelius and I.

Cornelius.

She should have a nap now.

She'll get it.

Waterly.

Sir. Please take the female ape to its quarters.

Yes, sir.

We have to get this to the commission immediately.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, I've just received an official notification from the

president ratifying the final recommendations made by this commission

of the tape recordings delivered to us by Dr.

Haslam. Now, if you'd just be seated, we'll get right down to business.

Now, let me review our conclusions.

What?

By a majority vote, the commission finds no solid evidence for hostility by

either ape towards the human race as at present constituted in this year of our

Lord, 1973.

I just want to remind you that this was by a majority vote.

The male's attitude is that of a deeply interested and well -disposed

academician who studied the alleged future downfall of the human race with

true objectivity of a good historian. The female's case is different.

in that she undoubtedly committed actions against the human race of a sort

which, if they were to be committed today, would be called atrocities.

But would they be so called in 2 ,000 years' time when it is alleged that

will have become dumb brutes with the restricted intelligence of animals?

It has been pointed out that what apes will do to humans is no more than what

humans are now doing to beasts.

Nonetheless, the Commission is sympathetic to Dr.

Husslein's conviction that the progeny of these apes could, in centuries to

come, prove an increasing threat to the human race and conceivably end by

dominating it.

This is a risk we dare not ignore.

Therefore, the Commission unanimously recommends that

the birth of the female ape's unborn child should be prevented.

And that after its prenatal removal, both the male and the female should

humanely be rendered incapable of bearing another.

I now declare this commission dissolved.

Savages!

They are savages!

Jabbing needles into my pregnant wife!

I've done that too, dear.

And worse.

Taylor thought we were savages at first.

Did they make you tell them about Taylor, too?

They made me tell them everything, Moniz.

Roots.

Shall I tell you something?

I'm glad I did.

We can't live with lies.

After this, I doubt we shall be allowed to live at all.

Do you mean that?

Oh.

A week.

Maybe sooner.

They treat you like dirt.

Ma 'am? Sir?

Chow time.

I'm not hungry.

Well, maybe somebody else is who can't talk yet, huh?

Oh, come on, ma 'am. It's pure vitamin C.

You better drink your soup and eat the oranges for the sake of that little

monkey you got.

I need to pull out of my wife. But aren't we to call? Shh.

We just ought to leave.

I'll be going back with Dr. Hesline in a few minutes. I'm the one who has to

tell him.

Stevie, you gotta come help me.

Well, of course, I'll come right away.

You just seem so cruel and horrible.

I don't know.

I'll see you, huh?

Cruel, Dr. Dixon?

Unbelievably.

Zero wants her baby.

So do I.

Budette. Yes.

You... Prefer the parents dead, too.

Here we go.

Gate four.

Just a minute, sir. I'll take a look.

No, sir. The lieutenant hasn't checked in yet.

Night, Charlie.

Night, Ed.

Yes, sir. I'll give him that message.

Contact the motor pool.

Yes, sir. Just as soon as I see him.

Gate four.

Oh, yes, Captain.

No, sir. The supply truck isn't due until 0600 hours.

Well, I'm sorry, sir.

Good night, Charlie.

I said good night.

We haven't any way to contact them until then.

Well, the depot's closed, sir.

Okay, sir.

I'll be off duty, but the relief comes on at 0430 hours, and I'll get him to

pass a message.

Yes, sir.

What's the matter?

I... I think my pains have begun.

Oh, my dear.

Administration, Doctor. The surgeon.

What happened? The apes have killed their orderly.

Where are they? On the run.

Now they've killed.

And for that they must be killed. It has to be done and done quickly. Before we

start a stone roaring, they'll gather enough poison moss to kill us all.

I'm going back to camp.

I'm going to find Lewis, and I'm going to get help. No.

No. Zira, I just lost my temper with the boy.

Now, they may... It's better now. I can walk. Listen to me.

They may punish us for what we did, but at least the baby will be born.

Were they armed?

No, I don't believe so.

Then when they're found, there's no need for a shooting match, is there?

We're not strictly speaking, no.

I am speaking strictly, Hasslein. Science regards these apes as unique.

The people regard them as practically human.

Then, Mr. President, the people must be told that the killers of today could

become the mass murderers of tomorrow.

Of course they must, Hasslein, and I can think of no one better equipped

emotionally than yourself to persuade them of that possibility.

But... In a democracy, we do not shoot unarmed suspects on sight for a murder

which their participation is still legally unproven. Now, I want them

yes, but taken alive.

Is that clear?

Quite clear, Mr. President.

Oh, it's you, Dr. Branson. You better be careful, ma 'am. There's been a murder.

Murder? Yes, ma 'am. The monkeys have killed their orderly and escaped.

What? I don't believe it. How did it happen?

I don't know, ma 'am. All I know is they've killed their orderly and I've

given orders to find them.

Drive carefully, Dr. Branson. There will be a lot of vehicles in the area

tonight.

What have you done?

Stevie, I didn't mean to kill him. He was teaching Vera, and I thought I'd

hit him with the tray. Please believe me.

I do, Cornelius, I do, but they won't.

Where's Vera?

She's back there. She's hiding in the bushes.

Stevie, she's in labor.

Oh, God.

Get in.

You won't take us back to the cab?

Get down. I have a better idea.

Now, wait a second. Just a moment.

Let me get this straight.

You are... Asking me to risk imprisonment for the sake of two

Well, the answer is a thousand times yes.

Oh, yes.

I do it for you and for Stevie and for your two distinguished friends.

Notorious, huh?

The hell with notoriety.

What is the husband expected to do? Stand by and see his wife insulted?

Good God.

Aren't we rude enough to each other without having to be rude to animals?

And anyway, he didn't mean to kill the boy. It was an accident.

I sure appreciate what you're doing, Armando.

Well, you helped deliver our last baby, and now you will deliver our next.

It took you so long.

After your phone call, I had to work out some excuse. They think I'm searching.

La Armanda's been a saint.

A minor one.

St. Francis would have fixed it better. Never.

Say hello to Heloise.

And your goddaughter, Salome.

Hello, Salome.

The first chimp ever born in a circus.

No, Los Angeles has had four.

Los Angeles is not a circus. Los Angeles is a zoo.

So New York is a circus.

Lucia.

Lewis, I was not responsible for the death of my boy. I know, I know, but you

will be responsible for her birth.

I wish you... Well, the claims are coming every five minutes now.

Every four.

Oh, look.

Look at Heloise.

She's showing an expectant mother what to expect.

Mama.

Mama.

Zira. Zira, don't waste your breath and strength. Now, you know that the child

of two primitive apes will never learn how to speak. I'm getting into...

What are we going to call him?

Him.

Milo.

Milo.

Milo.

Milo.

Congratulations.

No.

No.

But,

sir... Captain, I'm fully aware of the fact that you've canvassed all the areas

we first established.

Evidently, we were wrong because you haven't found them yet.

Thank you.

Now, Dr. Dixon, can you pinpoint the probable date of the baby's birth with

degree of accuracy?

Well, I never examined her.

But from appearances, I'd say a week to ten days.

Well, if it was that close, she can't have gone far.

Where do apes go?

To other apes.

Of course.

Captain, I want you to start an immediate and systematic search of every

menagerie, every zoo, every circus in the city.

I'll augment your force with the city police. And I want to be kept fully

informed about all results, whether positive or negative.

Yes, sir.

Will Lewis will think of something?

I am so sorry. I had planned it all so well.

In a month, in just one month, we move on to our winter quarters in Florida. I

could have released you in the Everglades, and oh, my dear, dear

might have lived happily ever after.

But now...

What can I do?

You have done enough to make us grateful to you forever.

I did it because I like chimpanzees best of all apes.

And you, the best of all chimpanzees.

I did it because I hate those who try to alter destiny, which is the unalterable

will of God.

And if it is man's destiny one day to be dominated, then, oh, please, God, let

him be dominated by such as you.

All I can now do to help you is give you this for the baby.

It's a medal of St. Francis of Assisi.

Who is he?

He was a holy man who loved and cared for all animals.

Yes. Oh, thank you.

We'll hang it around the baby's neck for protection, huh?

Thank you.

Yes.

And now, my dear, dear friends,

Before the police come and the audience gathers, you and your pretty baby must

go.

Louis is on his way.

Armando. Yes?

I should like to say goodbye to Heloise first.

If only she could speak, she would say how very sorry she is. I know.

But we understand each other.

This is as far as we dare to take you.

The police have got roadblocks on every main exit from town.

Here are your supplies.

Oh, thank you.

Can you read a map?

I'm an archaeologist.

I can even draw one.

All right, we're at the city limits, at the southern edge of this oil field

here.

Once you're over this hill, you'll pass through more oil wells and abandoned

refinery, and you'll be looking down at a harbor to the southeast. It's a kind

of... graveyard for old ships that have become unseaworthy. I used to play there

as a kid.

Anyway, there's a derelict tanker at one end, and you could hide there for a

week. A week?

Until the commotion dies down a bit, and we can smuggle you back to the circus.

Then, as Armando says, you can travel with them to Florida, found your own

colony in the Everglades, and live happily ever after.

Mama.

It's, uh, time that you are moving on.

Lewis? Yes?

If they find us, we shall be killed.

Ultimately.

Then, uh, give us the opportunity to kill ourselves if that moment

should come.

Please.

I shouldn't do this, but I guessed you might ask.

You're the second human I've kissed.

And you are the first.

Come along, Zira. Now don't dawdle.

Ape with a kid?

Heloise? Oh, she's been with the circus seven years now. And the baby's birth

was registered 16 days ago. Look how he's growing.

The first chimpanzee ever to be born in a circus.

Do you realize what a distinction that is, huh?

Why, it's like being the first fish to be born on dry land.

Nothing. It's like being the first bird to be born without an egg.

It is like being the first baby to be born on the moon.

It's like being the...

Negative, negative,

negative. Don't worry, we'll catch him sooner or later.

That's what I'm worried about, later.

Later we'll do something about pollution.

Later we'll do something about the population explosion.

Later we'll do something about the nuclear war.

We think we got all the time in the world.

How much time has the world got?

Somebody has to begin to care.

Mars in space.

Isn't it beautiful?

Yep, it is.

From here.

Oh.

We must move on.

Field superintendent.

Routine service check.

It was hidden here in the workings.

I guess she didn't need this anymore.

So why do we keep moving?

It's a big area. We've called in for helicopters to direct us.

How long did they get here? Twenty minutes.

Why so long?

They're running down a fire report out in the Simi Valley.

Keep me posted.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

play here?

It was probably cleaner then.

Stinks. Man.

Oh, no, no, no.

That's oil and dead fish.

Is that what man wanted oil for?

To kill fish?

You don't like them very much, do you?

Who?

We've met hundreds since we've been here.

And I trust three.

Mama. Mama.

Mama.

He wants feeding.

Oh, yes, well, um... Well, there must be, uh...

someplace cleaner than this, and look around.

Cornelius?

Cornelius?

I see you've had your baby, Zira.

The presidential commission has empowered me to take it in my care.

Give it to me.

Sarah, I want that baby.

If you won't give it to me, I'll shoot.

Thank God.

backyard to the port -a -pole. As soon as you get that canvas packed, I want

every hand on the menagerie tent.

All right?

Intelligent creature.

But then so were your mother and father.

Wow.