Beware the beastman,
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 breedin 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.
I'm pretty handy with this.
Of that, I'm sure. All my life I've awaited your coming
and dreaded it.
You're afraid and you hate me. Why?
The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise.
Your greed made a desert of it ages ago.
That doesn't tell me why.
A planet where apes evolved from men?
There's got to 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.
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
Damn you all to hell!
No, Skipper. It's me.
J ust me.
Brent...
did you contact Earth?
I tried to, sir. Not a crackle.
Skipper...
I took an Earth time reading
just before reentry.
What did you get?
3955.
3955?
A.D.
Almighty God.
Well, we were following Taylor's trajectory.
So whatever happened to us
must have happened to him.
What about us?
Where... where are we?
I n my opinion, Skipper,
we passed through a Haslein Curve,
a bend in time.
I don't know what planet we're on,
but we're both here,
we're breathing, we're conscious,
we got plenty ofoxygen and water.
We're going to be all right, Skipper.
As soon as you feel better,
we'll..we'll run a navigational lesson.
God, if I could only see the sun.
It's up there all right.
You can feel it.
Yes...
but which sun?
I don't know.
I don't know. Our computer's shot.
We're lucky to be alive.
Lucky?
No.
If it's 3955 A.D....
Oh, my God.
My wife...
my two daughters...
dead.
Everyone I ever knew.
Everyone.
Hey!
Who are you?
I..Don't be afraid.
I just...
Just tell me where I am.
Can you understand me?
My name's Brent.
Brent.
I don't want to hurt you.
I just want to know where I am.
Where are you from?
I mean, your people, where are they? How do l..
How do I get to them? Which way?
Can you... Can you talk?
Right, right, so you can't talk.
Taylor!
Where is he?
Taylor.
Nova.
Come on.
That's the idea.
Taylor.
Nova.
Here.
Taylor.
OK, here's the prize.
Go to the head of the class.
Why don't we settle down and found a colony?
The kids will learn to talk.
Sure they will.
Now, where in hell do we go from here?
We might make it yet.
Taylor.
Just tell me what happened to him.
Is he hurt? ls he alive?
Where is he?
It wasn't here.
A minute ago, that wasn't here.
I'm not the only one.
She sees it, too.
Listen.
Listen now.
If you lose me...
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, it's...
It's a city ofapes.
I'll tell you one thing every good soldier knows.
The only thing that counts in the end is power.
Naked, merciless force!
Members of the Citizens' Council,
I am a simple soldier,
and as a soldier, I see things simply.
I don't say all humans are evil
simply because their skin is white.
No.
But our great Lawgiver tells us
that never will the human have the ape's divine faculty
for being able to distinguish
between evil and good.
The only good human is a dead human!
It's a bloody nightmare.
But those fortunate enough
to remain alive
will have the privilege
of being used by our Minister ofScience,
the good Dr. Zaius.
Zira, stop. You're in danger.
So is the future of science,
with him 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 if they 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.
It is our holy duty to enter it,
to put the marks
of our guns, wheels, and flags upon it!
To expand the boundaries
ofour ineluctable power.
And to invade.
Invade!
As your husband, please, I beg you to stand.
Only for my principles.
All right,
foryour principles and mine.
Only please stand!
I got to get out. I got to get back up there.
I don't know how or what with,
but I'm not staying here.
General, I only pray
you know what you're doing.
How can you have any doubt?
You're aware of reports we've been receiving
ofstrange manifestations
in the Forbidden Zone,
manifestations which you, if I might add,
as Minister ofScience,
have been unable to fathom.
12... 12 of my finest scouts
just disappeared,
vanished into thin air.
11 .
Huh?
Very well, 11 ...
11 .
And the 12th returned with incredible stories
of huge walls of fire,
strange violent earthquakes,
his..his mind gone, shattered no doubt
by some unsimian torture.
Well, General,
I still think you're being hasty.
No, Doctor. Decisive.
Now we invade or we starve.
It's as simple as that.
And as dangerous.
What is more dangerous than famine, Doctor?
The unknown.
If I had any proper sense
of scientific purpose, Cornelius,
I shouldn't be cutting up
the healthy heads of humans.
I should be dissecting
the diseased brains of gorillas
to find out what went wrong.
And how would you put it right?
I've wet-nursed their babies
on the milk of chimpanzees and 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 we that have responsibilities and no power.
I think I'll make chocolate icing.
Do you like chocolate?
What, dear?
No, you don't. But I do.
Ifwe had that power here in our hands,
we'd be worse than them.
I don't agree.
Gorillas are cruel because they're stupid..
all bone and no brains.
Zira, my dear,
I wish you would not talk like that.
Somebody is liable to hearyou.
Nova!
What are you doing here?
Taylor?
No, not Taylor. My name's Brent.
You talked!
That's impossible.
I n a whole lifetime
devoted to the scientific study of humans,
I've only found one other like you who could talk.
Taylor.
Is he alive?
Have you seen him?
Where? Where? Tell us.
Where? Where?
I don't know where.
I'm trying to find him.
The longer I stay, the less I care.
Oh, now, we loved Taylor.
He was a fine, a unique specimen.
Why, if it had not been for Zira here,
he..he would still be here,
a stuffed specimen
in the great hall of the Zaius Museum,
with his two friends.
With his two friends?
Well, I don't plan to stay around here
quite that long.
Look, can you get me some food, some..some water,
a map..a map,
so at least I'll have some idea where I'm heading?
You'll want that taken care of, too.
I'll get the map.
Now,
if you will look up here,
ah, yes, towards the north.
This was the last place that we saw Taylor.
What is that damn stuff?
You wouldn't know if I told you.
J ust relax.
Among other things, I'm a trained vet.
Oh, great. Go on, go on.
Taylor was riding with Nova here,
between the lake and the sea.
Yes, they were heading
deep into the territory we call..
Yes, I know. The Forbidden Zone.
Who told you that?
Hmm? Your glorious leader back there.
Quick!
Cornelius, open the door.
Put the things away.
Open it!
Dr. Zaius, how nice.
We werejust about
to have something to eat.
Not until I talk some sense
into your headstrong wife.
Where is she?
Good day, Dr. Zaius.
Has there been an accident?
Cornelius hit me
for my bad behavior at the meeting.
I don't blame him.
I don't resent it,
but his nails need clipping.
Enough of this nonsense.
Are you so blind, you two psychologists
that you're unaware
that we're on the verge ofa grave crisis?
You heard Ursus' speech.
Militaristic tripe.
Zira!
Perhaps. But now he has the incident he requires
to go on a rampage ofconquest.
But that is appalling!
To remain silent
while this bully Ursus is permitted to..
to destroy everything in his path
is no longer possible.
As Minister of science,
it's my duty to find out
whether some other form of life exists.
Where are you going?
I nto the Forbidden Zone with Ursus.
Another manhunt, Doctor?
Someone or some thing
has outwitted the intelligence
of the gorillas.
- That shouldn't be difficult. - Shh, 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?
Ignorance is!
There's a time for truth.
And the time is always now.
Are you asking me
to surrender my principles?
I am asking you to be the guardians
of the higher principles of science
during my absence.
I am asking for a truce
with your personal convictions
in an hour of public danger.
And you shall have it, Dr. Zaius,
or I shall hit her again.
Let us have no violence, Cornelius.
Now, I'm relying on you both.
We are counting on you, too, Doctor.
If I should fail to return from the unknown,
the whole future ofour civilization
may be yours to preserve or destroy,
so think well before you act.
Good-bye, Dr. Zaius, and good luck.
Let me finish this up and get you out of here!
Yeah, get me out of here, please.
I've seen the delicate, humane way they treat humans here.
I don't much care for it.
Have you a horse?
Yeah, out in the scrub.
I'd better get you another set ofclothes,
the kind fit for humans, like yourself.
You'll pass. Get rid of this.
And this, too.
If you are caught by the gorillas,
you must remember one thing.
What's that?
Never to speak.
What the hell would I have to say to a gorilla?
But you don't understand.
Only apes can speak.
Not her, and not you.
If 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 of these things you're wearing
as soon as you can.
Thanks.
Thank us by finding Taylor.
Yeah, if he's still alive.
Scissors.
Sergeant, wait!
This is a type-E cranium.
Very unusual.
With occipital development.
Substandard lobe.
Female.
It'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.
I'll take the key.
To the target range!
Uh, wait! Wait!
I'd better double lock the door.
Good luck.
All right!
God Almighty.
This used to be my home.
I...
I lived here,
worked here.
What..What happened?
What..What could've happened?
My God, did we finally do it?
Did we finally really do it?