Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Page #4

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knowing you've got it bottled up at last.

- Is that all, sir?

- Not quite.

I have an authorization here from

the governor to have this beast destroyed.

I'll notify the vet to inject him.

- He is wired for electrocution, isn't he?

- Oh, yes.

Well, then, electrocute him. Now.

- He's dead.

- Good.

- Good work, Inspector.

- What happened to Mr MacDonald?

I'm afraid his sensibility...

Ah, there you are!

- Is it over?

- Yes, it's over.

Shall we go back to work?

Lisa.

All keepers and handlers,

attention. Attention!

All keepers and handlers.

There is $50,000 worth of apes in jeopardy.

Get them out of here... alive!

Yes. Commander, I understand the situation.

Assemble as large a force

as you can and follow them.

Mobilize all security forces,

police, militia and reserve defense units.

See that every entrance

into the city is cordoned off.

Will control methods include

tear gas and sedation darts?

There will be but one

control method:
shoot to kill.

A small group of apes,

scheduled for intensive reconditioning,

have escaped from Ape Management.

Until they've been rounded up by the police,

all citizens are requested to remain indoors.

A further announcement will be made

as soon as recapture is effected.

And, I guess, here it is.

Ape Management is in

the hands of the apes.

Many officials are either

dead or held hostage.

The main band of rioting apes are

at this very moment marching on the city.

It's been established that

the ape mob is under the command

of a supernormally intelligent chimpanzee

who has... acquired the power of speech.

That idiot! Get out a retraction immediately!

Announce that the talking ape

has been put to death!

..the child of the two talking

chimpanzees, Cornelius and Zira,

who came to us from

outer space 20 years ago.

As such, he constitutes a threat

to the future of the whole human race.

Governor Breck has just issued

this order to all civilians: go to your homes.

Stay in your home and lock your doors.

Above all, do not panic.

Repeat:
go to your homes.

Stay in your homes and lock your doors.

The situation can be kept under control

provided our defense forces are

given complete freedom of movement.

No! Go back!

No! No!

Go home!

Back!

Ready.

Aim.

Fire!

Ready.

Aim.

Fire!

Yes.

Yes. Understood.

Riot Control say the apes

have broken through the cordon.

Advance units are approaching the Plaza.

Order units four and six

into action immediately.

Riot Control.

No!

No!

They've reached the Plaza.

- Good God! They're armed!

- And organized.

- No! Home!

- Don't plead with them, you idiot!

Ready!

No!

Home!

Home!

Home!

Aim!

Fire!

What's the trouble down there?

Like wild animals, they're smelling blood.

My God! There's more!

- They're inside the building.

- Alert all security posts!

- Right, sir.

- No! No!

The circuits are dead.

Take a message. To Riot Control, urgent.

Command Post under attack!

Repeat:
Command Post under attack!

It won't work, sir.

No!

But how? How? They don't have

the intelligence to use such tools!

Shoot them! Shoot them all!

This is the Communication Center.

We have no defense.

If we lose this battle,

that's the end of the world as we know it!

We will have proved

ourselves inferior. Weak!

And all the groveling cowards left alive when

the battle is over will be the weakest of all!

This will be the end of human civilization

and the world will belong to a planet of apes!

No! No, go. Go!

Caesar!

Your servant.

Your creature. Your animal!

But I saw you die.

The king is dead. Long live the king!

Tell me, Breck, before you die,

how do we differ from the dogs

and cats you and your kind used to love?

Why did you turn us from pets into slaves?

Because your kind were once our ancestors.

Man was born of the ape.

And there's still an ape

curled up inside of every man.

The beast that must be

whipped into submission.

The savage that has to be shackled in chains.

You are that beast, Caesar. You taint us.

You poison our guts!

When...

When we hate you, we're...

we're hating the dark side of ourselves.

Take him.

Go!

Caesar!

Caesar. This is not how it was to be.

In your view or mine?

Violence prolongs hate.

Hate prolongs violence.

- By what right are you spilling blood?

- The slave's right to punish his persecutors.

Caesar. I, a descendant of slaves,

am asking you to show humanity.

But I was not born human.

I know. The child of the evolved apes.

Whose children shall rule the Earth.

For better or for worse?

Do you think it could be worse?

Do you think this riot

will win freedom for all your kind?

- By tomorrow...

- By tomorrow, it will be too late.

A tiny, mindless insect like the emperor

moth can communicate with another

- over a distance of 80 miles.

- An emperor ape might do slightly better?

Slightly?

What you have seen here today, apes on the

five continents will be imitating tomorrow.

With knives against guns?

With kerosene cans against flame-throwers?

Where there is fire, there is smoke.

And, in that smoke, from this day forward,

my people will crouch and conspire

and plot and plan for

the inevitable day of man's downfall.

The day when he finally

and self-destructively

turns his weapons against his own kind.

The day of the writing in the sky,

when your cities lie buried

under radioactive rubble.

When the sea is a dead sea

and the land is a wasteland

out of which I will lead my people

from their captivity.

And we shall build our own cities in

which there will be no place for humans,

except to serve our ends.

And we shall found our own armies,

our own religion,

our own dynasty!

And that day is upon you... now!

But now...

Now we will put away our hatred.

Now we will put down our weapons.

We have passed through

the Night of the Fires.

And those who were our masters

are now our servants.

And we, who are not human,

can afford to be humane.

Destiny is the will of God.

And, if it is man's destiny to be dominated,

it is God's will

that he be dominated with compassion

and understanding.

So, cast out your vengeance.

Tonight, we have seen

the birth of the Planet of the Apes!

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