Escape from the Planet of the Apes Page #3

---

Well, you see...

we did know Colonel Taylor.

We came to love him.

I don't understand what harm there could be

in telling that to the commission.

Where we come from,

uh, apes did not love humans.

They, uh, hunted them for sport...

uh, much as you would animals.

Yes. We used their bodies,

alive and dead...

experimentally for anatomical dissection

and scientific research.

Well, uh, we do

the same thing to animals.

I mean, as a scientist, I sympathize...

but, uh, 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.

- 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?

- Because

- Well?

From the windows of the spaceship

We saw the Earth...

destroyed.

Stand by.

Good evening. This is Bill Bonds

reporting from Los Angeles...

where the biggest story since the moon landing

broke this morning when two apes talked.

I repeat, talked to

the presidential commission of inquiry.

With me this evening in the studio

is Dr. Otto Hasslein.

He is a senior scientific adviser

with the White House...

and he'll be giving us his views on the crucial

statement made at this morning's session.

Dr. Hasslein, 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, maybe the explanation

needs some explaining.

Now, you've written several learned

dissertations on the nature of time.

Could you explain in terms

that ourviewers at home will understand...

how, for instance, a person, or persons...

- uh, could travel from time past to time future

- Mm-hmm.

or, indeed, vice versa?

Mr. Bonds, I think that time

can only be fully understood...

by an observer with a godlike gift

of infinite regression.

Could you explain

infinite regression for us?

- Roll the film.

- I'd be more than happy to.

As a matter of fact,

I came prepared to dojust that.

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

of 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 and 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

and I repeat spoken testimony.

Thank you very much, Dr. Hasslein.

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 "ape-o-nauts"

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 hoteI...

and they will be given

an extended tour of the city.

This is Bill Bonds reporting

for Eyewitness News.

- Good night.

- Good night.

Oh!

- Your luggage, ma'am?

- Of course it's mine!

Address, please.

The zoo.

Hmm.

Forty.

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,

uh, like grape juice plus.

Wait!Just a sip.

Madam Zira,

what is your favorite fruit?

Grape.

Higher! Higher!

And that's the way it was tonight...

at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Tomorrow, Zira 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 prizefight. That's his first one.

Later, he'll visit Disneyland to dedicate

a new boat for the jungle Cruise.

Now, for a look at the weather. Sunny

California wilI not be exactly that tomorrow.

Clouds will cover the coastal area,

with light showers predicted.

The downtown

- Tired?

- A little.

How is that?

Soothing...

but very wet.

Hmm. Hmm.

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!

Right! Right.

How do you like it, Cornelius?

Beastly.

We are now approaching

Antrodemus valens Leidy...

a giant flesh-eating dinosaur.

Now, its scientific name

is a compound...

of the Greek antron,

which means "hollow"...

and demus,

which means "body frame"...

referring to the backbone or vertebrae.

Now, this little fellow

is Camptosaurus Marsh...

a primitive duck-billed dinosaur.

Its scientific name is a compound

of the Greek kampto...

which means "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 species

from the jurassic beds of wyoming.

Since then, other specimens

have been found throughout

- It must have been the shock.

- Shock, my foot!

I'm pregnant.

Mmm.

I shan't leave you

until Cornelius is back.

- No, no, no, no!

- No, I insist. Please sit down.

Now, is there anything

I can get you, Zira?

Well, I have a strange craving.

That is only natural.

For grape juice plus.

Grape juice plus?

It's in the the refrigerator.

All right.

Is this it?

Here we are.

Lewis said only a sip.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes