Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Page #3

He used to work at the water department.

He's the only one who knows how the dam works.

Malcolm...

What are you gonna do up there?

What are you gonna say?

I'll tell him the truth.

Hope I catch him in a good mood.

You think I'm crazy.

I'm worried.

Yeah, so am I.

I've gone over it in my head...

And I think if I don't at least try this...

There's gonna be a war.

Take me with you.

What if someone gets hurt?

You'll need me there.

I love you.

But I need you to stay here.

I don't want Alexander to be alone.

I'm coming, too.

Son, it's not safe.

But I'm safer with you

than I am down here.

I'm coming.

Please.

No one gets out of the trucks.

No one.

If I'm not back in two hours,

you get everyone back to the city.

It's gonna be okay.

Please. Please. Please.

Please don't kill me.

Just hear what I have to say.

I know.

"Don't come back." I know.

I wouldn't be here unless it were-

okay! Okay! Okay!

Okay, okay, okay.

I need to show you something.

It's not far.

Human lies!

No! No!

No, no, no. I swear.

If I could just show you,

then you'll understand.

Please.

Show me.

This is what we used to call

a "small hydro."

It was built to service

areas to the north of here...

But we've been working to

reroute the power lines to the city...

Because the city used to run off nuclear power,

but that ran out years ago.

So, we've been using

diesel generators and gasifiers.

But if we can just

get this dam working...

Then we have a shot

at restoring limited power.

Is any of this making any sense to you?

The... lights.

Yes.

The lights.

This is your home...

And I don't want to take it away from you,

I promise.

But if you can let us do our work here-

you brought others?

Just a few.

I'm not a threat.

If I am...

Then I guess you can kill me.

Come on!

- Wait, wait, wait!

- Stop, stop.

We need to give them our guns.

That's the one condition.

What does that mean?

We can stay.

If they get power, they'll be more dangerous!

Why help them?!

They seem desperate...

If we make them go, they'll attack.

Let them.

We'll destroy them while they're weak.

And how many apes will die?

We have one chance for peace...

Let them do their human work. Then they'll go.

Human work?

Human work.

Human work.

Human work!

Koba say...

Apes should hate humans...

Enough!

From humans koba learned hate...

But nothing else.

Hey.

You need to eat.

Okay.

That was brave, what you did today.

Malcolm.

I know everyone's depending on you-

I don't care about that.

I don't care about any of that.

I care about him.

He saw things that no kid should see,

and I'm not letting us go back to that.

I know.

I have been trying

to get closer to him.

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