Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Page #2

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- But what if they don't let you go?

- Oh, they will. They will.

But just in case, if I am not back by then...

Now, these steps go down

to a tunnel that leads to the harbor.

Cargoes of apes are frequently

unloaded at night.

- You must try to infiltrate one of them.

- But, Armando...

Apes imported from overseas arrive naked,

so you'll have to get rid of these clothes.

- Well, I don't want to.

- We must have an alternate plan!

Right now, the only safe

hiding place for you

is among your own kind.

I shouldn't be long.

Why would you say ''human''?

''Human.'' That's a very odd thing

for another human being to say.

I didn't say ''human,'' Mr Governor.

I said ''inhuman.''

Lousy inhuman bastards. And by the blessed

St Francis, who loved all animals, I meant it.

- You see, I run a circus...

- We know that.

- From 20 years back.

- Since the talking apes arrived on Earth

and conceived a baby whose survival could

have threatened the future of the human race.

Mr Governor, I understand

the baby was shot dead with its parents.

Or so it was believed, Mr MacDonald.

However, since this morning, I'm beginning

to wonder if they shot the right baby.

The apes could have switched

their baby with one from the zoo.

- Or perhaps a circus.

- Surely, Mr Governor, you can't be serious!

Hoskyns, the cassette, please.

These are the recommendations made to

the then president of the United States

by the chairman

of the Presidential Committee.

And we believe that the male and female

talking apes, Cornelius and Zira,

have come to us out of the future.

We believe their spoken testimony,

that some 2,000 years hence,

their descendants will have all but

exterminated the human race from Earth.

And we know that the female ape

is now pregnant with child.

The commission therefore recommends

that the birth of the female ape's

unborn child should be prevented

and that both the male and the female

should be rendered

incapable of begetting another.

But, Mr Governor, every zoo, public

and private, was searched by the police,

and every circus, including my own.

- But a small chimpanzee was found.

- The only one ever to be born in a circus,

and legally certified

to have been born a month -

a month - before the talking apes

arrived on earth.

- Where is he now?

- I wish I knew. I've searched everywhere.

Seor Armando!

Let me remind you...

of the seriousness of our problem.

Now.

- Your circus travels mainly in the provinces?

- Yes, sir.

Then, undoubtedly, you are unaware

of the rising tide of disobedience,

the outright defiance, among

the servant apes in our cities.

Mr Governor, on investigation, many

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