War for the Planet of the Apes Page #4

After we are gone?

You let them call you donkey.

You are ape.

Colonel wants see you.

HISTORY:

Interfere with the work again,

I will begin slaughtering the apes,

one by one.

Understand?

I need that wall.

Apes need food and water.

They'll get food and water

when they finish their work.

Give apes food and water.

- Or they cannot finish it.

- You know, you're very emotional.

What makes you think youre

in a position to make demands?

- Okay, let's go.

- The soldiers who are coming here,

they are not coming

to join you, are they?

I saw men outside, on the wall,

preparing for battle.

They told me you're smart,

but that's impressive.

No, they won't be joining me.

They are against you?

They fear me.

Why?

Because you kill your own men?

We found bodies.

Something wrong with these men.

Jesus Christ, you are impressive.

You paint quite a picture.

What you must think of me.

I think you have no mercy.

You came here to kill me.

Were you going to show me mercy?

I showed you mercy

when I spared your men.

I offered you peace

and you killed my family.

Mercy.

Do you have any idea what

your mercy would do to us?

Youre much stronger than we are.

You're smart as hell.

No matter what you say,

youd eventually replace us.

Thats the law of Nature.

The irony is, we created you.

We tried to defy Nature,

bend it to our will.

And Natures been punishing us

for our arrogance ever since.

Ten months ago, I sent out

recon units to look for your base.

My own son was a soldier

with one of the units.

One day he suddenly stopped speaking.

He became primitive, like an animal.

They contacted me,

said that they thought

hed lost his mind,

that the war was too much for him.

Then the man who cared for

him stopped speaking too.

Their medic had a theory,

before he stopped speaking,

that the virus that

almost wiped us out,

the virus that every human

survivor still carries,

had suddenly changed.

Mutated.

And if it spread, it would destroy

humanity for good this time.

Not by killing us, but by robbing

us of the things that make us human.

Our speech,

our higher thinking.

It would turn us into beasts.

You talk about mercy?

What would you have done?

It was a moment of clarity for me.

I realized that I would have

to sacrifice my only son,

so that humanity could be saved.

I held that gun in my

hand for a long time...

And I pointed it at my only child.

He looked at me with

trust in his eyes.

Even in his primitive gaze,

I felt his...

love.

I pulled the trigger.

It purified me.

It made my purpose clear.

I gave orders to kill the

others infected, all of them.

Burn their belongings, anything

that might spread contamination.

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