Original subtitles

[jungle sounds]

[softly] Captain!

[all gasp]

[chitters]

Is that a trench?

It looks like there's more of them inside.

[exhales heavily]

-Echo 2-6 to command. -[muffled response]

Colonel, we've got eyes on three Kong in the north woods.

One of them is armed.

Donkey just spotted another trench.

Maybe the base is near.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir, copy. Over.

Hey, Donkey.

[grunts softly]

Preacher.

The one with the gun.

As soon as the gunner's down, you guys take out the trench.

-Yes, sir. -[soldier 2] Yes, sir.

[horse neighs]

[Captain] Fire!

Come on!

[soldiers yelling]

[chittering]

[continues chittering]

[soldiers yelling]

[indistinct yelling]

[chittering]

[screaming]

[indistinct chittering continues]

[whooping]

Reload!

[faint chittering in the background]

[muffled screaming]

[chittering grows louder]

[groaning]

Fall back! Fall back!

[soldiers groaning and screaming]

[panting]

Colonel, do you copy? Colonel!

-[The Colonel] Who is this? -Preacher! It's Preacher!

Where are you, soldier? I need your position.

-I don't know! -What do you see?

I can't see anything, sir.

We lost a lot of men, and the captain is dead, sir.

Okay, calm down. You're in command now.

Command, sir?

I think it's just me all by myself now.

[distorted] Take control.

[apes chittering]

Colonel, I don't think I'm gonna make it, sir.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry, sir.

Listen to me. You kill as many as you can.

[grunting]

No! No, no!

Sixty-three dead.

[sighs]

You're him.

You're Caesar.

We've been searching for you for so long.

We heard you had a hidden command base.

But we could never find it.

Some of us started to think that you might be dead.

But Colonel McCullough said you were out here.

-[Travis] Just kill us already. -Shut up, man!

What? They're animals.

He's gonna slaughter us.

I did not start this war.

The ape who did is dead.

His name was Koba.

I killed him.

Now, I fight only to protect apes.

Yeah?

What about him?

We've got ten more just like him.

I know these apes.

They follow Koba.

They tried to kill me.

They fear what I will do to them.

So now, they serve you.

Just to survive.

I don't fear you.

[apes chittering]

You must fear.

How long you think woods can protect you?

Humans destroy you.

Their Kerna has all power.

For them, he more than just human.

He everything.

He say, "First, Caesar die…

"then all of you die."

[both grunting]

Winter! Take this traitor outside!

What should we do with the humans?

[heavy breathing]

You're letting us go?

Tell your Colonel you have seen me now…

and I have a message for him.

Leave us the woods, and the killing can stop.

Do you think they will give him the message?

They are the message, Maurice.

He will see we are not savages.

[Winter chittering]

The traitor attacked me! He got away!

[huffs]

[melancholy music playing]

[faint chittering]

[Caesar] Koba…

still haunts us.

Why didn't I see…

that he could not forgive what humans did to him?

[grunts]

No one could have known how much darkness

was living inside him.

[horn blowing]

[chittering]

[all chittering]

[horse whinnies]

Father!

[both breathing heavily]

Welcome home, Rocket.

You look tired.

It was a long journey.

Father, we found something!

Come.

[all chittering]

[enchanting music playing]

[chittering]

Mother!

Cornelius…

Say hi to your brother!

Look who's here, son…

Lake…

This is it, father…

We can start over… A new home.

What is beyond those mountains, son?

Show them, Rocket…

A desert!

The journey is long…

But that is why humans will not find us.

We must leave tonight!

Tonight? That's impossible!

How long can we wait, Lake?

Soldiers getting closer!

Winter…

[chittering]

Your son's been gone, Caesar…

He doesn't know how hard it's been.

I know you are scared…

We all are…

But we are still planning…

Yes.

We must find a safe way out of the woods.

There were only two of you.

But we are… many.

We will find a way out of here.

Apes together…

strong.

[all chittering]

[suspenseful music playing]

Stay here, son!

Protect your mother and brother!

[ragged breathing]

-[gasps] -[growls]

Caesar! What's wrong?

How many on patrol?

Five? Six?

Get them!

Luca, get Rocket, too.

[gasps]

[grunting]

Lima four to command. Colonel, did you… [grunts]

[ape grunting]

[gun firing]

[huffing]

Rocket!

What happened?

I heard him talking! The Colonel is here!

[The Colonel over radio] 99, target acquired.

99, target acquired. Repeat. King Kong is dead.

Let's go. I can get out from here.

[grunting]

[apes howling]

[huffing]

[yelling]

[gasping]

[panting]

Caesar…

We can't find Winter!

He was scared! I think he betrayed us!

Have you found Cornelius yet?

We're still searching.

Let's go look for Caesar's little son.

[sighs]

[breathing heavily]

[rustling]

[panting]

[sighing]

[stutters] Cornelius!

[Cornelius crying]

[melancholy music playing]

You're safe now.

Lake…

You loved my son.

Look after his brother until I return.

You're not coming with us to our new home?

No.

Go with Lake.

[soft chittering]

Caesar!

You're not going after them?

Not them. Him.

Caesar, you are our leader!

We can't leave without you!

You must.

The soldiers will be back soon.

Father!

When I find him, the soldiers will all come after me.

That may give you the best chance to get out of the woods.

Where is he going?

[apes chittering]

Caesar! Caesar!

[melancholy music playing]

The soldiers' camp is always moving.

My guards think they know where it is.

Let me take you.

You need me to back you up!

No.

Please…

I know what it's like

to lose a son.

I may not make it back.

That's why I'm coming.

To make sure you do.

[dramatic music playing]

Guards think soldiers here…

Always fires burning.

No one here…

[Caesar] Search the area.

I'm just gonna put this down.

-[gunshots] -[groans]

[all exclaim in surprise]

What's he doing out here alone?

Maybe he's a deserter?

[clattering]

[chittering]

Look around.

Take what you can.

[mutters]

[grunts]

[straining]

[chitters]

[chittering]

Something wrong with her.

I don't think she can speak.

Come.

She'll die out here alone.

We cannot take her, Maurice.

I understand…

But I cannot leave her.

[dramatic music playing]

[scoffs]

[Caesar breathing heavily]

Did you find the Colonel?

[Caesar] No.

Winter.

[Caesar breathing heavily]

[Winter gasps]

Where's the Colonel?

He's gone.

Gone?

He left this morning…

took many men with him.

More soldiers are coming down from the North.

The Colonel is going to meet them

at the border.

What border? Why?

I don't know.

But the rest of us are going tomorrow.

The donkeys think the soldiers from the North

are coming to help finish off the apes for good.

That day, after the battle on the hill…

The donkey we caught promised me the Colonel would spare my life…

If I told them where you were hiding.

Forgive me!

My son…

my wife…

are dead.

[gasps]

[whimpering]

[indistinct conversations]

[grunting]

[choking]

[muffled grunting]

Now what do we do?

Wait till the soldiers go…

Follow them to the Colonel.

[shudders]

Koba!

Ape…

not kill ape.

[gasps]

[Maurice chittering]

The soldiers are leaving!

[galloping]

[indistinct yelling]

-They stopped. -[muffled gunshots]

Get down!

[girl gasps]

[muffled gunshots continue]

What are they shooting at?

I don't know.

-[gasps] -[chittering]

[groaning]

[soldier panting]

[groaning]

Why did they shoot you?

[mumbling]

Like her!

He cannot speak!

He will die of those wounds.

Luca…

Where did the soldiers go?

Winter said they were going to a border.

Yes, but which way is that?

[roaring]

[girl gasps]

[urging horses]

[exclaims]

[chitters]

[soft clattering]

[cocks gun]

[snarling]

Bad Ape!

Bad Ape.

Who are you?

What are you doing here?

I don't think he understands.

I don't recognize him.

He's not one of us.

Are you alone here?

[chittering]

Cold?

Cold.

I see girl, I think you human.

But you ape.

Like me.

No, put down.

How long have you been here?

Long time.

Long, long time.

[exclaims excitedly]

Home.

Old home.

Are there more like you?

More apes from zoo.

Dead. All dead.

Long time.

Human get sick.

Ape get smart.

Then human kill ape.

But not me.

I run.

You learn to speak…

Listen. Human…

"Bad Ape!"

-Bad Ape. Huh? -[scraping]

No.

No touch.

[stutters] That's mine.

-[thudding] -[Bad Ape grunts]

[Bad Ape] I'm okay!

[clattering]

Amazing…

Always thought we were the only ones.

Wonder if there are more in the world?

More apes like us.

Eat! Eat.

[panting]

New friends.

Special day.

Where did you get this?

Bad place.

I find long time ago.

After zoo, I look for food…

I find human zoo.

Zoo for sick.

Big walls.

Sick human climb.

Bad human kill.

And then, all get sick.

All dead now for a long time.

Long time.

Bad humans?

Soldiers?

Soldiers.

A deserted military camp!

On the border!

Maybe the Colonel and the troops are going there?

Is it far? Can you take us?

Human zoo?

No. No, no go back there.

Everyone dead. I come here. Very safe here.

Never go back.

Please, you must take us!

-No! No! Cannot take! -[chittering]

Cannot take. No! No!

Look! Look!

More snow. Cannot go. Must stay.

You eat, you rest.

Stay here with me.

Here, you keep.

She keep.

[Bad Ape] Who is…

child?

I don't know.

But… she with you.

She has no one else.

I see you look at her just now.

Look sad.

You have child?

One.

The other was killed by human.

Soldier?

I…

had child.

You think you will find him…

at human zoo?

With soldier?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Then…

maybe I take you.

[grunts]

[chitters]

Thirsty.

Thirsty.

Thirsty.

[distant indistinct conversations]

Luca, come. Let's go closer.

Keep them safe.

[conversations continue]

What are they doing?

I don't know.

What's that? A patrol?

[Caesar] I don't see riders.

[soldier grunts]

Hold it! [groans]

I saw them coming!

[Luca groans]

[groaning]

At least this time…

I was able to protect you.

[crying]

[continues crying]

Caesar…

This must stop…

It's not too late to join the other apes…

We cannot turn back!

Luca gave his life!

Please!

They must pay.

Now…

you sound like Koba.

[breathing heavily]

It was a mistake bringing you all.

This is my fight.

I will finish this alone.

Go.

Now!

Join the others.

[chittering]

[gun cocking]

[panting]

[gasping weakly]

What happened?

They came out of nowhere…

Attacked us.

We thought they would kill us all…

But the Colonel stopped them!

[breathing sharply]

There was madness in his eyes!

He said they would use us, before we died!

And they brought us all here!

[coughing]

Use you?

They've been forcing us to work!

What…

What kind of work?

Wait.

My little son. Is he here?

[footsteps approaching]

[Caesar grunts]

[The Colonel] Grant and Lee,

Wellington

and Napoleon,

Custer,

and Sitting Bull…

You're probably not much of a reader.

But this is a big moment.

Where were you?

We came upon your herd. We got lucky.

But I was surprised you weren't with them.

[grunting]

[soldier] Hey, hey, hey!

I hope you don't come to regret sparing his life.

He's quite a good shot.

Have you finally come to save your apes?

I came for you.

For me?

Who did I kill that night?

My wife.

My son.

I'm sorry.

I was there for you.

My God.

Look at your eyes.

Almost human.

How did you know I was here?

I was told you were coming.

That more soldiers from the North

would be joining you here.

Joining me?

To finish us off.

For good.

Who told you that?

Okay.

Let's go.

[Caesar grunting]

[indistinct taunting]

-[apes chittering] -[grunts]

Father!

Father!

[grunts]

[sighs]

Lake…

Forgive them.

We've been through much.

[Cornelius chittering]

Father!

What have I done?

Battalion, halt!

Blood!

[soldiers] Makes the grass grow!

-We! -[soldiers] Make the blood flow!

-[commanding officer] We're the beginning! -[all] And the end!

[all cheering]

-[cheering stops] -[whistle blowing]

[anthem playing over PA system]

[soldiers yelling]

[all grunting]

We haven't had food or water since we got here…

[chitters]

Why do they need a wall?

[Boyle] Hey!

[ape chitters]

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

[straining]

[all screaming]

[apes chittering]

[Boyle] Hey!

Donkey!

Get him.

Okay, okay, okay…

[Red Donkey grunting]

-[grunts] -[groaning]

[whipping continues]

Leave him!

[ape chitters]

[all chittering]

[all continue chittering]

[groans]

[Red Donkey yelling]

[chittering stops]

-[whipping] -[Red Donkey grunts]

[grunts]

[Caesar exhales]

Tell them to get back to work.

Apes need food and water.

Tell them.

Give them food…

and water.

-[gunshot] -[ape grunts]

[apes chittering]

Five…

Four…

[Lake grunts]

Three…

[Lake panting]

Two…

[panting]

[grunts]

Hurry! Back to work!

[heavy breathing]

String him up, Donkey.

Bad place.

[sputters]

Bad, bad place.

What you see?

Must save them!

But how?

Must think!

What would Caesar do?

-[Bad Ape] Oh, no! -[grunts]

Why so small?

[grunting]

Oh!

What did the Colonel promise you?

You really think he'll let you live

after we are gone?

You let them call you "donkey."

You are ape.

[grunts]

Kerna want see you.

[rock music playing on speakers]

[The Colonel] Interfere with the work again

and I'll 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.

You know, you are very emotional.

What makes you think you're 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 were smart, but that's impressive.

No.

They won't be joining me.

They are against you?

They fear me.

[Caesar] Why?

Because you kill your own men?

We found bodies.

Something wrong

with these men.

Jesus Christ, you are impressive.

Well, 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 gonna show me mercy?

I showed you mercy when I spared your men.

I offered you peace

and you killed my family.

[exhales heavily]

-[switch clicks] -[music stops]

[The Colonel] Mercy.

You have any idea what your mercy would do to us?

You're much stronger than we are.

You're smart as hell.

No matter what you say, you'd eventually replace us.

That's the law of nature.

The irony is, we created you.

We tried to defy nature, bend it to our will.

Nature has been punishing us for our arrogance…

ever since.

10 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 and said that they thought he'd 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 that if it spread,

it would destroy humanity for good this time.

Not by killing us,

but by robbing us of those 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.

I pointed it at my only child…

he looked at me…

trust in his eyes.

Even in his primitive gaze…

I felt his… love.

[gulps]

I pulled the trigger.

It purified me.

It made my purpose clear.

I gave the orders to kill the other infected.

All of them.

Burn their belongings

and anything that might spread contamination.

Some of the men questioned my judgment.

I was asking them to do what I had done.

Sacrifice their friends…

their family.

Of course, they refused.

So, I had them killed, too.

Others with children

deserted into the woods.

One of those cowards fled to my superiors up North.

They tried to convince me this plague could be dealt with medically.

That's when I realized that they had learned nothing

from our past.

You killed them, too?

What did I do, Preacher?

You severed their heads, sir.

Except for the one I spared,

so that he could return, and deliver a message.

If they wanted to relieve me of my command,

they would have to meet me here

and do it themselves.

This used to be a weapons depot.

They turned it into a relocation camp

when the crisis was just beginning.

But the weapons are still here

inside the mountain.

[Caesar] How many men

will be coming?

Probably all of them.

But don't get any ideas.

The only thing they fear more than me is you apes.

This is… a holy war.

All of human history has led to this moment.

If we lose…

we'll be the last of our kind.

It will be a planet of apes.

And we will become your cattle.

Look at you.

You think I'm sick, don't you?

I didn't mean to kill your son.

But if his destiny was to inherit your unholy kingdom…

-I'm glad I did it. -[growls]

[Preacher] Hey! Hey!

Get back! Donkey, hold him!

-Hey! -[growling]

[choking]

So emotional!

I can see how conflicted you are.

You're confused in your purpose.

You are angry at me for something I did

that was an act of war.

But you're taking this all much too personally.

What do you think

my men would have done to your apes if you had killed me?

Or is killing me more important?

[panting]

Soldiers everywhere!

How will we get in?

[sniffles and chitters]

Must get in somehow…

Must get in!

In? In?

No!

-No go in! No… -[horse neighs]

[panting]

Friends, friends!

No, no go in.

No go in… [yelps]

Friend! Friend!

[Bad Ape grunts]

[panting] Thank you, friend.

[grunts softly]

[apes chittering]

[whistle blowing]

You saved our lives!

[gasps and coughs]

[panting]

[heavy breathing]

Sick humans

must have escaped down here!

No! No! No!

No! No climb!

[chittering]

What?

What you see?

Wonder where we are?

[Rocket grunts]

[Bad Ape] Oh, no, friend!

Oh…

No!

No!

No! No!

No! Come! Come!

Come! Come back! Come!

No, come!

Come! Come! Come!

[shivering]

Koba!

[shivering]

Sleep.

You cannot save them.

Apes all die here.

No!

Yes.

Join me.

[grunting]

If he's still alive in the morning…

he goes to work like everyone else…

or you shoot him.

[Bad Ape] Come! Come, come.

She go in!

[soft melodic music playing]

[whimpering softly]

[shallow breathing]

Thirsty?

[both chitter]

[distant indistinct conversations]

[footsteps approaching]

Hide!

Quick!

Humans will kill her!

I know what to do! Go!

[chittering loudly]

[soldier 1] Arms up! Hey! Hey!

-[soldier 2] Arms up! -[soldier 3] Watch it! Watch it!

[soldier 2] Let's go!

Keep 'em up!

Follow him down.

[soldier 1] Keep them up!

[sniffs]

[Red Donkey grunts]

[both grunting]

-[gunshot] -[panting]

Are there others out there?

Sweep the area.

Put him in the pen.

[grunts]

[Red Donkey grunting]

[apes chittering]

[soft chuckle]

Feeling better?

[sighs]

Good.

Then we can talk about…

Escape.

Apes together strong!

[breathing deeply]

-[commanding officer] We're the beginning! -[soldiers] And the end!

[all yelling]

[The Colonel scoffs]

[The Colonel] Still alive.

Send him to the quarry. Alone.

Hold on.

What is this?

How did this get in there?

Get him to work.

Thirty-seven.

[heavy breathing]

Fifty-five.

Thirty-seven steps to the adult cage…

Fifty-five to the children.

[grunts]

You know…

Kerna shoot apes

when war is done.

His war is madness.

It won't save him…

any more than it will save you.

I save myself.

Is there anything left of you to save?

[Red Donkey grunts]

I do.

Apes going back to the cage?

You…

Are very brave.

Brave?

Brave!

Brave!

Ape?

Me?

Ape?

You are…

Nova.

Nova.

[Bad Ape grunting]

Come! Come! Come see!

Come see!

Come! Come see!

34, 35, 36, 37…

37!

I do.

[Maurice grunts]

[chuckles] What now?

[chitters]

-What? -[chitters]

Oh, no!

Oh, no!

No, no!

No, no, no…

[growls]

Okay.

[coughs]

This is the ape I told you about!

Thank you.

Bad Ape.

[Maurice grunts]

[Bad Ape yelps]

[chittering]

[sputters]

What's wrong?

[chittering]

[Maurice straining]

We can't keep digging!

It will flood the whole tunnel!

If we don't, we can't reach the children!

[all chittering]

[chittering stops]

We must keep looking down there…

Find another way to reach the children.

We must leave now!

More soldiers are coming!

Humans will destroy each other!

And us with them!

We'll have to get the children out above ground!

How?

[gasps]

Hey!

You animals!

[groans]

Who did that?

Who did that?

Huh?

Who was it?

[apes chittering]

Was it you?

[grunts]

-[yelps] -[thuds]

[Maurice grunts]

[indistinct conversations]

[Cornelius cooing]

I love you, son.

[excited chittering]

Go, go, go.

Hurry! Let's go!

Caesar, what's wrong?

Hurry, you must go.

Without you?

No…

Maurice was right.

I am

like Koba.

He could not

escape his hate.

And I still cannot escape mine.

Go, go, go.

[commander] Fire!

[alarms blaring]

[Bad Ape exclaiming in distress]

[overlapping yelling]

[executive officer] Colonel! Colonel!

Where the hell is he?

[Bad Ape exclaiming in awe]

Down! Down! Down!

Get down!

[Caesar breathing heavily]

[rasping]

[hammer clicks]

[huffing]

[rasping]

[soft melodic music playing]

-[gunshot] -[casing clinking]

[gunfire]

[gunner] Take him out!

[men cheering]

[gunner] Come on, Donkey. Let's go! Reload!

[panting]

[officer] Colonel, are you in there? Colonel!

Just break it down.

[soft dramatic music playing]

Donkey!

Grenade launcher!

[panting]

[groaning]

God damn it, Donkey! Get me the launcher!

[grunting]

[inaudible]

[gunshot]

[whistling]

[grunting and panting]

[grunting]

[chittering]

[panting]

[soldiers clamoring]

[cheering]

[rumbling]

[soldiers yelling]

[chittering]

Oh, no! Oh, no!

Oh, no! Oh, no!

[panting]

[growls]

[apes chittering]

[whooping]

[panting]

[chittering]

[Maurice chitters]

[grunting]

[Maurice grunting]

Don't worry.

Maurice.

You are all home now.

Apes are strong.

With…

or without me.

[all chittering]

Son…

will know…

who…

was…

father.

And what…

Caesar…

did…

for us.

[sighs]

[sniffles]

Caesar… [gasping]

[Maurice growling mournfully]

[soft melodic music playing]