Cornelius
Zira!
Zira
Cornelius, I think we should tell them.
Cornelius
No.
Zira
But o-only to Lewis and Stevie.
Cornelius
Oh, Zira.
Zira
I have to be honest with someone. Cornelius, please. You tell them. Well, you see... we did know Colonel Taylor. We came to love him.
Lewis Dixon
I don't understand what harm there could be in telling that to the commission.
Cornelius
Where we come from, uh, apes did not love humans. They, uh, hunted them for sport... uh, much as you would animals.
Zira
Yes. We used their bodies, alive and dead... experimentally for anatomical dissection and scientific research.
Lewis Dixon
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.
Zira
There was another reason.
Lewis Dixon
What?
Zira
They would have asked if he was still alive.
Lewis Dixon
And is he?
Zira
Oh, no, no, no, he can't be.
Lewis Dixon
Well, how do you know?
Zira
Because
Lewis Dixon
Well?
Cornelius
From the windows of the spaceship We saw the Earth... destroyed.
