While getting a closer look, Luca is killed protecting Caesar from an AO patrol, angering Caesar and causing him to proceed alone. When the group arrives at the border, they see hundreds of apes held captive inside a former quarantine facility. Bad Ape reveals that the human soldiers are encamped at the border and hesitantly agrees to lead them there. Later the group meets Bad Ape, an intelligent chimpanzee hermit who lived in the Sierra Zoo before the Simian Flu pandemic. Their examination of a soldier who survived reveals that he, like the girl, cannot speak. While following the soldiers to the border, they discover some soldiers who have been shot and left for dead. Caesar begins to worry that he is becoming like Koba by killing apes and seeking revenge. He tells Caesar's group that the Colonel has departed for a location referred to as the "border." Winter tries to call out to the Alpha-Omega soldiers to save him, but Caesar and the others held him down to keep him quiet, leading to Caesar inadvertently killing him. Maurice befriends the girl, giving her a small rag doll and insists that they take her with them.Ĭaesar's group meet Bad Ape in their travel.Īlong the way Caesar's party encounters Winter in an Alpha-Omega camp on the beach where he has volunteered to become a "Donkey" for the soldiers in return for sparing his life. Maurice discovers the soldier's daughter who is apparently unable to speak. Caesar, Maurice, Luca, and Rocket search the dead soldier's home. During their journey, the apes encounter a soldier living in an abandoned village and Caesar shoots him when he reaches for his rifle. He is accompanied by Maurice, an orangutan and Caesar's adviser, Luca, and Rocket, while the other apes head for the desert. Leaving his younger son, Cornelius, in the care of Blue Eyes' mate, Lake, Caesar departs to exact revenge on the Colonel for the death of his family. Winter cannot be found and Luca, a gorilla, believes that Winter has betrayed them out of fear. That night, a group of Alpha-Omega soldiers, led by the Colonel, infiltrates the apes' home behind a waterfall and the Colonel kills Caesar's wife, Cornelia, and Blue Eyes.
Winter, still frightened from the soldiers' attack, suggested to leave immediately, but Caesar does not think they are prepared to leave so soon. They reported what they have found: an oasis across a vast desert devoid of settlement, making it the perfect home for the clan. Soon after, Caesar's son Blue Eyes and his lieutenant Rocket return from a journey to find a safe haven for the apes. Caesar orders that Red is to be imprisoned for his crimes, but before he can be imprisoned, Red escapes, injuring an albino gorilla named Winter. Caesar arrives and orders the four human soldiers to be released, with a message to the Colonel that he did not start the war, and that he desires peace between the humans and apes. During the attack, the Alpha-Omega militants are met by heavy ape resistance, and several soldiers, including the gorilla Red, are captured by the apes.
Alpha-Omega also has in its service apes they call " Donkeys" that had previously followed Koba, a human-hating bonobo who led a failed coup against Caesar. military was called to fight off an increasingly intelligent and dangerous tribe of apes, the apes clan, led by the chimpanzee Caesar, are attacked in the woods by a rogue paramilitary faction known as Alpha-Omega, led by a ruthless Colonel. This face-off will determine the fate of both species and Earth's future. As the apes start suffering heavy losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts in order to face Colonel McCullough and the traitorous gorilla Red. Two years after the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar and his apes have been at war against the humans.