Escape

I did it because I hate those who try to alter Destiny, 

which is the unalterable Will of God. 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

We'll need a full autopsy. 

 With special emphasis on the cranial and oral areas. 

 Let us know when the report comes in. 

 Will you, please? 

I'd better do this alone. 

******

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

Um, we mean you no, uh, harm. 

D- Do you understand? 

We will not Hurt You. 

ZIRA :

Poor Dr. Milo... 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

Doctor? 

 

ZIRA :

Yes. Doctor. 

You killed him! 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

No, no I didn't. He did. 

One of your own kind. 

ZIRA :

He's a gorilla. 

 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

Well, look, uh, there's nothing 

to be afraid of. 

You see, he's in chains. 

He's under sedation. 

Do you understand that? 

 

ZIRA :

I should. I've been doing it 

half my life to humans. 

 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

Humans..? 

ZIRA :

I'm A Psychiatrist. 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

 Oh, uh, well, I'm -- 

I'm A Psychiatrist.... too.... 

Do you, uh, have A Name? 

CORNELIUS :

My Name is Cornelius. 

 This is My Wife, Zira. 

 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

And I'm Lewis. Lewis Dixon. 

 .....Nobody's going to believe this!

ZIRA :

Believe what? 

 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

That primitive apes can talk!

 

ZIRA :

Primitive?!

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

Uh, well, I mean that in our, um... 

 uh, primitive, um, Civilization... 

 Apes just don't talk. 

 I mean, I think it's important... 

 that when our primitive security 

precautions are lifted... 

 that the first time you say 

anything in public... 

 you should talk to, what 

we primitively call... 

 "The Right People."

ZIRA : 

 May I Say Something... 

personal? 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

 Please.

ZIRA : 

 I Like You.

CORNELIUS : 

 I have, from The Beginning. 

*****

Dr. Lewis Dixon : 

You were fabulous!

Just wonderful! 

 

STEVIE :

You were marvelous. 

 They loved you. 

All that applause. 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

 But, there was a moment —

 

ZIRA :

There was, when he started to ask us —

 

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. 

CORNELIUS :

 Well, you see... 

We did know Colonel Taylor. 

 We came to love him. 

Dr. 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. 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

 Well, uh, we do the same thing to animals. 

I mean, as a scientist, I sympathise... 

 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. 

 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

What? 

ZIRA :

 They would have asked

 if he was still alive. 

 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

And is he? 

CORNELIUS :

Oh, no, no, no, he can't be. 

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

 Well, how do you know? 

 

CORNELIUS :

Because —

Dr. Lewis Dixon :

Well? 

CORNELIUS :

 From the windows of the spaceship 

We saw the Earth... 

 destroyed. 

++++++

Khan Noonian Singh :

I had planned it all so well. In just one month, 

we move on to our winter quarters in Florida. 

I could have released you in the Everglades, and, oh, 

my dear, dear friends... you might have lived 

happily ever after. 

But now, what can I do? 

Zira :

You have done enough to make us 

grateful to you forever. 

Khan Noonian Singh :

I did it because I like chimpanzees best of all apes 

and you, the best of all chimpanzees. 

I did it because I hate those 

who try to alter Destiny,

 which is the unalterable 

Will of God. 

And if it is Man's Destiny one day 

to be dominated... 

then, oh, please, God, let Him 

be dominated by such as you. 

All I can now do to help you...

is give you this for The Baby --

It's a medal of St. Francis of Assisi. 

Cornelius :

Who is he? 

Khan Noonian Singh :

He was -- a holy man who loved 

and cared for all animals. Yes. 

Zira :

Oh, thank you. 

Khan Noonian Singh :

We'll hang it around The Baby's neck. 

For protection, huh? 

Cornelius :

Thank you. 

Khan Noonian Singh :

Yes. And now, my dear, dear friends... 

before The Police come and 

The Audience gathers... 

you and your pretty baby must go. 

Lewis is on his way. 

Zira :

Armando. 

Khan Noonian Singh :

Yes? 

Zira :

I should like to say good-bye to Heloise first. 

Khan Noonian Singh :

If only she could speak, she would say 

how very sorry she is. 

Zira :

I know, but we understand each other. 

Khan Noonian Singh :

All right. All right. 

++++++

Senator Pastore: 

All right Rogers, you've got the floor.

Mr. Rogers: 

Senator Pastore, this is a philosophical statement 

and would take about ten minutes to read, 

so I'll not do that. 

One of the first things that A Child learns 

in a healthy family is Trust, and 

I Trust what you have said, 

that you will read this. 

It's very important to me. 

I care deeply about children.

Senator Pastore: 

Will it make you happy if you read it?

Mr. Rogers: 

I'd just like to talk about it, if it's alright. 

My first children's program was on WQED 

fifteen years ago, and its budget was $30. 

Now, with the help of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation 

and National Educational Television, 

as well as all of the affiliated stations -- 

each station pays to show our program. 

It's a unique kind of funding 

in educational television. 

With this help, now Our Program 

has a budget of $6000. 

It may sound like quite a difference, 

but $6000 pays for less than 

two minutes of cartoons. 

Two minutes of animated, 

what I sometimes say, 

bombardment. 

I'm very much concerned, as I know you are, 

about what's being delivered to 

Our Children in This Country. 

And I've worked in the field of 

child development for six years now, 

trying to understand 

the inner needs 

of children. 

We deal with such things as -- 

as the inner drama of childhood. 

We don't have to bop somebody over the head to...

make drama on the screen. 

We deal with such things as getting a haircut, 

or the feelings about brothers and sisters, 

and the kind of anger that arises 

in simple family situations. 

And we speak to it constructively.

Senator Pastore: 

How long of a program is it?

Mr. Rogers: 

It's a half hour every day. 

Most channels schedule it in the 

noontime as well as in the evening. 

WETA here has scheduled it 

in the late afternoon.

Senator Pastore: 

Could we get a copy of this so that we can see it? 

Maybe not today, but I'd like to see the program.

Mr. Rogers: 

I'd like very much for you to see it.

Senator Pastore: 

I'd like to see the program itself, 

or any one of them.

Mr. Rogers: 

We made a hundred programs for EEN, 

the Eastern Educational Network, 

and then when the money ran out,

 people in Boston and Pittsburgh and Chicago 

all came to the fore and said 

"We've got to have more of this 

neighborhood expression 

of Care."

And this is what -- 

This is What I Give. 

I give an Expression of Care every day to each child, 

to help him realize that he is unique. 

I end the program by saying, 

"You've made this day a special day, 

by just your being you. 

There's no person in the whole world 

like you, and I like you, 

just the way you are." 

And I feel that if we in public television 

can only make it clear that 

feelings are mentionable and manageable, 

we will have done a great service for mental health. 

I think that it's much more dramatic that 

two men could be working out 

their feelings of anger -- 

much more dramatic than showing 

something of gunfire. 

I'm constantly concerned about what our children are seeing,

 and for 15 years I have tried in this country and Canada, 

to present what I feel is a meaningful Expression of Care.

Senator Pastore: 

Do you narrate it?

Mr. Rogers: 

I'm The Host, yes. And I do all the puppets 

and I write all the music, and 

I write all the scripts --

Senator Pastore: 

Well, I'm supposed to be a pretty tough guy, 

and this is the first time I've had goose bumps 

for the last two days.

Mr. Rogers: 

Well, I'm grateful, not only for your goose bumps, 

but for your interest in -- in 

our kind of communication. 

Could I tell you the words of one of the songs, 

which I feel is very important?

Senator Pastore : 

Yes.

Mr. Rogers: 

This has to do with that good feeling of Control
which I feel that children need to know is there. 

And it starts out, 

"What do you do with the 

mad that you feel?" 

And that first line came 

straight from a child. 

I work with children doing puppets in -- 

in very personal communication 

with small groups:

"What do you do with the 

mad that you feel?"

When you feel so mad 

you could bite.

 

When the whole wide world 

seems oh so wrong, 

and nothing you do 

seems very right. 

What do you do? 

Do you punch a bag? 

Do you pound some clay or some dough? 

Do you round up friends for a game of tag 

or see how fast you go? 

It's great to be able to stop 

when you've planned 

a thing that's wrong. 

And be able to do something else 

instead, and think this song --

'I can stop when I want to. 

Can stop when I wish. 

Can stop, stop, stop anytime....

And what a good feeling to feel like this! 

And know that the feeling is really mine. 

Know that there's something deep inside 

that helps us become what we can. 

For a girl can be someday a lady, 

and a boy can be someday a man.'

Senator Pastore: 

I think it's wonderful. 

I think it's wonderful. 

Looks like you just earned 

the 20 million dollars.