: A second spacecraft crash-lands on Earth in the year 3955. The sole survivor, Brent (James Franciscus), was sent on a rescue mission to find Taylor. He encounters Nova, who is wearing Taylor's dog tags, and they travel to Ape City together. Key Plot Developments
: Deep underground, they find a society of telepathic human mutants who survived the nuclear holocaust generations earlier. These mutants are horribly scarred and hide their disfigured faces under lifelike masks. They worship a massive, cobalt-cased nuclear weapon they call the "Divine Bomb". The Climax subtitle Beneath the Planet of the Apes
: As he dies, a despairing Taylor curses humanity and the apes for their mutual destructiveness. With his final strength, he reaches out and detonates the "Alpha-Omega" doomsday bomb. : A second spacecraft crash-lands on Earth in the year 3955
: The gorilla army invades the underground cathedral. In the chaos, Nova is killed, and both Taylor and Brent are mortally wounded by the apes. Key Plot Developments : Deep underground, they find
: Astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) and his mute companion Nova are traveling through the Forbidden Zone when Taylor mysteriously vanishes into a solid rock wall after witnessing bizarre illusions.