
Caesar, along with his army, arrives at the human domain and tells the humans “Apes do not want war” and orders them never to come back.

The apes, who have thought that human existence has long been gone, summon Caesar who sees Malcolm, realizing he is not like the humans they fought, lets the humans go through their resistance from fighting and orders them never to return. While the human group enters the woods, River and Rocket's son Ash run into the humans, lead by Malcolm and his wife Ellie followed by their son Alexander and some other survivors. Malcolm, a survivor of the ALZ-113 pandemic, convinces the human leader Dreyfus to give him three days to make peace with the apes in the hope that they will help unblock a water blockage in the woods to help bring back power to the city, before Dreyfus leads his team to kill the apes by surprise. All the struggle seems to have gone away from the past ten years, with the comfort that Caesar has a family with his wife Cornelia, his teenage son River, and his newborn son. After a struggle with a grizzly bear, Caesar is summoned to his home, in the middle of the Muir Woods, where his wife has given birth to a newborn son. Caesar leads some of his apes to a hunting party to kill some deer for food. A middle aged Caesar now leads and governs a new generation of apes, including some of his comrades from the ape sanctuary he broke out with. The film opens with a breaking news report showing the ten-year global pandemic of the ALZ-113 virus, since the ape breakout in San Francisco. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
