After a devastating plague (the Simian Flu) unleashed about 12 years earlier, a group of survivors (father and ex-architect Malcolm (Jason Clarke), Malcolm""s wife and CDC nurse Ellie (Keri Russell) and leader Dreyfus (Gary Oldman)) were living in a colony within the ruins of San Francisco.Jor-El took he Codex --- the DNA of a billion people, then he bonded it within his son""s individual cells.Disgusted and still lathered up, he hands his barber sheet to the Mayor, picks up a heavy rock, enters the saloon through the second story window, successfully pursues and subdues the Indian, and then drags the unconscious man by his heels out into the street, where the townspeople have been witnessing the quick dispatch of the man.Ten apes were immediately brought in for trials.Tests with a more powerful 113 virus commenced on scar-faced ape Koba (Christopher Gordon), a human-hating bonobo with a blind eye.He was thwarted by crowd noise that drowned out the ringing of Cabot""s cellphone.When Ryan eventually delivered his message, "The bomb is in play" somewhere in Baltimore, Cabot ordered the Secret Service agents to get the President out of the stadium.