Later, (after the rain has stopped), as Marlowe leaves the bookstore, he non-chalantly says goodbye to the character who has given him an observant, professional description of Geiger:Marlowe: Well, thanks.His name was Caesar, and this is his story in those far-off days.The film returned, in flashback, to a "remnant" of he post-nuclear rural society in the year 2003 A.D.(only about welve years after the events in the previous film, some years after a ""vile"" thermonuclear war (off-screen) devastated the major cities but left the countryside untouched), where talking apes (composed of the classes/castes of chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas) were dominant.She is orphaned with no family, although she says: "I""m supposed o have an uncle someplace." She also worked as a film extra at a studio on Long Island before it closed.She identifies herself as Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and he enthusiastically offers the down-and-out, destitute woman a job: "I""ve got a job for you.He became romantically interested in blind co-worker Reba McClane (Joan Allen).After a dinner ""date"" with Reba, the creepy Francis watched home movies of a pretty mother - one of his next family""s victims - as Reba innocently sat on the couch next to him.