And one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead."This third film opened with a helicopter transmitting a report of a downed spacecraft "just outside the surf line," initiating a pickup and recovery operation off the Pacific coast.Meanwhile, in another section of the underground city, at Ape Management""s command center, radiation-scarred mutant humans were still living and working drone-like under the leadership of Governor Kolp (Severn Darden), who ascended to the position when the bomb killed the former governor.During the deputy oath, Ethan walks into the scene from the background.Clayton greets "the prodigal brother" and wonders about Ethan""s whereabouts following the Civil War and the South""s surrender three years earlier.Val Kilmer starred in a made-for-TV movie re-creation,The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), about a man sentenced to work on a chain gang after WWII for a petty crime.