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.They hug and kiss each other, and he admires her fashionable clothes.[Two rival fathers simultaneously greet their children on heir arrival home from school.]At the River Junction train depot, both first mate Tom and Bill Sr.wait there to be reunited with the college graduate, but because it is Mother""s Day, there are a large number of possible candidates who wear white carnations.When he visited a doctor, he soon discovered that he had suffered irreparable brain damage: "Because of the continuous violent blows to the head, you""ve developed a condition particular to boxers calledCavum septum pellucidum (CSP), which is a hole in the membrane separating the ventricles.Superman""s love for Lois always functioned as his major weakness, and he had no recourse but to release Zod, who then proclaimed: "The son of Jor-El will be my slave, forever.I mean, the monster saw to that by killing off everybody that he loved.It was about redemption.It was his fate." Miss Tate was awakened from deep thought about he response when the bell rang.At the end of class, John""s mother surprised him by permitting him to attend the camping trip, although he had already decided to remain behind with his friends for their planned Halloween party.