They both get some surprising help from special agent Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who tells Army Colonel Blake (Demetrius Grosse) that weapons alone will not
work against these beasts.
Not exact matches
Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law
against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his
beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his
working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.
But when George starts destroying Chicago with two other gigantic mutated creatures, Davis, Kate and Russell are forced to
work together to save the city, the obsessed primatologist also hopeful he'll be able to convince the formerly friendly gorilla to fight alongside them
against the other
beasts.
One of the reasons these
beasts work is in the way screenwriters Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie, and Dan Studney establish in this first encounter how ineffective our heroes are
against them.
I have nothing
against aftermarket shops, I have great friends that
work for them, it's just the nature of the
beast these days...