Douglas Hunsiker

Douglas Hunsiker was a pilot for Global Airlines and a neighbour of Charles Rodman and Will Rodman. He had a quick temper, despised the Rodmans with deep hatred and clashed with them when three-year-old Caesar escaped and frightened his children when the curious chimp wanted to ride a bicycle found in Hunsiker's garage.

Five years later, Hunsiker attacked Charles - then suffering from Alzheimer's Disease - over damage to his car. He refused to show any mercy to Charles who tried to prevent him from calling the police. Hunsiker started threatening and poking Charles, which prompted Caesar to retaliate and bite Hunsiker's finger. Caesar was then sent to the San Bruno Primate Shelter. Soon after, Hunsiker confronted Robert Franklin, who was trying to warn Will about the danger of their new ALZ-113 drug to humans, and was infected by Franklin with the same virus. Through his occupation as a pilot, he helped spread the disease around the entire world. NotesEdit An earlier version of the script gave his full name as 'Douglas Hunsiker'. In the same script, Steven Jacobs was infected with the virus at the Gen-Sys Laboratories before taking a taxi home. Hunsiker then used the same taxi to take him to the airport, thereby infecting him also.

Hunsiker's nose bleeding - a symptom of ALZ-113 in humans At the scene where Hunsiker shows up at the airport while infected with the virus, he has a bandage and metal splint around the finger that Caesar bit. He is the only ape-hating character who didn't die on-screen (unlike Steven Jacobs and Dodge Landon) in the film. Though infected by the ALZ-113 virus and suffering the symptoms, it isn't yet known whether he died as a result. Hunsiker must have left his keys in his car, the doors unlocked and the engine of the car turned on for Charles to have been able to try to drive it.