
Caesar later attacked Will's neighbour, Hunsiker, to prevent him from further threatening Charles, which forced Will to put Caesar into the San Bruno Primate Shelter. It was not until Caesar was eight that Will admitted that his true mother had died in the lab, after Caesar asked if he was just a pet animal to Will during a trip to the Muir Woods Park. Will noted Caesar's growing intelligence - a result of the effects of the ALZ-112 inherited from his mother - at age 3, when Caesar memorized 24 English words. Will's father, Charles, who was living with him, grew attached to Caesar and helped raise him. He raised Caesar in his home and acted as a father-figure to him. Will did not want to look after the young chimpanzee, but had no choice. Franklin decided to give Bright Eyes' offspring to Will. Bright Eyes was shot by a security guard despite Will trying to stop him from shooting her. When Bright Eyes attacked employees trying to lure her out of her cage, Will was explaining the effects of ALZ-112 on Bright Eyes to Jacobs and the board members of the lab company, specifically on her eyes. Will tried to record and communicate the results of Bright Eyes' successful completion of the Lucas Tower. Like Robert Franklin, Will was one of the rare employees at Gen-Sys Laboratories who actually did care for ape test subjects, such as Bright Eyes, and did not simply see them as experiments. Will was the Yale educated scientist who was responsible for the creation of ALZ-112, the so-called cure for Alzheimer's Disease. Will is the son of the late Charles Rodman, the adoptive father of the late Caesar, the boyfriend of Caroline Aranha, the adoptive father-in-law of the late Cornelia and the adoptive grandfather of the late Blue Eyes and Cornelius. William "Will" Rodman was the deuteragonist of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
