"Kung Fu": TV Series with David Carradine

#11 (Prod #166151)"Chains"
Teleplay By: Gene L. Coon Story by: Paul Edwards & Gene L. Coon
Directed By:: Robert Butler (also #8, 13 & 15)
First Broadcast: March 15, 1973 (as per the DVD)
Guest Stars: Michael Greene (also #47), Warren Vanders, Geoffrey Lewis, Larry Bishop, Keith Carradine (also pilot, both times playing the adolescent Caine)
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

Michael Greene was nominated for a best supporting actor Emmy for his role as an uneducated, angry man to whom Caine is chained and with whom he escapes prison. They are hunted down by an Army tracker and surrounded by Utes on the warpath. (Novelization by Howard Lee^*2*) (Note: we have been informed by David Spencer that Howard Lee was a pseudonym.)

Pilot & First Season
Available on DVD

"Please, you must help me. I must find him." - Caine, trying to get information on his brother

"I am sorry. Please. I mean you no harm." - Caine, after hurting someone who attacked him.

"It was necessary." - Caine, when asked why, as a wanted man, he would walk onto an Army post

"I do not care about gold." - Caine

"I have done you no harm." - Caine, asked why someone shouldn't kill him.

"I do not believe you are a killer." - Caine

"Why would I laugh?" - Caine

"The world you live in is mysterious, exciting, unknown and mine is older, familiar, and calm. You will never know my world not I yours. . . . Can you see with my eyes? Think with my brain?" - Master Kan

"We are one, yet we are not the same." - Master Kan

"Do not see yourself as the center of the universe wise and good and beautiful. Seek rather wisdom, goodness and beauty that you may honor them everywhere." - Master Kan to young Caine

"You cannot put out water with fire. . . . Stones will not break chains." - Caine

"Why would I be [fooling you]? We made a bargain" - Caine

"You sure act like an Injun." - to & about Caine

"I listened." - Caine, when asked how he learned to find medicine & food

"'Where is evil? In the rat whose nature it is to steal the grain. Or in the cat, whose nature it is to kill the rat?' - Master Po
'The rat steals. Yet, for him, the cat is evil.' - Caine
'And to the cat, the rat.' - Master Po
'Yet, Master, surely one of them is evil.' - Caine
'The rat does not steal, the cat does not murder. Rain falls, the stream flows, a hill remains. Each acts according to its nature.' - Po
'Then is there no evil for men? Each man tells himself that what he does is good, at least for himself.' - Caine
'. . . a man may tell himself many things but is a man's universe made up only of himself?' - Po
'If a man hurts me and I punish him, perhaps he will not hurt another.' - Caine
'And if you do nothing?' - Po
'He will learn he can do as he wishes.' - Caine
'Or, perhaps, he will learn that some men receive injury but return kindness." - Master Po
"Why [do we need the gun]? You cannot shoot and I will not." - Caine

"We will run faster." - Caine, when told they will run into Utes.

"If you plant rice, rice will grow. If you plant fear, fear will grow." - Caine

"You know things. . . . You know pain. You know fear. You know the laughter of the wind. The perfume of the earth." - Caine

"Ask not what I want but what path you yourself have chosen." - Caine

"Do you not trust me?" - Caine

"The boards, resisting, do not endure." - Master Kan

"See the way of life as a stream. A man floats with the stream and his way is easy. But if he fights and tries to go upstream, he exhausts himself." - Master Kan

"To be one with the universe, each must find his true path and follow it." - Master Kan

"My friend what a hard path you have chosen." - Caine

"If you send him out there alone, he will die." - Caine

"Who is the animal here?" - Caine

"A strong man is always needed." - Caine

"When a man finds his way, heaven is gentle." - Caine