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#17 (Prod #166202) "The Assassin" Teleplay By:: Spooner Glass & Dan Ullman Directed By:: Richard Lang (also # 5, 19, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37-38, 39, 42, 45-6) First Broadcast: ABC, October 4, 1973 Guest Stars: Dana Elcar, James Keach, Robert Ito (also in pilot & #30) Introducing: Beverly Kushida Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera 
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- "A single blow to the base of the neck can be fatal." - Master Po
- "Learn first how to live. Learn second how not to kill. Learn third how to live with death. Learn fourth how to die." - Master Po
- "I do not use one." - Caine, on guns
- "Sometimes when I think of where I come from." - Caine, when asked if he's ever lonely
- "It pleases me to see a girl so lovely with a mind so curious." - Caine
- "I am thirsty." - Caine (as close as he comes to verbally begging)
- "The violence is not ended. You must not give into it." - Caine
- "That is good." - Caine, about a sick man sweating a lot
- "I do not forgive you; I am grateful." - Caine
- "I, too, am afraid of guns and hatred and so I choose to leave." - Caine
- "To know love be like a running brook which deaf, yet sings its melody for others to hear. Feel the pain of too much tenderness. Wake at dawn with winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Empty yourself and yet be filled. An old man tells you this is how to know love." - Master Po
- "Master, I do not understand. Like many things you teach me, it is a contradiction." - Young Caine to Master Kan (TAO #78 says "The truth often sounds paradoxical")
- "When you must choose between one good and another or one evil and another, remember this: if men would contend with you, seek not their death but choose your own life." - Master Kan
- "It is over. Admit it!" - Caine
- "...hate kills a loving heart." - Caine
- This episode marks the first time Caine plays the flute.
- "Perfect living offers no guarantee of a peaceful death." - Master Po*2*p8
- "Is not painting the joyful reaching out of a man so filled with beauty that there is not room enough in him to contain it?" - Master Po (this is in the broadcast)*2*p46
- "Perfect wisdom is unplanned." - Master Po*2*
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