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#23 (Prod #166208) "The Tong" Teleplay By:: Robert Schlitt (also #33) Directed By:: Robert Totten (also #25) First Broadcast: ABC, November 29 or November 15, 1973 (Kung Fu Book & Epi-log) Guest Stars: Diana Douglas, Richard Loo (also pilot & #3, 35, 48 & 50-51) Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera 
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- "I was thinking." - Caine, asked if his meditating was a prayer
- "I have a path. I seek not to change it but to follow it." - Caine
- "I seek only to become a cup. Empty of myself. Filled with oneness." - Caine
- "Evil cannot be conquered in the world... It can only be resisted within oneself." - Master Po
- "It accomplished nothing." - Caine, on a fight
- "I do not know your Bible but our sage Lao-Tzu has said, 'A wise man does not contend therefore no one can contend against him. Yield and overcome.'" - Caine (referring to TAO TE CHING chapter #22)
- "What will happen will happen whether one is afraid or not." - Caine
- "You think wisdom is a flower for you to pluck. It is a mountain and it must be climbed." - Caine
- "Time is carving you..., let yourself be shaped according to your true nature." - Master Po
- "I seek to rule nothing save myself." - Caine (in #20 "Spirit-Helper" he says 'I can lead no one.')
- "Either one of our deaths will be misfortune for both of us." - Caine
- "'You could kill him if you wished to.'
'Perhaps. But I could not wish to kill him.'" - Caine- "No man has fear until fear comes to him." - Caine
- "If a man lives, it is a certainty he will die. Therefore, it is foolish to think of death as if he were a foe to be vanquished. He will come when he will come." - Caine
- "It is not magic. It is a price that has been paid." - Caine on ability
- This may be the only episode where Caine [Carradine] actually speaks Chinese.
- From the script comes the following and I don't know how much of this was in the broadcast: "There is much evil in the world, Grasshopper. It has always been thus. And so our ancestors built this monastery and developed the art of Kung Fu so they might cultivate virtue and protect themselves from harm. But whatever one man possesses another will covet. The Manchu Emperor heard of our prowess. So he sent an army of soldiers to burn the monastery to the ground. Only five escaped. They made their way to Fukien and founded the Tong to overthrow the Manchus and restore the Ming Emperors to the throne. Violence became their tool and combating violence. Thus the Sage Chuang Tzu has said, 'By ethical argument and moral principle, the greatest crimes are shown to have been necessary and in fact a great benefit for mankind.' Two hundred years have passed. The Manchus still sit upon the throne. The Tongs still kill, no longer for noble cause. Yet they are the children of the five Shaolin priests who went to Fukien long ago.'" - Master Po
- Also the Lines: "Do rich men hoard their goods? Do great men dispute over small matters?" - Caine
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