"Kung Fu": TV Series, The Nature of Evil

#36 (Prod #166221) "The Nature of Evil"
Teleplay By:: Gerald Sanford
Directed By:: Robert Michael Lewis (also #48)
First Broadcast: ABC, March 21, 1974
Guest Stars: Morgan Woodward, Shelly Novak (also #5), Barbara Colby
Special Guest Star: John Carradine
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

On his way to Eureka, Caine gets a feeling which leads him to his old friend Serenity Johnson and a town called Ninevah that is full of fear.

"The land is more than dust." - Caine

"If I knew, I would tell you." - Caine, when asked why he's going to Ninevah

"Are we not friends?" - Caine to Serenity

"I am not a hunter of men." - Caine

"It is not so hard to sleep if you have peace and are not afraid." - Caine

"But you said you did not." - Caine, having seemingly accepted a previous statement as truth even though he seemed to doubt it at the time

"I am not armed." - Caine

"I looked deep into myself and saw. . . evil." - Young Caine

"'Do you sometimes feel love. . . and joy? Do you sometimes feel pride in what you have accomplished?. . . And do you sometimes feel good?. . . But the threads that make up our human nature are two ended. There is no capacity for feeling pride without an equal capacity for feeling shame. One cannot feel joy unless one can feel despair. We have no capacity for good without an equal capacity for evil.' - Master Po
'Must we not fear evil?' - Young Caine
'Shall we fear our own humanity?' - Master Po
'Must we not fight evil?' - Young Caine
'Who can defeat himself? For what is evil but the self seeking to fulfill its own secret needs. All that is necessary is that we face it and choose.'" - Master Po (has basic connection to TAO TE CHING #2)

"I have seen your face before. Behind me in the mirror." - Caine, when facing an evil man

This story continues a relationship between Caine and Serenity Johnson which starts in #2 "Dark Angel" and ends in #58 "Ambush".