#42 (Prod #166254) "A Small Beheading" Teleplay By:: Eugene Price Directed By:: Richard Lang (also # 5, 17, 19, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37-38, 39, 45-6) First Broadcast: ABC, September 21, 1974 (Saturday) Guest Stars: William Shatner, France Nuyen, Kenjo Shibuya, James Hong (also pilot & #21, 35, 41, 49, 50 & 54 and bit parts in others) Special Guest Star: Rosemary Forsyth Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera While he is working for a woman on a ranch near a coastal town, a sea captain (married to the sister of the Emperor's*1* nephew, whom Caine killed) delivers to Caine a pardon if he returns to China. The catch, according to the captain, is that Caine must allow the 'beheading' of the little finger of his right hand.

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• "We have business, you and I?" - Caine to a crow
• "Now, tell me. Tell me." - Caine to crow, seeming to expect information
• "What would you want with such a man?" - Caine, when someone says they are looking for a man of his description
• "And if I am?" - Caine, when asked if he's Kwai Chang Caine
• "You're angry, lad." - to and about Caine
• "No one deserves pain." - Shaolin Master Healer
• "We shall do what we can." - Shaolin Master Healer
• "This is true?" - Caine
• "First I must decide if I wish to pay the price. . . Then I must decide if you speak the truth. Not to offend you. . . but it may be that you plan to betray me." - Caine, though he usually automatically assumes truth
• "I do not value myself very highly, but I believe the Emperor^*1* has much to give to the man who would bring me to him." - Caine
• "You tell me that no chain will hold this Shaolin priest. No man may take him. And yet you bait a trap with words." - on Caine
• "He'll step up to the Emperor's chopping block because he promised." - someone sure Caine keeps his promises
• "'You do not believe in yourself?' - Caine to a woman
  'Of course, I do.'
  'Then why do you need to perform for me?'" - Caine
• "You do not know what you are." - Caine to the woman
• "'You look in the mirror and see only yourself. . . . You are alone and separate but you are also part of the land. Part of the people. Part of the whole. Everything is within your reach.' - Caine
  'Where do you fit into all this?' - the woman
  'I also am yet part of the whole.'" - Caine
• "There is a great deal [to keep me here in America]." - Caine
• "There is much here that I love. The land. The people. Half my life is here and, through my father, my roots. But China is home." - Caine
• "Does not the sage say, 'What is more yielding than water. Yet back it comes again wearing down the rigid strength which cannot yield to its stamina. What is more forceful than quiet water?'" - Master Kan (refers to TAO #68)
• "I am certain you cannot tell a lie." - Caine, to the royal niece who has tried to kill him
• "'You do not think me worthy.' - Caine
  'I think you're a fool.'" - to and about Caine
• "I believe, Captain, that your wife can only tell the truth.' - Caine
  'Which is as much as to say that I don't.'
  'I mean no offense.'" - Caine
• "Who else can?" - Caine, on being forgiven by the man he killed
• "It is a great honor." - Caine, on being pardoned
• "No." - Caine, when asked if he believed a man
• "I know you would not lie to me." - Caine
• "I would have wished it were true." - Caine, again admitting to desires
• "I would be foolish to do so." - Caine, on going with them back to China
• "'What did the spirit want?' - Young Caine
  'That we may not know. Only what they do.'" - Shaolin Master
• "Sometimes we must lose part of a gamble in order to win in the end." - a Shaolin Master
• He "believed in his demons by his own choice, not by ours. If the appearance of one of his demons helped him make the right choice then we can only be grateful for the ways of Providence, can we not?" - a Shaolin Master
• "I am satisfied that the affair of honor between us is over." - the sister of the dead nephew of the Emperor^*1* to Caine
• "I've never met a man like you - I admire you more than I can say. But I wouldn't be you for anything in the world." - to and about Caine
• "The Emperor^*1* is vengeful." - Caine (on a boy who didn't live to be 20^*1*)
• "Life is long." - Caine
• "No man can give himself away." - Caine, when asked if he'll ever belong to anyone

• The niece of the Emperor^*1* is much older than the Emperor (who was a teenager at this time)^*1* was so this lady and her now dead brother could only be the children of a much older half-sister (or maybe they were the children of a cousin and the word 'nephew' wasn't an exact translation of the relationship) of the Emperor.^*1*

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