"Kung Fu": TV Series, The Predators

#43 (Prod #166255) "The Predators"
Teleplay By: Lloyd Richards & Ed Waters (also parts of #12, 24, 31, 32 & 39) Story By: John Menken
Directed By:: Harry Harris (also #41, 52, 54 & 61)
First Broadcast: ABC, October 5, 1974 (Saturday)
Guest Stars: Anthony Zerbe (also #25), Cal Bellini, George DiCenzo
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

Caine needs a man to return with him as a witness to the fact that he didn't kill a sheriff. But the witness is one of a gang of hunters seeking Apache scalps and an Apache, who Caine has befriended, has had a vision to kill the whole gang.

"You do not intrude. Come. Speak." - Master Kan to young Caine

"'I have long admired our brother Tay Sung.' - Young Caine
'There is much in him to be admired.' - Master Kan
'I fear that he grows apart from us; from our way.' - Young Caine
'He is fired by a deep conviction. Would you have him deny this truth he feels so deeply?' - Master Kan
'But if we are brothers should not our beliefs be one?' - Young Caine
'That is what Tay Sung desires most fervently. He would have us deny our truth and accept his. Who is right?' - Master Kan
'There can be no way but the way of the Tao.' - Young Caine
'So we believe. What then? Do we renounce Tay Sung as our brother?'" - Master Kan
'Master, wherein does brotherhood lie.' - Young Caine
'Your question is most worth asking. Most worth considering.'" - Master Kan

"You will answer death with death?" - Caine

"We wish you life." - Master Kan

"Can any man be asked to be more than a man?" - Master Kan

"I did not choose to stay." - Caine, on leaving his hanging but in #10 "Alethea" he does seem to stay for his hanging

"If you do not come back and tell the truth, justice will not be served." - Caine

"You kill innocent men for profit. There is no greater evil." - Caine

"Where will it all end?" - Caine, responding to words of vengeance

"There will be no killing. I must have your word." - Caine

"'It is my mission.' - an Apache on seeking revenge 'It is your burden.'" - Caine

"You are bound." - Caine to someone who has given him his word

"The way out is the way in." - Caine

"You are without honor?" - Caine, who then later says, "I cannot believe that."

"The sage says 'A sound man's heart is not shut within itself, but it is open to other people's hearts.'" - Master Kan, quoting ?????

"He has given his word." - Caine

"I know men. I trust this one. And with him, I trust you." - Caine, on an Apache when told he doesn't understand Apaches

"He passed judgment on me. . . . He does not know what the Apache did to my people." - a Navajo (?) on Caine (though a Shaolin would normally not judge)

"Violence gives rise to violence, not to justice." - a Shaolin disciple

"It has been said, 'Be utterly humble and you shall hold to the foundation of peace. Be at one with all these living things which having arisen and flourished, return to the quiet whence they came.'" - Master Kan (refers to TAO TE CHING chapter #16)

Forgiveness "must come from the one who has condemned you." - Master Kan

"I am not a Chinaman or a breed. I am a man. My name is Kwai Chang Caine." - Caine

"Your vision of vengeance will destroy you and all your people." - Caine

"He tried to kill you. Why do you bother with him?" - to Caine, when the priest stops to bury an enemy

"Let us renew the words of the sage,
'Man at his best,'
'like water,'
'serves as he goes along,'
'like water.'
'He seeks his own level,'
'the common level of life.'
'What he must do, he does,'
'but not for glory.'
'What he must do, he does,'
'but not for show.'
'What he must do, he does,'
'but not for self.'
'He seeks his own level,'
'the common level of life.'" - Master Po and disciple (quoting part of TAO TE CHING #30, and as pointed out by Jim Porto, "the first couple of lines of Chapter 8 of Tao Te Chang")

"'A sound man not advancing himself'
'he endlessly becomes himself.'" - Master Kan and disciple

"Every man has his 'yes' and his 'no.' From moment to moment, always his 'yes' and his 'no'." - Master Kan

Herein, Caine says "I see no Apache" when asked if he's seen an Apache though he just saw one. This is technically the truth since the Apache was behind him at that moment and he was relying on the fact that the bounty hunters would assume his grammar was just bad.