"Kung Fu": TV Series, The Vanishing Image

#44 (Prod #166256) "The Vanishing Image"
Teleplay By:: Gustave Field
Directed By:: Barry Crane (also #55)
First Broadcast: ABC, December 20, 1974 (FRIDAY)
Guest Stars: Lew Ayres, Tom Nardini, Benson Fong (also pilot & #3 & 19)
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

Caine seeks out a dying photographer (Lew Ayres: nominated for an Emmy for the performance) who might be able to identify Danny in a group photograph. Meanwhile, Caine is tracked down by another Chinese assassin and the old man is tracked by an Indian who believes the camera has stolen his spirit.

"We are grateful to you for rewarding our carelessness." - Po

"Not to understand a man's purpose does not make him confused." - Po

"He has always been here and I was brought up in China. We have never met." - Caine, on why he needs to ask which man in the picture is his brother

"I do not mind the hills." - Caine

"'Could you do that?' - asked of Caine by a young man who caught a huge fish by hand
'I could not.'" - Caine

"I have never seen this done." - Caine, watching a photo being produced

"I cannot." - Caine, when offered fish meat

"I hope so." - Caine, when someone says they will meet again

"'Master Po. . . said you could teach me a great lesson.' - Young Caine
'But I can neither read nor write.'
'Master Po said you had found both great wisdom and great happiness.'" - Young Caine

"I do not think so." - Caine, when the obsessed photographer says people think he's crazy

"Just to know which face is his, would give me much pleasure." - Caine

"To know the look of him, would bring him much closer." - Caine. on wanting to know which face in the picture is the one of his brother

"I have not yet learned what Master Po wishes me to learn."--Young Caine

"I am called upon to make an observance to the past." - Caine, on having to fight another assassin from China

"I plead with you." - Caine, trying to get away to save a life (one of the few times he verbally begs)

"I will see to it. Trust me, my brother." - Caine to Native

"I am most grateful." - Caine

"Death has had no victory. . . Is he not still here, labor upon labor, piece by piece, beauty upon beauty? Is it but a monument or is it the man himself?" - Master Po

"Let him deal with his own death. He has earned it." - Caine

"'What are the gods you worship?' - Caine
'Fire, water, the sun, the wind.' - Native
'It is they who must return your spirit to you.'" - Caine, when the Native thinks his spirit has been stolen by the camera

"I am happy, my brother." - Caine, glad that the Native now feels whole

"Who is to say it is not so." - Caine, when asked if he believes spirits are stolen by cameras

This Chinese Order of The Avenging Dragon uses European, winged dragons instead of Chinese ones as its symbols.

The KF Book^*2* says the photographer dies before telling Caine which man in the picture is his brother but the photographer does identify Danny so Caine knows basically what his brother looks like before they ever meet.

"As the years gather, it is only natural for a man to ease his pace." - Caine (this is in broadcast)^*2*p3