"Kung Fu": TV Series, The Demon God

#47 (Prod #166259) "The Demon God"
Teleplay By: George Clayton Johnson & David Michael Korn (also #30, 51 & 52)
Story By: George Clayton Johnson
Directed By:: David Carradine (also #50-51)
First Broadcast: December 13, 1974
Guest Stars: Brian Tochi, Michael Greene (also #11), Victor Sen Yung (also pilot & #9, 21, 30 & 50), Robert Tessier, Brenda Venus, Tad Horino (also #8 & 45-46)
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

In flashforwards Caine is stung by a scorpion and faces again a hallucination that he first experienced when, as a young student, he was poisoned by a Mandarin's son who wanted to learn from the temple student what awaited his dying father in the land of the dead.

The Demon God/
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"I regret that you did not [understand]." - Master Kan to dying man who was trying to understand a Japanese play about the land of the dead

"I am flattered." - Young Caine, when invited for tea with the Mandarin's son

"How will knowledge aid you now?" - Master Kan to dying man

"I saw the movements of your mind as you were with the doomed warrior in the land of the dead. . . . I saw what might have passed for sensitivity, bravery, sympathy, and strength all inscribed on the table of your face." - to and about young Caine

"Why?" - Young Caine, when told he's been poisoned

"Do you think it wise to give up the treasures of the earth for a lonely existence." - to and about young Caine being a Shaolin student

"All men are the same." - Young Caine

"I do not understand. I see no way to leave this place. How can this be done?" - Caine

"His gift of my life?" - Caine

"I cannot. . . . What you ask can only come from within you, through understanding." - Master Kan

"I have been taught not to believe in gods. . . I have been taught to believe in men. I cannot accept your words." - Caine

"You do not have the power [to return my life]." - Caine

"[I stole} your life. . . While you were behind the screen. I held the cup intended for one of the few. While you held the cup intended for one of the many. You have been poisoned." - Young Caine, lying to save his life with a fabricated story

"How can I be forced when I am only a dream?" - Caine

"You seek to make amends before death. Begin now by drawing the truth from your son." - Master Kan, seeking to save young Caine's life

"I understand little." - Caine

"You come here because you must." - Caine to beautiful woman who ministers to him

"How can this be?" - Caine, when told there is no outside

"Why is there need for sacrifice?" - Caine

"I am not from this place. I was going elsewhere." - Caine

"You offer me beauty that surpasses dreams. Yet I cannot receive it. . . I am unable to give you what you ask in return." - Caine

"I wish to live only as a man." - Caine, when told he can live forever as a god

"You are the enemy who is not the enemy. We are of the many, not of the few. We are necessary and useful." - Caine to the scorpion who stung him

"It could never be justified." - Master Kan, who was told young Caine had poisoned the boy who poisoned him

"I did not poison your son. I only told him that I moved the tea cups. He believed that he had been poisoned." - Young Caine to Mandarin

"For which I am eternally grateful." - Master Kan, on the saving of young Caine's life

"What am I able to do?" - Master Kan, offering help

"He must prove himself worthy. He will be required to undertake difficult tests of the mind and body. . . ." - Master Kan, on what studies at the temple entail

"You have gone through much. Perhaps the experience of being so close to death will be of help in your future life." - Master Kan to young Caine

Caine's clothing and flute are destroyed when he falls off a cliff and into a cave - he gets new clothes in #49 "The Garments of Rage" and a new flute in #55 "Battle Hymn".

Kan herein speaks of a boy in his mid-teens as being "older than the ones we begin training" yet in #3 "Blood Brother" a young man even older goes back to China to try and study at the Shaolin Temple.

Young Caine tells one of his two lies herein (the other time is in #7 "The Tide") when he tells the Mandarin's son that he had changed the placement of the teacups making the boy think he had been poisoned as he had poisoned Caine.