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#7 (Prod #166147)"THE TIDE"
Teleplay By:: A. Martin Zweiback (also #13, 15 & 26)
Directed By:: Walter Doniger (also #20 & 26)
First Broadcast: ABC, FEBRUARY 1, 1973 (Aired out of sequence)
Guest Stars: Andrew Duggan, Robert Donner, Mako (also in "Kung Fu: The Movie," a 1986 sequel)Special Guest Star: Tina Chen
Caine, recognized from his poster, is handcuffed and shot by the sheriff of a coastal town. After he escapes, wounded and still handcuffed, he is then rescued and cared for by Su Yen who thinks she can trade Caine for her father, a poet who has been imprisoned by the Emperor*1* back in China.
Lines:

• "If a man dwells on the past then he robs the present. But if a man ignores the past, he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of our past." - Master Po (scene repeated in #45 or 46 "Blood of the Dragon")
  
• "'You don't look like his brother.' 'We are half brothers.'" - Caine, asking about Danny
  
• "I walk." - Caine, when asked how he gets around without a horse
  The Emperor*1* "values my life that he may take pleasure in my death." - Caine
  
• "I would not take pleasure in the death of any man." - Caine
  
• "We do not punish for trust." - Master Kan
  
• "If while building a house, a carpenter strikes a nail and it proves faulty by bending, does the carpenter lose faith in all nails and stop building his house?" - Master Kan
  
• "'...we are required to trust even if we are often reminded of the existence of evil.' - Young Caine 'Deal with evil through strength - but affirm the good in man through trust. In this way we are prepared for evil, but we encourage good." - Master Kan
  
• "'What is greater than good.' - Young Caine 'Love.'" - Master Kan
  
• "Forgive me." - Caine
  
• "'Those who value freedom most must sometimes choose to lose it.'" - Caine quoting a (fictional?) Chinese poet
  
• "I am honored to be in the presence of the daughter of so great a man." - Caine
  
• "Can a woman be happy alone?" - Caine (though he chooses, and has been taught to choose, to be alone)
  
• "Your father is a very wise man. I have not always understood his words." - Caine
  
• "'The mind, the body and the spirit are one. When the body expresses the desires of the mind and spirit then the body is in tune with nature, the act is pure and there is no shame.' - Master Kan 'And what is love?' - Young Caine 'Love is harmony, even in discord.'" - Master Kan
  
• "Your face is more beautiful than the sky." - Caine to Su Yen
  
• "Do you wish me to go?" - Caine
  
• "Your father is worthy of better men than I; and you are worthy of better deeds than betrayal." - Caine
  
• "I have given my word, but I will not be bound." - Caine
  
• "He has given his word...Even to a woman who betrayed him, it is still his word." - Su Yen (knowing that Caine would keep his word no matter what)
  
• "Come with me and you will not lose me." - Caine, inviting Su Yen to share his journey
  

Information: When the young Caine and another student are robbed, the other student learns not to trust strangers and is dismissed from the temple. Shaolin are required to trust: the TAO TE CHING [F] says in both chapters #17 and #23, "He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted."

Though the adult Caine never tells a direct lie, the young Caine does tell one to Master Kan in this episode when Kan asks the boy what he is feeling as they watch a young woman dance. The Young Caine says, "Nothing," but Kan does not believe him. (The dancer, according to Anderson's KF Book*2*, is Rosalind Chao, who plays Keiko on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine.") [The young Caine tells another lie in #47 "The Demon God" in order to save his life and an adult Shaolin lies when Master Po tells young Caine that a pool is filled with acid in #12 "Superstition."]
Anderson's book*2* calls Su Yen a "Chinese coolie" as if that inappropriate term for unskilled oriental labor would apply to anyone, well enough the educated daughter of a famous poet. (Both Anderson's and Pilato's books*2* claim Su Yen kills the sheriff with an ax so that must have been changed after the script was finished.)

"Distrust is the shield of the weak. It affirms the evil in man by denying the opportunity of good." - Master Kan*2*p35

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#8 (Prod #166148) "SUN AND CLOUD SHADOW"
Teleplay By:: Halsted Welles*2*
Directed By:: Robert Butler (also #11, 13 & 15)
First Broadcast: ABC, FEBRUARY 22, 1973
Guest Stars: Morgan Woodward, Aimee Eccles, Ronald Feinberg, Soon-Taik Oh (also #34 & 48 and as the villain Bon Bon Hai in "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues"), Richard Lawrence Hatch, Dennis Lee Smith, John Mamo, Yuki Shimoda (also #50), Tad Horino (also #45, 46 & 47)
Caine becomes involved with a village of Chinese miners who are in conflict with a man who claims their mountain. One killing leads to another. Meanwhile, a Manchu assassin arrives from the Dowager Empress.*1*
Lines:

• "As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all." - Master Po
  
• "'Other men not knowing me, will find me hard to understand.' - Caine 'Accept the ways of others. Respect first your own." - Master Po
  
• "I ask you to excuse us. We do not drink." - Caine
  
• "He doesn't look like much." - about Caine
  
• "I wish an end to your trouble, not a beginning to more killing." - Caine
  
• "Between giving up and making bombs must lie many paths." - Caine
  
• "Will shooting guns and making bombs make you men and not dogs?" - Caine
  
• "In games children teach - sometimes more than books...Look beyond the game as you look beneath the surface of the pool to see its depths." - Po
  
• "Each in turn conquers the other. There is no stronger or weaker." - Caine
  
• "'I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy for from mercy comes courage. The second is frugality from which comes generosity to others. The third is humility for from it comes leadership.' - Master Po (referring to the TAO TE CHING chapter #67 [F, though reorganized]) 'Strange treasures. How shall I hold them and keep them? In memory?' - Caine'...No...not in memory but in your deeds.'" - Master Po
  
• "I am a man of peace." - Caine
  
• "A man of peace who fights like ten tigers." - to and about Caine
  
• "A worker is known by his tools: a shovel for a man who digs; an ax for a woodsman. A gun is not a tool for peace."-Caine
  
• "'Didn't the Chinese people invent gunpowder?' 'Yes, and silks and medicines and the compass and printing. Not guns.'" - Caine (history does, indeed, claim that firearms were introduced into China by foreigners)
  
• "I was taught a good soldier is not violent. A fighter is not angry. A victor is not vengeful." - Caine (referring to TAO TE CHING chapter #68 [F])
  
• "If it will not offend you, I would prefer to drink tea." - Caine, when offered champagne
  
• "Shall I advise you it is right to obtain good for some by debasing another?" - Caine, when asked for advice
  
• "Faced with two evils, must not every man choose?" - Caine
  
• "Peace lies not in the world...but in the man who walks the path." - Master Po
  
• "To reach perfection a man must develop equally compassion and wisdom." - Master Po
  
• "In a heart that is one with nature though the body contends, there is no violence. And in the heart that is not one with nature, though the body be at rest, there is always violence. Be, therefore, like the prow of a boat, it cleaves the water yet it leaves in its wake water unbroken." - Master Po
  
• "Choose!" - Caine
  
• "What you suggest is inviting. My way is on." - Caine, asked to stay
  
• "'But how shall we learn to be one with the universe without you?' 'The path is known to each man by finding it.'" - Caine
  

Information: This is the one episode which accurately reflects the Imperium of China in the 1870s. The assassin from China herein comes from the Dowager Empress and is a Manchu agent. China was ruled much of this time by a Dowager Empress of the Manchu (Ching) Dynasty.*1*

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#9 (Prod #166149) "THE PRAYING MANTIS KILLS"*2*
Teleplay By:: Robert Lewin*2* (also #9, 14 & 27)
Directed By:: Charles S. Dubin (also #12 & 14)
First Broadcast: March 15 or March 22 (by Kung Fu Book & Epi-log) 1973
Guest Stars: Wendell Burton, Norm Alden, Don Knight, Jason Wingreen, Murray Macleod, Bill Fletcher, Victor-Sen Yung (also pilot & #21, 30 & 50) Special Guest Star: William Schallert
Caine, the only one willing to testify against bank robbers, ends up helping a boy first deal with his father's death and then try to fill the sheriff's shoes. (Novelization by Howard Lee*2*) (Note: we have been informed by David Spencer that Howard Lee was a pseudonym.)
Lines:

• "They were threatened with death if they spoke...I do not fear death." - Caine, explaining his willingness to testify
  
• "No."--Caine's answer to the suggestion of being locked into protective custody
  
• "I do not eat meat." - Caine, when asked if he's a good cook
  
• "I do not believe in killing to eat." - Caine
  
• "Is that not a waste?" - Caine, on hating
  
• "I do not ride." - Caine, when asked if he can help break a horse
  
• "'I do not use archery for killing.' - Caine. 'What do you use it as?' 'A form of meditation.' - Caine 'Meditation? What do you think of.' 'I think of nothing but to be one with the target.'" - Caine
  
• "I do not do it. It is not done...It is only experienced. It happens." - Caine, on hitting a target without looking
  
• "Bow, arrow, target are one. Not many things. Not different things. One." - Caine, on himself, bow, arrows and target
  
• "When you cease to strive to understand then you will know without understanding." - Caine (very zen/ch'an)
  
• "The horse lives. I live. I share this with all nature. We are one." - Caine
  
• "I belong to myself." - Caine
  
• "'You are different from just about anyone I ever met.' 'That is good, I hope.'" - Caine
  
• "It is not something one man may teach another." - Caine, on not being afraid of death
  
• "It is rare to ask your questions. It is more rare to listen to the answers." - Caine
  
• "'I was cleansing my mind of impurities. Disturbances.' - Caine'...how's that work?' 'It lets me see the nature of things as they really are.' - Caine 'Is that what keeps you from getting mad?' 'It is how I may encounter life's many faces with some sense of peace.'" - Caine, on meditating
  
• "There is nothing to forgive. We are friends." - Caine
  
• "Just because you can get out there and think about things doesn't mean you know everything." - to and about Caine
  
• "'What is the purpose of so difficult an exercise?' - Caine 'Discipline. That you may strike with such strength. Yet, in one place and no more.'" - Master Kan
  
• "'We learn to make powerful the force of our bodies. Yet, we are taught to reverence all against whom we may use such force.' - Caine 'When your life is threatened or the innocent life of another, you will be prepared to defend them.' - Master Kan 'Being thus prepared better than others, should I not always stand and fight?' - Caine 'Ignore the insulting tongue. Duck the provoking blow. Run from the assault of the strong.' - Master Kan 'Are these not the actions of a coward?' - Caine 'The wild boar runs from the tiger knowing that each being well armed by nature with deadly strength may kill the other. Running he saves his own life and that of the tiger. This is not cowardice. It is the love of life.'" - Master Kan
  
• "You have taught me to claim no possessions that none may claim me." - Caine to Master Po (relates to what is said in #18 "The Chalice")
  
• "'Master, are you never lonely?' - Caine 'Do you feel loneliness?' - Master Kan 'No. But I do not understand why, denied the experience of so many things that other men desire, I do not.'" - Caine
  
• "'Man, like the animals, is meant to live together with others like himself. But the meaning of belonging to such a group is found in the comfort of silence and the companionship of solitude.' - Master Kan 'Is that why you let me enter and taught me?' - Caine 'We taught you, young man, because you already knew.'" - Master Kan on what the monks discovered by watching the Young Caine, who stood patiently in the rain and didn't play games with the other boys when applying for admission to the temple
  
• "Yes. I get lonesome. Sometimes." - Caine
  
• "Is a gun the only measure you know by which a boy becomes a man?" - Caine
  
• "'You won't shoot or fire a bow. Will you load?' 'No. But I will help.'" - Caine, refusing to have anything to do with guns
  
• "Martin. No!" - Caine, stopping the boy from killing his opponent
  
• "I must go...It is right for me." - Caine, when asked to stay
  
• "I will remember you, both" - Caine
  
• "'It will be lonesome.' 'Yes.'" - Caine
  
• "That is good." - Caine, when the boy tells him he couldn't kill
  

Information: Caine seems judgmental about praying while preparing to kill.

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#10 (Prod #166150) "ALETHEA"
Teleplay By:: William Kelley (also #18, 37 & 38, 50 & part of 51)
Directed By:: John Badham
First Broadcast: ABC, March 22 or March 15 (Kung Fu Book & Epi-log) 1973
Guest Stars: Jodie Foster, Charles Tyner. Kenneth Tobey, Khigh Dheigh (also #20 & 50 & 51), Byron Mabe, William Mims
Caine gets caught up in a stage hold-up and an honest young girl thinks she sees him shoot a man. On her eyewitness testimony, he is sentenced to hang. In flashbacks the young Caine, who is sent on a mission with a 400 year old scroll, is tricked by a magician.
Lines:

• "My eyes look far and near but I didn't know they looked funny." - Caine
  
• "I, too, read many things." - Caine (though rarely seen reading)
  
• "You got a sort of Injun look about you.' 'It is a sort of Chinese look.'" - Caine
  
• "'Long ago Chuang Chou dreamed he was a butterfly. He was very joyful as a butterfly, well pleased with his lot, his aims fulfilled. He knew nothing of Chou the man. But shortly he awoke and found himself again to be Chuang Chou. And he could not tell whether as Chou he had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether as a butterfly he had dreamed he was Chou.'" - Young Caine reading from a "400 year old scroll taken from the seventh original" (from the end of Chapter 2 of CHUANG TZU)
  
• "I am afraid only of failure." - Young Caine
  
• "'We are taught that the most important gift of our natures is the reaching out to one another.' - Young Caine 'To say and to listen. To teach what we know truly to those who do not know. To send peaceful thoughts over the bridge of words...Reach out. Yet be wary of what you allow yourself to grasp...Guard above all things the purity of your vision.' - Master Po
  
• "I cannot kill them." - Young Caine, when offered a knife to kill those who had attacked him
  
• "I am innocent." - Caine
  
• "You told the truth...Then I am proud to have you for a friend because of what you did." - Caine, even though that truth condemns him to death
  
• "If the jury cannot see innocence in my eyes, will they find it in a lawyer's mouth?" - Caine
  
• "Do not condemn yourself for telling the truth." - Caine
  
• "It was the truth. To say less would dishonor the respect for truth which she has won at such great cost." - Caine
  
• "Of shame there is a great variety. But of the 'Butterfly Scroll' of Chuang Tzu only one." - Master Po
  
• "There is nothing I wish." - Caine, when he is about to be executed
  
• "I am glad to be alive." - Caine
  
• "Your eyes saw a gun in my hand and a man shot. For all you truly know you have freed a murderer." - Caine
  
• "'Must I always tell the truth?' - Caine trying to teach Alethea 'But you couldn't lie. You hate lying as much as I do.'" - Alethea, sure of Caine's truthfulness even though she thinks she saw him kill a man
  
• "Each waking moment is as a rung on an endless ladder. Each step we take is built on what has gone before." - Caine
  
• "If you distrust me, why let me go?" - Caine
  
• "'If you ain't a road agent and ain't an itinerant musician, what are you?' 'I am a priest.'" - Caine
  
• "Nothing more will be taken from you.' - Master Po 'ButI have lost nothing.' - Young Caine 'But your innocence How shall that be returned?" - Master Po
  
• "'I love you, Mr. Caine.' - Alethea 'And I have not loved anyone more.'" - Caine
  

Information: Although Caine tries to escape before he gets into town, once there he doesn't make any further attempt to escape from jail and later walks to the gallows and allows a noose to be put around his neck.
(One is left to wonder how Caine, who was raised in China and only recently learned or relearned English, would know the Greek word for 'truth,' which he says is 'alethea?'
Young Caine is twelve during the flashback of this story.

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#11(Prod #166151)"CHAINS"
Teleplay By: Gene L. Coon Story by: Paul Edwards & Gene L. Coon
Directed By:: Robert Butler (also #8, 13 & 15)
First Broadcast: March 29 or March 8 (Kung Fu Book & Epi-log) 1973
Guest Stars: Michael Greene (also #47), Warren Vanders, Geoffrey Lewis, Larry Bishop, Keith Carradine (also pilot, both playing the adolescent Caine)
Michael Greene was nominated for a best supporting actor Emmy for his role as an uneducated, angry man to whom Caine is chained and with whom he escapes prison. They are hunted down by an Army tracker and surrounded by Utes on the warpath. (Novelization by Howard Lee*2*) (Note: we have been informed by David Spencer that Howard Lee was a pseudonym.)
Lines:

• "Please, you must help me. I must find him." - Caine, trying to get information on his brother
  
• "I am sorry. Please. I mean you no harm." - Caine, after hurting someone who attacked him
  
• "It was necessary." - Caine, when asked why as a wanted man he would walk onto an Army post
  
• "I do not care about gold." - Caine
  
• "I have done you no harm." - Caine, asked why someone shouldn't kill him
  
• "I do not believe you are a killer." - Caine
  
• "Why would I laugh?" - Caine
  
• "The world you live in is mysterious, exciting, unknown and mine is older, familiar, and calm. You will never know my world not I yours...Can you see with my eyes? Think with my brain?" - Master Kan
  
• "We are one, yet we are not the same." - Master Kan
  
• "Do not see yourself as the center of the universe wise and good and beautiful. Seek rather wisdom, goodness and beauty that you may honor them everywhere." - Master Kan to young Caine
  
• "You cannot put out water with fire...Stones will not break chains." - Caine
  
• "Why would I be [fooling you]? We made a bargain" - Caine
  
• "You sure act like an Injun." - about Caine
  
• "I listened." - Caine, when asked how he learned to find medicine & food
  
• "'Where is evil? In the rat whose nature it is to steal the grain. Or in the cat, whose nature it is to kill the rat?' - Master Po 'The rat steals. Yet, for him, the cat is evil.' - Caine 'And to the cat, the rat.' - Master Po 'Yet, Master, surely one of them is evil.' - Caine 'The rat does not steal, the cat does not murder. Rain falls, the stream flows, a hill remains. Each acts according to its nature.' - Po 'Then is there no evil for men? Each man tells himself that what he does is good, at least for himself.' - Caine'...a man may tell himself many things but is a man's universe made up only of himself?' - Po 'If a man hurts me and I punish him, perhaps he will not hurt another.' - Caine 'And if you do nothing?' - Po 'He will learn he can do as he wishes.' - Caine 'Or, perhaps, he will learn that some men receive injury but return kindness." - Master Po
  
• "Why [do we need the gun]? You cannot shoot and I will not." - Caine
  
• "We will run faster." - Caine, when told they will run into Utes
  
• "If you plant rice, rice will grow. If you plant fear, fear will grow." - Caine
  
• "You know things...You know pain. You know fear. You know the laughter of the wind. The perfume of the earth." - Caine
  
• "Ask not what I want but what path you yourself have chosen." - Caine
  
• "Do you not trust me?" - Caine
  
• "The boards, resisting, do not endure." - Master Kan
  
• "See the way of life as a stream. A man floats with the stream and his way is easy. But if he fights and tries to go upstream, he exhausts himself." - Master Kan
  
• "To be one with the universe, each must find his true path and follow it." - Master Kan
  
• "My friend what a hard path you have chosen." - Caine
  
• "If you send him out there alone, he will die." - Caine
  
• "Who is the animal here?" - Caine
  
• "A strong man is always needed." - Caine
  
• "When a man finds his way, heaven is gentle." - Caine

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#12 (Prod #166152) "SUPERSTITION"
Teleplay By: Ed Waters (also parts of #24, 31, 32, 39, & 43)
Story By: Dave Moessinger
Directed By:: Charles S. Dubin (also #9 & 14)
First Broadcast: ABC, APRIL 5, 1973
Guest Stars: Fred Sadoff, Ford Rainey, Roy Jenson, Don Dubbins, Woodrow Parfrey
Unjustly accused of stealing, Caine is forced into working in a mine over an Indian burial ground. The other prisoners/miners are convinced that uncovering human bones results in the death that day of whoever does so. In the flashbacks, Master Po shows the young Caine just what such beliefs produce. (Novelization by Howard Lee*2*) (Note: we have been informed by David Spencer that Howard Lee was a pseudonym.)
Lines:

• "I would like to buy some beans. And salt." - Caine (proving that, occasionally, he has money in his pouch)
  
• "I am not guilty." - Caine
  
• "To choose one or the other is to agree with a lie." - Caine
  
• "What is 'cooperate?'" - Caine
  
• "You are the leader here." - Caine
  
• "Is it not foolish to be afraid of another man's bones?" - Caine
  
• "So, we are here as slaves cause free men will not work." - Caine
  
• "...life is a corridor and death merely a door." - Young Caine, quoting a lesson from Master Po
  
• "'Do you not believe me?' - Master Po 'Yes, Master, but I am still afraid.'" - Young Caine
  
• "In time you will learn to fear only fear itself." - Master Po
  
• "I was told to work. I am working." - Caine
  
• "I am not different from you." - Caine, asked what kind of man he is
  
• "'Don't you feel the cold?' - asked of Caine 'Of course.' - Caine, though he shows no sign of such feeling 'Did you learn that in China?' 'Yes. And other things more important.'" - Caine
  I learned "to celebrate every man's life in my own." - Caine
  
• "When a man has nothing, he is most able to raise himself up." - Caine
  
• "When we dream, the things we wish for happen by magic. When we wake we know, without effort a man is less than nothing." - Caine
  
• "It is essential always to keep one's balance, is it not?" - Master Po
  
• "If you trust me completely, I can help you. If I tell you, you are not within a prison, the prison is within you, can you believe that?" - Caine
  
• "Let all effort flow out of your body. All heat flow from your body. The weight of your body becomes less and less. Until the body becomes one with the spirit which is as light as a feather as a breath as nothing at all." - Caine
  
• "To cast away life without true purpose, is this not wrong?" - Caine
  
• "We will not die. We will endure until we remember that we are men." - Caine
  
• "The power to claim life is not superstition. It is destiny. Bow to superstition and you create a new, unhappy destiny." - Caine
  
• "Superstition is like a magnet. It pulls you in the direction of your belief." - Master Po
  
• "There's no fear in him. None at all. That's why he can't be controlled." - about Caine
  
• "These came from the earth. They must be returned." - Caine (on the human bones he accidentally dug up)
  
• "Perhaps, it would be better to remain still. Use one light. And free the mind from fear." - Caine
  
• "Enough." - Caine (a word he often uses to stop things)
  
• "Be still. Do not speak. Try to sleep. Still your heart. And hope." - Caine's advice on what to do when the air is running out
  
• "Then think of living." - Caine, when a man says he is afraid to die
  
• "Perhaps. As waking is an end to sleep." - Caine, when someone says it's the end and they are going to die
  
• "'Any suggestions?' 'Live.'" - Caine
  

Information:In this episode Caine pulls coins out of his pouch to buy supplies.

Master Po lies to the Young Caine herein telling him a pool is filled with acid when it is really just water.

"To seek freedom, a man must struggle. To win it, he must choose wisely where and when he struggles...or it is like spitting in the wind." - Caine*2*p12

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#13 (Prod #166153) "THE STONE"
Teleplay By:: A. Martin Zweiback (also #7, 15 & 26)
Directed By:: Robert Butler (also #8, 11, & 15)
First Broadcast: ABC, April 12, 1973
Guest Stars: Moses Gunn, Gregory Sierra, Kelly Jean Peters, Bill Lucking, Kiel Martin
Caine runs into a Brazilian who knows a style of fighting that Caine has never seen before, an Armenian who wants to revenge massacres in his homeland, three children who want to hire him to kill, and a diamond which is misplaced.
Lines:

• "You are a very skillful fighter in a style I have never seen before." - Caine
  
• "I have heard some [piano players] who pleased me and some who did not." - Caine
  
• "What is it that makes children speak of killing?" - Caine
  
• "I have a job at the livery stable." - Caine
  Truth "binds one to the reality of oneself." - Master Kan
  
• "It pleases me that you no longer want another man's death." - Caine
  
• "Truth [is] hard to understand." - Master Kan
  
• "Recognize that all words are part false and part true, limited by our imperfect understanding. But strive always for honesty within yourself." - Master Kan
  
• "I travel alone." - Caine
  
• "I know little of this world outside my own experience." - Caine
  
• "Armenia is a small conquered country."
  
• "Arise calmly, Grasshopper, and wipe the indignity off your
  ." - Master Po
  
• "What is cowardice but the body's wisdom of its weakness? What is bravery but the body's wisdom of its strength. The coward and the hero march together within every man. So to call one man 'coward' and another 'brave' merely serves to indicate the possibilities of their achieving the opposite." - Master Po
  
• "Injustice, cruelty are everywhere." - Caine
  
• "Those who speak convincingly of peace cannot go armed. Those who speak convincingly of peace must not be weak. So we make every finger a dagger. Every arm a spear. And every open hand an ax or a sword." - Master Kan (the last three sentences turn up in many histories of the Chinese martial arts)
  
• "'Do you want to die.' - asked of Caine 'No.'" - Caine
  
• "I understand. I cannot help you." - Caine
  
• "You cannot shoot this man. He is unarmed." - Caine
  
• "'Mr. Chinese Man, you friend. You ever been to wedding.' 'No.'" - Caine
  

Information: At the end of this story Caine accepts a payment of $4.08 (which he earlier called a "useful amount of money" and which the two books*2* call $4.80) from the children though he usually refuses money or gives it away. However, since he sometimes offer wè buy beans, he must occasionally keep some of money. Did he accept and keep this money to teach the children something?

Caine puts on shoes to attend the wedding.

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#14 (Prod #166154) "THE THIRD MAN"
Teleplay By:: Robert Lewin (also #9 & 27)
Directed By:: Charles S. Dubin (also #9 & 14)
First Broadcast: ABC, APRIL 26, 1973
Guest Stars: Ed Nelson, Fred Beir, Barbara StuartSpecial Guest Star: Sheree North
Caine befriends a charming gambler who has been held up by two thieves. Later the thieves try to steal more money and in the dark, the gambler is killed by a third, unknown gunman.
Lines:

• "'What do you do?' 'What is offered me.'" - Caine
  
• "'I have no need for money.' - Caine 'You're either insane or very religious.'"
  
• "'Should I believe him?' - Gambler's wife 'Does he lie to you?'" - Caine
  
• "I work, eat, learn." - Caine, when asked what he does
  
• "Training in martial arts is for spiritual reinforcement but it is based on self-defense...When attacked by more than one person, the enemy should be allowed to make the first move and thus create the beginning of his downfall." - Master Kan
  
• "In every loss there is gain. As in every gain there is loss." - Po
  
• "I cannot understand why anyone would want to kill anyone." - Caine
  
• "Does not each person show grief in his own way?" - Caine
  
• "I do not know that hanging is justice." - Caine
  
• "You knew him well and did not love him. And I knew him little and loved him." - Caine
  
• "It was I who lost the money. I will help you." - Caine
  
• "I made a promise...The promise has not been kept." - Caine
  
• "Trust me." - Caine
  
• "It is a fact. It is not the truth...Truth is often hidden, like a shadow in darkness." - Caine
  
• "Love cannot measure itself until the hour of parting." - Caine
  
• "Trust comes from within." - Caine
  
• "Is not to trust to rely on someone of whom you know nothing." - Caine
  
• "With each ending comes a new beginning." - Caine
  
• "I saw a man shoot a gun. In the darkness I could see who the man was. I could not see into his heart." - Caine
  
• "You, not trusting; are you not hurt more?" - Caine, when asked if he's not hurt by trusting as much as he does
  
• "I seek not to know all the answers but to understand the questions." - Caine
  

Information: A bicycle is on the street of a small western town in this episode.

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#15 (Prod #166155) "THE ANCIENT WARRIOR"
Teleplay By:: A. Martin Zweiback (also #7, 13 & 26)
Directed By:: Robert Butler (also #8, 11 & 13)
First Broadcast: ABC, MAY 3, 1973
Guest Stars: Chief Dan George, Victor French, Denver Pyle (also #33), G. D. Spradlin Special Guest Star: Will Geer
Headed for Santa Fe, Caine befriends an old Indian who just wants to return to die and be buried in the land of his birth. That land - his according to a deed - is covered by the mining town of Purgatory, whose people can't forget a massacre by Indians eight years earlier though they don't remember the fact that Indians were massacred before and after that.
Lines:

• "'It's a long way. Hope you have a good horse.' 'I have good feet.'" - Caine
  
• "'Can I be of help?' - Caine (a usual question from him)'Any man can be of help to another man. What have you to offer?'" - Ancient Warrior 'Help.'" - Caine
  
• "'Your eyes. You are from another land.' - Ancient Warrior 'I am from China.'" - Caine
  
• "You will need help." - Caine
  
• "Is death all you wish?" - Caine
  
• "The journey will not be possible for you alone." - Caine
  
• "You are very generous but I have no need of wealth." - Caine
  
• "Young Caine, when I was a boy, I fell into a hole in the ground and I was broken and could not climb out. I might have died there but a stranger came along and saved me. He said it was his obligation. That for help he had once received, he must in return help ten others each of whom would then help ten others so that good deeds would spread out like the ripples from a pebble in a pond. I was one of his ten and you became one of mine. And now I pass this obligation on to you." - Master Po (also in episode #6)
  
• "You must make arrangements...We must find someone to speak to." - Caine
  
• "Is there someone in authority?" - Caine
  
• "I do not understand." - Caine, hearing prejudice and hatred
  
• "It would not be easy to forget." - Caine, when told of a massacre
  
• "You have been like a long drink of silence." - to and about Caine
  
• "You have won. You will have your burial place. It cannot be changed." - Caine
  
• "When we truly love, it is never lost." - Master Kan (audio flashback)
  
• "Our soul does not keep time, it merely records growth." - Kan (audio)
  
• "There is no need for sadness. Especially with one such as he." - Caine
  He felt that "it is better to cover the land with love than to let it cover you with hate." - Caine on Ancient Warrior
  

Information: The visual flashbacks in this episode are repeats of ones in #5 "The Soul Is the Warrior" and #6 "Nine Lives." Only the audio flashbacks are new.

"Hate is an unfaithful weapon." - Caine*2*p36

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