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#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), Robert Tessier, Brenda Venus, Tad Horino (also #8 & 45 & 46)
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.
Lines:
- "I regret that you did not [understand]." - Master Kan to dying man 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
- "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
Information: 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.
#48 (Prod #166260) "THE DEVIL'S CHAMPION"
Teleplay By:: Katharyn & Michael Michaelian*2*(also #19, 35, & 41)
Directed By:: Robert Michael Lewis (also #36)
First Broadcast: NOVEMBER 8, 1974 (FRIDAY)
Guest Stars: Soon-Taik Oh (also #8 & 34), Victoria Racimo, Richard Loo (also pilot & #3, 23, 35, 48, 50 & 51)
In China a strange challenger shows up at the temple gates to challenge Master Kan to ritual combat to the death. Caine, who is having visions, must find out who or what is behind the situation.
Lines:
- "Any man can be broken...By a strength outside greater than himself or a weakness inside which he cannot understand." - Caine
- "I am a man. I have desires." - Caine, when asked if he ever wanted what he could not have
- "Can you speak plainly?" - Caine
- "When a man feels there is something inside of him that cannot easily be explained, it does not need to be weakness." - Caine
- "You performed with great skill, Kwai Chang." - Master Kan
- "Forgive me, Master. I have no answer only a feeling." - Caine
- "Come, let us speak with this loud voice." - Master Kan
- "Why do you treat this man as an animal?" - Master Kan
- "I cannot honor your challenge." - Master Kan
- "You are before the gates of a Shaolin Temple and there are no reasons for which your ears are worthy." - Master Kan
- "We have never acceded to threats before." - Shaolin Master
- "May I be permitted? What I have heard here is truth of a kind..." - Master Po
- "If he himself is not a demon, then he is controlled by one. His actions - to take human lives to get what he wants - is proof of that." - Master Po
- "Each of you has communicated generously..." - Master Kan
- "My mind, my heart, are open. I see nothing to link me to this man." - Master Kan
- "If it is written, then it will be so. The path that will free me of the evil is unclear." - Master Kan
- "I have seen something which I can no longer hold back." - Caine
- "There was no natural way that he would know we would come." - Caine
- "I will know when it is time." - Caine, when asked if he wondered
- "We ask that you reconsider. That this contest not be to the death." - Master Kan
- "Under the circumstances you have set up, we must accept your challenge." - Master Kan
- "There are no fights to the death here. Since you have insisted and threatened us with the deaths of many, we have been forced to arrange for it. It will take a new day to prepare." - Master Po on the temple
- "None of us wish to die...Honor at the risk of death is not a part of the Shaolin tradition." - Caine
- "Trust in the masters...Trust them! They are wise." - Caine
- "How can I help you?" - Caine
- "'How much time is there?' - Caine 'No one can say for certain. Perhaps, time has already run out.'" - Master Po
- "Here two will fight for mastery, not acclaim." - Master Kan
- "'Forgive me, I may not say it.' - Caine to a woman 'Yet I might like to hear it.'" - woman
- "Let yourself feel the evil aura that reaches out for us." - Master Po to another master
- "It will take all our strengths and perhaps that will not avail." - Po
- "'You dare...''To speak the truth? Yes.'" - Caine
- "This even more than human strength will destroy [his] human body." - Caine
- "Do you live by no code?" - Master Kan
- "Your spirit is stronger than the flesh. It can defeat the power of another no matter how great...There is no failure no defeat. No weakness within you. Only that which you allow to settle in your own mind. Draw upon the strength of your spirit." - Master Kan
- "It is over." - Caine
- "His power is broken. Things are seen as they are." - Caine
- "It was a truth....One among many. What you believed to be inner weakness existed in your mind alone and in no other place." - Master Kan to a disciple
- "'I do not understand all that has happened.' - Caine 'No one knows all.'" - Master Kan
- "...in the end the seeds of hatred destroyed themselves. As they always do. As they always will." - Master Kan
- "Battles are waged on the earth and in the heavens. Within the mind and within the soul. This battle has been won." - Master Po
Information: The KF Book*2* says that the villain in this story, "the Prince of Darkness is Hsiag, the evil embodiment of the powers of the air" but there is no such mention herein.
#49 (Prod #166261) "THE GARMENTS OF RAGE"
Teleplay By:: Theodore Apstein*2* (also part of #53)
Directed By:: Marc Daniels (also #53, 59, 60 & 62)
First Broadcast: NOVEMBER 1, 1974 (FRIDAY)
Guest Stars: James Shigeta (also #56), James Hong (also pilot & #21, 41, 42 & 54 and other small parts)Special Guest Star: James Olson
After the events in "The Demon God" (#47 the last episode set in the present), Caine is left battered with his clothes torn, and he is taken in by railroad workers. The railroad is being harassed by a Shaolin master who has also fled China. This former teacher offers Caine clothes that had belonged to his nephew who died in a railroad accident. (At first Caine refuses to wear the clothes which might symbolize that he would help sabotage the railroad, but later Caine accepts the clothes and wears them for the rest of the series).
Lines:
- "Communication between self and self; between self and others; can take many forms. Dreams are a language we may learn to interpret. Our deeper self talking to ourself. The needs, the sensations, the flights of fancy of others impinging on our own. Take heed not to disregard these communications but rather listen and hear what they have to say." - Master Kan
- "I do not seek wealth." - Caine
- "Have I not already found a friend." - Caine when told he'd find nothing
- "You count too fast..." - to and about Caine
- "My father was American..." - Caine, when told he's not full Chinese
- "I could not do such a thing. I am sorry any man can." - Caine, when suspected of sabotaging the railroad
- "I will work more slowly." - Caine, when his partner can't keep up
- "Is it strength to use explosives to harm a small boy?" - Caine
- "You do me honor." - Caine
- "Fleeing the same enemy as yourself, Master: The Emperor." - Caine, when asked why he left China
- "Forgive me if I have injured you." - Shaolin to man who attacked him
- "You are Shaolin. You could not follow such a path...For any reason." - Caine
- "You walk very quietly." - to and about Caine
- "You cannot be certain." - Caine, when someone predicts the future
- "It is not food that he needs now." - Caine, taking small, newly orphaned boy into his arms
- "May his spirit be at rest." - Caine, when told of a death
- "'It is said, the soul may be reborn.' - Caine 'None may know that for certain.' - a Shaolin master 'No, Master.'" - Caine
- "If it be your wish." - Caine, when asked if he wants to know something
- "We are taught this is the human condition." - Caine, when asked if we may hate
- "It is said, The Way avoids destruction." - Caine
- "'Do you always go barefoot?' - Railroad Investigator 'Yes.' - Caine 'Why?' 'I do not like shoes.'" - Caine
- "I do not like it." - Caine, asked how he feels about the destruction
- "It is not my place." - Caine, asked if he would do anything about it
- "They cannot see me. How can they stop me?" - Shaolin Master
- "My own path." - Caine, when asked what brought him to this place
- "He does not care if I approve or disapprove." - Caine, when asked if he approves of what the saboteur is doing
- "Why do you do this?" - Caine
- "'Do you believe you can stop me?' - Shaolin Master 'I will have to try.'" - Caine
- "You have tried to stop him. You can do no more." - Caine
- "'Nothing bothers you, does it?' 'It may seem that way to you.'"--Caine
- "You save my life and I throw you in jail. Yet, you are not angry." - to and about Caine
- "I could feel the same outrage at the railroad." - Caine, when it is said he must feel outrage about the deaths caused by the sabotage
- "I am not a bounty hunter." - Caine, when offered a reward
- "For this questionable freedom, I must surrender my friend." - Caine
- "You must do what your conscience tells you." - Caine to investigator
- "Much. Much." - Caine, when asked what he owes a Shaolin teacher
- "Betray me. It is of no consequence." - Shaolin Master to Caine
- "'You have been taught that you may not disobey your masters.' - Shaolin Master 'Yet I must.'" - Caine
- "How can we question the ways of destiny? All we may question is the ways of man." - Caine
- "No man is omnipotent." - Caine
- "It is not my place to tell you what to do. You are the master."--Caine
- "They, too, look for revenge." - Caine, obviously thinking it's a circle
- "Please. I do not need this." - Caine, giving away the money he earned
- "'I think it better I go my own way.' - Caine 'Where are you going?' 'I may never know.'" - Caine
Information: "You will not improve anything by going away." - Caine*2*p3(this may be in broadcast)
#50 (Prod #166262) "BESIEGED: Death on Cold Mountain" (pt. 1)
Teleplay By:: William Kelley*2* (also #10, 18, 37, 38 & part of 51)
Directed By:: David Carradine (also #47 & 51)
First Broadcast: NOVEMBER 15, 1994 (FRIDAY)
Special Guest Star: Barbara Seagull (Hershey)Guest Stars: Khigh Dheigh (also #10 & 20), Victor Sen Yung (also pilot & #9, 21, 30 & 47), Yuki Shimoda (also #8), Richard Loo (also pilot & #3, 23, 35, 48, 50 & 51),
In China Master Po and Caine are dispatched to rescue the survivors of another Shaolin temple which has been destroyed by the warlord Sing Lu Chan. One of the survivors happens to be a girl.
Lines:
- "Forever? Forever is a word for children." - Master Kan
- "Master of Monks here at Honan." - Master Kan, of himself
- "Badly in need of a lesson in manners." - Master Po
- "I can see you well enough, now that you speak...Keep talking; your mouth gives me eyes." - Master Po (who is, of course, blind)
- "If you will be so kind as to strike the first blow." - Master Po, accepting what he thinks is a challenge to Master Kan
- "That is for me to judge." - Master Kan
- "We must decide. Whatever we decide will be decided by vote." - Kan
- "I feel eyes upon us." - Master Po
- "Is there another way...? Can we conceal ourselves." - Master Po
- "You are a girl." - Caine
- "The training requires great strength." - Caine, on Shaolin training
- "We cannot do that...We are Shaolin." - Caine, on disobedience
- "I tortured him with exquisite care. I dragged him here behind my horse. Yet, he will not speak." - on Master Po
- "Whatever has happened has already happened. We will wait to hear the outcome." - Master Kan
- "'My death will not give him nearly so much satisfaction as it will me.' - Master Po 'Does not being able to see make you weary of life?' 'No. It is being able to hear.'" - Master Po (laughing)
- "We are skilled, we Shaolin, in the arts of silent and invisible action but we know, too, when it is time to abandon these skills." - Master Kan
- "I have every confidence in that young man." - Master Kan on Disciple Caine
- "There is no place for you here...I am the Master of Monks here." - Kan
- "You are also of mixed blood...We made a single exception in that case." - Master Kan, on accepting young Caine
- "We have neither the inclination nor the facilities to accommodate nuns here at this temple." - Master Kan
- "I do not regard it as an opportunity and I do not regard you as a remedy." - Master Kan
- "The circumstances called for bold action." - Master Kan
- "How can they hurt me?...Only this poor body." - Master Po
- "I thought I would never see you again, my friend." - Kan to Po
Information: At the time of this story Master Po is 83.
There are more than 200 Shaolin at the Honan Temple at this time.
See the historical note at the end of the next episode for how this connects to history.
#51 (Prod 166263) "BESIEGED: Cannon at the Gates" (pt. 2)
Teleplay By:: William Kelley & David Michael Korn*2*
Directed By:: David Carradine (also #47 & 50)
First Broadcast: NOVEMBER 22, 1974 (FRIDAY)
Guest Stars: (as above)
As the warlord moves on the temple, Nan Chi feels she has to sacrifice herself to save everyone else, especially Caine.
Lines:
- "Here in the peace and serenity of our temple, we seem ." - Master Kan
- "We are dealing with a man who is motivated not by reason but by passions. That means we are dealing with a man half mad at best."--Master Kan
- "Only a threat...We are secure here." - Caine
- "'Even a Shaolin cannot exist without food.' - Master Kan 'It is, perhaps, time we tried.'" - Master Po
- "It would slow me down to look after you." - Caine
- "The Sage says, 'A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and cold. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At their death they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.'" - Master Po, quoting the TAO TE CHING chapter #66 [F]
Information: The story that there was a second Shaolin Temple at Fukien cannot be verified according to D.F. Draeger and R.W. Smith in Asian Fighting Arts (Tokyo, Kodansha Intl. 1969) pages 43-46 but they go on to say: "Tradition has it that during the reign of Emperor K'ang Hsi (1662-1723) Imperial troops sent against marauding bands in the western border areas were defeated. When the Emperor asked for volunteers, 128 of the Fukien Shaolin monks responded and routed the enemy without themselves suffering a single casualty. Subsequently, the Emperor was persuaded by Manchu officials to send a force against the Fukien temple on a purported charge of sedition. The temple was burned and only five monks survived the battle. Out of this grew the anti-Manchu Triad Society or Hung League..." This is pretty much the story suggested in these two episodes for the destruction of the Fukien Temple although these stories which must take place in the mid to late 1860s are set about 150 years after it may have really happened.
#52 (Prod #166264) "A LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER"
Teleplay By: Robert Specht & David Michael Korn STORY: Robert Specht
Directed By:: Harry Harris (also #54 & 61)
First Broadcast: JANUARY 11, 1975 (SATURDAY)
Guest Stars: Alejandro Rey, Joe Santos, Barbara Luna, and Stephen Manley as a younger young Caine*4*
Caine goes to a village on the coast of Mexico to pay a debt the priest owes to a man whose father died saving his father. But the only payment the man will accept is for Caine to teach him fighting/killing skills.
Lines:
- "Do I intrude?" - Caine
- "I have a debt to pay." - Caine
- "I am bound." - Caine
- "'I have no money.' - Caine 'You come here to pay a debt and you have nothing to pay it with?'" - to and about Caine
- "As a son inherits a father's goods, so he inherits his debts." - Po
- "A warrior comes with weapons." - Caine, denying he's a warrior
- "I do not know." - Caine, when asked if he thinks a man killed another
- "Think what you ask." - Caine
- "There are two strengths: the strength of the body and the strength of the spirit. The body is the arrow. The spirit is the bow. You must learn to use the strength of the spirit." - Caine
- "A man must do what he has to." - Caine
- "A priest." - Caine, when asked what he is in his own country
- "Hurt you can do little. Wounded you are helpless. The eyes give away the thoughts and the thoughts direct the weapon." - Caine
- "Why? Why will you kill?" - Caine
- "You have learned something more than you have asked. You have discovered your own strength. You are free. Is this not enough?" - Caine
#53 (Prod #166265) "ONE STEP TO DARKNESS"*2*
Teleplay By: Robert Sherman & Theodore Apstein (also #49)
STORY: Gerald Sanford
Directed By:: Marc Daniels (also #59, 60 & 62)
First Broadcast: JANUARY 25, 1975 (SATURDAY)
Guest Stars: Leslie Charleson, David Huddleston (also #22), Bruce Carradine (also #28) and Stephen Manley as a younger young Caine*4*
Caine comes to the rescue of a woman and for his trouble is arrested by her army officer husband. The woman turns out to be addicted to a Chinese drug (opium?) and she introduces Caine to a mystical world where he meets a demon who claims the priest's life for a wish the very young Caine had made while sick with typhoid.
Lines:
- "We all encounter a demon when our conscience is not at rest." - Master Po
- "'I cannot remember.' - Young Caine 'Cannot? Or is it that you do not choose to remember?'" - Master Po
- "My wish is to live." - Caine
- "You say you are sorry...Yet I am here in custody." - Caine
- "As the tapestry is mute, so are we so long as we are held immobile by the tightly woven threads of fear." - Master Po
- "I mean you no harm." - Caine
- "I broke the lock." - Caine, when asked how he got out of jail
- "I sense the Jos (sp?) holds some answers for me as well as for your wife." - Caine
- "I did not come for your money." - Caine
- "You trade on human weakness." - Caine (with a least some contempt)
- "'That's her look out.' 'Not any more.'" - Caine, interfering
- "The mind seeking to protect itself, looks for something outside itself." - Master Po
- "I do not know where I live at present." - Caine
- "A truth that will help me reach a different world." - Caine
- "To run from your demon is to have him pursue you. Better to advance to meet your demon in his world than have him pursue you into yours." - Master Po
- "The torment is in your mind." - Caine
- "The two events are not bond together." - Caine, denying cause and effect in a situation
- "How do you account for this strange and violent behavior...What demon possesses you to abandon the ways of Tao?" - Master Po
- "I am not afraid." - Caine, his usual answer when accused of it
- "You must fight...You seek to escape. Instead you must go in even deeper." - Master Po to Caine
- "The plea of a frightened boy cannot change the will of destiny."--Caine
- "'I command you to die.' - Demon to Caine 'And I command you to be nothing.'" - Caine to demon
- "I did what I did for myself." - Caine, when offered gratitude
- "The mind is free to create its demons or its guardians." - Caine
- "We choose our own directions."--Caine, in spite of believing in destiny
#54 (Prod #166266) "THE THIEF OF CHENDO"
Teleplay By: Simon Muntner
Story By: Bernard B. Bossick, Lary H. Gibson & Simon Muntner
Directed By:: Harry Harris (also #41, 43, 52 & 61)
First Broadcast: March 29, 1975
Guest Stars: James Hong (also pilot & #21, 42 & 49 and others), Harushi, Claire Nono (also #32), John Fujioka, Beulah Quo (also #40 & others)
Master Po and the young Caine visualize what it will be like when Caine leaves the temple. The two imagine (?) in a 'flashforward' (?) that Caine, now a priest, has been sent to help a duke. The young priest "finds royalty everywhere" as he runs into a prince of thieves who wants to help a princess.
Lines:
- "What will it be like when I leave these walls?" - Young Caine
- "'You will laugh at me.' - Young Caine'And will that destroy you if an old man laughs?' - Master Po 'No, Master. Laugh if it pleases you.'" - Young Caine
- "...you must remain alert for people, even priests, are not always what they seem." - Master Po
- "There will be a harsh judgment for he who steals from a holy man." - Caine
- "...our friend found this; it could have fallen from your robe." - Caine (could have but in fact it didn't since the 'friend' stole it)
- "Seek help where you can." - Master Po
- "You must wait for the moment...For at the right time all may be reached." - Master Po
- "The sage says, 'For good return good. For evil return justice.'" - Master Po (may refer to the TAO TE CHING chapter #49)
- "In your actions be bold and forthright for what walls may stop a Shaolin priest?" - Master Po (yet in a quote from #46 "Blood of the Dragon" pt. 2, Master Kan spoke specifically against acting with forthrightness)
- "You are quick, Priest, but you are not invisible." - on Caine
- "One does not become a priest to seek fame." - Caine
- "...your path ahead may sometimes seem obscure." - Master Po
- "'Sometimes...it seems as if a wall lies between myself and others. A wall through which I may see but not touch.' - Young Caine 'You feel the fault within yourself?' - Master Po 'I do not know where the fault lies, but I feel apart.' - Young Caine 'In your conversation with this other, more is left unsaid than is said. Who can know himself well enough to speak all? Who is so well founded to hear all? The sage says, 'Shape clay into a vessel, cut doors and windows for a room; it is the space within which makes it useful.' So we must listen for the space between us. We must hear the silences.'" - Master Po (quoting the TAO TE CHING chapter #11 which is also quoted in #25 "The Hoots")
- "The way runs true through darkness through shadow: neither is cause for despair. The sage has said, 'The five colors blind the eye. The five tones deafen the ear. The five flavors dull the taste.' Therefore the wise man is guided by what he feels not by what he sees. When our senses are confused and overpowered, our deeper feelings may yet keep us on the way." - Master Po, quoting the TAO TE CHING chapter #12 [F]
- "'Master, I see others and they seem to know the way.' - Young Caine 'Do you?' - Master Po 'I am puzzled and unsure. I move one way and then another to no purpose.' - Young Caine 'And, therefore, grieve.' - Master Po 'Yes, Master.' - Young Caine 'The sage has said, 'Others are contented. I alone am drifting, not knowing where I am. I'm alone without knowing where to go. I am different. I am nourished by the great mother.' In an uncertain hour, the wise man acknowledges uncertainty.'" - Master Po, quoting the TAO TE CHING chapter #20 [F]
- "I will stay. You have my word." - Caine, expecting his word to be accepted
Information: When reference is made to Prince Land Wo of the Land Dynasty, it is one of the few times in this series that the family name is put first as it is in China.
Caine undertakes to deliver a message to Master Po but since he is out in the world, he is not returning to the temple as this episode sort of implies, but, then how did Caine get the assignment in the first place? - while out in the world, he is not suppose to be in contact with the temple (see description of how and why they all stay separate in next episode).