"Kung Fu": TV Series, The Ancient Warrior

#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
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

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.

Pilot & First Season
Available on DVD

"'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

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