"Kung Fu": TV Series, Empty Pages of a Dead Book

#28 (Prod #166213) "Empty Pages of a Dead Book"
Teleplay By:: Charles A. McDaniel
Directed By:: John Llewellyn Moxey (also #21, 32 & 34)
First Broadcast: ABC, January 10, 1974
Guest Stars: Robert Foxworth, Slim Pickens, Doreen Lang, Nate Esformes, Bruce Carradine (also #53)
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

In New Mexico Caine gets involved with a young Texas Ranger who is trying to fulfill his father's mission to bring in outlaws whose names were listed in a book. Local authorities in Dos Rio, however, believe former outlaws who accuse the Ranger and Caine of murdering one of the men whose name was in that book.

"'You a cook?'
'No.'" - Caine

"'Why do we have laws?' - Kan
'To help us live in harmony.'" - Young Caine

"Strengthen the discipline of the spirit by purifying the body." - Kan

"A man may die from a hunger of the body. But whole nations have fallen from that of the spirit. Discipline. Discipline cures." - Master Kan

"I am not afraid." - Caine

"I thought he was forgiven." - Caine, on someone who was pardoned

"I could not say what I did not see." - Caine

"Does not the law serve the truth?" - Caine

"'I'll pray for you, Chinaman...'
'Thank you.'" - Caine, without even a trace of irony or sarcasm

"You must assist the law to serve justice." - Master Kan

"That Chinaman - I've never seen anything like it. He's got the fastest hands I've ever seen." - about Caine

"I told what I saw." - Caine

"If we are still, perhaps they will not [find us]." - Caine

"You have told the truth." - Caine

"I have done a. . . wrong to you both. . . . By leading you to attend only to the letter of the law and not respect its meaning. I bow to you both." - Master Kan to young Caine and another student

"He will die if we do not get him to a doctor. . . . If we let him lie here, we will be murderers." - Caine

"We have told the truth." - Caine

"You owe me nothing." - Caine