"Kung Fu": TV Series, A Lamb To The Slaughter

#52 (Prod #166264) "A Lamb To The Slaughter"
Teleplay By: Robert Specht & David Michael Korn STORY: Robert Specht
Directed By:: Harry Harris (also #41, 43, 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*
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

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.

"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