Kung Fu - First Season

As quickly as you can, snatch the pebble from my hand.

When you can take the pebble from my hand,

it will be time for you to leave.

Time for you to leave.

Hello.

- Hello. - What you doing up here?

- Listening. - I was just practicing.

Waiting for the stage to come.

- Is what you play a lute? - No, it's a mandolin.

This is called a plectrum.

It makes a sound like running water.

- Try it. - Oh, no, thank you.

It would disturb my memory of what you just played.

I'm going into Cardiff.

I'll be taking lessons from Reverend Williams.

I'll be living with my Uncle Flan and going to school too.

Play some more.

Just a driver and shotgun rider, that's all.

- Unless they's some more inside. - Some more what?

- More guards. - They hardly never do.

They hardly never carry no $21,000 in cash neither.

Let's get this thing staked out.

What's your name?

I am called Caine.

They call me Lethe, but my real name

is Miss Alethea Patricia Ingram.

My real name is Kwai Chang Caine.

Your eyes look funny.

My eyes look far and near...

...but I did not know they looked funny.

My mother says if I keep squinting when I read...

...that I'll have lots of wrinkles

around my eyes, like you.

- What is "squinting?" - Well, it's like this.

Yeah.

I, too, read many things.

But I have no mother to warn me.

I'm sorry. I have a nice one.

- Yes? - Yeah.

- Howdy, Alethea. - Howdy, Mr. Tutt.

What you doing out here all by yourself?

Well, I'm going into Cardiff.

Mr. Jezdale, he's the one that owns the ranch.

He's coming in, and I'm going out.

- Mr. Tutt, this is Mr. Caine. - Mr. Caine.

You got sort of an Injun look about you.

It is a Chinese look, Mr. Tutt.

Well, I wouldn't be boasting about that if I were you.

About being a Chinaman.

Folks around these parts ain't got much use for that sort.

I got use for them.

Hiya!

Well, here she comes!

You ain't gonna drink out of that.

The water is not pure?

Tamper down. Man's got a right to water.

We was wondering, there gonna be a big turnout...

...of Jezdale hands to greet the old man coming in?

I do not know.

Alethea!

Not the same dipper.

- I will get you another. - No, it's alright.

You know, I never rode on a stagecoach before.

You know how old I am?

How old are you?

I am twelve.

It is time you went forth into the world...

...beyond these walls by yourself.

You will reach Mai-chi-San Temple...

...noon of the second day.

You will deliver what I entrust to you...

...to Master Wan Ti.

On your journey, you will say nothing

to anyone of what you carry.

I will speak only when spoken to, master, and then briefly.

Can you read the scroll of Chuang Chou?

I do not know, venerable sir.

Begin.

"Long ago, Chuang Chou dreamed that he was a..."

Chuang Chou dreamed that he was a butterfly. Go on.

"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."

This scroll is 400 years old.

A copy taken from the seventh original. It is priceless.

You are not afraid to travel alone?

I am afraid only of failure, venerable sir.

Then take pains that you do not fail.

Master, we are taught that the most important gift...

...of our natures is the reaching out to one another.

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.

Yet I am to speak only when spoken to.

Reach out, yet be wary of what you allow yourself to grasp.

Go now, grasshopper.

Guard above all things the purity of your vision.

Chuang Chou dreamed he was a...

...butterfly.

- Mr. Caine, it's here! - Whoa. Hold up.

One move and you're dead men, both of you.

Here, take this.

You in there! Jezdale, anybody else!

Hand your gun out butt first.

Hands in the air, you!

I'm gonna shoot Tutt here right twixt the eyeballs...

...if you don't get in motion.

Get out.

Come on, come on.

Give me your wallet.

Come on!

Why did you do it?

Why did you shoot that poor man?

I can see the cowhands coming from the ranch.

They were supposed to meet Mr. Jezdale.

Don't give me an excuse to cut you down, Chinaman.

Because I would be more than happy to do so.

I'm sorry, Mr. Caine.

I, too, am sorry, Alethea...

...that you have seen what happened here.

Wish I hadn't.

So do I.

The two of you are losing all control!

We ought to stretch his yellow neck.

Rafe Crowder and me--

That little girl said he done it.

She seen him with her own eyes.

Hold it, boys. Hold it!

Now, Sheriff Ingram is not gonna stand still for any lynching.

Well, you correct me if you want to, Mr. Jezdale...

...but that little girl out there says this Chinese

is the one that did it. Am I right?

- Come on, let's get him! - Hold it! Hold it!

We won't hurt you.

Wait!

Do not kill him with a knife.

You will ruin his clothing...

...for which I am prepared to pay you handsomely.

I, Shang Tzu the magician, have the ability to shrink myself...

...to the size of this boy, yet lacking the clothing to--

He's a monk! You would kill a boy monk, would you?

He attacked you, no doubt, with his teeth.

Hold it! Come on!

Clancy, them two road agents lose you, did they?

No, sir, Mr. Jezdale. They almost left us kicking.

They've got a Sharp's .50 caliber, by the sound of her.

And one of them bad-bellies was born with a pure shooting eye.

Well, I figure them road agents will hole up soon.

One of them's shot.

That's the sheriff's problem.

Wittner, you take the Chinaman into Cardiff by the north route.

That'll be faster than the coach road.

Let's get one thing straight! No lynching!

- You get him into town alive. - Sir.

Bill, Charlie, go get the horses. I'll take care of him.

Pick up the knife, my child.

- And cut their throats. - I thank you for rescuing me...

- ...but I cannot kill them. - As you like.

But remember, child, you owe me your life.

What's that you have there?

I am not learned in these matters...

...but I know a thing of great value when I see it.

Is it not so?

Of course it is. It's priceless.

They send a mere child out alone with such a treasure?

I, Shang Tzu, prestidigitator-- Magician...

...shall accompany you to your destination...

...protect you from highway bandits...

...and teach you the wondrous ways I know...

...of clothing the naked eye with error.

And you, in turn, shall teach me such things...

...as you have learned at your temple.

You're a seeker of the holy way?

Why, of course, my child.

Which is the reason I take so deep an interest

in this scroll that you carry.

Alright, Bill, Charlie, take the horses on down.

We'll take him across.

Ain't no use in taking you to Cardiff.

They're just gonna hang you anyway.

No, no, no! Not half long enough!

You must control your breath so that the people watching...

...will believe that you can never surface alive.

I will try again.

You must call me by name. Shang Tzu.

It is conducive to good fortune and trust among friends!

Is the scroll where I put it, Shang Tzu? It must not get wet.

Never fear, Kwai Chang. The scroll, like your trust...

...is as safe as where you put it.

Now, under you go again.

And Shang Tzu will teach you that the Shaolin Temple...

...is not the only school a young man must attend.

Right there. Right there! Get him!

- Did you get him? - I don't see nothing.

Sir?

Shang Tzu? Are you hiding?