"What do you see?" "The fire." "And within the fire?" "The color of the flames." "The sparks lifting up into the night sky." "The wood being consumed burned to nothingness." "And the joining?" "Do you see that as well?" "No." "I see nothing coming together." "So you believe that only the fire consumes the wood?" "Yes." "That is the pretense, not the truth." "The fire is a marriage between the air oxygen and the wood." "Between them they become something which neither is." "And yet both are." "I do not see that." "No." "You see the pretense." "As you go through life you will find many things that seem obvious." "Then you will remember the fire." "Everything is not what it pretends to be." "That is the lesson of the fire." "How will I know when something is not what it pretends to be?" "[BLOWS NOTE]" "Ask." "But every once in a while you will find that the pretense may be the truth." "[BLOWS NOTE]" "NARRATOR:" "The grandson of Kwai Chang Caine  walks out of the past." "But I want to fight." "Yes." "So did your great-grandfather when he was your age." "NARRATOR:" "He teaches his son wisdom at a Shaolin temple." "An evil force destroyed that temple." "Father and son each believed the other had perished." "Fifteen years later, they were reunited." "Now Caine faced new challenges and his son grew up." "Look, I'm not my father." "I don't do kung fu." "I'm a cop." "That's who I am, that's what I do." "I am Caine." "I will help you." "Each subtle movement is repeated exactly." "It is not only the form, it is the art." "I'll never be able to do that." "You must've practiced a lot to be able to remember it." "It is not the moves I remember." "It is the picture I have in my mind." "And since the picture is always the same the movement is always the same." " What's the picture?" "CAINE:" "Ah." "A great heron floats toward the azure blue lake which I remember from my youth." "His wings flare." "His long thin legs reach out to touch the surface." "He is one with the sky as he will be one with the water and the earth." "He moves through all worlds with eloquence." " That's a beautiful picture." " It is yours to share." "I'm glad Rico found you." "I'm glad we all have." "The benefit is mine, master." "Rico." "We gotta talk." "Do not come in here like this." "When you do, you bring shame on yourself and on our family." "Stuff it, old man." " The deal's set." " I can't do it." "TIM:" "This one time." "Man, you know I just hit the streets." "I need this score." "He's not going back to stealing." "He's through with that." " What, the griff's talking for you now?" " Leave her out of this." "If she's important to you, I'm happy to leave her out." "We need you." "I need you to do this thing." "No." "Don't hang us out." "To enter into this house without permission is rude." "To bring violence with you brings disrespect to all who are here and cannot be tolerated." "This has nothing to do with you." "Come on, man, we can't make this score without you." "I can't do it." "Cute." "Cute." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "MAN 1:" "Watch it." "MAN 2:" "Look out." "Get him." "MAN 1:" "Hey." "MAN 2:" "Watch out." "MAN 1:" "Come on." "You should've stayed out of this." "CAINE:" "If a man sees a wrong and does nothing how can he then still call himself a man?" "TIM:" "Can't stay with him forever." " Out of here." "I'm gonna catch up with you." "If that doesn't do it, there are other ways." "I ain't finished with you either." "Nobody does this to me." "Nobody." "They want Rico to work for them, he won't." "And before...." "Before, you know, I took classes with you and stuff, we" "They broke into places and stole things." "Rico's real good with locks." "And that's why they want him back." "But if he goes with them, he loses me." "And that ain't gonna happen." "I gotta go to work." "I'm gonna walk you to the bus because Tim is crazy." "He's liable to do anything." "No, I'll be all right." "You stay here." "Let him cool down." "Once he knows you're serious about staying away, he'll lose interest." "RICO:" "Okay." "Thank you." "You've given him the courage to do what's right." "I gave him nothing he did not already have." "Then you helped him find it." "I'm gonna go out the back way." "Not that I'm afraid of those guys, but" "Sansu has said:" ""A battle avoided cannot be lost."" "Smart guy." "I'm sorry your class was disturbed." "This is a place where lessons are learned." "Perhaps one was learned here tonight." "Not the one you intended." "Still, a lesson just the same." "[POLICE SIRENS WAILING NEARBY]" "[OFFICERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]" "You know, this is stupid." "I make it 2-to-1 odds on Gladdis." "Any takers?" "WOMAN 1:" "Yeah, here's my money." "Take it." "Okay, all right." "I hate to do this, Gladdis, but you leave me no choice." "MAN 1:" "Pete, it's for you." " Just take a message." "WOMAN 2:" "Gladdis." "WOMAN 3:" "Gladdis." "WOMAN 4:" "Show him what a woman can do." " This is kind of sexy." " It's why I do it." "MAN 2:" "Muscles." " Ooh, Gladdis, you've been working out." " You wanna use rosin?" " No." "No, I like it smooth and slippery." "Whoo!" "Ha." "He's talking dirty." "You trying to throw my game." "Trying anything I can to keep from being embarrassed." "What can I offer you that can help me throw this match?" "You should've thought of that before you ran your mouth." "Me?" "You're the one who said you could take anybody." "All I did was laugh." " It's the way you laughed." "MAN 3:" "Okay." "All right." " Hey, Peter, they say it's important." " Just take a message." "All right." "Call the ball." "Go." "WOMAN 5:" "All right." "WOMAN 6:" "Come on." "You can do it." "MAN 1:" "It's Blaisdell." "There's trouble at your father's place." " Somebody's been killed." " What?" "GLADDIS:" "Yeah, all right." "WOMEN:" "Yes." "[GLADDIS CHEERS]" "GLADDIS:" "Give me five." "[OFFICER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]" "[SIREN WAILING]" "[PEOPLE MURMURING]" "COP:" "Detective." "MAN 1:" "There's blood...." " What's going on?" " What's it to you?" " This is my father." " Are you asking as a cop or a kin?" " I'm just asking, Burt, that's all." " It looks like he put a knife in our victim." " No, not possible." "BURT:" "Look, here's how it adds up:" "It's his place no one else but him and the victim with whom witnesses said he'd been arguing." "The murder weapon is his knife." "Here, look." "MAN 1:" "What about fingerprints?" "MAN 2:" "Yeah, we got them, we got them." "PETER:" "This is for you." "I retrieved it from the ashes at the temple." "Ah." "I make that motive, opportunity, plus physical evidence." "What really happened?" "I heard a noise, I came down the stairs and the young man was lying there on the floor." "He was dead." "Well, did you see anyone, or--?" "Hey." "I'm being nice because he's your dad, but this is my collar, my investigation." " Did you read him his rights?" " Yeah, couple of times." "Okay, I think you should get a lawyer." "Why?" "If I have done nothing wrong." "It's not what you've done, Pop." "It's" " It's how it appears." "MAN 1:" "Get a picture of this for me." "COP:" "Stay back." "MAN 1:" "God, it's the priest, they're taking him away." "MAN 2:" "Somebody die?" "ANCIENT:" "Where you taking him?" "BURT:" "Don't interfere." "He's a priest." "He couldn't do anything wrong." " He couldn't." " That's for others to decide." " Now, get out." " The wheel that is time" "BURT:" "Think so?" "ANCIENT:" "moves on." "When the moment of departure again occurs another sad journey begins." "[ANCIENT SPEAKING IN CANTONESE]" "COP:" "Watch your head." "Got some ID?" " I do not." " Driver's license?" "I do not drive." "Credit card?" "Library card?" "Something with your name on it?" "You got a social security number?" "I do not." "Everybody's got numbers, bud." "Even a guy in pajamas." "You can't exist in this society without them." "What are you hiding?" "Is he protecting someone?" "Could be." "It's murder." "Well, I don't think he necessarily sees it that way." "You know, he might be seeing a troubled soul that needs protection." "Hell, I don't know why I said that." "I don't know what goes on in his head." "How far will he take it?" "How far?" "To honor what he believes?" "Like he said when I was a kid the righteous must be willing to ride the dragon to the land where the sun sleeps." " That's a dangerous game." " Yeah." " I'm gonna go see what I can find out." " It's not your case." "Well, I know." "Try not to step on any toes unless I have to." "Gonna be interesting to see what a records check turns up, huh?" "Yeah." "Might tell me where he's been all these years." "BURT:" "Turn to your right." "Now hold still." "These prints will go worldwide, along with your mug shot." "FBI, CIA, everybody." "Something will bubble up, always does." "You can not find what does not exist." "If I wasn't convinced about your guilt before I am now." "You got one phone call." "If I were you, I'd call a lawyer." "And a good one." "I wish to speak to my son." "How you holding up?" "I cannot stay here." "You must get me out." "I know." "I know it's tough in here." "This is a murder charge." "Bail's impossible." "It is very important." "Well, I can have you popped out for supper." "All we gotta do is give them the name of someone to take your seat." "To do that, I gotta know what you're not telling." "I cannot tell you anything more than I already have." "Well, what hell do you expect?" "Are you protecting somebody?" "Maybe you're waiting." "You waiting?" "Hoping someone's gonna come forward on their own?" "The reason you're not talking got to do with the fact that you're a priest?" "To answer your questions, I would have to reveal more than I wish to reveal." "I can't help you unless" "Unless you let me." "My son do you remember the lesson of the fire?" "CAINE:" "Your eyes see the pretense not the truth." "In your life, you will witness many things which seem obvious but then you will remember the lesson of the fire." "Everything is not what it pretends to be." "Beside the fact that you're not the killer what is the pretense and what is the truth?" "One truth is the knife did not do the killing." "Then what did?" "Pop." "Hey, Pete." "See what I'm down to?" "The personals." "Man, chick finds I cut up dead people for a living, gonzo, whoosh." "Look, check this out, see if it sounds like me." ""SWF, 30s, athletic, seeks young professional." "Some S  M." "No three-eyed turtle." "No Dutch oven."" "No" "Dutch oven." "What could that be?" "Did you finish the preliminary workup on that kid we brought in from Chinatown?" "Haven't started." "When they say "young" in these ads, they mean, what, 50s?" "Nicky, I need to know." " He's got a knife in his guts." " Look, do me a favor please, just this time, show some interest." "They're holding my father on a murder charge." "Oh, jeez, Pete, your father?" "Tell me everything as soon as you can get it to me." "And just to make sure you're looking in the right places, the knife didn't kill him." "I'd separate the two of you if we had the space, but we don't, so get along." "Any trouble from either of you, I'll slap you in solitary." "[MAN 1 GRUNTS]" "MAN 2:" "You're dead." "MAN 1:" "Listen to me, will you listen?" "I'm waiting outside, then here comes the meter maid." "What's the buzz?" "I stay, she whistles at the black and white." " You ran, you left me hanging." " No, man." "I figured I'd circle the other side of the block when you bust out of the bank." "That my fault?" "MAN 2:" "Move aside, friend." "Is there not enough trouble here without causing more?" "You ain't seen trouble yet." "Trouble." "Is that what you wish to see?" "Do not ask the dragon unless you are prepared to receive him." "Do not ask for the tiger unless you wish to be eaten." "[CAINE LAUGHING MANIACALLY]" "Yes do not ask." "You understand me?" "GUARD:" "All right, settle down." "This guy's nuts." "Get him out of here." "He's gonna kill us all." " Don't make this worse than it is." " I have no wish to harm anyone." "You watch him, I tell you." "We're gonna take you out of here." "You can go easy or hard." "I will go as you wish." "See how you like being in here." "It's peaceful, relaxing." "It'll give you some time to, uh, reflect." "ANCIENT:" "I saw someone here." "I thought you were your father." "He's still in jail." "Who was here besides you and my dad?" "I'm not sure." "My memory tricks me." "PETER:" "There was an argument?" "ANCIENT:" "Yes." "Between Tim and...?" "The young man, Rico." "Can you tell me about Rico?" "Were he and the victim friends?" "Uh, they knew each other." "Whether they were friends, I do not know." "Okay." "Where can I find Rico?" "I believe he lives behind the dress shop." "Do they know that Caine is a Shaolin priest?" "Yes, they know." "[SIREN WAILS]" " We got a problem." "MAN:" "All right, thanks a lot." "My father." "Yeah, he went nuts." "Tried to take on all the prisoners in the holding tank." "Doesn't sound like him." "Yeah, well, they've got him in isolation." "Not quite the pacifist he was made out to be." "Turns out he's got a history of violence." "Oh, give me a break." "You want proof?" "This just popped out the state police nexus." "He was arrested seven years ago in Moab, Utah, attempted murder resisting arrest." " Moab, Utah." " Yeah." "Well, it says here all the charges were dropped." "Yeah, the witness changed his story." "And as we all know there's lots of reasons why witnesses change their story." " Yeah, like they made a mistake." " There are lots of reasons." " I'm here to see the prisoner Caine." " You mean the wacko." "GUARD:" "Put on quite a show, leaping, punching scared a couple of drunks right into taking the pledge." "I'll just be a minute." "Well, you sure have done it this time." "Talk about having no faith in the system." "Talk about a dumb move." "For that matter, having no faith in your son." "I hope you got a good reason for this." "I hope you got this all figured out because you have lost me." "Lost me." "He's meditating." "Keeps him calm." "I would just leave him alone." "No." "What?" "Just no." "When you were in high school and you wanted permission to do something that you knew I would disapprove like a rowdy night out you'd always slide into my den the way you slid into this office." "I see that slide, and the word "no" just leaps to my lips so the answer's no whatever it is." "Well, this is more important than some rowdy night out." "Yeah, I bet it is." "He's escaped." " It's not possible." " I know." " Obviously hasn't been reported." " No." "No." "So far you and I are the only two people that know." " We're not gonna keep it a secret." " Wait." "BLAISDELL:" "I can't wait." "In a couple of hours they're gonna know he's gone." "I need the time." " You're always breaking rules." " I don't just break rules." "If I get away with it, it's because I give them a deal or a promise I make good on." "Why did you come to me at all?" "Well, the thought of not coming to you never even occurred to me." "Look I believe he got himself thrown into solitary so that he could escape." " And why is he out, Peter?" " I don't know." "His reason is important than catching a murderer." "I'm just afraid that he's gonna get cornered by a bunch of nervous cops who think he's a killer." "You want me to ignore an escape, pretend it didn't happen?" "Two hours." "Paul, listen, you can call down, get him, bring him up for interrogation." "I don't know, something, Paul." "Two hours." "MAN:" "Yeah, they took my car, man." "Preliminary reports." "It's what you said." "How'd you know?" " Lucky guess." " If you hadn't said something..." " ..." "I probably would've missed it." " Thanks." "Where are you?" "CAINE:" "I am here." "I'm not even gonna ask how you slipped out, but tell me why." "A man's very existence is at stake." "Without my help, he will be destroyed." "You could've told me." "I would've helped." "In an hour, the city's gonna be looking for you." "And if they're like me, they're gonna start here." "Come on." "I don't know how you broke out, but this puts the nail right in your coffin." "You're back in the slam." "And you, Peter you just bought yourself more trouble than there is." "Burt." "[BURT GRUNTS]" "I didn't have time to argue." "Why are you here in the dark?" "This is something I must do." " Someone is coming here." " Yes." " To do what?" " To die." "You may stay if you wish." "But you must promise me you will say absolutely nothing and you will not interfere no matter what happens." "Lo Si?" "I did not expect you." "What you intend to do is not necessary." "It is." "It is the time." "Separated by one day it is the place from which he departed." "What's he talking about?" "He intends to die here." "My soul will follow his." "In time, my deed will bring them together." " Whose soul?" "Tim's soul?" "ANCIENT:" "Yes." "I will express my sorrow and my hope for forgiveness and for our souls to embrace." "He is the child of my brother." "He was left to my care and I failed him myself my family." "To take responsibility for another's child is a sacred trust." "A soul was left over to me." "I violated that trust." "No, but you didn't kill him." "I did kill him." "I only wanted to stop him just that." "Not to kill him." "ANCIENT:" "He came back as I was leaving." "We argued." "I told him that I was ashamed of him of what he was doing." "And that this community had a chance now because of you, Caine." "We all had a chance to end the fear and the violence which grips our lives." "He laughed." "Violence, he said, is only feared by the timid." "He pushed past me." "He picked the knife off the table." "He came at me." "I only wanted to disarm him." "Just that." "Not to kill him." "But the knife did not kill him." "I read the medical report." "He would've survived the knife." "He was strangled to death." "CAINE:" "My son is correct." "When you went for help, someone else entered saw the young man on the floor, and strangled him." "You are certain of this?" "Oh, forgive my doubting you, but" "Very certain." "So you see, there is no need to do what you have intended." "You do not have to kill yourself." "Your soul will not meet his because there is nothing to forgive." "There is." "I beg you to forgive this unworthy old man and the son of my brother." "His sins are not yours." "We finished?" "Finished?" "I do not know what you mean." "I mean, the Ancient's not gonna kill himself." "So you've done what you have to do." "Yes." "Good." "Where are you going?" "To catch a murderer." "And you, however the hell you got out of jail, get your ass back in." "Don't be here when he wakes up." "CLERK:" "You like this dress?" "WOMAN:" "Well, I don't know." "You know, if it had a white background" "PETER:" "I'm looking for Rico Rivera." " Why you looking for him?" "We need to talk." "You know where I can find him?" "I don't know." "He left town." "Which?" ""I don't know" or "He left town."" "I don't know, okay?" "Okay, if you wanna play it that way." "I thought it'd be easier." "Easier than what?" "Easier than Rico getting smacked by a SWAT team." "What are you talking about?" "What, you thought he'd skate?" "He could kill the guy and no one would find about it?" "Forget that, he's wanted on a murder charge." "And sooner or later he's gonna pop up his head and then whack." "Every cop knows a guy like Rico's not gonna hide more than five blocks from his home turf." "PETER:" "Oh, great." "Don't look down." "[YELLS THEN GRUNTS]" "RICO:" "Linda, what are you doing here?" " Did anyone follow you?" "LINDA:" "Nobody followed me." "RICO:" "Are you sure?" "LINDA:" "Yes." "MAN [NEARBY]:" "I never liked your...." "[RICO GRUNTS]" "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[PETER YELLING]" "[RICO YELLING]" "[GROANING]" "[RICO GRUNTS]" "You let him go." "Let him go." "PETER:" "Can't do it." "I'll shoot." "PETER:" "It's not gonna make any difference." "Rico's gonna go down." "You keep waving that gun, you're gonna go too." "RICO:" "Give it up, Linda." "It's over." "Now, I'm gonna read you your rights and then you can tell me why." "He was gonna hurt Linda." "It's that simple." "I saw him down with a knife in his guts I took him out." "PETER:" "You wanna write him up?" "COP:" "Take down this guy's statement." " Now, let my father go." "Your father, like you didn't know, escaped." "What?" "Now, how could anybody get out of here?" "Burt called, said to check." "I did, the cell was empty." "It's on all the wires." "And I think he was missing when you went to see him." "I just wish I could prove it." "You better let me check the cell." "GUARD:" "Here you go, smart guy." "Empty." "PETER:" "Hi, Dad." "You know, something happened to me tonight when I was making an arrest." "Something that should make you very happy." "Oh?" "I remembered part of my kung fu training." "Ah." "But you forgot the most important part." "Yeah?" "What's that?" "To duck." "[CHUCKLING]" "Aw." "[ENGLISH SDH]"