"As I was wandering I heard rumors of a child." "ANCIENT:" "He is the next emperor of China." "This is disgusting." "He's a coward." "[GRUNTING]" "Doesn't seem like much of a protector to me." "Run, run, run." "The Chinese assassins will be Lo Chang." "The Lo Chang assassins are relentless." "We took out the assassins." "We cleared our family name." "The ceremony is tomorrow." "It's over." "It is not over." "It is not yet begun." "PETER:" "Lo Si, will you pay attention?" "I have to talk to you." "Please." " Has my father contacted you?" " No." "I'm worried about him." "Do not worry about your father." "You have a job, he has a job, and I have mine." "Huh." "What am I supposed to do?" "Nothing now, until you are asked." "Lo Si my father abandoned the kwoon." "The last time we spoke, he said something about "It's not over."" "What does he mean by "It's not over"?" "We took care of the Lo Chang assassins." "Sin-Ling's ascension ceremony is tomorrow." "Full steam ahead." "Wha--?" "What's going on?" "Why would he leave?" "How--?" "How can I just stand here and do nothing?" "You will do what is required." "We must attend to the heir." " Where is my father?" " I do not know." "Well, where would you look?" "The Shaolin is lowly born." "He is hated by the aristocrats." "The powerful fear and despise him." "His home is not among them." "It is with the people, the homeless, the discarded." "There you will find him." "Now, baojia, we must go." "No." "I'll meet you there." "PETER:" "I could really use my gun here." "Well, see you later, boys." "MAN:" "Yeah, we still got him." "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." "[GRUNTING]" "You fight with rage." "It is not what you were taught." "It is how I feel." "It is fear." "Fear is natural for someone who is about to become the emperor." "When you talk about me as emperor I don't know who you're talking about." "It doesn't feel like me." "Each of us has four faces the one we show, the one that is seen and the one we believe to be true." "And the one that is true." "To wear one face does not mean you deny the others." "Then I'm only doing what is expected." "As your ancestors did before you." "Where is Peter and Kwai Chang?" "They are doing your bidding." "I am going to miss them." "Mister?" "Oh, no thank you." "But you haven't eaten nothing since you got in." "I know." "I've watched." "Yes, I know." "But I am not hungry." "Share them with your friends." "Let the man be, honey." "Last chance for lunch." "Dinner's a few hours away." "No, thank you." "You should have seen the look on his face." "WOMAN:" "I don't know why I'm here." "Why am I here?" "Congratulations, Peter." "Congratulations." "Turns out the ship those Chinese nationals were on was sovereign territory, and they had diplomatic immunity." "They're long gone, but if their lawyer files charges then your career is out the window tomorrow." "Why didn't you follow procedures?" "Why didn't you let me know what you were mixed up in?" "They were assassins." "All right, tell me about it." "There's a kid the Chinese community's been protecting for the last 18 years." "I just found out about it." "Apparently, he's the next" " Ugh." "The next what?" "He's the next heir to the throne of the Qing Dynasty." "My God, I thought they were all wiped out by the Communists." "That was the Russians." "The Chinese were kicked out, remember?" "They're here in the city?" "Just one." "His name's Sin-Ling." "He's a grandson to Guangxu, the former emperor." "Loyalists have been supporting and protecting him and his immediate family for some time." "Turns out, that's why Tan was here." "And that's why my father's here." "Your father's part of all this?" "Not specifically." "Let's" "Let's just say he's repaying a debt." "And in way I am too." "Yeah, Peter, you're talking about 18 years." "They kept a secret like this?" "It must have been very quiet." "What the hell?" "I didn't even know." "How is that possible?" "Chinatown." "So, what got the kettle boiling?" "This kid, Sin-Ling." "According to Chinese tradition, he's come of age." "They call that the time of ascension." "He is now ready to take the throne and announce his presence to the world." "Not everyone's gonna go for that." "No." "No, there are some people that would do anything to make sure this ascension never happened." "To go back?" "You mean, to go back to China and rule?" "These loyalists believe that the Chinese government will eventually fall." "But one day they're gonna need somebody there to pull this country, this huge country, together." " My God, like Juan Carlos in Spain." " Exactly." "That's incredible." "Kid, I'm sorry I blew my cool, all right?" "We'll take care of it." "I'll cover up all the holes." "What else can I do to help?" "Okay, I'm gonna need backup." "But I need you to wait." "Paul, don't do anything till you hear from me." "No matter what you hear." "Look, this is a very delicate situation." "Kid, you know waiting is not what I do best." "After all, true patience is the master's final lesson." " Where did you get that?" " Ha-ha-ha." "Thanks." "What do you figure he's carrying in the bag?" "Don't look like much of nothing." "That's more than I got." "Hey." "Hey." "You wanna stay?" "You gotta pay." "I have no money." "No?" "What's in the bag you're carrying?" "What I have, you may take." "Who do you think you're fooling." "What about the ring?" "That you may not have." "The man says I can have whatever's his." "I'm gonna put knots all over your head." "I am not your enemy." "Your anger is displaced." "You have tried to take from me that which I do not have." "Yet, there is that I could give you which you could take." "What do you got to give?" "I ain't got nothing." "None of us got nothing." "You have shelter, food, warmth people who would be your friends if you would allow them." "That ain't enough." "No." "Of course not." "Not without hope." "At one time, your heart was filled with hope." "And then you thought you lost it." "That it was stolen from you." "You thought you could regain it by stealing it back from others." "But it is still here within you." "All you must do is find it." "And trust it." "MAN:" "Hey, stop him." "Hey." "All right, that's enough." "Come on, fella." "Hey." "MAN:" "That's all right." "Okay." "That's the excitement for the day." "What's going on?" "I've been to every shelter going crazy looking for you, not knowing if you're dead or alive." "What's happening?" "What are you doing here?" "Hear me." "This was my grandfather's." "It was his journal." "He wrote his thoughts, fragments of his life poems, some drawings, all in his own hand." "This was my father's." "This is mine." " You kept a journal?" " Yes." "It is a tale of the journey of a man." "A map of his life." "You wrote in it so you would remember." "No." "Then why?" "I wrote in it so you will remember." "You said our journey would never end." "There is a finality to everything." "Even the universe is not infinite." "What does that mean?" "I will live on through you and through your children and grandchildren as our ancestors lived through us both." "We honor the past to ensure the present and the future." "What we are, all we are is what has gone before." "If our line ends all that we are will vanish." "Then our journey will truly end." "This is your heritage." "Yours to watch over." "This ring belonged to my father" "Take it." "and his father." "Stand up, please." "You have your father in you." "I've nothing to give you." "With you, I have a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather stretching back to the roots of time." "You have a brother." "These letters from him are never answered." "Take them." "Find him." "This was my father's." "This was your father's." "That's all I have." "You sound like you're preparing to die." "Perhaps I am." "Well, I won't allow it." "Neither of us is ever gonna be alone again." "It has always been my destiny to walk alone." "I am Shaolin." "[SNICKERS]" " Just stay back there now." "PETER:" "Trouble." "Yes, they are assassins." "Ugh." "I wish I hadn't have given you my gun." "I'd be a lot better baojia with a 9 mm." "MAN:" "Split up." "CAINE:" "You must conceal yourself." " Oh, you're expecting them." " Yes." "But I had hoped I would be disappointed." " Okay, you're coming with me." " I will remain." "They will not see me." "Wha--?" "How?" "I will be invisible to them." "Now go quickly." "I'll never lose this." "WOMAN:" "Hey." " Shh." "[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "[CRASH]" "WOMAN:" "They're mine." "It's okay, all right?" "It's all right, I'm sorry." "Caine?" "What are you doing here?" "Leave him alone." "Go away." "[GRUNTS]" "MAN:" "Come on." "No!" "Uh" " Uh" " How--?" "How did--?" "We must go." "I have learned everything I can here." " Learned what?" "CAINE:" "About inner peace." "XIAOLI:" "What is it?" "History." "I can feel it in these walls." "The kind that hasn't been made yet." "It's just waiting to happen." "Like the hush when a car spins out of control." "The crash happens in slow motion." "You sense disaster." "What did you say is gonna happen here?" "The young emperor would ascend to the throne." "No, I meant specifically." "How's it gonna look?" "How will it be decorated?" "XIAOLI:" "Flowers." "Hundreds of flowers." "PETER:" "From who?" "XIAOLI:" "Florists from all over Chinatown." " Do you know each of these people?" "XIAOLI:" "Well, no, but" " Well, I need a list of all their names and it has to be given to the guard." "What else?" "XIAOLI:" "There will be banners and tapestries." "From whom?" "From one silk merchant." "He is my cousin." "Okay." "Make sure that he delivers them personally." "What about the guests?" "I cannot be sure." "So many people" "Names, faces." "I have to run a computer printout on everybody and I need photographs." "Who's got the list?" " Mr. Chow." " Where's he?" "Where else would he be?" "With Sin-Ling." "SIN-LING:" "Enough." "I'm growing tired of this." "Now, after the ascension you will" "[SPEAKS IN CANTONESE]" "You will shake hands with everyone in the receiving line except the, uh, the province masters to whom you will bow very slightly." "And how will I know who they are?" "I will tell you." "I will not shake the mandarin's hand." "Now, he is a very powerful ruler with far-reaching influence and you, you will be humble before him." "[BOTH SPEAKING IN CANTONESE]" "Now, it is important, Sin-Ling that you do exactly what I tell you to do." "I have not been grooming a child to become a man I have been grooming a prince to become an emperor." "[SIGHS]" "CHOW:" "We" " We have a" " A destiny together." "We are bonded, you and I." "We are one." "You understand that?" "Yes, I understand." "Good." "I know that you do." " We follow him?" " Yes." "Isn't he on our side?" "[MEN SPEAKING IN CANTONESE]" "Thank you for this meeting." "I want you to call off your assassins." "He must not be allowed to ascend the throne." "Why not?" "Because you don't control him?" "Heh." "Because of what he represents and because of what he may do." "He won't do anything." "He's just a child." "And I speak through him." "He will do exactly what we want him to." "I can program him." "He will scale cliffs and never be dizzy." "He will plunge in water and never be wet." "And he will walk through fire and not be burnt." "His mind is facile and will be shaped to my bidding." "PETER:" "I know these guys." "I never forget an assassin's face." "I own him." "Don't" " Don't fear him, use him." "That's Chow." "What's he doing with them?" "PHONG:" "He must be killed." " Treason." "PHONG:" "An assassin is ready." "One that will never be suspected." "Okay." "Hey, hey." "Pop." "I hate it when he does this." "CAINE:" "So you have been given a sacred trust and this is how you honor it." "You have shamed yourself and your family just as my grandfather did." "You are dust at my feet." "Stay out of this." "You wanna save his life?" "So do I." "All right, police." "[CHUCKLES]" "[FIREWORKS WHINING]" "PHONG:" "Let's get out of here." "One more thing." "[YELLS]" " Are you all right?" " Yeah." "Chow?" "CAINE:" "He is dead." " You suspected him from the beginning?" " Yes." " Is the emperor safe now?" " He is not yet emperor." "He is still in danger." "One of these is for the ceremony and one is for the rest of my life." "I don't know which." "I will ask Chow." "He will know." "Chow is dead." "Uh" " What?" "D" " Dead?" "He was shot by assassins attempting to kill you." "That ends it." "I can't go on." "Not without him." "You can." "No, you don't understand." "No, I do not." "He did everything for me." "Made decisions told me what to say, what to wear." "I...." "Now you must make those decisions yourself." "I'm scared." "I...." "I'm scared." "Fear is your companion your friend, your ally." "Then why do my hands tremble?" "Your body will respond to your thoughts." "Beware of your enemy who he is, where he is." "When you become one with him your hands will cease to tremble." "When you vanquish him you will no longer be afraid." "You'll be near?" "No." "I cannot be with you." "Fear will fill your being it will consume your thoughts." "But it can only live and breathe as long as you allow it to." "When you can embrace it and make it one with your hopes, and your joy then it will cease to have power over you." "But what if I can't?" "What if I can't control my fear?" "If I am the emperor, people will ask me questions and expect answers." "Expect me to have opinions and make decisions." "Yes, they will." "What if I don't have the answer?" "Say that." "All learning begins with the simple phrase:" ""I do not know."" "Really?" "I...." "No one not even an emperor is expected to know all." "But anyone especially an emperor can learn." "[LAUGHING]" "But you will be there." "I need somebody close that I can trust." "No." "I cannot be with you." "But, if you listen you will soon hear a voice you can trust the voice of your heart." "[GUESTS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "Isn't this wonderful?" "It's finally happening." "And everything looks so beautiful." "Yes, it does." "I've looked forward to this day for so long." "All of us have." "I want to thank you for your help." "Well, congratulations." "Enjoy the ceremony." "How do we know one of these guys isn't going to kill the emperor?" "CAINE:" "It will not be one of them." "Caine, Caine, come quick!" "Something terrible has happened." "Please hurry, hurry." "Caine, please hurry." "I need your help." "[YELLS]" "[GRUNTING]" "Cheryl, why are you doing this?" "Why?" "Cheryl?" "You mean to tell me that she was setting you up that whole time in the kwoon?" "The most dangerous predator conceals itself until the time of the kill." "That's why she came by yesterday." "To help those two guys take you out." "Was she their last chance?" "Yes." "Enough." "PETER:" "You holding up okay?" " Of course." "Then you have accepted the inevitable." "I feared what would be asked of me denied if I had the wisdom to be emperor." "But emperor is what I am wise or foolish, strong or fearful." "In accepting this, I have accepted myself." "Then you have found the wisdom you seek." "There are people waiting." "We will enter shortly." "Master Caine, the debt that your family has owed to my family has now been repaid." "And your honor will be held in the highest esteem here." "And you, my friend I must thank you." "You gave me one of the most precious gifts that one person may give another a wonderful memory." "And I will always cherish it." "It is time." "Let the ascension begin." "You've done what you came to do." "The shame that your grandfather brought to our family has been washed away." "Then I am free." "Pop?" "[SPEAKING IN CANTONESE]" "Yes." "PETER:" "Hey, hey." "What are you two scheming up?" "I have been meaning to talk to you." "I know you have many questions." "Well, you've done some very curious things, I'll give you that." "In order to help the emperor, I had to." "You don't have to explain, Pop." "Not to me." "You've come a long way." "You've taught me a lot." "As you have me." "The only responsibility you have to me is what's in your heart." "I must leave." "My path, which seemed so clear has become obscure." "Then you must find your path." "Hey stop by some time." "We'll catch a ball game or something." "I will be close." "ANCIENT:" "I understand." "CAINE:" "Good bye, my son." "What are your thoughts, young Caine?" "That you will never see your father again?" "No, he'll be back." "I'm not going anywhere." "Haven't you heard?" "If you stay in one place long enough, the world comes to you." "It doesn't have a choice." "He'll be back." "You are learning." "[ENGLISH SDH]"