"OLD WOMAN:" "Hi, Jimmy." "OLD MAN:" "Hi, there." "How are you?" "OLD WOMAN:" "Stella, you're back." "WOMAN:" "Hi, Kyle." " Hey, how are you?" "STELLA:" "See you later, Mom." " Okay." " Have a nice day." " You too." " Go to work." "You have to go to work, okay?" "MAN:" "Let's go." "Move out." "[PANTING]" "Let's go." "Let's go." "Let's go." "[ALARM RINGING]" "This is, uh, Deputy Sheriff Taggart." "We got a situation on Main Street, a disturbance." "Request some backup." "OWNER:" "Not this time." "MAN:" "Unh." "Hey." "JENNY:" "Kyle." "[GRUNTS]" "Hey, you all right?" " Kyle." "Kyle." " Jen." "Unh." "JENNY:" "Kyle, help." "Kyle." "[GROANING]" "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." "[DRUM BEATING RHYTHMICALLY]" "PETER:" "Hey, this is great." "Way to go, Pop." "This is better than the last parade, you remember?" "[FIREWORKS POPPING, PEOPLE CHATTERING]" " Bandits." " Yes." "The dragon has a wing." "You cannot see it." "But it extends from its head to the tip of its tail." "Look at the tip of the dragon's wing." "[GRUNTING]" "Well done, Master Khan." " Did you see it?" " Yes." "It is the dragon's wing." "Next time, can I be the tip of the dragon's wing?" "When you are older and if such danger arises again." "Yes." "Peter." "Kyle." "That's Kyle." "A friend of yours?" "We used to share some smokes and broken dreams at the orphanage." "Hey." " Hey." " Hey." "Good to see you again." "I'm sorry, this is my father." "This is, uh, Kyle Bettinger." " How did you find me here?" " I've been keeping track." "You know, I...." "I never figured you for a cop." "But then again, I don't figure I'd wind up an architect." "Listen, I didn't come here for a reunion." "I came here because I need a cop, man." "I need an honest cop." "BLAISDELL:" "Mansfield has a sheriff's office." "Which, according to Kyle, is about as crooked as Lombard Street." "And probably being paid off by these marauders." "A girl was taken in broad daylight, his fiancée." "She was grabbed off the street." "Some deputy stood by and watched." "That's a federal offense, isn't it?" "Look, the feds have spent 18 months looking for these guys." "They can't find them." "Nobody can." "Haven't you got enough crime to wade through right here in your own precinct?" "You know I got out of that orphanage and made something of my life, thanks to you." "Kyle got out and made something of his life thanks to somebody like you." "Now the girl that he loves has been kidnapped and he wants some answers." "He wants to know what we're gonna do." "I gotta come up with an answer for him." "Oh, boy." "What I'm about to say to you is off the record." " Want a beer somewhere?" " Why?" "Because what I'm going to say is not official." "It makes me nervous saying it in my office, all right?" " Let's talk about it in here." " All right, all right." "These marauders are survivalists." "They strike and then they disappear." "Just a random pattern." "You know a lot about this." "Well, the FBI brought me in eight months ago after they torched the town." "The FBI brought in a police captain?" "Well, I have a history." "You know that, Peter." "Usually they hit a town and then they move on." "But for some reason, they seem to have an affinity for Mansfield." "They've hit the place four times." "I think they're coming back." " Why?" " Because your friend's fiancée, Jenny Quinn she also happens to be the mayor's daughter." "And he's quite willing to pay for her return." "[GROANS]" " How much?" " Fifty thousand is the usual price for a hostage." "In Jenny's case, it's a hundred." "We'll go in undercover, cut them off when they make the exchange." "No, no, no, they'll know." "They won't come." "They'll slit the girl's throat and throw her in the middle of Main Street." "But one small, elite group might have a chance against them." " A commando unit?" " Yeah, something like that." "I know you're going into Mansfield no matter what I say to stop you." "All right." "All right." "Just take some backup with you, all right?" "Steadman." "He's a retired British spy and don't let the rakish attitude and the ironic wit fool you." "He is very, very dangerous." "He's also a specialist." " At what?" " At demolition." "And you can probably also use a weapons man." "I'll see what I can do." "Will your father go with you?" "I" " I can call on him." "CAINE:" "You have a problem?" "Well...." "If we were back in the days of my great-grandfather I'd say that my friend's town here had been overrun by bandits." "As in gunfighters?" "Right." "If you were up against these gunfighters, only now they had hi-tech weapons and laser sights who would you take?" "Him." "Only...." "Only him?" "If I have him, I do not need anyone else." "Uh, no disrespect, but get real, Pop." "These guys are killers." "KYLE:" "No disrespect here, but they would break this old man like a match" "ANCIENT:" "Oh, so sorry." "Old men clumsy." "Dangerous to have around." "Yeah, thank you." "You intend to face these men?" "With or without you." "Why is it you feel it is so important to be a hero to others?" "Because they've kidnapped a young girl." "I'm not about to sit and watch innocent people suffer." "And if I've learned that from anybody, I've learned it from you." "Peter, it's obvious, uh, he doesn't wanna fight." "Just give him a minute." " I do not want to fight." "KYLE:" "See?" "Yeah." "Thanks very much." "Uh, I'm out of here." "CAINE:" "However that does not mean I will not." "See?" "Only takes a minute." "My friend, just because I asked you does not mean you must come with me." "It is because you ask, I will come." "Father, we need a dragon's wing here." "We've got part of it." "This time I'm gonna be the tip." "Let's go get the rest." "[CHUCKLING]" "Captain Blaisdell did say he is larger than life." "PETER:" "Yeah, right." "Well, he didn't say anything about age." "What is this, a geriatric A-team?" "The years a man wears weigh him down or hold him up." "Champagne for everyone." "That was rather bad form, old man." "Get your hand off my arm, Steadman." "Stay out of my way." "I told you before." " So you have." " You want some pain?" "You know where to find me." " Did you really have to do that?" " Unh." "[WOMAN YELLS]" "[PEOPLE MURMURING]" "That guy's a jerk." "And so ill-mannered." "I mean, in the time of Camelot" "King Arthur, not the Kennedy era." "when one was challenged, one received a glove in the face." "Charming custom." "Pity they lost it." "I'm Peter Caine." "This is my father." "Our friend, Kyle." "Paul Blaisdell told me you might be able to help rid a small town of some locusts." "Did he?" "What a stimulating imagination." "Excuse me." "May I join you?" "Now, you wanted to talk of pain." "That's a fascinating subject." "Marquis de Sade made a career out of it." " Tricky one to understand." " I warned you, Steadman." "Yes, when was that?" "In Bucharest during the riots, or in Vienna when you were going to assassinate that charming concert pianist who wanted to defect to Carmel?" "Let's try an experiment." "The flame should hurt the way you hurt this young lady by slapping her face." "But pain can be controlled." "Would you like to try?" "[BRENT GROANS]" " That hurts." " Of course it does." "The trick, as my friend Robert Bolt would say, is not minding." "Now, if you can't tolerate the pain, don't inflict it on others." "You will be paying for the champagne, won't you?" "For everyone?" " Yes, I will." " Very good of you." "Do enjoy your evening." "That was quite a trick." "It was not a trick." "You must embrace the pain." "Make it part of yourself." "Become one with it." "If you can do that the pain cannot touch your soul." " Is that not right?" " That's right." "Now, Mr. Brent and I go way back." "But he doesn't learn his lessons very well." " I would say he learned this one." "STEADMAN:" "Ha." "I am told you are not a stranger to fighting." "Fought against Rommel in the desert, World War II." "Took a hill in Korea." "Can't remember why." "Fought in Indochina in the jungle, played cold-war chess with the Russians." "Now enemies are friends and your best friend sleeps with your wife." " Blaisdell said that you would help us." " Did he?" "How quaint." "He was wrong." " This is great." "STEADMAN:" "Cheerio." "Just great." "Uh, we're back to where we started." "Any other ideas?" "Yes." "MAN 1:" "Come on." "MAN 2:" "Get into that jab." "MAN 1:" "Now keep your head up." "MAN 2:" "Stay on him." "MAN 1:" "That's good." "MAN 2:" "Stay on him." " Get inside, inside." "MAN 1:" "That'll do it." "This is more like it." " Which one's our man?" "MAN 1:" "Watch the body." "MAN 2:" "Work him." "Keep them up." "They tell me you can throw a kick faster than a man can throw a punch." "I don't believe it." "See, I got 50 bucks that says that you've been shining these boys on." "Fifty bucks?" "Come on, let's get to it." "All right." "FIGHTER:" "You put your hands behind your back." "One punch." "You won't know when it's coming." "Hey, you see that?" "If I'd been doing it for real, he'd have been on his back." "He won." "That's the way it looked from here." "Let's do it for real." "No, let it go." "I don't wanna fight you." "Hey, hands behind your back." "I'm gonna give you the 50 bucks, all right?" "MAN 1:" "That was great." "MAN 2:" "Nailed him." "It has been a long time since the temple." " Yes, it has." " The temple, that's it." "Master Khan." "You are helping out here and teaching." "I need you." "We need you." "There will be great danger and the odds are very poor." "Why not?" " Kwai Chang Caine." " Rykker." "Except for the fact that you now have hair you haven't changed in 15 years." "Too bad about your temple." "It was a special place." "When we last met you were searching for the men who murdered your child." "I found them." "If you were at the temple, how come I don't remember you?" "I don't spend a great deal of time talking to children." "Paul Blaisdell says you're looking for some men to put out a fire." "I have some equipment that will help you to do that." "Oh, you know Blaisdell too?" "You meet a great many people in my business." "Mercenary." "No, mercenaries fight for money." " I fight for causes." " The righteous ones, of course." "The ones that interest me." "I'm staying at the Regency." "Pick me up there tomorrow morning." "Don't you wanna know what's at stake here?" "You wanna know why I'm coming with you?" "Because I'm a soldier." "Soldiers need wars." "Because I owe Paul Blaisdell a favor." "And because I owe your father my life." "Make it after breakfast." "The Regency does the finest eggs Benedict in the city." "What did he mean by you saving his life?" "It is an interesting story." "I will tell it to you some other time." " Okay, so now we have five." "STEADMAN:" "Six." "Changed my mind." "I need a little time to get my black box of goodies together." "Mansfield, isn't it by the lake?" "Charming little place." "You talked to Blaisdell." "Well, let's just say he took the trouble to remind me of duty." "Meet you at the tavern beside the general store after 6." "Game is afoot, eh?" "Till then." "Six." "Come on, Kyle." "I'll buy you a drink." "We got a lot of catching up to do." "Tell me about Jenny." "How'd you meet?" "CAINE:" "I am looking for Sheriff Donovan." "TAGGART:" "Not here." "What monastery did you fall out of?" "A question I am often asked." "Your town has been assaulted, not once, but four times." "Are you organizing a posse to find these marauders?" "Posse?" "Well, I'll just grease up my Winchester '73 and get my Ned Buntline Colt and we'll go out and round up some deputies, huh?" " Who the hell are you?" " I am Caine." "Can't be a cop." "You're not a fed." "I am a priest." "Please, tell me about these marauders." "They outnumber my police force by four to one." "Sometimes we try to shoot it out with them." "But when the smoke clears, a lot of good cops are dead." "So you care nothing about a girl who is kidnapped?" "There's been no report of a kidnapping come to this office." " Who you talking about?" " Her name is Jenny Quinn." "Jen" " Oh, the mayor's daughter?" "If she was missing, he'd be camped right out in my squad room right now." "I leave these survivalists alone and they leave us alone." "Does Sheriff Donovan share this cowardice?" "Sheriff Donovan don't know nothing about it." "He's been gone for a week, and while he's away, I'm in charge." "You cause me one lick of trouble in this town, I'll throw you in jail." "A statement which I believe my grandfather heard many times." "COP:" "Taggart, he's going into the tavern." "PETER:" "The police haven't set up a command post at your house?" "No, they haven't." "Deputy Taggart seems to have no knowledge of your daughter's kidnapping." "Deputy Sheriff Taggart is a thug and if I'm not mistaken, being paid off by these killers." " When do the rest of your men arrive?" " One more is coming later." "One?" "Six men?" "You don't get it, do you?" "They've got my daughter, you understand?" "They've got my baby and they'll kill her." "Even after the ransom is paid." "Six men can't handle these animals." "These six can." "Mr. Quinn thing is, we don't have much of a choice." "These men are all we got." "[PHONE RINGS]" "WOMAN:" "He's here." " This is Mayor Quinn." "Got the money raised, Mr. Mayor?" " I have it all." " Noon tomorrow." "High noon." "The old distillery." "One man to carry the ransom." "Not a cop." "Uh...." "How about a priest?" "MACKLIN [OVER PHONE]:" "Perfect." " Now, let me talk to her." "I must be assured she's still alive." "We have a code of honor, sir." "We don't kill hostages before the ransom is delivered." "Honor?" "You're scum." "That the best you can do?" "Mark Twain described Shakespearean Stratfordians as troglodytes, thugs, bungalores, bandoleers and Muscovites." "Salty, but rather erudite." " Please." " Soon, Mr. Mayor." "She'll be in your arms again soon." "STEADMAN:" "Sorry I'm late." "It took a little longer to get my bits and pieces together than I thought." "Tricky begging, borrowing or stealing explosives." "I wouldn't say no to a champagne cocktail." " Or whatever." " Stuff will rot your insides." "Ever think of carrot juice?" "Uh, hardly ever." "Now, if you set up a battle plan I'll work out some surprises for our guests." "Cheers." "JENNY:" "Keep away from me." "Jenny, I'm your protector." "We two alone will sing like birds in the cage." "When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down and ask of thee forgiveness so we'll live and pray and sing and tell old tales and take upon us the mystery of things as if we were God's spies." "See, Lear understood the world was decaying around him." "That it had come to an end." "Don't touch me." "Keeping yourself pure for...?" "What's your young man's name?" "Kyle?" "How noble." "By the time this is over, you'll beg for my touch." "We got Khan stationed at one end of the street, the Ancient at the other." " He says high noon tomorrow, but...." " They will keep their word." "You must get some rest." "I will if you will." " If this girl dies" " We will not allow that to happen." "Good night, Pop." "Dad." "Everyone's asleep, but not you." "I don't sleep." " Not ever?" " Not if I can help it." "I thought you might like some company." "Whatever made you think that?" "I'm surprised to see you on this mission." "Why?" "I know you don't do anything except for money." "Then you don't know me very well, do you?" "When was the last time?" " Kiev." " Ah." "That Russian scientist wanted to defect." "I don't know how you possibly got him through the checkpoint." "Couldn't have done it without your help." "It did occur to me that our opposition here might be glad to know that this courageous band of adventurers that Kyle has hired number only six." "I imagine that Deputy Sheriff Taggart could arrange a meeting for a price." "Maybe I've already done that." "Maybe we're all walking into a trap." "You'll just have to wait and see, won't you?" "I just want to be quite sure that you remembered why we came here." "A young girl's life is at stake." "You've gotten cynical, Steadman." "It's too bad." "I no longer sell my loyalties to the highest bidder." "My apologies." "There's a human being somewhere there." "I always suspected it." "Did you?" "Commit it to memory." "Wouldn't do to be in the wrong place at the wrong time." "You're not interested where these explosives are located?" "I'm more interested in this." "Please, join us." "You're under arrest, Caine." "For what crime?" "We ran your name through the system and came up with some interesting data." "Like an arrest in Moab, Utah for attempted murder." "Those charges were dropped." "All kinds of charges can be dropped." "I don't like killers in my town." "These men are my friends." "I'll vouch for them." "Just stay out of this, Mr. Mayor." "I want you and your friends to leave this town right away." "I do not think so." "PETER:" "Give me your cuffs." " That was almost as fast as me." " I didn't want to spill my drink." "STEADMAN:" "As I was saying..." "I know you know how to handle one of these." "I can accept no weapon." "It's a Shaolin thing." "Somehow he never seems to need one." " And you?" " I got myself." "PETER:" "Oh, I'll take his." "Ha, ha." "May I?" "More for me." "You're all very strange." "ANCIENT:" "We have surprise on our side." "They will not be expecting resistance." "We've got a lot more than surprise." "We've got a dragon's wing." " I didn't know dragons had wings." " Well, this one does." "And this time I'm gonna be a part of it." "Caine there's a hundred-thousand dollars in this case." "Bring her back alive." "We're armed." "We're dangerous." "Are we ready?" "CAINE:" "Let us go." "KHAN:" "It's gonna be fun." "MAN:" "Move out." "Let's go, let's go." "You're the priest?" "Didn't expect to see you." " Give me the money." " First, let me see the girl." "Guard thy head, for I intend to have it ere long." "Henry VI, Part I." "Vador, bring in the girl." "[JENNY GRUNTING]" "[CHUCKLES]" "Now give me the girl." "You really thought we were gonna hand her over, huh?" "Let us talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs." "Make dust our papers." "And with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth." "Richard II." "Very good." "Now watch the girl executed before your eyes." "[YELLS]" "Tallyho." "[MAN YELLS]" "[GUNFIRE]" "[JENNY YELLING]" "[ANCIENT GRUNTS]" "ANCIENT:" "Come with me." "MAN:" "Get the girl." "Get the girl." "ANCIENT:" "This way." "JENNY:" "Oh!" "[MEN YELLING]" "[KHAN GRUNTS]" "RYKKER:" "Caine, look out." "[YELLS]" "[YELLS]" "Who the hell are you?" "[YELLS]" " No one." " Unh." "[MACKLIN GRUNTING]" "The Ancient has succeeded." "[GUNSHOT THEN MAN GRUNTS]" "[MUFFLED YELL]" "PETER:" "I'll get Vador." "[CHUCKLES]" "[PETER GRUNTS]" "You okay?" " Thank you for saving my life." "ANCIENT:" "Oh." "Our pleasure." "Lo Si." "Pop!" "[GROANING]" "Bullets are expensive." "Mind surrendering?" "I owed you one." "How'd you get down from that tower so fast?" "I was never in the tower." "Well, who was?" "Thought you might need a little backup." "Now we're seven." " Jen." " Kyle." "KYLE:" "Hey." "You all right?" "JENNY:" "Dad." "STEADMAN:" "Ah." " Nice explosion." " Nice shooting." "You all right, Khan?" "Bloody marvelous." "Yes, it was." "Secure, partner?" "Secure." "RYKKER:" "Just came around to say goodbye." "What will you do now?" "I understand they're having trouble getting relief supplies into Somalia." " Thought I might lend a hand." " So now we know what interests you." "Saving lives." "Good luck, old man." "Glad I was right about you." "Try not to get hurt." "Well, I've endured pain before." "The trick is not minding." "That's right." "Well, we'll see each other again, I'm sure." "[FLUTE PLAYING]" "PETER:" "Five marauders killed, 25 wounded, 15 escape." "You don't like what happened, did you?" "I mean, we saved a young woman's life." "We broke up a gang of marauders that have been terrorizing three states." "But you think that's wrong." "What is wrong with that?" "We fought violence with violence." "Sometimes you have to." "There is always another way." "But we did have a fine dragon's wing, my son." "Did we not?" "Bloody marvelous." "[BOTH CHUCKLING]" "[ENGLISH SDH]"