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Will you relax?

I'm digging my fingernails into the bar.

Donaldson's a friend of mine. He went to the police academy the other day. His

friend, like, never should have sent him out in that thing alone.

Donaldson's a good cop. He knows what he's doing. Well, spare me. He knows the

red thing. Cop walks the edge. That's why he carries a badge. Okay.

Come on. Bernie, look.

You don't even know he's going to be in here tonight.

Bernie's in this bar every night. Well, I think we should have stuck with Donnie

Double D.

Bernie's just a little lower than pawn scum. They're a rock they won't let him

back under. Well, Donnie is out of town, and Bernie's the only snitch I got.

Hey, how's it going? And there he is right now.

Bernie! Hey, Peter, wait for backup!

Bernie!

Wait!

All right, boy.

Hi.

Bernie!

Take it easy. Take it easy!

You had a rendezvous, Bernie. It didn't show. I couldn't make it. You know, you

saw the reason.

You better hope that she's still there when I get back to the bar.

Where's the hostage?

I don't know what you're dealing with here, Pete.

That guy's sick.

That hostage is dead. Where? He's long gone, man.

Where?

I told you, I can't tell you.

This is police brutality. Do you want to see some more?

All right, all right.

He's at the Colonial Hotel.

What room?

428.

What is it?

My son.

I must go to him.

Sweet dream, cub.

The grandson of Kwai Chang Kane walks out of the past.

But I want to fight.

So did your great -grandfather when he was your age.

He teaches his son wisdom at a Shaolin temple.

An evil force destroyed that temple. Father and son each believed the other

perished. Fifteen years later, they were reunited.

Now Cain 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 game.

I will help you.

What happened? Concussion from a high fall. Shock.

Motor response, nil. Possible skull fracture.

Pulse? 120.

Blood pressure? 140 over 90.

Prep him for EEG and x -ray. Let's move it.

Who are you? I am his father.

Were you with him when he fell?

No.

612, this is a code red.

612, code red.

Blood's down.

Captain, we've just received a report that Peter's badly injured.

He's in rush to emergency at City Hospital.

I'm on my way.

I want a full vital sign diagnosis. Yes, ma 'am.

What are you doing?

You're not allowed in here.

I am almost done.

I want you to leave now.

Security to emergency room three. That won't be necessary.

This patient's father refuses to leave the room.

Mr. Kane is a respected apothecary within the Chinese community.

You know this man?

He once healed a child for whom we held little hope.

With a flower.

The child healed herself.

Well, a flower isn't going to help this young man. Where's that EEG?

It's coming, Doctor. Cain, please, come with me.

Let them do their work.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

You have many beautiful and powerful objects here.

You're responsible for this interest.

Oh, I've been interested in exotic cultures for some years.

But after you treated that little girl with a dragon's eye flower, it made me

think about alternative medicine in a more serious way.

I am glad.

Dr. Hamill and I tend to clash over method and treatment.

But she is an excellent doctor.

And as American as apple pie.

No reversion back to Asian philosophies. Modern medicine is her shrine, the

scalpel, her cure.

My son is in great danger.

Not merely for his physical life, but for his soul.

What do you mean?

He is lost in a dark place.

A labyrinth of confusion.

He is surrounded by negative emotions.

If he cannot lose them,

No medicine, ancient or modern, will cure him.

I must go to that place.

What place?

The Bardo.

A twilight world between life and death.

If I cannot help him, he will die.

And his soul will be forever suspended in limbo.

I cannot allow that to happen.

This is Mr. Kane's cranium x -ray.

There's a hairline fracture.

Doesn't appear to be any brain stem damage, though I am concerned about

ischemia from the swelling.

Any change in his condition?

Still in a coma.

Came as soon as I heard.

I'm Captain Paul Blaisdell. Peter's my foster son. Now, how bad is his coma?

It's a little too early to tell.

An MRI will provide us with more details.

I'm going to put an officer on Peter's door, just as a precaution.

What's he doing?

He's a Shaolin priest.

His methods are rather unorthodox.

How is he?

He is in great danger.

Well, he's been through some tight spots before. He's almost been all right.

Damn it, if he had only waited for backup, the little pig -headed...

I wonder which of us he gets that from.

Yet, I know what it is I must do.

Because there's not a damn thing I could do if I could trade places with him. I

know that.

He knows that.

Cain, I don't know what it is you do. I don't know how you heal.

But I've seen you do some amazing things.

I must ask you to leave now.

I love you, sir.

Doctor,

you better take a look at this.

The vital signs are off the chart. What?

I've never seen anything like this. His respiration is also erratic. I'm worried

that medication may further complicate his condition.

He needs to be stabilized before we can operate.

Okay. Closely monitor signs over the next few hours.

If pressure continues to build in his brain, we'll have to go ahead

I know that.

Mr. Kane, I'll need you to sign a release that will allow us to operate.

No.

Not until I have entered his bardo.

His what?

According to many Eastern beliefs, the Bardo was a world between this life and

the next.

It's reached by an ancient method of soul travel.

I don't believe I'm hearing this.

And now, I must spend some time alone.

I'm alone.

Now I'm alone.

Why did you let him do that?

Because I'm alone now. Why did you let that happen?

Peter. Who is it?

Peter. I don't know you. Leave me alone.

Yeah. Do know me.

I am your father.

I have no father.

He abandoned me. Like him.

Dead. Gone. Buried. Alone.

Now. I'm alone!

Give me your hand.

No!

Leave me alone!

If you intended to make contact with him, Gretchen Kane, you should have

for me.

It was too soon.

It was so.

Bill. Pain.

Confusion.

Anger. Yes, your instincts as a father were to reach out.

But you were wrong.

There's much to do in so little time.

If Metro carries through on its proposal to slash its child care expenses...

Cheryl Martin's figure shall never get off welfare.

Detective Peter Kane, the police officer who was injured earlier this evening at

the scene of the Donaldson kidnap murder, remains unconscious in serious

condition at City Hospital.

And we'll be back with the weather on TV news right after this.

Broderick was coming over with Officer Stack. I thought I'd drop by for a

of minutes.

You know Stack, Captain? Yeah. Officer, come here.

Now, look, if you're gonna...

Get a drink of water, or you're going to go to the men's room. I want you to do

it now.

Because every minute you're here, Sergeant is going to show you Peter's

want you outside that door.

And if somebody wants in, I don't care if it's Florence Nightingale, you get

documentation. You understand?

Yes, sir.

That's my son's room.

Yes, sir.

This is the side of the brain we're interested in.

Right here.

Yeah, right side of the brain.

The buildup is quite severe.

I was just thinking about when I first met Peter at the orphanage. I was

working. I was doing a lecture.

And I see this thoroughly scruffy,

ill -mannered kid.

I say, are you interested in law enforcement? He looks me right in the

he said, no.

I mean, it came to the lecture because it got him out of a math class.

I knew he'd turn out to be such a good cop.

I better get back to the precinct.

See what Scalini's got. Yeah, okay, okay. I'm a little tired.

You acted impulsively, just the way your son would have done.

You did not wait for backup.

I could not wait.

You understand why you were thrown out of Peter's bottle?

Yes.

I entered with emotion.

Peter's emotions were in chaos. His anger was great.

By rushing in, were you...

Emotions, you broke a supreme rule of the battle.

Anger, fear, confusion.

Emotions which I have fought against all my life.

Tonight, you must conquer them, Quai Chengping.

If you lose this battle, your son will die.

And his soul will remain forever in a shadowy, limber world.

He was in.

Such pain.

I only wanted to comfort him, to help him.

And you can, but not as his father.

But he will recognize me.

No, he will only see what is presented to him, and that will be distorted to

his mood.

Remember, he is facing death.

Peter You did not go to your meditation class

The difference we're all gonna die

Now

For

that very reason we must

Live every moment.

We must keep our hearts and our minds in the present.

That is all we have.

That is what meditation teaches us.

Sometimes when I sit there, I get so scared, so angry.

Meditation teaches us to accept these feelings, to embrace

them.

Were you angry when Mother died?

I... had a great sense of... loss.

And... yes, I was angry.

Then why don't you show those emotions?

If you feel them the same way that I do,

Sometimes I have this dream.

You're staring at my grave.

Everyone all around you, they're crying.

But you just stare down.

No tears.

No emotion.

Just silence.

If I should lose you, I would lose a part of myself.

A part I cannot replace.

Your concern for your son has blinded you to what you know is true.

You know what you must do, Koichinkai?

Yes.

But not if I am able to do it.

I've contacted Dr.

Walsh. He can be here within 20 minutes.

And if Mr. Kane's vital signs haven't stabilized, we operate anyway.

Captain, I need you back here at the precinct.

Maybe it's time for you to stop being a father and start being a cop again.

That's how the line tell me.

It's out of line.

You're just absolutely right.

All right, I'll be down in a few minutes. We'll see where we can find

I'm sorry, excuse me.

Forget it.

Do you believe in yourself?

I am not sure.

I know what it is I must do.

But I do not know if I will be able to.

My daddy says to believe in yourself.

He's had an operation.

Heart bypass.

Mom's been crying.

And she doesn't want me to know.

You are a brave little girl.

I have to be.

You are, Mom.

And you have to be brave, too.

Hey, kid, you want to pick up some real dough? I need a favor.

What's your name?

Harvey. I got a real thick friend who's on the emergency level.

It's late and I forgot to pick up some flowers.

These are paid for already. I mean, they should have been delivered this

afternoon. Yeah, but I got a hundred bucks here.

If you want to deliver them to him.

Okay, sure.

His name is Peter King.

Find his anger.

Cure his anger.

Forgive his anger.

But I must warn you, should Peter die during this journey, your

life in this world will be over.

Yes.

Think truth and light.

See through the...

downless with discernment.

You can do this.

May the spirit of Amitabha

Okay, what's your name?

Harvey. Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do anything wrong. I'm just

flowers. Uh -huh.

Zach here. I got a suspect for a pickup at the hospital.

I'm just delivering some flowers. What's going on?

Excuse me, this room is off limits to visitors.

Will you relax a little? I'm digging my fingernails into the bar.

Janine. We expecting someone else? Yeah, my partner, Scalini.

We were partners once.

Friends. At least I thought we were.

Is this where you come to nurse a broken heart?

Oh, let's get this straight. The only heart that was broken was mine. You left

me, remember?

I remember all the good times.

The passion.

Your passion.

For life, for living.

When you left the police academy, you were so excited.

I remember how much being a cop meant to you.

What happened to all those ideals?

I still got them.

Then what are you doing in a place like this?

I'm on a stakeout.

I'm waiting for someone, okay?

Sure, right.

Me too.

Waiting for someone to whisper words that don't cut into your soul.

Oh, like the words you said to me, Janine?

Like those words?

More drink?

Yeah,

I want the same thing. Thank you.

Don't you think, sir, you have had enough?

When I need advice from a bartender, I'll ask for it, okay? Just get my

thanks.

You win.

To memories.

You want to know what I remember, Janine? I remember that you abandoned

And you walked out on every plan that we made.

I loved you, Janine.

You never told me that.

Maybe you should have.

You were the first person that I ever let touch my soul.

And then you twisted it like some beautiful thing. You just made it ugly.

If that's the way you want to remember it.

I don't need this.

Why is it so angry?

I do not know.

I'm glad you can recognize me.

I was afraid you wouldn't.

You were so young.

Yeah. Boy, I was young.

Very young when you died and left me alone.

I was sick, Peter.

He promised me he'd make you well.

He promised me.

Your father did everything he could.

He let you die.

but he could have saved you. Oh, no, darling.

If anything, your father prolonged my life.

The herbs he gave me made me stronger.

But in the end, it wasn't enough.

I'm not going to talk to you right now. I don't want to see you.

Get away from me.

You can't come back now.

You're right, it's too late. You...

We're the first person to abandon me.

See, through the darkness with discernment, all the voices you hear are

own.

Patience is nothing but...

My mother. Is that okay with you, pal?

Talk to you now.

I don't like it, Dick.

I understand.

There will be another time for us.

I'm troubled.

You're damn right I'm troubled.

I have a patient in critical condition and his father's trying to cure him with

some Vulcan mind meld.

You are confused and angry by what you do not know, what you cannot see.

All I can see right now is a young man who needs immediate surgery.

Excuse me.

Orderly.

Yes, doctor.

Would you please check with imaging for Mr. Kane's scan results? If they're

ready, bring them directly to my office.

Certainly, Doctor.

I'll get right to it.

He does not work here.

Of course he does.

He's an orderly.

Appearances often deceive.

That man is an imposter.

If Kermit finds out I have access to this computer, it'll hack my fingers

Just keep going, will you?

I know I've seen this guy before.

No.

No.

Oh, look, that's him.

Richard Side, also known as Ricky.

Extortion, blackmail, suspected kidnapping.

It all fits.

Call Stack at the hospital and give him the side's description.

I'm sorry, sir. I didn't put him to sleep.

Recognize me.

Let it go.

We can't wait any longer. Dr. Walsh can have the team ready in five minutes.

Yes, you're right.

No, no.

You must allow Peter's father time to complete his journey. If you interrupt

now, you may save his body, but you will destroy.

His soul.

Prepare for surgery.

Douglas, please.

I'm so sorry.

You were... You were too late to help your

friend.

Always too late. You left me alone. No family, no friend.

You did this to me.

You abandoned me after 15...

Yes.

I abandoned you.

Accept it.

Let the rage out.

Embrace it.

Let go.

Let go.

Father.

Father. Help me.

Help me.

I will help you.

Father.

I forgive you.

I forgive them all.

I'm so sorry.

His vital signs are back to normal.

Our job will be relatively simple now.

I have healed his spirit.

Now, you may mend his body.

I don't know exactly what you did, but... Thank you.

Well, after all that work, I'm glad we finally nailed the killer.

Yeah.

So, how's Peter?

They will operate on him now.

We shall see.

I think I stuck around for a while.

I'd like to be here when my partner wakes up.

You did a good job.

How is your father?

He's fine.

How's your son?

He will be fine.

So now you believe in yourself?

You, uh, feeling better?

Yep.

Funny, I've been having some weird dreams lately.

About Mother, you, even my first real love, Janine.

I think I'm gonna look her up, see how she's doing.

Maybe she'll be glad to see me this time.

This time?

Out of my... Out of my dream.

I feel like I should thank you.

But I don't know why.

I used to think... Go on.

I used to feel so abandoned.

Mother dying.

Temple being destroyed.

That orphanage.

I just felt like I was all alone.

But you do not feel that way anymore?

No, I don't.

I mean, it's hard to explain, but it's...

Like I got rid of some demons when I was sleeping.

Does that count?

Perhaps.

This life is no more substantial than a dream.

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