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MAN 1: This must stop!

I have no more money.

I will not pay you.

I will not pay you.

I will not pay you.

MAN 2: You entered into a business agreement with us, Mr. Phong.

You are well protected, sir...

...but don't abuse our trust.

I'm trying to help you.

These tardy payments appear churlish to my superior.

You bled me dry, all of us.

This is the United States of America, sir.

We settle our debts in a timely fashion because that is simply good business.

I'd call it extortion, Mr. Kai.

A little early for interference from the mayor's office, don't you think?

- What time would suit you better, sir? - This is a private matter.

There's nothing private about anything in Chinatown.

These people are a family. They share. You hurt one, you insult them all.

How would you know?

I make it my business to know.

You look at this man. He's given you everything he can give.

He still has his life.

[GRUNTS]

MARILYN: Let go of me.

KAI: This is a straight-edge razor. Barbers really prefer it.

And a man's face can be peeled away just like an orange.

[GASPS]

Please.

KAI: Unh! - He will not harm you.

To achieve victory...

...one must get inside the skin of his opponent.

Where did you get that? Out of a fortune cookie?

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

Are you all right?

Yes.

Look out, Jack. We got Bruce Lee here.

I like the sandals and the flute.

What monastery do you fall out of?

When you can learn to understand your own motives...

...and the motives of your enemy...

...then you cannot help but win.

You do not understand this man, so you will lose.

[CAINE GRUNTS]

WONG: Come on, man. Let's get out of here.

CAINE: You are sure you are all right? - I'm okay.

MARILYN: You're hurt. CAINE: It is nothing.

SHO: Come with me.

[BOTH GRUNT]

[GASPS]

I need more men in Chinatown.

Put me through to Tan.

MARILYN: You don't know what you've done.

- The man saved my life. - So now he's a hero?

Who'll be the first one from the streets to emulate him?

David Chang, from the florist, when they come for his cut?

Old Soon Tak from the bakery or Hop Sung from the restaurant?

Who's gonna be the first one to get killed?

I am no hero.

I had to act. There was no choice.

When your enemy is weak, you must make him strong.

To destroy that enemy, you must first glorify his power.

You will have to act next time.

No. There can't be a next time.

Now we have got to let the police do their job.

We are cracking down on these hoodlums.

They are beyond your power.

Don't romanticize them into some mystic force.

They can be dealt with.

They're gonna be looking for you.

It'll be very dangerous for you to stay in Chinatown.

Your concern does you honor...

...but I am merely passing through.

On your way to...?

Nowhere in particular.

MARILYN: Everyone has a destination.

A destiny, yes.

Not necessarily a destination.

These men are sent by an evil force.

A man of shadow and stealth who manipulates the lives of others.

He is not a hoodlum.

[MAN SPEAKING IN CHINESE]

[STUDENTS CHANTING]

In the Shaolin teachings...

...you will see...

...that we have no colored belts...

...or ranks.

Each student proceeds at his own pace...

...using his own...

...natural inner strength.

When do we get to fight?

Ah.

The philosophy you will learn is one of non-aggression.

Personal combat...

...is the least precious thing you will draw from these teachings.

But...

...without that prowess...

...you walk defenseless in a cruel world.

A courageous fighter shuns violence.

A skillful soldier...

...avoids anger.

A mighty warrior does not fight for petty conquest.

No?

Let's find out.

[GRUNTS]

True insight...

...cannot be gained...

...by specialized knowledge...

...by victory or defeat...

...or doctrine or dogma.

It can only be achieved...

...by the illumination...

...of one's own inner self.

In other words...

...it does not matter who wins...

...or loses.

Is that not our philosophy, Master Dowel?

Your philosophy.

When I am placed in charge of this temple...

...you will come to understand my philosophy.

Class is dismissed for today.

I must leave now.

When you saved my life...

...you took a part of my soul that you now possess.

That is the way of my family.

Be well and happy, my friend, and I will be in debt to you.

There will be no forfeit between us.

PETER: How long must I study to be like you, father?

CAINE: Ah, at least 10 years.

PETER: What if I study twice as hard as all your other students?

[CAINE CHUCKLES]

CAINE: Twenty years.

PETER: What if I practice day and night?

No television, no schooling-- It's boring anyway.

--just Shaolin principles?

How long?

Thirty years.

Hey, this doesn't compute, Pop.

Don't ever call me that.

But why, when I work harder, does the study time get longer?

When one eye is fixed on the destination...

...you have only one eye to search for the way.

Concentrate on the now.

But I want to fight.

Yes.

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

...but Master Po convinced the grasshopper...

...the wisdom of stillness and unconscious thought.

The trick is...

...never to fight...

...unless there is no other...

...alternative.

Grasshopper?

Do you hear the grasshopper...

...at your feet?

Close your eyes.

What do you hear?

I hear the water.

I hear the birds.

Do you hear the grasshopper which is at your feet?

There is no grasshopper at my feet.

[CHUCKLES]

There will be.

[YELLS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[YELLS]

[SCREAMS]

[MAN SCREAMS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

MAN: Let's go. Come on.

[GROANS]

BOUNCER: Hold it right there. Wait. Hang on a second. Uh, okay, you're in.

[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING]

- Police, you're under arrest. MAN: Funny.

Yeah, yeah. Good to see you, Peter.

WOMAN: Hi, Peter. - I'll call you.

WAITRESS: Here you are, Tyler. - Thanks.

Hey, hey. Whoa, whoa. Hey, let's try that again.

When you see me, say, "Where you been? I missed you.

Sit down. Let's have a drink. Let's take a walk. Let's go to bed.

But let's do it together."

- Hello, Peter. - See, that's good.

I'll buy that.

- Can I buy you a drink? - I gotta do my set now.

Oh, yeah, you gotta sing, gotta dance. Right.

I wanted to be a dancer once.

No, all you ever wanted to be was a cop.

That's not true.

When I was a kid, I was searching for enlightenment.

Now you just look for junkies and drug dealers...

...who are looking for a high.

Could we talk like two people...

...who once couldn't keep their hands off each other?

Like some deep place in your soul...

...there's a locket with my picture in it?

You mean the tarnished one?

You know, for a streetwise kid, you use some pretty fancy imagery.

Holdover from my misspent youth.

When I was a kid, I was given ideals like other kids were given ice cream.

Until I grew up and found out they were always empty...

...as gentleness overcomes strength.

A bigger baseball bat overcomes a smaller baseball bat.

When did you get so cynical?

When I learned the truth about Milli Vanilli. Can we sit?

People are starting to stare.

Somebody's gonna think you find my company repulsive.

Stop being so damned attractive.

PETER: I've tried.

Seems to come with my personality.

Why aren't you wearing your engagement ring?

When we broke up, I threw it into the river.

You did not.

No, but you don't know that.

Look, Peter, why can't you just live your life and let me live mine?

Because for the longest time I thought those two lives...

...might share the same bathroom.

You're careless, reckless, cavalier...

...and I don't feel like sitting at home waiting to hear...

...that someone who means more to me than anything in the world...

...has been killed in some police shootout.

Weren't you supposed to use the past tense there?

- Damn it, you are so irritating. - Now you've hit on my best quality.

Look, you are not gonna sweet-talk me into anything tonight.

I have an audition for Les Mis in the morning...

...and I will not have you on my mind.

Hello. Earth to Peter.

It's your turn to be witty and ingratiating and ask me to sit back down.

You should do your set now. I can't get you fired.

Why don't you sing "My Heart and My Soul"? I love that one.

Hey, guys, guys, "My Heart and My Soul."

[SCOFFS]

[BAND PLAYING LIGHT ROCK]

Ready for this one?

[SINGING "MY HEART AND MY SOUL"]

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

Everybody down!

Get down! Get down! Down! Now!

Stay still! Get down!

Oh, my God! What's he doing?

This is a robbery.

- We're robbing the club. MAN: Tyler, come on.

Well, you're too late.

Find your own place to rob. I'm robbing this place.

- We'll rob the place together. - Do I look like I need help?

Why don't you rob the club around the corner? It's a hot spot.

We were here before you even came in and--

How do I know you're really here to rob the place?

No. No, we were gonna rob it. Honest.

Look, we got guns.

How do I know that doesn't say "Roy Rogers" on the side of it?

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

[GRUNTS]

[YELLING]

I'm a cop.

Everything's under control.

Backup's on the way. Everyone take it easy.

How about a martini? Just a breath of vermouth.

You got it.

You wanna know why we're not together any longer?

That's why not.

That insane stunt you just pulled.

Just saved the day, didn't I? Or the night.

That's beside the point.

You scared the hell out of me and out of everyone else.

You're crazy.

I love you, but you're really crazy.

You know that?

I'm crazy for ever having thought you weren't crazy.

Tough being a hero these days.

You are safe.

Where is this place?

My humble dwelling...

...above the meat market.

You are...

...the apothecary.

I am called...

...the Ancient...

...because I am the voice of reason for the community.

Its doctor...

...its father confessor...

...its whisper of conscience.

And, uh...

...I'm also...

...very, very old.

And a priest.

Like you.

Have we not known each other before?

Oh, yes.

Many times.

But we have never met?

A spirit lives in many disguises.

There was a temple...

...many, many years ago.

Your temple.

A place of light and song.

All was destroyed.

But you survived.

Open your eyes, Kwai Chang Caine.

Look at those men fighting out there. We're training mercenaries.

That would be a violation of every principle we hold to be true.

Is it?

Your grandfather preached the Shaolin philosophies...

...yet he murdered the emperor's nephew on the steps to the city.

His master was senselessly killed.

Exactly.

One violent death justifies another.

If you intend to oppose me, do what your grandfather would have done.

Oppose me now.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

You will leave this temple...

...and you will never return.

This temple...

...is finished.

You are finished.

When you enter my circle again, Kwai Chang Caine...

...I will sever your manhood from your body...

...and your soul...

...from its eternal peace.

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

Describe again...

...this man...

...whom none of you seem able to contain.

He came out of nowhere.

I'd never seen him before in the community.

Dressed like some Chinese peasant out of The Last Emperor.

Very strong.

- Undercover cop? FBI? - No.

Something about him.

- A mystic quality. - Yeah.

Very mystic the way he kicked your teeth in.

He got lucky.

TAN: And with the others?

He got lucky with them too?

There was blood all over the alleyway.

He probably crawled to some corner to die.

If he didn't, he's long gone.

Make certain.

If he's still in Chinatown...

...I want him found and brought to me.

He is only one man.

The source of all life is a profound mystery.

It is devoid of substance and form.

It has lived since the dawn of existence.

It has a body...

...and it has a name.

Bring me that body...

...and bring me that name.

That was some stunt you pulled last night at the Agrippa Club.

Yeah, that's what Tyler said. Think it'll make the news?

I know you're tough...

...and I wouldn't wanna go up against you myself.

Who would?

Look...

...if one of my officers gets shot, it means that I haven't done my job.

I didn't give him the backup he needed.

You can make me look very bad...

...if you walk into the next Die Hard situation guns blazing.

Besides that, Annie will never speak to me again.

So you take care or I'm gonna pull you out of Metro...

...and put you back on the streets with no place to go for a home-cooked meal.

Well, it seemed like the thing to do at the time.

Well, it probably was.

I like the idea of you trying to scare me into submission...

...by giving me this lecture in front of the morgue.

It was the best place I could think of.

[PETER LAUGHS]

We fished one of Tan's men out of the river this morning.

Word on the street is that Tan had him executed...

...for dealing drugs without sharing.

Yeah, well, good help's hard to find.

You make him?

Yeah, it's Jimmie Ho, one of Tan's shooters.

He was almost as good as me.

This might be the break we've been looking for.

What are you talking about?

Well, we need a man undercover in Chinatown.

I speak Chinese, I know the culture, I can shoot the eye out of a sparrow.

- Can I have that job? - Out of the question.

Why? Why, because I'm family?

Come on. I'm not.

I mean, I am, but I'm not.

I'm a good cop with the right qualifications for the job.

- No, it's too dangerous. - Give me a shot at this.

Don't play favorites.

Somebody's gotta get close to Tan and prove he can be taken down.

I want the chance.

Why is this so important to you? Screwing with your Chinese heritage?

Give me a break. My mother looked like Rhonda Fleming.

Uh-huh.

And your father?

His looks were enigmatic...

...from what I can remember.

Look, Tan's a criminal. This is police business.

No.

No, this is family.

- You wanted to see me? - Yeah.

Here. You're Peter McCabe. ID, driver's license, credit cards...

...wife and three kids, Chicago background.

You've made some very big hits. You're the best.

My sentiments exactly.

Look, do me a favor, will you? Be careful, all right?

- Just humor me. - Hey, caution is my motto.

Where do I hang out?

Shot Glass Bar on Fife Street.

Drinks are watered down Bushmill, dancers don't wear a lot.

The talk is cheap and plentiful. You shoot some pool...

...shoot your mouth off and see who listens.

The two things I do best.

And shoot straight.

MAN 1: If Tan walked in here now...

...the people in this room would tear him to pieces.

Just one street uniting will send a message to these bastards.

We're not going to pay protection any longer.

MARILYN: You are not vigilantes.

People, listen to me. You cannot take the law into your hands.

WOMAN: What happened to your police protection?

- What is our mayor doing? MAN 2: Nothing.

One pays, all pay.

No one pays, what can they do?

No one pays, all suffer.

This is a community meeting. You're not invited.

You're not welcome here.

We're welcome wherever we go.

We protect our streets.

We keep the scum out of them.

What about the scum that's already here?

Angry words...

...stirred emotions, mob rule.

It's all very ugly.

You must each of you...

...think of yourselves.

Your families.

Your loved ones.

Lenin said:

"A million people perish...

...that's a statistic.

One man's death...

...that's a tragedy."

It's rather unpopular to quote Lenin these days...

...but a boyhood hero.

XIAOLI: Don't touch me!

You get your hands off of me, you bastards!

Let me go!

- Let me go! MAN 3: Wait. Stop them.

XIAOLI: Where are you taking me?

Let me go.

Stop that!

Let me go.

You should tell Tan this strong-arm stuff's a little old fashioned.

Miami Vice has been off the air for seasons.

His favorite show.

XIAOLI: Where are you taking me? Let go.

Hey, you don't fit this description of this mystic champion...

...we've been hearing about.

Name's Peter McCabe.

I'd like to meet your boss.

I understand he's looking for a shooter.

Make an appointment.

Well, uh--

Hey, why don't you let the girl go? You made your point.

God, I hate it when that happens.

Ow!

Huh.

Let her go.

XIAOLI: Get your hands off me. CHAN: Put the gun away. Let's go.

CHAN: We broke up the meeting.

Some young fellow didn't like our style.

When I tried to take one of the community...

...he did this...

...from 50 feet away. I thought he shot me in the back.

A marksman's shot.

That's what he says.

He wants to meet you.

By the way...

...there's no sign of any mystic warrior coming to anyone's rescue.

Jack and Raymond must have run into some cat...

...whacked on coke who was flying.

But they're edgy down there.

Make an example of the apothecary...

...and the rest of the street will fall into line.

You know a great deal about my work.

That will draw out the poison without contaminating the blood.

You were resting.

- I had hoped you would not mind. - I only mind that you are leaving.

I must move on.

To where?

Have you been isolated so long...

...that you cannot fight for a cause...

...that is just?

Your grandfather...

...would not move on.

He would stay and help these people.

That was another time...

...another place.

I am to my ancestor...

...as shadow is to form.

As echo is to sound.

I am not yet whole.

- You did not know him. - Perhaps.

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING LOUDLY]

WOMAN: Thanks a lot, you guys. MAN: Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

Mr. Tan would like to see you.

I thought I needed to make an appointment.

KAI: I believe you made one.

Mr. Chan needs a new pair of shoes.

Oh.

Well, easy come, easy go.

Catch you later, guys.

Our car is right outside.

Oh, I never get into a car with strangers.

I promised my mother.

Jimmy, over here.

JIMMY: You got it.

What can we say that will make you stay?

I am only one man.

XIAOLI: You're all we've got.

A young man saved my life this morning.

Then we found out he's now working for Tan.

This is what's happening to young men in this community.

Tan has money and power.

It's very seductive.

But not to a Shaolin priest.

You must learn to respect your elders.

[GRUNTS]

Lucky shot.

[BEEPING]

Of course I respect my elders.

I am sorry...

...but I must leave.

[COUGHS]

CAINE: Om....

Om....

[GRUNTING]

[GUNFIRE]

CAINE: No!

No!

What you cannot possess...

...you must destroy.

You never learned that.

Discard formal wisdom and knowledge...

...and the happiness of the people will increase a hundred times.

Discard kindness and righteousness...

...and the love for family will be restored.

What do you say to that, Kwai Chang Caine?

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[SCREAMING]

Peter!

Help me. Help me lift him up. Help me. Help me.

- Lift him up. - That's it. That's it.

[SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]

Oh, no.

FIREMAN: Back. Too far.

He's on the roof.

- What does it look like, chief? - Too early to tell yet.

FIREMAN: Somebody help him. On the roof.

Hey, somebody help!

We gotta hurry. This whole place is going up.

Coming through. Coming through.

- Sergeant. - I need an ambulance.

Put him in here.

Can you hear me? Are you okay?

Shaolin priest.

Mr. Tan doesn't like to be kept waiting.

This is nothing.

An old building burns. An old man dies. It's life in the streets.

There's no grace in victory.

The one who glorifies it must revel in bloodshed.

KAI: Where did you hear that?

Charlie Chan movie. Let's get out of here.

FIREMAN: Man down! COP: Everybody stand back.

And stop pushing.

Everybody step back here.

FIREMAN: It's all gonna be all right.

TAN: I love this city.

I love it when the fireworks light up the sky.

Did you know it was the Chinese New Year?

No, I didn't.

Anything exciting happen in Chinatown tonight?

The stranger Jack and Kai were talking about...

...carried the Ancient out of a burning building.

I take it you are Peter McCabe.

Give your wallet to Mr. Chan.

He will make some phone calls. It will then be returned to you.

Check the hospital.

So, Mr. McCabe...

...you're looking for a job.

Nothing permanent.

Of course.

A shadow touched by light must disappear.

Let's say I don't stay in one place for too long.

I understand you're a good shot.

- Yeah. Passable. - Huh.

We'll find out.

Ladies and gentlemen, you know the routine.

The mayor will be making a full statement...

...after his briefing with the police commissioner.

How long have you known about this?

The firebombing of the building in Chinatown is a disgrace.

I'm not prepared to let these animals take control of the streets.

This is a declaration of war and I am making it...

...purposefully and directly to the people responsible.

If you could all wait until after, the mayor will be happy--

I intend to make a speech to the people of the community...

...right outside this burnt-out building. Noon tomorrow. Be there.

Get me Captain Blaisdell at the 101st precinct.

REPORTER: Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor.

It's for you, captain.

- Tell me. - The mayor, Line 3.

Oh, swell.

Good morning, sir.

Meeting in my office at 5:00 this afternoon.

You, your chief of detectives...

...the police commissioner and the deputy mayor.

MAN: Many Shaolin masters are buried in this place...

...your father among them.

The heaven and earth join...

...and the sweet rain falls.

Beyond the command of men...

...yet evenly upon all.

Men kill and are killed.

That's the lesson you should've been teaching us.

I will find them, Father.

These soldiers of hate.

You told me in war, there is no grace in victory...

...and one who revels in bloodshed is incapable of ruling the world.

But when I find them and kill them...

...I will delight in it.

I swear this to you, my father.

One day, father and son will be reunited.

This I promise you.

Such a terrible thing.

Yes, it was.

He who reveres slaughter will fail in his ambition to rule the world.

I'm sorry?

Nothing.

I'm Marilyn Blake. I'm from the mayor's office.

I didn't get a chance to thank you yesterday.

Uh, it wasn't for you.

These people need someone to believe in.

Tell them to pay more money than Tan.

You'll have every young man delivering groceries and ironing shirts.

Tan pays more in one day than these people make in a year.

A lot more.

So you're working for him now?

I have to give the people of that community some answers.

Television is a wonderful invention.

Do it from your desk.

If I'm afraid to walk into Chinatown, what message does that send to them?

We can provide you with adequate protection.

That's not the point.

This isn't the time to make a grandstanding speech...

...just so His Honor can salvage his campaign in an election year.

If you think the mayor is worried about votes, Strenlich--

We've got a man on the inside.

He's already met with Tan.

I'm waiting for him to report back. Give him 48 hours.

A man on the inside? When did this happen?

On whose authority did you do that, Paul?

On my own damned authority.

And just who did you send in? Let me guess, Peter Caine?

- He was the best man for the job. - He's crazy.

[SIGHS]

Maybe you have to be a little crazy to wanna get that close to Tan.

THALER: I'm sick of hearing that man's name.

He's like a phantom.

Flesh and blood. Like all of us.

And he'll take a fall.

I'm going to make a speech tomorrow in front of that burnt-out building.

My staff is putting out the word now.

Should be a full house.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Just how close to Tan is Caine?

On the inside track.

Four of the students perished in the flames.

Peter would have survived, but he went back into the temple.

I could not save him.

It was not your place to save him.

You must not reproach yourself.

There was nothing you could do.

Fire cleanses all.

Your life...

...is not your possession, my son.

It is a harmony that was lent to you by the universe.

In the beginning...

...before heaven and earth existed, there was only the one thing.

An amorphous...

...silent, isolated entity...

...which though changes...

...was constantly turning...

...perpetually in motion.

That is where you have returned to.

Until I have found it in myself...

...I cannot join you there.

I was in that street last night.

I saw the tattoos on your forearms. The dragon. The tiger.

Who else but a Shaolin priest could walk out of a burning building...

...like he was taking a stroll through Central Park?

Must be very hot in Central Park.

I thought you might know something about my father...

...could tell me something about him...

...but I don't have to do that now...

...because the only thing that's changed about you in 15 years...

...is your eyes.

Peter.

I can't find the words.

[PETER SOBBING]

They will come.

I could kill that old bastard.

What old bastard?

Ping Hai.

He took me to your grave.

I vowed vengeance against the soldiers of evil...

...that murdered my father.

I took that pain out into the streets, into the orphanage.

Why did he do it?

To protect us.

He took me to your grave.

The renegade priest who destroyed the temple...

...had to believe we were both dead.

In that way, Ping Hai sought to save us...

...from his vengeance.

I vowed to avenge your death.

I didn't.

It ate away at me for 15 years.

To be orphaned...

...and alone...

...and unworthy...

...is the worst thing...

...a man can think of.

And yet princes and dukes are exalted by such names.

I don't believe in that crap anymore.

I cleansed and purified my mystic vision...

...until I could see the real world, and all the crap in it.

You must learn to see...

...with more...

...than your eyes.

I guess we got a lot of reaching out to do.

Yes. Yes.

But not tonight, Pop. Not tonight.

Don't ever call me that.

I just wanted to make sure I had the right father.

[CHUCKLES]

[MEN SPEAKING IN CHINESE]

Would you guys cut it out?

I can't understand a word you're saying.

You wanna talk like that, go to Beijing, huh?

Hang out in Tiananmen Square. You're in America now.

Wait here.

[SPEAKING IN CHINESE]

TAN: You check out okay.

I have a job for you.

Tonight.

A test.

That stranger who carried the old apothecary from the building.

They're at Glenncross Hospital.

Know how to use one of these?

That's how I make my living.

Kill them both.

You accomplish that...

...and the assassination tomorrow is yours.

No problem.

[PHONE RINGS]

OPERATOR: County General. PETER [OVER PHONE]: 614.

I'm sorry. There's no phone in that room.

I can put you through to the nurses' station.

No messages? Oh, okay, fine.

Yes, may I help you?

[SPEAKING IN CHINESE]

Okay, a dozen roses...

... to Glenncross Hospital...

...Room 614.

The name please?

[SPEAKING IN CHINESE]

Okay, the card should say:

"Get out of the room."

[SPEAKING IN CHINESE]

Bye-bye.

- What the hell was that all about? - What, no speakie Chinese?

Oh, give me a break.

I grew up in New York City. The Bronx.

We heard some geek talk like that, we'd beat his head in.

I was sending flowers to my girlfriend. We had a little spat.

You worry about things like that on the way to kill people?

Gotta know what's important, Chan.

[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING LOUDLY]

You look pale.

We'd better get you to a hospital.

What are you talking about?

While we're there, we'll pay a visit to our mysterious stranger.

Maybe we'll knock on the old apothecary's door...

...just for the fun of it too.

Why should we?

Because that stranger humiliated us in front of other people.

I don't like that. It ruined my day.

Besides, it'll show Mr. Tan...

...that we have initiative as well as good looks.

Sure, we'll kill them.

No sweat.

Let's go.

Now.

KAI: I'll take them in. The patient is my brother.

WOMAN [ON PA]: Dr. Allen, please call Dr. Alphonse, extension 510.

Dr. Allen, please call Dr. Alphonse, extension 510.

MAN: Excuse me, what room is...?

[GASPS THEN GRUNTS]

Second room from the left.

- Good thing the blinds were left open. - We made sure they would be.

Well, well. Seems like we might be a little late.

You better check it out, Chan.

The room's wrecked.

Somebody must have shown him the bill for one day.

You must come with me...

...now.

I was hoping I'd find you here.

I am trying to save as much as I can of the apothecary's medicines.

Good idea.

Risk your life for some charred weeds and herbs.

Probably make a good tea out of them.

They represent the work of a lifetime.

I just wanted to make sure that you were all right.

I should not be.

Two men came to the hospital...

...to kill the apothecary and myself.

They didn't know who they were dealing with, did they, Kwai Chang Caine?

A wise man accomplishes his goals without love of glory.

Without love of violence.

I am glad to see...

...you remember some of my useless sayings.

You mentioned something about...

...an orphanage.

Ping Hai became very sick.

Maybe carrying around all those lies.

[SIGHS]

He put me into an orphanage before he died.

Nifty place if you're into discipline and loneliness.

Guy by the name of Paul Blaisdell used to come around and talk to the kids.

He was a cop.

And he became...

...well, like a....

Father?

More like a big brother.

He took me out of that mausoleum and threw me into the police academy.

What happened to the old apothecary?

I took him to Sho...

...the man who runs the meat market.

He will take care of him.

They all think you are working for these killers...

...but you are not.

A cop?

I grew up watching The Rockford Files and Hill Street Blues.

I wanted to be one of the good guys.

I also wanted you to be proud of me...

...though I believed that you'd never really know about it.

You mind me asking where you've been for the last 15 years?

Searching.

Oh, right, right.

Right. For the solution to the mystery of life.

Embracing the one with your soul.

Looking for my son...

...or the essence that was his being.

Never did I believe...

...I would find him alive.

And a cop.

[FLOORBOARD CREAKS]

You are working, uh...

...undercover?

Is there any other way?

- Calm down. - How long have you been outside?

I followed you into the building. I didn't mean to eavesdrop.

I was just waiting for the right moment to let you know I was here.

I just came from the hospital.

Your room was wrecked. The old apothecary was gone.

I came to Chinatown to find Sho and let him know what happened.

Forgive me.

Ex-newspaper girl. Old habits are hard to break.

You're a police officer?

And you're his father?

That's gonna be our little secret.

No one can know about this.

Not the mayor, not the community, the police.

No, no. Of course not. That goes without saying.

Um....

I'm glad I was wrong about you.

The street wants to know your intention. Are you staying?

At least tell us where we can get in touch with you.

I will find you...

...after I have found these assassins.

Be careful.

Father, this is police business.

The man behind these assassins is powerful and corrupt.

CHAN: There she is.

[GASPS]

This is not two old gunfighters standing in the middle of some dusty street...

...like it might have been back in the time of your grandfather.

He would never have let this injustice happen.

The old one will be killed...

...if these people are not stopped.

I'll stop them.

Where are you gonna stay tonight?

I will find shelter.

Hey, this will all be over tomorrow. You just give it a couple of days.

Oh, God, look. Change of plans. Why don't you...?

[GRUNTS]

CHAN: She was coming out of the burned-out building.

She's been talking to everyone in the community.

She knows where the stranger is. The old one too.

You've questioned her?

No.

- I thought I'd leave that up to you. - No!

You can't find them yourself...

...so you pick up a pretty bone to throw at my feet.

I want them found. Tonight!

Take off your clothes.

[DOOR CLOSES]

That's for hiring a nihilistic animal like Chan.

He ever manhandles me again, I'll scratch out those empty eyes.

Beware of him.

He's ambitious and powerful...

...but then again, that's what turns you on, doesn't it?

Power.

I do have some information for you.

Peter McCabe?

He's an undercover cop.

And your mysterious stranger?

Caine is his father.

What name did you say?

He called him Caine.

Kwai Chang Caine.

Have a seat.

Look, Mr. Tan, about last night--

Mr. Kai and Mr. Wong decided to take the law into their own hands.

The stranger humiliated them in front of the entire street.

They've been dealt with.

Twenty-five thousand and your target.

The final 75,000 when the man is dead.

PETER: The mayor? - You have a problem with that?

No. Not at all.

- Where does the hit take place? - Our mayor is making a major speech...

...at the burnt-out building in Chinatown today at noon.

Using it as a symbol to denounce the escalating violence in the district.

And not before time.

He'll be surrounded with enough security to take out an army.

TAN: We're not gonna make the hit there.

When he returns to City Hall, he'll be in one car...

...with the chief of detectives, Strenlich, and the deputy mayor.

You will be on the roof opposite City Hall.

When the mayor steps out of the limo...

...you will kill him.

- How do I get out? TAN: You'll have men with you.

They'll have your escape route. When it's done, you return here.

- I won't let you down. - I'm sure.

Where will the real hit take place?

At the burnt-out building in Chinatown.

Who's the shooter?

You're not gonna volunteer?

Oh. That's okay.

A charming young man.

Mr. Sung.

I've been grooming him for some time.

I didn't think he was ready, but he'll have to be.

Don't let your target get away.

[PHONE RINGS]

Blaisdell.

City Hall.

All right. Where will you be?

Got it.

BLAISDELL: The speech will last 10 minutes.

That'll put him at City Hall at 12:25. SWA T will be there.

[CHOKING]

Peter, Peter. I'm disappointed.

All that Shaolin training as a child. Those razor-sharp instincts.

All forgotten.

That's too bad.

[GRUNTS]

Oh, sorry.

COP 1: Easy does it, now. Just-- Easy does it.

- Don't push. COP 2: All right. Just pull it back, folks.

STRENLICH: You're not gonna like it.

BLAISDELL: Yeah? Tell me.

I just heard from Captain Stiles. He's steaming.

The SWAT team burst out onto an empty roof. No Peter, no Tan's men, nothing.

He wants you to consider the notion that Tan has turned him.

You tell Stiles what he can do with that notion.

No, it means they've made Peter.

They'll hit at the brownstone. Get on the radio.

MAYOR [OVER PA]: I want to thank this community...

...for giving me this opportunity to speak to you face-to-face...

...about what has become a very serious problem.

The problem has a name: Tan.

Whenever greed, intimidation, and destructive ambition...

...threaten the stability and well-being of an entire community...

...all citizens of all communities everywhere are threatened.

Oh, yes.

They hit back, hard.

--for as long as it takes.

We must now understand....

Hey, man, look. Look up there.

- Get in. - Your son dies today.

Tan will kill him.

TAN: Tie him up.

[PETER GROANS]

Was it the aftershave that gave me away?

You know, all undercover cops use that "wise guy" fragrance.

Maybe we ought to switch to Old Spice.

You may know who betrayed you.

It would be as well for Mr. Chan to know my little secret also...

...before the lady in question takes a knife to his throat.

Marilyn Blake.

A well-tied knot, though it makes use of no ropes, cannot be untied.

Yeah, well this rope feels pretty real to me.

Why can't I just use a sharp knife?

[CHUCKLES]

A worthwhile idea.

This exercise is for those rare moments when a knife is not at hand.

Stretch and loosen. Loosen.

Marilyn Blake?

That's hot.

Right about now she's drenched in the mayor's blood.

CAINE: But she is not.

[GUN COCKS]

TAN: No.

Do not interfere.

Stay out of this.

I have been waiting.

I should have known the fires that disfigured me could not destroy you.

CAINE: We were like brothers, you and I.

There was a time when your spirit flowed through my veins.

All those years ago I told you to discard formal wisdom and knowledge...

...and the happiness of the people will increase a hundred times.

Discard kindness and righteousness...

...and the love for family will be restored.

You never answered me, Kwai Chang Caine.

Discard cunning and profit...

...and bandits and thieves will cease to exist.

A name can be changed, but not one's soul.

You murdered the priests and, so I thought, my own son.

The old ones cry out for vengeance.

Kill him.

[PETER AND CHAN GRUNTING]

[GUNSHOT THEN PETER SCREAMS]

You ever thought of joining the police force?

You kick them, I'll shoot them. Ha, ha. We'll make a hell of a team.

We gotta get to the mayor.

- He's gonna be-- - He is safe. Your wound is bad.

No, I've had worse.

- Tan. - Gone.

It was kind of hard to listen...

...as Chan was trying to kill me at the time...

...but you and Tan go way back?

We know him by another name.

He is the renegade Shaolin who destroyed our temple.

You kidding me?

No. No, you don't do a lot of that.

Well, let him run.

We'll pick him up.

Chan too. They're finished in Chinatown.

Tan will return.

Oh, yes.

Darkness shall overcome the light, as you would say...

...but splinters of black...

...will easily be crushed.

The illumination of one candle...

...shall forever touch mankind's luminous spirit.

I never said anything like that.

That means absolutely nothing.

I know. Sounded great though, didn't it?

[PETER CHUCKLES]

How did you find me here?

No, no, don't tell me. I don't wanna know.

CAINE: Don't talk. PETER: I like to talk.

[YELLS]

[SINGING LIGHT ROCK]

So this is where you come for peace and meditation?

This is where I come for the best chili and the coldest light beer in town.

And to listen to the girl I'm nuts about sing like that every night.

Does she share your affection?

Uh, it's kind of a time-management problem.

Sometimes I think I'm in love with her...

...sometimes she thinks she's in love with me...

...but those times don't usually happen at the same time.

Listen, my, uh, apartment isn't exactly the Ritz-Carlton...

...but the spare bedroom's got kind of a cozy feeling...

...and it's 12 feet bigger than that cell you used to live in at the temple.

I cannot stay with you.

You can't leave. I'll have you arrested.

For what crime?

Desertion in the face of a son's love.

It's taken me 15 years to find you again.

And now that I've got you all to myself...

...I can't think of a damn thing to say that'll make you wanna stay.

When you can snatch the matchbook before me...

...you will no longer need a teacher.

- Does that mean you're gonna stay, Pop? - Don't ever call me that.

Hey.

An address would be nice.

You know, forward old mail...

...stop by for a chat, take in a ball game.

Chinatown?

Chinatown.

Be seeing you.

[ENGLISH SDH]

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