Kung Fu (1972–1975): Season 2, Episode 5 - The Squawman - full transcript
When a man kills the son of a wanted criminal he gets praised for it. He is then implored to go after the criminal. And he gets so determined that he shoots the wrong man. In the meantime when the criminal hears about his son's death he sets out to get the one who killed his son.
Oh, Great Spirit...
...whose voice l hear in the winds...
...and whose breath l see
in the morning mist.
Oh, come, spirit helper.
Come now...
...with the rising sun.
Oh, shield of sun...
...fulfill my vision quest.
Long have l fasted.
Long have l sent up the arrows
of my prayers to you.
Send your spirit helper...
...to reveal to me the mysteries...
...you have hidden
in every leaf and rock...
...in every stream
and living creature.
Come, spirit helper.
Oh, spirit helper, come.
l knew you would come.
You knew?
That is why my father and mother
brought me here.
So that the lord of the heavens would
send you to me, Nashebo...
...to instruct and to guide me...
...throughout my life.
My prayers have been answered.
The Great One has sent you
to be my spirit helper.
l am not a spirit, Nashebo.
l am a man.
Who am l to question the will
of the Great One...
...if he chooses to send
my spirit helper...
...in the form of a man?
l am sorry...
...Spirit Helper...
...for my weakness.
For five days and nights,
l have fasted without sleep...
...praying that you would come.
You must eat.
You must drink.
l am most fortunate to have
a spirit helper all can see.
They will be able to see you.
Will they not?
All will be able to see me.
And l will be able to stand up...
...in the councils of my people
and be heard...
...when you have taught
me what it is to be...
...a man.
And what is it to be a man?
To be a man...
...is to be one with the universe.
But what is the universe?
Rather ask:
''What is not the universe?''
Then it is everywhere.
lt is in your eye...
...and in your heart.
As a seed of the peach contains
the fragrance of the flower...
...and the substance of the fruit.
And the bitter pit at its core?
Even that.
This trail. lt leads to Masia?
As you know...
...by way of Massopock,
where my father and mother...
...Tenorio and Crucita, are awaiting us.
Naturally, you will lead the way.
You call the mountain sacred?
As you know...
...the Great One, wishing to visit
that which he had made...
...cut a small opening in the sky.
Through it, he pushed rocks,
snow and ice.
Until the mountain grew so high
that he could reach the earth.
As the stepping stone
of the sun chief...
...the mountain is sacred.
ls it not?
lt could not be otherwise.
No! No!
No.
Mother.
Father.
Mother!
Father!
Don't kill them!
Murderer!
Father....
My father, come back to me.
lf you cannot come back, my father...
...then pass to the great beyond.
You are a good son.
What is a son
without a father or mother?
ls not a son the love of a father
and a mother...
...and the life they gave him?
A design of the universe
he must fulfill...
...if he is to be a man.
l can only fulfill that design...
...with your help.
l must free my mother...
...and avenge my father's death.
My road lies another way.
But l do not yet know how
to be a man.
No longer can my father teach me
so many things.
That is why you came, Spirit Helper.
Nashebo...
...l am only a man.
lf you are, as you say, also a man...
How, then,
can you not have feelings...
...for a son
with his mother lost to him...
...as l am now.
l need your help.
My father's spirit cannot find peace
in the land of the dead...
...because his murder
has not been avenged.
What is it, grasshopper?
Master Po...
...l have been troubled.
l have sensed that in you
these past days.
While your body has been healing...
...your spirit has sickened.
lt is because l have done nothing
about the murder of my parents.
And what do you propose to do?
Find General Chung. Kill him!
You, a boy, not yet a man...
...against the ruthless warlord
and his soldiers?
lf l could find him alone...
...it could be done.
And being done, what do you derive?
Satisfaction.
ls there now more or less light
in this chamber?
There is less.
ls it not more important that you
find yourself than a killer of men?
Would your parents not wish you
to go forward to life and light...
...rather than backward to death
and darkness?
How do l find myself and the light?
By taking the path that leads
to the truth.
Will you help me walk the path?
l can only point the way,
grasshopper.
You must walk the path yourself.
You will come with me?
l will come with you.
You are my spirit helper.
My name is Caine.
lf that is what you wish to be called.
lt will not be easy.
lt may not be possible.
With you...
...all things are possible.
And l will keep my ears sharp
for your instruction.
And do everything you tell me...
...Spirit Helper Caine.
Let us start.
lt's here we'll rest the horses.
l've got plans for you too, lady.
Well, to be sure,
l hadn't noticed before.
lt's a mighty fine figure
of a woman we have here.
l have here.
You and Saunders backtrack.
l want to be full certain it's not
being followed, we are.
Followed by who?
That third horse.
lt belongs to somebody.
Maybe it's just a packhorse.
They won't be asked of taking
any chances on the ''maybe'' of it.
l thought you said we had to rest
the horses.
lt is what l said, lad.
But you can take the two
lndian mounts, can't you?
Surely, there's been
no one riding them.
They're still as fresh
as the morning dew.
l'm not going on a wild-goose chase.
Oh, you're not, is it?
When you're stronger and faster...
...and bigger than me, Diego, my boy...
...then you can give the orders.
ls not that the way of it, Saunders?
That's what we agreed.
Strongest rules.
All right, Pike.
Have it your own way.
l purely intend to.
Now get sailing along with you.
Well...
...just the two of us, it is.
Cozy as a pair of crickets
on the hearth.
That way.
You follow the trail well.
My father taught me many things.
You must teach me the rest.
There is game.
Should we stop to take food?
That is for you to decide.
But you must tell me what to do.
Does a man ask another
to show him what to do?
The Comancheros must also take food.
We will stop for a short time.
What kind of game would you like?
l do not want to eat game.
But the game here is good.
Birds, squirrel, rabbit.
lt is a personal thing not to take life.
l too have been taught
to reverence all life.
For there, as you know...
...is nahi:
Soul in all things.
Animals, rocks and trees.
Wind and rain.
Life that is perfect...
...and more free
from the weaknesses of man.
You have been taught well, Nashebo.
And so, because man is weak...
...the Great One...
...has made all these things
to help him survive.
l understand your thought.
l understand yours too, Spirit Helper.
You are a spirit...
...and do not have the needs
of a mortal.
We will take other things from nature.
The yampa.
The tubers are strong and sweet.
Tastes good.
-Which one you want?
-You take the flop-hat.
Now.
What l tell you?
-We better check.
-Why? They're coyote meat.
-Come on. Let's get back to Pike.
-A bit anxious, ain't you?
l just don't want him staking a claim
on that lndian woman.
Spirit Helper?
Spirit Helper Caine?
Spirit Helper?
Spirit Helper, don't leave me too.
Spirit Helper?
Spirit Helper Caine?
Spirit Helper, are you still with me?
l am with you.
You were communing with the Great
Spirit. That is how you healed yourself.
lt was only a scab wound.
You do not need the poor medicine
that l have brought.
l do not know this plant.
lt is parethea.
This part of the root...
...is for wounds such as yours.
May l add this to my medicine pouch?
l am honored.
You see?
Now it is you who are teaching me.
-Diego!
-Hey, Pike, how are you?
Welcome home, Pike.
Sure like the looks
of them vittles you brung.
Hey, where you guys been?
Haven't seen you in a long time.
Hey, what you got there, huh?
Pike, how'd things go?
How'd things go, Pike?
l'll be telling you all about it later.
Right now it's a drink l'm needing.
And later, the soft comfort
of a woman's arms...
...after a cruel and rocky journey
to perdition and back.
-She's mine, Pike.
-Yours, is she now?
l'm taking her for my share
of the loot.
lt is grand expectations
you have, Diego.
ls it better than me you are, then...
...that you be giving the orders
and doing the taking?
ls it worth it, lad?
Diego, my lad,
the living truth of it...
...is you always did your learning
the hard way.
lt is a fort.
Nashebo, what are you doing?
My duty. Avenge my father's death,
so that his spirit may find peace.
Did you not tell me
the lndian reveres all life?
And you believe the Great One
gave life to us all?
Only he could.
Then what man has the right
to take from another...
...the gift given by the Great One?
Out of the way!
General Chung demands
rice for his forces!
What is in your thought, grasshopper?
That is the man who killed
my mother and my father.
Revenge is a double-edged sword.
lt cuts both ways.
Chung's soldiers will kill you,
or you'll destroy yourself...
...by the certain suicide of your spirit.
Grasshopper, the wheel of life is turned
inexorably by the infinite stars.
And so it is, the truth
will not be cheated.
Consider General Chung reduced
to stealing some few bags of rice.
ls not the wheel crushing him?
ls not an abyss opening at his feet?
ls not his path, which he treads
with his own feet...
...leading to an eternal grave?
lf l am to be a man...
...must l not avenge my father?
lf you are to be a man...
...must you not act
to save your mother's life?
How can l save my mother?
We must think of a way.
Spirit Helper, you are remembering
the legend of Ship Rock?
Tell it to me.
You wish to see if l have learned
my lessons well?
Long ago,
on a towering rock called Ship...
...were the last of our people.
Giant birds of prey built nests
on the summit of Ship Rock.
Their most-liked food
was the children of our people.
One day, Maniboso,
the son of Sky Chief...
...saw the plight of our people
and took pity.
But there was no way
to ascend to Ship Rock.
So he took the magical hide
of the white buffalo...
...and put it across his shoulders,
arms outstretched from north to south.
The wind carried him high, high up,
until he could reach the peak.
There he killed the birds with the knife
of lightning given him by his father.
Can you not do that, Spirit Helper...
...fly down and kill them
with the knife of lightning?
l cannot.
We do not have the magical hide
of the white buffalo.
l did not think of that.
But you have shown me a way.
Wine!
Play something lively.
lt is now.
They cannot kill you.
l hope not.
But you, Spirit Helper,
you are protected by the heavens.
What's the matter, lassie?
Seen a ghost, have you?
Come, come, lassie.
Come on, me little redskin!
On with the dance.
Oh, Crucita, me love...
...you dance like
the prettiest princess...
...in all of lreland.
Wine for everybody.
There's no more wine.
There are two more bubbling casks
in me tent.
Holding out on us, huh?
Look, they say, sirs:
''To the victor goes the spoils.''
-Don't be frightened. Nashebo sent me.
-Nashebo?
-Where is my son?
-He's waiting for you to come.
What is it we have here?
Bejabbers! A Chinaman! Come through
the center of the earth, have you?
Now, where is it you think
you're going with her?
l have come to take
a mother to her son.
Well...
...a proud sort of man.
Turn around, lad.
l'd be have to telling you
to say your prayers...
...if you wasn't a heathen.
Of course, the only thing
you're getting here, bucko...
...is a terrible,
tearing bullet in the head.
-Hey, who's this, Pike?
-Keep walking.
l said, keep on walking.
Aye, lad. Good. Good.
Give it up, Chinaman.
Strip him and stake him out.
lt's the slow, slow death rising
in his gorge l want him to be tasting.
To the victor go the spoils.
-Nashebo!
-Mother!
Hold it!
You know him, do you, lass? Aye.
Looks like we found another heathen.
Aye. There l was thinking you told me...
...you got them back there on the trail.
-What do you want me to do with him?
-Same as the Chinaman.
They come in together.
Let them go out together.
Spirit Helper, my father's spirit
is still restless.
My mother is their captive.
l have failed.
Why did you not help me?
Nashebo.
You ask...
...l help you be a man.
You have not failed in that.
l too am only a man.
Spirit Helper Caine...
...how is it,
in man's form as you are...
...that you do not feel
the terrible teeth of the cold?
ls the spirit of a man...
...sustained by food...
...or warmed by outer garments?
You have other spirits within you.
What do you mean?
The marks on your arms.
The spirit of the snake
for the power of lightning...
...and the spirit of the mountain lion
for the power of strength.
lt is a dragon and a tiger.
Even more powerful medicine.
Nashebo.
They are only symbols.
Your final test,
the urn of the two symbols:
The dragon and the tiger.
When you can walk in this corridor,
the inner path to the outer world...
...and can push the urn aside
with your forearms...
...you will bear its markings with you
for the rest of your life.
Hundreds of pounds
of burning coal and iron.
How can l, master...
...having only the strength of a man
and the weaknesses?
lt is because you are a man
that you can do this, grasshopper.
l do not understand.
As the softest clay, in time,
becomes the hardest brick...
...a fragile leaf, a diamond...
...as a stream of fiery ore
freezes into unbending iron...
...so too may a man
ascend to himself.
How?
By slowly forging the chi
within yourself...
...the bond between
the finite and infinite...
...the inner essence of your spirit,
and the limitless power of the universe.
How can l do this?
You will have found your strength...
...and the source of your survival.
You will be free.
Well, how is it with them two?
l can't figure it.
Colder than the North Pole last night.
That Chinaman looks like
he slept under six blankets.
Chinaman.
What kind of a man is it, you are?
Like any other. A man.
Like no man l ever knew.
Spirit Helper Caine
is not like any of us.
Can you not see the marks on his arms?
-l didn't see them before.
-You did not look.
Well, what do them brands mean?
ls it somebody's slave, you are?
They are marks of his strength.
He is much stronger than you.
-ls he, now?
-Maybe he is, Mr. Pike.
He sure laid you out yesterday.
lt was lucky, he was. Lucky.
Then prove you are stronger than he.
Or are you only able to kill
those who are bound and helpless?
Well, if it's the proving you want...
...you'll have it.
Untie that thing.
Hurry up, lads. Proving time, it is.
You'd better take that knife, Chinaman.
A fight to the death, it is.
Well, l guess he did prove
who was stronger, all right.
That makes you the new head man,
flop-hat. You got any orders?
l will take your machete, now.
Wanna finish him off?
Free her.
You heard the man.
Thank you, Spirit Helper.
Master, I am troubled.
Why?
My parents are long dead.
General Chung is tumbled
from his arrogance and power.
Yet, within me anger boils,
as water in a heated pot.
Observe the day lily.
Each morning,
with the warmth of the sun...
...it opens in lovely blossom.
Each night, it closes.
I do not understand.
What has a flower to do with my anger?
Once, your anger warmed you...
...and, like the flower,
you opened to it.
That is long past.
It is night.
Am I, then, to do nothing?
Feel nothing? Be still?
Still water is like glass.
It is a perfect level.
A carpenter could use it.
The heart of a wise man
is tranquil and still.
Thus, it is the mirror
of heaven and earth...
...the glass of everything.
Be like still water.
You look into it and see yourself.
-Give them all their possessions.
-Give them everything?
You heard the new leader.
-Leader?
-That's right.
You just got yourself elected.
l cannot lead you.
Well, you've seen this place.
lf you don't lead, you don't leave.
l can lead no one.
l think you made your point,
Mr. Flop-hat.
Here's my share.
What are you gonna do with him,
just let him go?
-Yes.
-No!
-l will avenge my father!
-Nashebo!
-Do you not wish to be a man?
-Nashebo!
ls it not better
to embrace the living...
...than to avenge the dead?
Nashebo.
Saunders, l want them killed.
l want them killed!
Which of you will kill me?
l think you've already answered
that one for us.
Besides, l kind of like it
the way things are.
l'm still the leader here!
Are you, now?
Here we must part.
You must go to the south,
and l, there, to the west.
Will you not come with us?
We are alone, and you are alone.
You have your own people.
Spirit Helper, do not leave.
l need you to teach me
how to be a man.
Nashebo, you are a man.
Goodbye...
...my friend.
He was my true and only spirit helper.
...whose voice l hear in the winds...
...and whose breath l see
in the morning mist.
Oh, come, spirit helper.
Come now...
...with the rising sun.
Oh, shield of sun...
...fulfill my vision quest.
Long have l fasted.
Long have l sent up the arrows
of my prayers to you.
Send your spirit helper...
...to reveal to me the mysteries...
...you have hidden
in every leaf and rock...
...in every stream
and living creature.
Come, spirit helper.
Oh, spirit helper, come.
l knew you would come.
You knew?
That is why my father and mother
brought me here.
So that the lord of the heavens would
send you to me, Nashebo...
...to instruct and to guide me...
...throughout my life.
My prayers have been answered.
The Great One has sent you
to be my spirit helper.
l am not a spirit, Nashebo.
l am a man.
Who am l to question the will
of the Great One...
...if he chooses to send
my spirit helper...
...in the form of a man?
l am sorry...
...Spirit Helper...
...for my weakness.
For five days and nights,
l have fasted without sleep...
...praying that you would come.
You must eat.
You must drink.
l am most fortunate to have
a spirit helper all can see.
They will be able to see you.
Will they not?
All will be able to see me.
And l will be able to stand up...
...in the councils of my people
and be heard...
...when you have taught
me what it is to be...
...a man.
And what is it to be a man?
To be a man...
...is to be one with the universe.
But what is the universe?
Rather ask:
''What is not the universe?''
Then it is everywhere.
lt is in your eye...
...and in your heart.
As a seed of the peach contains
the fragrance of the flower...
...and the substance of the fruit.
And the bitter pit at its core?
Even that.
This trail. lt leads to Masia?
As you know...
...by way of Massopock,
where my father and mother...
...Tenorio and Crucita, are awaiting us.
Naturally, you will lead the way.
You call the mountain sacred?
As you know...
...the Great One, wishing to visit
that which he had made...
...cut a small opening in the sky.
Through it, he pushed rocks,
snow and ice.
Until the mountain grew so high
that he could reach the earth.
As the stepping stone
of the sun chief...
...the mountain is sacred.
ls it not?
lt could not be otherwise.
No! No!
No.
Mother.
Father.
Mother!
Father!
Don't kill them!
Murderer!
Father....
My father, come back to me.
lf you cannot come back, my father...
...then pass to the great beyond.
You are a good son.
What is a son
without a father or mother?
ls not a son the love of a father
and a mother...
...and the life they gave him?
A design of the universe
he must fulfill...
...if he is to be a man.
l can only fulfill that design...
...with your help.
l must free my mother...
...and avenge my father's death.
My road lies another way.
But l do not yet know how
to be a man.
No longer can my father teach me
so many things.
That is why you came, Spirit Helper.
Nashebo...
...l am only a man.
lf you are, as you say, also a man...
How, then,
can you not have feelings...
...for a son
with his mother lost to him...
...as l am now.
l need your help.
My father's spirit cannot find peace
in the land of the dead...
...because his murder
has not been avenged.
What is it, grasshopper?
Master Po...
...l have been troubled.
l have sensed that in you
these past days.
While your body has been healing...
...your spirit has sickened.
lt is because l have done nothing
about the murder of my parents.
And what do you propose to do?
Find General Chung. Kill him!
You, a boy, not yet a man...
...against the ruthless warlord
and his soldiers?
lf l could find him alone...
...it could be done.
And being done, what do you derive?
Satisfaction.
ls there now more or less light
in this chamber?
There is less.
ls it not more important that you
find yourself than a killer of men?
Would your parents not wish you
to go forward to life and light...
...rather than backward to death
and darkness?
How do l find myself and the light?
By taking the path that leads
to the truth.
Will you help me walk the path?
l can only point the way,
grasshopper.
You must walk the path yourself.
You will come with me?
l will come with you.
You are my spirit helper.
My name is Caine.
lf that is what you wish to be called.
lt will not be easy.
lt may not be possible.
With you...
...all things are possible.
And l will keep my ears sharp
for your instruction.
And do everything you tell me...
...Spirit Helper Caine.
Let us start.
lt's here we'll rest the horses.
l've got plans for you too, lady.
Well, to be sure,
l hadn't noticed before.
lt's a mighty fine figure
of a woman we have here.
l have here.
You and Saunders backtrack.
l want to be full certain it's not
being followed, we are.
Followed by who?
That third horse.
lt belongs to somebody.
Maybe it's just a packhorse.
They won't be asked of taking
any chances on the ''maybe'' of it.
l thought you said we had to rest
the horses.
lt is what l said, lad.
But you can take the two
lndian mounts, can't you?
Surely, there's been
no one riding them.
They're still as fresh
as the morning dew.
l'm not going on a wild-goose chase.
Oh, you're not, is it?
When you're stronger and faster...
...and bigger than me, Diego, my boy...
...then you can give the orders.
ls not that the way of it, Saunders?
That's what we agreed.
Strongest rules.
All right, Pike.
Have it your own way.
l purely intend to.
Now get sailing along with you.
Well...
...just the two of us, it is.
Cozy as a pair of crickets
on the hearth.
That way.
You follow the trail well.
My father taught me many things.
You must teach me the rest.
There is game.
Should we stop to take food?
That is for you to decide.
But you must tell me what to do.
Does a man ask another
to show him what to do?
The Comancheros must also take food.
We will stop for a short time.
What kind of game would you like?
l do not want to eat game.
But the game here is good.
Birds, squirrel, rabbit.
lt is a personal thing not to take life.
l too have been taught
to reverence all life.
For there, as you know...
...is nahi:
Soul in all things.
Animals, rocks and trees.
Wind and rain.
Life that is perfect...
...and more free
from the weaknesses of man.
You have been taught well, Nashebo.
And so, because man is weak...
...the Great One...
...has made all these things
to help him survive.
l understand your thought.
l understand yours too, Spirit Helper.
You are a spirit...
...and do not have the needs
of a mortal.
We will take other things from nature.
The yampa.
The tubers are strong and sweet.
Tastes good.
-Which one you want?
-You take the flop-hat.
Now.
What l tell you?
-We better check.
-Why? They're coyote meat.
-Come on. Let's get back to Pike.
-A bit anxious, ain't you?
l just don't want him staking a claim
on that lndian woman.
Spirit Helper?
Spirit Helper Caine?
Spirit Helper?
Spirit Helper, don't leave me too.
Spirit Helper?
Spirit Helper Caine?
Spirit Helper, are you still with me?
l am with you.
You were communing with the Great
Spirit. That is how you healed yourself.
lt was only a scab wound.
You do not need the poor medicine
that l have brought.
l do not know this plant.
lt is parethea.
This part of the root...
...is for wounds such as yours.
May l add this to my medicine pouch?
l am honored.
You see?
Now it is you who are teaching me.
-Diego!
-Hey, Pike, how are you?
Welcome home, Pike.
Sure like the looks
of them vittles you brung.
Hey, where you guys been?
Haven't seen you in a long time.
Hey, what you got there, huh?
Pike, how'd things go?
How'd things go, Pike?
l'll be telling you all about it later.
Right now it's a drink l'm needing.
And later, the soft comfort
of a woman's arms...
...after a cruel and rocky journey
to perdition and back.
-She's mine, Pike.
-Yours, is she now?
l'm taking her for my share
of the loot.
lt is grand expectations
you have, Diego.
ls it better than me you are, then...
...that you be giving the orders
and doing the taking?
ls it worth it, lad?
Diego, my lad,
the living truth of it...
...is you always did your learning
the hard way.
lt is a fort.
Nashebo, what are you doing?
My duty. Avenge my father's death,
so that his spirit may find peace.
Did you not tell me
the lndian reveres all life?
And you believe the Great One
gave life to us all?
Only he could.
Then what man has the right
to take from another...
...the gift given by the Great One?
Out of the way!
General Chung demands
rice for his forces!
What is in your thought, grasshopper?
That is the man who killed
my mother and my father.
Revenge is a double-edged sword.
lt cuts both ways.
Chung's soldiers will kill you,
or you'll destroy yourself...
...by the certain suicide of your spirit.
Grasshopper, the wheel of life is turned
inexorably by the infinite stars.
And so it is, the truth
will not be cheated.
Consider General Chung reduced
to stealing some few bags of rice.
ls not the wheel crushing him?
ls not an abyss opening at his feet?
ls not his path, which he treads
with his own feet...
...leading to an eternal grave?
lf l am to be a man...
...must l not avenge my father?
lf you are to be a man...
...must you not act
to save your mother's life?
How can l save my mother?
We must think of a way.
Spirit Helper, you are remembering
the legend of Ship Rock?
Tell it to me.
You wish to see if l have learned
my lessons well?
Long ago,
on a towering rock called Ship...
...were the last of our people.
Giant birds of prey built nests
on the summit of Ship Rock.
Their most-liked food
was the children of our people.
One day, Maniboso,
the son of Sky Chief...
...saw the plight of our people
and took pity.
But there was no way
to ascend to Ship Rock.
So he took the magical hide
of the white buffalo...
...and put it across his shoulders,
arms outstretched from north to south.
The wind carried him high, high up,
until he could reach the peak.
There he killed the birds with the knife
of lightning given him by his father.
Can you not do that, Spirit Helper...
...fly down and kill them
with the knife of lightning?
l cannot.
We do not have the magical hide
of the white buffalo.
l did not think of that.
But you have shown me a way.
Wine!
Play something lively.
lt is now.
They cannot kill you.
l hope not.
But you, Spirit Helper,
you are protected by the heavens.
What's the matter, lassie?
Seen a ghost, have you?
Come, come, lassie.
Come on, me little redskin!
On with the dance.
Oh, Crucita, me love...
...you dance like
the prettiest princess...
...in all of lreland.
Wine for everybody.
There's no more wine.
There are two more bubbling casks
in me tent.
Holding out on us, huh?
Look, they say, sirs:
''To the victor goes the spoils.''
-Don't be frightened. Nashebo sent me.
-Nashebo?
-Where is my son?
-He's waiting for you to come.
What is it we have here?
Bejabbers! A Chinaman! Come through
the center of the earth, have you?
Now, where is it you think
you're going with her?
l have come to take
a mother to her son.
Well...
...a proud sort of man.
Turn around, lad.
l'd be have to telling you
to say your prayers...
...if you wasn't a heathen.
Of course, the only thing
you're getting here, bucko...
...is a terrible,
tearing bullet in the head.
-Hey, who's this, Pike?
-Keep walking.
l said, keep on walking.
Aye, lad. Good. Good.
Give it up, Chinaman.
Strip him and stake him out.
lt's the slow, slow death rising
in his gorge l want him to be tasting.
To the victor go the spoils.
-Nashebo!
-Mother!
Hold it!
You know him, do you, lass? Aye.
Looks like we found another heathen.
Aye. There l was thinking you told me...
...you got them back there on the trail.
-What do you want me to do with him?
-Same as the Chinaman.
They come in together.
Let them go out together.
Spirit Helper, my father's spirit
is still restless.
My mother is their captive.
l have failed.
Why did you not help me?
Nashebo.
You ask...
...l help you be a man.
You have not failed in that.
l too am only a man.
Spirit Helper Caine...
...how is it,
in man's form as you are...
...that you do not feel
the terrible teeth of the cold?
ls the spirit of a man...
...sustained by food...
...or warmed by outer garments?
You have other spirits within you.
What do you mean?
The marks on your arms.
The spirit of the snake
for the power of lightning...
...and the spirit of the mountain lion
for the power of strength.
lt is a dragon and a tiger.
Even more powerful medicine.
Nashebo.
They are only symbols.
Your final test,
the urn of the two symbols:
The dragon and the tiger.
When you can walk in this corridor,
the inner path to the outer world...
...and can push the urn aside
with your forearms...
...you will bear its markings with you
for the rest of your life.
Hundreds of pounds
of burning coal and iron.
How can l, master...
...having only the strength of a man
and the weaknesses?
lt is because you are a man
that you can do this, grasshopper.
l do not understand.
As the softest clay, in time,
becomes the hardest brick...
...a fragile leaf, a diamond...
...as a stream of fiery ore
freezes into unbending iron...
...so too may a man
ascend to himself.
How?
By slowly forging the chi
within yourself...
...the bond between
the finite and infinite...
...the inner essence of your spirit,
and the limitless power of the universe.
How can l do this?
You will have found your strength...
...and the source of your survival.
You will be free.
Well, how is it with them two?
l can't figure it.
Colder than the North Pole last night.
That Chinaman looks like
he slept under six blankets.
Chinaman.
What kind of a man is it, you are?
Like any other. A man.
Like no man l ever knew.
Spirit Helper Caine
is not like any of us.
Can you not see the marks on his arms?
-l didn't see them before.
-You did not look.
Well, what do them brands mean?
ls it somebody's slave, you are?
They are marks of his strength.
He is much stronger than you.
-ls he, now?
-Maybe he is, Mr. Pike.
He sure laid you out yesterday.
lt was lucky, he was. Lucky.
Then prove you are stronger than he.
Or are you only able to kill
those who are bound and helpless?
Well, if it's the proving you want...
...you'll have it.
Untie that thing.
Hurry up, lads. Proving time, it is.
You'd better take that knife, Chinaman.
A fight to the death, it is.
Well, l guess he did prove
who was stronger, all right.
That makes you the new head man,
flop-hat. You got any orders?
l will take your machete, now.
Wanna finish him off?
Free her.
You heard the man.
Thank you, Spirit Helper.
Master, I am troubled.
Why?
My parents are long dead.
General Chung is tumbled
from his arrogance and power.
Yet, within me anger boils,
as water in a heated pot.
Observe the day lily.
Each morning,
with the warmth of the sun...
...it opens in lovely blossom.
Each night, it closes.
I do not understand.
What has a flower to do with my anger?
Once, your anger warmed you...
...and, like the flower,
you opened to it.
That is long past.
It is night.
Am I, then, to do nothing?
Feel nothing? Be still?
Still water is like glass.
It is a perfect level.
A carpenter could use it.
The heart of a wise man
is tranquil and still.
Thus, it is the mirror
of heaven and earth...
...the glass of everything.
Be like still water.
You look into it and see yourself.
-Give them all their possessions.
-Give them everything?
You heard the new leader.
-Leader?
-That's right.
You just got yourself elected.
l cannot lead you.
Well, you've seen this place.
lf you don't lead, you don't leave.
l can lead no one.
l think you made your point,
Mr. Flop-hat.
Here's my share.
What are you gonna do with him,
just let him go?
-Yes.
-No!
-l will avenge my father!
-Nashebo!
-Do you not wish to be a man?
-Nashebo!
ls it not better
to embrace the living...
...than to avenge the dead?
Nashebo.
Saunders, l want them killed.
l want them killed!
Which of you will kill me?
l think you've already answered
that one for us.
Besides, l kind of like it
the way things are.
l'm still the leader here!
Are you, now?
Here we must part.
You must go to the south,
and l, there, to the west.
Will you not come with us?
We are alone, and you are alone.
You have your own people.
Spirit Helper, do not leave.
l need you to teach me
how to be a man.
Nashebo, you are a man.
Goodbye...
...my friend.
He was my true and only spirit helper.