1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,030 We have business, you and I? 3 00:00:50,972 --> 00:00:53,337 We have business. 4 00:00:53,507 --> 00:00:55,441 There is no need for shouting between us. 5 00:00:55,610 --> 00:00:57,578 We can conduct our business like gentlemen. 6 00:00:58,913 --> 00:01:00,938 Now, tell me. 7 00:01:02,851 --> 00:01:04,408 Tell me. 8 00:01:27,142 --> 00:01:28,837 Here. 9 00:01:29,578 --> 00:01:31,944 This, I think, must be the place. 10 00:01:32,114 --> 00:01:33,603 Good day to you, lad. 11 00:01:34,082 --> 00:01:36,744 - May we have some water? - Water is free. 12 00:01:37,085 --> 00:01:40,919 Free. Free, you say? 13 00:01:41,089 --> 00:01:43,023 Not so. Not always. 14 00:01:43,191 --> 00:01:46,752 Even this, you're building a fence around. 15 00:01:47,396 --> 00:01:49,523 You can help me, sir. 16 00:01:50,499 --> 00:01:54,731 I'm looking for an Oriental gentleman, very close to your age. 17 00:01:54,903 --> 00:01:58,839 A man about your height, not too far from your width. 18 00:02:00,976 --> 00:02:03,240 What would you want with such a man? 19 00:02:04,546 --> 00:02:08,448 Well, when I find him, I'll tell him. 20 00:03:02,371 --> 00:03:05,067 Your tread must be light and sure... 21 00:03:06,641 --> 00:03:08,769 ...as though your path were upon rice paper. 22 00:03:10,446 --> 00:03:14,815 It is said a Shaolin priest can walk through walls. 23 00:03:14,983 --> 00:03:20,820 Looked for, he cannot be seen. Listened for, he cannot be heard. 24 00:03:20,989 --> 00:03:27,122 Touched, he cannot be felt. This rice paper is the test. 25 00:03:27,296 --> 00:03:33,292 Fragile as the wings of the dragonfly, clinging as the cocoon of the silkworm. 26 00:03:34,438 --> 00:03:38,704 When you can walk its length and leave no trace... 27 00:03:38,875 --> 00:03:41,173 ...you will have learned. 28 00:03:49,318 --> 00:03:50,547 Bravo, Clarence! 29 00:04:15,946 --> 00:04:19,541 Drop it. Drop it. Drop it, I said. 30 00:04:22,152 --> 00:04:23,914 Blood has no part in this. 31 00:04:24,087 --> 00:04:27,921 Magnificent. Making fools out of my fools. 32 00:04:28,091 --> 00:04:31,527 If the fighting's dirty, these two are worth a platoon of mercenaries. 33 00:04:31,695 --> 00:04:36,564 They've defended their dishonor in saloons from San Francisco to Madagascar... 34 00:04:36,733 --> 00:04:40,362 ...and nobody ever did what you did to them before. 35 00:04:40,537 --> 00:04:42,767 I'll stake my life on it. 36 00:04:42,940 --> 00:04:46,034 You've the brand of the tiger and the dragon on your arms, eh? 37 00:04:46,210 --> 00:04:48,734 You are Kwai Chang Caine. 38 00:04:48,912 --> 00:04:52,280 - And if I am? - I am Brandywine Gage. 39 00:04:52,449 --> 00:04:56,351 Captain Gage, ashore from the ship Peking Lady... 40 00:04:56,521 --> 00:05:01,617 ...rumpsprung and calloused where no man ought to be calloused. 41 00:05:01,793 --> 00:05:06,730 This brace of surly dogs: My first mate, Clarence Murphy. 42 00:05:08,532 --> 00:05:12,059 And Pan Chao. 43 00:05:12,436 --> 00:05:16,203 He can peel a potato at 20 yards just by hating it. 44 00:05:16,908 --> 00:05:18,135 You're angry, lad. 45 00:05:19,977 --> 00:05:22,878 This should make amends. 46 00:05:30,588 --> 00:05:32,214 What is it? 47 00:05:32,390 --> 00:05:35,154 More than you ever dreamed about, lad. 48 00:05:37,862 --> 00:05:41,457 Kwai Chang Caine, I have a ring for you. 49 00:05:41,999 --> 00:05:43,934 And a name. 50 00:05:45,203 --> 00:05:47,330 Ywang Kyu. 51 00:05:47,971 --> 00:05:50,099 Mean anything, eh? 52 00:05:56,313 --> 00:05:59,579 - Master Kyu? - Yes. 53 00:05:59,751 --> 00:06:02,447 There is an injured man at the gates. 54 00:06:22,473 --> 00:06:25,068 Are you the old man who heals? 55 00:06:25,244 --> 00:06:26,540 I am he. 56 00:06:26,711 --> 00:06:29,146 It is gone. 57 00:06:31,215 --> 00:06:35,618 - Come, let me see it. - You deserve it, drunken fool! 58 00:06:39,224 --> 00:06:42,158 No one deserves pain. 59 00:06:48,834 --> 00:06:54,067 All will be cared for, but you must do just what I tell you. 60 00:06:55,606 --> 00:06:59,441 - You may see him tomorrow. - I have work to do. 61 00:06:59,612 --> 00:07:03,479 - And so has he. - We shall do what we can. 62 00:07:03,649 --> 00:07:05,412 Come. 63 00:07:14,294 --> 00:07:17,160 Yes, I know him. 64 00:07:18,732 --> 00:07:20,562 Old teacher of yours, eh? 65 00:07:22,435 --> 00:07:23,867 You have news of him? 66 00:07:24,335 --> 00:07:26,133 He is well? 67 00:07:28,108 --> 00:07:30,074 He's dead, lad. 68 00:07:35,514 --> 00:07:40,178 The yellow house in town, Caine. After you've read your letter... 69 00:07:40,352 --> 00:07:42,115 ...come see me. 70 00:08:29,102 --> 00:08:32,663 "We, by the grace of heaven, emperor... 71 00:08:32,839 --> 00:08:36,673 ...instruct all men to note this, our edict. 72 00:08:36,843 --> 00:08:39,573 The priest, Kwai Chang Caine... 73 00:08:39,746 --> 00:08:45,582 ...condemned to die for crimes against our imperial throne, has..." 74 00:08:46,820 --> 00:08:50,256 - Yes? - It's me, Ellie. 75 00:08:50,424 --> 00:08:52,687 You didn't come to supper. 76 00:08:54,294 --> 00:08:55,522 You are very kind. 77 00:09:02,769 --> 00:09:05,966 You've changed things around here, Caine. 78 00:09:06,140 --> 00:09:09,302 I didn't even see what things looked like after Father died. 79 00:09:09,943 --> 00:09:13,675 Things seemed so hard to get done, like that fence. 80 00:09:14,181 --> 00:09:17,274 You make it look like a whole range crew's been working on it. 81 00:09:18,218 --> 00:09:21,949 - It will serve. - It's the best fence in the county. 82 00:09:26,926 --> 00:09:29,019 What did those fellows want this morning? 83 00:09:30,263 --> 00:09:32,197 They brought me this. 84 00:09:34,101 --> 00:09:36,126 What is that? 85 00:09:36,302 --> 00:09:40,296 A pardon from the emperor of China. 86 00:10:34,194 --> 00:10:37,756 - Your men are shooting at me. - Belay that! 87 00:10:38,433 --> 00:10:40,424 This is none of mine. 88 00:10:41,268 --> 00:10:43,099 Stay down. 89 00:10:54,882 --> 00:10:57,044 Chi! You're a bloody, bloody fool. 90 00:10:57,217 --> 00:10:59,617 You almost ruined everything, you don't even know it. 91 00:10:59,788 --> 00:11:02,552 I ought to have you flogged till the whip cries mercy. 92 00:11:02,724 --> 00:11:05,522 You are my husband, and I belong to you. 93 00:11:05,694 --> 00:11:07,594 And you may whip me, if it pleases you. 94 00:11:08,164 --> 00:11:12,327 - But I will shoot him again if I get a chance. - Ching, you... 95 00:11:16,104 --> 00:11:18,369 Kwai Chang Caine? 96 00:11:18,608 --> 00:11:20,837 - I am here. - Catch. 97 00:11:21,977 --> 00:11:24,844 There'll be no more shooting. 98 00:11:26,648 --> 00:11:28,310 Come in. 99 00:11:36,625 --> 00:11:37,957 Mister Caine... 100 00:11:38,727 --> 00:11:40,422 Come along. 101 00:11:43,564 --> 00:11:45,294 I'd like you to meet... 102 00:11:45,467 --> 00:11:50,030 ...my mischievous, most dear wife, the Lady Chi Ching. 103 00:11:50,205 --> 00:11:53,936 She is of the royal court and niece to the emperor himself. 104 00:11:54,109 --> 00:11:57,477 Ching, be a lovely girl, will you, and apologize to Mr. Caine... 105 00:11:57,647 --> 00:11:59,341 ...as you meet him, eh, my sweet? 106 00:11:59,614 --> 00:12:01,981 I wish to please you, my husband... 107 00:12:02,150 --> 00:12:04,984 ...but do not ask me to apologize to that murderer. 108 00:12:05,854 --> 00:12:08,322 He's just killed the royal nephew! Get the guard! 109 00:12:08,490 --> 00:12:10,686 - Did you kill him? - Yes, my master. 110 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:12,452 You must leave the country. 111 00:12:12,761 --> 00:12:17,199 The boy you killed, the nephew to the emperor, he was her brother. 112 00:12:17,433 --> 00:12:19,594 They were very close. 113 00:12:20,403 --> 00:12:22,836 I am sorry. 114 00:12:23,005 --> 00:12:28,340 There, you see? He's a proper gentleman. So I must insist, dear wife, apologize. 115 00:12:29,545 --> 00:12:31,446 We may be barbarians in America... 116 00:12:31,614 --> 00:12:33,980 ...but we don't go around shooting one another... 117 00:12:34,150 --> 00:12:35,811 ...often. 118 00:12:38,286 --> 00:12:40,687 I am sorry, Kwai Chang... 119 00:12:42,191 --> 00:12:45,752 ...that I tried to shoot you and missed. 120 00:12:48,397 --> 00:12:50,525 I'm afraid that'll have to do, eh, old fella? 121 00:12:51,601 --> 00:12:52,862 It will do. 122 00:12:54,136 --> 00:12:58,334 - Now to business. - Can I have my pistol back, please? 123 00:13:01,110 --> 00:13:04,011 No more of that. Give it here. 124 00:13:04,814 --> 00:13:08,615 And you go in there and sit down like a good little princess and behave yourself. 125 00:13:11,821 --> 00:13:14,984 So, Kwai Chang... 126 00:13:15,158 --> 00:13:17,285 ...you read the emperor's decree. 127 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,896 I do not understand. He's sworn to see me die. 128 00:13:22,331 --> 00:13:23,662 Aye... 129 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,797 ...and nothing would please him more. 130 00:13:26,102 --> 00:13:29,698 But like all men great and small, trouble came to him. 131 00:13:29,873 --> 00:13:33,866 His newest bride, pretty, little girl, Meui Ling... 132 00:13:34,044 --> 00:13:36,273 ...came down with the brain fever, don't you see? 133 00:13:36,445 --> 00:13:40,939 Well, his majesty announced whoever could cure Meui Ling... 134 00:13:41,118 --> 00:13:42,813 ...should have whatever he desired. 135 00:13:42,985 --> 00:13:47,445 Your old shaman, Ywang Kyu, came along and cured her right up. 136 00:13:47,624 --> 00:13:50,615 And what he desired was forgiveness for you. 137 00:13:53,163 --> 00:13:56,758 - This is true? - As true as I'm standing here. 138 00:13:56,933 --> 00:14:00,834 Well, the emperor was outraged at first. 139 00:14:02,139 --> 00:14:04,539 Had Ywang Kyu thrown out of the palace. 140 00:14:04,741 --> 00:14:06,436 But then... 141 00:14:07,043 --> 00:14:08,568 Then? 142 00:14:09,046 --> 00:14:10,739 Then... 143 00:14:11,348 --> 00:14:13,748 ...they struck a bargain. 144 00:14:18,523 --> 00:14:22,721 The emperor insisted that royal honor demanded a beheading... 145 00:14:22,893 --> 00:14:24,155 ...and they so agreed. 146 00:14:24,761 --> 00:14:27,229 Of what use is such a pardon? 147 00:14:27,398 --> 00:14:29,525 What is pardoned, my headless body? 148 00:14:29,699 --> 00:14:32,669 Peace. Listen to me, not your head, lad. 149 00:14:32,837 --> 00:14:35,134 A token, a small beheading. 150 00:14:35,305 --> 00:14:39,639 The small finger of your right hand, they agreed. That's all. 151 00:14:41,546 --> 00:14:42,808 Why that? 152 00:14:44,148 --> 00:14:47,948 The emperor wanted more, believe me. He's not a charitable man. 153 00:14:48,119 --> 00:14:51,087 No, this was Ywang Kyu's idea. 154 00:14:51,255 --> 00:14:54,713 He said that you would understand. 155 00:14:56,527 --> 00:14:59,928 Because I was a rascal and a fool. 156 00:15:00,530 --> 00:15:04,900 I gambled away all the month's rent from my tenants... 157 00:15:05,069 --> 00:15:09,563 ...bought wine for everyone... 158 00:15:09,739 --> 00:15:12,641 ...paid the flower girls for their songs. 159 00:15:12,810 --> 00:15:16,803 There was nothing left, at last. 160 00:15:16,982 --> 00:15:19,245 They goaded me into it. 161 00:15:19,616 --> 00:15:23,213 I bet my finger. 162 00:15:23,654 --> 00:15:26,350 Mao threw the dice... 163 00:15:26,524 --> 00:15:29,015 ...and I lost. 164 00:15:29,193 --> 00:15:33,357 It hurts, Master Kyu. It hurts. 165 00:15:33,530 --> 00:15:37,525 And what would you have won if the dice had been otherwise? 166 00:15:38,402 --> 00:15:40,927 Four pieces of silver. 167 00:15:44,041 --> 00:15:47,443 As many as I have fingers left. 168 00:15:48,145 --> 00:15:50,875 And with the four pieces of silver... 169 00:15:51,048 --> 00:15:53,175 ...you would have bought more wine... 170 00:15:53,351 --> 00:15:55,718 ...and flower girls, would you not? 171 00:15:58,422 --> 00:16:02,416 Then perhaps with the finger, you have bought wisdom... 172 00:16:03,694 --> 00:16:07,824 ...and that would be well worth the price. 173 00:16:09,735 --> 00:16:12,101 You say Ywang Kyu is dead. 174 00:16:14,539 --> 00:16:15,904 Yes. 175 00:16:16,074 --> 00:16:18,303 - Cognac? - No. 176 00:16:18,710 --> 00:16:20,940 How do you come by his ring? 177 00:16:21,113 --> 00:16:22,739 Given to me by the emperor... 178 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:25,645 ...along with the parchment I put in your hands. 179 00:16:26,951 --> 00:16:30,149 There's sorrow in you, lad, for the death of the old man. 180 00:16:30,322 --> 00:16:32,313 And it does you credit. 181 00:16:32,490 --> 00:16:34,425 But you and I are alive... 182 00:16:34,593 --> 00:16:37,459 ...and so I ask you, are you ready to leave? 183 00:16:38,563 --> 00:16:42,090 - Leave? - Aye, lad, leave. 184 00:16:42,267 --> 00:16:44,861 Go home to China. 185 00:16:45,037 --> 00:16:48,165 My ship lies in the bay... 186 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:52,003 ...loaded and provisioned for the Orient... 187 00:16:52,177 --> 00:16:55,772 ...and I am like a beached whale in this barren land... 188 00:16:55,949 --> 00:16:59,440 ...dying for a splash of water and salt air. 189 00:16:59,619 --> 00:17:00,950 What is to hold you? 190 00:17:02,321 --> 00:17:06,621 Why, you, lad. It's free passage I'm offering you. 191 00:17:09,928 --> 00:17:11,589 Well, lad? 192 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,500 First, I must decide if I wish to pay the price. 193 00:17:18,938 --> 00:17:20,996 The price? 194 00:17:22,342 --> 00:17:25,708 The way the world is, this bids fair to be a bargain for you. 195 00:17:25,877 --> 00:17:28,505 Everything you ever wanted: Friends, home, freedom... 196 00:17:28,681 --> 00:17:32,480 ...your good name. And all it costs, a little finger. 197 00:17:33,786 --> 00:17:37,517 Then, I must decide if you speak the truth. 198 00:17:38,624 --> 00:17:41,218 Not to offend you, Captain Gage... 199 00:17:41,393 --> 00:17:43,862 ...but it well may be you mean to betray me. 200 00:17:44,030 --> 00:17:45,463 Why should I do that? 201 00:17:46,432 --> 00:17:50,197 I do not value myself very highly... 202 00:17:50,370 --> 00:17:53,396 ...but I believe the emperor has much to give to a man... 203 00:17:53,574 --> 00:17:55,005 ...who would bring me to him. 204 00:17:56,142 --> 00:18:00,101 Lad, you don't know, and it's not for me to try and convince you. 205 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:03,646 With or without you, we leave tomorrow at noon. 206 00:18:03,816 --> 00:18:05,807 We sail one hour after we're on board... 207 00:18:05,985 --> 00:18:08,978 ...and it's all the same to me whether you're on board or not. 208 00:18:09,888 --> 00:18:11,754 May I speak to the lady? 209 00:18:15,828 --> 00:18:19,821 - Why? - I believe I may learn the truth. 210 00:18:24,104 --> 00:18:27,231 Lad, the minute she sets eyes on you... 211 00:18:27,407 --> 00:18:31,207 ...she fires a cannon in your direction and you're looking for the truth from her? 212 00:18:31,377 --> 00:18:33,039 Yes. 213 00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:35,941 Why... 214 00:18:37,083 --> 00:18:38,914 ...go ahead then. 215 00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:41,383 Talk to her. 216 00:18:44,457 --> 00:18:46,288 Is this truth? 217 00:18:46,627 --> 00:18:48,117 Am I pardoned? 218 00:18:48,295 --> 00:18:52,061 How can you believe whatever I say? 219 00:18:52,433 --> 00:18:54,730 You know I hate you. 220 00:18:55,769 --> 00:18:59,296 If I say it is true, the pardon may be false. 221 00:18:59,573 --> 00:19:03,134 You will go back to China and die. 222 00:19:03,777 --> 00:19:06,245 And that would please me. 223 00:19:08,415 --> 00:19:11,384 And if I say it is false... 224 00:19:11,886 --> 00:19:14,251 ...the pardon may be true. 225 00:19:15,022 --> 00:19:17,286 But you will stay here... 226 00:19:17,724 --> 00:19:20,591 ...and live among those barbarians... 227 00:19:20,961 --> 00:19:24,397 ...barred forever from your native land. 228 00:19:25,466 --> 00:19:27,764 And that, too, would please me. 229 00:19:28,068 --> 00:19:29,660 You have not answered. 230 00:19:32,706 --> 00:19:36,107 The letter you have read is as it is. 231 00:19:36,610 --> 00:19:40,239 And it was written under my uncle's order. 232 00:19:40,882 --> 00:19:42,281 Do you believe me? 233 00:19:44,184 --> 00:19:45,880 Yes. 234 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,887 Well, then, lad, come along. 235 00:19:50,925 --> 00:19:52,687 I'll see you out. 236 00:20:06,074 --> 00:20:07,973 You were magnificent. 237 00:20:08,143 --> 00:20:12,102 How artfully you picked your way around the truth. 238 00:20:13,013 --> 00:20:14,675 I did not lie. 239 00:20:14,849 --> 00:20:19,877 My uncle is indeed the author of this tale the fool believes. 240 00:20:22,290 --> 00:20:27,057 Brandy, would the American emperor do such a thing? 241 00:20:27,228 --> 00:20:30,493 Lie, make a false promise? 242 00:20:30,666 --> 00:20:33,031 My dear child... 243 00:20:33,201 --> 00:20:37,535 ...go ask... Ask an Indian, eh? 244 00:20:38,439 --> 00:20:43,399 An emperor is an emperor by any name you call him. 245 00:20:46,213 --> 00:20:48,739 Then, honor is a children's game. 246 00:20:49,417 --> 00:20:51,578 We are rich. 247 00:20:52,287 --> 00:20:53,914 You should have let me shoot him. 248 00:20:55,057 --> 00:20:57,388 With twice the reward offered for him alive? 249 00:20:57,559 --> 00:20:59,255 It's throwing money away. 250 00:20:59,428 --> 00:21:03,056 You tell me that no chain will hold this Shaolin priest. 251 00:21:03,498 --> 00:21:05,433 No man may take him. 252 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,429 And yet, you bait a trap with words. 253 00:21:08,604 --> 00:21:09,935 It's the only way, my pet. 254 00:21:10,339 --> 00:21:12,932 He'll walk onto my ship because he wants to. 255 00:21:13,108 --> 00:21:16,565 And he'll step up to the emperor's chopping block because he promised. 256 00:21:17,046 --> 00:21:18,570 And if he does not? 257 00:21:19,515 --> 00:21:21,506 If he does not... 258 00:21:23,886 --> 00:21:26,411 If he does not... 259 00:21:26,888 --> 00:21:29,551 Well, if he does not... 260 00:21:29,725 --> 00:21:32,626 ...we'll shoot him. Eh, lads? 261 00:22:22,077 --> 00:22:23,635 No. 262 00:22:28,518 --> 00:22:30,611 No, you cannot. 263 00:22:30,786 --> 00:22:32,220 You cannot. 264 00:22:32,389 --> 00:22:35,552 I have lost too much already. You cannot! 265 00:22:35,724 --> 00:22:37,989 The fire has entered the hand through the wound... 266 00:22:38,161 --> 00:22:40,219 ...and the hand is dead already. 267 00:22:40,396 --> 00:22:44,628 And if we do not remove the fire, you, too, may die. 268 00:22:44,801 --> 00:22:47,292 Do you hear me, Liu? 269 00:22:47,470 --> 00:22:49,664 Liu, I've done all I could... 270 00:22:49,838 --> 00:22:52,501 ...but the spirit of the finger is calling to the hand. 271 00:22:52,677 --> 00:22:55,144 If we do not give it, the spirit will be angered... 272 00:22:55,311 --> 00:22:57,110 ...and may even demand more. 273 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,148 The spirit? Have you seen the spirit? 274 00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:04,480 - Was it here? - It is here, at the window. 275 00:23:07,890 --> 00:23:11,588 Drive it away! Drive it away! 276 00:23:11,796 --> 00:23:15,162 No, you cannot have my hand! How can I work? How? 277 00:23:15,332 --> 00:23:17,028 Here you are, broth. 278 00:23:54,237 --> 00:23:56,399 You looking for this? 279 00:23:58,075 --> 00:24:00,873 It had a tear in it. I patched it. 280 00:24:01,512 --> 00:24:03,605 It had no tear. 281 00:24:04,281 --> 00:24:05,976 Yes it did, on the button. 282 00:24:08,352 --> 00:24:12,344 - You must think I'm an idiot. - No. 283 00:24:13,190 --> 00:24:17,057 - I just wanted to show my appreciation. - For what? 284 00:24:17,795 --> 00:24:20,355 For everything you've done around here. 285 00:24:20,531 --> 00:24:22,692 You feed me... 286 00:24:23,267 --> 00:24:25,634 ...give me a place to sleep. 287 00:24:25,803 --> 00:24:27,668 It is as it was agreed. 288 00:24:28,172 --> 00:24:30,140 But it seems so cheap. 289 00:24:30,308 --> 00:24:33,401 I want to do something useful for you. 290 00:24:34,513 --> 00:24:38,107 - Useful? - Cook, clean, sew... 291 00:24:38,282 --> 00:24:40,682 ...all the things a woman can do. 292 00:24:42,019 --> 00:24:44,989 You do not believe in yourself? 293 00:24:45,157 --> 00:24:47,090 Of course I do. 294 00:24:47,258 --> 00:24:51,422 Then why do you need to perform for me? 295 00:24:53,899 --> 00:24:57,698 Well, I just don't want you to think that I take you for granted. 296 00:24:58,303 --> 00:25:01,567 You know, that paper, the pardon from the emperor... 297 00:25:02,774 --> 00:25:06,368 ...it made me realize that you weren't tied here... 298 00:25:06,544 --> 00:25:09,309 ...that you have your own life and your own interests. 299 00:25:09,481 --> 00:25:12,746 Whatever they are, they don't center around this ranch... 300 00:25:12,918 --> 00:25:15,181 ...or what happens to it. 301 00:25:16,253 --> 00:25:18,620 There's nothing here to hold me? 302 00:25:18,790 --> 00:25:22,555 What, a worn-down little farmhouse... 303 00:25:22,727 --> 00:25:24,956 ...and a few acres of land? 304 00:25:25,629 --> 00:25:27,120 A few head of stock? 305 00:25:28,467 --> 00:25:30,799 I know what I have. 306 00:25:31,702 --> 00:25:33,568 I know what I am. 307 00:25:33,739 --> 00:25:36,672 You do not know what you are. 308 00:25:37,609 --> 00:25:39,303 Tell me. 309 00:25:42,447 --> 00:25:47,077 - Ellie. - What's Ellie? A name. 310 00:25:47,252 --> 00:25:49,083 A woman. 311 00:25:49,921 --> 00:25:51,616 A person. 312 00:25:51,790 --> 00:25:56,284 There are a lot of women in the world, a lot of people. 313 00:25:59,097 --> 00:26:03,535 But only one Ellie. 314 00:26:03,703 --> 00:26:08,730 Alone, and fighting. 315 00:26:08,907 --> 00:26:10,340 Fighting for what? 316 00:26:10,742 --> 00:26:12,767 You look into the mirror... 317 00:26:12,945 --> 00:26:16,608 ...and you see only yourself. 318 00:26:17,549 --> 00:26:19,608 What else is there? 319 00:26:21,253 --> 00:26:23,448 You are alone... 320 00:26:23,622 --> 00:26:25,647 ...and separate... 321 00:26:26,292 --> 00:26:30,490 ...but you are also part of the land. 322 00:26:31,097 --> 00:26:33,792 Part of the people... 323 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:36,661 ...part of the whole. 324 00:26:38,537 --> 00:26:41,632 Everything is within your reach. 325 00:26:42,408 --> 00:26:45,138 Where do you fit in this whole, in all this? 326 00:26:46,879 --> 00:26:50,144 I also am... 327 00:26:52,251 --> 00:26:54,515 ...in part of the whole. 328 00:26:57,024 --> 00:26:59,149 With me? 329 00:26:59,825 --> 00:27:01,588 With you. 330 00:27:04,597 --> 00:27:06,190 Yet, we're apart. 331 00:27:06,365 --> 00:27:08,765 We are joined. 332 00:27:09,235 --> 00:27:10,930 Are we? 333 00:27:16,275 --> 00:27:18,242 Now, are we? 334 00:27:29,288 --> 00:27:30,812 - Caine? - Yes? 335 00:27:30,991 --> 00:27:34,357 I've never met anyone like you before. 336 00:27:35,429 --> 00:27:37,089 About last night... 337 00:27:37,263 --> 00:27:38,491 ...the way I came in... 338 00:27:38,665 --> 00:27:42,100 - You must think that l... - I think you are Ellie. 339 00:27:44,905 --> 00:27:48,272 You've decided to go, haven't you? 340 00:27:48,441 --> 00:27:50,910 - Go? - Back to China. 341 00:27:53,179 --> 00:27:54,407 I do not know. 342 00:27:55,282 --> 00:27:59,377 Well, there's nothing to keep you here. 343 00:28:00,287 --> 00:28:02,379 There's a great deal. 344 00:28:03,690 --> 00:28:05,089 Then why go? 345 00:28:05,258 --> 00:28:07,487 I have asked myself that. 346 00:28:08,261 --> 00:28:10,990 There is much here that I have loved. 347 00:28:11,931 --> 00:28:14,196 The land... 348 00:28:14,368 --> 00:28:15,835 ...the people. 349 00:28:16,870 --> 00:28:22,570 Half my life is here, and through my father, my roots. 350 00:28:23,610 --> 00:28:28,172 But China is home. 351 00:28:44,766 --> 00:28:46,630 What must we say... 352 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,669 ...of a mirror that receives tranquility... 353 00:28:51,838 --> 00:28:53,830 ...yet, reflects troublement? 354 00:28:56,309 --> 00:29:00,302 The mirror I spoke of was you, student Caine. 355 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,507 It is not for myself I am troubled, master... 356 00:29:03,685 --> 00:29:06,209 ...but for the sick man, Liu. 357 00:29:06,854 --> 00:29:11,381 If he does not accept the loss of his hand, he will die. 358 00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:14,527 Did not Ywang Kyu make this clear to him? 359 00:29:14,695 --> 00:29:17,529 - Yes, master, but... - Yes? 360 00:29:18,766 --> 00:29:22,428 Shall we not act in spite of the obstinacy of the sick man... 361 00:29:22,603 --> 00:29:24,399 ...when inaction may destroy him? 362 00:29:24,571 --> 00:29:29,168 Is it your feeling that Ywang Kyu is not forceful enough? 363 00:29:30,712 --> 00:29:32,805 I have asked myself that question. 364 00:29:33,582 --> 00:29:35,913 Look to the water at your feet. 365 00:29:36,451 --> 00:29:38,385 Does not the sage say: 366 00:29:38,554 --> 00:29:41,522 "What is more yielding than water? 367 00:29:41,689 --> 00:29:43,816 Yet, back it comes again... 368 00:29:43,991 --> 00:29:48,927 ...wearing down the rigid strength which cannot yield to withstand it." 369 00:29:49,362 --> 00:29:53,663 What is more forceful than quiet water? 370 00:30:11,219 --> 00:30:15,553 Look at him. How can you trust them? You can't. 371 00:30:16,124 --> 00:30:18,558 I am not asked to trust them. 372 00:30:39,147 --> 00:30:41,013 Stop her. 373 00:31:14,750 --> 00:31:17,412 So you are Caine's woman. 374 00:31:17,586 --> 00:31:19,486 My husband spoke about you. 375 00:31:19,656 --> 00:31:22,988 I'm the woman he works for, or did. 376 00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:26,251 He has then decided to come with us? 377 00:31:26,561 --> 00:31:27,927 You'd better ask him that. 378 00:31:30,934 --> 00:31:32,161 Say, what's you name? 379 00:31:33,303 --> 00:31:34,667 Chi Ching. 380 00:31:34,838 --> 00:31:36,532 Caine told me about you. 381 00:31:37,372 --> 00:31:41,103 I've never seen a princess before, but you look like one. 382 00:31:42,878 --> 00:31:45,347 You do not dress like the other American women. 383 00:31:45,915 --> 00:31:47,609 Why is that? 384 00:31:48,317 --> 00:31:50,377 I have to work for a living, that's why. 385 00:31:50,553 --> 00:31:52,019 You are a peasant, then? 386 00:31:53,055 --> 00:31:55,024 I wouldn't say that. 387 00:31:55,191 --> 00:31:56,919 I own 100 acres of land... 388 00:31:57,093 --> 00:32:00,687 ...and I have near 20 head of horses and as many cattle. 389 00:32:01,496 --> 00:32:02,759 That is very much. 390 00:32:02,931 --> 00:32:05,526 Yeah, too much for me to handle myself. 391 00:32:05,868 --> 00:32:09,134 And you people are taking away a good hand at a bad time for me. 392 00:32:09,707 --> 00:32:13,402 It would always be a bad time for you to take Caine away. 393 00:32:13,576 --> 00:32:15,476 You care about him very much. 394 00:32:16,246 --> 00:32:18,146 Now, what would you know about that? 395 00:32:18,314 --> 00:32:20,281 I've seen the way you look at him. 396 00:32:20,450 --> 00:32:21,974 I am a woman too. 397 00:32:22,452 --> 00:32:25,249 What I don't understand is how you could care so deeply...? 398 00:32:25,421 --> 00:32:26,683 Who said I cared...? 399 00:32:26,856 --> 00:32:30,383 So deeply about a murderer and a criminal. 400 00:32:30,593 --> 00:32:33,960 I've known a lot of men, and not many decent men among them. 401 00:32:34,130 --> 00:32:38,089 This man, Caine, is the decentest, kindest man I've ever known. 402 00:33:01,925 --> 00:33:04,621 Well, priest, what have you decided? 403 00:33:04,794 --> 00:33:07,286 I have made no decision. 404 00:33:08,164 --> 00:33:09,893 Is it that you do not trust me? 405 00:33:10,066 --> 00:33:13,400 I am certain you cannot tell a lie. 406 00:33:13,570 --> 00:33:14,797 Well, then? 407 00:33:14,971 --> 00:33:17,964 I have received a pardon from the emperor. 408 00:33:18,208 --> 00:33:21,644 Now I need a pardon from his nephew, your brother. 409 00:33:21,812 --> 00:33:23,245 But he is dead. You killed him. 410 00:33:24,081 --> 00:33:26,480 That is why I ask his pardon. 411 00:33:28,286 --> 00:33:30,549 How can you ask pardon of a dead man? 412 00:33:31,155 --> 00:33:34,317 Have you not sometimes talked to the dead? 413 00:33:35,092 --> 00:33:36,684 Your ancestors? 414 00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:38,383 What have they to do with this? 415 00:33:38,795 --> 00:33:41,492 It is the principle I speak of. 416 00:33:41,865 --> 00:33:43,457 Do you think he will hear you? 417 00:33:43,766 --> 00:33:45,496 If he thinks me worthy. 418 00:33:46,236 --> 00:33:48,033 Poor priest. 419 00:33:49,173 --> 00:33:52,267 You do not think me worthy? 420 00:33:52,710 --> 00:33:54,837 I think you a fool. 421 00:34:18,635 --> 00:34:20,500 Is anything wrong, Lady? 422 00:34:20,672 --> 00:34:23,139 Wrong? What should be wrong? 423 00:34:23,307 --> 00:34:24,775 I don't know, Lady. 424 00:34:25,175 --> 00:34:27,541 Silly girl, did I say anything was wrong? 425 00:34:27,711 --> 00:34:29,475 No, Lady. 426 00:34:29,646 --> 00:34:33,309 Then stop prattling and come and fix my hair. 427 00:34:40,358 --> 00:34:42,757 Well, lad, what's your answer? 428 00:34:45,330 --> 00:34:47,355 Still suspicious? 429 00:34:47,866 --> 00:34:50,164 I believe, captain... 430 00:34:50,335 --> 00:34:53,963 ...that your wife can only speak the truth. 431 00:34:54,139 --> 00:34:57,437 Which is as much to say that I do not? 432 00:34:57,608 --> 00:34:59,076 I mean no offense. 433 00:35:00,145 --> 00:35:02,010 I will not surrender my finger. 434 00:35:02,814 --> 00:35:06,045 Lad, that's none of my doing. I've no use for that kind... 435 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,482 Does that mean you're going? 436 00:35:11,123 --> 00:35:14,216 If you have room for me, I will go. 437 00:35:15,527 --> 00:35:19,088 - Splendid. - Oh, Lady, the demon! 438 00:35:21,033 --> 00:35:23,796 Murphy, Pan Chao, quick, upstairs! 439 00:36:06,645 --> 00:36:08,977 Why did you scream? 440 00:36:11,817 --> 00:36:13,944 I could not help myself, Lady. 441 00:36:14,386 --> 00:36:17,446 The scream erupts from your body, then, at will? 442 00:36:17,823 --> 00:36:20,758 - When I saw the demon upon the window... - It was no demon. 443 00:36:20,925 --> 00:36:23,258 But, Lady, it was. Did you not see its eyes? 444 00:36:23,429 --> 00:36:26,158 - I saw. - It was the eyes of a demon. 445 00:36:26,599 --> 00:36:30,591 Foolish girl, demons are for children. Don't you know that? 446 00:36:32,805 --> 00:36:34,295 - It was... - What? 447 00:36:36,809 --> 00:36:39,573 No matter. Take the boxes downstairs. 448 00:37:04,871 --> 00:37:08,897 Do you believe that bird was the spirit of my dead brother? 449 00:37:10,009 --> 00:37:11,534 Do you? 450 00:37:11,710 --> 00:37:14,544 You ask too much, priest. 451 00:37:14,713 --> 00:37:18,343 You expect a murdered man to forgive his murderer. 452 00:37:20,220 --> 00:37:21,687 Who else can? 453 00:37:22,022 --> 00:37:25,480 Isn't it enough to be pardoned by the emperor? 454 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,854 It is a great honor. 455 00:37:29,295 --> 00:37:32,390 It is very generous of the emperor to pardon you in that way. 456 00:37:32,566 --> 00:37:35,330 - Don't you think? - To fulfill a promise. 457 00:37:35,502 --> 00:37:37,869 He didn't have to keep his promise. 458 00:37:38,038 --> 00:37:39,835 An emperor doesn't have to do anything. 459 00:37:40,005 --> 00:37:43,237 Unlike sea captain's wives, who have to learn the virtue of silence. 460 00:38:06,266 --> 00:38:08,063 We have him, love. 461 00:38:08,802 --> 00:38:10,463 We do not wish to frighten him away. 462 00:38:10,637 --> 00:38:13,299 You see, the trick is to get him in motion. 463 00:38:13,474 --> 00:38:16,841 Once underway, his momentum will carry him to the ship. 464 00:38:17,011 --> 00:38:20,343 And then, there's nowhere else for him to go but to the chopping block. 465 00:38:20,781 --> 00:38:23,409 - You should have let me shoot him. - No, no, my love. 466 00:38:23,583 --> 00:38:25,449 We'll get him my way. 467 00:38:25,753 --> 00:38:27,549 You're a princess. 468 00:38:27,721 --> 00:38:29,883 Don't let his foolishness unnerve you. 469 00:38:30,191 --> 00:38:31,590 Do not call it foolishness. 470 00:38:31,758 --> 00:38:35,092 - What is it, then, spirits and demons? - A spirit is not a demon. 471 00:38:35,262 --> 00:38:36,752 And a crow is not a spirit. 472 00:38:36,930 --> 00:38:41,867 And it was a crow, a simple, ugly bird. The land is full of them. 473 00:38:42,803 --> 00:38:44,293 Ching. 474 00:38:46,941 --> 00:38:51,140 Are we quarreling over a bird? 475 00:38:55,516 --> 00:38:57,484 You know, my love... 476 00:38:57,784 --> 00:39:01,551 ...I would gladly exchange this crow... 477 00:39:02,489 --> 00:39:04,117 ...anytime... 478 00:39:04,959 --> 00:39:06,654 ...for my crow's nest... 479 00:39:07,962 --> 00:39:09,862 ...and China. 480 00:39:12,967 --> 00:39:18,872 But do not forget how much a grateful emperor can do for us. 481 00:39:23,077 --> 00:39:24,567 My love. 482 00:39:42,964 --> 00:39:47,263 Kwai Chang, you only decided to come when I told you who wrote the pardon? 483 00:39:47,436 --> 00:39:48,460 Yes. 484 00:39:48,637 --> 00:39:50,628 My husband told you the same thing. 485 00:39:51,205 --> 00:39:54,266 - Did you not believe him? - No. 486 00:39:54,443 --> 00:39:57,173 - Yet, you believe me? - Yes. 487 00:39:58,146 --> 00:39:59,477 Why shouldn't I lie? 488 00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:03,209 You have no need to lie. 489 00:40:03,785 --> 00:40:06,150 - But I might lie... - Enough! 490 00:40:09,391 --> 00:40:11,119 But I didn't. 491 00:40:11,293 --> 00:40:12,624 Lady, the demon! 492 00:40:20,235 --> 00:40:21,964 Make him go! Make him go! 493 00:40:22,137 --> 00:40:23,366 I will do as you say! 494 00:40:23,538 --> 00:40:26,837 - You can have my head! - But it may be too late. 495 00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:28,874 Do you understand? 496 00:40:29,077 --> 00:40:31,375 I don't care! 497 00:40:31,546 --> 00:40:33,276 Try the gas on me! 498 00:40:33,448 --> 00:40:34,675 Go tell Master Kan. 499 00:40:34,850 --> 00:40:38,081 And go to the laundry and get clean rags. Hurry. 500 00:40:51,401 --> 00:40:53,561 - Kill it. - Do not shoot. 501 00:40:53,735 --> 00:40:56,727 You've orders, man. Put the beast out of his misery. 502 00:40:57,140 --> 00:41:00,041 No. It is the spirit of my dead brother. 503 00:41:00,208 --> 00:41:02,268 It's the wart on my great aunt's nose. 504 00:41:02,444 --> 00:41:05,379 Put it away, Murphy, with a bullet down its ugly gizzard. 505 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,205 No. 506 00:41:08,150 --> 00:41:10,084 - Do it, man, now. - Please? 507 00:41:19,194 --> 00:41:21,322 - Fine shooting, captain. - Not bad, eh? 508 00:41:21,497 --> 00:41:23,362 Haven't lost the touch. 509 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,868 Murderer. You killed him. 510 00:41:27,036 --> 00:41:29,196 Use your head, princess. 511 00:41:29,372 --> 00:41:32,398 If this was a spirit, could a bullet have brought it down? 512 00:41:32,575 --> 00:41:35,305 By your own lights, my pet... 513 00:41:35,478 --> 00:41:39,812 ...this was no royal-blooded, imperial spirit... 514 00:41:39,982 --> 00:41:42,382 ...to come tumbling down like that, eh, me love? 515 00:41:51,394 --> 00:41:54,454 Kwai Chang, it is all a lie. There is no pardon. 516 00:41:54,630 --> 00:41:57,427 If you go back to China, you will be killed. 517 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,765 I knew you would not lie to me. 518 00:42:00,937 --> 00:42:03,235 A crow, after all. 519 00:42:03,406 --> 00:42:07,240 - I am sorry. - I would've wished it were true. 520 00:42:07,410 --> 00:42:11,039 The emperor did write those words, but he did not mean to honor them. 521 00:42:11,248 --> 00:42:12,976 That is why I tried to kill you first. 522 00:42:13,149 --> 00:42:15,242 You realize, me bucko, I cannot let you go. 523 00:42:16,086 --> 00:42:17,609 Why? 524 00:42:18,355 --> 00:42:21,687 I risked my good name with the emperor to win her. 525 00:42:21,858 --> 00:42:25,386 She's part of the payoff, don't you see? An advance, so to speak. 526 00:42:25,596 --> 00:42:28,063 I've invested too much. 527 00:42:29,632 --> 00:42:33,090 Too much beautiful planning to lose it now. 528 00:42:33,437 --> 00:42:35,667 The old man's ring. 529 00:42:35,873 --> 00:42:39,274 The artful little thing about the finger, the clincher, eh? 530 00:42:39,676 --> 00:42:41,267 It was why I believed you. 531 00:42:41,477 --> 00:42:43,343 No matter, Kwai Chang Caine. 532 00:42:43,513 --> 00:42:45,448 We have an appointment in Peking. 533 00:42:46,316 --> 00:42:47,874 Please, into the coach. 534 00:42:48,051 --> 00:42:49,643 I would be foolish to do so. 535 00:42:51,021 --> 00:42:53,215 Belay that. This is for me. 536 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,562 Master Kyu, I was so much trouble for you. 537 00:44:40,732 --> 00:44:43,495 You were much more trouble for yourself, Liu. 538 00:44:43,668 --> 00:44:46,193 I see nothing to give thanks for. 539 00:44:46,371 --> 00:44:49,807 I brought you my husband who had a hand and an arm. 540 00:44:49,975 --> 00:44:52,569 And you returned to me a man who is half himself. 541 00:44:52,745 --> 00:44:55,304 Woman, be still. 542 00:44:57,583 --> 00:45:03,214 And you, boy, thanks for keeping vigil so long with me. 543 00:45:05,958 --> 00:45:07,516 Master. 544 00:45:10,095 --> 00:45:11,824 Come, woman. 545 00:45:18,804 --> 00:45:20,635 Master... 546 00:45:20,806 --> 00:45:24,401 ...why was the spirit not satisfied with Liu's hand? 547 00:45:25,210 --> 00:45:27,234 The spirit might have been. 548 00:45:27,413 --> 00:45:30,871 But Liu, himself, had not done with gambling. 549 00:45:31,050 --> 00:45:35,009 He refused, as we recall, to let me help him. 550 00:45:35,387 --> 00:45:37,378 I do not understand. 551 00:45:37,556 --> 00:45:39,524 What did the spirit want? 552 00:45:39,692 --> 00:45:41,216 That, we may not know. 553 00:45:41,393 --> 00:45:43,623 Only what they do. 554 00:45:44,396 --> 00:45:48,355 But it seems clear that the finger was lost foolishly... 555 00:45:48,534 --> 00:45:51,163 ...and that angered the spirit of the finger... 556 00:45:51,336 --> 00:45:56,330 ...to be ripped wantonly off with so many good years of work left in it. 557 00:45:56,875 --> 00:45:59,708 But to take the arm and save the life... 558 00:45:59,879 --> 00:46:03,336 ...that appeased the spirit, for it was a good loss. 559 00:46:03,716 --> 00:46:06,776 The spirit decided to let Liu live. 560 00:46:07,754 --> 00:46:13,419 Sometimes we must lose part of a gamble in order to win in the end. 561 00:46:14,961 --> 00:46:19,921 Master, Liu might not have consented to the loss of his arm... 562 00:46:20,099 --> 00:46:22,567 ...except for the appearance of the crow. 563 00:46:22,801 --> 00:46:24,736 Yet, the crow did appear. 564 00:46:25,205 --> 00:46:29,938 And on the floor of the sick room, I found this. 565 00:46:37,617 --> 00:46:42,714 Liu believed in his demons by his own choice, not by ours. 566 00:46:42,888 --> 00:46:47,155 If the appearance of one of his demons helped him make the right choice... 567 00:46:47,327 --> 00:46:50,784 ...then we can only be grateful for the ways of providence. 568 00:46:51,197 --> 00:46:53,028 Can we not? 569 00:47:13,988 --> 00:47:15,648 All right, lad, it's over. 570 00:47:15,822 --> 00:47:19,418 There is a time when even an emperor must be disobeyed. 571 00:47:21,394 --> 00:47:25,660 I am satisfied that the affair of honor between us is over. 572 00:47:32,472 --> 00:47:33,997 I've never met a man like you. 573 00:47:36,676 --> 00:47:40,772 Swear, I admire you more than I can say, but... 574 00:47:44,617 --> 00:47:47,018 I wouldn't be you... 575 00:47:47,188 --> 00:47:48,917 ...for anything in the world. 576 00:48:57,058 --> 00:48:59,526 Will they be in trouble when they get home? 577 00:48:59,693 --> 00:49:01,628 The emperor is vengeful. 578 00:49:01,796 --> 00:49:06,233 But they have each other, and they have the ship. 579 00:49:07,035 --> 00:49:09,503 I guess the fence will never be finished. 580 00:49:09,671 --> 00:49:12,798 - I will finish it before I go. - Don't. 581 00:49:13,108 --> 00:49:14,405 Your horses will stray. 582 00:49:15,343 --> 00:49:16,571 Let them. 583 00:49:20,782 --> 00:49:22,340 Will you ever come back? 584 00:49:24,619 --> 00:49:26,247 Life is long. 585 00:49:28,455 --> 00:49:30,721 Will you ever belong to anyone? 586 00:49:32,927 --> 00:49:35,863 No man can give himself away. 587 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,228 I would. 588 00:49:41,305 --> 00:50:41,165 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org