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Caine (David Carradine) is looking for his "brother" Lin Wu (Kam Yuen) from his Shaolin temple days, and has tracked him down to some small town in the Old West ... where the locals flat out refuse to talk about him, even a respectable Chinese tradesman Caine has saved from a hazing by young Greg Dundee (Robert Urich) and his gang of good-for-nothings, Soong (Benson Fung). Only the local sheriff, Rutledge (Clu Gulager) offers some assistance, as he'd like to know the actual whereabouts of Lin Wu himself. Stopping by Lin Wu's house in the woods, Caine runs again into Greg Dundee's gang, who advise him to leave town on the double, but Caine instead picks up another clue leading to Livvy McKenzie (Kathleen Lloyd), who was treated by Lin Wu, who was actually a doctor, and might have been his last patient. Incidently, Livvy is the girlfrend of Greg Dundee, and catching Caine at hers sure doesn't make him happy. Gred later tells everything to his father (John Anderson), the town's own rich man, who incidently knows that his boy and the gang have killed Lin Wu. In the meantime, Caine has learned from Soong's son (Frank Michael Liu) where Lin Wu's body might be hidden, and learning about this, Greg and gang dash there in terror - to be cut off by the sheriff, who arrests them all upon Caine producing Lin Wu's body. The next day Greg and gang are tried, but they plead for innocent because the Chinese are "lesser man", and almost win the jury over with this argument alone - but then Caine, Soong and his whole family enter the room, and in a tearjerker moment, Caine reads from Lin Wu's last letter, and thus the gang is ultimately found guilty unanimously.

What's really right about this episode is its cast, consisting of many B-movie and TV veterans (as well as an early in his career Robert Urich) at the top of their game, and consequentl they're just fun to watch. Unfortunately, there's also plenty wrong with this entry, starting with the somewhat clichéed portrayal of Chinese as a people speaking exclusively in proverbs, its lackluster action scenes, and the rather dull and not exactly subtle courtroom finale. So sure, this one is some fun at least, but falls several feet short of greatness.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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