The First Temple

1Dark Vision

44 minJan 31, 1996

Peter is having psychic visions about murders.

2The First Temple

44 minFeb 7, 1996Now viewing

In this episode, Peter and Caine travel to ancient China to help the first shaolin monks fight the warlords. The monks don't have the tattoos and Peter and Caine must explain the essence of being Shaolin.

3Circle Of Light

44 minFeb 14, 1996

A hold-up man shoots Skalany in a small-town diner, but the real bad guy is his boss---a U.S. Marshall.

4Prism

44 minFeb 21, 1996

Caine has a vision in volving Capt. Simms, gunfire and an underworld figure. Then, witnesses see Simms shoot the mobster.

5Black Widow

44 minFeb 28, 1996

""Deadly and venomous creatures"" want to use Caine to take over Chinatown. Meanwhile, Peter has a new girlfriend.

6Shaolin Shot

44 minApr 24, 1996

Somebody's targeting a hockey team, so Peter poses as a player and joins the team.

7The Phoenix

44 minMay 1, 1996

When the Dalai Lama visits Chinatown, he is targeted by a strange contract killer with flames in his eyes. Peter and Caine find out that the assassin is an old friend.

8Special Forces

44 minMay 8, 1996

A mercenary named Macklin with whom Caine and Peter have had a run-ins in the past, turns up at a military academy, where cadets are killing themselves.

9Dragon's Lair

44 minMay 15, 1996

Kids exploring an abandoned house find a trove of Chinese artifacts, including a board game which emits a ""great force"" that hits Caine miles away.

10Veil of Tears

44 minMay 22, 1996

Kwai Chang Caine enrolls in a speech class while Peter tries to solve a rash of crimes against local merchants. Several of the merchants,who happen to be in the class, are being terrorized by members of a triad group led by Li Sung (see earlier episode ""Tournament"") and his new disciple Clarence Choi (see earlier episodes ""The Lacquered Box"" and ""Aspects of the Soul""). Li Sung wants to take control of the successful businesses owned by these merchants, and kidnaps their teacher in an attempt to get them to comply. Banding together with Caine and Peter, the merchants fight back against the triad and manage to free their teacher and send Clarence and Li Sung back to prison.

11Chill Ride

44 minOct 2, 1996

A carnival house of horrors scares a man to death --- thanks to its operator, an old adversary of Caine's known as Dr. Frieze.

12Escape

44 minOct 9, 1996

Caine and Peter trace the missing Kermit to a compound where a terrorist is holding relatives of diplomats and politicians hostage.

13Who Is Kwai Chang Caine?

44 minOct 16, 1996

After a date with Scalany, Caine is hit by a car, then disappears. Months later he surfaces aa a casino pianist---who recognizes no one from the precinct.

14Storm Warning

44 minOct 23, 1996

Kermit travels to Florida to seek revenge on the gangster who murdered his brother.

15A Shaolin Treasure

44 minOct 30, 1996

Sing Wah memebers steal a Shaolin treasure and sell it to a publishing house, which uses it for a promotional treasure hunt. Then Sing Wah decides it wants it back.

16Dark Side of the Chi

44 minNov 6, 1996

Caine is poisoned by some assailants with a toxin that affects his chi, his life force. According to the Ancient, Caine will die, unless his spirit and his chi can be reunited.

17Ancient Love

44 minNov 13, 1996

Gangsters from Chinatown seek a key and bracelet that are in the possession of a female kung fu teacher, whose mortally ill grandfather was an old adversary of the Ancient.

18Blackout

44 minNov 20, 1996

Thieves cause a blackout, allowing the escape of a pair of prisoners at the 101st Precinct .

19Time Prisoners

44 minNov 27, 1996

When Captain Simms is abducted, she is taken back to 1977.

20Requiem

44 minDec 4, 1996

Peter has a difficult time protecting a woman from a stalker, a rogue police officer. Meanwhile, Caine is dealing with his own demons.

21A Shaolin Christmas

44 minDec 25, 1996

A blizzard, on Christmas Eve, provides opportunities to a variety of criminals: a mugger disguised as Santa Claus, a repeat rapist, and an attempted prison break. The officers of the 101st Precinct must deal with them all.

22May I Talk with You

44 minJan 1, 1997

When a hostage taker demands to be patched into a talk-radio host's show, Caine defuses the crisis on the air --- which launches his own radio career.