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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.