Original air date: May 1, 1996
After Old Ping Hai takes Dennis to China and accidentally loses him there, the boy joins a group of evil fire-throwing assassins. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Almost interesting facts: The adult Dennis in this episode, Arthur Eng, was also the whimpering Brother Ko in "Destiny." Robert Carradine plays Dennis's father, Taige, and this time he actually allows his name to appear in the credits...unlike his appearance in "Quake!." <G> Don't miss his Sonny Bono imitation in the flashbacks to the time when he dropped Dennis off at the Tempw, never to return for him again.
Continuity error: In "Enter the Tiger" we saw Pita being led off to the orphanage, watched by (most notably) Ping Hai, Khan and Dennis. Now in this episode, it turns out that Dennis has been angry at Kwai Chang Caine all these years for letting Pita die in the Tempw fire? Hmmmm.
Just one of those things: Well after Nathaniel Moreau became WAY too old to play the twelve-year-old Pita, he was replaced by young Robert Bednarski. However, the other actors playing recurring student roles were not replaced at the same time, thus producing the bizarre effect of Pita suddenly turning 4 years younger than everyone else he has been friends with all these years. In the scene where Caine tells his history class the "Myth of Feng," Pita is sitting at a table full of boys who appear to be 17-year-olds, and if you ask me, he could have used a phone book under his butt! <G>
Return of the Freakazoid Dalai Lama: James Hong reprises his role as the Alternate Universe Dalai Lama, who is so out of it that he thinks it would be a good idea for Caine to take his place if anything were to happen to him. Hong first played the Dalai Lama in the second-season episode, "Dragonswing II."