Original Air Date: October 25, 1995
Pita learns that his father once dated the heiress to the paint-by-numbers fortune, a woman who apparently does not understand that henna-purple belongs on the canvas, not on her hair. The entire episode comes off so much like a bad romance novel that I suspect Harlequin Romances slipped Michael Sloan a manuscript that they were too embarrassed to publish.
Return of the crummy wig: Clearly strapped for cash, the show recycles this one wig from episode to episode to episode. Last seen on Matthew Caine during the World War II flashbacks in "The Sacred Chalice of I Ching," it now lies listlessly atop the head of Kwai Chang Caine in the flashbacks to the Altamont of eight years ago.
Blooper alert: The paint-by-numbers portait of Kwai Chang Caine created by Teresa eight years earlier sports Caine's current hairline.
See the Episode, Buy the Soundtrack: The song played in this episode (appropriately entitled 'The Promise') is the same melody used in "Sacred Trust" for the scene where the Ancient shows up at Caine's kwoon intending to commit ritual suicide. It seems so touching there. Here it just seems...maudlin.
A Public Service Announcement: Here are the words to the song, 'The Promise,' which can be found on the Narada Cinema CD "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues." Lyrics by John Stuart Dick, composition by Jeff Danna. Copyrighted, but not by me, and quoted without permission. They probably won't care, though, if enough people decide to run right out and buy the album as a result of reading this <G>
Love will last
Beyond time and more
As you left you told me
Love will shield me at war
Three years long
Not a word came to me
Now you're gone
But your love still haunts me
How can this be
My soldier sleeps
His sword remains
For me to keep
Still our love lasts
And will not weep
Love will last
You once promised me
Soft winds hush in the trees
Your sweet words follow me
Ten years long
I have seen empty skies
Filled with rain
While the sun was shining
How can this be
My soldier sleeps
His sword remains
For me to keep
Still our love lasts
Love never leaves