So they're using the dojo as a filming site for a martial arts flick, whose star is a former student of Charlie. The star is kind of arrogant and Duncan has to take him down a peg, and also has to find out why a stuntguy is killed during the shooting. Turns out the star (Sang, Jimmy Sang) wrote the flick and it just happens to be The True Story of The Way It Was/Is when Jimmy was a mob guy.
In the midst of it all, we get an elder killed. Turns out Duncan knew the elder and Jimmy Sang respected the old fellow some. The mob tries to kill Jimmy. Duncan saves the day while Jimmy is sent down the conveyor belt toward the crematorium fireplace. Jimmy decides that working in the dead geezer's garden is a good idea for a time.
Got that?
Good.
Questions:
1. Why do we love seeing Duncan throw people around so much? Not even necessarily bad guys ... just guys who show up at the dojo with a chip on their shoulder and an attitude that precedes them into the room. Isn't it a shame that May-Ling Shen wasn't around to keep the young turks in their place?
2. Ain't it really cool seeing Duncan being so respectful to the geezer when he's at least 4 times as old as the geezer? Is this an example of irony?
3. Duncan's pants and Duncan's hair are running neck'n' neck in this episode. Yes?
4. This episode reminds me, more than a little, of an episode in the Kung Fu: the Legend Continues series, where Caine's son is a twin of this martial arts actor and they use him as a stunt double / bodyguard for the martial arts actor. This is not really a question, or is it?
5. What was the sword's revenge? Who was the sword and what was its motivation?
6. How many of you want to adjourn class to the bar across the street from HLU? I'm buying. Too nice a day to be inside.