- Kwai Chang Caine: [quoting] "Change is not only desirable, it is necessary."
- Peter Caine: Confucius?
- Kwai Chang Caine: Frank Zappa.
- Peter Caine: [addressing his fellow officers after resigning] When I was a very young boy, my father came and told me that my mother had died. I ran to the pond to look for her reflection standing over me, but it wasn't there. And I learned to swim alone. As a cop, whenever I was in danger, I'd look for a reflection, and I'd always see one or all of you standing behind me. And that gave me the courage to go on. I'll be around. But if you ever need somebody, look for my reflection.
- [repeated line]
- Peter Caine: [after watching Caine do something amazing] You have got to teach me how to do that.
- [Original opening. Scene: 15 years before the present]
- Narrator: The grandson of Kwai Chang Caine walks out of the past.
- Young Peter Caine: But I want to fight.
- Kwai Chang Caine: Yes. So did your great-grandfather when he was your age.
- Narrator: He teaches his son wisdom at a Shaolin temple. An evil force destroyed that temple. Father and son each believed the other had perished.
- [Jump to the present]
- Narrator: Fifteen years later, they were reunited. Now Caine faced new challenges... and his son grew up.
- Peter Caine: Look, I'm not my father. I don't do kung fu. I'm a cop. That's who I am. That's what I do.
- Kwai Chang Caine: I am Caine. I will help you.
- [repeated line]
- Kwai Chang Caine: [after his son, Peter, addresses him as "Pop"] Don't ever call me that!