A pretty Asian woman saves Caine's life when he is badly wounded by a murdering sheriff, but conspires to use him as a pawn to possibly free her father from a Chinese prison.
A powerful landowner attempts to drive off Chinese miners from their legally owned mountain of gold, but complications arise from his son's love for the girl Cloud Shadow.
A frightened boy, defending a jail against the bandits who killed his sheriff father, inspires courage in an adult coward. At the moment of truth, Caine teaches them both to temper justice with mercy.
Caine is falsely arrested for stealing and is sent to a silver mine. After arriving, he teaches a fellow prisoner how to endure extreme heat, cold and how to survive in a serious cave-in.
Ancient Warrior, an aged Native American accompanied by Caine, seeks burial in his sacred, ancestral land. But the burial site is located dead center in a violent, Native American-hating town called Purgatory. Gary Busey guest stars.
Kwai Chang Caine, stricken by poisoned water, lies near death in the home of a former slave who fearfully harbors a secret so precious that it might well save the entire community from disaster.
Caine, in a reversal of roles, finds himself as the master with a 15-year-old boy as his disciple in which he must teach him that the act of revenge can lead to the death of the spirit.
Caine befriends a group of Hutterites who are God-fearing and simple people yet fear contamination from outsiders. They are involved in a dispute over a nearby waterhole with cattlemen who fear that their sheep may infect the water.