Year of the Monkey

what happens

The trio track a cursed tea set to a samurai, Musashi: an honorable man, but one who refuses to give them the antique unless they aid him in recovering a mystical set of oriental monkey statues (which represent See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil). A wealth Japanese industrialist, Tanaka, has them, and they reward his honorable behavior with success in business. Now he is almost ready to die, and the magic of the statues require that he use them to test the honor of his three children to see which one will inherit. Each monkey gives a child magical powers, but the two sons abuse their power and fail to act honorably. Forced to choose seppuku (ritual suicide) they refuse, and the monkey statues then kill them. each death further reinvigorates Tanaka. The daughter passes her test, but is then required to use the statues to kill her father. She refuses, and kills herself. Musashi then confronts his old friend Tanaka and tricks him into killing the unarmed samurai. Having acted dishon

who made it

directed

Rodney Charters

written

R. Scott Gemmill

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Tia Carrere as Michiko Tanaka
• John Fujioka as M. Musashi
• Robert Ito as Tanaka
• Jill Hennessy as Secretary
• Von Flores as Hitoshi Tanaka
• Edward Heeley as Harmon