- Michael spies an Asian girl whom he believes he met with in his forgotten past. Following her leads to brutes, discovering he knows karate, a dojo instructor who mentors him, confused memories, cleared memories and a martial arts finish.
- While sitting with Max in an outdoor cafe, Michael Alden sees an Asian girl crossing the street who jogs his memory. He follows her into a gardened alley where she seems to recognize him before disappearing behind a door. Climbing to the top of the building he spies a man in sunglasses training a plain clothed group of men in karate. He is spotted, surrounded and as he is attacked by two men in karate fashion, his instinctive defense reveals he knows karate. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, as Michael slips into unconsciousness and spies the girl and the sunglasses, he fights to remember more about himself. And thus, begins the episode.
Waking up, he finds an oriental wicker case with paints and watercolors which lead him to a karate instructor, Dr. Omaki, who is also the artist of the watercolors. Engaging in a verbal spar with the instructor, Alden is accepted into the class. HIs daughter is asked to enroll Alden and turns out to be the woman he followed, named Tomoyo. She does not remember his face, but is intrigued with him. And with a possessive boyfriend named Raffie looking on, Michael convinces her to join him at Max's bistro, the Inquiring I. What she says is of no help, but the more he looks at her the more he seems to remember about an earlier meeting: Them talking, running, a warning, Raffie shows up to issue a friendly warning.
Back at the dojo, Okami sensed Mike's troubled nature and knowledge of karate. After class, the instructor invites him to lunch. There, he begins to mentor his new student. For therapy, he tells Mike revealing that he does not know himself, and that he is an amnesiac. "How much do you know of yourself, Mr. Alden." For therapy, he teaches him the watercolor of the orchid to learn focus and discipline as his master had taught him. Returning to the room where Raffie was training thugs to find more answers, Alden cannot enter and is discouraged by a suspicious caretaker.
Returning to his mentor's empty dojo, Michael discovers Tomoyo and is once again warned by Raffie. In the next class, Raffie breaks his arm. Returning with him to Max's bistro, Tomoyo begins to remind him him of more: Men surrounding them with Raffie among group. She and he were talking in a different language, a flower fell from her hair.
Max warns him he's heading into a trap. She goes to the telephone. Compelled by these new revelations, Mike seeks out answers from Raffie at his unofficial training facility. Walking into the room, he is surrounded by the gang and Raffie, where he finds it is a cover to train new enforcers for the mob in karate.as part of the mob's loan shark operations. Surrounded, he begins to remember the earlier memories about Tomoyo and Raffie were not accurate. The sunglasses of Raffiie become a memory trigger of the sunglasses of a menace from his past, and that she was not the girl of his memory. Michael gets to knock out his rival before the rest of them close in. Then, at once, Omaki storms in and wipes up the mob in Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan fashion.
Michael finds out for himself, that the place you find yourself is not in other people, but in yourself. Omaki is delighted.
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