Does Mako die at the end of THE PRAYING MANTIS?
Love the show, nobody ever really dies except for non descript characters to set up a story, but I always wondered if Mako's character dies after the fight, or is he just knocked out.
shareGood question. In this episode the Preying Mantis, Lo Sing (played by Mako) fights Kato. Kato wins. The question here is does Kato knock out Lo Sing or does he *kill* Lo Sing? I have watched this episode many times and it's hard to say. Kato beats Lo Sing then leaves with the Hornet. Lo Sing's fate is not mentioned either way.
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eti,
I'm inclined to agree with you, Kato does kill Lo Sing, as you are correct, Lo Sing does indeed fall after a "still" moment.
Also, in "the Hornet and the Firefly" Kato seems to kill the Firefly.
Furthermore, in both "Beautiful Dreamer part 2" and "Corpse of the Year part 2" our heroes fry the baddies using the rockets of the Black Beauty.
Yes our (super)heroes do indeed have a code against killing as they are suppossed to; but they seem to break it when they feel like it.
thanks for clearing that up, eti! Once again you rock!
I don't know about "Beautiful Dreamer", but your reference to "Corpse of the Year", is incorect. The Green Hornet and Kato do not kill the Green Hornet imposter with the rockets from the Black Beauty. What happens is that the imposter tries to ram the Black beauty, and his car goes
over a cliff and bursts into flames when the real black beauty moves out of the way.
leesensei, you are correct about "Corpse of the Year" part 2, I sit corrected. However, it's after the Black Beautys fire rockets at each other.
Furthermore, I am correct about "Beautiful Dreamer" part 2, "the Hornet and the Firefly" and to answer the orginal question here about "the Preying Mantis", where Kato does indeed kill Lo Sing.
I know this is almost three years abandoned, but for the record:
"The Hornet and the Firefly": Our heroes understandably give first priority to saving Mike Axford from the fire, and just as they get him outside, there is an explosion inside the building which spits sizable tongues of flame through the doorway; going back in for Ben Wade just isn't an option.
"Beautiful Dreamer": The Hornet and Kato presumably have no fire-fighting gear in the Beauty (pointed out by James Van Hise in his The Green Hornet Book, Shuster and Shuster, 1988) so there's nothing they can do to help the men in the burning vehicle. Besides, fire and/or police personnel & vehicles should be arriving any minute if not sooner, and they can't afford to get caught. Similarly, deaths follow the Hornet and "his man" not trying to help in the teaser of "The Hunters and the Hunted" (they chase the man who killed the informer they were talking to and he crashes his car and dies), and the climax of "The Frog is a Deadly Weapon" (Glen Connors aka Charles Delaclaire is knocked into the water between Delaclaire's yacht and the dock when a punched or kicked wetsuited thug careens into him, and apparently drowns in a very few seconds!).
And one question for srb-3: Why did you change your mind about the fate of Lo Sing (Mako)? Your initial post here is quite correct in saying, "It's hard to say." Yet down here you flatly assert, "Kato does indeed kill Lo Sing," which just isn't necessarily the case. Hence my question, why the change?
UPDATE: My bad! In his commentary for "Dreamer, part 2" Van Hise actually asserts that the Hornet "must" have fire-fighting gear aboard, and ruthlessly declines to make any use of it. I felt on first reading that this didn't necessarily follow, and misremembered when I wrote the above post. My apologies to the discussion here and to Mr. Van Hise.
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tbrittreid
the previous poster whose post has been deleted had good arguemnts. Besides I have watched it again since then.
Consider, the fight between Kato and Lo Sing is not just a fight it is a fight to the death.
After the fight, Lo Sing does *not* move, he is *very* still.
Also I am sure that someone mentions that Lo Sing is dead. I can gladly check on that though, if you like.
srb-3: I finally got to watch the episode again.
While Lo Sing, responding to the Hornet's first taunt at his refusal to fight Kato, says that if they were to fight he would kill Kato, that doesn't necessarily make it a "fight to the death." Directly and intentionally killing someone--however evil--is not something our heroes would want to do anyway, as they have enough troubles with law enforcement without having an absolutely unshakeable murder charge against them. But they have an image to live down to and don't say anything to the contrary. Lo Sing being "*very* still" (with his eyes open, yet) is more difficult to get around, and Kato's blows to his midsection don't figure to render the other man that deeply unconscious. They don't figure to be fatal either, however. It'll take somebody finding the script and seeing if it specifically says Lo Sing is alive or dead to settle this question.
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tbrittreid: I finally watched this again. The fight is a trraditional gung fu challenge. That in and of itself would make the fight one to the death.
The Green Hornet does indeed avoid killing Kato not as much.
Lo Sing after the fight lies *very* still. He looks dead, not unconscious.
Yeah, given that Kato did carry nunchakus, which are very difficult to not kill with, in at least one episode, good point. And I did admit that Lo Sing's appearance is "difficult to get around," meaning that he did look dead, and since you've reminded me that Kato's anti-killing compunction was not as strong as the Hornet's, I agree.
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Thank you, tbrittreid.
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