Desperate for a hiding place in the canyon, the wounded Zorro reminisces further how he showed Felipe his set-up in the hacienda's secret escape trough the fireplace to the hideout cave. The alcalde's arrests of Don Alejandro and Victoria Escalante and Mendoza's uttering that nothing scares soldiers more then the unknown inspired Don Diego to invent the mysterious black-cloaked and -masked man, named after the cunning fox ('zorro' in Spanish) found in the hideout by Felipe, who proved an ideal assistant once Diego found out the mute boy was not deaf. Zorro was born as a creature of the night, freeing the senorita and his father. To Victoria's shock, the alcalde celebrates Zorro's alleged death, while Mendoza's lancer detail returns to the canyon to shoot a load of bullets trough the cloaked body.
—KGF Vissers