- Isabella Linares: Fencing? Diego, are you out of your mind?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Not yet, but I'm afraid I'm being driven there.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Well, I consider myself the victor by default.
- Isabella Linares: Well, you should consider yourself lucky that he left.
- Don Diego de la Vega: As a matter of fact, I do. Because now I get to take you home alone.
- Ramon Castillo: What's the matter? Don't you like it here?
- Marcos Estrada: I like it fine. The girls are beautiful.
- Marcos Estrada: When we didn't get that army payroll, we should have kept right on going.
- Ramon Castillo: And have Diego de la Vega think that he has driven me out of Los Angeles? No.
- Marcos Estrada: It was Zorro!
- Ramon Castillo: Diego de la Vega is Zorro!
- Marcos Estrada: You don't know that!
- Ramon Castillo: I don't know?
- Marcos Estrada: No, no.
- Ramon Castillo: The only man in the world who was ever able to disarm me is Diego de la Vega and last night, Zorro did it.
- Marcos Estrada: It's a big world, Ramon. There could be other swordsmen.
- Ramon Castillo: All right, then answer this. In Spain, he was fencing champion at the university. And now he pretends not to know one end of a sword from another. Why? Huh? Why? His mute servant, Bernardo, who could hear in Spain is deaf in Los Angeles. Why?
- Marcos Estrada: I don't know.
- Ramon Castillo: Because Diego de la Vega is Zorro. There is no other explination.
- Marcos Estrada: All right, all right. Let's assume that you're right. We can't wait around here to prove it. It isn't worth the risk.
- Ramon Castillo: It is to me.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [answering the door] Well, Sergeant, come in. What a surprise.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Gracias, don Diego. Gracias. Nice day.
- [clears throat]
- Don Diego de la Vega: Sergeant.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Yes, don Diego.
- Don Diego de la Vega: You seem to be troubled.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: No, no. No trouble, don Diego. I just happened to be passing by. I-I was out for a ride. I-it is such a nice day.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Yes it is.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: The sun is hot, though.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Very.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: For this time of year that is.
- Don Diego de la Vega: True.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: [awkward pause] Don Diego, are you Zorro?
- Don Diego de la Vega: What did you ask?
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Are you Zorro?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Sergeant, that sun must be hotter than I think it is. Sit down. Sit down.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: But, don Diego...
- Don Diego de la Vega: I'll get you some nice chilled wine and when you feel better you can tell me all about it.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Si, don Diego.
- Don Diego de la Vega: You know, it's a great moment for me too. Well, I'll be able to clear my name once and for all and at the same time fulfill a secret ambition of mine.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: What ambition, don Diego?
- Don Diego de la Vega: You won't laugh?
- [Garcia shakes his head]
- Don Diego de la Vega: Well, Sergeant, I've always wished that some day you and I could stand shoulder to shoulder in battle.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Battle, don Diego?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Well, Zorro will not give up without a fight.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Oh, that is true.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Ah, Sergeant, I can see it now. There he is!
- [pointing behind Garcia]
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Where?
- Don Diego de la Vega: He comes at us. We draw our swords!
- [throws his sword across the room in the process of drawing it]
- Don Diego de la Vega: [retrieving the sword] I'm sorry, Sergeant. I didn't have a good grip on it. We stand, shoulder to shoulder. En garde, Zorro!
- [lunges forward piercing the back of the chair in front of him]
- Don Diego de la Vega: Just a little nick, Sergeant.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Don Diego, it might be better if you were not *at* my side. Perhaps a little behind.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Protecting you from a surpise attack. Excellent idea, Sergeant!
- [Garcia walks a few steps away with his back to Diego who skewers the arm of the chair]
- Don Diego de la Vega: [laughs] I'll pay for it, Sergeant. I just need a little room, that's all. Ha, Zorro!
- [begins to wildly swing his sword around while moving about the room]
- Don Alejandro de la Vega: You do not know what this means to him, Sergeant.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: I know what it will mean to *me*, don Alejandro!
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: [displaying the key] No, no, no. I locked the door myself. The windows are barred. He could not possibly escape.
- Ramon Castillo: Go ahead, Sergeant. Open the door. Diego de la Vega is not there. He is Zorro. We win the bet.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Money will do you no good in prison, Senor Castillo.
- Marcos Estrada: No, but it will be most comforting.
- Ramon Castillo: You can't send us to prison for taking our own money. And we won it fair and square.
- [gesturing toward the locked door]
- Ramon Castillo: Go ahead, see for yourself.
- [Garcia takes the money with him and unlocks the door]
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: [confidently without looking into the room] Don Diego, come out and show Senor Castillo that you are not Zorro.
- [nothing happens]
- Ramon Castillo: [laughs and hold out his hand] Sergeant.
- [Garcia grips the money tighter]
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: [pleading] Don Diego, please.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [slowly exiting the room while Garcia grins] Sergeant, I may never speak to you again.
- Marcos Estrada: [to Ramon] I may never speak to *you* again!
- Ramon Castillo: It's a trick.
- Marcos Estrada: Sure!
- Ramon Castillo: It's a trick! Diego de la Vega is Zorro!
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: [happily] Lancers, take them away.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: [trying to get Diego out of the way for his safety] Don Diego, have you seen my living quarters?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Not recently, Sergeant.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Well, let me show them to you!
- [Diego doesn't move]
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: I've had one of the walls whitewashed.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Oh, well, in that case.