- Elena: [in a confessional, Alejandro posing as a priest] I have broken the fourth commandment, padre.
- Alejandro Murrieta: You killed somebody?
- Elena: No, that is not the fourth commandment.
- Alejandro Murrieta: [pause] Of course not. Tell me, in what way did you break the most sacred of commandments.
- Elena: I dishonored my father.
- Alejandro Murrieta: That is not so bad. Maybe your father deserved it.
- Elena: What?
- Alejandro Murrieta: I said tell me more, my child.
- Don Diego de la Vega: There is a saying, a very old saying: when the pupil is ready the master will appear.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [Alejandro draws his sword] Do you know how to use that thing?
- Alejandro Murrieta: Yeah. The pointy end goes into the other man.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [sighs] This is going to take a lot of work.
- Elena: [in a confessional, Alejandro posing as a priest] Forgive me father for I have sinned. It has been three days since my last confession.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Three days? How many sins could you have committed in three days? Come back when you have more time, please.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Look at me, I look like a butterfly. This is the most stupid thing I've ever done.
- Don Diego de la Vega: I doubt that.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Do you surrender?
- Elena: Never, but I may scream.
- Alejandro Murrieta: I understand. Sometimes I have that effect.
- Elena: [dancing with Love] Yes, were you looking for something?
- Alejandro: A sense of the miraculous in everyday life.
- Captain Harrison Love: Really? Well, why don't you try looking somewhere else? The lady and I are trying to dance.
- Alejandro: You were trying; she was succeeding. Forgive me, Captain Love. A shameless joke at your expense... and I hope it won't be the last.
- [Love scowls, Elena grins slightly]
- Alejandro Murrieta: [whispering to his baby son] And so it was. Lighting split the sky, thunder shook the earth, and then all was quiet. The great warrior known as Zorro was gone. The people of the land gave him a hero's funeral, the largest anyone had ever seen. They came from far and wide to say farewell to their brave and noble champion. But don't worry, little Joaquin. Whenever great deeds are remembered, your grandfather will live on. For there must always, always be a Zorro. And some day, when he's needed, we will see him again... on his fearsome steed Tornado, riding like the wind, his sword blazing in the sun... leaping, jumping, swinging through the air... fighting like a lion. Fighting like a tiger. Fighting...
- [sees Elena watching him]
- Alejandro Murrieta: ... as safely as possible.
- Elena: Is this your idea of putting the baby to sleep?
- Alejandro Murrieta: I miss my brother, sir.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Your brother is dead. We lose the ones we love, we cannot change it. Put it aside.
- Alejandro Murrieta: How? How can I do what is needed, when all I feel is... hate.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [holds up black mask] You hide it, with this.
- Alejandro Murrieta: [upon first meeting her] Be careful Señorita, there are dangerous men about.
- Elena: Well, if you see any, be sure to point them out.
- Don Rafael Montero: [on Esperanza] I would never have let any harm come to her...
- Don Diego de la Vega: She was never yours to protect.
- Don Diego de la Vega: You have passion, Alejandro, and your skill is growing. But to enter Montero's world, I must give you something which is completely beyond your reach.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Ah, yes? And what is that?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Charm.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Charm? And what is that?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Convince Montero that you're a gentleman of stature, and he will let you into his circle.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Me, a gentleman?... This is going to take a lot of work.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Yes.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [after beating Alejandro in a training session] Lesson number one: never attack in anger. Lesson number two...
- [smells Alejandro, who is very dirty]
- Don Diego de la Vega: Come with me.
- Alejandro Murrieta: [Don Diego de la Vega leaves; Alejandro sniffs his own underarm] What?
- [later, as he washes in a pool]
- Alejandro Murrieta: So what is lesson number three?
- Don Diego de la Vega: To get to lesson number four.
- Captain Harrison Love: After all, it's only one man...
- Don Rafael: It isn't just one man, damn it. It's ZORRO.
- Don Diego de la Vega: This is called a training circle, a master's wheel. This circle will be your world, your whole life. Until I tell you otherwise, there is nothing outside of it.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Capitan Love is...
- Don Diego de la Vega: There is NOTHING outside of it. Captain Love does not exist until I say he exists. As your skill with the sword improves, you will progress to a smaller circle. With each new circle, your world contracts, bringing you that much closer to your adversary, that much closer to retribution.
- Alejandro Murrieta: I like that part.
- Don Diego de la Vega: I gave my life to them, and in return I lost everything. My wife was murdered before my eyes, and my child was stolen to be raised by my mortal enemy.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Montero? Elena... she's your daughter.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Yes, she was.
- Alejandro Murrieta: So... you will simply take your revenge.
- Don Diego de la Vega: No, I will take my daughter. And don't pretend she means nothing to you.
- Alejandro Murrieta: She does. But you taught me to see beyond personal feelings, remember? Was that all a lie?
- Don Diego de la Vega: You're too young to understand.
- Alejandro Murrieta: To understand what? Betrayal? All the work, all the training, all the wise words, for *what*? To smile in the face of my brother's killer while you make your own plans?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Alejandro, I taught you everything you needed to survive. Now, I must look to my own heart. Elena is all I have left, I'm not going to lose her again.
- Alejandro Murrieta: What about California? What about the people?
- Don Diego de la Vega: They still have Zorro.
- Don Rafael Montero: What are you doing here? What happened?
- Elena: Zorro. Zorro was here. I fought him and he left. He left!
- Don Rafael Montero: Did you recognize him?
- Elena: No, but he was young and vigorous.
- [pause]
- Elena: He was very vigorous, father.
- Don Rafael Montero: Vigorous?
- Elena: [smiles] Yes.
- Alejandro Murrieta: I would have killed him.
- Don Diego de la Vega: No, not today. He is trained to kill. You seem trained to drink. Oh, yes, my friend, you would have fought very bravely, and died very quickly. Who then would avenge your brother?
- Don Diego de la Vega: You cannot imagine, Rafael, how I have dreamed of this moment, night and day, twenty long years.
- Don Rafael Montero: Really? I haven't given you a second thought.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [telling a story to his baby daughter] And suddenly lightning flashed and a mighty thunder shook the wasted land, and the evil king glared at the good prince and said...
- [sees Esperanza watching him]
- Don Diego de la Vega: ... something very forgettable.
- Alejandro Murrieta: [about Zorro] He probably wears the mask to hide his bald head and unsightly features.
- Alejandro Murrieta: All that shooting guns, racing around on horses - gives me a frightful headache. It's hardly the work of a gentleman.
- Elena: What is? Climbing in and out of carriages?
- Alejandro Murrieta: No, but increasing one's holdings so as to provide comfort to ladies. Such as yourself.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [When seeing his house on fire and trying to get out of the prison wagon] ELENA! ELENA! ELENA!
- Don Diego de la Vega: [When seeing Rafael carrying his daughter] Let me hold her.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [Rafael doesn't listen to him] LET ME HOLD HER! RAFAEL!
- Don Rafael Montero: She has her mother's eyes.
- [And walks away]
- Don Diego de la Vega: RAFAEL, YOU'LL NEVER BE RID OF ME! RAFAEL!
- Captain Harrison Love: [Fighting with Zorro] You're doing well. Your brother would have shot himself by now.
- Captain Harrison Love: Are you all right?
- Don Rafael Montero: Do you have the map?
- Captain Harrison Love: We'll find it.
- Don Rafael Montero: Is your army ready to fight Santa Anna's?
- Captain Harrison Love: No, sir.
- Don Rafael Montero: Then why are you asking me if I'm all right? Of course I'm not all right.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Just one question.
- Captain Harrison Love: Really? What is that?
- Alejandro Murrieta: How would you like your remains displayed?
- Alejandro Murrieta: So, how much are we worth?
- Three-Fingered Jack: Uh, all told... about two hundred pesos?
- Joaquin Murrieta: That's it? After all the payrolls we've robbed, a lousy two hundred pesos apiece, that's all we're worth?
- Cpl. Armando Garcia: We're wasting time.
- Three-Fingered Jack: Now that's two hundred pesos for the both of you.
- Alejandro Murrieta: What? Are you crazy? Don't take it, Jack!
- Don Diego de la Vega: [to Elena as he lays dying] The world is a very strange place... to have found you at last - only to lose you again.
- Elena: You will never lose me, Father.
- Fray Felipe: This is the house of God!
- Captain Harrison Love: Don't worry Padre, we'll be gone before he gets back.
- Captain Harrison Love: Ignore him, gentlemen. He's a common thief.
- Three-Fingered Jack: Ha! As common as they come, but I ain't nothin' compared to you "gentlemen". I steal money, I steal gold, but you? You steal people's lives! So damn ya! And damn the horse that brung ya!
- [tries to attack, but Capt Love shoots him]
- [at the ball]
- Alejandro Murrieta: We will never get away with this.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Yes, we will. A nobleman is nothing but a man who says one thing and thinks another.
- Alejandro Murrieta: What if Montero realizes who you are?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Montero thinks of himself as a true nobleman. He will never look a servant in the eye.
- Esperanza de la Vega: [on Elena] She loves to hear your stories.
- Don Diego de la Vega: It's only the sound of my voice. Soon she will have no time for them.
- Esperanza de la Vega: I never tire of them. Why should she?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Perhaps I can save you the trouble. Go on reach for it Captain!
- [Talking to Love]
- Don Rafael Montero: [When being held at a swordpoint] Who are you?
- Don Diego de la Vega: I've warned you long ago, Rafael. That you will never be rid of me.
- Don Rafael Montero: De la Vega.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Rafael.
- Don Rafael Montero: You were not the Zorro I saw last night? That was your master Don Alejandro.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Yes, but there are many who would proudly wear The Mask of Zorro.
- Don Rafael Montero: Either way there's a consequence, events have been set in motion that you cannot stop.
- Don Diego de la Vega: I'm not here to stop you.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Is something... amusing Captain Love?
- Captain Harrison Love: [having just shot Jack] Strange, actually. This is the second time I've shot this man while he was flying through the air.
- Don Rafael Montero: I have come to apologize, Esperanza. I'm sorry that I could not protect this country from the peasants who have overrun it. I'm sorry that I couldn't make you love me. And I'm sorry that I have to leave you without a husband.
- [to his guards]
- Don Rafael Montero: Arrest him.
- Don Diego de la Vega: You should not trade something like that for a mere glass of whiskey.
- Alejandro Murrieta: Why not? You think I could get two?
- Watering Station Owner: [after the Muriettas "escape" from the soldiers at the watering station]
- [whispering]
- Watering Station Owner: Hey. They've got a strongbox on the wagon.
- Joaquin Murrieta: [also whispering] We know. That's why we came.
- Alejandro Murrieta: [Swordfighting] Only one question.
- Captain Harrison Love: Really, What is that?
- Alejandro Murrieta: How would you like your remains displayed?
- [Then starts beating Captain Love]
- [Don Diego has stopped a drunk and revenge-driven Alejandro from attacking Captain Love by defeating him in a sword fight]
- Alejandro Murrieta: I could have killed him!
- Don Diego de la Vega: He is trained to kill. You seemed trained to drink.
- Alejandro Murrieta: When I sleep, I will dream of this dashing rogue Zorro. But what face shall I give him?
- Elena: He has been many different men, but he has loved you as all of them.
- Alejandro Murrieta: How can I refuse such a man? Do you know where I might find him?
- Elena: You know Zorro. He could be anywhere.
- Don Rafael Montero: You know, I'm starting to wonder if you really want this operation to succeed at all, Captain.
- Captain Harrison Love: What are you saying?
- Don Rafael Montero: What I am saying, Captain, is that I think my horse could run this army better than you!
- Alejandro Murrieta: Psst. Horse! Come here!
- [Tornado has no response]
- Alejandro Murrieta: Blackie? Thunder. Storm. Estupido! Get over here now!
- [Tornado still no response]
- Alejandro Murrieta: I warn you. I'll get another horse.
- [Tornado's no response]
- Alejandro Murrieta: Ah.
- [He whistles for Tornado to come here. He makes a jump onto him but misses and lands hard on the ground. Tornado whinnies]
- Captain Harrison Love: [while fighting Zorro] You're doing well, your brother would have shot himself by now.
- Don Luiz: Who are these men that you would risk your life to have them killed?
- Don Rafael Montero: Who are they? I have no idea. Three peasant pulled at random from the crowd.
- Don Rafael Montero: Blood never lies - Zorro. You're a traitor to your country and your class. Take him away.
- Don Diego de la Vega: You're drunk and you're angry and you're in no condition to fight a professional soldier.
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