- Commandante Sebastian Golle: What's she want here?
- Don Diego Vega: For breakfast, a priest to bury her father. For lunch, Zorro's head on a pikestaff.
- Commandante Sebastian Golle: She does, eh? Thinks she can give me orders? I'll get my hands on her and govern her with a lash.
- Don Diego Vega: Bravo. There's no more bracing treat than beating women. Of course, it will cost you your head.
- Commandante Sebastian Golle: Oh, what?
- Don Diego Vega: The queen is her aunt. And the queen hates having her nieces flogged by the soldiery.
- Don Diego Vega: That horse killed a man.
- Lady Isabella Palma: All the more reason for a woman to master it. Bring the beast to me.
- Don Diego Vega: No, I beg of you, don't break your neck. I have important matters to discuss with you. Your marriage...
- Lady Isabella Palma: Marriage? To you, I presume? If you don't mind, I'll break my neck.
- Don Diego Vega: Father, the day we've prayed and planned for is at hand. Never again will the peóns be enslaved for taxes.
- The Priest: Our God be praised.
- Don Diego Vega: The commandante's rule is over. We have a most wise, a most lovely, and a most beautifully spoiled governor.
- Commandante Sebastian Golle: You said you'd give anything to him who hangs Zorro, remember? Now, will you give half of Santa Cruz to me... by marriage?
- Lady Isabella Palma: I marry a sweating, grease-brain brute like you? No, never.
- Lady Isabella Palma: My father, dying, left me all he had; power, land, money... and a debt of vengeance. I'll pay with all I have... even my life!
- Governor Palma: Zorro, Zorro, Zorro... You chatter like parlor maids chasing a mouse. I'll hang him within a month.
- Lady Isabella Palma: But this is treason!
- Commandante Sebastian Golle: No, lady. This is common sense. You would betray me tomorrow as you betrayed him today.
- Governor Palma: There's an outlaw in these woods. He's lead a native uprising. He must be killed and by whatever means come best at hand.
- [the Commandante lashes his whip at Don Diego]
- Don Diego Vega: Mercy! What have I done?
- Commandante Sebastian Golle: Nothing. That's just to keep my hand in incase I have to lash the life out of some fool who would betray me.
- [first lines]
- Crowd of Indians: Zorro... Zorro... Zorro...