- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: I am only a soldier, and obeying the orders of my Comandante. For instance, if the Comandante told me to arrest Don Diego on the suspicion of being Zorro, I would have to do it, ridiculous as it must seem.
- Don Diego de la Vega: [laughing] That would be the height of absurdity, eh?
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Then a pig got lose, and I chased the pig and I caught him and put him back in the pen! Does that surprise you, Comandante?
- Don Juan Ortega: Sargeant Garcia, it would not surprise me if the pig caught you and put you in the pen!
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: You do not understand. I was the one chasing the pig.
- Don Juan Ortega: You do me as much harm as Zorro with your bumbling ways! I would think you were Zorro, if you were not so fat!
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: It is not fat, Comandante. I am just heavily muscled.
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Don't shoot, you fools! You might hit the Comandante!
- [Aside]
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: Not such a bad idea, but hardly good military practice. Or is it? Nah.
- Don Juan Ortega: Where is the prisoner?
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: At the tavern having lunch.
- Don Juan Ortega: At the tavern having lunch? Prisoners do not eat lunch in taverns. Who is guarding him?
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: No one. Sr. Fortuna is a friend of mine.
- Don Juan Ortega: No one? A *prisoner* having lunch *alone* in a tavern *unguarded*?
- Sgt. Demetrio Lopez Garcia: He gave me his word he would not escape.
- Don Diego de la Vega: Have you ever been jealous of yourself, Bernardo?
- [Bernardo gives hima quizzical look]
- Don Diego de la Vega: I'm afraid this fellow Zorro has won the heart of my childhood sweetheart.