Sat, Nov 7, 1992
Victoria's cart is attacked by bandits; Zorro jumps on but it crashed, he must carry her to the secret cave, which is nearly discovered by the bandidos, who find the 1,000 pesos mortgage on the tavern she was carrying in a sacred compartment. Felipe must stop Zorro / don Diego twice passing the fireplace-passage without changing costume, and Victoria gets him to accept revealing his true identity, but the fiends need more urgent attention, making him realize she may never know, and yet...
Sat, Feb 17, 1990
The alcalde promises the pueblo a direct route to San Pedro, the Ramone highway, but press-gangs 'recruits' to build it. When Don Alejandro rides off to complain to the territorial governor in Monterrey, Sergeant Mendoza is ordered to stop him. Zorro rides to distract the lancers, but gets shot and falls into a canyon, at first sight dead. When Toronado comes home alone, Felipe follows him and climbs bravely down. Too badly wounded to get up, Zorro reminisces how it all started: after his studies at Madrid university and fencing lessons with Sir Edmond Kendall, his being recalled home and meeting Alcalde Luis Ramone.
Fri, May 11, 1990
The alcalde is delighted with an invitation for a birthday party at the inn with the nobility, but Mendoza got one too, while Don Diego and Don Alejandro doubt if the alcalde really throws a birthday party for Mendoza. Yet they all go and are, with Victoria, knocked down and tied up with a lighted fuse to a powder keg by Ricardo Quintana, who spent eight months in prison where his partner in crime Myatana died. As he leaves saying their dreams will all go up in smoke, they spend their presumed last minutes dreaming what could have been: for the alcalde and Mendoza, promotions, for Victoria, Zorro's love.
Sun, Feb 24, 1991
Don Diego, who uses the alias Salvador Gilarranz, is arrested but escapes before Rosalinda's coach reaches the fortress. Zorro rides on and finds Victoria's youngest brother Ramon lurking around, together they climb in. Inside the alcalde and Victoria plead in vain for her father, so she goes to liberate the prisoners herself, overpowering Rosalinda, is helped by Mendoza, Zorro deals with the troops. Meanwhile the alcalde has his own secret agenda, which turns out crucial for the grandfather in the present too...
Sat, Feb 17, 1990
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.
Sat, Feb 17, 1990
Zorro and Felipe bravely made their last stand, but face only their horses: Toronado even found a way out so they get home. Mendoza returns with nothing but Zorro's costume and still gets the 500 pesos reward, but is taxed on his windfall during military service - 100%. Diego learns from Dr. Hernandez the news of Zorro's death makes the alcalde even crueler, but is too weak to stand up. Victoria tells him the alcalde resumes the forced labor, invents new taxes even on income, and prepares a memorial service with a fake Zorro-corps to bury the myth.
Sun, Sep 15, 1991
Everybody considers Diego a hopeless bachelor, but Victoria a good catch who should stop waiting for Zorro and marry. The local matchmaker fails a few times until she agrees to go to the altar with Spanish Navy Lieutenant Juan Ortiz, or will she be loyal to her true love? The alcalde meanwhile practices true hate, planning to destroy Zorro by means of a shrapnel canon he has brought in as a royal statue under suspiciously heavy guard, first as a trap for Zorro, who just climbs out of it, then pointed at the crowd at Victoria's wedding, which nobody would give a miss, least of all Zorro...
Sun, Apr 12, 1992
Tired of Zorro escaping him and his lancers, the alcalde spends 5,000 pesos - half the pueblo's annual budget- on Mariposa, a white mount in Toronado's class. To pay for it, he levies a heavy tax on all civilian horses, which draws out Zorro, who is chased and finds Mariposa does keep up, even jumps a ravine like his stallion. Zorro finds the mountain stream they both drink from at Blindman's Buff is poisoned, causing digestive pain and temporary blindness, but even warned the alcalde plans to use his short advance to catch Zorro rather then help each-other...
Fri, Nov 2, 1990
Zorro rides to expose the alcalde's gross tinkering with the market weights, but this time an Indian scout, Grey Wing, is waiting to follow his trail and thus earn the horse he admires as no other, and he is really good. Diego and Felipe drive sheep over the plaza, but the scout picks up the rail, so Diego sends Felipe to lay a false trail riding Toronado, while he offers his services to point out the dangerous new quicksands on the De la Vega estate. The Indian reads every sign brilliantly, till poor Felipe, who can't ride as fast, sees no other way out then hiding in a dangerous abandoned mine-shaft, while Toronado runs back alone. Diego manages to go in alone, but Mendoza is sent in by the alcalde with the scout and causes an explosion...