Zorro — Season 2

The peddler and inventor Doctor Henry Wayne presents the pueblo varied unusual products, such as a vacuum-cleaner. The alcalde has only one commission for him: a trap to catch Zorro. Diego, whose failed Montgolfier-balloon amuses Felipe, pretends to help but doesn't, so Wayne sets his traps with the alcalde, who provides the right bate: the supposed execution of senorita Victoria Escalante. When Zorro manages to catch them in their own trap, the alcalde gives Wayne a last change, finding the fox's hide-out

When Diego's fencing teacher at Madrid university, Sir Edmond Kendall, arrives by stagecoach in Los Angeles and refuses as British knight to pay the travelers tax, he fights the lancers and is appalled Diego fakes being unable to win, rather paying for him. The alcalde orders Mendoza to finds out about him; don Alejandro knows him since 30 years, but releases nothing useful. At the hacienda, sir Edmund and Diego, who were training together, are shot at by two men; he recognizes them as Sanchez and Figueroa

While the De la Vega's are off to a cattle auction, pirate captain Henry Stark of the Golden Lion, who lost half his crew, raids Los Angeles for pressed laborers, the alcalde's horse, even Victoria and Felipe, passing the De la Vega's on their way out; don Alejandro rides to the garrison, Diego pretends just to lay a trail but actually is caught himself while he frees Felipe, who rides to the hacienda, saddles Toronado and next morning brings Diego, who already loosened his ropes, the Zorro costume and saber

Señorita Amanda Herrera, a surveyor's daughter who is the guest of the De la Vega's, captures Sergeant Jaime Mendoza's heart a first sight, for once more attractive then Victoria's food, but private Pedro Sanchez gets her to dance, so he pesters the poor soldier, even with latrine duty, hoping to make him demand a transfer. Diego and Alejandro coach his courting, an even heavier duty. Alas she has still another, higher-ranking suitor, the alcalde, and falls for none. Zorro rode against the same two bandits the alcalde sent his love rivals searching for

Sir Miles Thackery, Europe's most famous fencer, arrives at Los Angeles, asks who's the best with the blade in the pueblo and immediately challenges and defeats unsuspectingly self-declared sergeant Mendoza, next the alcalde. As victorious champion he decrees that during his stay everyone is at his service, the alcalde even as valet. Don Alejandro is cheated out off a good part of his prize bull's auction price, everyone gets offended and abused, even Victoria, so Diego duels Miles, but as he can't betray himself being Zorro pretends to have hurt his ankle. Zorro ...

On the governor's order, each pueblo in the territory is given a printing press to start its own newspaper, supposedly to promote free speech. Don Diego volunteers as editor of the 'Los Angeles Guardian'. Felipe reports outlaws attack farmers in the northern valley- Zorro rides to ambitious José Rivas's rescue. Helped by don Alejandro at the press and Felipe, Diego exposes the alcalde's abuses, while Victoria starts a hearts column 'donna Corazon' and Mendoza a culinary one 'Señor Estomago'.

After singlehandedly chasing off five robbers, Zorro is bitten by a rattlesnake, and collapses at the farm of robber chief Alisio Turron, whose life he just spared in a recklessly engaged fencing duel; his wife Magdalena nurses the fox, resisting her initial temptation to collect the alcalde's fat cash reward on his head, but Alisio, whose Z-marked shirt she was about to mend, finds them, cowardly attacks Zorro who must fence left-handed, loses and rides to the alcalde, whose burning desire to get the fox proves too ardent once he and the lancers reach the Turron farm...

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 ...

Don Carlos loses heavily at poker from foreign gambler Bishop whom he believes to cheat; Zorro intervenes, but the coward shoots at him, and Victoria catches the bullet meant for him. Dr. Hernandez isn't sure how bad it is. Diego intends to let Zorro die if she does. Dying after a pistol duel against Bishop, Carlos implores don Alejandro to see that his land goes to his farm - and domestic men, but Bishop gets his claim validated by the alcalde, for a 50% 'transfer tax', and challenges Alejandro to a duel; only Felipe notices him riding in the morning and the missing ...

Mendoza was looking forward to the alcalde being away in Santa Barbara for two days, leaving a curfew meanwhile, but the tyrant rides in town early - as a changed man, charming and courteous to everyone, even 'courting' Victoria, till he suddenly is his old wicked self again, then sweet Luis himself suddenly smells a rat from his past, called Vincente Ramon, and finds him a problem which gets surprisingly solved by Zorro...

When the alcalde sabotages Victoria's plan to bring the Indians survival supplies by forbidding all citizens to enter the Indian land, the Yankee Joshua Barnes steps in to drive her cart. Zorro prevents a lancer shooting Joshua. Barnes buys some De la Vega land to become a farmer, but the alcalde has that annulled because he's a foreigner and has him arrested for refusing to prove his loyalty to the crown by catching Zorro. Then the three Harper brothers arrive, hoping to revenge their father Jake's dead on Joshua. The alcalde offers them to release Barnes if they ...

The alcalde and his troops run off an Indian tribe from the land surrounding Los Angeles, but a young Indian girl named Kinona is left behind. She is rescued by Zorro and taken in by the de la Vegas. Kinona and Felipe fall in love, but the alcalde has other plans for the girl. To make matters worse, Kinona is already betrothed to a warrior named Black Feather, who now sees Felipe as an enemy.

The Falcon, a felon with such bird of prey and two accomplices, considers Los Angeles an ideal prey because of its corrupt alcalde, provided he can set a suitable trap for Zorro. The alcalde's new taxes, to pay for extravagant 400 pesos boots, allow the Falcon to spark a revolution by distributing silver coins, which don Diego chemically traces to the bank robbery in Guadalajara. When don Alejandro warns the people against revolt, he is kidnapped as bate to a fatal trap in the mountains. Zorro rides to deal with both thieving fiends...

It's Christmas and Don Diego is depressed, less because of his bad cold then dad's sneers that he should at least have been there protesting while Zorro singlehandedly saved innocent villager Friez from flogging by the alcalde. He decides to give the party at Victoria's a miss, and wonders if Zorro's endless crime fighting really matters, since he never gets closer to his true love or gets any credit for his feats as the masked mystery man he created. Then appears magically don Fernando, apparently an angle of fate, who shows Diego how disastrously worse everyone's

Out fishing, Felipe finds Carillo and three other fiends who plan a raid on Los Angeles and the alcalde's murder for revenge, is caught, believed deaf, left bound. Diego finds and liberates Felipe, but the alcalde sneers the 'minion' invented the story to 'save his skin' and continues preparing for the ringing of the new mission bell in front of distinguished guests, when the garrison will attend unarmed. Zorro rides to deal singlehandedly with the robbers' sniper and crossbow, disguised as monks, then with vindictive Carillo who escaped from the plaza...

Zorro chases and captures the LA bank robbery suspect Enrique Vargas. Wondering why the alcalde seemed uninterested, Diego decides to defend Enrique in the alcalde's court against prosecutor Mendoza, who is absolutely confident he will avoid the noose by escape- indeed a giant literally breaks the jail: Nestor Vargas comes for his kid brother 'Ricky', but they are persuaded to stay for a fair trial rather then remain fugitives for life, trusting on Nestor's iron bars-bending fists' persuading power to overrule any objection from Mendoza against Diego's intelligent ...

Judge Bernardo de la Paz is threatened because he is about to condemn violent criminal Vincente Torres's brother to death, so he sends his teenage son Carlos de la Paz for safekeeping to the De la Vega hacienda, where Felipe finds his 'playmate' is a reckless rascal. Diego was testing a glue for false beards for a boys Easter play, so the two adolescents test it. The brat ruins a vase and runs to the pueblo, disguised as a strange 'man', riding one of the hacienda's best horses and wearing don Alejandro's ceremonial sword, just when "the governor's son" enlists the

When Zorro deals with stage coach-robbers, Lopez admits he was released from jail by the alcalde just to prevent the arrival of his fat, extremely rude, bitchy cousin, famous seamstress Hermelinda. She now has to walk the last part with her fellow passengers, botanist Andres Bolanos and concert pianist Honorio Aragon, who is eagerly awaited in the humble pueblo. Aragon stays with Victoria but will play the De la Vega piano. At night, the hacienda is robbed and don Alejandro knocked down by a masked, Beethoven whistling art connoisseur, whose next victims are Victoria ...

Deputy Governor Frasquez is a day early, while the alcalde isn't back yet, carrying the order to capture Zorro. He decides Mendoza is unfit as acting alcalde, and appoints don Alejandro, demanding Zorro's capture by Saturday or he'll be carried in chains himself and the De la Vega hacienda taxed to bankruptcy. Tailor Miguel Martinez finds his brother was falsely accused of cattle theft and shot, so he heads for L.A. to take terminal revenge on 'the alcalde', ignoring the interim; Victoria allows him poor man's rate, free 'left over' soup and tells Alejandro is in ...

At night, royal troops bring a jeweled sword, believed to have belonged to Charlemagne which the alcalde must secretly hide a while. Next the theater troop of don Alfonso Bautista Alvarado de Figueroa, a dwarf, arrives in L.A. When the alcalde insists on an excessive amusement tax of 50 pesos, Alfonso inquires about the premium of 600 on Zorro's head and learns that money is in his office, so he sneaks, steals it and pretends to find it where he buried it. Felipe lip-reads he's after the sword. Alfonso hypnotizes the alcalde, but Zorro also attends the performance in ...

When protestant Daniel Nielson, fleeing religious persecution with his wife Esther and son Aaron, is the first-ever client of alcalde Ramon's land office in years actually to claim a piece of Los Angeles, he accepts, despite Diego and Victoria's warning it's a barren wilderness, 40 acres in the rocky Mesa de las Piedras. Helped by the De la Vegas, they get a self-sufficient farm going thanks to nitrates fertilizer. When don Alejandro has another malaria attack in Dr. Hernandez' absence, Esther helps him. Diego sends Felipe for Zorro's costume, seeing the superstitious...

A grandfather shows his girl Laura the hide-out cave, and finds there Diego De la Vega's diary about the Devil's fortress, which was used as a feared political prison. Victoria showed a letter, allegedly from her father Alfonso's cell mate, if true he didn't die in the Mexican revolution but is seriously ill. Diego volunteers to go there to speak to the commandant, actually Zorro comes in his saddle bag after promising Victoria his help. The alcalde orders Mendoza to accompany him on a week's trip to the fortress, he wanted an excuse since years, so they go plead ...

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...

[This double-length episode is often aired in two parts] [PART 1] Now the alcalde is away for three months, Diego makes a journey to Beaumartin, near Bordeaux (France) and tells Felipe there's no need to pack his Zorro costume but finds it in his luggage anyway. Diego hoped for a quiet country vacation, but lands immediately in an inn brawl, then in the feud between vicomte (viscount) Jussac, the aristocratic royalist garrison commander who behaves rather too much like a certain Californian alcalde, and Porthos, great-great-grandson of one of the original Three ...

Once the Three Musketeers are assembled, Diego helps them form a plan to regain their ancestors' castle. Later, Zorro helps them execute the plan and establish themselves as the protectors of their town.