Zorro (1990–1993): Season 1, Episode 2 - Deceptive Heart - full transcript
The De la Vegas, especially father, are eager to host the young widow Senora Francisca De La Pena who just arrived by stagecoach. She is not the lady on the cameo send to don Alejandro, who invited her as his potential fiancée based on correspondence, but explains she wanted to test his sincerity by sending him her aunt Consuela's portrait, which worries don Diego. When Felipe, who proves a good fencing pupil, reports Gomez' vaqueros (cowboys) cause trouble again in the tavern, Zorro rides to Victoria's aid, while sergeant Mendoza eats as if undisturbed; later Zorro sees Francisca sneaking into a man's window and kiss him, but how can Diego warn his father, who plans a wedding by Easter and a pre-nuptial contract? When he tells her to be seen by a friend, she claims it's her vicious former lover Ramirez, who drowned the real Francisca, but sends him a carrier pigeon, which Diego follows as Zorro and defeats him sword-fighting, to be kept pending proof of murder by Mendoza's men under Victoria's longing sight. The false Consuela leaves for good.
Diego, tell me how I look.
- Just as you did ten minutes ago.
- Huh? Tell me again.
- And five minutes before that.
You look splendid.
-Good, good.
First impressions are everything.
- I still can't believe you'd consider marriage
to a woman you've never even met.
- Oh, marriage is a definite prospect, yes.
But the purpose of the se?ora's visit,...
...is to confirm feelings
we already know are mutual.
For five years now, the widow de la Pe?a, Francisca,
and I have corresponded, sharing our deepest thoughts.
First our pens, then our hearts
found each other.
- Ah, Felipe sighted the coach.
- The coach? But it's an hour early.
Quick! How do I look?
- You will dazzle her.
- Good. Good.
Whow!
Hmm. Doesn't quite look like her.
You are Se?ora de la Pe?a?
- I am Francisca.
And you are Don Alejandro?
- The same.
Do you expect me to follow
a lady into her chambers?
- You should have asked her earlier.
- Well, she was tired from the journey.
- Ask her now.
- Ah. I trust your rooms
are to your liking, Se?ora.
- Quite beyond my expectation, Don Alejandro.
- The north window frames the
San Gabriel Mountains.
Whereas to the west, on a clear day,
you will see the ocean.
- Excuse me, Se?ora. My father would love to
give you a lesson on the local geography,...
...but he refuses to ask a simple
question which plagues us both.
- It's about the cameo, isn't it?
- Yes.
- Yes, yes, yes, of course. The cameo.
You were good enough to send me this, Se?ora.
- I did.
- You are not that lady.
- I cannot say I am disappointed.
- I confess to the deception, gentlemen.
Don Alejandro, try to understand.
Five years ago, I was a young widow.
Lost in grief...
...and despite the attentions of others
who sought my hand, lonely.
I joined our correspondence society
and found there a man of honor,...
...integrity, romantic imagination.
You, Se?or.
The warmth of our letters grew.
We reached out and met each other
at a level of intellect,...
...reason. Even affection, that
I had never experienced.
- So true, dear lady.
- But our letters could not tell me
what you expected in me.
I am many years younger than you, Se?or.
- And so very beautiful.
- I wanted you to desire me
for what we shared in our letters.
- You were testing my sincerity.
- The cameo is of my distant aunt, Consuela.
She is happily married
and a grandmother.
Can you forgive me?
- Ah, of course, of course.
My deepest respect to your aunt,
Consuela.
And her grandchildren.
After all, if a man is promised silver,
will he refuse gold?
A toast, Diego.
To a noble lady.
Se?ora, to the ties that bind
sympathetic souls.
Ai, ai, ai, ai, ai. Gomez and his vaqueros.
Always causing trouble. Why now?
- Hola, Mendoza.
- Your men are disturbing the peace.
Please, tell them to calm down.
- We've been on a long cattle drive. We need
to have some fun. You tell them.
Men! Seize hi...
Lunch first. And then I will personally
knock some heads together.
Your concern is all over your face, Don Diego.
But only natural.
Don Alejandro and I have come
together under unusual circumstances.
- To say the least.
- As a good son,
you fear for his happiness.
- Letters are one thing, Se?ora.
Marriage quite another.
- He is everything I could desire
in a man. And a husband.
- Thank you for your candor and
your understanding, Se?ora.
Please excuse me.
Felipe tells me our prize bull...
...is loose in the cow pasture again.
Gomez and his vaqueros are up
to their old tricks at the tavern?
Well let's see if Zorro can teach
Se?or Gomez a lesson in courtesy.
Gomez, get your pigs out of my tavern...
...and as much as it pains me,
your drinks will be free.
- One moment!
Forgotten your manners, Se?or?
On your knees before a lady.
Please, continue.
Zorro!
Watch out for Gomez!
You might at least have let me
finish my supper, Zorro.
Now it is my duty to arrest you.
But hasn't the Alcalde always said
that a well-fed soldier is a good soldier.
- Very true.
- Then your duty, Sergeant, is to your supper.
Anger brings a very pretty
blush to your cheeks.
- Oh, anger never makes me blush.
- The Alcalde's men. I must go before
Mendoza finds courage in his meal.
All right, Felipe.
Let's see what you've learned.
Excellent.
What a dilemma.
How do I tell my father that the woman he's in
love with, is involved with another man?
Parry.
It will break his heart,
but I have to tell him.
- Tell me what, Diego?
Give it up, son. Try as you will,
you'll never be a swordsman.
Now, you had something important to tell me?
- Yes, um. The exertion has driven
it right out of my head.
- Just don't hurt yourself with
that sword, Diego.
Alicia, warn the customers. We can't let
this card shark rob our regulars.
The aces again?
- I've had a run of luck.
- But you cheated.
- I can kill you, here and now.
If you swear to cooperate with me, you live.
And maybe you and your men
will get your money back.
An Easter wedding?
Isn't that being a trifle hasty?
- How ironic. It's always the young
who are so impetuous.
They have all the time in the world.
- What if she's not the woman
you think she is?
- Diego! Your tone disturbs me.
Do you know something I don't?
- Father, this is very difficult for me to say...
- Alejandro, dearest.
I've been looking for you.
- Ah, Se?ora, we were just
discussing the wedding.
- We have so much to prepare.
- Precisely.
Now, you'll both have to excuse me,
I have an appointment with my lawyer.
Francisca has suggested
a contract and I have agreed.
You don't trust me.
Do you, Don Diego?
- A good friend of mine,
someone I trust,...
...saw you with your lover,
last evening.
- Can I convince you that what your friend saw,
was not what it appeared to be...
...between Ramirez and me.
- Ramirez? Your lover?
- Once. I was younger, without parents.
Easily seduced.
Later I realized what a monster he was,
but by then I was virtually his slave.
- My friend did not see a master
and slave at the tavern.
The truth.
- Two months ago we were on
a boat out of San Carlos.
Ramirez luck was out.
He was desperate.
I regret to my dying day for having
introduced him to a kind,
open-hearted woman who told us of
her correspondence with your father.
- Se?ora de la Pena.
- Her last letters with
the suggestion of marriage...
...were written by Ramirez, in her hand.
- So you would marry my father...
...and this scoundrel would
take over his estates.
And the real Se?ora de la Pena?
- Ramirez drowned her off the boat.
- So he's truly a murderer.
- He'll be at the tavern later.
Have him arrested.
I will testify to his crime.
- You'll be on the next coach out.
You will leave a gentle but firm message to
my father, explaining a change of heart.
- Anything, I swear.
- Surely, I will be at the tavern.
Surely, Ramirez will hang.
Bring the carriage, Felipe.
We must go to the pueblo immediately.
Wait!
Ring-necked doves, grouse, and quail
all abound in California,...
...but not homing pigeons.
That's him!
Fire!
A dummy?
Excellent shooting, gentlemen.
But who are the real dummies?
Now let's see how fast you can reload.
- It's Zorro! Run!
It's Zorro. Let's go! Get out of here!
- En garde!
Zorro may have met his match,...
...but if he wins, we still have
our job to do, so stand ready.
I think I'll save you for the hangman.
- All right, men, Zorro is ours.
Arrest him!
Sorry to disappoint you, Sergeant.
Keep your eye on that one.
The name is Ramirez,
and he's a murderer.
You'll have evidence soon enough,
to hang him.
Se?orita, til we meet again.
Til we meet again, Se?orita.
Buenas dias, Se?orita.
Adios, Se?orita.
If we were able to meet for more
than just a few moments,...
...you would not always depart
in such a hurry.
Se?or, the real Francisca showed
me some of your letters.
You made her very happy.
And I only wanted to say, if I met a man
like you, instead of Ramirez,...
...I think I would have
been a better woman.
Whoh!
You'll be over it soon enough.
In the meantime, there's a widow in the
next valley, a Moreno Gonzalez.
Well, she has a very pretty and
very marriageable daughter...
...and I thought perhaps you and I
could take a trip over there...
- Father, you're surely not thinking...
- Oh no, not for me, Diego.
For you, my boy. Babies, Diego.
I want babies!
By the way, whatever happened to that
fine bust you did of yourself?
- I started another.
- Why? I thought it was very good.
- I'm afraid it received a rather
critical public reception.
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- Just as you did ten minutes ago.
- Huh? Tell me again.
- And five minutes before that.
You look splendid.
-Good, good.
First impressions are everything.
- I still can't believe you'd consider marriage
to a woman you've never even met.
- Oh, marriage is a definite prospect, yes.
But the purpose of the se?ora's visit,...
...is to confirm feelings
we already know are mutual.
For five years now, the widow de la Pe?a, Francisca,
and I have corresponded, sharing our deepest thoughts.
First our pens, then our hearts
found each other.
- Ah, Felipe sighted the coach.
- The coach? But it's an hour early.
Quick! How do I look?
- You will dazzle her.
- Good. Good.
Whow!
Hmm. Doesn't quite look like her.
You are Se?ora de la Pe?a?
- I am Francisca.
And you are Don Alejandro?
- The same.
Do you expect me to follow
a lady into her chambers?
- You should have asked her earlier.
- Well, she was tired from the journey.
- Ask her now.
- Ah. I trust your rooms
are to your liking, Se?ora.
- Quite beyond my expectation, Don Alejandro.
- The north window frames the
San Gabriel Mountains.
Whereas to the west, on a clear day,
you will see the ocean.
- Excuse me, Se?ora. My father would love to
give you a lesson on the local geography,...
...but he refuses to ask a simple
question which plagues us both.
- It's about the cameo, isn't it?
- Yes.
- Yes, yes, yes, of course. The cameo.
You were good enough to send me this, Se?ora.
- I did.
- You are not that lady.
- I cannot say I am disappointed.
- I confess to the deception, gentlemen.
Don Alejandro, try to understand.
Five years ago, I was a young widow.
Lost in grief...
...and despite the attentions of others
who sought my hand, lonely.
I joined our correspondence society
and found there a man of honor,...
...integrity, romantic imagination.
You, Se?or.
The warmth of our letters grew.
We reached out and met each other
at a level of intellect,...
...reason. Even affection, that
I had never experienced.
- So true, dear lady.
- But our letters could not tell me
what you expected in me.
I am many years younger than you, Se?or.
- And so very beautiful.
- I wanted you to desire me
for what we shared in our letters.
- You were testing my sincerity.
- The cameo is of my distant aunt, Consuela.
She is happily married
and a grandmother.
Can you forgive me?
- Ah, of course, of course.
My deepest respect to your aunt,
Consuela.
And her grandchildren.
After all, if a man is promised silver,
will he refuse gold?
A toast, Diego.
To a noble lady.
Se?ora, to the ties that bind
sympathetic souls.
Ai, ai, ai, ai, ai. Gomez and his vaqueros.
Always causing trouble. Why now?
- Hola, Mendoza.
- Your men are disturbing the peace.
Please, tell them to calm down.
- We've been on a long cattle drive. We need
to have some fun. You tell them.
Men! Seize hi...
Lunch first. And then I will personally
knock some heads together.
Your concern is all over your face, Don Diego.
But only natural.
Don Alejandro and I have come
together under unusual circumstances.
- To say the least.
- As a good son,
you fear for his happiness.
- Letters are one thing, Se?ora.
Marriage quite another.
- He is everything I could desire
in a man. And a husband.
- Thank you for your candor and
your understanding, Se?ora.
Please excuse me.
Felipe tells me our prize bull...
...is loose in the cow pasture again.
Gomez and his vaqueros are up
to their old tricks at the tavern?
Well let's see if Zorro can teach
Se?or Gomez a lesson in courtesy.
Gomez, get your pigs out of my tavern...
...and as much as it pains me,
your drinks will be free.
- One moment!
Forgotten your manners, Se?or?
On your knees before a lady.
Please, continue.
Zorro!
Watch out for Gomez!
You might at least have let me
finish my supper, Zorro.
Now it is my duty to arrest you.
But hasn't the Alcalde always said
that a well-fed soldier is a good soldier.
- Very true.
- Then your duty, Sergeant, is to your supper.
Anger brings a very pretty
blush to your cheeks.
- Oh, anger never makes me blush.
- The Alcalde's men. I must go before
Mendoza finds courage in his meal.
All right, Felipe.
Let's see what you've learned.
Excellent.
What a dilemma.
How do I tell my father that the woman he's in
love with, is involved with another man?
Parry.
It will break his heart,
but I have to tell him.
- Tell me what, Diego?
Give it up, son. Try as you will,
you'll never be a swordsman.
Now, you had something important to tell me?
- Yes, um. The exertion has driven
it right out of my head.
- Just don't hurt yourself with
that sword, Diego.
Alicia, warn the customers. We can't let
this card shark rob our regulars.
The aces again?
- I've had a run of luck.
- But you cheated.
- I can kill you, here and now.
If you swear to cooperate with me, you live.
And maybe you and your men
will get your money back.
An Easter wedding?
Isn't that being a trifle hasty?
- How ironic. It's always the young
who are so impetuous.
They have all the time in the world.
- What if she's not the woman
you think she is?
- Diego! Your tone disturbs me.
Do you know something I don't?
- Father, this is very difficult for me to say...
- Alejandro, dearest.
I've been looking for you.
- Ah, Se?ora, we were just
discussing the wedding.
- We have so much to prepare.
- Precisely.
Now, you'll both have to excuse me,
I have an appointment with my lawyer.
Francisca has suggested
a contract and I have agreed.
You don't trust me.
Do you, Don Diego?
- A good friend of mine,
someone I trust,...
...saw you with your lover,
last evening.
- Can I convince you that what your friend saw,
was not what it appeared to be...
...between Ramirez and me.
- Ramirez? Your lover?
- Once. I was younger, without parents.
Easily seduced.
Later I realized what a monster he was,
but by then I was virtually his slave.
- My friend did not see a master
and slave at the tavern.
The truth.
- Two months ago we were on
a boat out of San Carlos.
Ramirez luck was out.
He was desperate.
I regret to my dying day for having
introduced him to a kind,
open-hearted woman who told us of
her correspondence with your father.
- Se?ora de la Pena.
- Her last letters with
the suggestion of marriage...
...were written by Ramirez, in her hand.
- So you would marry my father...
...and this scoundrel would
take over his estates.
And the real Se?ora de la Pena?
- Ramirez drowned her off the boat.
- So he's truly a murderer.
- He'll be at the tavern later.
Have him arrested.
I will testify to his crime.
- You'll be on the next coach out.
You will leave a gentle but firm message to
my father, explaining a change of heart.
- Anything, I swear.
- Surely, I will be at the tavern.
Surely, Ramirez will hang.
Bring the carriage, Felipe.
We must go to the pueblo immediately.
Wait!
Ring-necked doves, grouse, and quail
all abound in California,...
...but not homing pigeons.
That's him!
Fire!
A dummy?
Excellent shooting, gentlemen.
But who are the real dummies?
Now let's see how fast you can reload.
- It's Zorro! Run!
It's Zorro. Let's go! Get out of here!
- En garde!
Zorro may have met his match,...
...but if he wins, we still have
our job to do, so stand ready.
I think I'll save you for the hangman.
- All right, men, Zorro is ours.
Arrest him!
Sorry to disappoint you, Sergeant.
Keep your eye on that one.
The name is Ramirez,
and he's a murderer.
You'll have evidence soon enough,
to hang him.
Se?orita, til we meet again.
Til we meet again, Se?orita.
Buenas dias, Se?orita.
Adios, Se?orita.
If we were able to meet for more
than just a few moments,...
...you would not always depart
in such a hurry.
Se?or, the real Francisca showed
me some of your letters.
You made her very happy.
And I only wanted to say, if I met a man
like you, instead of Ramirez,...
...I think I would have
been a better woman.
Whoh!
You'll be over it soon enough.
In the meantime, there's a widow in the
next valley, a Moreno Gonzalez.
Well, she has a very pretty and
very marriageable daughter...
...and I thought perhaps you and I
could take a trip over there...
- Father, you're surely not thinking...
- Oh no, not for me, Diego.
For you, my boy. Babies, Diego.
I want babies!
By the way, whatever happened to that
fine bust you did of yourself?
- I started another.
- Why? I thought it was very good.
- I'm afraid it received a rather
critical public reception.
Subtitles:
Ann Wauters