The alcalde promises the pueblo a direct route to San Pedro, the Ramon 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.

The lancers climb down in the canyon, and find not Zorro's corps but his cloths on a dummy made from branches; Toronado frees and chases their horses, without anyone giving him instructions; Felipe helped Diego stay hidden under water, breeding trough a reed. Diego reminisces how he wanted an unknown horse for Zorro, and Felipe helped him find, catch, name and train the wild black stallion after saving his foal.