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...

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