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 ...

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 ...