Desperate for a hiding place in the canyon, the wounded Zorro reminisces further how he showed Felipe his set-up in the hacienda's secret escape trough the fire-place to the hide-out cave. The alcalde's arrests of don Alejandro and Victoria Escalante and Mendoza's uttering that nothing scares soldiers more then the unknown inspired don Diego to invent the mysterious black-cloaked and -masked man, named after he cunning fox ('zorro' in Spanish) found in the hide-out by Felipe, who proved an ideal assistant once Diego found out the mute boy is not deaf.