Zorro

Episode 1

The Fox and the Rabbit

Sat, Oct 10, 199223 mins

Don Emilio Alonzo gets a fine gentleman's welcome in Los Angeles and on the de la Vega hacienda when collecting taxes for the Spanish king Ferndinand. Alas the next day the pueblo is visited by senor Zelaya, another royal tax collector, who turns out to be the real one: don Emilio is just a clever alibi of the brilliant conman El Conejo ('the rabbit'), 12,000 pesos are due as annual levy anyway. To top it, the fake even stole the precious Andalusian stallion the de la Vegas named Emilio in his honor, so Don Alejandro is as determined as the alcalde and his lancers to chase the fraudster; don Diego is ordered to join, but Felipe follows unseen with Zorro's equipment so he can do what neither dad nor posse can as soon as Diego has shaken them, after liberating the alcalde's party from the explosives-rigged cave the rabbit trapped for them. Alas the merciless monster even set another trap which catches Felipe, and leaves the boy hanging in it to die, his last leverage for liberty once Zorro has outsmarted and outlived a fiery battle of wits and tricks...