02x01 - Welcome to Monterey

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WeIcome, senores.

WeIcome to Monterey.

You wish something? Yes, you have rooms for myseIf and my manservant? Si.

If you'II step over here pIease, and sign.

INNKEEPER: Diego de Ia Vega.

And put down where you're from, senor.

Los AngeIes? No doubt you've come to see Senor Verdugo, eh? Why do you say that? WeII, it seems evervone who comes to Monterey comes to see Senor Verdugo.

If they get here.

If you'II fetch any Iuggage you may have.

Oh, I might expIain that my manservant neither hears nor speaks.

But he does have the happy facuIty of understanding what is wanted of him.

Oh.

If you'II step this way, I'II show you to your room.

There's a smaII room near the stabIes for your servant.

I'II bring you water and toweIs.

We'II Iet you know Iater when his room is ready.

It's verv nice.

Looks comfortabIe, eh? Ha.

You know, I wonder what it wouId be Iike to sIeep aII night, not to have to ride as Zorro.

Nothing but peace and quiet-- See who it is.

No one there? WeII, that's strange.

CASTILLO: Make no sound, senores.

Put up your hands.

Part of the standard weIcome to Monterey? PALOMARES: Stand stiII.

This is not it.

A few hundred pesos maybe, for personaI expenses.

You wiII not be abIe to seII that, senor.

It has my name engraved on the inside.

- ApparentIy, that is aII.

- AII right, de Ia Vega, where is it? - Where's the rest of the money? - That's aII we brought.

You Iie.

Search the room.

They have no Iuggage here.

Maybe the money is stiII in their saddIebags.

Don't be stupid.

They wouId not Iet it out of their sight.

You're verv quiet, IittIe moon face.

What's the matter, are you deaf and dumb? Yes, he is.

I asked him.

- Take your hands off him.

- You know more than you Iet on.

Where is that money from Los AngeIes? Keep your pistoI at his head.

If this one so much as makes a move, puII the trigger.

I wanna know something, senor.

You brought 1 7,000 pesos from Los AngeIes.

Where is the money now? We brought 250 pesos, and you just took them.

You brought 1 7,000 pesos.

Do not Iie to me.

- You've been misinformed, sir.

- I do not beIieve you.

I can't heIp that.

Speak.

TeII me the truth.

Where's the 1 7,000 pesos? INNKEEPER: Here's the water and toweIs, senor.

You wiII meet with us again, senor.

And you wiII regret that you did not cooperate.

What was that I was saying about peace and quiet? Buenos dias, senores.

I wouId Iike to see Senor Verdugo.

I am Anna Maria Verdugo.

You have no doubt come to see my father.

Yes, but first permit me to introduce myseIf.

I am Diego de Ia Vega from Los AngeIes.

De Ia Vega.

It is a proud name in CaIifornia.

Gracias, senorita.

PIease be seated.

I wiII inform my father that you are here.

Yes, perhaps you'd better wait outside.

He'd be more incIined to taIk freeIy without you here.

No, there wiII not be any: Out.

Father, may I present Diego de Ia Vega.

- Your servant, senor.

- My honor.

You'II pardon me, pIease.

So you are the son of my oId friend AIejandro de Ia Vega.

Si.

And you have brought the money from Los AngeIes? Oh, no, no.

- No? - And it is just as weII that I didn't.

I had no sooner arrived here than I was beaten and robbed.

- I am so sorrv to hear that.

- At Ieast you shouId not be surprised.

I understand that this has happened before.

Mm-hm.

It is most regrettabIe.

Senor, aIways I am toId that there have been bandits in these hiIIs, steaIing a few pesos, robbing a few wayfarers.

But then you announce this scheme of yours to bring in a shipIoad of suppIies from Spain.

Now, this is good, and from aII parts of CaIifornia, we bring you our money.

But there's something verv strange about this.

The bandits who robbed me knew exactIy how much money was coming from Los AngeIes.

Seventeen thousand pesos, preciseIy the amount that I had written you about.

Do you intimate, senor, that I am in Ieague with the bandits? I intimate nothing.

I am mereIy here to investigate.

I see.

I do not intend to deceive you, senor.

I came here to Iook into the situation, to make sure that it is an honest effort with a reasonabIe chance of success.

And unIess I am convinced of this, I wiII not order the money from Los AngeIes to be turned over to you.

I thought it might be nice to have refreshments.

Diego de Ia Vega of Los AngeIes.

Senor.

Romero Serrano from Santa Cruz.

Senor.

Romero brought in the funds from Santa Cruz nearIy two weeks ago, and he has remained here to assist me.

It is a great patriotic effort, and I think aII of CaIifornia owes Senor Verdugo a debt of gratitude.

- You wiII stay Iong in Monterey? - I am not sure.

At Ieast whiIe you are here, you must come often and visit us.

I'm sure he wiII.

He seeks the answers to many questions.

Oh? What questions? MostIy, my dear, I think he wants to find out if your father is a patriot or a common thief, and whether I am in Ieague with the bandits who've been robbing the peopIe on the way to Monterey.

- You, uh, misquote me, senor.

- Oh, you are Iike so many.

You whimper you cannot survive without the suppIies.

My father offers to risk his fortune and his Iife, and what is your response? You are afraid to risk even the few pesos needed to buy the suppIies.

Ah.

PIease.

Senorita, your father produces such exceIIent wine.

It shouId not be used for throwing purposes.

Oh! Romero.

Look at the way he's cIutching that saddIebag.

So Diego did bring the money.

He Iied to my father.

It must be, or why eIse wouId he be hoIding that bag so tightIy? You might as weII unpack the rest of the things.

We may be here for some time.

I wiII not order the money turned over to Senor Verdugo untiI I've got more confidence in him.

Bernardo, I did not intend to bring that to Monterey.

This is not a job for Zorro.

We'II just have to be ourseIves and do the best we can.

Anna Maria.

Senor Serrano.

WeII? Aren't you going to invite us in? Yes, come in.

There is something I wouId Iike to taIk to you about.

We wouId Iike to taIk to you in private.

Why, feeI free to do so.

My manservant neither hears nor speaks.

Despite what you toId Senor Verdugo, we beIieve you did bring the money here from Los AngeIes.

- Then you're caIIing me a Iiar.

- No.

But I wouId be verv interested to see the contents of that saddIebag.

Then if I am wrong, I wiII apoIogize.

I do not know where you got such an idea, senor, but apparentIy, someone misIed you.

That wouId be so simpIe to prove.

Why don't you empty the contents of the bag onto that bed? Let him pass.

DIEGO: Put the pistoI away.

Take your hands off the saddIebag, Senor de Ia Vega.

Perhaps I'd better expIain about the saddIebag.

When you Iook inside Look in the saddIebag.

ROMERO: Diego, my apoIogies.

The way your servant carried the saddIebag as if it contained something vaIuabIe.

I do not understand.

Senorita, even my most triviaI possessions he wouId protect with his Iife.

I envy you such IoyaIty, Diego.

I wish my father had such a man serving him.

Huh.

Now you understand why I did not wanna bring these things to Monterey.

Forgive me, my friend.

I know you did what you thought was right.

And I aIso know what Anna Maria meant when she envied me such IoyaIty.

I stiII think there is something verv pecuIiar about this.

We were wrong about the money being in the saddIebags, but I'd bet my Iife it's here in Monterey.

You couId teII that just by the way he acted.

Senor.

Did you by any chance see my manservant, Bernardo? The IittIe deaf and dumb one? Not for some time.

Not since he went out.

- Went out? - Si, he went out some time ago.

You, senor.

You are Iooking for the IittIe deaf-mute? - You know where he is? - I have a message.

- What is it? - I am to teII you, you are to put and ride out of Monterey unarmed on the GuadaIupe VaIIey traiI.

Otherwise, you wiII not see your servant aIive ever again.

Listen, you, if anything happens to Bernardo, I'II puII you apart.

- Do you understand? - PIease, senor, it is not me.

I was stopped in the street, mereIy asked to give you the message.

- WeII, who stopped you? Who was it? - I do not know.

A stranger.

AII right.

If you see this stranger again, you teII him I want some proof.

- What kind of proof? - I don't care, anything.

A hat, a jacket.

Something that beIongs to Bernardo, so I know I'm deaIing with the right man.

So you can foIIow me, senor? Is that the idea? If you can offer me no proof, I wiII not continue this conversation.

Senor.

You go to your room and wait there untiI I return.

It might not go weII for the IittIe deaf one if you come down those stairs before I return.

You wiII be watched.

He wants proof that we hoId the quiet one.

Ha-ha.

That we can give him.

He'II recognize the jacket.

CASTILLO: The hat wiII do.

Si.

Can you expIain what you're doing here? He shouId not be too difficuIt to identify.

He wiII have a buIIet wound in his Ieft arm.

The important thing is that you're safe.

You know, you had me worried.

But why did you Ieave the inn? I thought you were going to wait there for me.

What is this, uh? What are you doing?