- Don Alejandro de la Vega: Strange... so strange. It is almost as if I had known you. You seem so much like someone I know. I am a foolish old man with foolish dreams. So often have I dreamed that my son would come back from Spain and he would be like you. Now that you're so close, it is so much like my dreams. I feel almost like I could pull aside the mask and there would be the face of my son, Diego...
- [puts his hand up to Zorro's mask, but is stopped by Zorro, who shakes his head no]
- Don Alejandro de la Vega: I would not pull away the mask, I would not have the courage. An old man must cling to his dreams, as desperately as he clings to life.
- [loses consciousness]
- Don Diego de la Vega: You will have many years left, my father, to live and dream.