- [last lines]
- Don Diego de la Vega: Just one moment! Will You permit me one question? How is it possible for Martinez to have robbed the mission, when you already officially buried him?
- Captain Monestario: It was Sergeant Garcia who made out that report! I will see that he is properly disciplined!
- Captain Monestario: Now permit me one question! How is it possible that the most inept swordsman in all of California was able to defeat Martinez, one of the best?
- Don Diego de la Vega: Well, perhaps Señor Martinez was right when he said, I am the luckiest swordsman alive!