Garcia discovers that all the gunpowder in the cuartel has disappeared and been replaced with charcoal (a plot that will make Los Angeles indefensible). He informs Diego of this, then questions people at the cuartel, including Raquel Toledano, agent of the Eagle. Zorro intervenes and learns from Raquel that Garcia has been lured into the countryside by Fuentes and Quintana in order to kill him. Zorro rescues him, but the inn keepers and Espinoza hatch another plot to do away with the acting Commandante, and finally Zorro stops them for good, Raquel then joining her husband to return to Spain.; Garcia, having Zorro yet elude him again, goes to Diego and informs him that he has devised a plan to capture Zorro. Diego will make it known that he knows who the Fox actually is, and when Zorro arrives at the de la Vega hacienda to shut Diego up, Garcia and his men will move in to capture the wily Fox. But Diego contrives a plan of his own, which saves the day and sends Garcia off to figure out yet another plan.