It's Christmas and Don Diego is depressed, less because of his bad cold then dad's sneers that he should at least have been there protesting while Zorro singlehandedly saved innocent villager Friez from flogging by the alcalde. He decides to give the party at Victoria's a miss, and wonders if Zorro's endless crime fighting really matters, since he never gets closer to his true love or gets any credit for his feats as the masked mystery man he created. Then appears magically don Fernando, apparently an angle of fate, who shows Diego how disastrously worse everyone's