- Pirate: [after just landing on the California shore, as Zappa and the Captain are walking inland] Captain!
- Captain Bardoso: Well, what?
- Pirate: I have a feeling, Captain.
- Captain Bardoso: Then scratch it, dog.
- Pirate: This is a feeling about the Californios. Maybe they're... watching us. Maybe they - when the Californios catch a pirate, they tie him behind a horse and run him until his feet wear down to his ankles.
- [the Captain punches him, he falls to the ground]
- Marcos Zappa: And his ankles down to his legs, and his legs to the top of his head.
- [taps the Captain on his forehead]
- Luis: [looking at Zappa's dinner] Such beautiful fat venison, hardly touched. And the so tender bosoms of partridge, ornamented with white and purple grapes, and the abalone, the - abalone is good for you, before you go to bed.
- Marcos Zappa: I told you, I'm not hungry.
- Don Pedro Garcia: I have employment for a renegade. We will discuss your employment as soon as my men have washed the pirate stink off of you.
- Marcos Zappa: [toast] To our infant Republic of Mexico, may she live forever. To Marcos Zappa, may he live even longer.
- Marcos Zappa: I am a stranger in your midst; so, naturally, you want to know why I came, where I'm going, what I do. So, I'll tell you. Why I come, where I'm going, what I do, is nobody's business but my own.
- Colonel Vega: Respectful visitors do not become involved in brawls at the House of Pleasure.
- Manuella de Vasquez: At the what?
- Duenna Concepcion: It is not for young girls to know about. Come, Manuella.
- Captain Bardoso: Where are we going?
- Marcos Zappa: To an establishment known as the House of Pleasure.
- Captain Bardoso: The House of Pleasure?
- Don Pedro Garcia: You've done very well so far. You have peeked Manuella's curiosity and set her romantic heart on fire. Now, all you have to do is take advantage of her lack of sophistication. I'm sure you know how to manage that.
- Manuella de Vasquez: How do you like California Don Marcos? What do you think of the California women?
- Manuella de Vasquez: Tell me, what really happened at the House of Pleasure?
- Marcos Zappa: It is not for young girls to know about.
- Miguel De Gandara: What a wonderful fiesta. The best ever. California gets a new flag. You get your wedding ring. And I won 3,000 reales in the cockfight!
- Manuella de Vasquez: They say that love gives wings to dancing feet; but, I have heard that truth makes love complete.
- Marcos Zappa: Since the dance will only last a minute, why ask for more than there is in it?
- Don Pedro Garcia: Everything works out for the best. Now, I can give my order simultaneously: to wench, to renegade, and pirate.
- Captain Bardoso: [to Zappa] What are you doing here? You told me that the letter said you weren't wanted.
- Don Pedro Garcia: You're friend always goes, where he's not wanted.
- Captain Bardoso: Who's this popinjay?
- Marcos Zappa: The man you ought to thank for all your past prosperity.
- Captain Bardoso: Him?
- Marcos Zappa: And your master.
- Captain Bardoso: This fancy lizard? Ha!
- Anita Gonzales: [to Zappa] Can't you understand? He'll use you the way he used me. Only as long as you're needed in his crazy schemes!
- Don Pedro Garcia: Whatever I do, my dear Anita, who is going to stop me? A wench? A pirate? A branded renegade?
- Anita Gonzales: You own them, but you *don't* own me.
- [Don Pedro slaps Anita]
- Duenna Concepcion: Smile.
- Manuella de Vasquez: Why should I?
- Duenna Concepcion: Do you want people to think there's something wrong?
- Manuella de Vasquez: Is anything right?
- Anita Gonzales: Well, what are you gonna do?
- Marcos Zappa: What can I do?
- Anita Gonzales: You can be a man!
- Anita Gonzales: As you are being a woman?
- Marcos Zappa: You used the brand to blackmail me into making love with Manuella. Do you still think the brand on me can save you?
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