- [first lines]
- [jumping from a rowboat in the surf]
- Pietro: Stick with me, partner!
- Leonardo: California!
- Pietro: It's the New World. At last dry land. So, where is St. Helena?
- Leonardo: About ten miles that way.
- Pietro: In less than three days, I'll wash the barnacles from my throat. Come on - let's see how the ladies grow in sunny California.
- Leonardo: There's something I need to take care of.
- Pietro: What could be more important than a cold sangria and a warm senorita, heh?
- Leonardo: Unfinished business.
- [the Queen parries Montoya's sword thrust below her waist by placing a dagger against his throat]
- The Queen of Swords: Naughty, naughty.
- [discussing Marta's fate]
- Col. Luis Montoya: I wonder - what would you do to save her?
- Leonardo: Anything.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Really?
- Leonardo: I would die for her.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Of course you would... but would you kill for her?
- [Montoya tries to draw his pistol while the Queen's dagger is held to his throat]
- The Queen of Swords: Don't tempt me, Colonel!
- Col. Luis Montoya: [drops his gun] I get the point.
- The Queen of Swords: Good boy.
- The Queen of Swords: Now, Leonardo claims you took him from jail to kill Senor Hidalgo.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Who would believe a man who spent five years in a Castile prison, hmm?
- The Queen of Swords: Don Gaspar might - especially since his recent accident. He petitions the governor, who petitions the viceroy... Pretty soon, you're on a ship bound for Spain. I wonder how you'd look in leg irons?
- Col. Luis Montoya: Spare me the irony, please. What do you want?
- The Queen of Swords: Forget the tax increase, Colonel. And if anything ever happens to Leonardo or Marta, Senor Hidalgo will learn of your scheme. Even if Leonardo did hang, I doubt he'd hang alone.
- Col. Luis Montoya: I fear you may be right.
- [last lines]
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Marta! And Leonardo... is he all right?
- Vera Hidalgo: He's fine. He has to find his place in life and prove to himself who he is - or isn't. When he has, he'll come back.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: You never could lie to me. Why didn't you go with him?
- Vera Hidalgo: No, this is my place. I belong with you. In many ways, your cousins were right.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: What?
- Vera Hidalgo: You are still a barbarian. Somebody's got to keep you out of trouble.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Do you miss him?
- Vera Hidalgo: ...If I keep talking, lunch will never be ready.