Sleepy Hollow – Tomorrow

By: Stacy Miller

In the future, an older Jenny Mills (Lyndie Greenwood) is speaking to a group of students about The Dreyfuss creating an America lacking freedom but how brave people like their parents have fought The Dreyfuss for years. Jenny reminds the children not to talk about The Dreyfuss because if they do, the riders will come.  The class ends as Jenny is told about that they have a Code Black. “How many?” Jenny asks. “All of them,” a fellow freedom fighter answers. Jenny gathers weapons and along with a small army of fighters face all Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. They fight bravely but are no match for the Horsemen and have to fall back.  Jenny is confronted by an adult Molly (Seychelle Gabriel), who refuses to believe any of Jenny’s lies about Malcolm or her mother being a Horseman. Ms. Mills refuses to call Molly by the name Dreyfuss gave her Lara and urges the girl to ask Crane if she doesn’t believe her. Molly tells Jenny that Crane is long dead having been executed with the other political prisoners. The Horseman of War runs its sword through Jenny and for a brief moment, we see Diana’s (Janina Gavankar) face through the Horseman’s head armor.  “Diana, I’m sorry. I failed,” Jenny says as she dies. Molly catches a glimpse of her mother when looking at the Horseman of War. She realizes that Jenny was telling the truth and Malcolm has been lying to her.

Dreyfuss (Jeremy Davies) shows Lara a rare dagger that can cut through anything, even a Horseman’s armor.  She questions him about the things Jenny had been saying and when he makes a comment about Ms. Mills lies that he turned Lara’s mother into the Horseman of War even when Lara hadn’t told him that was what Jenny had said, she realizes that Dreyfuss is the liar. Lara goes to the prison and finds Ichabod (Tom Mison) alive.  She wants to help him escape so they can run away; needing to do something to make this right.  But Crane tells her there is nowhere they can run where the Horsemen won’t find him. Their only hope is for Lara to use Katrina’s spell called The Traveler’s Spell to return to the past. That way, Lara can change their doomed future. But she needs to save her mother first.  Lara returns to Dreyfuss’ headquarters and uses the Traveler’s Spell to open a portal. Malcolm appears and tells Lara not to do this.  He gave her a life of privilege, he gave her everything. It was all based on a lie says Lara before jumping into the portal.  We get a fast forwarded version of the last episode “The Way of the Gun” in which Lara showed up and then we see the events leading up to Ichabod being shot and becoming the Horseman of War.  Although it was unexpected, Dreyfuss thinks he can work with this change. Diana orders Malcolm to change Crane back but he instead orders the Horseman of War to kill Diana and Lara. Fortunately, Lara is able to stop the Horseman by stabbing him with the dagger that can cut through a Horseman’s armor. Lara shouts for Diana to run. In the car, Diana calls Molly (Oona Yaffe) at her sleepover to check that her young daughter is okay. Diana wants to immediately come and get Molly but Lara tells Diana that little Molly is safer where she is because Dreyfuss didn’t come take her until years later because he wanted her to experience misery before he “saved” her.  Now that Lara has changed things, the future that Diana’s daughter Molly will have is a different life than she did.

When Dreyfuss see that the Horseman of War has been injured, Jobe (Kamar de los Reyes) tells Malcolm that unlike the others, Crane hasn’t had sufficient time to bond with the Horseman of War’s totem. But a short regenerative period should get him back to full strength.

At The Vault, Alex (Rachel Melvin) and Jake (Jerry MacKinnon) can’t believe that they are talking to an all grown up Molly from the future. But no time for questions on that now, Diana reminds that they need to find a way to reverse Ichabod being the Horseman of War.  Lara shows them the dagger with Crane’s blood, which means he’s still human underneath the armor.  While they are talking, the jar containing the black goo from the webbing that created Crane’s memory of his son Henry Parrish (John Noble) is knocked over and mixes with the blood on the dagger.  The Vault’s security system goes off alerting Team Witness to a supernatural intruder. Jenny draws her gun and his shocked to see Henry.  Diana can’t believe that he is Crane’s son. “He’s so old,” she says. “Tell that to your grown daughter over there,” is Jenny’s reply.  Henry tells Team Witness that he was created from his father’s memories and is the version of the son Ichabod wanted. Henry wonders how he has come to be alive again as only the Horseman of War could have restored him. He learns that Ichabod is now the Horseman of War and tells the group of a way to separate Ichabod from the Horseman via a spell his mother Katrina intended to use in an attempt to separate Abraham from the Horseman of Death. Jenny says that Ichabod would have all of Katrina’s books containing her spells back at their place in Sleepy Hollow. But in the meantime, they draw a magical circle around Henry in the dungeon where they once kept the Horseman of Death. Henry offers his assistance in freeing his father from the Horseman of War; explaining that as they speak, the Horseman is breaking down Ichabod’s mind in order to get him to fully surrender to becoming the Horseman of War. Jenny doesn’t know whether to believe that Henry wants to help.

Diana and Jenny go upstairs and along with Alex and Jake learn that someone broke in and stole a magical item. While Alex, Jake and Jenny try to figure out what was taken, (“Something that will give your nightmares, nightmares” Jake says) Lara and Diana go to Corbin’s cabin where Ichabod lived to get Katrina’s spell book. In the car, Lara tells Diana that she was angry with her for a long time when she learned she had died. But Lara is glad she was able to give Diana’s Molly a better future, even though she has no idea what that future is.

Back at The Vault, Jenny realizes what was taken was a powerful charm that raises the undead a/k/a zombies. Jake knows what Dreyfuss’ plan is: To raise Zombie Hessians to charge the totem of the Horseman of Death.

At August Corbin’s cabin in Sleepy Hollow, Lara finds Katrina’s spell book and tells Diana that the spell requires someone to communicate with the lost soul and convince him to come back to their world. Lara performs the spell and sees flashes of her time with her mother and Crane when she was a child. She is inside Ichabod’s mind. “Crane, I’ve come to get you out,” Lara calls to him. Ichabod hears her but orders Lara to leave, saying that they will come for her.  Lara has to figure out how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Meanwhile, Alex, Jake and Jenny go to face the Zombie Hessians. They fire on the undead soldiers; taking them out but face round two as more Zombie Hessians show up.

Inside Ichabod’s mind, Lara urges Ichabod to fight as the Horseman of War arrives to stop her. “There’s something else Crane, another reason why you can’t let this bastard win. This bond between us, I tried to forget it but it is part of who I am. I guess I always knew even when Malcolm told me it wasn’t real. You and I, we are The Witnesses.”  The Horseman of War corners Lara, but Ichabod comes to her rescue and defeats the Horseman. Because of her, Ichabod is no longer bound to the Horseman. But he does need him for one last deed.  Lara comes back to Diana and tells her that she freed Crane from the Horseman. Ichabod as the Horseman of War defeats the Zombie Hessians and saves his friends. But Ichabod fears that the Horseman of War is not gone for good.  How right Ichabod is as Henry (who somehow escaped from The Vault’s dungeon) approaches Jobe and Malcolm. Jobe introduces Dreyfuss to Henry Parrish, Ichabod Crane’s son. Henry and tells Dreyfuss that he is the rightful heir to wear the Horseman of War’s mantle. “I think this is the beginning of a revolutionary friendship, “Malcolm tells Henry.