Abbie and Ichabod must find hidden clues to thwart the evil in Sleepy Hollow and Abbie gets an unexpected visit from the enigmatic Andy Brooks (guest star John Cho)
Cast: Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane; Nicole Beharie as Lieutenant Abbie Mills; Orlando Jones as Captain Frank Irving; Katia Winter as Katrina Crane
Guest Cast: John Cho as Andy Brooks
The genre premise of finding hidden clues continues and as we know Evil doesn't really get contained in Sleepy Hollow. John Cho returns as Deputy Andy Brooks with his neck still in place although we could wonder what he was doing in the last four episodes - perhaps doing cameos on one of the other zombie-vampire television shows.
Ichabod's extensive first-hand knowledge of our country's hidden history, coupled with Abbie's superior profiling and modern threat assessment skills, make them a formidable duo. The complex pasts of the pair, from Ichabod's inclusion in the powerful and secretive Freemasons Society to Abbie's childhood visions, will help them solve the intricate puzzles of Sleepy Hollow in order to protect its – and the world's – future. As history repeats itself, the oddly-linked pair will draw on the real stories and secrets this nation was founded on in their quest to stop an increasingly vicious cycle of evil.
Would that Fox could stop their News Channel's vicious cycle of Evil. Warning: potential spoilers below the squiggle
"Temper expectations please" the counterfactual or revisionist history gets more fine-grained in this episode. Ex boyfriend Morales gets warned by Brooks (I can protect her from the end). Is Deputy Andy one of the raptured 144k or some decoy for some later narrative path? The Horseman of Death strikes many time this episode, decapitating many masons making the secret war between good and evil more than Captain Irving's construction of the events as "cult ritual suicides". A brief bit of discourse on Sally Hemings & Thomas Jefferson helps to recenter the continuing revisionism. This is an episode of code and decoding with the Horseman looking for his skull in order to hasten the end of days. Irving finally becomes a believer as the larger notion of the Mind as a holy place is touched on. The fine-grained elements come with greater historic play between Abbie and Crane regarding the commodification of water and the mysteries of trying to learn how to use a computer which itself may be a demonic heptagram. Silversmithing, dental work and Paul Revere interplay in this episode with the Masonic use of a Vigenère cypher. Cicero reappears as a password and the episode concludes with a trapped horseman in a special room constructed by masons leading to a more critical possibility in next week's episode.