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SLEEPY HOLLOW Recap: Like Minds, One Heart in “Delaware”

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SLEEPY HOLLOW Recap: Like Minds, One Heart in

By Chris B.

This week on Sleepy Hollow the team develops a “two-pronged strategy.”

The Witnesses will travel to the Catacombs, reassemble Pandora’s box, and use it to drain The Hidden One of his power; meanwhile, the rest of the team will work to run interference on The Hidden One until they return.

Crane and Abbie start off in their row boat, Crane with sash and bended knee, adopting the stance of his mentor in the famous painting; Abbie flies the special flag and sings the national anthem, lighting a doorway to the underworld.  Then, they are no longer on the Delaware, but now travel the River Styx.  Soon, they come across the remains of Washington’s exploded boat and crew, “frozen in death’s rigor for 200 years.”  In the pocket of one, Crane finds a note written by Betsy Ross, clarifying the mayhem that had ensued: a saboteur had come along on the mission, and only Washington and Betsy had survived.  However, Crane speculates that the woman who returned to America, callously saying farewell to him via letter, was not the real Betsy Ross.

In a hidden chamber, Abbie and Crane discover Betsy’s body.  As they prepare to say some honorary remarks, she awakens, unaware that it is no longer December 1776.   Apparently, her greed to acquire more artifacts from the chamber was her downfall, locking her in when the door came down.  Washington had no choice but to leave her behind.  Though she has been there (according to the Catacombs timeline established during Abbie’s experience) 2400 years, she seems totally unaffected, and even manages to give Abbie some major side-eye when the two women are introduced.

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The Hidden One and Pandora have a fateful encounter atop the mountain, one in which he all but mocks her for ever thinking that he could truly love her; according to him, it should have been glaringly apparent all along:  “All I’ve ever loved is power.”  He has nothing but disdain for the weakness of human emotion and vows calmly that when the last grain of sand falls in the hourglass, he will take her life, “slowly.”  All of her devotion has been for naught as he only cares for his own glory.

In that vein, it is quite clear that Danny is accustomed to being in charge.  While this is his first experience with the team, he very quickly falls into asking questions (which, truthfully, only slows the team down) and doling out orders.  He confesses to Sophie that he’s been spying on Abbie, Jack Walters’s “asset,” of his own volition, and though he claims to wish to atone for that, what really brings a gleam to his eye is that he could also save the world in the process.  Somehow, I think he’s already working out how to add that bullet to his CV.  This bodes ominously for what might happen were he to have to choose between Agent Mills and his own ambition.

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