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In Fox television's latest
mystery-adventure drama, Sleepy Hollow, we are presented to an old story
line with a modernized twist. The opening scene introduces us to the character
of Ichabod Crane who is fighting in the Revolutionary War. During the Hudson
Valley, New York battle, a man’s attempt to kill Ichabod is thwarted when his
head is sliced off. Ichabod loses consciousness and after regaining it, he
almost gets hit by a car as he runs to the road, finding himself in current day
Sleepy Hollow.
Cutting to another scene,
Lieutenant Abbie Mills and Sheriff August Corbin are on assignment to check out
a barn. Upon arrival, the Sheriff sees a headless figure and ends up getting
decapitated. Afterwards, Abbie goes to the police station to tell the head of
the precinct, Captain Frank Irving, what she just witnessed. Overhearing her
story as he was brought in and interrogated, Ichabod says that he knows whom
she is talking about and last time he was seen, Ichabod had cut off his head.
Despite passing a
polygraph test, no one truly believes Ichabod; after all he insists he is from
1776. However, Abbie, who has seen supernatural events when she was younger,
takes his word, albeit with a grain of salt. And because Captain Irving cannot
explain things yet, he entrusts Abbie and Ichabod to get to the bottom of the
bizarre events. Ichabod tells Abbie that the Headless Horseman has also been
resurrected and that he is only one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
which together they must defeat, not only to protect those living in Sleepy
Hollow, but those everywhere.
By the end of the first episode
of Sleepy Hollow, we learn several key things including that officer
Andy Brooks succumbs to the Headless Horseman and now follows his orders and
that Ichabod’s wife, Katrina, was a witch who hid this from her husband in
order to protect him, and is now trapped in a mysterious otherworld. Each
episode will bring insight into Ichabod’s life, and combined with his
historical knowledge and Abbie’s modern police tactics, they form a dynamic duo
needed to set the world as they know it right.
As the initial episode
ends, we are left with lingering questions we can only hope will be answered as
the season goes on:
- How will Abbie and Ichabod destroy all four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
- What happens if and when all evils are destroyed? Is that it for Abbie and Ichabod or will the story line perhaps end in romance?
- What will become of officer Andy Brooks? Is there any hope for him?
Fox’s website has the latest
episodes you can watch online if you haven’t caught onto one of the fall’s
creepiest new show.
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