Sleepy Hollow - Heads of State - Review: “He’s Back!”

Sleepy Hollow - Heads of State - Review: “He’s Back!”
4.3 - “Heads of State”
Directed by Kellie Cyrus
Written by Raven Metzner
Reviewed by Kelly Anne Blount

This week’s episode starts out with Ichabod, Jenny, and Jake checking out places to live. Let’s put it this way, it is not ideal, but it’s cheap, so Ichabod takes it.

Aw, Jake likes Jenny. He stumbles around awkwardly and walks away before making things worse. Ha ha!

Jenny asks Crane when he’s going to tell Agent Diana Thomas about her daughter, Molly, being the next witness. He doesn’t want to put Agent Thomas under more stress, but Jenny stresses that it needs to be done sooner rather than later.

Over at the Thomas household, Molly is showing her mother her artwork. She has a picture of the woods, which is odd, because she mostly draws people, not places. Thomas wants to know where she saw the woods that she has so wonderfully drawn. Molly deflects her mother’s question.

Agent Thomas tells her daughter it’s time to go to Nanny Claire’s. Molly asks why she needs to go to a babysitter if she’s eleven. Not going to lie, I was thinking the same thing during the last two episodes and came to the conclusion that Agent Thomas has really wonky work hours and that she didn’t want her daughter home alone for long periods of time intermittently. What do you think? I mean, at eleven, I had my Red Cross Babysitter’s Certificate and I was looking after kids. Anyways, Agent Thomas is worried about the picture, but doesn’t say anything else to Molly about it.

Dreyfuss is talking to someone about investing in an app. The guy looks nervous. He sends him on his way. Dreyfuss’ security guard lets Dreyfuss know that “he” has arrived. I think they are talking about the Headless Horseman.

Later that night, the Headless Horseman sets his sights on the President of the United States. He starts shooting at her security staff. One of the officers on the President’s security staff saw the Headless Horseman, after his fake head falls off.

Agent Thomas gets a hold of the shaken officer’s video statement and watches it with Crane. He is seriously creeped out. Thomas tells Crane that the entire city is freaked out and shut down. Agent Thomas says she’s the only one who, “sees another possibility.” Crane asks if the man riding the horse was wielding an axe, Agent Thomas says that he was indeed. Crane tells her if the Horseman was carrying an axe that it’s an “abomination.” He also says if the Horseman has his sights set on the POTUS, they he’s not going to stop until she’s dead. Yikes!

Crane tells Agent Thomas, Alex, and Jake about the Headless Horseman. He thinks the Horseman wants the President’s head. The Horseman stopped and couldn’t cross some kind of invisible barrier. Crane wants to investigate the area and figure out what the barrier is and the reason the Horseman can’t cross it.

Agent Thomas thinks she might be able to get Crane on the scene, but she doesn’t think she can bring the rest of the crew. Jake thinks he knows a way to accomplish this with Alex’s help.

Crane and Thomas are on the scene while Alex, Jake, and Jenny are in tunnels under the city. They find Mayan hieroglyphs on the floor of the tunnels. Jake is all about Jenny, the feeling, as of right now, isn’t mutual.

They find something under the manhole cover. It’s magical and Crane thinks it’s the very thing that stopped the Horseman. He asks them to bring it back to The Vault. It’s filled with mercury and it has a ward on it, an Egyptian symbol. Crane has seen the symbol before and tells the team it was created by Benjamin Banneker.

Jake calls Crane out on being a time traveler. He finally admits that he’s, “a man out of time.” Crane gives the team background on the Four Horseman and the Two Witnesses. He admits that together, he and Abby, stopped the Four Horseman from taking over the world.

Agent Thomas wants Crane to be “straight with us.” They need to know everything critical about the Headless Horseman as possible, as the sun is setting soon and you know what that means, the Horseman will be back.

Crane tells everyone about his meeting with Banneker. He thinks the object on the bottom of the manhole cover as well as Banneker’s other creations could be the key to stopping the Horseman. Jenny recalls seeing one of Banneker’s padfolios with the same symbol for sale on a black market auction site. Jake is floored, he thought all of Banneker’s creations were destroyed or lost. Agent Thomas heads over to meet with Dreyfus, who just so happens to own the leather padfolio. Yikes! I smell a set up, how about you?

Agent Thomas tells Dreyfus she’s investigating a pressing case. Crane sits stoically beside her. Thomas asks Dreyfus about the folio. He asks his assistant with demon glowing red eyes to fetch it for him. He opens the folio and shows Crane and Thomas. Dreyfus claims that J Street really exists and that it was a trap for, “supernatural threats.”

Dreyfus and his demon guard talk after Crane and Thomas leave. He wants to bargain with the Headless Horseman. He’s using Crane and Thomas to do his dirty work, without them ever being the wiser.

Crane and the team figure out a way to lure the Horseman to J Street and trap him there.

Jenny tells everyone about how she and Abbie saw their first demon in front of, “these four white trees.” Agent Thomas freaks out because Molly was drawing four white trees.

Agent Thomas stops home and heads right to Molly’s room. She finds several pencil sketches of Crane and one of the Headless Horseman.

Meanwhile, the Headless Horseman has found a head to wear for the evening. He gets on a motorcycle and heads out.

Crane and Agent Thomas are on J Street, which technically doesn’t exist, while Jenny, Alex, and Jake are underground.

Agent Thomas shows Crane Molly’s drawings. She said that they are dated and that Molly drew several of the drawings before she ever met Crane. Agent Thomas comes to the conclusion that her daughter Molly is a witness, like Crane and Abbie.

Before Thomas can ask Crane anything else, a man on a motorcycle, a.k.a. the Headless Horseman, shows up on the scene. Thomas tells Jake, Alex, and Jenny to “open the door.” Crane lures the Horseman closer.

Jake and Jenny manage to get the door open as the Horseman gets off the motorcycle and walks toward Crane. Luckily, they succeed and Crane and Agent Thomas get the Horseman to follow them through the door.

Crane and the Horseman begin to fight. The Horseman has Crane by the throat. Agent Thomas shoots him and temporarily distracts him. Crane and Thomas make a break for the door. Meanwhile, Jake, Jenny, and Alex close the door, trapping the Horseman inside.

Agent Thomas is pissed that Crane didn’t tell her more about his background and that her daughter is the next Witness. She vows to end her working relationship with Crane. She wants nothing to do with him and is worried for her daughter’s safety. Crane tells her that she cannot hide from this world. Without another word, she turns and leaves.

The next day, Agent Thomas sits Molly down and asks her about her drawings. She said that she was having dreams and seeing these images while she was being quiet. The dreams have stopped and Agent Thomas tells her that things are going to go back to normal.

Dreyfus, who knows where the Horseman is, goes to meet with him. He brings his demon security guard and promises to help the Horseman get the President’s head.

Crane is eating dinner at his new place. Ha ha! He says that he is “ready to battle.” What is he battling, you ask? A Swedish kit to build a piece of furniture! Ha ha ha!

He suddenly stops, as he hears something. He checks out his closet, which have a pair of black boots sitting in the back. Just before he closes the door, the boots mysteriously leak a sketchy black substance.

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My Thoughts:

This was a pretty good episode! The team worked really well together in order to trap the Horseman. Too bad Dreyfus set it all into motion and now has the upper hand.

Agent Thomas is not cool with her daughter being the next Witness, which is totally understandable. What I don’t get is why she doesn’t have more questions for Crane. Same with Alex and Jake. Why aren’t they asking him a million questions? Perhaps that will come when they aren’t under pressure to catch the Horseman.

I’m surprised that Agent Thomas’ partner, who was killed, hasn’t been brought back up. I mean, wouldn’t she attend a funeral for him or something?

I really like Molly. The actress has some great acting chops! I missed the previews for the next episode, but I’m thinking she is going to need to do some Witness work sometime soon, don’t you?

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