- Heeled by members of an ancient conspiracy, Ichabod and Abbie team up with Abbie's estranged sister in the search for an ancient artifact.
- (Spoiler) Crane realizes that another series of crimes is committed by descendants of the Shadowhunters, an occult order among the British crown's German mercenary regiments, which is after the Lesser Key of Solomon, a book with spells to release 72 demons. Abbie's sister has escaped from psych ward and joins them to find it and the Hessian devil worshipers, just when they attempt to unleash Moloch, the demonic director of the Apocalypse, and mother Mills's killer.—KGF Vissers
- Boston Harbor, December 16, 1773
During the middle of the Boston Tea Party, Ichabod goes searching for something. Gen. Washington commanded they bring back a crate. When they confront a red coat for the crate, he recites an incantation in German and then blows himself up.
In present day Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod lovingly remembers his wife, who saved him and is somewhere between life and death herself. He talks passionately about her and the love that spans life and death and how rare it is. Then we realize he is telling this story to a roadside assistance representative, whom he has contacted remotely from the inside of the car. He leaves the woman from roadside assistance in tears and gives her the courage to go on.
He thanks her for unlocking the car.
He's waiting for Abbie outside the mental institution when Abbie comes out to report Jenny escaped.
Later, Abbie wants time to track Jenny down herself, but Captain Irving is hesitant. Abbie and Ichabod are sure Jenny is related to the Headless Horseman. He gives them 12 hours.
At a bar, Jenny settles in and Wendell the bartender pours her a shot and gets her her things. "Remember when I told you, one day this town was going to go straight to Hell? I hate when I'm right," she says.
A German man gets a computerized voice call alerting him that Jenny has escaped and they believe she knows where "item 37" is. He's ordered to track it and her down.
Cut to the man showing up at the bar, where Wendell says he's never heard of Jenny Mills. When they threaten him, Wendell pulls a shogun on them. The German man easily disarms him and then begins the torture. After Wendell admits Jenny was there, the man skewers him.
Back at the station, Ichabod looks over Jenny's travels, including Mexico and Somalia. He wonders why Jenny would travel so far and come back to Sleepy Hollow.
He pesters Abbie for her family history. Their dad died when they were young, and their mom had a nervous breakdown. After the age of 12, Abbie had one foster home; Jenny had seven, but she stayed with the last family for over a year. Ichabod wants to talk to them.
In a truck strop bathroom, Abbie goves over her "go bag," including a passport and two guns. She's ready for war.
Captain Irving reports to the murder scene at the bar. The bad guy cut off Wendell's head and skewered his body on the wall, but Irving knows it wasn't the work of the Horseman because the wounds weren't cauterized. Just the same, he wants to keep it quiet.
Abbie and Ichabod visit one of Jenny's foster mothers, who is cold and neglectful of the foster child she currently has. She tells Abbie that Jenny used to take off for Trout Lake.
Ichabod and Abbie head up to a lake cabin and break in. Ichabod is drawn to a Revolutionary War painting over the fireplace. Ichabod realizes the cabin belonged to Sheriff Corbin. He sees a picture of Corbin with Jenny and realizes they were close.
"You have no idea," Jenny says, stepping out and drawing a gun on them. Abbie draws on her sister and they stare each other down.
Abbie tells Jenny she's trying to make things right. The two sisters go after each other until Ichabod shouts them both down.
Jenny tells them she helped Sheriff Crane find rare objects, thus the world travels. She saw him the night before he died and he told her to come to the cabin if something happened to him, he had a bad feeling. She opens a secret panel in the cabin wall and takes out a sextant, for mapping sea travel. It comes with symbols branded into leather.
Ichabod recognizes the markings.
He explains that they went in for the weapon, creating the Boston Tea Party as a distraction. They just called it "the destruction of the tea."
The man guarding the weapon was a Hessian, a German mercenary loyal to the British crown.
Ichabod and his fellow soldiers were sent to claim a chest made of stone, covered in markings. He ferried it back to Washington, but never saw it again.
Ichabod demonstrates how the sextant works. There's a projector hidden inside that displays a map from Ichabod's era of Sleepy Hollow. They think it will lead them to the location of the mystery chest. Just then shots start coming through the windows.
The German and his men rain fire from semi-automatic weapons and one runs in and grabs the sextant. Two of them get away with it but Jenny pulls a gun on the German.
Jenny looks over the gun and says it's a military issue Uzi.
Ichabod checks him for tattoos and, in German, declares him Reinhessian, Shadow Warriors, 5th Battalion. The Hessian says the chest contains a doorway to the seventh circle of Hell where 72 condemned souls wait on a shore of flaming sand, from the Book of Revelation. Jenny recognizes that he's talking about the Lesser Key of Solomon.
It's a book of black magic, that is itself a key capable of unleashing the demons into their world.
The Hessian says they've been hiding in Sleepy Hollow. Captain Irving and a team head to the Hessian's house, following up Wendell's murder, and find all sort of body parts, skulls and weird bits in the basement.
Back with the German, he tells Abbie, Jenny and Ichabod that they've already met the man in charge. He knows all their names and describes the demon.
The Hessian says the demon summoned the Horseman and "with each dark spirit he brings in to your world, his grand design gets stronger. He wants you to understand. My brothers have the map and soon the doorway will open and my task will be completed."
He says something in German.
The man stops talking and chomps down on something in his mouth -- he chokes on a cyanide pill.
Ichabod translates his last words: "Moloch shall rise."
As Abbie and Jenny argue over whether to call the cops in or not, Ichabod starts drawing, recreating the map using his photographic memory.
The other two Hessians head to the church where the Key of Soloman is hidden.
On the drive there, Ichabod asks Jenny where she received her weapons training. Some in Mexico and other training in South Sudan where warlords were stealing food and women.
"I learned long ago that if you don't fight for the things you stand for, you don't really stand for them," Jenny says. Ichabod likes the argument, but Abbie is annoyed that he's impressed.
At the church, the Hessians find a book and one of them cuts his own hand to reveal hidden writing. It's written in Ars Goettia and says: "The portal shall be opened, the key shall be turned, in the name of Moloch."
As they recite the words, the baptismal font bubbles with flame and blood and demons start trying to break free from the ooze and flames.
The Mills sisters and Ichabod arrive and take on the men. One of the Hessians gets ahold of Abbie and tries to shove her into the teaming, screaming mass of demons, but Ichabod saves her. He picks up a knife and takes on the giant man.
Abbie picks up the book and one of the men gets Jenny in a headlock. He tells her to drop the book or Jenny dies. Jenny tells Abbie not to listen as Ichabod grapples with the other man.
Abbie heaves the book into the flames. Ichabod knocks out one man while Jenny gets the drop on the other. The book is swallowed up in the flames and the demons and everything suddenly recede.
Back at the station, Abbie explains to her sister that Ichabod thinks they're the two witnesses from Revelations. Jenny believes her, but isn't ready to forgive her yet.
"I can't take back what I did, but I can try to make it right," Abbie says. Abbie has filed paperwork to become her conservator and thinks she can get Jenny out of the mental institution in less than six months. She thinks they can work together to get answers.
"Corbin said one day you'd be back when you were ready. He asked me to find a way to try to forgive you. I said I didn't think I could," Jenny says.
"I'm sorry that it took me so long to find you," says Abbie.
Later, Ichabod finds Abbie and shows her a reference to Moloch in Paradise Lost. It's the demon she saw in the woods. Now they know who they're fighting.
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