- Ichabod enlists Henry Parrish to help him communicate with Katrina, but in the process, a menacing danger is unleashed from purgatory.
- Ichabod feels he must find out about his son Jeremy and why Katrina never told him. So he gets the help of Sin-eater Henry Parrish, overcoming his warning. It works, Crane learns that Jeremy was horribly abused in a grim priest's war orphanage until he used his inherited witchcraft to conjure a Golem, while Katrina's powers were bound by her coven, which also disposed of 'dangerous' Jeremy. But Ichabod's journey awoke both the golem and Moloch.—KGF Vissers
- Abbie joins Ichabod at the cabin, where he's working through his anger by chopping wood. His head is swimming with questions about the son he just learned he had and never got to meet. He especially wants to know why his wife didn't tell him she was pregnant.
He wants to contact Katrina. He reached out to the only man he knows who might be able to help. Henry Parrish, the sin eater who helped separate Ichabod's blood from the Horseman's, pulls up in a taxi.
Inside, Parrish isn't sure how he can help. He's never tried that kind of contact before. He warns Ichabod that his life would be in danger if Ichabod goes into the other realm to talk to her and he'll be tempting fate.
Ichabod thinks not doing it is a far worse risk. Finally, Henry cautions Abbie that what he's about to do will be scary and she can't interrupt.
Henry urges Ichabod to think of Katrina, then he starts strangling him. "I told you, the closer he is to death, the shorter distance there is to travel," Henry says.
Ichabod gets woozy and sees himself in a church. There's a baby carriage with a doll inside. He sees Katrina and cuts right to the chase. The baby was named Jeremy, after Ichabod's grandfather. She didn't know she was pregnant when she buried him, and neither did her coven when they punished her for doing so. She learned of her condition in Europe in search of a spell to unbind him from the Horseman. When she returned, her coven persecuted her, so she sought refuge at the house of Lachlan Fredericks. She knew her coven would be after him if they knew about him so she left him with Grace (Abbie's ancestor) and her husband, a pastor, with the doll she made for him, promising it would protect her.
That was the last time she saw him, in the church like the one they're standing it. It's in her purgatory, where her coven banished her, and she lights a candle for him once a day.
She apologizes and he promises he'll find out what happened to him and get her out of purgatory. Suddenly, there's a pounding on the door. Katrina urges him to return to his realm as a creature busts through the door.
Ichabod wakes up on the cabin floor and tells Abbie what he's learned.
Somewhere out in the woods, the same faceless monster digs its way out of the earth.
Back in the cabin, Abbie suggests they check the library's historical records. Henry is in a hurry to get to his train, but Ichabod and Abbie ask him to stay. He agrees. The creature watches them drive off.
In New York, Frank Irving meets with his pastor, asking him about a sermon he once gave about two witnesses. The pastor explains that the New Testament says "witness" mean martyr, and that the two are destined to die. The apostles that follow them usually suffer the same fate. Irving is frustrated, thinking he's given enough in his public service and having his daughter get hit by a car. He wonders, if God has a plan, who is it for?
At the library, after sweet talking the librarian, they find a record that mentions Grace dying young in a fire. The record says the townspeople were afraid of Jeremy, they had seen him start fires, just by crying. He inherited Katrina's powers. He survived the fire unharmed, but Grace and Joseph died.
The record says only that Jeremy was sent to an orphanage for children of the war. Henry suggests the librarian Ms. Hudson knows more than she's saying -- lying is a sin and he can sense it.
They go to look for her. She's in her car outside when the creature reaches through her window.
They come outside and find Ms. Hudson crushed inside her flattened car.
Frank picks up his daughter Macy from his ex-wife Cynthia. He tells her he's sorry he was gone so much. She says if he'd said that a year ago, he'd still be living there. Macy hears them.
Back in the archives, they go through the librarian's effects. Ichabod explains his struggles with the way language has changed. In his day "intercourse" meant conversation and "awful" meant "awe inspiring."
"So if I went out with a guy and we had 'awful intercourse,' we'd be going on a second date?" Abbie asks.
"Disconcerting, yet accurate," Ichabod says.
Abbie takes out a box and when she sets it on the table, it sends a shiver through Henry. He says it's filled with pain. It bears the symbol for Katrina's coven, the Sisterhood of the Radiant Heart. The librarian was a witch, which explains her odd reaction to Ichabod -- she knew who he was.
Ichabod opens the box, and Henry says it reeks of death and pain. There's a drawing of Katrina's handmade doll for Jeremy inside.
Abbie saw the same doll in her vision of Katrina. Henry touches it and tells Ichabod, he thinks the misery inside was Jeremy's.
Henry has a vision of Jeremy being whipped in the orphanage by the priest. Jeremy bled on to the doll his mother made him and called upon her promise to protect him, creating the creature out of his rage and pain. The creature looks like a giant muscle-bound version of the hand-stitched doll. In the vision, it attacks the vicious priest and snaps his neck, then bows to Jeremy.
Ichabod realizes that's what he saw in the church with Katrina, and he thought he felt it again in the woods at the cabin. It followed Ichabod back.
They think it attacked Ms. Hudson because she was a member of the coven who banished Jeremy's mother.
Frank takes a walk with his daughter in the park. He stops to get her a hot chocolate when the vendor's eyes gloss over and he tells him that God may have a plan for him but "we" have a plan for him, too. Frank grabs the guy, but the demon spirit transfers to a woman walking by. Two cops see him shaking up a confused hot chocolate vendor. He shows his badge, but his daughter is still weirded out.
Henry finds Ichabod feeling guilty about bringing his son's rage into the world, then and now. "Whatever became of your son, you speak for him now," Henry says. He thinks Jeremy was good because he was molded from Ichabod's clay.
The phrase reminds Ichabod of Washington's Bible, which Katrina buried with him. He runs to look up a passage and realizes they're dealing with a golem, a creature made from mud and imbued with its creator's passions.
Abbie remembers seeing four women in black veils, like ones the librarian has ticket stubs from visiting at carnivals. They're members of the same coven, which means the Golem is after them. They're the ones who banished Katrina, which Ichabod thinks means they could bring her back.
They find a ticket stub for a carnival outside town. When they reach it, Ichabod insists on going to speak to the "Four Who Speak as One" alone, given what they did to his wife.
Inside, one looks at his palm and they lift their black veils to reveal weird colored eyes and dirty, jagged teeth. They tell him it was foretold that his arrival would seal their fate. "Tonight we die," they say.
They don't see any point trying to avoid their destiny, the Katrina did in saving Ichabod. He tells them the Golem is coming. They know it, and tell him that people hunted Jeremy and Golem centuries ago. They were able to send the creature to purgatory, but Jeremy's powers were too great. Instead, they stopped his heart and buried him. They tell him only his son's blood, which gave the golem life, can kill it.
Ichabod leaves the witches and rejoins Abbie just as the golem attacks the witches. Abbie and Henry try to take refuge, but the golem shatters a funhouse mirror. A shard hits Ichabod and Henry suggests Ichabod's blood is the same as Henry's and he can stop it.
Ichabod approaches the golem with the shard and tries to tell it it doesn't have to fight anymore, and that it only exists because he wasn't around. But when the golem charges, Ichabod has no choice but to stab it with the glass shard. Ichabod takes its hand as it lies on the ground and tells it he can move on from his life of pain. Ichabod calls it, "my son." The golem dies and only the doll is left.
Back at the station, Henry is ready to leave for his train. They thank him for his help.
Abbie gives Ichabod his present early: a stocking with his name on it. "You embroidered my name on some oversized hosiery," he marvels. She explains it's tradition.
When Abbie leaves, Ichabod sees a mirror crack in front of him. It mends and suddenly Ichabod sees himself in the dark woods with Moloch's voice taunting him. "I offer this warning: the saint's name is a sign. When you know my name, more will take form, then the end of days begins. Your death is assured, you and the second witness....I touched her soul once, soon it will be mine forever, and you will give it to me."
Ichabod wakes up on the station floor. Abbie finds him. "Moloch is coming for your soul, he says I will deliver it to him," Ichabod says.
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