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Let me just start by saying, I’ve tried posting this recap TWICE and both times it failed and I lost everything, and Tumblr is on notice right now. Anyway.
A little boy runs from a big, scary guy with horns on a horse - why hello, Conquest - and barely makes it out of the woods to the highway, where he nearly gets flattened by a passing car. The horsemen disappears, leaving a swirl of black shimmer. Bravo, evil.
Abbie is helping Crane move into Corbin’s abandoned cabin, where they discuss the possibility of Crane updating his look. To that I say, the long hair and tattered coat compliment the accent. Leave his look alone. Although, it would suck to have one outfit from a laundry standpoint. It makes sense that eventually he’ll need to go shopping. Just not right away. He’s rocking the disheveled revolutionary thing.
Abbie gets called to a scene. Crane immediately assumes he must tag along. Abbie says it might not be supernatural, after all, normal policing events have been known to occur. He dismisses that suggestion because this is Sleepy Hollow and there’s a headless guy and let’s face it, we all know it’s about the impending apocalypse.
The little boy from the woods is sick, and speaking in a language nobody but Crane recognizes. It’s Middle English.
Morales, Abbie’s ex, sees her with Crane at the station and doesn’t look pleased. He tells Irving that it doesn’t look good, having a former murder suspect consult for the department. Irving tells him to shut it, which makes me second-guess my original assumption that Irving is working for the Big Bad Evil. (Moloch.)
At the hospital, Crane questions the boy via video camera because he’s been quarantined. The boy tells him he’s from Roanoke, and Crane wonders if he doesn’t mean the lost colony of Roanoke. He proposes that the colony relocated to Sleepy Hollow.
Everyone who came in contact with the boy, Thomas, gets sick. They start getting black veins and also get quarantined.
When Abbie and Crane go to the woods to investigate, they discover an island in the middle of a swamp. The Roanoke settlers are there, and they are all infected, but they aren’t ill. Thomas’s father explains that the horsemen of Conquest (aka Pestilence) cursed the colony, and the first to die moved them all to the island, where they remain immune to the disease. A very creepy girl offers Abbie a flower, which she politely declines.
They learn that Thomas was immune until he left the island. When he left he became sick, and spread the disease - which was the horsemen’s plan all along. In order to save Thomas and everyone else, Abbie and Crane are told to return the boy to the island.
They go back to the hospital and Abbie tries to convince Irving that she and Crane should take the kid, but Irving isn’t having it. About that moment, Crane realizes he’s infected and gets jumped on by a couple of hospital staff who take their jobs very seriously. He’s immediately hauled away to be quarantined.
Abbie, discouraged, ignores Irving’s command to go keep order in the streets and ducks into the hospital chapel. She asks God for a sign that kidnapping the boy and taking him back to the colony is the answer. She gets up to leave, upset, and sees the blessed water by the door. She realizes the WATER is what keeps the colonists healthy and somehow persuades Irving to let her hijack Thomas and Crane under the guise of transferring them to a different location to manage crowding issues.
Crane, unconscious after having been rudely drugged, sees Katrina.
She looks as lovely as ever, despite being trapped in purgatory. She tells him she hasn’t been able to reach him, and the souls they see wandering in the distance are waiting for Moloch to decide their fate. Crane realizes that he’s actually battling for Katrina’s soul, HAHA NO PRESSURE.
Abbie, Crane, and Thomas hurry through the woods to the lost colony. Crane is so ill he falls down and tells Abbie to take the kid and send for him. Instead she injects him with adrenaline, which perks him right up. They barely make it to the fountain on the island; they can hear hooves, and Abbie urges Crane to hurry.
After Crane dunks them both in the fountain, the spell breaks and he and Abbie are standing alone in the forest. Thomas was dead all along, used by the horsemen to spread the plague. Abbie gets a phone call from Irving - all the sick patients are making miraculous recoveries.
Ichabod tells Abbie that her faith that she and Crane are the witnesses is what stopped the horsemen from finishing his work. She tells him that he belongs in the present, in Sleepy Hollow. Awww.
There won’t be another recap for three weeks because Fox is a dirty tease, and there won’t be any new episodes until November.
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