Atticus Nevins is the secondary antagonist in the third season of Sleepy Hollow. He is former Marine who is now a mercenary working for Pandora. He was portrayed by Bill Irwin.
History[]
Atticus first enters the story as Jenny tells Abbie about an artifact know as the Shard of Anubis; she had not though had any value but it was taken by a man called Randell. Jenny asks Abbie to run a trace on Randall's car, and thinks he's working for someone much bigger.
Once Abbie locates Randall's car, Jenny and Joe go to the motel where it's parked. They break into his room and find a woman, Sophie Foster, there. She claims that she was hitching with Randall and he went for ice. As they head back to their car, Jenny realizes Sophie was lying and goes back just as Sophie drives off. They enter the room and find Randall handcuffed in the bathtub. He admits that Sophie played him to get the shard, and points out that Jenny fell for it as well. Once they confirm the Shard is gone, Joe and Jenny leave Randall handcuffed and leave.
In the This Red Lady from Caribee, Joe meets with Atticus at a restaurant, and shows hims a photo from his dad's archive and a series of numbers on the back. Atticus admits that he and Corbin hid their money in Swiss bank accounts. Furious, Joe grabs him and Atticus' bodyguards tell him to back off. Atticus reminds Joe that the arrangement was that Joe would give him what he wants, so Joe takes out the Shard and puts it on the table. Atticus insists that he's not the villain. He figures that Joe is just like Corbin: drawn to the darkness, and says that August knew that there's no good or evil, just power. He opens the black stone, revealing a red shard inside, and tells Joe that they're going for a ride. His men drag Joe out the back, and Jenny puts a gun to Atticus' head. His men drop their guns, and Jenny takes the Shard in her bare hand. She and Joe lock Atticus and his men in a shed, and Joe explains about the bank accounts. As Jenny looks at the shard, it disappears, apparently sinking in her hand. Atticus' men break out, and Jenny drives away as they open fire.
In The Art of War, Sophie finds Atticus going through a recent shipment. She wants to go get the Shard from Joe and Jenny, and assures him that she'll play rough. Atticus warns that the person who contracted him for the job wants the Shard of Anubis in the next 12 hours. He then starts writing down Norse verse from a book. He says that these are desperate times, pockets the paper, and leaves. Atticus enters the cavern containing Pandora's pool. He recites from the paper and Pandora's Box emerges from the water. Atticus calls upon berserkers, ordering them to obey him until they kill. He laughs in triumph as blue mist fills the room and then fades away. Three creatures appear around him, and Atticus tells them to fetch the Shard, the creatures fade into the darkness.
Joe suggests that they talk to Atticus about Jenny, Jenny hears something and tells them to be quiet. The three creatures emerge from the woods and the group opens fire. The bullet wounds heal in seconds and Jenny cuts one to pieces in a matter of seconds, faster than it can regenerate as her veins glow red. As Jenny stares at the creature in shock, it heals and Joe yells that they have to go. The group runs to a hatch leading into the tunnels beneath Sleepy Hollow. Abbie guesses that the creatures fed on the energy of their attacks, and that they were drawn to Jenny's energy. They assume that Atticus is controlling the creatures and, therefore, is working with Pandora.
Crane says that they need to search Atticus' office and determine what spell he used. Abbie refuses, pointing out that the office is under 24/7 surveillance. She doesn't want to blow the case for Daniel, but Crane warns that the berserkers won't stop until they are stopped. After a moment, Abbie gives him her lock picking set and tells him to get in and out as fast as he can.
Crane drives to Atticus' office in a bait shop, he confirms that there's no sign of Atticus' automobile. Abbie then calls Agent Ramirez who is on duty running surveillance and orders him to check out a suspicious vehicle at the port authority. Once the agents drive away, Crane breaks into the office and searches for the spell. He notices impressions on a paper tablet, uses a pencil to bring it out, and takes the paper with him. Sophie grabs him outside and searches him, and Crane pins her to the wall. He claims that he's there to buy bait and she directs him to the proper building. Crane discovers Atticus invoked the power of Pandora rather than Odin.
Atticus and Sophie then capture Joe. They have guns drawn, and Atticus demands to know where Jenny is, says that the person he works for wants the energy from the Shard, and he is far more powerful than Pandora. Atticus threatens to shoot Joe if Joe refuses to talk. Sophie then announces that she's FBI and aims her gun at Atticus. When he tries to shoot her, Sophie shoots him in the shoulder, Sophie warns that Atticus sent men after Jenny and tells Abbie to find her .
In Novus ordo seclorum, Sophie visits Atticus in custody and suggests he do himself a favor and give her some names before he's taken to DC. Atticus says that he'll die long before he gets to prison, and Sophie can do nothing to protect him. He tells Sophie that he has information for Abbie, and if she helps him then he'll help the FBI. Sophie doesn't believe him, and the agents take Atticus to the transfer van.
Abbie finds the Norse saga that Atticus used to summon the berserkers. Sophie finds her and tells her that Atticus wants to talk to her.
In the parking garage, Pandora enters the back of the transfer van, disguised as an agent, and closes the door behind her. Nevins insists that he did his best, and Pandora points out that the shard fell into the hands of a mortal. Worse, Atticus defiled her Box by using it. He begs for his life, and Pandora strangles him as her eyes glow yellow.
Abbie and Sophie enter the parking garage and find the transfer agents dead on the floor. They find a pool of blood in the back of the van but no other sign of Atticus.
In Sins of the Father, Atticus Nevins is spotted running through the woods, coughing, and FBI agent Hammond captures him. Hammond calls in that he has Atticus, and then hears something growling in the forest. Hammond goes to investigate, and Atticus screams as something attacks him.
Later, Abbie gets a text telling her to come alone to a rendezvous if she wants to save lives. Abbie complies and finds Atticus. He insists that there's a reason he needs to talk to her, but Abbie handcuffs him. She realizes that he is sick, and Atticus gestures to Hammond's corpse. He explains that the creature responsible came after him, and if Abbie wants to stop it then she'll need his help.
Joe and Jenny chain Atticus up in the Masonic cell. As Crane and Abbie watch through the one-way glass, Atticus has them check his chest. There is a healed-over incision, and Atticus explains that Pandora removed his spleen for failing her. Joe wonders why Atticus came back, and he says that after his arrest everyone he knew turned their backs on him. If he helps them kill the monster then they'll get him out of town. Atticus warns that they won't find the creature without them, and they won't believe where it came from.
Abbie and Crane enter the cell and she tells Atticus that they'll consider getting him out the country if his information is good. Crane offers food and Atticus quickly agrees, and let him gorge himself. Abbie demands his information, and Atticus explains that he was in Iraq in 1991. He and his platoon heard rumors about a cave filled with millions in Iraqi gold, and Atticus and three men checked it out. In a flashback: Corbin leads a squad of three men into the cave: Atticus, Webb, and Chalsen. They find the gold but realize that it's too easy. Despite that, they load up the gold. A pale humanoid creature kills Webb and Chalsen, and Corbin gets Atticus out. They seal the cave behind them with a grenade, and Corbin punches Atticus for luring them into a trap.
Atticus explains that after that day, Corbin was obsessed with figuring out what the creature was. Then the creature showed up in Sleepy hollow and attacked him. Atticus wants them to show him Corbin's files, and they reluctantly do so. He opens a secret compartment and removes a file from it, and tells them to check Corbin's case file #1. According to the file, the creature is an ancient Mesopotamian demonic Ghoul. They guarded sacred temples and crypts, and its only weakness is a golden scarab. The person holding the scarab can command the Ghoul.
As Joe, Jenny, and Sophie drive back to the archive, Sophie calls Abbie and tells her she figures that Atticus is controlling the Ghoul. Atticus is still in the archive eating, and Sophie tells Abbie that she needs to search Atticus again. Atticus tells Abbie to hang up the phone, and pulls up his shirt to reveal the incision scar. The scarab crawls out of the incision and up to his hand, and he admits that when he was in the cave, he snuck off and acquired the scarab. When the Ghoul attacked him, Atticus realized that he could control it. He smuggled the scarab into the country and hid it in his storage unit. Now that he has Corbin's file, he's going to sell the information about other crypts to Pandora.
The Ghouls smashes into the archive and rips through Atticus' bonds. He then places the scarab on the ghoul, and it enters the creature's chest. Atticus grabs the file and tells the Ghoul to kill Crane and Abbie as he leaves. Crane draws it away while Abbie goes to the heavier weapons. As Crane holds it off, Abbie calls Jenny and tells her to stop Atticus
Joe and Jenny enter the tunnels and go after Atticus. They split up to cover more ground, and Atticus hears them. Atticus doubles back and takes Jenny hostage, and tells Joe to drop his weapon. Once Joe does so, Atticus says that Corbin hated him and never gave into temptation. Joe tells Atticus that he's spent his life pretending that Corbin's opinion didn't matter to him. Now he understands that he and Atticus both loved Corbin, and Atticus knows what Corbin would say to him. Angry, Atticus shoves Jenny at Joe and runs off into the shadows.
Walters later tells Daniel Reynolds to downgrade the search for Atticus and refuses to explain why. Once Walters hangs up, he tells Atticus that there's a plane waiting to take him where he chooses and the money has been transferred to Atticus' account. Atticus hands over Corbin's file on nine sacred sites, and Walters shoots him in the head.
Appearances[]
| Season Three | |||||||||||||||||||
| "I, Witness" | "Whispers in the Dark" | "Blood and Fear" | "The Sisters Mills" | "Dead Men Tell No Tales" | |||||||||||||||
| "This Red Lady from Caribee" | "The Art of War" | "Novus Ordo Seclorum" | "One Life" | "Incident At Stone Manor" | |||||||||||||||
| "Kindred Spirits" | "Sins of the Father" | "Dark Mirror" | "Into the Wild" | "Incommunicado" | |||||||||||||||
| "Dawn's Early Light" | "Delaware" | "Ragnarok" | |||||||||||||||||