- "General Washington made a pact with our coven; if we helped win the war, witches would finally reintegrate into society, a promise he reneged on, and one that must be reconciled at any cost."
- —Katrina Crane
"Awakening" is the seventeenth episode of Season Two of Fox's Sleepy Hollow. It was written by M. Raven Metzner and directed by Doug Aarniokoski. It is the thirtieth episode of the series overall, and premiered on February 16, 2015.
Synopsis[]
Crane and Abbie fight against a surprising opponent who wants to re-awaken a powerful witch coven, and Jenny learns a disturbing truth about Frank Irving.[1]
Recap[]
Crane and Abbie open in a specialty book shop, trying to look up titles that were in the Fenestella since they no longer have access to it. On their walk home, Abbie suggests they need to put their roles as Witnesses before anyone or anything else. Crane agrees.
In the middle of town, the local bell starts ringing, and suddenly several people react, showing headache symptoms and white eyes. All the people affected, unconsciously wield their latent powers, ranging from speaking for the dead, to assault, and attempted murder. It was Henry behind the spell that made the bell ring, but ultimately the spell failed, and the manifestations faded.
Crane and Abbie head to the precinct once they hear about the weird event, and Jenny arrives to tell them they can’t trust Irving. She informs them how he used a rune to block Katrina’s spell to see if his soul was his own. Then they decide they might have to use the Gorgon head on Irving; their "nuclear option." In theory the Gorgon effect can be reversed, Abbie did research on this so she could bring one of her ancestors back from her stony state. They tell Jenny that the Gorgon head is in the same jar the Horseman’s head had been in, and it’s in the Masonic vault.
Crane and Abbie head downtown to examine the bell in the square. Abbie notes that the town bell isn't supposed to be a replica of the Liberty Bell, "The same bell's been hanging here since colonial times, and this is not it." Crane says that the bells made in the same mold as the famous one, had been targeted since 1773, when he was tasked with breaking one duplicate bell. Apparently, such bells were made so that they could be used as weapons to turn people into witches, waking any latent witch blood, willing or not. Crane discovers there is an ancient rune on the bell now in Sleepy Hollow, a rune that awakens the powers of anyone with magic in their heritage. Abbie wants to blow the bell up, but they used all the C4 when they blew up the Fenestella. Crane says he has another method they can use: black powder explosives.
Back at home, Katrina has resorted to practicing dark magic to find Henry. Henry arrives by his own choice, however, and tells her, the dark side suits her. He suggests it is their destiny to work to bring back “our kind.” He explains the awakening ritual and thinks that Katrina could do the spell perfectly, and with the spell done correctly they could create a coven with a thousand witches, but he must have a full blood witch to perform the spell, that Crane as his father "dilutes his blood."
Crane and Abbie manage to make the explosives they need, and then break a hole in a wall to gain entry to an old munitions tunnel that had been sealed, where they can detonate the bell without causing collateral damage, but then Irving arrives with a gun to stop them. Jenny takes on Frank, leaving the others to deal with the bell. Jenny finds herself in a gun fight against Irving, who takes her bullets and survives, and he hunts her all the way back to their Masonic vault where she plans on using the Gorgon head against him.
Henry and Katrina then arrive, and a suddenly cold Katrina explains that she trusts what she feels, and she trusts Henry. She tells her husband that Washington made a promise; if witches helped him win the war then they can openly rejoin society, and with this bell that promise can be kept. Katrina then deliberately hurts Crane by saying she could never truly be with a mortal man. He is shocked and warns her that anything she says cannot be unsaid. She blows him and Abbie in the tunnel, and then the witches magically brick it closed and take the bell.
Crane is unhappy the test of their resolve to put their role as Witnesses above all else came so soon after making the rule, but suggests the witches probably have the bell in Town Hall, since that is the place it was originally meant to go. Crane heads over to the town hall to take on Henry, so that Abbie can destroy the bell. Henry realizes what is going on and manages to stop her before she can detonate the explosive on the bell. He captures her without noticing the bomb, and ties her against a post with Crane.
Henry and Katrina work on their spell, but all the while Crane and Abbie work to get out of their bonds, knowing what they were up against, they had come prepared. Abbie removes a pistol from Crane's coat and shoots at Henry. Henry is no longer immortal and falls. Katrina and Crane kneel at his side as he dies, he asks his mother to call him Jeremy, the name she gave him. He then dies, and his body disintegrates. Simultaneously, Irving gets his soul back and is himself again, and he pleads for Jenny's help, but she doesn’t know if she should believe him. After a moment she elects to trust, and then she hugs him, hoping he’s telling the truth.
Crane tries to talk to Katrina, but she turns on him, telling him the death of her son is his fault. She slams Crane against a wall and tells him he is the source of her sorrow, and that she should never have saved him from the Horseman of War on the battlefield; she should have let him die instead of putting him to sleep. She says this time she will let him die, and casts a powerful spell and vanishes; Abbie jumps into the distortion the spell created before it disappears, leaving the injured Crane behind.
Abbie then finds herself in the woods with no cell service and no Katrina, so she goes hunting for her. When she gets to Sleepy Hollow, she realizes she has traveled back in time, it is 1781, and she needs to find Crane. That may be tough when two soldiers assume she is a runaway slave and lock her up. She tells them that she has information that will change the course of the war, but she will only talk to one man: Ichabod Crane.
Katrina, meanwhile, wakes up back in her own body, then working as a nurse in the war.
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Trivia[]
- This episode was initially titled as A Separate Peace. It was a reference to a coming-of-age novel which explores morality, patriotism, and loss of innocence. In the finalized official title, The Awakening refers to the ceremony in which those possessing the blood of witches are to be awakened and the coven of witches revived within Sleepy Hollow.
- In Japan, this episode is known as The Bell of Awakening (目覚めの鐘 Mezame no Kane) and it refers to the actual bell.
- After Abbie is transported back to 1781, she is seen walking through the woods until reaching a dirt road, and is almost run down by horses pulling a carriage. As the camera pans to an old "Welcome to Sleepy Hollow" sign an old fashioned strings version of "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones is played. This directly mirrors "Pilot" episode when Crane stumbles through the woods only to discover pavement and be almost hit by a car and truck. The same camera pan is also used (though to a modern road sign) and the same song played (modern version).
- There are no guest starring cast credited in this episode.
Goofs[]
- Abbie and Jenny had a witch for an ancestor, Grace Dixon. Therefore, they could have been affected by the Awakening spell when Jeremy invoked the spell. It is apparent, however, that there was a definite limit to the initial spell's range.
- The Proclamation reaffirming Connecticut's claim to the Western Reserve that Abbie reads on the board has a signature date of November 15, 1781. This Proclamation was not actually signed until November 15, 1783.
Body Count[]
- Jeremy Crane/Henry Parish - Shot by a flintlock pistol loaded with Greek Fire bullets by Abbie Mills.
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Soundtrack[]
- "Sympathy for the Devil" (feat. Tina Guo) - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
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