- "Our enemy Dreyfuss seeks to raise the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And we alone can stop him."
- —Ichabod Crane to his team
"Insatiable" is the tenth episode of Season Four of Fox's Sleepy Hollow. It was written by Keely MacDonald. It is the fifty-ninth episode of the series overall, and debuted on March 10, 2017.
Synopsis[]
When one of Diana's mentors is targeted by an horrific monster, she decides that the team must channel all of their effort toward stopping Dreyfuss. Meanwhile, Dreyfuss and Jobe have a breakthrough on a project of which Team Witness may not yet be aware.[1]
Recap[]
A helicopter takes Helen to an isolated cabin; she knocks at the door and Malcolm lets her in. He says that he's been working and she asks why he closed the company. When Helen says that rumor has it that Malcolm has lost it, Malcolm tells her that he's been consumed by clarity and has more important concerns. He says that he's planning a rollout, and that he invited Helen there because he wants her to work for him. Malcolm tells her that he needs hosts, but not the way that she thinks, and admires her hunger for power. Helen offers to sign a non-disclosure agreement, but Malcolm tells her that it isn’t necessary. He goes to a door leading to a dark room and tells Jobe that Helen is interested in the position, she is pulled into the room. The door slams and she screams.
Crane is hosting a housewarming party for his new apartment, Jenny is there, and congratulates Crane on the turnout. He admits that he didn't expect so many neighbors to attend. She points out that he never had a party in Sleepy Hollow, and hopes that things are working out for him in DC. He admits that he is satisfied with his work in the Vault, and team is doing well, he hopes DC is becoming his home. He asks if Jenny is putting down roots, and she admits that after she trains the new Witness, she doesn't know what her future holds. Crane suggests that she move in nearby, but she says that she's not the housewarming type.
Jake and Alex start to leave the party, and he says that he's going to a horror movie with his girlfriend, Missy. Missy hugs him and then Alex. They invite her to come to the movie with them, but Alex says that she has plans. She joins Jenny and they both watch Jake and Missy dance.
Diana meets with her mentor, the DOJ Secretary, Nancy Stryker, and apologizes for falling behind on her quota. She says that she needs to locate Malcolm, who has recently transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to offshore accounts and gone off the grid; Diana believes that he is behind recent events, like the defacement of the Lincoln Memorial. Nancy warns that the evidence is thin and suggests that it is a personal crusade. She tells Diana that she'll need more before she can help, and leaves for a meeting.
Jobe goes through an x-ray scanner at the Eisenhower Building and it momentarily shows him as a demon. When the guard looks back, the image is normal. On the other side Jobe collects his case from security and continues on to the statue of Justice, holding her golden scales. Jobe then goes to the basement, removes a puzzle box from the case, and unlocks it. It glows red and Jobe sets it on the floor. It levitates in the air, twists itself on its own, and opens to reveal a demon. Jobe tells it that it must be famished and to have at it, and it leaves through the air vent.
Two staffers are having lunch in the building. In the vent, the demon stares at one of them, and the man suddenly starts eating everything in front of him. He grabs the other man's plate and eats all of his food. He eats the tablecloth, and snarls at the other man when he tries to intervene. The man runs off to get help and the victim convulses and falls on to his plate, his body desiccated by hunger.
Diana soon gets an incident report and goes to the Vault. She tells the others what happened, and that the coroner's report shows that he died of malnutrition. They assume that the source is supernatural and Crane speculates that it is a curse. Diana believes that Malcolm is the source, and they should take him down, but Crane points out that they have no idea where he is. The agent insists that she will use every resource she has to find Malcolm and asks for their help. They agree, but Crane warns that Malcolm's attempt on Molly has Diana obsessing. He promises to help her, but says that they have to deal with the immediate crisis first. After a moment, Diana agrees to do it his way, and Jenny knows of a man who has a book with information on hunger demons. Crane and Diana will check out the crime scene and search for clues about the location of the demon and Malcolm, however, Diana privately tells Jake and Alex to stay on Malcolm and follow up the leads that she has.
Jenny enters a shop owned by old friend, Donnie Wu, and he gives her a hug. He explains that his uncle is in a high-stakes poker game out of town, and he's been working at the shop because Chinese herbology is popular. Jenny asks for the book and Donnie brings up the inventory. An artifact is listed as wanted, and Donnie explains that he's planning for teams to after it. He figures that Jenny is out of the game and wouldn't be interested, and she insists that she's been busy, but isn't out. Donnie tells her that she's one of the greats and if she wants in to say the word. Jenny says that she'll think about it. He then goes to get the book.
At the Eisenhower Building, a tour guide shows a school class the statue of Justice and explains that the scales are always balanced. One of the students points out that the scales on the statue are uneven. Crane and Diana arrive and they spot security guards running off. They follow them to where Nancy is chewing on a dead man. Diana stares in shock at her mentor, now consumed with hunger. Nancy stands up and a guard shoots her dead. Crane glances up at the vent and sees the hunger demon's glowing red eye. The scales of Justice also glow.
As the EMTs take Nancy and the man she killed away, Jenny joins Crane and Diana. Diana promises that Malcolm will pay for killing Nancy. Jenny shows them the book, and Diana thinks that the demon was released recently, and Malcolm may have left a trail. They check the security footage and see Jobe entering. They check the utility schematics and discover that the central hub gives access to the entire building. Jenny recognizes the box Jobe is carrying as a Chinese puzzle box. The box's configuration can capture, hold, and release demons. Crane remembers seeing a British officer, Edward Reed, using such a box when Crane was still a British officer himself. He and Reed were sent on a raid to recapture a supply room captured by the Colonists. Reed acquired the box and decided to give it to his child when they returned home, carrying it in the meantime, assuming it's a plaything. Crane went on a different mission and when he returned he was told Reed and his men died of starvation. Crane figures Reed summoned the hunger demon and Jenny thinks if they find the box then they can capture the demon.
Jake and Alex track Malcolm's assistant, Ashley, to a street vendor, and Alex points out Jake will miss his date with Missy. He talks about how they have a lot in common, and Alex warns him that people with too much in common never work out. Jake points out that Alex said the opposite when he was crushing on Jenny, but Alex spots Ashley and sends Jake over with an illegal Bluetooth scanner to clone Ashley's sim card and track any calls Malcolm makes to her. She sarcastically tells Jake that his puppy-dog charm won't work, and he points out that she complimented her by saying he has charm. Jake gets close enough to Ashley for Alex to clone the card, and she mutters to herself Jake isn't charming.
Crane, Diana, and Jenny go to the Eisenhower basement and split up to search for the box. When Crane finds it, he calls over the others and Diana searches the area for the demon. Crane starts working the box and makes a mess of it. Jenny takes over and easily solves it, the characters glowing red. As Diana finds the air vent, Jake calls her and says they're scanning for common IP addresses. The demon drops out of the vent and runs off, and it brushes past Jenny. Diana shoots it and it falls on to the puzzle box, smashing it. It runs outside and by the time they go out after it, the demon has disappeared.
Jobe reports to Malcolm. They find the Horseman's body in the ruins they're exploring, still wounded from when Crane shot it over the Philosopher's Stone. The Horseman manages to raise his axe but collapses, and Malcolm apologizes for the disservice the Horseman has been dealt. Malcolm promises to restore the Horseman as he promised, picks up the axe, and says he's putting the gang back together.
At the Vault, Crane confronts Diana over the fact she used Jake and Alex to find Malcolm. He says she chose not to tell them all what she was planning, and warns the integrity of their team is at risk. Diana reluctantly agrees. Jake says he found a reference in the secret histories to the Donner party. One of the party leaders was James Reed, a direct descendant of Edward Reed. Crane theorizes he brought the box with him going west. The descendant survived and wrote an account of how the Donner survivors made their way out and brought the hunger demon with them. They took refuge in a cave system just outside the town of Sutter's Mill, and James lured the demon into the caves. The survivors blew up the cave entrance and dug James out, but the hunger demon was never found. The explosion revealed a vein of gold that was mined and provided for the survivors' recovery. Jake points out the survivors kicked off the Gold Rush, and Crane notes the characters on the teak wood puzzle boxes were made out of gold. They guess gold is the demon's weakness, and Jenny says she can find enough gold. Alex can make a 3-D replica of the box, letting it lure the demon to them, while Jake researches the symbology. Jenny warns they'll have to mine the gold themselves.
Jenny takes the team to a junkyard and explains that cars are filled with trace amounts of gold. Diana points out that the demon fights hand-to-hand when it's cornered so they should set that up. Alex has built sprayers and a solution that they can spray the demon with if they find any gold. The team splits up to scavenge for gold, and Diana tells Crane that it's a good plan. He points out that they made it as a team, and thanks Diana and Molly for accepting him into their lives. Diana says that he's given their lives a sense of purpose.
Jake and Alex prepare the puzzle box and as night falls, Jenny sets the proper configuration. The characters glow and a few minutes later, the hunger demon approaches the box. Diana starts up a car and slams the surrounding cars together in a circle. Crane steps out and tells the demon that it's encircled in a ring of gold, and shoots it with a gold-tipped crossbow bolt. Diana shoots it but the bullets have no effect. She kicks it into the surrounding cars and Jenny smashes more cars into it with a forklift, pinning it in place. Jake and Alex inject it with the gold solution, and the demon explodes.
Later, Crane, Diana, and Jenny return to the Eisenhower building to discover what Malcolm was really after. Diana goes off to search on her own, and Crane tells Jenny that they're a formidable troupe. Jenny tells him that she's okay with her trailer, and he says that he considers her family. She tells him not to say anything weird, and he tells her that she has more of a home than she knows. Jenny admits that she was offered an out-of-town job doing what she loves, and she didn't say no, she's considering it because it would be her own thing. Before Crane can respond, Diana calls them over to the statue of Justice. She remembers seeing Jobe pause at the statue on the security footage, and the golden scales are gone. They head back to the Vault to figure out what Malcolm is planning.
Jobe takes the scales to the forest where Malcolm is waiting. The demon hands them over and says that they are imbued with hunger, Malcolm goes to the nearby bodies of his team: Lucas, representing Pestilence; Helen, representing Hunger. There are two more spaces left, and Malcolm hopes that the Horseman will serve as Death. Jobe says that the condition for the Horseman's recovery will be attended to immediately, leaving the vacancy of War.
At the Vault, Crane realizes that Malcolm has spread pestilence, and then famine. He figures that Malcolm seeks to raise the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and they are the only ones who can stop him.
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Trivia[]
- It is revealed that Dreyfuss is trying to gather his own incarnations of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- A demon called Mnemoth is mentioned. It does not appear in any real life cultural mythos. This is a name from the comic Hellblazer, whose protagonist, John Constantine, also deals with eradicating demons.