- "The boy did say Roanoke, right? But I don't think Thomas meant a Roanoke you'd find on today's map. The older version of English, his antiquated appearance What if Thomas is from the Lost Colony?"
- —Ichabod Crane to Abbie Mills[src]
Thomas Grey was a young boy from the lost colony of Roanoke. After being deceived by the Horseman of Pestilence, Thomas entered 21st century Sleepy Hollow, unleashing the threat of a supernatural plague on the modern world.
History[]
Wandering away from his colony, Thomas chased a little girl who teased him to play. She turned out to be an illusion cast by the Horseman of Pestilence. Thomas was chased out of the woods, and wandered into the town of Sleepy Hollow where he collapsed and lost consciousness. At the hospital, it was discovered Thomas could only speak Middle English, and was diagnosed with an unrecognizable illness. This was the plague that the Horseman had wanted to release with Thomas' journey to the real world.
Eventually others contracted the illness, including the paramedic who had first responded to Thomas' collapse, and it killed him. Others also fell ill, including Ichabod Crane.
After Ichabod Crane became infected, Abbie Mills, with the aid of Captain Irving, stole both the boy and her partner from the isolation unit, and took them both back to the lost colony of Roanoke to be submerged in the village's holy water.
When Crane emerged from the well, he and the boy were disease free. The people of the colony, he realized, had been dead all along. They watched as the villagers withdrew and the village appeared as the ruin it really was. Apparently, the events of the episode freed Thomas and his people from a state of limbo and allowed them to move on to the afterlife.[1]
Trivia[]
- Thomas only speaks the archaic and obsolete Middle English.[1]
Appearances[]
| Season One | |||||||||||||||||||
| "Pilot" | "Blood Moon" | "For the Triumph of Evil..." | "The Lesser Key of Solomon" | "John Doe" | |||||||||||||||
| "The Sin Eater" | "The Midnight Ride" | "Necromancer" | "Sanctuary" | "The Golem" | |||||||||||||||
| "The Vessel" | "The Indispensable Man" | "Bad Blood" | |||||||||||||||||