- "I shall find my place in this modern world, but never at the expense of my colonial soul."
- —Ichabod Crane
"Whispers in the Dark" is the second episode of Season Three of Fox's Sleepy Hollow. It was written by M. Raven Metzner and directed by Russell Fine. It is the thirty-third episode of the series overall, and debuted on October 8, 2015.
Synopsis[]
When Pandora uses her powers to unleash a new form of fear, Abbie and Crane are forced to face their pasts in unexpected ways.[1]
Recap[]
Crane is seen to be tidying Abbie’s house to pitch in, and discovers Abbie’s underthings in the laundry basket. When she comes in, he quickly hands them over and explains that he’s cleaning up as a return for her offering him a room until he gets his own place. The smoke detector goes off when the meal he is making burns and they agree to get takeout.
At the ruin, Pandora observes her growing tree and encourages it, saying it will soon have the fear it needs to grow. She then opens her box, and black essence pours from it. She walks out and the essence follows her. At Tarrytown train station, a man, Paul Everett, is calling the FBI. He asks to speak to an agent, while Pandora listens and tells the shadow essence that Paul has a secret and is terrified that it will be discovered. She tells the shadow to take its time discovering the secret. The shadow manifests and confronts Paul, and visions of what he knows flash through his head. The creature spears him through the chest and Paul collapses.
As they eat, Abbie tells Crane that Granger’s replacement will soon arrive. She talks about how she wants to continue building a life for herself, balancing her life between being a Witness and an FBI agent. Dispatch calls to tell Abbie that they have a death reported at the train station. Abbie and Crane arrive on the scene and are told that Paul Everett was an accountant for the county comptroller, and apparently died of a heart attack. Crane notes that the man's expression was terrified. FBI agent Daniel Reynolds arrives and makes himself known, it is clear Abbie already knows him. Daniel explains that he’s Granger’s replacement, and Crane introduces himself. Abbie tells him to go homes, and he takes the hint and leaves. Daniel apologizes that he didn’t have time to call and give her a heads up.
As Crane heads outside, he notices the façade across the street, perhaps he saw something, and turns to find Pandora behind him presenting as a coffee shop employee. As she walks away, Abbie joins him, and says that Paul called the FBI with something just as he died. Crane suggests says that they may be facing a new supernatural threat made of a shadow. As they go to the archive, Crane says that he sensed something between her and Reynolds. Abbie lightly tells him to mind his business, and he realizes its a "good fences" moment. He tells her that he has applied to have the archive declared an historical landmark in order to protect it.
Abbie brings up the recording of Paul's call and analyzes the background noise. She filters the deed and and hears Paul talking to a woman, who says that Williams is right. Paul wants to go public with what they know. There’s another whispering voice in the background, talking about secrets and killing for them.
Crane is reminded of something and checks Grace Dixon’s journal and finds a reference to General Howe; during the Revolutionary War he summoned a whispering wraith to root out Colonial spies. It was bonded to a human host, Marcus Collins, whom Crane knew as a traitor. Once possessed, Howe sent Collins out to kill the American spies who had taken Howe’s battle plans. Washington lost confidence in Collins and sent Crane to a ball at Howe’s warn his spies, including Betsy Ross.
Crane makes contact with Betsy, he warns her that Collins is a traitor and has blown her cover, and Betsy says that she has to warn her fellow conspirators. Howe spots Crane, who tells Betsy that they met once years ago. She goes over and tries to distract the general, flirting with him, while Crane escapes. Later, Betsy arrives wearing Howe’s jacket, and assures Crane that she didn’t handle Howe “like that,” and goes to get the other two spies. Betsy finds them dead in the stables, and the wraith appears in the shadows. She mistakes it for Collins and calls him out, while the British approach. Crane pulls up in a carriage and tells Betsy to jump aboard before she can confront the wraith.
Abbie and Crane figure that the wraith is rooting out people with secrets, and they determine that a Richard Williams worked with Paul, and may be the wraith’s next victim.
Joe Corbin calls Jenny at the bar, as she is examining a black rock. He tells her her trailer and his father’s cabin were tossed, and Joe figures whoever broke in was looking for something specific, and realizes that Jenny is holding something back. Jenny insists that she isn’t involved in everything, and Joe complains that Jenny, Abbie, and Corbin never let him in on what they were doing. He figures that his father was on a mission, and was killed before he could explain what it was. Jenny says that she’ll call around, and tells Joe that Corbin didn’t want him to follow in his footsteps. Corbin would have been proud that Joe parlayed his Marine medical training into a job as an EMT. Jenny promises to tell him if she finds out anything and leaves. As Joe leaves, someone watches him.
Abbie and Crane go to Richard Williams' home but no one answers the door. The wraith forms on the lawn while Richard from the window. Abbie fires at the entity but it ignores the bullets, and Crane has a sudden vision of Howe interrogating him, while Abbie relives taking photographs of a man. Richard flees in a panic, and drives off, the wraith goes after him. The Witnesses pursue. The wraith appears in the back of Richard’s car and he panics, crashing his car.
After securing the crime scene, Abbie confirms that neither Paul nor Richard had any priors. She checks Richard’s house while Crane returns to the archive to find a way to stop the wraith. Inside the house, Abbie finds a hidden floor compartment holding receipts. Daniel enters, and points out that there’s no pattern in the two deaths. He says that he doesn’t want things to change between them despite what they had at the academy. Abbie assures him that they’ll figure it out, and Daniel tells her to go for whatever lead she’s on.
As Joe goes to his car in a parking garage, a man pulls up behind him and revs his engine. The man says that he needs Joe to take a ride with him, and slams his car door into him. He then loads the unconscious Joe in his trunk. Jenny comes out to the woods to meet the guy and gave him the black stone for Joe's release.
Back at the archive, Abbie goes through the receipts and tells Ichabod that Richard and Paul discovered that the city comptroller, Arthur Weissman, was embezzling from the county employees’ pension plans. They assume the wraith is trying to hide a secret by killing the individuals trying to reveal it, just like it did for Howe. Crane admits for the first time, that he was captured and taken to Howe. Howe offered him a pardon if he named Washington’s spies, and Crane considered it for just a moment before escaping. When Crane asks if she felt anything, Abbie avoids the question and says that secretary Susan James helped Richard and Paul get the evidence against Weissman. They wonder if Weissman conjured the wraith, but decide to focus on saving Susan, and themselves, as the wraith will come after them now they know the secret.
Pandora summons the wraith again. Abbie and Ichabod take Susan to an empty warehouse where Ichabod is setting up fluorescent lights to keep the place fully illuminated. The man, Randall, takes Joe out into the woods and ties him up. Jenny arrives and recognizes Randall. He says that he’s been hired by an interested party looking for the Shard of Anubis, and he figures Jenny got it for Corbin. If Jenny hands the Shard over then she and Joe can walk. She kicks him in the leg and attacks him, and he threatens Joe. Jenny agrees to hand over the Shard--the black stone--and Randall drives away. As Jenny unties Joe, he asks what is going on. She refuses to answer his questions and say that they should just go back to their lives.
Crane admits that he doesn’t have the necessary mystic weaponry to dispel the wraith. He thinks that as long as the lights are on, the wraith can’t draw power from the shadows. Susan says that she wants to be done with keeping her secret, and the lights flicker. Crane goes to check the line, and the wraith blows the fuse box. It attacks him and Crane relives his moment of doubt. He then grabs a metal pipe and fends the wraith off, and Abbie tosses flash-bangs at the creature to hold it at bay. Crane warns that they can’t hold it off forever, and Abbie reminds him that it never came after Betsy. He remembers her calling Collins' name, and they realize that using the wraith’s true name can force its retreat.
Crane steps out and calls Marcus by name. It flinches and Crane reminds it that it betrayed its fellow Americans, and Crane refused to after facing the same choice. Marcus turns solid and attacks Crane, and Abbie distracts it long enough for Crane to impale it with the pipe.
Later at Abbie’s house, Crane broods about how he considered betraying his fellow spies no matter how briefly. Abbie assures him that only makes him human, and reminds him that he didn’t. When Crane says that he feels relieved having given up his burden, Abbie says that she tracked down her father and found him in Saratoga. She has never been able to confront him, however. Crane tells her that she’s taken the first step, by telling him.
After Weissman is arrested based on Susan’s testimony, Daniel congratulates Abbie. She is surprised that he took a chief’s job in a relatively small town, and Daniel says that he plans to build on that and go large. He wonders what Abbie has planned, and she says that she has responsibilities. Daniel figures that they can help each other get what they both want, and figures that Abbie still wants to move onto something bigger.
Joe visits Jenny and asks for an explanation. She warns him that he can’t go back once he comes in, but he wants to pick up where his father left off. Joe suggests that they go after the Shard and Jenny considers the offer.
Zoe Corinth, with the historical assessment society, arrives at city hall to take a look at the archive. She concedes that it’s an amazing building, but points out that Crane is a British citizen. The state won’t release funds unless he becomes a citizen or is granted immigrant status. Crane notices an empty shop in the building and tells Zoe that she’ll hear from him soon.
Crane tells Abbie that he saw Pandora the the day Paul died in a coffee shop that does not exist. They bring up the footage of Paul’s death and see Pandora talking briefly with Paul. Abbie recognizes her from the bar and they suspect she may be the legendary Pandora, and wonder what evils her box may contain.
At the ruin, Pandora pours the water on the tree and it sprouts a dark flower.
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Goofs[]
- The airbag does not deploy on the late model car when it crashes into the tree.
- When Jenny is talking to Joe, she mentions his Marine medical training. The United States Marine Corps does not have any medical personnel. Navy Hospital Corpsmen are the medics for the Marines. If Joe had been a Navy Corpsman, the statement would be accurate.
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- "Boston Harbour" (feat. Tom Mison) - Sleepy Hollow Cast
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