Things got a little gory on Sleepy Hollow tonight with a wendigo, a horseman, and two witnesses all fighting for something Sheriff Corbin left behind.
Jealous Joe
To ease his stress, Abbie tries to get Ichabod to do yoga. He doesn’t find it soothing or relaxing though, so Abbie lets him choose the next activity, and he decides to go to the bar. At the bar they find Joe Corbin, Sheriff Corbin’s son, who’s just got into a fight that Abbie has to break up.
Things are not well between Joe and Abbie. Despite Abbie babysitting him numerous times during his childhood, Joe blames Abbie for his father’s death. He was the jealous type, not liking that his father spent so much time with her when they were young. At one point Joe waited 5 hours for Abbie and Corbin to get back from a shooting trip, but Corbin’s dad forgot about it and that’s the night Joe joined the army and left Sleepy Hollow. Since they weren’t on good terms Joe leaves Abbie at the bar.
Lone Survivor
Afterwards Abbie and Ichabod respond to a call about an attack in the woods. They arrive at the scene to find several bodies torn apart, their organs taken from them. Among the bodies is Joe Corbin, who’s unharmed. He claims that his dad knew something, and that this monster will kill them all, and passes out.
Joe gets sent to the hospital, but Ichabod grows to be a little suspicious that he was the lone survivor as well as totally unharmed. Abbie then looks at Joe’s military records, and sees he was honorably discharged when his platoon was also attacked in the same manor as the men in the forest. Joe was also the only survivor then, and this reminds Ichabod of a tale from his past.
That boy is a monster
Daniel Boone, a good friend of Ichabod’s, had a brother who suffered from post-traumatic stress because of the battle at Valley Forge. Boone went to stay with the Shawnee Tribe because he believed the tribe had a cure for what ailed his brother: The cure for a wendigo.
Yes, that’s right, folks! Sleepy Hollow has officially covered the most wildly used supernatural beast on television. In this adaptation the wendigo is still a man who transforms into a blood-thirsty beast. Blood triggers this curse, so whenever the victim sees or smells blood they turn into the wendigo and must consume human organs to turn human again. But here’s the catch: The wendigo can only turn back 4 times, and upon the fourth transformation into the creature the change is permanent and the victim will always be a wendigo. And yes, Joe Corbin is cursed.
Supernatural Anthrax
Abbie and Ichabod go to Joe’s apartment to see if they could catch him, but he’s gone. They do, however, find Sheriff Corbin’s last will and testament which leaves Joe a clue: Coordinates that lead to a spot in the forest, something that Joe has gone to find.
They find Joe at that spot, where he discovers a chest of some sort. When Abbie and Ichabod try to warn him he runs off, scared. But in their attempt to catch him, Ichabod falls and cuts himself which triggers Joe’s curse to turn into a wendigo. This is his third transformation.
They manage to sedate Joe the wendigo and bring him back to their underground headquarters. Jenny comes by with human organs from the freshest cadaver she could find and now Joe is back to his normal self. He explains that he got a letter with white powder all over it telling him he was cursed and he has to find what his father left him in order to get the curse removed. The white powder, of course, was the bone from the Pied Piper that Henry crushed two episodes ago. Henry cursed Joe to turn into a wendigo because he needs what’s in that box.
They open the box and in it is a jar of poison: Created by bottling the world’s most venomous creatures together until they kill each other and turn into a highly toxic concoction.
An Attempt at a Cure
Hawley is with Ichabod and Abbie per Abbie’s request, and it turns out he actually knows a few Shawnee tribesmen that might be able to help. Since Ichabod knows the Shawnee tribe customs he goes with Hawley to get the cure they need before Joe turns for a fourth and final time.
While they’re gone, though, Henry finds Abbie, Joe and Jenny in their lair. He scares Joe into giving him the poison he needed, convincing Joe that if he goes with him he will find the cure. Joe falls for it, but Henry takes the poison and cuts Joe which forces him to transform for the last time.
Ichabod and Hawley get back with the cure but it’s too late, Joe has transformed. Ichabod tries the incantation/cure to get Joe to turn back but it doesn’t work, so he insists that he and Abbie have to kill him. However just a few moments after that suggestion Joe turns back into a human: The curse is broken! But alas, Henry has the poison.
Soul Searching
Captain Irving confronts Henry about how he stole his soul, and Henry says there’s a way for him to reclaim it: Kill someone. Henry then mentions that the man who paralyzed his daughter is also staying at the psychiatric hospital, and that if Irving really wants his soul he should kill the man responsible for ruining his daughter’s life.
Later that day Irving finds himself attacking that man but manages to resist killing him; this isn’t want he wants, it’s what Henry wants. So Irving is safe, for now.
Hell No
At the end of the episode Henry pours out the contents of the poison on his table. It’s gooey and filled with bones and mummified animal body parts, but Henry does his thing and all of the spare parts and liquid starts forming together to make one gigantic spider that looks like a black widow.
Then in the next scene we see Katrina sleeping when the huge spider crawls up her bed and into her mouth, causing her to choke and wake up screaming.
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