After Sleepy Hollow season 3, episode 11, it looks like the only couple getting any love are two zombies… and even that didn’t end happily.
Tonight’s episode of Sleepy Hollow made me really happy. There were just enough references to Ichabod’s colonial days and enough of him assimilating and getting used to the 21st century that made it very balanced, which isn’t always the case with the show. And on top of that, the case of the week was extremely interesting!
We returned to a monster that we originally saw last season: The Kindred. Created by Benjamin Franklin, this thing was like Frankenstein’s monster, essentially, and Ichabod and Abbie used it to help them defeat the Headless Horseman. I never thought about the monster after that episode, and it turns out that it’s been wandering the earth the entire time since it was raised. Alrighty then!
But now it’s returned to do the bidding of The Hidden One, Pandora’s boyfriend. The Hidden One wants him to kill the Witnesses, of course, and so Ichabod and Abbie have to find some object of Franklin’s that they can use to control the Kindred.
The episode turned out like I always expect it to — Ichabod and Abbie work together, something gets in their way (this time it was Zoe, Ichabod’s former contemporary flame) but in the end they manage to save the day and stop the monster from killing them using weird artifacts from the country’s past.
The interesting part about this week’s resolution, though, is that they didn’t have to kill the Kindred. All they had to do was find the conveniently made female version of the Kindred so that he could find a soulmate and fall in love — and so that’s what saved the day. They didn’t even have to kill him! But, it’s not all a happy ending.
Remember how last week Pandora gave up her powers so that her boyfriend could be more powerful and summon more demons to Sleepy Hollow? Yeah, well that didn’t work out too well for her this week!
After the events of the entire episode, Pandora asked her man if she could get her powers back so that they could be equals and rule together. But when he noticed that his Kindred soldier left him for “true love,” he destroyed the Kindred and his newly resurrected girlfriend and demanded that he would never succumb to human weakness. This, obviously, answers Pandora’s question about equal power and love and all that.
I think that in and of itself is going to be a very interesting development — Pandora is slowly starting to realize that she’s in love with a man, a monster, that will not and cannot love her back. While she has her faults, she’s only human… ish, so it’s a total possibility that her rejection from The Hidden One will force her to join forces with Ichabod and Abbie later in the season to bring him down.
Additionally, throughout the episode Joe kept pestering Jenny about her relationship with her dad and encouraging her to get coffee with him. Although this plot was mostly kept to sides and one-off mentions, I’m sure that the whole story about the Mills daddy figure is going to pop up real soon. I can’t wait to see how her and Abbie manage to deal with talking to their dad.