Sleepy Hollow season 2, episode 9, “Mama,” aired last night and we still have the image of the ugly demon baby in our heads.
Trouble at Tarrytown
Abbie is having a weird dream, she’s surrounded by fog and thinks she sees her mother in a black cloak. When she wakes up Ichabod walks into the archives, sick like a dog. Ichabod reminds her that according to her mother’s letters Moloch was the reason she went crazy.
Then Sheriff Reyes calls Abbie to let her know about how there are an abnormal amount of deaths/suicides at Tarrytown Psychiatry, and gives her full control of the investigation. She goes to the hospital and brings Jenny with her, since she knows Tarrytown really well, and they go to visit Captain Irving first.
Irving explains that the people who all committed suicide were doing well, and there was no motivation for any of them. Abbie asks if Irving had anything to do with it, but he explains that he’s still in control of his actions despite Henry’s ownership of his soul. T
They decide to look at the videos of the victims since there was footage of every room in the hospital. They then see the ghost of their mother in the same cell as one of the victims as he hangs himself.
Fighting Demons
Abbie tells Ichabod, and explains she’s been trying to remember her time with her mother to see if anything pointed to Moloch. In a flashback her mother gets mad at she and Jenny for taking the bus home, and how she told them to not trust anyone.
Hawley shows up with some medication and food for Ichabod, since she’s busy working the case. Ichabod has an idea of why Abbie’s mom is back now, and explains that Tarrytown is built on a line that converges the real world with the spirit world.
Afterwards he goes back to his soup, and Abbie starts flirting with Hawley again, and as they do Ichabod starts falling asleep since Hawley put sleeping aid in it.
They return to the hospital that night and manage to stop one of the patients from killing himself, but when they get there Abbie sees the ghost of her mom and then just completely disappears. Not her mother, we’re talking about Abbie. Abbie (as well as her mother) just blink out of existence.
The next time we see Abbie it’s in an abandoned part of Tarrytown, and she sees the ghost of her mother telling her it’s not safe there. Turns out this isn’t a dream, she runs into the nurse. Jenny and Hawley show up and Jenny sees a message on a window from their mother: A numerical code for one of their mother’s psychiatric videos.
Jenny doesn’t want to watch the video, but Abbie convinces her to. In the video, her mother is in a straight jacket as she’s being interviewed about the demons that followed her. In it she talks about Nurse Lambert, who they ran into that morning and again in the abandoned wing of the hospital but the interviewer says there is no nurse.
Lambert is the ghost that’s getting people to kill themselves, and Irving is her next target.
Irving tries to drown himself in one of the psychiatric bathtubs, but luckily the crew manages to get to him in time before he dies. When Abbie talks to him she tells him the drugs that Lambert offered him were drugs that opened his mind to suggestion, and she’s going to look into it.
At the archives they look up the story of Jane Lambert from the 1950s, who killed a bunch of patients by having them take drugs like Irving. Abbie thinks their mother is trying to stop Jane, and knows why she was taken to the old wing. They go to their mom’s old hospital room and find carvings in the walls: It’s a drawing/mural of them with the lyrics to “You are my sunshine” written under it. Then their mom shows up, and explains they’re not safe.
Mama explains there’s an ancient hex to stop Lambert but she can’t remember it, and that there’s a journal that was passed down to her that has magic from their ancestors. Then Lambert shows up and takes Abbie, locks up Jenny and Hawley and leaves. Their mom goes to find Abbie while Jenny goes to find the journal.
Lambert straps Abbie into a wheelchair, and takes her to an old operating room. She explains that she killed her mother, and now it’s Abbie’s turn to kill herself. Luckily Abbie’s mom gets there to stop Lambert from feeding her the pills.
Meanwhile Jenny goes to look at their mom’s old box of personal belongings at the hospital and find the journal. It used to belong to their ancestor, Grace Dixen, who knew Katrina and Ichabod and even helped Katrina give birth to Henry.They find the spell and Jenny starts to say it; things get all windy and it actually works!
Abbie wants to say thank you to their mother, and Jenny says there’s a way to see her one more time. They get Ichabod to bring a bunch of candles (he’s feeling way better) and also a crystal ball so Jenny can do a seance. They summon her, and it works.
Their mom knew she was a witness, and it was the demon that caused her to almost kill Jenny in the garage. She did so much to save them, and explains that there’s a weapon hidden in the pages of the journal and if they find it they might be able to win.
On their way home they find Irving in the street, and he says he got a chance to escape to talk to his daughter and she agrees to help.
Demon’s Breath
Back at Fredrick Manor, Katrina gets introduced to baby Moloch and wants to know why Henry brought him here. She pretends that she doesn’t know it’s Moloch, and he says it’s just an orphaned baby. He tells Katrina to nurture the baby, and she’s hesitant but does so.
Then it’s revealed to the audience that Katrina’s necklace lets her see the baby as a baby but really its true form is an ugly demon child.
When she picked up the baby it left a dark black bruise on her neck, and Katrina notices in the mirror. It was Devil’s breath, so she starts making a potion with one of the plants outside that will hopefully expel Moloch. But when she goes to feed it to him he’s not in his crib. She goes searching for him and he’s turned into a little 8-year-old boy now.
