BWW Recap: Another Monster is Born on SLEEPY HOLLOW

This week SLEEPY HOLLOW picks up right after where we left off last week. Katrina is still being kept captive by the horseman. Crane and Abby are still planning to rescue her, and through a dream Crane learns the horseman intends to bind himself to her using an ancient ritual.

Crane and Abby manage to stalk the horseman's hideaway, but are unable to rescue Katrina. Back at their base, they learn of a creature that Benjamin Franklin had tried to create to rival the horseman. Franklin was unable to do so because he lacked a vital ingredient: a part of the horseman. Crane notes that they have the horseman's head and could raise the ultimate weapon.

Abby goes to visit her former captain who's been incarcerated for taking the blame for crimes committed by his daughter while possessed by demons. He tells Abby that the horseman's head is being held safely at the bank. Abby and Crane then retrieve the head.

Meanwhile, Abby's sister Jenny is retrieving weapons under Abby's instructions. While doing so, the new police chief walks in on her and she is placed under arrest.

After a commercial break, Abby goes to visit Jenny in jail. Jenny takes full responsibility for her arrest. Seeing there is nothing Abby can do for her, Abby goes with Crane into the tunnels to find the creature, dubbed "Kindred."

Back at the horseman's cottage, Katrina is put face to face with her son (Jeremy) Henry Parrish. He tells her Crane and Abby are coming to save her, and muses by asking "Who will save them?"

Crane and Abby reconvene outside the horseman's cottage to raise the Kindred from the dead. A first read-through of the incantation doesn't work - so they try again. Just as the second attempt is concluding the horseman comes out and begins to fight the Kindred.

We resume after a commercial break, the horseman and the Kindred are fighting. Crane goes inside to free Katrina but she informs him she can't leave for she is collecting information vital to the fight and has told the horseman she may grow to love him.

After a passionate embrace, Crane leaves her be. He and Abby manage to escape. Meanwhile, Captain Irving is locked up in a psychiatric ward after claiming the truth during a lie-detector test. Henry Parish comes to his aid ordering an injunction on all involuntary treatment. Irving signs his name in blood on a document we don't get to know the contents of. We don't know anything about Parish's ulterior motive.

This week more questions are raised than answered. It seems as though this side plot about Benjamin Franklin is going to continue through more episodes, which I find odd as it seems to come out of nowhere. I hope the writers don't keep explaining everything by saying he planned it out somehow, and that more entertaining side plots are introduced, similar to the first season.

I'm also having doubts about Katrina's intentions. She seemed very affected by the horseman debating Crane's love for her! Could she be falling for him? Will she use her relationship with Crane to his disadvantage, or is she still truly on his side? I hope more of these questions are answered in next weeks' episode!

What did you think about tonight's episode? Tell me in the comments below or on twitter at @alanhenryTO. Then, join us on BroadwayWorld TV World again next week for another recap of SLEEPY HOLLOW.

Check out a promo for next week's episode titled 'Root of All Evil' below:

Photo: Fred Norris/FOX

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