Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017): Season 1, Episode 5 - John Doe - full transcript

Thomas Grey, a young boy dying from the medieval plague, arrives in Sleepy Hollow. Mastering middle English, Ichabod works out he belongs to the Roanoke earliest English settlers in America, which that disease is believed to have wiped out. rather then accepting being quarantined, which doesn't seem to work anyway, Crane takes his witch-wife's advice to return Thom to the refuge against the purgatory pestilence which was spread by Moloch, as if could allow him to join the riders of the Apocalypse.

(Birds twittering)

(Humming)

GIRL:
Hi. Are you lost?

Want to play?

I bet you can't catch me!

(Giggling)

Come on! It's okay!

(Giggling)

(Hoofbeats approaching)

(Crickets chirping)

Are you sure you want
to stay in this old cabin?



It's a bit of a fixer-upper.

You and I have very different
definitions of "old."

It seems if a building stays upright
for more than a decade,

you people declare it
a national landmark.

No.

This cabin has all
the modern means I need.

It's certainly preferable
to that motel.

You know, we could
spackle the bullet holes.

Unless you want to keep them.

No, no.

By all means, we'll... spackle.

You know you can admit when
you don't know what a word means.

This is the ideal setting
for you, though.

It's rustic, by the lake...



Maybe Corbin meant for us
to find this place.

An act of faith?

That's unusual, coming from you.

It's true.

Never been a big believer
of what I can't see.

And the irony isn't lost on me, okay?

I get I'm supposed to be a player
in the Big Guy's endgame, but...

I'm not ready to abandon
my better judgment outright.

What is this impenetrable barrier
around this instrument?

It's called plastic.

That's why I bought scissors.

Miss Mills...

Do you think I look
out of place in this century?

You look good for 200.

But a change of clothes wouldn't hurt.

LUKE: (Over radio)
Unit 27, citizen flag down.

Boy unconscious and breathing.

Requesting an R/A and additional unit
to Market and Fifth.

Lieutenant Mills.
I have a close ETA.

Show me en route.

It's a routine call.

I think routine
is a thing of the past for us.

What have we got?

The boy was seen
stumbling down the street.

Then he just
passed out.

Mail carrier over there called it in.

MAIL CARRIER:
I saw him along my route earlier.

He was coming out of the woods
by Rockefeller Preserve.

- Anyone with him?
- No. Witnesses say he was unaccompanied.

Wish I could say the same for you.

Don't you get tired
of being a babysitter?

You know, for a detective,
you really don't have a clue.

Lieutenant.

The boy's hands.

Blackening veins.

Is this condition common in this time?

ABBIE:
Not in the slightest.

The garments he's wearing...

their simplicity...

He looks like he got lost

on his way back
from a Renaissance Faire.

(Breathing rapidly, gasps)

Euel perne.

Did he just say "euel perne"?

I take it that means something to you.

Yes, it's a language you, too,
are familiar with.

English.

Hwon be pa euel perne?

We've got to get him loaded.

That is not any English
we speak around here.

That's because it's Middle English.

The sort only spoken
in the Middle Ages.

Hundreds of children go missing
in this country?

Sadly, yes.
It's called kidnapping.

And though I'm hoping this boy
isn't a victim,

we keep a database
of all reported abductions

and this could be
our only way to ID him.

IRVING:
Until then, he's a John Doe

at Westchester Memorial,
and we've got no way

to explain what's happening to him.

John Doe is what we call somebody...

Someone whose identity
is unknown, yes.

The term came into being
in Britain, thank you.

Long before my time.

As is his language, Captain.

The boy speaks Middle English.

Naturally.

I... studied it at Oxford.

It's the language of Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales for example.

So did the boy go to Oxford,

or are you suggesting
that we're dealing with someone

from King Arthur's court?

All I can tell you is the boy
said, "Euel perne,"

which means "evil girl"
in a dead version of our language.

Any leads I'm going to like?

No trace of him
in the national database.

Nobody's looking for him.

Morales has even tried
local Amish communities.

It seems his identity
is as much of a mystery

as his disorder.

I've contacted the CDC.

Centers for Disease Control.

This CDC...

Do they think the illness could spread?

When I described the black veining
on the boy's arms,

they said they'd send someone
to take a look.

We don't want an epidemic.

Brush up on your Chaucer, Crane.

I need you to question our John Doe.

Hey, Captain.

What's on your mind, Morales?

Well, sir,

it's a small town.

There's been a lot of talk.

About...?

Well, this guy Crane.

He was a suspect.

Now he's a consultant?

What's he doing here?

You and Lieutenant Mills
have... history.

Is that gonna cause a problem, Morales?

- No, sir.
- Good.

Crane's knowledge of the beheadings

makes him an important advisor
to me right now.

So until we catch
the perp behind them,

I'd advise you to stay
focused on your work.

Yes, sir.

This is the stuff of nightmares.

WOMAN:
Mills, we're ready for you now.

This isolation will only scare him more.

They have to do it.

The plastic barriers keeps
the contaminated air contained.

Yes, plastic.

How did we survive without it?

You will speak into this camera.

Here's what I need to know
for starters...

What did the vector eat,
what drugs has he tried,

where's he from,
and where's he been.

While you may see in there
a nameless, faceless source,

I see a boy, and I intend
to treat him as such.

Whatever it takes.

Thomas.

Thomas Grey.

Thank you.

It seems he was forbidden
from leaving his home.

We see this all the time.

People, monsters,
keep kids caged up.

Threaten them if they break rules.

And teach them Middle English?

Maybe. That's one way
of keep them from asking for help.

Or the boy is lost and disoriented
by his surroundings.

I think most of us can relate to that.

Where's he from?
I need a location.

Roanoke?

I need all the hospitals
contacted in Roanoke, Virginia.

Find everything going in
and out of their doors.

I'll have the department
contact local law enforcement.

Track down his family.

No... I think Parsons may be looking
in the wrong place.

The boy did say Roanoke, right?

But I don't think
Thomas meant a Roanoke

you'd find on today's map.

The older version of English,
his antiquated appearance...

What if Thomas is
from the Lost Colony?

What lost colony?

CRANE: Roanoke was the very
first British colony

in the New World,
led by Governor John White.

In fact, White's daughter
and her husband produced

the very first American-born colonist,

their daughter, Virginia Dare.

So, White returned to Europe
for provisions for the colony.

And when he got back to Roanoke,
everyone was gone?

CRANE:
Not a single person was there.

They had disappeared.

It became known as the Lost Colony.

That's pretty weird.

We still haven't found 'em.

Perhaps, because they've
relocated to Sleepy Hollow.

Whoa.

True, we found a kid that looks like
he stepped off the Mayflower,

but that does not mean

that a colony that vanished
from North Carolina

400 years ago has relocated
to the neighborhood.

I did say "perhaps," Lieutenant.

And I can name a few
stranger turns of events.

You really believe anything is possible.

My own circumstance makes me
open to the prospect.

(Phone rings)

Sir, I'm gonna put you
on speakerphone.

IRVING:
Thomas' disease is starting to spread.

The black veining has taken over
more of his body, but...

the EMT who treated him...

He's been infected.

He's deteriorating rapidly.

A couple of nurses have been feeling ill.

This may be an outbreak.

Captain, we are onto a theory.

And we will get right back to you
as soon as we do some more digging.

Thank you, sir.

Well, we had dig quickly.

If Thomas does indeed
carry a plague...

and one from half a millennium ago...

the effects could be apocalyptic.

Okay. We'll start looking in
the woods where they found him.

And perhaps...

Perhaps we will find
the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

(Rapid beeping)

(Approaching hoofbeats)

(Beeping becomes steady tone)

ABBIE: Word must have spread
about the virus.

Looks like people are leaving town.

CRANE:
Can you blame them?

So, here we are.

This is where
the mail carrier saw Thomas,

right near the
"Welcome to Roanoke" sign.

Yours isn't the first generation
to invent sarcasm.

So who was more sarcastic,
Jefferson or Adams?

Is this more sarcasm?

No, I'm serious.

I'm not saying.

Come on. Please?

I'll tell you this...

Jefferson had an obsession with puns,

and Adams kept a notebook
of unsavory limericks.

Seriously?

Welcome to Roanoke.

ABBIE: According to my phone's
compass app,

we're heading due east.

Just not sure if we're heading
in the right direction...

if there is one.

I suspect there is, and we are on it.

Look.

This spiderweb has been broken
at about Thomas' height,

and these footfalls are the same
I've been tracking since we began.

I'm afraid your so-called
smart phone couldn't tell you that.

Look at you, copping some 'tude.

There's more.

Jones, Morales, meet me

at Westchester Memorial
in 30 minutes.

We got to compare notes
with the CDC.

You got it, Captain.

Did you talk to him about bringing
the new guy in?

- Yeah.
- What'd he say?

Basically, to keep our heads down
and do as we're told.

Fine by me.

Let's keep the captain
on our good side.

He's axing us out.

Hey, score enough points,

maybe me and you move on
to bigger and better.

Think about it. NYPD.

What does an Oxford history professor

know about serial killings
in Sleepy Hollow?

If he even is who he says.

(Quietly): Obviously the captain knows
something we don't.

Just let it go.

I'll meet you at the hospital.
I'm gonna make some calls.

All right.

Mimosa pudica.

It closes up for days
in response to human touch.

Thomas has been here.

Seriously, where did you learn
to track like this?

Fox hunting, actually.

Excuse me.

Mm. My father was a nobleman.

I had a rather regal upbringing.

That's one thing I'm pleased
to have left behind.

These footprints
are different from Thomas'.

Right.

He was barefoot.

You can see the outline of his toes,
but not in these.

Maybe they belong
to the girl he mentioned.

The evil girl.

They stop out of nowhere.

Where did she go?

Perhaps she was never
even here to begin with.

Look...

Lost colony or not,

we have to be prepared

for whatever's
on the other side of that trail.

Are you all right?

Let's keep going.

LUKE:
We've got two more patients.

Both on the scene
when the boy went down.

Are we any closer to knowing
where Patient Zero came from?

Still searching.

We're working on a
possible bioterrorism angle.

Looked into a new cult
that's surfaced.

So far, no link to them.

Why do the others seem more sick
than the kid?

People's immune systems
react differently.

Some may not be affected.

Others may be completely compromised.

The vector must come from
a very different environment than ours.

Why is that?

His blood panels.

They show traces of foreign antibodies

and a lack of others
present in our population.

There's no evidence he's ever been
vaccinated against anything.

To inoculate everyone else
against this thing,

we need to identify it.

We're coming across nothing
like it in our database.

I have got officers retracing
the boy's trail as we speak.

This is where Thomas' trail ends.

Or... more accurately, begins.

I believe the answer to his survival lies
somewhere over there.

ABBIE:
That tiny island?

CRANE:
Mm-hmm.

There's nothing on it.

Looks can be deceiving, Lieutenant.

Perhaps this is how the community
has remained hidden.

Sure. Maybe.

Are you telling me you think
the kid swam across this?

No...

No, his feet were covered in muck,
but not the rest of him.

Okay.

We're gonna have to find
another way over there.

Crane. Crane!

This is how Thomas made it across.

How did you know that?

Markings on these trees

indicate a hidden crossing.

Step this way, Miss Mills.

(Birds chirping, insects trilling)

What is this place?

(Conversing quietly)

ABBIE:
Crane... they're all infected.

(Colonists conversing quietly)

ABBIE: They have the black veins,
but don't seem sick.

CRANE:
Yes. Quite curious.

So this is where Thomas was raised.

In a community that hasn't changed
in some 400 years.

How is that possible?

Virginia Dare.

The spirit of Virginia Dare

guided the colonists here
to protect them.

Protect them?

But they all have the disease.

The spirit of Virginia Dare
seems to watch over them here,

keeping their symptoms at bay.

Sort of like Katrina

putting a spell on you
to keep you alive.

It seems the colonists
of Roanoke and I

share much in common.

In order to save Thomas,
we must bring him back.

I'm no Middle English expert,

but I could've sworn

I heard the word "horseman"
thrown in there.

Indeed you did,

though not the headless one
with whom we are acquainted.

The colony was infected
with this plague

by the Horseman of Pestilence,

also known as Conquest.

So another Horseman of
the Apocalypse has arrived?

Not yet.

And not if we can stop it.

Pestilence instituted
this plague centuries ago,

but the Roanoke colony contained it,

stopping its spread and thwarting
the Horseman from riding forth.

It's been unleashed
anew through Thomas.

If it manages to spread this time...

Then the Horseman of Pestilence
will come to Sleepy Hollow

and join forces with
the Horseman of Death.

We must prevent this at all costs.

And I think bringing Thomas here
will be the answer.

No, thank you.

You keep it.

(Slow hoofbeats echo)

Crane.

We gotta get going.

If what you saw in the Roanoke forest
enters our world,

modern medicine
will be defenseless against it.

Oh, my God, you're infected.

Be it the protection of Virginia Dare,

or something in the environment,

the cure seems to lie within the colony.

Maybe, but the CDC is not going
to let anyone leave the hospital.

And how are we supposed to get them
to a place that no one believes exists?

It's spreading.

CRANE:
Miss Mills...

These people are going to die here.

Do you think the Roanoke remedy

would even work on
people other than Thomas?

Crane?

I've been infected.

It was the colony.

Get me a Hazmat team in here.

No. No, I think it was earlier...

When I first encountered Thomas.

We're ready, sir.

Get him into quarantine.

No. No, I feel perfectly fine.

Listen to him.

Don't touch him. Do not take him!

Stay back, he's contagious.

Stop this!

- No! I must help Thomas!
- Sedate him!

No, I just... Please!

ABBIE:
No!

(Wind whistling)

- Katrina.
- Ichabod?

Are you really here?

You're not well.

How did you know?

Because you're here.

But I have been here before.

Only when I've summoned you.

I've... I've not been
able to for some time.

If you are here in any other way...

it means that you are dead.

Or near to it.

(Phone ringing)

Detective Morales.

WOMAN: (British accent)
Yes, hello, Detective.

I'm calling from
the history department

of Oxford's Merton College

regarding your inquiry
into a Mr. Ichabod Crane.

Yes.

He is indeed a tenured professor here,
on sabbatical at the moment,

and on loan to law enforcement
in Westchester County, New York.

I see.

Is there any other way
I may be of assistance?

No. No, no. Thank you.
That's all I needed to know.

Everything okay, Morales?

Yes, sir. All good.

Track down Parsons from CDC.

We need to make a plan
to control public response.

Yes, sir.

KATRINA:
You must understand.

It's only under great duress
you would find yourself here.

I am sick.

I did not realize how critically.

Another has died from this.

And I fear you will, too.

Ichabod, this place I've been trapped in,
it's purgatory.

Purgatory?

Then those are...

Souls.

Who've been collected here.

We're all trapped together,
and yet very much apart.

Those there are moving on.

To where?

To wherever he determines.

He?

The beast who keeps me captive.

Moloch.

Sir, I need a minute.

Don't have one.

But it's about Crane and the boy.

If you can help me get them out...

They're not going anywhere.

We have most of Sleepy Hollow
in an absolute panic

over this potential epidemic.

The doctors will handle the patients.
I need you on the streets.

We have to shut down the traffic
moving in and out of town.

- There is no time for that.
- My point exactly.

Report to Morales for your post.

Really?

Hmm, what the hell.

Why would you be trapped
in such a place?

What does Moloch want
with your soul?

Katrina...

What is it you're not telling me?

If this is a trial...

I'm gonna need a little evidence.

Is that boy really gonna be saved
if I get him back to his home?

What about the others?

What about Crane?

Would he be saved at Roanoke

because it's...
trapped in time like him?

Show... me... a sign.

Give me something.

Isn't that the kind of thing
that you're known for?

Yep.
(Chuckles)

Didn't think so.

CRANE:
Something in the environment,

the cure seems to lie
within the colony.

What is it you're afraid to say?

I believe I know why I am here.

Why I cannot leave.

Why?

Ichabod!

You fight for your life!

You fight for the both of us!

(Gasps)

ABBIE: I need to get them back
to the colony.

I think that the springwater there
could be what heals them.

Think about it.

Water is used in many religions
as a way to purify.

Roanoke seems
to be some sort of holy place.

So you think they need to
baptized in it or something?

I do.

For now, we're just stalling
the inevitable.

Thomas will die if he isn't returned.

And Crane.

Do you really believe
that's going to work?

I've got no choice but to believe.

Okay.

I think I have a way.

Another quarantine facility's been set up
for projected overflow.

Parsons will get orders
to transfer Thomas and Crane there,

creating an opportunity for you
to get them to this colony.

I'll cover for you.

If the solution is there,
I'll do what I can

to get the remaining infected
to the location.

But, Abbie...

Hurry.

Hey, what are you doing?!

ABBIE:
Keep talking to me, Crane.

Keep your mind off the pain.

Katrina. I saw Katrina
while I was unconscious.

And now I understand
why I haven't been able to go there.

Why?

The place is...

is a purgatory

for souls left hanging
in the balance,

caught between good and evil.

It's like a no-man's-land
on a battlefield.

I'm glad you fought
your way out of it.

(Grunts)

Crane!

I'm all right.

I can't say the same for Thomas.

We're losing him.

It's weak, but he's still
got a heartbeat.

We've got to keep moving.
Almost there.

I'm so sorry.
I feel a little faint.

You go on to Roanoke.

Send the colonists back for us.

I cannot make it without you.

- Yes, you can.
- All the trees look the same to me.

(Chuckles)
Hang on.

I need a little rest.

Hang on.

I think you just need
a little, a little boost.

(Gasps)

What was that?

Adrenaline.

I like it.
(Approaching hoofbeats)

Let's keep moving.
(Groans)

Crane!

Get to the water! Run!

Crane!

Hurry!

Crane! Crane!

You were right.

The waters provide a cure.

What just happened?

Thomas...

He was dead all along.

They all were.

But everyone else in Sleepy Hollow,
they saw him.

They were affected by him.

He returned to flesh and blood...

once he was lured into our world
to spread a plague.

But we stopped it.

Somehow.

You stopped it by having faith.

Your faith in being one
of the Witnesses allowed you

to see what your eyes could not.

(Phone rings)

Captain?

You're not gonna believe this.

Try me.

We don't know how,
but everyone's recovering.

I'm glad to hear it, sir.

Thank you.

It's over.

Everyone in town's gonna be fine.

Hey, I know everything
has been so new for you,

so different.

It's been hard to adjust.

Actually, for a minute there,

I thought you might choose
to stay in the colony.

But, Crane...

believe me...

when I say that you belong
in Sleepy Hollow.

In the here and now.

Well...

What do you say we go home then?

We have much work to do.

We will require much more
than faith

if and when
the Horseman of Death returns.

(Neighs)

(Whinnies)

(Thunder crashes)