Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017): Season 2, Episode 15 - Spellcaster - full transcript

After escaping purgatory, a warlock who triggered the Salem witch trials returns to find a dangerous book of spells. Meanwhile, Abbie attempts to trust Frank Irving again, while Henry struggles to find his identity.

Lot 43a a silver jewelry box.

A gift from philip ii

To queen elizabeth I.

Do we categorize this
as jewelry or mementos?

Mementos. Should do
well in this auction.

The journal of john dee.

John dee?
Yes, queen elizabeth's

Most trusted adviser.

And if you believe the
legend, the royal court's

Sorcerer supreme.

Scholas have been searching
for this for centuries.



Only recently unearthed
this in london.

Best keep this secure, hmm?

Yes.

Who are you?

You can't be in here.

Listen, you can't be in here!

Guard:
Hey! Hey! Can't you hear?

She said you can't be

I need you to turn
around slowly

Turn around
and put your hands up!

Now! I'm talking to you!

Turn around and put
your hands in the air!

That's it.

Put your hands
in the air.



Drop it and get
on the ground now!

Just like a candle.
Crane?

Lieutenant, thank you
forjoining me.

Next time, a little context
when you text me to meet

At a strange address.
What are we doing here?

Exploring.

A "three bedroom,
two bath craftsman."

Or so I've managed to
decipher from this posting.

House hunting?

You bring me house hunting?

Well, less of a hunt,

More a scouting expedition.

Well, hello!

I'm keely.

Please, look around.

You'll notice all
the charming details throughout.

Now, I know the bedrooms
are a tad cozy.

"cozy" is code
for too small to live in.

And the backyard
is a bit rustic.

"rustic" means
you'll need a landscaper.

How are the bathrooms?

They're in their
original condition.

Older than me.

Excuse me.

Yeah, well, you figured out
the real code.

Lieutenant

One cannot even buy a home
without being bombarded

With modern-day hucksterism.

We call it marketing.
People even get degrees for it.

True fact
people leave

With a more positive impression
if you give them

Oh. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Marketing.

Are you seriously considering
buying a house?

'cause if you are,
there are bigger issues

Than decoding realtor-speak.

You need a credit rating,
bank approval, and

Not to mention
an actual income.

Call this an exercise
in optimism.

Generous though you've been
in allowing me

Sheriff corbin's cabin,
sooner or later,

I must find a place of my own.

Preferably
with granite countertops.

That's gonna have to be later.

There was a robbery
at an auction house

In white plains last night,
two people were killed.

Preliminary reports suggest
that the blood

Boiled inside their body.

Boiled?

The m.E. S are stumped.

Security cam didn't pick up
a clear image of the killer.

Was this book stolen?
Yeah.

It belonged to john dee,
an elizabethan-era academic

And famed student of the occult.

He spent years
compiling spells into books.

This is known
as the grand grimoire,

The volume
of forbidden black magic.

So dee was on the dark side
of the magical train tracks?

No, he was a scholar.

He wanted to understand
the power of the dark forces

And keep it hidden away.

The grand grimoire has been much
sought after in magic circles.

But I'm afraid I'm no expert
on the subject.

Where is our specialist
in that department?

200 years in purgatory
have dearly sapped my skills,

But I'm gradually
growing stronger.

And now,
as we enter a time

Of perigean tide,

My powers are peaking.

That's handy.

Magic is an innate talent,

But it must be honed
through practice.

Yeah, well, I'm hoping

That we can count on that talent
to help us now.

The grand grimoire?

This is a powerful
and dangerous spell book.

It was stolen from a local
auction house last night.

Here? After all this time?

Someone must have drawn it
to this place,

Perhaps through
a summoning spell.

A magical someone?

Or Another tormented soul

Released from purgatory
after moloch's death.

The consequences of
moloch's evil may never cease.

I know you still mourn our son.

I just hope his actions
have brought him some peace.

Physical fitness
has never been so cheap.

You can do it.

The brand-new invention

Yes?

Mr. Parish.

I'm sorry it took so long
to get back to you.

You said you had a problem?

The hot water is out.

Ah Damn.

So it is.

I'll send ronnie up right away.

He's my son.

If you'd like,
I can also send a cleaning lady.

That won't be necessary.

It's no trouble.

Look, I don't get a lot
of long-term guests,

And, frankly, not ones
that pay up front and in cash.

All I need is my privacy.

Tv reporter:
Sources close to the case

Say they're stumped
by the bizarre

Nature of the deaths
at the auction house,

Which involved
"unusual blood activity."

woman: I was watching this
earlier so weird.

Ever seen anything like it?

Part of an auction of items
from queen elizabeth I's

Yes, I have.

And if I could forget
all about it, I would.

Well, we all have things
we're trying to get past.

I mean

We're only human, right?

Forensics came back.

They identified
blood at the scene.

Didn't belong
to the victims.

No match but it was laced

With an alkaloid,
a compound commonly found

In a plant, datura stramonium.

Also known
Jimsonweed.

Witches call it moonflower.

Before performing
dangerous spells,

Certain practitiones ingest it
to augment their power.

It's like doping
in the magic world.

Steroids. It's a substance
athletes use

To make their bodies
unnaturally strong.

Well, this sorcerer
uses blood magic.

Witches draw their magic
from different sources.

Katrina's power flows
from nature.

Others from fire,
from the moon and the stars.

Blood magic is one

Of the dark arts, a destructive
form of sorcery that taps

Into base, evil forces.

Here's the security cam footage
from the auction house.

I thought
it proved inconclusive.

Huh, some kind of
electrical surge wiped out

Most of it, but a
few frames survived.

Called in a favor
from a friend at quantico.

They're experimenting with a
new image enhancement algorithm.

It isolates pixels

Off reflective surfaces
in the environment.

That make sense?

Oh, yes, entirely.

Uh Well,
maybe save one detail.

Pixels?

Oh, pixels.

Pixels. Thank you.

Any luck with
the research?

But these books contain much
about the grimoire.

Ah. Magic.

Katrina?

Do you recognize him?

His name is solomon kent.

He's the warlock
all witches fear.

Moloch's death must
have freed him from purgatory,

And now he is in our world.

And wherever solomon kent goes,

Terror and death are sure
to follow.

Solomon kent.
Solomon kent. Here.

Born 1661. Was a
puritan minister

And leader of the
massachusetts bay colony.

Salem.

He was one of the leaders
of the town of salem.

Salem, as in
the salem witch trials?

His family came to massachusetts

During the great puritan
migration.

He grew up a
spiritual man,

A pillar of the community,
beloved by all.

Times were hard back then,

But the town was close-knit.

Everyone pulled together,
no matter their background.

Why, thank you, mrs. Parsons.
I don't know the next time

We'll have fresh bread,

Especially if this
drought lingers.

As providence decrees.

Peace be upon you.

And upon you.

Will I be seeing you
at the prayer group tonight,

Reverend?
Prayer group?

Ah, yes.

This drought must end.

Until then,
mrs. Van tassel.

Van tassel.

The year 1692.

So this woman's
your grandmother.

Helena van tassel.

She was among the
first of the dutch

To come to the new world.

She settled in salem
because it was a home

To a very strong coven,
one led by kent.

My mother was only
a young girl at the time,

But she never forgot
what happened in salem.

And she made sure
I would never forget, either.

The puritans believed magic
was all around them.

Even those such as kent's coven
who sought to do good with it,

They still had to hide
their identities.

People distrust that which
they do not undestand.

So what happened?

Kent lost his way.

He became infatuated

With a young woman
named sarah osborne.

A worker is only
as good as their tools.

This blade is far too dull
for work or safety.

It's not so bad.

I thought it was much worse.

Thank you.

Katrina: He thought his feellngs
were being reciprocated,

But he was wrong.

Sarah.

Reverend.

My grandmother knew thls
could end in heartbreak

But she dld not know
it would end in tragedy.

Reverend.

You sent for me.

A worker is only as
good as their tools.

For you.

Thank you.

Reverend

Do not be frightened.

I know what's
in your heart.

The same as what's in mine.

Sarah.
No!

Sarah

Katrina:
It was a terrible accident.

Man :
Was that a scream?

Katrina: But kent knew
how it would look.

In his fear and panic,

Kent chose a desperate way out.

We heard screaming.

She attacked me.

But I fought her back!

The devil is upon us!

We are beset
by his servants.

There are witches among us!

Katrina:
My grandmother trled to appeal

To the man
she thought she know.

Helena, it was an accident.

Your lie has spread
like the plague.

You must end this madness.

They will have my head.

Throw yourself at their mercy.

Trust in their kindness.

Do not force me to make
this decision for you.

Katrina: But kent was too
fearful for trust.

So he turned on helena

Gelidum sis!

Katrina:
And was forever

Kent:
Behold,

Another witch.

Witness her unholy gaze.

Let this enemy
have no power over us.

Seize her!
Do not allow her to speak.

This is but
the beginning of a war.

Katrina:
The sentences were

The rest of helena's family

Including my mother

Fled salem that night,
never to return.

So solomon kent is responsible
for the salem witch trials.

A period of mass paranoia
and persecution.

It still haunts us.

Every kid in america
reads the crucible

A play about salem
but it's really about

The mass hysteria over
communism in the 1950s.

"let us not be driven by fear
into an age of unreason.

"remember

We are not descended
from fearful men."

Jefferson?
Edward r. Murrow.

He was a journalist
in the 1950s who spoke out

Against these
modern witch trials.

You been catching up
on your country's history?

It is heartening to discover
men like mr. Murrow.

Would have made
the founding fathers proud.

well, let's make them proud
by locating this grimoire.

If I can access
its last location,

I may be able to track
its mystical signature.

How was kent able to survive
the witch trials unscathed?

He survived, but not unscathed.

Katrina:
The dark forces he cultivated

Allowed hlm to fend off
the retribution for a while,

But eventually the coven's
surviving members

Combined their powers
and hunted him down.

They exiled him to purgatory.

Entering our world,

Kent must have cast a spell
to draw the grimoire to him.

The question is why?

I take it you can't
locate the grimoire.

No, but I sensed something else.

It's not whole.

John dee bound the book
with a spell

So that no one could
access any part of it

Unless the book
was whole,

To make sure the magic within it
could not spread widely.

But whoever handled the book
must have split up the pages.

Will it work without
the missing pages?

No.
Then he cannot access

Its power yet.

we need to find the second half
of that book before kent.

Hey, ramirez, I need you
to check something for me.

The auction house had a delayed
shipment due to bad weather,

Slowing one of its cargo ships.

I need an eta for the new
delivery date. Thanks.

Captain irving.
Losing your edge, mills.

I've been tailing you
for 50 yards.

Next time try calling.

A little advance warning

Goes a long way,
considering your situation.

I wasn't trying
to sneak up on you. It's just

After we left it
at the precinct,

I wasn't sure
you'd take my call.

What do you want?

I'll be straight with you.

I was pretty pissed

When you didn't trust me.

After all I've done.

Your soul was stolen

By a horseman of the apocalypse.

Just kind of hard to tell which
side of the line you're on now.

That's why I went to katrina.

She's proven
my soul is clean.

And the truth is, I don't even
blame you for not trusting me.

Cynthia and I decided

We need a fresh start

Put the past behind us.
No grudges.

So as far as I'm concerned,

You and me, we're good.

Just wanted you
to know that.

Frank

It was 25 yards.

You were tucked
behind the buttress.

A bear in heat
would have made less noise.

So I wasn't sneaking up on you.

Good to see you, mills.

Hello?

Oh, hey.

Um, ronnie my mom
sent me to fix the faucet.

Ah, hey A little
hobby of mine.

Yeah, I see you
build models, too.

Uh, your detail work is great.

You use an, uh, 11 blade?

Just my pocket knife.
Oh. You got to

Show me how you did those edges.

If you need any wood,
I got plenty downstairs.

I'm building some ramps
for my mom.

Your mother
what happened to her?

Got clipped by a drunk driver
a few years ago.

It was a tough break, but

She never complained,
not once.

Seems like a strong woman.

Oh, she is.

Who needs a dad, right?

Indeed.

Fathes are never
what they're cracked up to be.

No, keep it.

Plenty where those came from.

Abbie: The auction house's
shipment was diverted to

A regional air freight company.
It's arriving at the

Westchester
distribution hub tonight.

we must be there
to intercept it.

Right.

Lieutenant

Is there something else?

I ran into irving.
More like he ran into me.

What did he want?
To tell me that

For being suspicious.

Just wanted to say
that he's moving on.

Letting go of the past
can be difficult.

Crane?

Letting go of the past.

Kent has had 400 years
to think on his mistakes.

On everything
that he's lost.

What if he cannot let go?

There is a spell in
the grand grimoire.

A resurrection spell.

Resurrection
Sarah osborne.

Sarah!

What if he's trying to
bring sarah osborne

I've been reading up on this
since irving came back.

One thing's for sure:
Once the gates of the afterlife

Have opened,
they're not easily shut.

If kent opens these gates,

Sarah obsborne's soul will not

Be the only one
to enter this realm.

The world of the living

Will be overwhelmed by the dead.

We need to get
to that warehouse.

Abbie: So Katrina's gonna do
her mystical radar thing?

Crane:
Yes. If kent or the grimoire

Her spidey senses
shall inform us.

Hey, someone's been
catching up on his reading.

Only the classics.

You know, you and kent

Actually have
a lot in common.

Both men out of time,
unwilling to give up

On the women you love.

How heartening to know you

Compare me
to a murderous warlock.

What I'm saying is

Unlike kent,
you made the right choices.

He let his regret
over his mistakes

Turn him into something dark
and evil.

Regret can change

The direction of your life.

Or stop you from living the one
you're meant to have.

Lieutenant, do you have

A vision of the life
in store for us?

No.

All I know is that
being a witness

Is not a 9:00-to-5:00 job.

You can't punch out
and go back to your

Three-bedroom,
two-bath craftsman

At the end of the day.

Our enemies are willing
to do whatever it takes.

We have to do the
same to defeat them.

Yes, I violently agree,

But we do not fight
against something.

We fight for something.

For love, family,

A life.

I pray we never lose sight
of what is important,

For that is what

Drove kent into darkness.

You are witchbreed.

Helena?

No, but her blood runs
through my veins.

That is why I will stop you.

Child,

If witches have agency
in this world,

It is because of me.

The darkness has turned you mad.

And given me powers that
you couldn't possibly fathom.

Or could you?

Do I sense seeds
of darkness within?

Have you never wondered why

Your powers betray you
when you need them the most?

You are walking the wrong path.

What would you know
about my path?

I know that you cannot

Defeat me because you are
not one with yourself.

Has your soul been so twisted

You've forgotten

All that's sacred
to our people?

You have broken
that bond.

Yes.

But now,

I will make everything right.

Eh-nah-nah lo-bar ur-wah.

Eh-nah-nah

Lo-bar ur-wah.

Rise

Go!

I took out one of 'em.

What happened to the one
that was after you?

We were able to evade it.

I will stop kent,

But I need you
to keep the other demon at bay.

Crane:
Katrina, be careful.

Curb thy foul stench,
unholy minion.

You really need to work
on your trash talk.

My tr Katrina.

You are a formidable witch.

But you resist
your full potential.

Give in to the darkness.

There you will you find
your true self.

There. Now you see.

Katrina.

Kent he has
the grimoire?

Yes.

And it's complete.

And now that
he has the book,

I am no match for the power

Of his magic.

I cannot defeat him.

Where would kent go?

Is there anything else
he needs to complete

The resurrection spell?
Literature's unclear.

Are you able to sense
the grimoire any more?

Katrina?

No. The battle
has taken its toll.

It might be some time
before I recover.

We need to act now.

I'm gonna check
on a few things.

Maybe you
and katrina can come up

With a plan b
on how to take him down.

You seem shaken.

Magic is no ordinary weapon.

It simply cannot be reloaded
like a musket.

There are dimensions
to my magic that

Even I have not explored.

I will find kent.

And when I do,

There is no magic in the world
that can protect him.

Bartender:
There you go, sir.

Man:
Thank you.

Captain.

Thanks for meeting
me so late.

No worries.
I was just watching tv.

Do you know there's a show
where people go on dates naked?

Yeah, it's on after the
one where they cook naked.

I should have just stayed dead.

So, what's on your mind?

What do you remember
about coming back?

From the great beyond?
Yeah.

Was there a specific location
of reemergence? A portal?

It's all white.

Why? What's going on?

We may be dealing
with an undead problem.

You're the closest thing

We have to an expert
on the topic.

If you're thinking
mystical portals, wouldn't

Katrina be your peson?

She's out of commission
right now.

So you're a man down,

Morale is low,
and you're outgunned.

Want my advice?

You keep fighting.

You don't back down,
you don't make excuses.

If there is one thing
I've learned

From all I've been through,

It's that you don't stop.

Afterlife suits you.

You seem to be a lot more

Jacked up?

I was gonna say "alive," but
we can go with your version.

Nothing like dying to give you
some perspective on life.

Captain, it's good
to have you back.

Thanks.

Hey! What are you doing?

Ronnie: Sorry,
my mom's just

Oh, it's you.
Come here.

What are you doing
in our room?

No one answered,
so I was just checking

To see if everything
was all right.

And who asked you
to do that?

Are you all right?

I want you out of here now,

Or I'm gonna call the cops.

Relax, mamacita.
The cops make a mess,

And you never know who's gonna
get hurt in the confusion.

Be out of your hair
in a day or two.

Comprendo?

Hey! You enjoying the show?

Why don't you come down
for a better view?

How's katrina?

Staying strong
As always.

It's good to hear.

I'm guessing she won't
be able to answer the bell

For round two?

No. That honor falls upon us.

The question is, how to defeat
kent without katrina's magic.

His powers are most formidable.

Before katrina was here,

We took down all kinds
of supernatural threats

Without magic.

I scanned all the 911 calls
for the past few hours.

There are no zombies
walking the streets,

So, either kent hasn't cast
the resurrection spell yet, or

We're wrong
about what he's doing.

When katrina faced off
against kent,

He uttered
a most curious phrase.

"eh-nah-nah lo-bar ur-wah. "

An ancient
aramaic dialect.

Translated, it means,
"I am the traveler."

The traveler.

Grace dixon's journal.

Yeah. Grace catalogued

All of the magic
known to her world.

At one point, she wrote about
"the traveler spell."

Ancient, powerful
invocation.

It allows the user
to jump into the past.

To jump into the past,
as in travel through time?

Kent is not trying
to resurrect his lost love.

He's trying to go back to her.

Do you know what
this could mean?

Wait. If kent goes back
and changes the past,

He could start a chain reaction
that rewrites history.

Our lives, our families, you
and me, everything that we know.

Will be changed.

Forever.

To attempt the traveler spell,
kent will need

To tap into an enormous
wellspring of energy.

A convergence

Of mystical fields.

The ley lines.

Yes. And he will need to do so
at a time

Of astral synergy.

Katrina said her powers
were heightened right now.

Something about a tide.

Perigean tide, when the moon
is closest to the earth.

The height of its effect
occurs at midnight.

We only have
a couple of hours.

Lieutenant,

Useful though these
reinforcements may be,

I fear kent's magic
may be more powerful still.

Irving: Then we'll have
to make our own magic.

I asked the captain to come.

With jenny off chasing the orb
of mystical awesomeness,

Or whatever artifact
she's looking for,

We're shorthanded.

what else
can you tell me

About this kent?

Uh, he is a powerful warlock

Who practices blood magic.

It is a visceral power

That he enhances artificially
through jimsonweed.

Like some kind
of magical steroids?

That's what I said.

Captain

You still have friends
in the forensic lab?

We might need

The help of some chemists.

After kent knocked us back,
katrina

Was able to fell him.

Katrina's magic

Taps into the natural world,

The elements of wind,
rain, lightning.

Abbie:
Elements.

Now, we can work with that.

We're gonna need a generator,

Possibly a fire hose.

It'll take a little time
to get everything together.

Why don't you
and frank figure out

Who's gonna man the equipment

While I go get ready
to face kent.

I will face kent.

You asked me before about my
commitment to the cause

Crane, you don't need
to prove anything to me.

No, I do not.

I will prove it to kent.

Let the embers of today

Ignite into de fires of
yesterdy.

Sarah.

You do not belong here.

Tricks!

Tricks will not protect you.

I have defeated
your spellcaster.

She understands my power.

Power that can be turned

Atropine

Found in jimsonweed, which you
use to boost your powers.

In high doses, it causes
hallucination and seizures,

Something we know
through modern chemistry.

Your magic is vulnerable
to elemental energy.

Such as lightning.

And in the
21st century,

We make our own lightning.

The spellcaster

Of whom you speak

Her name
is katrina van tassel.

And you've brought harm
to her family!

And you've brought harm to her!

And to me!

Crane.

Crane. Crane, come on.
It's over.

Frank!

It's done.

Irving!

Irving!

Abbie:
Captain!

Captain!
Over here!

Kent's gone.

He disintegrated.

The grimoire.

No trace.

Must have been on his body,
destroyed with him.

This was a good win.

Damn right it was.

You should put some ice
on that.

Oh, no.

I'll be fine.

Very well.

You surprised me

Out there, crane.

Going all rambo
like that.

Remind me never to lay a hand
on katrina.

It was about more
than protecting my wife.

Something in kent's story

Struck a nerve.

That a person
could so easily

Betray the people who trust
and rely on him most.

And after you said I
reminded you of him

Crane, you know I didn't

No offense was taken.

But it made me realize

We are, all of us,
walking a razor's edge

Between darkness and light.

Come on.

I think we've earned
a couple of beers.

Want to grab
katrina?

Uh No. She is resting.

Said she does not want
to be disturbed.

The epithets I hurled
at kent during battle,

That was good
Good trash talk?

Wasn't bad.
But for some real practice,

we're gonna have to
take you to a hockey game.

Good morning, gentlemen.

what the hell?
I know you're

Destroying your lives,

Day after
wretched day.

Well, you see,

l, too, have been
destroying my life.

For weeks now, I've
hid from the world,

Unsure of who I am
or what I am to do.

You see,
I killed my father.

And since that time,

All I could feel was
Crushing regret.

But then I saw you threatening
the woman and her son.

Is this all about?

You don't need to get
all papa bear about it.

Parish:
Oh, no, you've got it wrong.

I admit that for a moment
I was drawn

To what mary and ronnie
represented.

A simple life,
simple needs, humanity.

But then you reminded me
of something.

There is a natural order
of things in this world.

There will always
be sheep and wolves.

And I

I am a wolf.

Captain irving,

Good to see you.

Didn't expect to be
back here again.

Where it all came to an end.

I take it
you've been busy?

The witnesses trust me again.

They're so desperate
to believe in people.

So you're gonna use this
to fulfill moloch's vision?

Moloch is dead
and so are his plans.

No longer am I

The horseman of war.

No longer will I be defined
by anyone else.

From here on,

Destiny bends to my will.

You were wrong,
captain irving,

when you said
this is where it all ended.

This

Is where it all begins.