Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017): Season 2, Episode 16 - What Lies Beneath - full transcript

Used to be nothing but woods
above this section of the town.

A year from now, this'll all
be underground parking.

It's a damn shame.
These are some seriously

Old-school tunnels.

Looks like a dead end.

There's something back here.

Hand me that.

I got this.

Here.

Well, this is
just interesting.

What do you make
of this thing?



Whoa.

We were told to map
this section.

Just take a few gpr images.

Don't you want to know
what's down there?

Honestly? No.

Give me a hand with this.

Got it.

Looks like a whole other
tunnel system down there.

Hear that?

Pete!

Pete!

Is it possible, lieutenant,

That I am fully assimilated
in this era?

A man entirely comfortable
in this time, this place?



Abbie:
And go.

Instant gram.

Whatever happened
to experiencing life

Rather than... Posting it?

Says the man
with the photographic memory.

Believe me, there are moments
I would rather forget.

There are reminders
of conflict everywhere.

I know what you mean.

When I was young,
I used to pester corbin

About his time in combat.

He said...

It was insane and
terrible, but...

On the edge of death,
we are never more alive.

Something every man
who fought on this vessel

Would know all too well.

Yeah, and that's the point
of places like this--

So no one forgets
the sacrifices made

To defend this country
and keep it safe.

And...

Come on, if the patriots had
just one ship like this,

They would have beat
the british in two weeks.

John Paul Jones

would have taken new york
in a single day.

With everything that's happened,

I can't help but feel

Like we're fighting evil
without an endgame.

It was almost easier when
we knew who the enemy was.

The bible foretold seven years

Of tribulation,
but it did not say

In what form.

So just have faith.

Have faith.

Text from reyes--
missing persons case.

Field trip's over.

Three-man survey team...

Working for a local
engineering firm.

They are mapping the area
underneath this section of town.

All part of
a new retail development.

Last known contact--
a little over 24 hours ago.

We have a map
of the tunnel systems

Hold on.

I gotta go play bouncer.

I'll be right back. Hey.

No press inside the line.

I'm gonna have to ask you
to put your camera down, sir.

No ambulances or
coroner vehicles.

At least you haven't
found any bodies yet.

Sheriff reyes will provide
a full briefing in an hour.

You've tried

Triangulating their radios
and cell phones.

You got nothing.

I mean, this many people--

Command post, staging area--

You're dividing
into search teams...

It's the same protocol as when
combat patrols don't check in.

It means you guys
have absolutely...

No clue where they are.

I'm calvin riggs--
my brother daniel is one

Of the men you can't find.
You have my word

We're doing everything possible

To find your brother
and those men.

Mm. And there's that look.

What look?
Infantry grunts

Call it "propaganda face."

It's when their superiors deny
anything is going on

Right before a major
combat operation takes place.

Three men don't just go
missing underneath a

Not in sleepy hollow.

One: Stop looking at my face.

Two: What does that mean?
It means this town

Is home to a lot of
disappearances and

I grew up here--
I know all the stories.

Wait, you're calvin riggs
the journalist.

You covered syria and iraq.
Now you understand

What I'm doing on this side
of that yellow line.

Okay, yeah.
We're still trying

To put the pieces together
on this.

As soon as I know more...
You'll be my first call.

You still have
that look on your face.

No evidence of a struggle,

No sign of the equipment
they were carrying,

Not even a scrap
of their clothing.

They're down here somewhere,
and we're the only ones

Who know
about this section.

You feel that?

A breeze.

Over there.

An alcove.

Previously sealed.

I got to say...

Kind of sick of heading
down small, dark spaces.

I was the one buried alive.

Discarded equipment.

Symbols of witchcraft.

Claw marks.

Whatever attacked these men

Took them
down this trapdoor.

Okay, we're gonna need

Some tools to open this thing.

Underground...

Radar mapping.

Incredible.

Octagonal dome,
neo-palladian

Designed at least

200 years ago.

There's only one man

Who could have designed this.

Thomas jefferson.

Our third president made...

Good use of his free time.

Oh, he was a master architect.

As with our...

Masonic cell,

This is certainly
his handiwork.

Someone dropped
their phone.

I think we found
what took those men.

Jenny mills.

Frank.

You're out late.

It's good to see you.

You, uh, got a moment?

Sure.

So what's on your mind?
A favor.

I need your help
retrieving something.

Retrieving...?

From the precinct
evidence lockup.

When I was arrested,

The department ran
a search and seizure

On all my personal belongings--

Family heirlooms,
sentimental things,

Including my wedding ring.

For years...

I've wanted to reconcile
my marriage.

I finally have that chance.

I filled out all
the proper paperwork,

But they still won't release
all my things.

Keep delaying with the red tape.

You know all the cops
down there.

Call in some favors.

I was convicted
of a double homicide.

So, by "retrieve,"
you mean break in and steal?

I need to hack
the evidence room code lock.

And you think I have something
that could do that.

I know you do.

I can get you a hack
for the door,

But you're gonna need someone
to keep an eye out

When you take it from lockup.

I can't ask you to do that.
I'm offering.

You did, after all,

Die taking
on the horseman of war.

I'd say you've earned
some backup.

In and out in five minutes,

You have my word.

We must understand the threat
we face

not to mention the purpose

of a jefferson-designed
chamber below ground.

Jefferson built the masonic cell
to hold demons.

What do you think
he built this chamber for?

During the war, rumors surfaced
of a highly classified project

Commissioned
by general washington.

The construction
of an impenetrable chamber

Meant to safeguard vital secrets
to the cause.

So like a colonial-era
national security agency.

Jefferson christened
this chamber

With a rather florid term:
Fenestella--

An indication of his love

Of italian architecture.

Basically it was a fancy word
for "underground room."

It's a vault.
Very jeffersonian.

Uncommon men prize
uncommon words.

Okay, "vital secrets"
is a little vague.

What could they be stowing away?

Unfortunately, details of this
chamber remain a mystery to me.

I thought you were bffs
with those guys--

Washington,

Franklin, adams...
If by

"bff" you mean
washington was my mentor

And franklin was a...

A harsh taskmaster,
then, yes, bffs.

My relationship
with jefferson was...

More complicated.
You're telling me

You were on the outs with him?

Not at first, no.

At first, we were
very close.

I could use the benefit
of a fresh pair of eyes.

Would you oblige me?

It would be an honor, sir.

He was my mentor and...

inspiration...

A friend.

I believed
he saw promise in me,

But apparently not.

What changed that?

To use common vernacular,

Jefferson unfriended me.

It came completely
out of the blue.

One moment, he was showing
me the path, every word

Inspiring imagination.

The next...

Persona non grata.

To this day, it remains
a mystery to me.

As does the fenestella.

Fenestella-- I know
I've read that word before.

In grace dixon's...

Journal.

Notes on a meeting between
washington and jefferson,

January, 1777.

"...Dark, damned souls will be
used to protect the fenestella."

So basically jefferson and your
buddies conjured something nasty

To guard the chamber.
Does miss dixon's journal

Say anything else
about these damned souls?

It's pretty scarce on details.

But we're gonna
find out more.

Agreed.

A reconnaissance mission
is required.

Crane:
Lieutenant.

I see it.

C-q.

C-q, comm check.

Comm check. Engineering team,
this is lieutenant mills

With the sleepy hollow sheriff's
department. Do you copy?

Engineering team.
Daniel riggs. We copy. Mayday.

Trapped underground.
Please help.

We need your location.

Where are you? Do you copy?

Oh, god. No, they're moving.

They can hear you.

The image we saw depicted
one creature.

Sounds like a lot
more than one.

Might I suggest
a change of tactic?

Yeah, we definitely need
more firepower.

Crane!

Come on, come on, come on.

You were about to call me...
Right?

Calvin: I need you two
to stop walking that

Lieutenant...
He's a journalist.

His brother's one of
the men lost down here.

Calvin:
Just stop!

You two just crawled out
of an underground trapdoor

Looking like you
finished a cage match.

Meaning...?
That I heard

I think you
guys know exactly

What's going on and are
hell-bent on hiding it.

Mr. Riggs...
Calvin.

Calvin, I appreciate
you trying to help,

But you cannot be down here
right now-- what are you doing?

Calling my editor in new york.

Then my contacts
in the military.

When you win a pulitzer,
people take your calls.

Mr. Riggs...

My brother is down there.

You must understand there are
consequences to your actions.

Where's the fire department?

The swat team?

Why's it just you two crawling
around down here?

Because
we don't know enough

About the situation yet.
Well, then

Tell me what you do know.
Crane: I am...

Sympathetic to your plight,

But your journalistic imperative
cannot supersede public welfare.

Iran, china, north korea--

Countries who've given me
that line.

This isn't a war.

It's about my four-year-old
niece losing her father.

Calvin, trust us.

It's our job, it's what we do.

I need more than that.

You want us to get your brother?

I heard his voice
over the radio.

Daniel.
He's alive.

It means that there's a chance
that we can save him,

But the last thing we need is a
media circus getting in our way.

Limited access
to our investigation.

Lieutenant... A moment?

I know letting him in
is a risk, but...

It's something that the
military does all the time--

They embed journalists so
that they can control the story.

We have no idea if
we can trust this man.

My gut tells me that we can.
I don't know why, but it does.

And by the way, you guys
are the ones who put freedom

Of the press
in the constitution.

Well, we did not predict
the 24-hour news cycle.

Wait here.
You said access.

I said "limited."

Ten minutes.

The markings translate
from the latin as "reavers."

That must refer to the creatures
we saw.

Reavers were not creatures
in my era.

They were
washington's secret forces.

They must have been assigned
to guard the fenestella.

Those things didn't seem human.

More like feral.

And how could
anyone live that long?

Something about them
must have changed.

If a detachment
of reavers

Were deployed
to guard the fenestella

For an indefinite period,

Perhaps their physiology

Has been supernaturally altered.

So reavers are just
amped-up sentries?

Left for hundreds of years
in the dark.

Unguarded, untended...

Alive, but in hibernation.

Let's say the survey team
came across them.

The reavers woke up
and took them prisoner.

Or worse.

Be starving...

Okay, here's how it works:

You do everything that we say,

No arguments, no questions.

No questions?

You do know what I do
for a living, right?

Lieutenant, this was a mistake.

You're not helping
your cause.

Playing ball
goes both ways.

Can we trust you?

I just want to find my brother.

So that's a yes?
Agreed.

Well, make it fast.

Five minutes.

Thought you'd give me
more credit than this, frank.

I just had to know
what you were doing.

It's not what it looks like.

The hellfire club?

Crazy cult that tried
to raise moloch.

That worked for henry parish.

I can explain.

Frank!

Abbie:
You stay here.

Why?

If this goes sideways
and we don't make it out,

I'm thinking that swat team
option sounds pretty good.

I got your back.

May I?

What...?

Hey.

What are you doing to my flash?

Stay back, please.

What are you doing, crane?

Based on the reavers' response
to this device

When last we surfaced,

This trick ought to work.

Stoneroot bark powder.

It was used to amplify

Signal fires
during night battles.

That's a $7,000 camera.

Tut, tut.

Thank you.

This must be the entrance
to the fenestella.

Crane, the door!

It cannot be.

Crane...

Is that you?

Jefferson.

Mr. Jefferson.

Actually it's mr. President.

It's good
to see you, too, crane.

Uh... Pardon me, sir...

How is your presence
here possible?

He died in 1826.

Well, it seems we've both

Outlived our expectations.

And adams.

My spirit endures
thanks to a combination

Of science and witchcraft.

I new my Fenestella needed

an endless source of power,
so I designed a cube

that keeped supernatural energy

Our friends of "Order of the Sacred
Heart" did the rest.

Franklin choked with envy
when he saw it.

Remarkable.
Abbie: So we're

The third president, writer of
the declaration of independence.

Architect of monticello.

Must you?
Apologies.

So... You are
thomas jefferson's proxy.

But with the same memories,

Feelings and personality
of the man.

Think of me as a deeply
kindred spirit.

Mr. President,
three men were taken by

Those creatures out there.
We're here to rescue them.

May I present my associate,

Lieutenant
abigail mills.

The honor is mine.

Now, come, both of you.
There's much to see.

I am afraid our visit

Is of rather an urgent nature.

Any assistance

You can provide
in the safe return

Of those victims
would be most welcome.

If I could help, I gladly would.

But there's far
too much at stake.

All due respect, sir,

We know the men
are still alive.

Reavers have taken them,

We just need to know where.

What year is this?

Two thousand and fifteen.

Ah, better late than never.

I had hoped that,
by your presence here,

You had come for the information
inside the fenestella.

I fear you underestimate
the importance of our mission.

Your mission is the very reason
I'm here, crane.

Frank!

Jenny!

I need you to listen!

The markings on your arms.

An obviously
bogus mission.

You've gone to the dark side,
haven't you?

My soul is tarnished.

It has been...

Since the moment I was reborn.

Is like another
person inside of me.

When he takes over,

I only get fragments.

You don't remember anything
after you came back?

From what I can
piece together,

Cynthia wanted to know
if my soul was clean.

Yes.

She asked katrina to do it.

And you passed.

Because of this.

What the hell is that?

Temporary salvation.

Before I died,

I found an ancient rune

hidden in a book kept
by Henry Parish...

one that could shield the
nature of a cursed.

I needed time.

It worked like spell, but...

it has a colateral effect
not good.

It made me feel human again.

It gave me
absolute clarity.

And I knew what I needed to do.

What are we
really doing here, frank?

I found a ledger

All relating back
to the hellfire club.

For cynthia.

Account numbers
for offshore banks

So she and macey
can get as far away

From sleepy hollow as possible.

This is evidence, frank.

Even if the cops haven't
figured out what's on it.

This is reparations.

I lost my job.

I lost my soul.

I lost my family.

This is security for them.

Why bring me in on all of this?

Because my time
is running out, jenny.

The power of the rune is fading.

That other frank...

Is about to take over

And replace me forever.

It is why I came to you.

You are the only one

Who understands...

My family needs protection.

I'm not gonna
get this chance again.

Thank you for doing this.

: How does
jefferson know of our mission?

I have no idea, but right now
I'm more concerned with

Finding calvin's brother
and those men alive.

You said you two
were friends.

Get him to help us.

He's a witchcraft-
generated spirit

Of a man who died
two centuries ago.

Yeah. There are
three men are out there.

Make it work.

Sir, if you do indeed

Represent the man I once knew,

Then you must be able
to assist us in our task.

Well, don't you see, crane?

The very purpose
of the fenestella

Is to assist you.

One of a kind.

A book on eschatology

Written during the roman empire.

The study of the end of days.

You know we are witnesses.

The reavers' nest
is right underneath us.

Two workers are still alive.

Never trust a politician.

I never said they were dead.
The power source

That fuels this chamber
is fragile.

Attacking the nest will destroy
the entire fenestella.

A risk we'll have to take.

It weighs on me...

That these men must die.

But the information

Within these walls eclipses

The needs of the few...

As tragic as that may be.

Have you not
asked yourselves why?

Why you were chosen?

The nature of your mission?

Everything washington and I
learned about the witnesses

Is in this chamber.

If this place holds
all the answers

To every question we have

About our role as witnesses,

Why would you keep it from me?

The prophecy was
quite clear:

No interference until the
second witness appeared.

So now that I'm here...?

Your mission
may begin in earnest.

The folio immaculata.

Among the knowledge within it,

Certain volumes identify
potential mentors

To guide you
in your missions.

Like corbin.

Age is the price of wisdom.

No... No. Oh, god!

Officer down!

And general washington.

All we needed to guide us
in this war

has been lost to us.

If you only knew how I wanted
to be among them.

But you needed to be
kept at arm's length.

I would advocate
expanding and moving

"grievances with the king"
to the bottom.

I feel it more fully represents

The will of our fellow
countrymen and...

Will more likely
better withstand

Scrutiny from congress.

Ah, clever.
Clever and justified.

This document will change
the course of our struggle.

Well, that is the hope.

A declaration of independence.

The declaration of independence.

This will show
the crown...

...That our destiny is our own.

Well done.

We may unite
these colonies after all.

Oh, and if I might.

I was reshelving some of the
books in your study, and this...

This fell out
of the pages.

Byzantine architecture is

A minor passion of mine.

I'd be happy
to further research...

That won't be necessary, crane.

Thank you.

Sir...?

That will be all.

I had no choice but to...
Crane.

You built all this for us.

This chamber and its purpose
is my proudest achievement.

That you are both here, now,

In the flesh...

Is the fulfillment
of my grandest hopes.

All due respect, sir,
I can't imagine

Any mentor who would advocate

Protecting research over

Saving innocent american lives.

Choices in war are rarely clear.

You, abigail,

Were chosen for this
centuries ago--

You, among all others--

To win a war we could not.

The information in this chamber
can help you achieve victory.

So, please, choose
your next actions

Very carefully.

Mr. President...

...This is the path
that we have to take.

The lieutenant's right.

The choice is clear.

Lieutenant.

Gentlemen, time we left.

Crane!

Get to the ladder.

Up the ladder!

Quickly!

Daniel!

Lieutenant?

Those creatures are
way too dangerous.

We have to blow it.
Regrettably, yes.

The only way to be certain is

To destroy the power source
for the fenestella.

That means we lose
the whole damn thing.

All that knowledge lost,
but

I suppose we have
the internet.

Abbie...

He's going into shock.

These men
need medical help.

Come on.

You take them above ground,

I shall take it from here.

Crane...

As you have
so aptly put it before:

"I've got this."

It gets hairy,
you call me for backup.

Understood.

Ichabod, listen to reason.

Please, open this gate.

Think of all you
and miss mills could achieve

With the information here.

The reavers pose
a far greater threat

Than you realize.
This chamber

And these caverns
will contain them.

From the america you knew.

Not the one that exists now.

It has grown beyond
our wildest aspirations.

What was once
open fields above us

Is now home to 300
million citizens.

Three of them have stumbled
across your fenestella.

There will be more.

You once told me

A single life is worth
more than a thousand books.

The work that we did together...

Those truths still hold.

It truly pained me

That I rebuffed you
in the manner that I did, crane.

But I was determined

To deliver all this
to you intact

When the day finally came.

When fate demanded.

And now you tell me
it must all be destroyed.

The casualties of war, indeed.

"destroyed."

But not the ideals
of the man who built it.

Yours is the greatest
mind I've ever known.

The price I paid
in building all this

Was our friendship.

You, too,

Are a founder of this country.

And to have found
a way to live

In the future
that we dreamed of?

This nation could not be
in better hands.

Set your detonation point there.

The chain reaction
will destroy this chamber

And every reaver
within these tunnels.

And you?

My time has come and gone.

Yours is still unfolding...

My friend.

Mr. President.

Lieutenant!

Crane!

We just blew up the author of
the declaration of independence.

Truth be told, he insisted.

So... The official story will be
that some kind of rabid animal

Was down in the tunnels
with these guys?

And during the rescue,
a gas main ruptured.

Took out any and all evidence.
That's right.

And in their exhaustion

And extreme dehydration,
there's no telling

What kind of hallucinations
they might have.

And you're wondering
if I'm gonna keep digging.

Your brother's safe.
Why push it?

You go through
creepy trapdoors.

Me? I push till I
get to the truth.

Well, people have
a right to know.

What you do is
important, calvin.

And, yes,
there will be a time

For the public
to know everything.

Just not right now.

And you're the one
to decide that?

There will be other threats.

More people
who need our help.

So, yes, for now,
I make the call.

Question is...

Are you on our side?

It's a good story, isn't it?

Very.

All right.

Hey.

Check your e-mail.

Your rest was
most fitful, mother.

Henry...
Yes.

How-how is it possible?

You must wonder how I could've
survived what happened.

You're still alive.

I was away.

Sorting things out.

Call it wanderlust.

As you know,

I believed moloch
to be my true father.

But after his betrayal,

I was unsure of my path.

What do you want from me?

If you still seek
to harm me, I...

No. No.

I-I now know

Why I did what I did.

I killed moloch

For you, mother.

For our kind.

It's time for us
to begin our work.