- "Lieutenant, your duty in this battle is now to heal. This is not your time, dear friend."
- —Ichabod Crane to an injured Abbie Mills
"The Sisters Mills" is the fourth episode of Season Three of Fox's Sleepy Hollow. It was written by Heather V. Regnier and directed by Guillermo Navarro. It is the thirty-fifth episode of the series overall, and debuted on October 22, 2015.
Synopsis[]
More powerful than ever, Pandora unleashes her most evil force yet. Meanwhile, Abbie and Jenny work together when the latest monster targets the children of Sleepy Hollow.[1]
Recap[]
Two sisters, Saffron and Tessa Paynter, are in their room, giggling and drawing under the sheet. Their father enters and gets them to bed, and turns off the lights. Once he leaves, Saffron turns and sees a creature on top of Tessa, drawing life energy from her face.
At home, Crane is playing video games, and Abbie reminds him that his citizenship test is at the end of the month. Crane insists that he doesn't need to study history, he figures that he can handle multiple choice, and Abbie questions him. Crane gets the first question wrong because documented history is wrong. Then Abbie discovers that Zoe sent Crane a text, and he admits that she is helped him navigate the bureaucracy of citizenship.
Crane asks when she intends to tell Jenny that she found their father, and Abbie says her sister took it hard when their father left. Crane tells her that she will make the right decision at the right time. Joe calls Abbie and says that he was a first responder on a Code Three; a girl is in a coma and her sister claims that she saw a monster attack her.
At the hospital, Pandora is disguised as a nurse and approaches Saffron and assures her that her sister will be just fine. Abbie and Jenny then arrive, and introduce themselves. Jenny assures Saffron that she is very brave to tell people about the monster, and promises the girl that they are there to listen. Abbie and Jenny later tell Crane what Saffron described. He assumes that Pandora is behind it, and wants to avoid the widespread panic that she apparently wants.
The next day, Abbie calls Reynolds and says that she is checking out the case. He agrees to let her investigate, and she searches the house with Jenny while Crane talks to Saffron. The sisters enter the bedroom and Abbie says that it reminds them of one of the houses that they lived in with their father. She asks if Jenny ever thinks of their father, Jenny says that she never does, and figures that it's mutual. Jenny doesn't believe that their father cared about them and probably drank himself to death long since.
Crane checks on Saffron in her tree house, then produces a quarter from her ear but she is unimpressed. Crane recites a limerick and hits his head on the roof, provoking a giggle from the girl. Saffron says that her father doesn't believe her, and Crane suggests that she draw what she saw. She complies, and Crane shows Abbie and Jenny the girl's sketch. Saffron says that the monster is the Tooth Fairy. As the trio departs, Crane suggests that the myth of the Tooth Fairy is based on darker legends. He recalls a child's missing tooth as a harbinger of a tragedy that almost destroyed his associate, Betsy Ross.
He relates that Betsy's niece is ill and the physicians can't identify the illness that had affected her and the other children of the township. She tries to raise her nephew's spirits, Crane arrived to help, but she had called in Paul Revere. It was determined that each of the 16 children who went into comas had lost a deciduous tooth. After Revere arrived, Betsy closed the door on Crane so that Revere could use his skills in private. Shortly after his visit, the niece recovered.
At the archive, Crane and Abbie deduce that Paul Revere used his dentistry as a cover for his magical work. Abbie points out that Crane hasn't seen a dentist since his arrival, and Crane admits that he has bad memories after Revere manhandled him. While Jenny does an Internet search for Revere's dentistry bag, Crane finds a reference to the Abyzou, which eats children's souls. A child's open wound serves as a beacon for the demon, and it takes 48 hours to complete the theft of a soul, so Tess has 36 hours left.
The Abyzou are nocturnal predators, and their one weakness is silver. Crane remembers Revere giving Betsy's nephew a silver dollar, and deduces that is where the tradition of parents giving their children coins for their teeth started. The legends say that the Abyzou is invisible, and Crane suggests that it is only invisible to adults, not children.
That night, a mother checks her son, Gregory's, loose tooth. Gregory refuses to let her pull it out, and his mother leaves the room. She opens the closet door but doesn't see the Abyzou inside. Gregory does, and cries out, but when she reopens the closet door, the Abyzou is gone. Once his mother leaves, Gregory turns on his light and approaches the closet. Gregory opens the door, and finds nothing. The Abyzou comes up behind him and Gregory runs, screaming.
The next day at the archive, the trio tries to come up with a plan. All of the victims lived within a five-mile radius, and there is only one elementary school in the location. Jenny suggests that they go there and find out which children are losing a tooth, and she has an idea. The teacher introduces Crane to her class as the curator of the new Hudson Valley Historical Society. As he talks about the Founding Fathers, Jenny takes pictures of the students. Crane speaks of how Revere was Washington's dentist, and asks which of them has a loose tooth. Gregory doesn't say anything, but one of the students asks him about his tooth. After the students leave, Crane and Jenny talk to the teacher. She says that Gregory is close to losing a tooth. Jenny approaches Gregory and gives him a silver dollar for protection against the things that only he can see. Once he leaves, Jenny tells Crane they need to watch the boy. She has learned that Revere's bag is at the Colonial Raleigh Museum and Abbie is trying to get it shipped to them. Crane suggests that a silver weapon can kill the Abyzou.
Back at the archive, Abbie is on the phone trying to convince the curator to send the bag. Crane takes the phone and introduces himself as the curator of the Hudson Valley Historical society, and hopes that they could use the bag in their opening display. The curator soon agrees to send the bag.
That night, Jenny and Abbie watch Gregory's house while Crane and Joe watch the house of his classmate, Sarah Fogel. Once Crane and Abbie finish their communication, Crane receives another text from Zoe. Joe warns that the sisters like to match-make, and Crane insists that Zoe is only his tutor, that engaging in a relationship is complicated, and Joe warns that he's overthinking it.
In Gregory's house, Gregory asks his babysitter, Lisa, to watch TV with him. Lisa says that she'll take him out for ice cream in ten minutes if he lets her finish her phone call. Abbie finally tells Jenny that she found their father. Jenny says that she found him five years ago, and has learned that he remarried. Abbie isn't happy that her sister hasn't told her anything for five years, and Jenny points out that her father has a new family and Abbie wouldn't have been happy to find out. They bicker about which of them dislikes their father, and Jenny says that she only hates their father because Abbie does.
Gregory's tooth starts to bleed, and the Abyzou enters the room, he screams, and outside, Jenny and Abbie hear him. the boy holds out the silver coin and the Abyzou retreats outside. Gregory goes after it and tells Abbie and Jenny where to swing since he can see the creature and they cannot. Jenny manages to hit a sprinkler and the misting water outlines the creature momentarily. While Gregory runs inside, Jenny sprays the Abyzou with a garden hose. A hooded figure emerges from the shadow and knocks Jenny down, and Abbie goes to help her sister. She stabs the Abyzou with a silver blade but it has no effect. The Abyzou slams her into a tree and runs off. Jenny runs to her unconscious sister.
Jenny and Crane check on the unconscious Abbie in to the hospital. Crane assures Jenny that Abbie will recover, and figures that they were wrong about the Abyzou's silver weakness. He returns to the archive to do more research while Jenny stays with Abbie. Saffron enters and tells Jenny that the doctors don't think Tessa will wake up. She blames herself for her sister's condition, and Jenny says that she just think of the good times with her sisters. Jenny assures Saffron that Tessa loves her and no monster can change that.
Once Jenny leaves, Pandora enters and tells Saffron that Jenny can't keep her promise. She says that the other adults don't believe Saffron, but she does, and says that she knows what Saffron can do to make Tessa better. Pandora then gives Saffron a silk pouch and smiles. Jenny returns to the archive where Crane is examining the contents of Revere's bag. He realizes that some of the tools fit together to form a larger weapon. He describes the flash he saw beneath the door, and Jenny figures that Revere used silver nitrate to create a flash. There are traces of it in water, which is why Jenny and Abbie saw the creature at Gregory's house. Jenny figures that the Abyzou has a weak spot that they have to see.
At the hospital, Pandora goes to Abbie's room and takes her hand as Abbie wakes up. She says that they keep fighting and getting hurt, and Abbie insists that she will fight as long as Pandora preys on children. Pandora tells Abbie that she doesn't care for her mortality or her allies - the "Napalutu" - but still fights like she has something to lose. She asks Abbie what nasty thing she can't accept to lose. Pandora then related that her father had beaten her, when he tired of it, he sold her into slavery. She convinced her owner to feed her father to his lions, and it was sadder than she expected. As Pandora leaves she tells Abbie she hopes that she didn't grow too attached to Saffron and Tessa.
Saffron goes to her tree house, puts Tessa's tooth on the floor, and waits for the Abyzou. When it drops in and attacks her, Crane arrives and fires a shot of silver nitrate. The substance reveals the Abyzou, and Crane kicks it out the window to were Jenny is waiting with an axe. The monster runs off, and Jenny goes after it. Crane sends Saffron inside as Jenny calls that the silver nitrate wore off. They head into the woods, and Crane manages to fire a shot, briefly revealing the creature. He reloads and prepares to shoot, and the invisible Abyzou knocks him to the ground. He spots the creature's footprints and throws some silver nitrate on it, revealing its location. Jenny manages to stab it, and the Abyzou collapses and then dissolves into dust.
At the hospital, Tessa wakes up at that moment, and her parents hug her in relief. Abbie, watching from the hallway, sees them, and calls Crane to confirm that killing the Abyzou saved the girl.
Crane is with Betsy Ross. She apologizes for shutting him out. Crane says that he is the one who should apologize because he mistook her interest in him. Betsy tells him that he overthinks things, and kisses him. Crane is then shown to being the dentist's office recovering from anesthesia. Abbie wakes him up and says that it's over, and hands him a mirror so he can inspect his new filling. Crane is astonished at the lack of pain and insists that he wasn't dreaming. Zoe sends a text and Abbie points out that the texts are very flirty.
Later, Jenny meets Abbie and tells her that she identified the Shard thief as Sophie Foster. She's also learned that someone named Atticus Nevins paid Sophie. Jenny then apologizes for not telling Abbie about finding her father. Abbie assures her that it's okay, no fight will ever keep them apart again. Jenny wonders if Abbie wants to talk to their father, and she admits that she does. But she doesn't want to screw up his new life. Jenny says that the only thing that matters is that they have each other.
When Abbie returns home, Crane tells her that "Napalutu" is Sumerian for "destroyers." The same word was engraved on the prophecy tablet, and Crane figures that Pandora hails from Sumeria. They wonder what Pandora intends by unleashing terrors on Sleepy Hollow.
At the ruins, Pandora watches Crane's and Abbie's images in the font as another blossom grows on her tree.
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