- "So you raised a monster with the help of a witch coven and Benjamin Franklin to defeat the Headless Horseman?"
- —Sophia Foster to Abbie Mills
"Kindred Spirits" is the eleventh episode of Season Three of Fox's Sleepy Hollow. It was written by Heather V. Regnier and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. It is the forty-second episode of the series overall, and debuted on February 19, 2016.
Synopsis[]
As Abbie, Crane and Jenny struggle to find normalcy, The Kindred reemerges as a new threat. While the team attempts to figure out why The Kindred has turned to evil, Crane finds that his romantic encounters with Zoe may have caused long-lasting trouble.[1]
Recap[]
A couple on a date, Doug Frank and Kristie Kowalick, drive up to an isolated spot and park. Dan tries to move on Kristie, and when she objects, he continues and says he will doing whatever he wants. Someone smashes through the window, grabs Doug, and drags him away. As Kristie gets out, she watches the figure hacking at Dan with a halberd. She asks who her rescuer is, and when it turns, she sees that the figure has the face of a skull. She screams as it grabs Kristie and proceeds to hack her to death, too.
Crane wakes up in the middle of the night and goes downstairs. Abbie is seated at their chessboard and admits that she can't sleep. She assures Crane that she is just getting acclimated to normal life, and then jokingly complains that he killed her houseplants. Crane says that he spent all of his time trying to bring her home, and suggests that they go out and pick some replacement plants and then get breakfast. Abbie tells him that she plans to go running, and he assures her that her transition will grow easier.
At the nursery, Crane runs into Zoe who tells him that it's been two and a half fortnights since they last spoke. He apologizes for his negligence, and tries to explain but Zoe says that all she needed was a phone call, a text, and excuses herself. As a parting shot, she tells him to trade in the ferns he picked out for cacti, they can survive being ignored.
Abbie stops to catch her breath, and remembers Pandora telling her that she would go mad from the solitude in the Catacombs. Daniel calls and asks her to help with a case even though she had turned in her resignation. Abbie agrees and meets him at the couples' car from the attack the previous night. He explains that there have been three double-homicides in the last week, and in each case the victims were hacked apart. The victims were couples at night, and there's one set of boot prints that don't match the victims. From the wound pattern, Abbie thinks the killer is using an ax and a spear, then recalls the Kindred and its halberd, and tells Daniel that she's not up for it. Daniel says that he didn't hand in Abbie's resignation, he wanted to give her time to work things out. He says that he needs her, but Abbie insists that she needs time before she even considers going back to work.
As Abbie gets into her car, Sophie approaches and suggests that it's not a normal killer. Abbie agrees and tells Sophie to meet her at the archives in an hour. Abbie then calls Crane as he arrives home with the replacement greenery. She explains about the homicides and the Kindred's probable involvement, and Crane agrees it has returned to Sleepy Hollow.
At their cave, the Hidden One tells Pandora that the Kindred has finally responded to her call. He notices that Pandora is sad, and she warns her husband that she is missing her power. The Hidden One tells Pandora to be patient, but she regrets the loss of her box. He says that when he first met her, she was a slave and he fell in love with her; he assures Pandora that she is no mere mortal.
At the archives, Abbie and Crane tell Sophie about the Kindred. They admit that the Kindred was a weapon of necessity, and assume that now Pandora has called him back. They want Sophie to use her position in the FBI to narrow down possible locations where the Kindred might hunt. Once she leaves, Crane finds leather threads that were used to sew together the Kindred, and were made by Betsy Ross...In a flashback, Betsy is braiding Kindred threads when Crane enters Franklin's lab. He introduces himself and explains that he was supposed to meet Franklin there, when she says he had an appointment, too, he tells Betsy that Franklin won't be coming; that this is Franklin's won't be coming way to introduce them to each other as partners. Betsy insists that she doesn't need a partner and Crane says that he is quite capable, and suggests that he is intended as a moderating presence on her, but Betsy says that he's only going on their mission because of his academic background.
Abbie finds one of Franklin's medical notebooks, coded in his own alphabet. Crane explains that Franklin experimented with Kindred proxies that he created without the Kindred's immortality. His work didn't yield any results. Abbie, however, finds a hidden page with Franklins's conclusions, and Crane determines that the proxies return to familiar places such as burial sites when left on their own. They can be soothed by calming vibrations transmitted through a glass armonica. Abbie suggests that they have Joe and Jenny track down the glass armonica, and Crane will check the burial site in the depths of the tunnels.
Later, Joe and Jenny slip into an opera house in New Jersey and find the case containing the armonica. He points out that she is using her father's lighter, and wonders why she's carrying it around. She irritably takes it back and insists that the lighter is just a normal item that they stole and she doesn't need it anymore. Jenny puts it away and they leave with the armonica.
In the tunnels, Abbie and Crane head for the burial site. Crane receives a text from Zoe suggesting that he return a book he borrowed. Abbie warns that it's a bad sign, saying that Zoe gave him the book because she wanted to bond with him, now she wants it back to end their bond. They find belongings from the victims around the Kindred's casket, and Abbie figures that he was trying to understand something. Putting all the clues together she suggests that the Kindred is becoming human.
A couple stop at the park after a carriage ride, and the Kindred follows them. They spot him and run, and the Kindred throws his halberd. He just misses them, and Sophie fires at him. Rather than follow her, the Kindred summons his horse, recovers his halberd, and rides off.
The next morning, Abbie returns to the archives and meets with Sophie. Crane goes over Franklin's notes, and says that the Kindred develop human traits over time. They think that the Kindred is killing couples because he is envious of human emotions. Now that he is human, they refuse to kill a sentient being. Abbie suggests that they use the armonica to draw the Kindred into the Masonic cell and imprison it. They discover that Franklin wrote a song called "Come, Thou Almighty Kin" and assume that it's the summoning tone.
As Joe and Jenny set up the armonica, Joe suggests that Jenny meet with Ezra for coffee. When she wonders why he's so fixated on the idea of her getting back together with her father, and Joe explains that he avoided meeting his own father before he shipped out, and knows what it's like to lose a father. He suggests that Jenny put her ego aside and talk to Ezra, and says that she has to live her own life. They test the armonica and ask for the sheet music they need. Crane runs back to the archive to get the music and finds Zoe there. He nervously asks why she's there, and she says that she came to get her book. Crane tries to get her out before the Kindred arrives, and she wonders what he's doing, she tells him off about ghosting her and how she had thought there was something between them.
In the tunnels, the Kindred emerges from its coffin. Abbie, Joe, and Jenny hide as the creature emerges and looks at the paper in its hand. Joe picks up the armonica and starts playing it as best he can, and the Kindred advances on him. After a moment it hears Crane and Zoe talking in the archive. It follows the sound leaving the others behind, and Abbie finds a picture of a female the Kindred has made of with mosaic of pictures cut out of a magazine. She realizes that the Kindred wants a wife.
Zoe says that everything she did was foolish because they didn't have the special connection that she thought. The Kindred rushes in and attacks Crane. He defends himself as best he can, but the Kindred knocks him aside. It then grabs Zoe who faints. It insists that she's his, and warns Crane that if he follows, Zoe dies.
Abbie calls Sophie to tell her what happened, and they try to figure out where the Kindred is going. They realize that the Kindred is going to the Carriage House where the Headless Horsemen kept his own choice of bride. Once Abbie hangs up, Crane blames himself for abandoning the Kindred just like he did Zoe. Abbie figures the Kindred doesn't want to hurt Zoe and is using her to torment Crane. Joe finds the medical journal and recognizes the insignia from the opera house. It was called the Ridotto Theater in Franklin's day, and he often went there. Crane remembers that on their first mission, Franklin had him and Betsy hide medical supplies there. In a flashback, an hour before their designated mission time, Betsy approaches a guard at the opera house and confirms when the building is closing. She continues on and finds Crane there an hour earlier as well. He is well aware that Betsy tried to abandon him and execute the mission alone, and says that he's already brought in the supplies. They open the door with the insignia and Betsy admits that Crane will do. Crane speculates that the medical school was a cover for Franklin's Kindred experiments. The Kindred's one true moderating influence is a female that Franklin built for his creation.
Sophie goes to the Carriage House and finds the Kindred and Zoe tied to a chair. She calls Abbie, who is at the opera house and says that they had taken a detour. Crane and Jenny open the crate that he stored centuries ago, and find the Kindress. They drive to the Carriage House while Sophie slips out to meet them. The Kindred steps out and blocks her way. He drags her inside, but Joe and Jenny arrive and shoot him trough with metal cables anchoring him in place. They rescue Zoe, who has fainted, and Sophie. As the Kindred struggles to free himself, he knocks over a lantern, starting a fire.
Crane sets the crate up nearby and begins the incantation to restore it to life. The Kindress animates and emerges from the crate, with a flail. Crane ducks out of the way just in time as she swings at him. He runs back to the barn as the Kindred emerges, and the two creatures stare at each other. After a moment, the Kindred bows to her, and she curtsies back to him. She tries to stroke his face, and he backs away for a moment. The Kindress persists and kisses him, and they go off together hand-in-hand.
Later, the FBI debriefs Zoe and she tells them what little she knows. They assume that the Kindred died in the fire. Sophie and Daniel watch, and Sophie figures that Daniel believes Abbie would have captured the killer alive. She tells him that he should talk to Abbie and tell her how important she is to him. Crane considers the whole thing "odd."
Zoe is debriefed by the FBI and apologies for not having more detail other than her kidnapper was disfigured. He was presumed killed in the fire. Crane approaches Zoe outside and returns her book. He apologizes for his negligence, and assures Zoe that he cares deeply for her, but says that he's not ready for that kind of commitment. Zoe tells him that he is ready, but she's not the person. Crane bows to her and kisses her hand, and she bids him farewell.
Daniel goes to see Abbie at her home and he explains that he fell in love with her because she made him a better man. He figures that it's time to let go, and says that he just wants her to be happy. Abbie says that she's ready to come back to work, and Daniel smiles and says that he'll see her Monday.
In the cave, the Hidden One says that the Kindred will come to lead his army. Pandora considers the shard of the Box and says that she would be a more effective servant of her powers were restored. Before the Hidden One can answer, he realizes that the Kindred is leaving Sleepy Hollow. He checks the scrying pond and discovers that the Kindred is leaving because of love. He smashes the water with his hand... and the monstrous couple are destroyed. The Hidden One tells Pandora that he will not let his powers be diluted with unnecessary partnerships, and dismisses love as a weakness.
Crane and Abbie are at home playing chess, and Crane finally admits that he's distracted. Abbie says that she is distracted as well but it's nice to be home. She cuts her hand on a bottle cap and Crane goes to get a bandage. As she studies the board, Abbie absently draws a mark on the table in her own blood, and recognizes it as a symbol from the catacombs. Crane comes back and Abbie hastily wipes out the mark before he can see it.
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There is a clear parallel to the plot of The Bride of Frankenstein
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- "Come Now, Almighty King" - Traditional
- "Greensleves" - Traditional
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