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Apologies for not posting the full recap up earlier. This last episode “Whispers in the Dark” gave me a case of hormones. The episode indicates a new direction for Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, and his leading lady Agent Grace Abigail Mills. Let’s go!

First Appearances: Daniel Reynolds (Lance Gross), Marcus Collins/The Whispering Wraith (Alexander Ward) and Randall Martin (Anthony K. Wyatt)

Ichabod uses Windex and fluffs pillows to release Sleepyhead hormones. He’s at Abbie’s house! Did you pause to look at all the details in Agent Mills’ new residence? Abbie Mills has a fireplace. Abbie Mills has hardwood floors. Abbie Mills has marble countertops. Abbie Mills has a sunlit laundry room. Abbie Mills already occupies the most spacious office ever given to an FBI rookie. Our beloved Abbie Mills got ALL the square-footage, and she is coming for yours. It makes sense since Abbie Mills is the leading lady of Sleepy Hollow. Leading lady Abbie Mills and her husband leading man are now under the same roof. Ichabod pretends this is temporary. Crane doesn’t want a bachelor pad; he wants to do the wash so he can look at his leading lady’s lingerie. Crane is getting bold, offering Abbie some “Bedfordshire Clanger.” It’s surprising that the network allows such dirty talk. Maybe Abbie Mills doesn’t want Crane to get too ahead of himself. As Crane is in the kitchen making dinner for his “Leftenant,” she discusses boundary issues; in other words: “You just keep that Bedfordshire Clanger to yourself until I’m ready.”

Quotable Ichabbie:

Ichabod has been looking at Abbie’s “unmentionables” and burned dinner.

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Pandora is up to monkeyshines. Don’t you love how otherworldly she is drifting about in that emerald hooded cape? Pandora is serene and exudes a bit of a Drusilla dream state. Bonus points: Pandora is an Ichabbie shipper. Crane is thirsty for evil so that he can stalk Abbie; Pandora is obliging. Seriously though, the lovely Shannyn Sossamon is required to talk to walls and sing to herself, and she does so in an enchanting way. I bet her scenes with Nicole Beharie and Tom Mison will be delicious. This week she releases the Whispering Wraith, who feeds on secrets.

Thanks to Pandora, Agent Doe Eyes and her damn sexy “roommate” investigate a death. At the scene, they run into Agent Daniel Reynolds (Hi, Lace Gross!) who Abbie met at Quantico. They had a relationship that he euphemistically refers to as a “dynamic.” He’s her boss now. When Ichabod meets Daniel, he delivers the most epic side-eye we have ever seen. It goes like this:

Daniel: Hi, Abbie.

Abbie: Hi.

Ichabod:  I was just fluffing her pillows at home — our home. Clanger!

Daniel: Um.

Ichabod: I love my leading lady Abbie Mills. Anyone with eyes can see that except for ignoramus interns who incite the ire of Ichabbie with idiotic ideas on Instagram. Just so you know, I killed Detective Luke Morales, Andy Brooks even though he was undead, Hawley and Calvin Riggs. I also “accidentally” shivved my first wife help from “stupid fangirls.”

Abbie: What?

Ichabod: Never mind. Our fates are entwined.

Crane is eyebrow-ing all over the place. See, Abbie? You defied Captain Irving’s orders in the pilot and hastily sprung Crane from the psychiatric ward. You never gave the shrinks a chance to diagnose him properly. As Ichabod goes off to stare at a tall building, Pandora walks up. It goes like this:

Pandora: Hi.
Ichabod: I can’t talk right now, Angelina Jolie. I’m planning to whack Daniel.
Pandora: Bye.
Ichabod: Wait, thank you for killing that extra before he got a chance to talk to Abbie.
Pandora: De nada.

Once the Witnesses are alone at the archives, Abbie mentions how she and Daniel kept each other on their toes at Quantico. Ichabod notes that: “Competition can be a strong motivator.” The Subtext Fairy flutters in and winks at Team Ichabbie.

In any case, the Whispering Wraith was conjured up in the in the 18th century to find out secrets in order to expose colonial rebels. Betsy Ross had a run-in with the creature. That Betsy is on an unflagging quest to have a “dynamic” with Crane’s clanger. Can’t fault her for that; she presumably reached her goal. That said, Crane is not going to Windex her windows and fluff her pillows. He only does that for his leading lady.

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Not unlike, the succubus, who appeared in “Heartless,” the Whispering Wraith provides a way for the writers to advance Ichabbie’s relationship; they exchange secrets. Ichabod was pressured to betray his fellow rebels. He didn’t do it, but he is wracked with guilt because he contemplated it for one second. He adorably prods his Leftenant to share a confidence, and it is jumbo; Abbie has discovered that her M.I.A father is alive and lives upstate. She has been watching him and taking pictures from afar. She doesn’t know how to handle the situation and hasn’t told her sister because Jenny will want to act immediately. Ichabod makes all kinds of adoring faces. His feelings are so blatant, Abbie must know, right?
Ichabod takes a break from being a damn sexy “roommate” in order to save the archives from demolition. It goes like this:

Ichabod: What do I have to do to ensure that the archive is preserved as a historic landmark?
Extra: Only citizens can do that.
Ichabod: Welp, guess I have to marry Abbie.

Cliffhanger: Abbie is looking at surveillance footage and realizes that Pandora is connected to the Wraith and remembers talking to her at the bar last week. She knows Pandora is up to no good. It’s on!

*Don’t think we forgot kickass Jenny Mills and Joe Corbin. We will address them.

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Sleepy Hollow airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Fox.

Elaine G. Flores, Chief Editor

Elaine is the chief editor of TV Recappers' Delight. She's an experienced entertainment reporter, reviewer, editor, blogger, columnist and Bon Vivant.