1. Help here!
Lend a hand! Anyone!Copy !req
2. - Constable Crane? Is that you?
- None other.Copy !req
3. Not only me. I found something
which was lately a man.Copy !req
4. - Burn it.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
5. - We do not know the cause of death.
- If found in the river, it is drowning.Copy !req
6. We might determine whether he was
dead before he went into the river.Copy !req
7. - I will need to examine the body.
- Cut him up? Are we heathens?Copy !req
8. - What happened to him?
- Arrested for burglary.Copy !req
9. Good work.Copy !req
10. The millennium is almost upon us.Copy !req
11. In a few months, we will be living
in the 19th century.Copy !req
12. Yet our courts rely
on medieval methods of torture.Copy !req
13. - Stand down.
- I stand up, for sense and justice.Copy !req
14. Ourjails overflow with men convicted
on confessions worth no more...Copy !req
15. Constable Crane! This is a song we
have heard from you more than once.Copy !req
16. There are two courses open to me.Copy !req
17. First, I can let you cool your heels
in the cells, -Copy !req
18. - until you learn respect
for the dignity of my office...Copy !req
19. Why am I the only one who sees
that to solve crimes, detect the guilty, -Copy !req
20. - we must use our brains to find clues,
using up-to-date scientific techniques?Copy !req
21. Which brings me to the second course.Copy !req
22. There is a town upstate, two days
to the north, in the Hudson Highlands.Copy !req
23. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow.Copy !req
24. - Have you heard of it?
- I have not.Copy !req
25. An isolated farming community,
mainly Dutch.Copy !req
26. Three persons have been murdered,
all within a fortnight.Copy !req
27. Each one found
with the head lopped off.Copy !req
28. Clean as dandelion heads, apparently.Copy !req
29. You will take your experimentations
to Sleepy Hollow, -Copy !req
30. - and there you will detect
the murderer.Copy !req
31. Bring him here to face our good justice.Copy !req
32. - Will you do this?
- I shall.Copy !req
33. Remember,
it is you, Ichabod Crane, -Copy !req
34. - who is now put to the test.Copy !req
35. The pickety witch, the pickety witch,
who's going to kiss the pickety witch?Copy !req
36. - Is it Theodore?
- I am only a stranger.Copy !req
37. Then have a kiss on account.Copy !req
38. I am looking for Baltus Van Tassel.Copy !req
39. I am his daughter, Katrina.Copy !req
40. - We have not heard your name yet.
- I have not said it. Excuse me.Copy !req
41. - You need some manners!
- Brom, we'll have no raised voices.Copy !req
42. It is to raise spirits in this dark time
that I and my wife are giving this party.Copy !req
43. You are welcome,
even if you are selling something.Copy !req
44. Constable Ichabod Crane, sent from
New York to investigate the murders.Copy !req
45. Then Sleepy Hollow is grateful to you.Copy !req
46. We hope you will honour us
by remaining in this house.Copy !req
47. Come sir, we'll get you settled.
Play on!Copy !req
48. Excuse me.Copy !req
49. Thank you. Please tell Mr Van Tassel
I will be down in a moment.Copy !req
50. I will, sir.Copy !req
51. Thank God you're here.Copy !req
52. Ah, excellent, come in.Copy !req
53. Leave us, my dear.Copy !req
54. We are joined by Dr Thomas Lancaster,
Reverend Steenwyck, -Copy !req
55. - our able magistrate Samuel Philipse, -Copy !req
56. - and lastly, this fine fellow
is James Hardenbrook, our notary.Copy !req
57. - And you, sir?
- A simple farmer who has prospered.Copy !req
58. The town looks to me
as friend and counsel.Copy !req
59. And landlord and banker.
Can we proceed?Copy !req
60. So, three persons murdered...Copy !req
61. First, Peter Van Garrett...Copy !req
62. and his son, Dirk Van Garrett.Copy !req
63. Both of them strong, capable men, -Copy !req
64. - found together... decapitated.Copy !req
65. One week later, the Widow Winship.Copy !req
66. Also decapitated.Copy !req
67. Now, I will need
to ask you many questions, -Copy !req
68. - but first let me ask,
is anyone suspected?Copy !req
69. How much have your superiors
explained to you?Copy !req
70. Only that the three were slain
in open ground, -Copy !req
71. - their heads found severed
from their bodies.Copy !req
72. Their heads were not found severed.
Their heads were not found at all.Copy !req
73. - The heads are gone?
- Taken.Copy !req
74. Taken by the Headless Horseman.
Taken back to hell.Copy !req
75. - Pardon, I don't...
- Perhaps you had better sit down.Copy !req
76. Yes.Copy !req
77. The Horseman
was a Hessian mercenary, -Copy !req
78. - sent by German princes to keep
Americans under the yoke of England.Copy !req
79. But unlike his compatriots,
who came for money, -Copy !req
80. - the Horseman came
for love of carnage.Copy !req
81. When battle was joined,
there you'd find him.Copy !req
82. He rode a giant black steed
named Daredevil.Copy !req
83. He rode hard into battle,
chopping off heads at full gallop.Copy !req
84. He had filed his teeth
"down to sharp points," -Copy !req
85. - "to add to the ferocity"
of his appearance.Copy !req
86. This butcher didn't finally reach
his end until the winter of '79.Copy !req
87. Not far from here,
in our western woods.Copy !req
88. They chopped off his head with
his own sword. Even today the woods -Copy !req
89. - is a haunted place,
where brave men will not venture.Copy !req
90. For what was planted in the ground
"that day"-Copy !req
91. - was a seed of evil.Copy !req
92. And so it has been for 20 years.Copy !req
93. But now the Hessian wakes,
cutting off heads where he finds them.Copy !req
94. Are you saying...
Is that what you believe?Copy !req
95. Seeing is believing.Copy !req
96. They tell me you've brought books
of scientific investigation.Copy !req
97. This is the only book
I recommend you read.Copy !req
98. Reverend Steenwyck, gentlemen...Copy !req
99. Murder needs no ghost
to come from the grave.Copy !req
100. We have murders in New York
without benefit of ghouls and goblins.Copy !req
101. You're far from New York.Copy !req
102. The assassin is a man of
flesh and blood, and I will discover him.Copy !req
103. Come out, devil.Copy !req
104. - His name's Gunpowder.
- He should do just fine. Thank you.Copy !req
105. Good luck, sir. You need any help,
you call my name.Copy !req
106. Don't you worry about a thing.
Everything will be just fine.Copy !req
107. Thomas, inside!Copy !req
108. Run along for breakfast. Kiss your
mother once for you and twice for me.Copy !req
109. Murder! The Horseman's killed again!Copy !req
110. All right, Gunpowder, we're off.Copy !req
111. No, no, the other way.Copy !req
112. Good horse.Copy !req
113. Mr Miller, ride back for the coffin-cart.
The rest of you, keep a sharp lookout.Copy !req
114. It's all right. I'm here now.Copy !req
115. The fourth victim, Jonathan Masbath.Copy !req
116. I see. And the head...?Copy !req
117. - Taken.
- Taken...Copy !req
118. - Interesting. Very interesting.
- What is?Copy !req
119. In cases like this, the head is removed
to prevent identification of the body.Copy !req
120. - But we know this was Masbath.
- Precisely. So why was it removed?Copy !req
121. - Why?
- Right.Copy !req
122. You have moved the body?
You must never move the body.Copy !req
123. - Why not?
- Because.Copy !req
124. The stride is gigantic!Copy !req
125. The attacker rode Masbath down.Copy !req
126. Turned his horse.
Came back to claim the head.Copy !req
127. There's a chemical reaction.Copy !req
128. It shows it was a powerful
singular thrust to the neck.Copy !req
129. - Interesting.
- What is it?Copy !req
130. The wound was cauterised,
as though the blade were red-hot.Copy !req
131. And yet, no blistering,
no scorched flesh.Copy !req
132. The Devil's fire.Copy !req
133. "Be vigilant", as it sayeth in the
Book of Peter, chapter five, verse eight.Copy !req
134. "Because your adversary, the Devil,
as a roaring lion, walketh about, -Copy !req
135. - seeking whom he may devour."
God rest, Jonathan Masbath.Copy !req
136. - Mr Constable, sir.
- You're young Masbath.Copy !req
137. I was young Masbath,
but now the only one.Copy !req
138. Masbath at your service. In honour,
bound to avenge my father.Copy !req
139. Well, I thank you very much, but your
mother will need you more than I.Copy !req
140. My mother is in heaven. She has
my father now to care for her.Copy !req
141. But you have no one to serve you.
I am your man, sir.Copy !req
142. And a brave one, too. But I cannot
be the one to look after you.Copy !req
143. I am sorry for your loss,
young Mr Masbath.Copy !req
144. Constable Crane!
There's something you should know.Copy !req
145. Jonathan Masbath was not
the fourth victim, but the fifth.Copy !req
146. - The fifth?
- Aye. Five victims in four graves.Copy !req
147. Masbath, find a place in Van Tassel's
servants' quarters. Wake me at dawn.Copy !req
148. I hope you have a strong stomach.Copy !req
149. Peter Van Garrett, Dirk Van Garrett.Copy !req
150. Jonathan Masbath.
Five victims, four graves.Copy !req
151. The Widow Winship.Copy !req
152. Bring the widow in.Copy !req
153. - This is most irregular, Constable.
- Yes, but in this case necessary.Copy !req
154. - I need to operate immediately.
- Operate? She's dead.Copy !req
155. I mean, of course,
I will need the operating table.Copy !req
156. Once more,
the neck wound cauterised, -Copy !req
157. - the sword thrust to the stomach
the same, but to what purpose?Copy !req
158. To what is your purpose,
is the question.Copy !req
159. - What type of instruments are these?
- Some of my own design.Copy !req
160. Step out, young Masbath.Copy !req
161. Thank you for your help, Mr Killian.
And if you don't mind, Doctor, -Copy !req
162. - my concentration suffers greatly
when I'm observed.Copy !req
163. - I am finished.
- What have you done to her?Copy !req
164. - We are dealing with a madman.
- What did you find out?Copy !req
165. The Widow Winship was with child.Copy !req
166. Who's there?Copy !req
167. - Oh, pardon my intrusion.
- There's no intrusion.Copy !req
168. I come here to read when I'm wakeful.Copy !req
169. - To read books which you must hide.
- They were my mother's books.Copy !req
170. My father believes tales of romance
caused the brain fever that killed her.Copy !req
171. The nurse who cared for her during
her sickness is now Lady Van Tassel.Copy !req
172. Why did no one mention that the Van
Garretts are kin to the Van Tassels?Copy !req
173. Hardly a household is not connected
to every other by blood or marriage.Copy !req
174. I see.Copy !req
175. This was Van Garrett land, given to my
father when I wore swaddling clothes.Copy !req
176. They were the richest family around.
When my father brought me here, -Copy !req
177. - Van Garrett set him up with an acre
and a broken-down cottage.Copy !req
178. My father worked hard and prospered.
I owe Van Garrett my happiness.Copy !req
179. I remember living poor in the cottage.Copy !req
180. - Should I show you?
- Yes.Copy !req
181. - Take this. It is my gift for you.
- No, I have no use for it.Copy !req
182. Are you so certain of everything?Copy !req
183. - It was your mother's.
- It is sure protection against harm.Copy !req
184. Are you so certain of everything?Copy !req
185. What are these strange markings?Copy !req
186. I've had them since I can remember.Copy !req
187. I used to play by this hearth
as a child.Copy !req
188. It was my first drawing school.
My mother was my teacher.Copy !req
189. Look. See?
Carved into the fireback.Copy !req
190. The archer. I'd forgotten it.Copy !req
191. This was from long before
we lived here.Copy !req
192. - Are you all right?
- Yes, thank you.Copy !req
193. A cardinal. I'd love to have a tame one,
but I wouldn't have the heart to cage it.Copy !req
194. Well, then I have something for you.Copy !req
195. Cardinal on one side,
an empty cage. And now...Copy !req
196. - You can do magic. Teach me.
- It is no magic. We call it "optics".Copy !req
197. The pictures are joined in the spinning.
Truth is not always appearance.Copy !req
198. What are you running from, Philipse?
You had a mind to help me.Copy !req
199. Yes, and it's put me in dread of powers
against which there is no defence.Copy !req
200. - You knew the widow was expecting?
- She told me.Copy !req
201. And you are not the child's father?
Did she tell you the father's name?Copy !req
202. Yes. She came to me for advice
as town magistrate, -Copy !req
203. - to protect the rights of her child.
I was bound to keep the secret.Copy !req
204. - Do you believe the father killed her?
- The Horseman killed her.Copy !req
205. There is no Horseman.
There never was. There never will be.Copy !req
206. - What is that thing?
- My protection from the Horseman.Copy !req
207. A magistrate, full of such nonsense!
Now tell me the name of...Copy !req
208. Oh, my God!Copy !req
209. Constable Crane?Copy !req
210. Has he not come out at all?Copy !req
211. - It was a headless horseman!
- You must not excite yourself.Copy !req
212. - That's why you're here.
- A horseman, a dead one, headless!Copy !req
213. - I know.
- You don't. You weren't there. It's true!Copy !req
214. Of course it is.
I told you. Everyone told you.Copy !req
215. I saw him.Copy !req
216. I suppose it's back to the city, then.Copy !req
217. This time I'll go to New York myself.
I won't be fobbed off with an amateur.Copy !req
218. - This time, a magistrate's dead.
- Gentlemen...Copy !req
219. I need able men to go with me
into the western woods.Copy !req
220. - We thought you'd shot your bolt.
- I will find the Horseman's grave.Copy !req
221. I will pit myself
against a murdering ghost.Copy !req
222. Who's with me?Copy !req
223. Me.Copy !req
224. The Van Garretts, Widow Winship,
your father, and now Philipse.Copy !req
225. Something must connect them. Did
your father deal with the Van Garretts?Copy !req
226. He worked for them.
We lived in the coach-house.Copy !req
227. It's nothing.Copy !req
228. There was an argument between father
and son a week before the murder.Copy !req
229. My father was later sent for
by Mr Van Garrett.Copy !req
230. An argument between father and son.
Elder Van Garrett sent for his servant...Copy !req
231. Listen.Copy !req
232. - I hear nothing.
- Nor I.Copy !req
233. No birds, no crickets,
it's all gone so quiet.Copy !req
234. Quicken pace.Copy !req
235. Pardon our intrusion,
but perhaps you could help us.Copy !req
236. - You're from the Hollow.
- In a way, yes.Copy !req
237. I make no assumptions
about your occupation, -Copy !req
238. - nor your ways,
which... which... which...Copy !req
239. are nothing to me, whatever you are.
Each to his own.Copy !req
240. Do you know of the Horseman, ma'am?
The Hessian?Copy !req
241. That'll be him.Copy !req
242. You, come with me.Copy !req
243. Go out, child. Keep away.
Whatever you hear, keep away.Copy !req
244. What might he hear
that he must keep away from?Copy !req
245. He rides to the Hollow and back.
I hear him. I smell the blood on him.Copy !req
246. Do you?Copy !req
247. Well, I'm here to find him
and make him stop.Copy !req
248. You seek knowledge
of the netherworld. I can show you.Copy !req
249. - What are you doing?
- Don't move or speak.Copy !req
250. - When the other comes, I will hold him.
- The other?Copy !req
251. Silence. He comes now.Copy !req
252. Madam...Copy !req
253. Madam, do you hear me?Copy !req
254. You seek the warrior bathed in blood,
the Headless Horseman.Copy !req
255. Follow the Indian trail to where
the sun dies, to the Tree of the Dead.Copy !req
256. Climb down
to the Horseman's resting place.Copy !req
257. We're leaving.
We're leaving now.Copy !req
258. - We go to the Tree of the Dead.
- How will we recognise it?Copy !req
259. Without difficulty, I fear.
Then to the Horseman's resting place.Copy !req
260. - His camp?
- His grave.Copy !req
261. Stay here.Copy !req
262. Halt and turn,
I have a pistol aimed!Copy !req
263. Katrina! I might have killed you.
Why have you come?Copy !req
264. Because no one else
would go with you.Copy !req
265. Then I am now twice the man.
It is your white magic.Copy !req
266. Pardon my intrusion.
I think you'd better look at this.Copy !req
267. The Tree of the Dead.Copy !req
268. Blood.Copy !req
269. Stay where you are.Copy !req
270. - What is it?
- Just stay where you are. Don't move.Copy !req
271. This tree is a gateway
between two worlds.Copy !req
272. This ground has been disturbed.
The soil is loose. Bring the shovel.Copy !req
273. The skull is gone.
Taken.Copy !req
274. That's why he returns from the grave.Copy !req
275. To take heads
until his own is restored to him.Copy !req
276. Ichabod?Copy !req
277. Split up. Glenn. Theodore.Copy !req
278. - Don't pick your teeth, it's a bad habit.
- I am a bad habit.Copy !req
279. - There's nothing for it.
- Oh, isn't there?Copy !req
280. - Let's get ready for bed.
- Yes.Copy !req
281. Beth, run!Copy !req
282. Be quiet.Copy !req
283. - Wait, he's not after you.
- I'll get him.Copy !req
284. We cannot win this.Copy !req
285. Remarkable. A wound like this
should have killed him, -Copy !req
286. - but it needs no stitch,
and there's hardly a loss of blood.Copy !req
287. - You must be still. The fever is on you.
- Katrina...Copy !req
288. Nostradamus, Mediamus,
milk of mercy, in media nos laudamas.Copy !req
289. Katrina, I tried to stop Brom...Copy !req
290. Drink this down,
it will make you sleep.Copy !req
291. The Horseman was not set to kill Brom
or me. Had Brom not attacked him...Copy !req
292. Later. Rest now.Copy !req
293. The Horseman doesn't kill at random.Copy !req
294. His victims are chosen by
that very person who took his skull.Copy !req
295. Someone who knew where to dig,
of flesh and blood, as I've always said.Copy !req
296. - These are ravings.
- Drink.Copy !req
297. Ichabod...Copy !req
298. - You were dreaming.
- Yes. Of things I had forgotten...Copy !req
299. and would not like to remember.Copy !req
300. - Tell me what you dreamt.
- My mother was an innocent.Copy !req
301. A child of nature.Copy !req
302. Condemned.
Murdered... by my father.Copy !req
303. - Murdered by...?
- Murdered to save her soul.Copy !req
304. By a Bible-black tyrant,
behind a mask of righteousness.Copy !req
305. I was seven when I lost my faith.Copy !req
306. - What do you believe in?
- Sense and reason.Copy !req
307. Cause and consequence.Copy !req
308. But here my rational mind has been
so controverted by the spirit world.Copy !req
309. You'll take nothing from Sleepy Hollow
that was worth the coming here?Copy !req
310. No, not nothing.Copy !req
311. A kiss from a lovely young woman,
before she saw me or knew my name.Copy !req
312. Yes, without sense or reason.Copy !req
313. Forgive me. I speak of kisses,
and you've lost your brave man Brom.Copy !req
314. I have shed my tears for Brom, -Copy !req
315. - and yet my heart is not broken.
Do you think me wicked?Copy !req
316. No. But perhaps
there is a bit of witch in you.Copy !req
317. - Why do you say that?
- Because you've bewitched me.Copy !req
318. You slept like the dead.Copy !req
319. You're too kind to me. I don't look
to be served by the lady of the house.Copy !req
320. Nor would you be,
but that the servant girl has vanished.Copy !req
321. - Sarah?
- Run away, like so many others.Copy !req
322. They're all leaving in fear.Copy !req
323. Where is Katrina?Copy !req
324. She watched over you till dawn.
Now it is her turn to sleep.Copy !req
325. I'm fit for another day, I think.Copy !req
326. Fit enough to face a mortal adversary.Copy !req
327. Dr. Lancaster.
Reverend Steenwyck.Copy !req
328. Notary Hardenbrook
and Magistrate Philipse...Copy !req
329. who tried to cut and run,
and lost his head.Copy !req
330. Four frightened men arguing together
on the very night Philipse was killed.Copy !req
331. There is conspiracy here.Copy !req
332. The doctor, the reverend,
the notary and the magistrate.Copy !req
333. What is the secret that unites them?Copy !req
334. Magistrate Philipse knew
there were five bodies to four graves.Copy !req
335. He knew the widow was pregnant and
would not tell me the father's name.Copy !req
336. What does this point to?Copy !req
337. We must proceed
by process of elimination.Copy !req
338. I'll list everyone in town, starting with
its chief citizen, Baltus Van Tassel.Copy !req
339. - I feel we're getting very close.
- Yes...Copy !req
340. I suppose Baltus is the chief citizen,
now that old Van Garrett is dead.Copy !req
341. The Van Garretts...
I'd almost forgotten them.Copy !req
342. Come with me,
to Notary Hardenbrook's.Copy !req
343. - Have you thought of something?
- Yes... I have.Copy !req
344. Hopeless.Copy !req
345. My father's satchel.
Why is it here?Copy !req
346. - Leave me alone.
- Notary Hardenbrook...Copy !req
347. Show me the last will and testament
of old man Van Garrett.Copy !req
348. - The will leaves everything to his son.
- Who died with him.Copy !req
349. - The estate passes to the next of kin.
- Naturally. All legal and above board.Copy !req
350. - Sir?
- I'm a dead man. No...Copy !req
351. Van Garrett's seal, broken.Copy !req
352. He made a new will just before he died,
naming... Widow Winship?Copy !req
353. And here, look.
A marriage certificate.Copy !req
354. He secretly married the widow and left
everything to her and her unborn child.Copy !req
355. It stood between Van Garrett's fortune
and the one who'd have got everything.Copy !req
356. It's true, but we four
were drawn in against our will.Copy !req
357. - Your will?
- He means...Copy !req
358. Of course, the four town elders.Copy !req
359. Now I see what parts you had to play.
Steenwyck knew the secret.Copy !req
360. He performed the marriage. Lancaster
attended the pregnant woman.Copy !req
361. Philipse gave protection of the law.
Hardenbrook concealed documents -Copy !req
362. - entrusted by Van Garrett
to his faithful servant.Copy !req
363. - The conspirators drawn into the plot.
- We knew not it was a murdering plot.Copy !req
364. But I have not finished, sir.Copy !req
365. First, the Van Garretts slain by
a horseman raised from the grave.Copy !req
366. Up pops a widow with a claim
on the fortune. Off with her head.Copy !req
367. But murder begets murder.
It was the servant...Copy !req
368. Jonathan Masbath. The night father
and son quarrelled over the new will.Copy !req
369. Masbath was summoned upstairs
to bear witness.Copy !req
370. Here is his signature.
I'm afraid it was his death warrant.Copy !req
371. The Horseman came for him.
Came for him -Copy !req
372. - at the bidding of someone who had
power over him, who dug in the earth -Copy !req
373. - and stole the skull, which must again
be his before he will return to hell.Copy !req
374. Someone who stood to gain
or lose a fortune. None other -Copy !req
375. - than Van Garrett's next of kin,
Baltus Van Tassel!Copy !req
376. - Katrina, why are you in my room?
- Because it is yours.Copy !req
377. - Was it wicked of me?
- No, not at all.Copy !req
378. - I missed you. Where did you go?
- I had questions to ask Hardenbrook.Copy !req
379. - Did you learn anything of interest?
- Perhaps.Copy !req
380. - My father...
- Your father?Copy !req
381. Yes. My father thinks
you should return to New York.Copy !req
382. Really? Why is that?Copy !req
383. I don't know. Perhaps he looked in your
ledger and did not like what he saw.Copy !req
384. - What have you there?
- Evidence. I'm sorry, I must ask you...Copy !req
385. Then I'll leave you to your thoughts.Copy !req
386. - It's just a spider.
- Kill it!Copy !req
387. - No, stop it!
- There's something under here.Copy !req
388. - What is it?
- Help me move the bed.Copy !req
389. No, I mustn't. You do it.Copy !req
390. The evil eye. It is someone
casting spells against you.Copy !req
391. The evil eye...Copy !req
392. Wait here.Copy !req
393. Katrina...Copy !req
394. - You took the evidence and burned it.
- So it would not accuse my father.Copy !req
395. I accuse no one. But if there is guilt,
I cannot alter it, even if it grieves me.Copy !req
396. No spells of yours can alter it, either.
It is he who profits from these murders.Copy !req
397. If you knew him, you'd not have
such harsh thoughts about him.Copy !req
398. - Nor if you felt anything for me.
- Why did his friends conceal...?Copy !req
399. You are the constable. Find another
chain of reasoning and let me be.Copy !req
400. I cannot. Nor the one or the other.
And I am heartsick with it.Copy !req
401. I think you have no heart,
and I had a mind once to give you mine.Copy !req
402. Yes, I think you loved me -Copy !req
403. - when you followed me into the woods.
To have braved such peril.Copy !req
404. What peril was there if it was my own
father who controlled the Horseman?Copy !req
405. Goodbye, Ichabod Crane. I curse
the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.Copy !req
406. - She will not see you.
- Did she say anything?Copy !req
407. Only that she will not come down.Copy !req
408. - I see. Thank you.
- Constable...Copy !req
409. You have not asked me
how I hurt my hand since yesterday, -Copy !req
410. - which would have been polite.Copy !req
411. In fact, you have been as careful
not to look at it as not to mention it.Copy !req
412. - Yes, I'm sorry. How did you...?
- I know you saw me.Copy !req
413. - What?
- I know you followed last night.Copy !req
414. You must promise not to tell my
husband what you saw. Promise me!Copy !req
415. The town is in ferment! Horror
piled on tragedy. Hardenbrook is dead!Copy !req
416. - That harmless old man?
- Hanged himself in the night.Copy !req
417. - Hanged himself?
- There's a church meeting tonight.Copy !req
418. Everyone is going to speak out
against you. If you are wise, -Copy !req
419. - you will leave this place.
What is that?Copy !req
420. - I was careless with the kitchen knife.
- The wound looks angry.Copy !req
421. I will bind it with arrowroot flowers.
I know where some grow.Copy !req
422. Hurry up,
the meeting bell has started tolling.Copy !req
423. The Horseman!
Katrina, the Horseman saved me!Copy !req
424. The Horseman killed your stepmother!Copy !req
425. Oh, God!Copy !req
426. You'll kill us all!
You're the one the Horseman wants!Copy !req
427. He cannot enter.Copy !req
428. The Horseman cannot enter!
He cannot cross the gate.Copy !req
429. We have to save ourselves.Copy !req
430. The next person to lay a hand on me
will get a bullet!Copy !req
431. He's coming back!Copy !req
432. - Enough have died. It's time to confess.
- What is it that you know?Copy !req
433. Your four friends played you false.
We were possessed by one who...Copy !req
434. Stay back!Copy !req
435. There's a conspiracy here,
and I will seek it out!Copy !req
436. It was an evil spirit possessed you.Copy !req
437. I pray it is satisfied and that you find
peace. The evil eye has done its work.Copy !req
438. My life is over. Spared for
a lifetime of horrors in my sleep.Copy !req
439. Waking each day to grief.Copy !req
440. Goodbye, Katrina.Copy !req
441. - You think it was Katrina, don't you?
- That can never be uttered.Copy !req
442. A strange sort of witch,
with a kind and loving heart.Copy !req
443. - How can you think so?
- I have good reason.Copy !req
444. - Then you are bewitched by reason.
- And beaten down by it!Copy !req
445. It is a hard lesson for a hard world.
You'd better learn it.Copy !req
446. Villainy wears many masks. None
so dangerous as the mask of virtue.Copy !req
447. Farewell.Copy !req
448. Return the coach! Turn around now!Copy !req
449. Pardon my intrusion.Copy !req
450. No blood flow,
no clotting, no healing.Copy !req
451. When this cut was made,
this woman was already dead.Copy !req
452. Dear stepdaughter.Copy !req
453. You look as if you'd seen a ghost.Copy !req
454. Rise up once more, my dark avenger.
One more night of beheading.Copy !req
455. Rise up with your sword.Copy !req
456. A head for a head.Copy !req
457. My unholy horseman, rise.Copy !req
458. Come now for Katrina.Copy !req
459. Awake at last.Copy !req
460. - You thought it was all a nasty dream?
- Father saw the Horseman kill you.Copy !req
461. He saw the Horseman come toward
me with his sword unsheathed, -Copy !req
462. - but it is I who govern the Horseman,
dear, and Baltus did not stay to watch.Copy !req
463. - But there was a body.
- The servant girl, Sarah.Copy !req
464. I always thought she was useless...Copy !req
465. but she had a purpose after all.Copy !req
466. - Who are you?
- My family name was Archer.Copy !req
467. The archer?Copy !req
468. I lived with my father, mother and sister
in a cottage not far from here.Copy !req
469. My father died, and the landlord, whom
we'd served faithfully, evicted us.Copy !req
470. No one would take us in, because my
mother was suspected of witchcraft.Copy !req
471. She schooled her daughters well, while
we lived as outcasts in the woods.Copy !req
472. She died within a year.Copy !req
473. My sister and I remained in our refuge,
seeing not a soul.Copy !req
474. Until one day, gathering firewood,
we crossed the path of the Hessian.Copy !req
475. I saw his death. At that moment,
I offered my soul to Satan, -Copy !req
476. - if he would raise the Hessian
from the grave to avenge me.Copy !req
477. - Avenge you?
- Against Van Garrett!Copy !req
478. The landlord who showed us no mercy
and left us to starve, -Copy !req
479. - whilst Baltus and his simpering wife
and girl child stole our home.Copy !req
480. I'd make myself mistress of all he had.Copy !req
481. The easiest was to enter your house
as your mother's sick-nurse, -Copy !req
482. - and put her body into the grave,
and my own into the marriage bed.Copy !req
483. Not quite so easy was to secure
my legacy. The widow had to go, -Copy !req
484. - and the servant Masbath. Just the
other day, that silly midwife Killian -Copy !req
485. - told me the widow
had told her a big secret.Copy !req
486. And she told me this right in front
of her husband! What a goose!Copy !req
487. So, another little job for the Horseman.Copy !req
488. But lust delivered
the Rev. Steenwyck into my power.Copy !req
489. Fear did the same for Hardenbrook
and the drunkard Philipse.Copy !req
490. And the doctor's silence I exchanged
for my complicity -Copy !req
491. - in his fornications
with the servant girl Sarah.Copy !req
492. - Yes, you have everything now.
- No, you have, my dear.Copy !req
493. By your father's will. I get everything
in the event of your death.Copy !req
494. Oh, my sister, by the way,
sadly passed away.Copy !req
495. Quite recently.Copy !req
496. - You killed your own sister.
- She brought it on herself.Copy !req
497. By helping you and your master!Copy !req
498. You're just in time
to have your head cut off.Copy !req
499. Tonight the Horseman comes for you!Copy !req
500. Katrina!Copy !req
501. Thank God.Copy !req
502. Watch your head.Copy !req
503. To the roof. I have an idea.Copy !req
504. Jump in the sails!Copy !req
505. Jump!Copy !req
506. Hurry!Copy !req
507. - Is he dead?
- He was dead to begin with.Copy !req
508. - Where are we going?
- Anywhere but here.Copy !req
509. Take the reins.Copy !req
510. My bag!Copy !req
511. Jump!Copy !req
512. - Still alive?
- Run, Katrina.Copy !req
513. Yes, do run and jump and skip.Copy !req
514. Here, take her! She's yours!Copy !req
515. Sir, you're not dead!Copy !req
516. Horseman!Copy !req
517. Just in time for a new century.Copy !req
518. You'll soon get your bearings,
young Masbath.Copy !req
519. The Bronx is up, the Battery's down,
and home is this way.Copy !req