In 1781,
Ichabod Crane, a soldier in the Colonial Army, set on a secret mission by
General George Washington to kill the man with the branded hand, later to
become the Headless Horseman after Ichabod cuts off his head. Sadly, Ichabod
dies while performing this task. More
than 200 years later, in the present-day Sleepy Hallow, Ichabod rises from his
grave, after the Headless Horseman known as Death and one of the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse, is coincidently summoned back from his grave. Both brought forth
from an unknown source. The resurrection of the one causes the other to also
come back to life as a result of their blood mixing shortly after Crane
decapitated the Headless Horseman on the field of battle.
Lt. Abbie Mills, of Sleepy Hollow, is caught up in the
investigation of the Headless Horseman after he beheads Sheriff August Corbin,
Mills' mentor and friend. As Lt Mills' investigation reveals the presence of
the Supernatural world involving two occult groups - one for good, the other
evil - in Sleepy Hollow, both of which are concerned with the Four Horsemen and
the associated apocalypse.
With
Ichabod's first-hand knowledge of this country’s history and secret societies and
Abbie’s superior profiling and modern threat assessment skills, the reason why
she was accepted in to the FBI, they team up to work the case of the Horseman’s
killing spree. Eventually, she stays behind in Sleepy Hallow under Ichabod’s
protest, as to not go off to become a federal agent. After witnessing unnatural
forces, they form an unstoppable team once realizing their lives are preordained.
As they are the two witnesses, the only ones who can protect the world from the
forces of evil.
This is a modern day twist on
Washington Irving's classic in which Ichabod Crane and Lieutenant Abbie Mills fight
vigorously to save the town of Sleepy Hollow from Hell on earth.
