Plot summary
In the town of Sleepy Hollow in 1781, Ichabod Crane ( Tom Mison ) decapitates the Headless Horseman in battle, but is mortally wounded himself, and collapses. Both he and the Horseman awaken in 2013 in the same town. The latter kills the local sheriff, August Corbin ( Clancy Brown ), and Crane is mistakenly arrested for his murder by Corbin's partner, Lieutenant Abbie Mills ( Nicole Beharie ). Crane claims that he's innocent of the murder and has just risen after several centuries of entombment. Mills is inclined to believe Crane and together they learn that the Horseman is actually Death, one of the Four Horsemen, and is seeking his head to summon the others to bring about the Apocalypse.
Mills and Crane recover the head before the Horseman does, thanks to a dream sent by Katrina Van Tassel ( Katia Winter ), executed centuries earlier for witchcraft. Crane and Mills also discover that Corbin had been keeping detailed files on the various mysteries of Sleepy Hollow.
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Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Sleepy Hollow season 1. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.