Sleepy Hollow - In Plain Sight - Review: “Looks Can Be Deceiving”
4.2 - “In Plain Sight”
Directed by Marc Roskin
Written by Bryan Q. Miller
Reviewed by Kelly Anne Blount
The scene opens with Jenny and Crane performing a ritual with a “singing bowl.” The ritual put Crane in a dreamlike state, where he was searching for the Lieutenant, but instead found Mollie, the daughter of Agent Thomas. While they have never met, he has now seen Mollie in his vision and Mollie has drawn pictures of him in her notebook.
Crane wants to do some research at The Vault. Jenny will do the same, but with her books in the RV.
Dreyfuss is being a terrible person, what’s new? His hairstyle is quite strange. Anyways, he threatens to kill a political person in Washington D.C. and then walks away, because he has more important people to meet. Yuck!
Dreyfuss goes to meet with three witches. He drops a bomb on them. He tells them that a sacred stone that they have been guarding for hundreds of years doesn’t have anything to do with witches or witchcraft.
One of the witches confesses that she knew the stone wasn’t important, but that she went along with it to keep her sisters safe. She said that witches are being hunted and their lives could be in danger if they leave.
Well, that backfires. The two witches attack the witch that lied to them. Gross, a snake comes out of her mouth.
Agent Thomas is at home with her daughter. They are getting ready for the day. Mollie still isn’t eating. Mollie’s nanny comes over to help get her off to school while Agent Thomas heads to work.
Back at The Vault, Crane shows up through the “back door.” He isn’t allowed in through the front because he doesn’t have the proper clearance. Jake pulls every book they have on visions and dreams for Crane.
Agent Thomas calls Crane, she has a strange case and needs his advice. She finds a dead body with evidence of witchcraft. Crane deducts that the body is hiding under mystical camouflage. The victim is the same witch we saw attacked earlier in the episode.
Crane believes that the victim is one of the three Dire sisters, who Crane had seen in Sleepy Hollow hundreds of years ago. They were essentially a special task force used to expose liars.
Thomas and Crane come to the conclusion that the victim, Moll, was killed by her sisters. Agent Thomas puts out an APB for the sisters, based on their unique tattoo.
The remaining two sisters head to a bar where they encounter two men hitting on them. The men are cheaters and they use their magic against them. Strangely, no one seems to notice or take action when these two men fall out and possibly die at the bar.
Crane and Agent Thomas are on the way to another crime scene when he sees a picture of Mollie on her phone. He’s shocked, but doesn’t say anything.
While at the bar, Crane sneaks away and calls Jenny. He tells her that Mollie is Agent Thomas’ daughter. She thinks that Mollie is the next Witness.
When Thomas asks him what he’s doing, Crane pretends to be talking about sports. He clearly has no idea what he’s talking about. Ha ha!
Interesting! The people in the bar reported two attractive young women fleeing the scene after the men were attacked. The surveillance video inside shows something much different, it shows to elderly witches leaving the scene. They are using the same type of magic that shielded their sister’s true identity.
Jake is researching the Dire sisters. They were given a large plot of land by George Washington in return for their services.
Alex is wary about Crane. She warns Jake that there is more to Crane then meets the eye. Jake concludes that Crane is a time traveler.
Jenny shows up at Mollie’s school. Mollie is getting picked on, but Jenny comes to her rescue.
Agent Thomas and Crane show up a few minutes later. She freaks out that she sees Jenny with Mollie and accuses her of hurting Mollie. Crane gets out of the car. He and Mollie lock eyes and have a surreal moment, which ends with Mollie breaking her silence and saying, “Hello.”
Mollie tells her mother that she got picked on by two girls in the eighth grade. Her mother is glad she’s okay and thrilled that she is speaking again. The touching moment is interrupted when Mollie’s nanny shows up. Agent Thomas reluctantly hugs her daughter before heading back to work.
While Mollie and her mother are talking, Crane pulls Jenny aside. Jenny apologizes, telling him that she couldn’t help herself and that she had to meet the girl who has taken on Abbie’s responsibility as a Witness. They know that they need to tell Agent Thomas about her daughter’s destiny, but they aren’t sure how to do it.
Crane, Thomas, and Jenny had back to the land where they found Moll Dire’s body. They are looking for the witch’s lair. With Crane’s cell phone, they manage to find the lair, which is under the same magical camouflage that the witches use to appear young.
The witches aren’t home, but they find what appears to be the murder weapon. Agent Thomas, unfamiliar with all things magic, touches a special clock and sets something into motion, they just aren’t sure what she’s done.
One of the witches comes back and attacks Agent Thomas. She recognizes Crane and calls him a liar. Meanwhile, Jenny saves Agent Thomas from the second witch.
Crane shoots an arrow into the witch’s magic clock. This causes the witches to transform from young strong women to old frail witches.
Agent Thomas shoots and kills one sister, while the clock exploding takes care of the other sister.
Crane tells Jenny that he’s going to talk to Agent Thomas about her daughter tonight. He’s going to tell her everything. Wonder how that will go over?
Alex finds two pieces of paper from the witch’s house. It appears that they were protecting a mystical artifact, just like John Wilkes Booth. Someone a.k.a. Dreyfuss, is stealing the magical artifacts. Will he unleash an unspeakable evil on to the world? Most likely!
Back at Agent Thomas’ house, Mollie has made pancakes for dinner. She admits that she doesn’t know why she didn’t want to speak for two weeks. She said that she felt strange, describing it as feeling like, “a shadow walked over my shadow,” and that, “a friend was gone.”
Crane and Jenny are in the car watching Agent Thomas’ house. They decide not to tell her tonight. Jenny says that they deserve to know, Crane agrees, but says that they are not going to tell them tonight. He tells Jenny that Mollie and her mother deserve one night of peace together.
Dreyfuss is back at his lair. He has the magical artifact from the witch’s home. He and his watchman believe that someone or something is coming back to help them in their evil quest.
The episode ends with a truck driver coming across something incredibly disturbing, the Headless Horseman is riding down the highway and is on his way to Washington D.C.
*******
My Thoughts:
Good episode, but still not the same without Abbie. Also, I love Washington D.C., but the show took place in Sleepy Hollow for so long, it’s difficult to transition to a new place with loads of new faces, you know?
It’s also a bit strange how accepting Agent Thomas is of the supernatural. After one episode, she’s a believer and not at all skeptical? What do you think?
I’m not sure about Jake and Alex. I mean, it doesn’t make sense that The Vault would be essentially left in the hands of two twenty-somethings, does it? If some of the Nation’s most guarded secrets are being kept there, the building and artifacts should be protected by a small army, not these two. Plus, the people working at The Vault should be experts with doctorates in multiple subjects and it’s highly unlikely these two are old enough or smart enough to have achieved this distinction.
Oh, one more thing! Mollie’s character reminds me of a young Trouble, from GRIMM. Anyone else get that vibe?
What did you think of the episode? Leave me a comment below!
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