Sleepy Hollow (1999) Edit

A cardinal. My favorite.

A head for a head.

A kiss from a lovely young woman,

A simple farmer who has prospered.

A simple farmer who has prospered.

A strange sort of witch, with a kind and loving heart.

After which the elder Van Garrett sent for his servant Masbath.

All frightened men, arguing together on the very night

All right, Gunpowder, we're off. Come on.

All right, then. Step outside, young Masbath.

All right, this time I'll go to New York myself.

Amen.

An argument upstairs between father and son.

An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch.

And Baltus did not stay to watch.

And burned it.

And did you learn anything of interest?

And here, look. A marriage certificate.

And his son, Dirk Van Garrett.

And I always thought she was useless.

And I owe my happiness to him.

And I will discover him.

And if you don't mind, Doctor,

And landlord and banker. Can we proceed?

And lastly,

And my father was later sent for by Mr. Van Garrett.

And my mother was my teacher.

And no spells of yours can alter it, either.

And Notary Hardenbrook concealed the documents,

And now...

And put her body into the grave and my own into the marriage bed.

And she told me this right in front of her husband.

And so it has been for 20 years.

And the doctor's silence I exchanged

And the drunkard Philipse.

And the head?

And the landlord, who had received many years of loyal service

And the magistrate.

And then, just the other day, that silly midwife Killian

And there you will detect the murderer.

And we hope you will honor us by remaining in this house.

And who are you, friend? We have not heard your name yet.

And yet, no blistering, no scorched flesh.

And you had better learn it, young Masbath.

And you must promise not to tell my husband what you saw.

And you've lost your brave man, Brom.

Are you saying...

Are you so certain of everything?

Are you so certain of everything?

As a roaring lion, walketh about,

As though the blade itself were red hot.

Awake at last.

Aye.

Back! Stand back!

Because my mother was suspected of witchcraft.

Because your adversary the devil,

Because.

Before he went into the river.

Before he will return to Hell.

Before she saw my face or knew my name.

Beth, run!

Blood.

Both of them strong, capable men,

Bring him here to face our good justice.

Bring the shovel.

Bring the Widow in.

But by pathology we might be able to determine whether or not he was dead

But first, let me ask, is anyone suspected?

But I have not finished, sir.

But it needs no stitch, and there's hardly a loss of blood.

But it was a headless horseman!

But murder begets murder.

But now the Hessian wakes.

But perhaps there is a bit of a witch in you, Katrina.

But she schooled her daughters well,

But there was something that happened one night, a week before the murder.

But to what purpose?

But unlike his compatriots, who came for money,

But we know this was Jonathan Masbath.

But why am I the only one who sees that, to solve crimes,

But you have no one to serve you. I am your man, sir.

But your mother will need you more than I.

By a Bible black tyrant behind a mask of righteousness.

By that very person who took his skull.

Came back to claim the head.

Came back.

Came for him at the bidding of someone who had power over him.

Cardinal on one side. An empty cage.

Carved into the fire back? The archer.

Chapter five, verse eight.

Chopping off heads at full gallop.

Clean as dandelion heads, apparently.

Climb down to the Horseman's resting place.

Come now for Katrina!

Come out, devil.

Come with me.

Come, come. We'll have no raised voices.

Come, sir, we'll get you settled. Play on!

Condemned.

Constable Crane? Constable Crane?

Convicted on confessions worth no more than this one.

Cut him up. Are we heathens?

Damn you, Crane.

Dear stepdaughter,

Decapitated.

Did she tell you the name of the child's father?

Did you think it was all a nasty dream?

Did your father have dealings with the Van Garretts?

Dirk Van Garrett.

Do you believe the father killed her?

Do you know of the Horseman, ma'am? The Hessian?

Doctor Lancaster, Reverend Steenwyck,

Don't pick your teeth, you'll teach Thomas bad habits.

Dr. Lancaster attended the pregnant woman.

Drink this down. It'll make you sleep.

Each one found with the head lopped off.

Each to his own.

Enough have died already. It's time to confess our sins.

Every man, woman, and child is going to speak out against you.

Everything's going to be just fine.

Excellent. Come in. Leave us, my dear.

Excuse me, please.

Farewell.

Father saw the Horseman kill you.

Find a place in the Van Tassel's servants' quarters.

First, I can let you cool your heels in the cells

First, Peter Van Garrett

First, the Van Garretts, father and son, slain by a horseman

Fit enough to face a mortal adversary.

Five victims in four graves.

Follow it to the Tree of the Dead.

Follow the Indian trail to where the sun dies.

For my complicity in his fornications with the servant girl, Sarah.

For what was planted in the ground that day

From my parents, evicted us.

Gentlemen.

Gentlemen.

Get out of my way! Stand back! Stay back!

Given to my father when I was in swaddling clothes.

Go out, child. Keep away.

God rest Jonathan Masbath.

Good horsy.

Good luck, sir. If you need help, you call my name.

Good work.

Goodbye, Ichabod Crane.

Goodbye, Katrina.

Halt and turn, I have a pistol aimed.

Hanged himself?

Has he not come out at all?

Have you heard of it?

He cannot enter.

He had filed his teeth down to sharp points

He killed her. The Horseman killed your stepmother.

He knew the Widow was pregnant.

He rides. To the Hollow and back.

He rode a giant black steed named Daredevil.

He should do just fine, Mr. Killian.

He was dead to begin with.

He was infamous for riding his horse hard into battle,

He worked for them. We lived in the coach house.

He would not tell me the name of the father.

He's coming back!

He's on the rampage, cutting off heads where he finds them.

Help here! Lend a hand here! Anyone!

Here is his signature.

Here, take the reins.

Here! Take her!

His name's Gunpowder.

His victims are chosen by someone who controls him.

Hopeless.

Horror piled on tragedy. Hardenbrook is dead.

Horseman!

How much have your superiors explained to you, Constable?

How often do I have to tell you? There is no Horseman.

Hurry!

I am Constable Ichabod Crane, sent to you from New York

I am finished.

I am pinioned by a chain of reasoning.

I can show you.

I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.

I do not look to be served by the lady of the house.

I don't know.

I feel we're getting very close.

I get everything in the event of your death.

I have faced my fears, and come out determined

I have found something, which was lately a man.

I have not.

I have shed my tears for Brom, and yet my heart is not broken.

I hope you have a strong stomach.

I know where some grow.

I know you followed last night.

I know. I know.

I lived with my father and mother and sister in a cottage not far from here.

I might have killed you. Why have you come?

I missed you. Where did you go?

I need able men to go with me into the Western Woods.

I pray God it is satisfied now, and that you find peace.

I remember living poor in the cottage.

I saw him.

I saw his death.

I see.

I see.

I see.

I see. Thank you.

I shall.

I should hope so, Doctor, but in this case, necessary.

I should like to say that I make no assumptions about your occupation.

I should not have come to this place,

I suppose it's back to the city, then.

I swore I would make myself mistress of all he had.

I think you have no heart. And I had a mind once to give you mine.

I think you'd better come and look at this.

I used to play by this hearth as a child.

I was seven when I lost my faith.

I was young Masbath, but now the only one.

I will bind it later with wild arrowroot flowers.

I will bind it later with wild arrowroot flowers.

I will need to examine the body.

I will, sir.

I won't be fobbed off with an amateur deductor.

I'd love to have a tame one, but I wouldn't have the heart to cage him.

I'm afraid it was his death warrant, young Masbath.

I'm his daughter, Katrina Van Tassel.

I'm looking for Baltus Van Tassel.

I've discovered something. The Horseman does not kill at random.

I've had them since I can remember.

Ichabod Crane,

Ichabod Crane, is that you?

Ichabod?

Ichabod.

Ichabod.

Ichabod.

Ichabod.

Ichabod. Ichabod.

If he would raise the Hessian from the grave to avenge me.

If it was my own father who controlled the Headless Horseman?

If you are wise, you will leave this place.

If you knew him, you would not have such harsh thoughts about him.

In a few months, we will be living in the 19th century,

In fact, you have been as careful

In headless corpse cases of this sort, the head is removed

In honor bound to avenge my father.

In media nos laudamas.

In short, to pit myself against a murdering ghost.

In the Hudson Highlands.

Interesting. Very interesting.

Into the Western Woods to have braved such peril.

Is it Theodore?

Is now Lady Van Tassel.

Is that what you believe?

It is a hard lesson for a hard world,

It is a place called Sleepy Hollow.

It is he who stands to profit from these murders.

It is no intrusion. I come here to read when I am wakeful.

It is only to raise spirits during this dark time

It shows there was a powerful, singular thrust to the neck.

It was an evil spirit possessed you.

It was my first drawing school,

It was the servant, Jonathan Masbath.

It was your mother's.

It's all right. I'm here now.

It's nothing.

It's true. But we four were drawn in against our will.

Jonathan Masbath was not the fourth victim,

Jonathan Masbath was summoned upstairs to bear witness.

Jonathan Masbath.

Jump!

Jump!

Just a moment, if I may. We do not yet know the cause of death.

Just as soon as you show me the last will and testament

Just in time for a new century.

Katrina, I tried to stop Brom, but...

Katrina!

Katrina?

Katrina.

Keep it close to your heart. It is sure protection against harm.

Later. Rest now.

Leave me alone!

Left everything to her and her unborn child.

Listen.

Lopped off?

Madam, do you hear me?

Magistrate Philipse knew there were five bodies to four graves.

Magistrate Philipse was killed.

Masbath, at your service.

Me.

Mr. Constable, sir.

Much appreciated.

Murder needs no ghosts to come from the grave.

Murder! The horseman's killed again!

Murdered. By my father.

My bag!

My concentration suffers greatly when I'm observed.

My father worked hard for his family, and prospered and built this house.

My father worked hard for his family, and prospered and built this house.

My father's satchel. Why is it here?

My life is over, spared for a lifetime of horrors in my sleep,

My mother is in heaven, sir.

My mother was an innocent. A child of nature.

My sister and I remained in our refuge, seeing not a soul.

My sister, by the way, sadly passed away.

My unholy horseman, rise!

Naming Widow Winship?

Never was a Horseman, and never will be a Horseman.

No birds. No crickets. It's all gone so quiet.

No blood flow, no clotting, no healing.

No matter how much it grieves me.

No one in this God fearing town would take us in

No, I have no use for it.

No, no. Come on, the other way.

No, no. Turn around.

No, nor if you felt anything for me.

No, pardon, miss. I am only a stranger.

No!

No. No, not nothing.

None other than Van Garrett's next of kin, Baltus Van Tassel!

None other.

None so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

None so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Nor would you be, but that the servant girl has vanished.

Nor your ways, which, which, which are

Nostradamus mediamus, milk of mercy,

Not far from here in our Western Woods.

Not only me.

Not quite so easy was to secure my legacy.

Nothing to me, whatever you are.

Nothing, sir. Arrested for burglary.

Now I see what parts you had to play.

Now, don't you worry about a thing.

Now, tell me the name of...

Now, there are two courses open to me.

Now, up pops a widow with a claim on a fortune. Off with her head!

Of course it is. I told you. Everyone told you.

Of course it was. That's why you're here.

Of course. The four town elders.

Of powers against which there is no defense. Come.

Oh, God!

Oh, look. See?

Oh, my God.

Oh.

Oh.

Old Van Garrett secretly married the Widow.

Once more, the neck wound cauterized.

Only that she will not come down.

Only that the three were slain in open ground,

Operate? She's dead.

Our able Magistrate Samuel Philipse,

Our jails overflow with men and women

Over here!

Pardon my intrusion.

Pardon my intrusion.

Pardon our intrusion,

Pardon, I don't...

Perhaps he looked in your ledger and did not like what he saw.

Perhaps you had better sit down.

Perhaps.

Please tell Mr. Van Tassel I will be down in a moment.

Possibly so, if there is water in the lungs,

Precisely. So why was the head removed?

Promise me!

Quite recently.

Raised from the grave to chop heads.

Really? Why is that?

Remarkable. A wound like this should've killed him.

Remember, it is you,

Reverend Steenwyck knew the secret because he performed the marriage.

Reverend Steenwyck,

Reverend Steenwyck.

Rise up once more, my dark avenger.

Run along for your breakfast.

Seeing is believing.

Seeking whom he may devour.

Seems Van Garrett made a new will just before he died.

Sense and reason. Cause and consequence.

Sent to these shores by German princes

She brought it on herself by helping you and your master.

She came to me for advice as town magistrate

She died two years ago come midwinter.

She died within a year.

She told me.

She watched over you till dawn. Now it is her turn to sleep.

Should I show you?

Sir, you're not dead.

So find another chain of reasoning and let me be.

So the new will stood between the Van Garrett fortune

So you would not have it to accuse my father.

So, another little job for the Horseman.

So...

Some of my own design.

Someone of flesh and blood, as I've always said.

Someone who dug in the earth in the Western Woods and stole the skull.

Someone who knew where to dig.

Someone who stood to gain or lose a fortune.

Something must connect them.

Something you should know.

Split up. Glenn. Theodore.

Stand down!

Starting with its chief citizen, Baltus Van Tassel.

Stay here.

Stay quiet.

Stay where you are.

Stole our home.

Take this. It is my gift for you.

Taken back to hell.

Taken by the Headless Horseman.

Taken.

Taken.

Tales of romance caused the brain fever that killed my mother.

Thank God you're here.

Thank God.

Thank you very, very much for your help, Mr. Killian.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That I and my dear wife are giving this little party.

That is not connected to every other by blood or marriage.

That is why the Horseman returns from the grave.

That was worth the coming here?

That'll be him, ma'am.

The assassin is a man of flesh and blood

The attacker rode Masbath down,

The Devil's fire.

The doctor, the reverend, the notary

The easiest part was the first.

The evil eye?

The evil eye's done its work.

The four conspirators drawn into the plot.

The fourth victim, Jonathan Masbath.

The heads are gone?

The Horseman came for him.

The horseman came for love of carnage.

The Horseman cannot enter.

The Horseman cannot enter. He cannot cross the gate.

The Horseman comes! And tonight, he comes for you!

The Horseman killed her.

The horseman was a Hessian mercenary

The Horseman was not set to kill Brom or me. Had Brom not attacked him...

The Horseman!

The Horseman! Save me!

The missing head, which must be restored to the Horseman

The next person that lays a hand on me will get a bullet!

The night father and son quarreled over the new will,

The nurse who cared for her during her sickness

The Pickety Witch, the Pickety Witch

The Pickety Witch, the Pickety Witch

The rest of you keep a sharp lookout.

The skull is gone. Taken.

The stride is gigantic.

The sword thrust to the stomach, the same.

The town is in ferment.

The town looks to me as friend and counsel.

The Tree of the Dead.

The Van Garretts are kith and kin to the Van Tassels?

The Van Garretts were the richest family around these parts.

The Van Garretts, Widow Winship,

The Widow had to go, of course.

The Widow Winship was with child.

The Widow Winship.

The will leaves everything to his son.

The wound looks angry.

Their heads found severed from their bodies.

Their heads were not found at all.

Their heads were not found severed.

Then have a kiss on account.

Then I'll leave you to your thoughts.

Then Sleepy Hollow is grateful to you, Constable Crane.

There are five victims, four graves.

There is conspiracy here.

There was something else, too.

There's a chemical reaction.

These are strange. These markings, what are they?

They chopped off his head with his own sword.

They tell me that you've brought books and trappings of scientific investigation.

They were my mother's books. My father believes

They're all leaving in fear.

Things I had forgotten.

This fine fellow is James Hardenbrook, our notary.

This ground has been disturbed. The soil is loose.

This is a song that we have heard from you more than once.

This is most irregular, Constable.

This is the only book I recommend you read.

This land we're looking at was Van Garrett land,

This time, it's a magistrate that's dead and...

Thomas! Inside!

Three persons murdered.

To detect the guilty, we must use our brains

To investigate murder in Sleepy Hollow.

To keep Americans under the yoke of England.

To locate the Horseman's grave.

To prevent identification of the body.

To protect the rights of her child.

To read books which you must hide?

To Sleepy Hollow

To take heads till his own is restored to him.

To the notary. I had questions to ask Hardenbrook.

To the roof! I have an idea.

To what is your purpose is the question.

Told me the Widow had told her a big secret.

Turn around now!

Until one day my father died,

Until one day, whilst gathering firewood,

Until the winter of '79

Until you learn respect for the dignity of my office.

Van Garrett set him up with an acre and a broken down cottage.

Wait here.

Wake me before dawn.

Was a seed of evil.

We are dealing with a madman.

We are joined by Dr. Thomas Lancaster,

We cannot win this.

We climb down to the Horseman's resting place.

We crossed the path of the Hessian.

We did not know it was a murdering plot.

We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins.

We have to save ourselves.

We mean, of course, I will need the operating table.

We must proceed by a process of elimination.

We need to operate immediately.

We take the Indian trail to the Tree of the Dead.

We're leaving.

Well spoke, dear.

Well, I'm fit for another day, I think.

Well, I'm here to find him and make him stop.

Well, one and only Masbath, I thank you very much,

Well, then I am now twice the man.

Well, then I have something for you.

What a goose!

What are you running from, Magistrate Philipse?

What did you find out, Constable?

What do you believe in?

What does this point to?

What happened to him?

What in the name of God have you done to her?

What is that thing?

What is this secret that unites them?

What is?

What manner of instruments are these?

What might he hear that he must keep away from?

What peril was there for me,

Whatever you hear, keep away.

When battle was joined, there you'd find him.

When my father brought us to Sleepy Hollow,

When the other comes, I will hold him.

When this cut was made, this woman was already dead.

When we say operate,

When you find them in the river, cause of death is drowning.

Where brave men will not venture.

Where is Katrina?

Where my rational mind has been so controverted by the spirit world.

Which brings me to the second course.

Which would have been polite.

While we lived as outcasts in the Western Woods.

Whilst Baltus Van Tassel and his simpering wife and girl child

Who are you?

Who died with him. So the estate passes to the next of kin.

Who is now put to the test.

Who tried to cut and run, and lost his head.

Who's got a kiss for the Pickety Witch?

Who's got a kiss for the Pickety Witch?

Who's there?

Who's with me?

Why did no one think to mention that

Why, because there is hardly a household in Sleepy Hollow

Will you do this?

Will you take nothing from Sleepy Hollow

Yes, and a brave one, too. But I cannot be the one to look after you.

Yes, do run, and jump, and skip.

Yes, I suppose Baltus is the chief citizen,

Yes, I think you loved me that day when you followed me

Yes, I think you loved me that day when you followed me

Yes, I'm sorry. How did you...

Yes, the Van Garretts. I'd almost forgotten them.

Yes, without sense or reason.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. In a way, yes.

Yes. My father thinks you should return to New York.

Yet our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.

You can do magic. Teach me.

You don't know because you were not there! It's all true.

You have not asked me how I have hurt my hand since yesterday,

You have, my dear, by your father's will.

You killed your own sister?

You look as if you'd seen a ghost.

You must be still. The fever is on you.

You seek knowledge of the netherworld?

You seek the warrior bathed in blood, the Headless Horseman.

You will take these experimentations of yours

You, a magistrate, and your head full of such nonsense.

You, come with me.

You? We thought you'd shot your bolt.

You'll kill us all! You're the one the Horseman wants.

You're a long way from New York, Constable.

You're just in time to have your head cut off.

You're young Masbath.

Young Masbath.

Young sir, you are most welcome, even if you are selling something.

Your father has the motive.

Your father, Jonathan Masbath, and now Philipse.

and it's put me in mortal dread of... Of what?

And would not like to remember. Tell me what you dreamt.

Are you all right? Yes, thank you.

Avenge you? Against Van Garrett.

Burn it. Yes, sir.

but perhaps you could help us? You're from the Hollow.

but the fifth. The fifth?

Come on, let's get ready for bed. Yes.

Constable Crane. Mr. Philipse?

Do you think me wicked? No.

Help me move the bed. No, no, I mustn't. You do it.

His camp? His grave.

How can you think so? I have good reason.

How will we recognize it? Without difficulty, I rather fear.

I am a bad habit. There's nothing for it. Oh, isn't there?

I hear him. I smell the blood on him. Do you?

I hear nothing. Nor I.

I know you saw me. What?

Interesting. What is it?

It was a headless horseman. You must not excite yourself.

It's just a spider. Kill it! Kill it! No, no, stomp it!

Leave me alone. Notary Hardenbrook.

Mr. Miller, ride back for the coffin cart. Yes, sir.

My family name was Archer. The archer.

My father... Your father?

Oh, no! That harmless old man? Hanged himself in the night.

Sarah? Run away like so many others.

She will not see you. Did she say anything?

Still alive? Run, Katrina.

The other? Silence. He comes now.

Then I deduce you are the father. I'm not the father.

Then you are bewitched by reason. I am beaten down by it!

There's something under here. What is it?

These are ravings. Drink.

Van Ripper, turn the coach. What?

Was it wicked of me? No. No, not at all.

What are you doing? Do not move or speak.

What happened? We're leaving now.

What have you there? Evidence. I'm sorry, I must ask you...

What is it that you know? Your four friends played you false.

What is it? Just stay where you are. Don't move.

What is that? I was careless with the kitchen knife.

Where are we going? Anywhere but here.

Where? To Notary Hardenbrook's.

Why do you say that? Because you have bewitched me.

Why? Right.

Yes, you have everything now. No.

You had a mind to help me? Yes,

You have moved the body? I did.

You must never move the body! Why not?

You need some manners. Brom.

You slept like the dead. You're too kind to me.

You think it was Katrina, don't you? That can never be uttered.

You were dreaming. Yes.