Sleepy Hollow (TV Series)

Paradise Lost (2015)

Tom Mison: Ichabod Crane

Quotes 

• Abbie Mills : If you can't trust an angel, who can you trust?

  Ichabod Crane : Lucifer was an angel.

• Ichabod Crane : [Offended at organic signs at a farmers' market]  I thought all produce organic by definition.

• Ichabod Crane : People of this era are trying to remake, reconceive, reinvent at every turn.

  Abbie Mills : Reinvention isn't such a bad thing. Have you ever had a grapple?

  Ichabod Crane : I have had to engage in hand to hand combat on many occasions.

• Abbie Mills : What happened today was important.

  Ichabod Crane : What? That we disagreed?

  Abbie Mills : [Emphatically]  Mmmm. We pushed each other. We need that. Checks and balances, right?

  Ichabod Crane : No matter what obstacles we face, no matter how many disagreements we have, our bond cannot be broken.

  [Turning to go] 

  Ichabod Crane : Witness represent.

• Ichabod Crane : [to Katrina]  Henry is our son. Our blood. Abraham was my friend and your fiancé. They are not the same. You want to save him out of guilt and lay it at my feet!

• Katrina Crane : He will *kill* Abraham, which is what you brought him here to do.

  Ichabod Crane : We had yet to make that decision.

  Abbie Mills : It's crazy because we're talking about a murderous monster.

  Katrina Crane : If Abraham was one of your friends, you would not condemn him to death so easily.

  Abbie Mills : August Corbin was my friend, and the Horseman murdered him in front of me. He is Death personified.

  Ichabod Crane : Please, both of you... There is no need for tempers to flare.

  Abbie Mills : Are you kidding me? When we waver in our duty, monsters get loose and people die. We are not jailers, we are not reformers--we are soldiers, and I think that we all understand what the stakes are here. I can't believe you let her talk you into this!

  Ichabod Crane : I did not! I recognized a sliver of the man I once knew *before* Katrina told me of her plan, though it was deeply unfair of you to use our marriage as leverage.

  Katrina Crane : Ichabod, what you have to understand is...

  [interrupted] 

  Ichabod Crane : No--*you* must understand. This is neither the time nor the place to discuss it.

  [Katrina walks off] 

• Ichabod Crane : [to Abbie]  Please help me to make this right. We must find Abraham and bring him here. *If* Katrina can help him, you and I need to know. If not, then we cross that difficult bridge.

  Abbie Mills : Okay, fine. The Horseman can't bear daylight--he'll go to ground before sunrise.

  Ichabod Crane : I know you think this unfair. I know you think the angel is in the right, but there is something about him I mistrust. He's quick to action... Quick to anger.

  Abbie Mills : Wouldn't you be? He's been searching for the Horseman for how long? And we let him go. Now, we have a lot to talk about, and no, now's not the time... . Not with a Headless Horseman, an angry angel, and two demons on the loose.

  Ichabod Crane : I shall search through apocryphal sources for our angel, Orion.

  Abbie Mills : I'll try the old-fashioned approach... Feed on the pavement.

• Abbie Mills : You really haven't wondered, if our battle against the forces of evil is over?

  Ichabod Crane : In truth, no... I have not.

  Abbie Mills : Well, you haven't let yourself. Neither of us have because, if the apocalypse is over and our job as witnesses is done, we'd have to figure out life without it.

  Ichabod Crane : You think I'm using our mission--our duty--to escape the reality of my situation?

  Abbie Mills : Come on, if some supernatural creature were hiding out on this farm, tell me you wouldn't be relieved. Before I knew that we were witnesses, I didn't have any of the big questions locked down. Should I enroll at Quantico?

  Ichabod Crane : --Take the next step in your career. Find a husband with whom to settle...

  Abbie Mills : [incredulously]  A husband? You really goin' there?

  Ichabod Crane : Well... I, uh--I in no way meant to imply a point of view that was in any way demeaning to the modern woman.

  Abbie Mills : I know.

  Ichabod Crane : Two-hundred and fifty years removed everything I ever knew. I shall need a job... A permanent abode.

  Abbie Mills : A 401k, a mortgage, health insurance, credit cards, social security, an accountant, a dentist... You own set of wheels.

  Ichabod Crane : Point made, Lieutenant. Point made.

  [Abbie eyes him] 

  Ichabod Crane : I may indeed have spent the last six weeks traipsing the woods with a loaded weapon because it is the only purpose I know.

  [pause] 

  Ichabod Crane : Without the threat of apocalypse, what is my place in the world?

  [interrupted by ominous chanting] 

• Abbie Mills : [Abbie knocks]  May I come into your room? So you cool posting up in here while she's living at the cabin? It's not even your cabin.

  Ichabod Crane : Tis not my archives, either. However, solitude can be invigorating. I have over 200 years of reading to catch up on.

  Abbie Mills : [scoffs]  Crane... Seriously. It's what partners are for--there's no judgment.

  Ichabod Crane : Yes, Lieutenant. This reexamination of my marriage is extremely trying.

  Abbie Mills : It can't feel good. She spends more time with our greatest enemy than you.

  Ichabod Crane : Her magical wards have been instrumental in keeping the Horseman captive, and I do believe she pities Abraham.

  Abbie Mills : Why waste a single iota of compassion on him--he's a monster, and a killer.

  Ichabod Crane : But beneath the monster is a man. I've seen him... in the Gorgon's cave.

  [Flashback] 

  Ichabod Crane : And Katrina has seen even more. In time, I'm certain we shall discuss it at length. Now, once she said we could call on her if needed. I--I would rather not. Not until we know the true nature of this threat we face.

  Abbie Mills : Let's go to Wilcox Farms... See what we can see.