The episode begins with some early and ever so fun Rip Van Wrinkle teasings, which multitask here as a “Get out and Vote” public service announcement. But I honestly couldn’t help but love seeing Ichabod reprimand viewers for treating midterm elections with more indifference than “American Idolatry.” Of course, they have to walk it back and give a history lesson of how the voting process has improved in 230 years, but the point was still well made. But the surprise of the night, at least for myself, was that Katrina was able to escape her new Hessian captors with great ease and quickly became part of the Scooby Gang with Ichabod and Abbie. Despite being the object of Ichabod’s ostensible desires since the first episode of season one, Katrina has shared fewer scenes with Ichabod in the 21st century than Abbie has had with Andy—which is remarkable considering Andy has been dead since the pilot. Seeing them together was curiously uncomfortable for these spouses as it was to watch. But it was also fascinating. For understandable reasons, Ichabod has developed trust issues with Katrina. First, she tells him that she is a witch. Who couldn’t along go with that? Then she reluctantly reveals that she also mothered their child without his knowledge. Oh and also, she was there at the secretly covered up death of his former fiancée. And did we mention she’s shacking up with the Headless Horseman these days? But she was firmly on the pro-choice stance of not delivering Moloch to his apocalyptic term, which makes it much more difficult for me to see the shadow in her shady disposition. In any event, she allows Ichabod to have another of the best scenes of the season: whenever he shares time with John Noble. Henry Parrish and his old man going at it, this time in Frank Irving’s psychiatry wing, is better than any monster of the week beastie the make-up team can come up with. And Ichabod reaches out ever so earnestly to his son, only to be turned away. So, it would seem Henry chooses Moloch. But like Ichabod, I do not buy Henry’s protestations that he is completely gone. It’s probably just the tone of the series, but I still predict some redemption, even if it is in death, for Ichabod’s junior. Eventually, Ichabod and Abbie discover that there is a macguffin, compliments of Benjamin Franlkin, which will stop Moloch’s birth. Quicker than you can say third act shootout, there is plenty of CGI sorcery on hand allowing them to stop Moloch’s monstrous appearance into our world. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
