Sleepy Hollow Shooting Script
Baltus grasps Katrina, deathly afraid.
BALTUS (CONT’D) The Horseman has killed your stepmother!
HOOFBEATS are HEARD… the SCREECHY CRY of Daredevil. Baltus looks…
The Horseman rides into view, giving chase…
Instant mayhem-the few people in the churchyard flee, heading for the Church…
Baltus runs toward the Church…
KATRINA Father!
Katrina chases after Baltus. Ichabod now sees that his “case” is falling apart. He and Young Masbath start running to the Church.
INT. CHURCH-NIGHT
The GATHERERS in the pews react to the commotion, shouting, some running to the windows… to the doors…
EXT. CHURCH-NIGHT
Baltus pushes through the IRON GATE, across the churchyard, bounding up the stairs… Katrina following him.
The Horseman rides behind…
Ichabod, with Masbath, follow into the churchyard. Ichabod glances back…
ICHABOD (to Young Masbath) I know what you are thinking.
YOUNG MASBATH It seems Baltus Van Tassel is not the one who controls the Horseman.
As the Horseman reaches the open gate, Daredevil rears up violently, snorting, unwilling to enter.
INT. CHURCH-NIGHT
Baltus makes his way into the church, shoving people aside.
Men pass RIFLES from stockpiles and climb onto pews at the boarded windows. Women herd children into a cellar.
Baltus searches for a hiding place, moves toward the back…
Katrina moves through, following Baltus…
At the front of the Church, Ichabod squeezes in just as the front doors are forced shut. Ichabod surveys the madness…
Ichabod runs to a window, looking out between boards…
EXT. CHURCH-NIGHT
At the church yard gates, the Horseman grabs Daredevils reins, tries to move forward again. Same result-Daredevil freaks.
The Horseman gives his AXE an underhand toss… to the ground inside the gate…
The axe instantly BEGINS TO DEGRADE-like dust in the rain.
The Horseman steers away, keeping outside the fence.
INT. CHURCH-NIGHT
Ichabod comes away from the window, looking to the mass of panicked citizens. He sees Katrina pushing up the aisle… she’s heading toward Baltus.
Katrina turns to Ichabod, her face aflame with accusation.
Ichabod is humbled, desperate to make it up-but Katrina runs toward … the Altar, where she prostrates herself, evidently in a paroxysm of despair.
RIFLES BOOM LOUDLY as men at the windows begin FIRING…
EXT. CHURCH-NIGHT
The Horseman circles, under fire.
Great clouds of gun smoke shoot from the Church.
Men fire down from the belfry.
Parts of the Horseman and Daredevil splatter red as slugs hit, without effect.
At the other side of the Church…
The Horseman circles, heading to the town square…
INT. CHURCH-NIGHT
Riflemen shout to each other, running to the opposite windows to follow the Horseman.
Young Masbath grabs a rifle, leaps to join the brigade.
Baltus is trying to force his way to one of the cellar doors, when Steenwyck grips him angrily, SHOVES him…
STEENWYCK You’ll kill us all… !
Baltus stumbles back, topples pews.
STEENWYCK (CONT’D) You’re the one the Horseman wants.
Steenwyck grabs Baltus, dragging him to the front.
Ichabod’s pushing past people, trying to get to them.
EXT. TOWN SQUARE, CHURCH-NIGHT
The Horseman brings Daredevil to a halt, yanks a large coil of ROPE off a hitching post, turns to ride back…
INT. CHURCH-NIGHT
Baltus pulls free from Steenwyck, falls to the floor again.
STEENWYCK Why should we die for you? Get out!
Others join the rage, pulling Baltus toward the front of the Church, shouting. Ichabod joins in, struggling to push people off of Baltus…
ICHABOD Stop this… !
Ichabod gets to Baltus’s side, trying to protect.
ICHABOD (CONT’D) The Horseman cannot enter! It does not matter who he wants, he cannot cross the gate… !
At the windows, ONE RIFLEMAN cries out.
ONE RIFLEMAN He’s coming back!
More panic. Steenwyck points toward Baltus.
STEENWYCK We have to save ourselves… !
Baltus pulls the PISTOL from Ichabod’s holster…
BALTUS No! Unhand me! Stand off… !
Baltus brandishes the gun. Everyone backs off.
EXT. CHURCH-NIGHT
The Horseman rides past the front, fired upon…
The Horseman halts along a length of the wrought gate, reaches… yanks off one IRON POST, which is pointed on top, like an arrow head.
INT. CHURCH-NIGHT
Baltus holds everyone away with the pistol, enraged…
BALTUS The next person to lay hands on me will have a bullet.
Doctor Lancaster, who so far has just been one of the crowd, now pushes his way between Steenwyck and Baltus.
DOCTOR LANCASTER Enough have died already! (to Steenwyck meaningfully) It is time to confess our sins and ask God to forgive our trespasses!
STEENWYCK Don’t be a fool! I warn you, Doctor Lancaster-!
BALTUS (to Doctor Lancaster) What is it that you know?
DOCTOR LANCASTER (to Baltus) Your four friends played you false. We were devilishly possessed by one who- That’s as far as he gets before Steenwyck wrenches a heavy ornate CROSS from the wall and smashes his skull with a blow of tremendous force, with the Cross.
Baltus FIRES-blasts a bloody hole in Steenwyck’s stomach… !
Everyone backs farther away as Steenwyck falls. Steenwyck lays gasping, eyes huge. He tries crawl…
Katrina rises to her feet and stands; staring wide-eyed at the horror. Ichabod moves toward her.
Steenwyck lays still with a bloody gurgle, face down. Baltus looks to all the horrified people around him.
BALTUS There is conspiracy here! And I will seek it out!
CRASH! -the IRON POST comes SPEARING through a window, trailing rope…
CRACK-SKEWERS Baltus from behind: its bloodied point bursting out through his breastbone…
Baltus gasps, stunned… he drops the gun, looks down to clutch the post. Blood streams out of his mouth.
Ichabod catches Katrina as she swoons. Horrorstruck, he hugs her… and thus notices that hanging on a ribbon around her neck is the little carved bauble taken from the neck of the dead Crone. Almost at the same time, Ichabod sees that on the flagstones where Katrina was lying there is now a “Drawing” done in chalk, identical to the “Evil Eye” drawing he found under his bed.
ICHABOD (gasps) The Evil Eye again!
At that moment, a piece of White Chalk falls from Katrina’s senseless hand.
ICHABOD (CONT’D) Oh God… .it was you!
The full horrible implication of this hits Ichabod just as:
