Sleepy Hollow Shooting Script
Ichabod scrambles toward the skull-but falls, halted. Lady Van Tassel grips his leg, holding him.
Young Masbath grabs a heavy, broken TREE LIMB off the ground.
The Horseman is mere yards behind Katrina…
Ichabod struggles to get free from Lady Van Tassel, can’t break her grip when, BANG-Young Masbath SMASHES Lady Van Tassel over the head with the tree limb. She’s out.
The Horseman catches Katrina…
Ichabod scrambles free, running, reaching for the skull… grasping it…
The Horseman holds Katrina ready by her hair as she falls to her knees, screaming and struggling. The Horseman raises his sword…
Ichabod rises, THROWS the skull with all his might…
ICHABOD (CONT’D) Horseman!
The skull spins through the air…
The Horseman suddenly drops Katrina, reaches up with one hand… catches the skull.
Katrina runs. Ichabod runs to meet her, grabs her as she falls. Together, they back away from the Horseman…
The Horseman holds the skull out… brings it to his shoulders, to its rightful place. THUNDER POUNDS.
TRANSFORMATION begins-blood and flesh rise up from the Horseman’s throat and grip the skull…
Young Masbath watches in awe.
The Horseman’s reformation continues. Muscle forms. Liquids become solids. He is made whole once more, the same evil, human face we saw in Baltus’s stories.
The Horseman looks to Ichabod and Katrina, touches his restored face. Daredevil rides up, SCREECHING. The Horseman replaces his sword, climbs into the saddle.
He rides toward Katrina and Ichabod, but he does not want them. They are so exhausted they fall down. Young Masbath comes to stand with them.
The Horseman leans to grab Lady Van Tassel’s unconscious form, pulls her up across Daredevil’s back.
The Horseman rides away with her.
Ichabod and Katrina watch him go. They look at each other, then kiss gratefully. Ichabod looks to Young Masbath…
ICHABOD (CONT’D) How are you, Young Masbath?
YOUNG MASBATH Weary, sir.
Ichabod holds out his arm. Masbath comes over. They embrace. Katrina touches the burned bullet hole in Ichabod’s clothing.
KATRINA I thought I had lost you.
Ichabod reaches into his clothing, takes out a BOOK he kept in an inner pocket close to his heart…
The BOOK OF SPELLS with a bullet lodged in it.
Katrina wraps her arms around Ichabod.
EXT. WESTERN WOODS, TREE OF THE DEAD-NIGHT
HOOFBEATS.
The Horseman enters the clearing, holding on to Lady Van Tassel. Ahead, the Tree of the dead awaits.
Lady Van Tassel is awakening…
The Horseman grips Lady Van Tassel’s hair, pulling her face up closer to his, just as she opens her eyes…
Lady Van Tassel screams…
As the Horseman brings his face to meet hers, about to engage in a KISS, his jagged teeth open wide.
Ahead, the twisted tree’s wound opens, deep and glowing, as Daredevil picks up speed.
EXT. WESTERN WOODS, TREE OF THE DEAD-NIGHT
Daredevil JUMPS in the air just as a LIGHTNING BOLT blasts down from the sky, striking the Horseman…
For an instant, Horseman and horse are transformed, SKELETONS OF LIGHT, entering the tree!
Silence and smoke.
At the tree, Lady Van Tassel’s hand sticks out from the tight-shut suture.
The sewn wound on her palm seeps blood as her fingers curl.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET, ICHABOD’S HOME-DAY
A coach pulls up to Ichabod’s home. Ichabod is the driver.
He gets off, goes and opens the coach door. He helps Katrina down. Next, Young Masbath sticks his head out.
Katrina holds Young Masbath’s hand. Ichabod comes to hold Katrina’s hand.
A STRAY CAT watches them- Young Masbath looks entranced at the BUSTLING METROPOLIS.
YOUNG MASBATH Oh, my!
KATRINA (equally impressed) And cobbled streets!
ICHABOD (proudly) Yes… New York, New York! Just in time for the new century! It’s the modern age, Katrina!
KATRINA It’s always the modern age, Ichabod … but the ancient ones endure.
Large snowflakes begin to fall upon the scene.
Ichabod puts an arm around Katrina and the other arm around Masbath.
The CAT is black with one white paw… the Cat from Ichabod’s dreams… The CAT turns to look at the trio.
ECU-The CAT’S EYES ARE HUMAN, INTELLIGENT, KINDLY… They are Ichabod’s Mother’s eyes.
Ichabod, Katrina and Young Masbath enter Ichabod’s house, as the SNOW continues to fall.
THE END
