Sleepy Hollow - 'Deliverance'

"Hello? Did somebody order some mildly rapey body horror?"

Season 2 of Sleepy Hollow seems to be settling into a bit of an artefact of the week pattern, with many of these objects then being bounced off Henry/War (possibly through the agency of Hawley the idiot) to kickstart the next story. In this case, the evil spider created from the jincane swapped for Joe Corbin's non-cure has infected Katrina with... something.

One of the most interesting things to come out of this is a clash between the two Horsemen, as Henry brings a bunch of pseudoscience heavies from the Hellfire Club to drag Katrina away, leading to a drag-out fight against Death as Abraham shows once more that while he may be a crazy stalker, his feelings are as sincere as they are creepy. This gives her the chance to escape and be found by Abby and Ichabod at the hospital (after a visit to the polling booths for the weekly outrage.)

It turns out that Katrina is pregnant with the demon Moloch, bringer of the Apocalypse, who is using her as a means to leapfrog any need for the remaining two horsemen (samurai dude and cloak dude.) Ichabod is briefly livid at the thought that headless Abraham might have knocked up his missus, but then he rushes off to ask Henry nicely to take it back. I know that they said he wants to believe in Jeremy, but this is taking fatherly faith to insane lengths.

Unsurprisingly, Henry mocks Ichabod - although a brief psychic contact hints that a) there may still be a frightened little boy inside War's armour, and b) Jeremy may have inherited his sin-eating ability from Ichabod - and then it's ho for the artefact of the week, a tablet possessed by the Hellfire Club that not only holds the rituals for impregnating, but also has an 'aurora lens' hidden within it that can create an artificial aurora capable of banishing demons, because Benjamin fucking Franklin, okay! (In this universe, the Hellfire Club was evil, because British, and Franklin infiltrated it.) I'll buy the powers of the aurora and even the aurora-making stone, but I'm not clear how Franklin got it inside an already extant stone tablet. I guess with science?

And then Henry was bottling lightning, or something.

Sleepy Hollow continues to be basically bonkers, with a side of eww, but I love it in all its barmy glory.