Sleepy Hollow - 'Sins of the Father'

"Did we get hologram tables while I was away?"

More Sleepy Hollow it is, and we're back on the 'who was Sheriff Corbin?' train.

Fugitive artefact dealer Atticus Nevins reappears, apparently pursued by a ghoul. He tells Abbie he can help fight it, describing a ghoul that attacked him and Corbin in Iraq; their first supernatural experience. Team Witness tries to recover the golden scarab which controls the ghoul from one of his rivals, but oh snap! Nevins has the scarab, hidden in a major abdominal wound inflicted by Pandora. Abbie overcomes her post-Limbo nerves enough to shoot the ghoul in the voonerables, but Nevins escapes with Corbin's big index of stealable loot - pausing only to confirm that Corbin was not a bribe-taking son of a bitch - which he trades with Reynolds' FBI superior for an envelope of cash and a bullet in the head.

So the bad guy was the bad guy all along!

Jenny and Abbie each meet with their father, who tells them he left because he was falling into alcoholism and causing more problems than he solved; it wasn't their fault. Abbie wants to know how her mother descended into madness, since she's started seeing giant glowing symbols as well as flashbacks. By the end of the episode, she is apparently worshiping either the symbol or the thing that it represents in thanks for 'saving her'.

The Hidden One decides that he hasn't been enough of a jerk lately and restores a fragment of Pandora's power, basically just to fuck with her and so she can experience the same existential crisis he is going through being only just a little bit all powerful. Pandora has the look of a woman who is seriously rethinking her allegiances.

Sadly, the main impact of this episode is that, by presenting us with flashbacks to an August Corbin who isn't Clancy Brown, it's made me not really care about him anymore. Seriously, he looks less like Clancy Brown than Joe does. Still, with his name cleared and Nevins gone, maybe it won't come up again.