We open with kids plotting evil (what I assume kids are
doing all the time) and a nasty monster apparently sucking ghosty stuff from
one of them. Soul? Life Essence? The vital spark of evil that powers all small
sticky creatures? (I’ve had to deal with my cousin’s kids, there will be vengeance
snark).
Now to Ichabod who has discovered games consoles, tinned
drinks but not coasters (much to Abbie’s disapproval) and he isn’t studying for
his American citizenship test (also to Abbie’s disapproval). He smugly thinks
he doesn’t have to study history since he lived it – so absolutely nothing
happened in the centuries when he was sleeping in a cave? She naturally picks
him up on this and when he becomes smug she then tests him – and further adds
that what he remembers is not necessarily what has been written down and
recorded. After all, history isn’t 100% accurate
Ichabod is duly outraged. Abbie’s expression says it all.
She also pokes him about all the texts he’s sharing with historical
society lady Zoe – he meanly pokes back about her still not telling Jenny about
finding their dad. She’s not happy to rock the boat, her dad has a whole over
life and why distract her and Jenny’s life to chase after a man who may not
care?
To the plot! Joe Corbin (the sheriff’s kid, an EMT) calls
her about the little girl who was all monsterised and is now in a coma (a quiet
child! – Victory!). Pandora is also in the hospital being all ominous.
A trip to the hospital only allows Jenny to reassure the
surviving kid since she remembers being a kid who no-one believed when she
talked about monsters. Abbie also has to make a quick call to Reynolds about
why she’s involved in a non-FBI case (I wonder how often this will be a thing
and whether he will be brought into the loop).
Abbie gently tries to explore Jenny’s opinions about
their father while being nostalgic and it’s clear Jenny rarely thinks about him
– and when she does it’s not to think nice things.
Ichabod is terrible with children. We will never speak of
this scene again. She does claim that it was the toothfairy who put her sister
in a coma.
Ichabod has a long memory of the tooth fairy which, of
course, involves Betsy Ross. Kids were getting sick and Ichabod wanted to
comfort her but she turned to Paul Revere who was a dentist (and he fought
against the woo-woo as well) – since all the kids who went into a coma had
recently lost a tooth.
Research reveals an Assyrian demon called and an Abyzou
that eats souls through open wounds and collects teeth – and is weakened by
silver, leading to the habit of giving silver coins to children who lost teeth.
He Abyzou is also invisible except to children.
Jenny and Ichabod decide to go to the local school in the
Abyzou’s area and see what kids are close to losing their teeth. Which means
Ichabod giving a speech to the precious kiddies while Jenny looks on, snickers
and takes pictures. They identify one child who is vulnerable and give the kid
a silver coin to try and ward off the Abyzou
Now they need to see what Paul Revere has in his box of
trips – which involves Ichabod taking over the conversation before Abbie slaps
someone so he can win the reluctant curator over with his olde worldy language.
Jenny is amused
And Joe warns Ichabod that Abbie and Jenny constantly like
to set people up and pokes Ichabod about Zoe texting him every 2 seconds.
Abbie finally tells Jenny that she knows where their dad
is – and Jenny says she knew for 5 years. That kind of vexes Abbie since she’s
been feeling super guilty for not sharing after a few days. Jenny assumed Abbie
hated him – while Abbie assumed Jenny died but Jenny points out she only
parrots what Abbie told her because she was 3 when their dad left, she doesn’t
remember.
The Abyzou attacks the kid who wards it off with the coin
then Jenny swings ineffectively at the invisible thing. Only hitting the
sprinkler – but getting it wet allows them to see it. But not win – Abbie is injured
and ends up in hospital where Ichabod and Jenny desperately worry about her.
Jenny also has an awesome sister-reassurance speech for Saffron over her
comatose little sister.
While Pandora is there to make it all worse and full of
despair. She also promises to be able to save her sister. With a little bag.
Pandora also drops in to see Abbie, waking her from unconsciousness. She talks
about her abusive childhood and feeding her father to a lion.
Jenny and Ichabod looks at Paul Revere’s bag of tricks
and between them they come up with the tools to kill the demon.
With silver nitrate they reveal the creature, but rather foolishly
do so outside so it can run away and hide until it wears off, but it comes
back, they re-reveal it and Jenny gives it a good stabbing.
The kid wakes from her coma.
Another flashback to Betsy and Ichabod kissing – this a
drug induced hallucination when under a dentist’s drugs. He’s very very zonked.
And Abbie checks all his flirty texts.
Jenny has also succeeded in tracking down the woman who
wanted to steal the shards – and they make up over their dad.
Ichabod does some research on what Pandora said to Abbie –
calling her and Ichabod “destroyers” in Sumerian (there are several Pandoras in
history, apparently, and she’s not the Greek one). Which also begs what their
role is if they’re called “destroyers”
Abyzou an Assyrian demon – looks like another example of
drawing on random woo-woo from other cultures for monster of the week – but from
what I can tell an Abyzou isn’t particularly Assyrian (nor particularly aimed
at children, or teeth). It’s just a random demon name. (I don’t even think it’s
necessarily a KIND of demon so much as the name of one).
And if Pandora is Sumerian, a middle eastern actress
would have been nice.
I get it, we’re inserting Betsy as a character – but it
feels slightly ridiculous that Ichabod now can’t recount any history or
memories without Betsy in it somewhere when he never mentioned her once in the
last 2 seasons. It’s clumsy, very clumsy. That said, I do appreciate they’re
not turning her into Katrina the second.
I do love the Mills’s sisters together
