Sleepy Hollow Season 1 Episode 7: "The Midnight Ride" Quotes
Perhaps this is the sacrifice that witnesses must carry. All we really get is one another.
Ichabod
Abbie: And not to kick you while you're down, but Jefferson took credit for your line about the press.
Ichabod: Well, we never really know people, do we?
I once said to Thomas, a man who reads nothing at all is better educated than a man who reads nothing but newspapers. We had a good laugh about that one.
Ichabod
Ichabod: This water was free at the market.
Abbie: So was the arsenic that came with it.
Flummoxed by a foreign concept that resembles close to nothing of what you know? I can't imagine how that feels.
Ichabod
Abbie: You printed this five times.
Ichabod: Correct.
Abbie: Why?
Ichabod: In case the picture vanishes from the screen like it did a moment ago.
Were you charged a fee for that water? My God it should be an inalienable right.
Ichabod
Abbie: The midnight ride. One if by land, two if by sea.
Ichabod: You've heard of it?
Abbie: Word may have gotten around.
Irving: I need to fill out a report. I need to call the Governor.
Ichabod: What are you going to tell him?
Irving: What do you think I'm going to tell him? The Headless Horseman is mowing people down to bring about the end of days? For further questions, call Ichabod Crane, the man who beheaded him in 1781?
The Horseman is here to hasten the end of days, just as he tried before. We must retrieve his head before he does, and this time, we must destroy it.
Ichabod
This goes without saying, but in your version of events, make sure your perp is not headless.
Irving
Ichabod: You paid? For water. Why not drink from one of the thousands to taps around town or the lake?
Abbie: Well, tap water's got chemicals in it and the lake, you don't even wanna know.
Ichabod: The extent to which your generation has defiled this earth is truly mind boggling.
