Rossi's Farm – Dusk
Spencer walks with Rossi. Derek Morgan follows with the horses. Cicadas chatter from a vast corn field.
"Not more than a year ago, a mob hung a man for stealing a horse. For stealing a horse! And, you dig up our dead."
"Are you saying I should be frightened? Is this is a message passed on from Reverend Hankle?"
The cicadas suddenly go silent and Derek notices.
"We are farmers here, not lawyers or bankers, or even constables. Every penny we earn comes from what we send down the Hudson."
"I know it."
"Um…excuse me, sirs…" Derek tries to get their attention.
"Because of the Horseman, our migrant workers flee for their lives. There is a danger that our crops will rot. So, if you are going to help us, you stop the Horseman. That is your task…to kill an undead thing."
Derek looks to a fenced grazing area, worried. The sheep are agitated, all running one direction away.
"Listen to what you say…" Spencer tells him.
"No, you listen! You may think we are a pack of superstitious dullards…"
"At times I do, frankly." Spencer tells him honestly.
"Sirs…please!" Derek tries again to get their attention.
"What will it take for you to realize that is no laughing matter?" Rossi asks him seriously.
The horses go crazy, braying and rearing. The reins yank Derek off his feet as the horses flee. Spencer and Rossi look to Derek. They hear thundering hoofbeats and the winds kicks up. Hoofbeats seem to come from all directions. Rossi looks to the corn field. A flock of birds alights; a great sheet of black against the sky.
"Oh my God." Rossi runs towards his house, past Derek.
Hoofbeats are getting louder and closer. Spencer faces the corn field and the field explodes open, stalks bending to make way as the Headless Horseman gallops onto the corn field atop Daredevil. Derek runs following Rossi and Spencer is stunned. He looks down to draw his flinklock pistol, but the Horseman blows by before he can raise it. A blast of air knocks Spencer off his feet.
The Horseman chases Derek and Rossi.
Spencer follows.
The Horseman draws his sword.
Derek falls in the grass…
Daredevil's pounding hooves will certainly crush him. Daredevil leaps over Derek, continuing the charge.
Rossi has a long way to go before home. He looks over his shoulder. No way he'll make it alive. Spencer is running and watches as Rossi slows. Rossi gathers all of his courage and stops, turning. The Horseman is closing, sword held high. Rossi raises his talisman.
"Rossi!"
Rossi holds the talisman up, trying to be fearless. The Horseman swings and both Spencer and Derek hear the clank of the sword on the talisman. Rossi's severed head spins and his body falls and folds.
Spencer runs past Derek and the Horseman halts just as Spencer reaches a point in front of Rossi's body, aiming his pistol. Daredevil lets out a screechy cry. The Horseman rides towards Spencer.
Spencer gets on one knee, trying to steady his pistol. The Horseman closes and Spencer fires. The slugs slams the Horseman dead center, bursts through and rends his uniform without slowing him. The Horseman is almost on Spencer. Spencer cringes, arms up…as the Horseman passes.
The Horseman leans to skewer Rossi's head with his sword. With the head of his prize, the Horseman races away. Spencer passes out. Derek runs to wake him up.
Archer House – Second Floor Hall – Night
Lila comes to a door and knocks. Sarah stands behind with a tray of food. Derek is seated near.
"Has he not come out at all?" Lila asks him.
Derk shakes his head.
Spencer's Room – Night
Spencer sleeps restlessly.
Spencer's Dream – Young Spencer's Bedroom – Night
It is raining outside. The wind and pounding rain blasts open a window. Diana comes to it, then moves to comfort the fearful young Spencer in bed.
"Don't be afraid…don't be afraid."
Spencer's Dream – Young Spencer's Home – Day
Spencer peers his eyes through a keyhole. Diana is kneeled before flour on the floor. She draws patterns in it, whispering and she blows the flour away.
Later on in the dream the ugly woman walks towards the home, supported by a man. She weeps, carrying something in a blanket.
Young Spencer comes to a window, watching and scared.
The ugly woman is so weak that she falls. The blanket opens…the corpse of an infant tumbles to the dirt. Spencer hears the woman loud cries.
Spencer's Dream – Front of Young Spencer's Home – Night
Two men in black drag Diana to a coach. She looks back, fearful and pulled along. A third man in black follows. A young Spencer struggles as William Reid restrains him.
"No…mother…no…!"
The third man peers back, a gray-haired man with a villainous face.
Spencer's Dream – Courtroom – Day
"The night of the great storm, I saw her cross my windows." The ugly woman tells the court.
The third man stands in front of the tearful ugly woman in the witness box.
"Are you certain it was she?"
"In the lightning, I did see her." She points to Diana. "Her. Lady Reid…"
Diana sits in shackles.
"I will never forget. The next moment, I found my infant dead…with the blood welt on his breast."
Those in attendance cry out at this. Spencer is seated by Lord Reid, eyes filled with tears.
Spencer's Dream – Young Spencer's Room – Night
The night of the great storm. Spencer is in his mother's arms.
"The night of the great storm, I saw her cross my windows."
"Don't be afraid…" Diana tells her son.
Archer House, Spencer's Bedroom – Night
Spencer gasps awake and hears the door knocking.
"Constable Reid?" Lila knocks on the door.
Spencer looks at his hands balled into fists. He opens them and has one half of Rossi's talisman in each palm. He walks to the door and unlocks it. And then sits at his work table.
Lila opens the door with a tray of food. "Are you hungry?"
Spencer shakes his head and doesn't look up. Lila crosses the room. She begins picking up pieces of the plaster hoofprint cast which lies scattered on the floor. "You promised justice."
"If these are random stalkings of a monster, what good am I?"
"People have put their trust in you, Spencer Reid."
"They have done nothing of the sort."
"Won't they still have that justice?" Her patience is waining. "Or, was it a vain promise?"
Spencer begins to get distressed, his head in his hands. Derek runs into the room. "Constrable Reid…something has happened."
Cliffhanger…evil laughter!