Sleepy Hollow Being the true storie of one Ichabod Crane and the ...

KATRINA
Proposed to me several times.
This ambiguous statement, accompanied by a faint smile, confuses
Ichabod into silence as she closes the door behind her. He turns with
relief to the next business -- the Bible. He opens the front cover. On
the endpaper is a Family Tree going back a hundred years, in variously
faded inks and handwritings.
Ichabod studies it and we see what he learns: that Katrina was born in
1777... to Baltus's first wife, who died in 1797... that Lady Van Tassel
is Baltus's second wife (her maiden name is unimportant, because
false)... Then he suddenly notices something even more interesting:
The family tree has a "Van Garrett" in it -- the husband of Baltus's
father's sister.
ICHABOD
(mutters)
Van Garrett... !
Ichabod looks thoughtful. He starts copying out details into his
Ledger.
A very faint rumbling disturbs him for a moment. He looks up. Silence
now. He continues working.
EXT. SLEEPY HOLLOW -- NIGHT
The empty street.
Then the low sinister sound of rumbling is heard again.
EXT. WOODEN BUNKER / FIELD -- INTERCUT -- NIGHT
The distant SOUND of the GROUND RUMBLING is HEARD. AT THE WOODEN
BUNKER, Jonathan looks out, fearful...
The torches burn bright along the forest line. SEVERAL DEER stampede
out... sprinting across the field.
Jonathan watches the forest. A horrible, SILENT stillness has fallen.
Then, Jonathan's eyes widen...
A thick FOG creeps from the woods.
As fog overtakes each torch, mist snakes up, snuffing each flame... one
by one by one, all along the forest edge...
Jonathan sticks his rifle out from the bunker, sights the gun along
the treeline.
JONATHAN
Come out, devil... come...
EXT. SLEEPY HOLLOW FORESTS, OVERVIEW -- NIGHT
Silhouetted treetops. The SOUNDS of JONATHAN'S RIFLE FIRING are HEARD,
echoing -- SEVERAL GUNSHOTS, then... SILENCE...
EXT. SLEEPY HOLLOW FOREST -- NIGHT
Jonathan flees through the forest, glances back, terrified. THUNDEROUS
HOOFBEATS are HEARD from behind.
DEEP IN THE FOREST, we GLIMPSE the source of the HOOFBEATS: a HUGE
FORM on a HUGE BLACK HORSE, already gone.
Jonathan pushes through thorny bushes. Jagged branches bloody his
hands and cheeks...
He bursts from the brier patch and TUMBLES to a TRAIL.
IN THE FOREST BEHIND: The hooves of the black horse rip underbrush.
HOOFBEATS DEAFENING. A spur digs into the snorting steed's already
bleeding flank.
The pursuer's gloved hand draws a SWORD, blade RINGING.
ON THE TRAIL, Jonathan runs onward. The shrill WHISTLE of a SWORD
SWING is HEARD as the pursuer BLURS PAST...
Jonathan is still running when his head lolls back, at an impossible
angle... his head tumbles off his shoulders...
Jonathan's headless body hits the dirt.
EXT. SLEEPY HOLLOW -- DAY (EARLY MORNING)
People going about their business calmly. A WOMAN shakes out a blanket
from an upper window. The murder has obviously not been discovered