He tells them to remember their links to each other because purgatory will try to make them forget. He has grown to care about both of them. His last words before they read Washington’s words to open the gateway are that he looks forward to meeting Ichabod’s wife. The gateway bursts open as if glass were shattering. The two hold hands and walk through the revealed tunnel toward a bright light at the end (hmm…symbolism maybe?).
Abbie wakes up in Corbin’s cabin with a bandage on her head. Sheriff Corbin and Andy, both in their uniforms, come in and tell her she was injured during her training at Quantico and they are urging her to rest. They tell her how well she is doing in her training. She tries to resist at first, telling them they are dead, but she gets overwhelmed for her yearning of the sheriff and hugs him, telling him she missed him. She says as an afterthought that she was supposed to remember something. We shoot over to Ichabod who wakes up in his original time (quite obvious by his clothing).
He yells for Abbie and after not seeing her, follows the music he hears. He goes inside a door and gets a welcoming applause. His father stands up and welcomes him back, telling him he’s returned a hero after years of service in his majesty’s army. The British won and Ichabod has been granted full professorship. With tears coming to his eyes, he walks up to his father and mentions that when he turned his back against England, his father swore never to talk to him again. His father tells him he will always be a child after his own heart and they embrace. To celebrate, drinks are brought out.
Back in Abbie’s temptation, Corbin is still laying it on thick, telling her how proud he is and she and Andy are laughing and teasing each other. Corbin says, “Just like old times,” and it triggers a real memory (of her telling Ichabod she wishes she could go back) right before she puts a piece of pie in her mouth. She realizes that the scene she is in right now is not real. She tries to leave but the door will not open. Andy begs her not to let his soul be taken and his head is upside down and hanging at his back like it was when he was killed. Corbin is holding his head in his hands and begs her not to leave him there. The door opens and sucks her out into a bright light.
Back with Ichabod and his father, he is about to drink as his father toasts and praises him. He puts the glass to his lips but before the liquid touches his mouth, he flashes a memory of him telling Abbie how he used to imagine he would be a professor in his own right but upheld by his father’s pride for him. He realizes he’s in a dream and suddenly his faux-father starts disowning him again as his eyes turn black. He tells his father he’s already been shunned and refuses to do what he says. He throws his drink into the fire and his faux-father starts eating his glass and yelling with blood coming out of his mouth (ick). Ichabod runs out the door and disappears into a bright light.
Jenny is listening to Corbin’s tapes. In one, he mentions the Trinity Church and thinking that some answers are in the ruins of it.
Ichabod is in a dark and strange place. A woman is sitting on a chair huddled up and crying. When he confronts her, she looks up at him and has no face. He keeps walking and sees a body on the ground, face down, that looks like Abbie. When he touches her back, she flips over startled. They are both suspicious that the other one is not real. She quizzes him, asking what she taught him after they trapped Headless. He gives her a pound on the knuckles and they are both satisfied that the other is real. They tell each other how when they remembered the other, they were able to pull themselves out of their temptations. They look around at all the disgusting, strange goings ons and decide to go look for Katrina, realizing they are in purgatory. They find the church and Katrina is inside.
