We switch to Abby who is preparing to teach Ichabod how to drive. Of course he delivers the usual bluff and bluster about driving, while complaining about not understanding why everyone has to learn to do this. Abby makes it clear that if they are to win this war, Ichabod will have to learn certain skills. Ichabod immediately floors the gas and wheels around the parking lot at such a speed that he puts Abby into a panic. It quickly becomes clear that Ichabod is more than comfortable behind the wheel of the car. Ichabod admits that he realises that Abby wants him to learn these skills in case something to her but he makes it clear that they are either going to survive together or die together. The conversation shifts when Ichabod gets an amber alert on his phone and so he and Abby head off to investigate, after Abby rightfully confiscates the car keys.
Abby sits down to speak the parents of the now missing Sarah. The parents want to be out looking and the father says that the mother needs to forgive herself for not setting the alarm the night before because she fell asleep in the office. Later, Abby talks with Beth, the mother, outside. who says that her family is cursed. Abby says that the storm will pass. It turns out that Beth was Abbys caseworker when she and Jenny become wards of the state. Abby vows that she will find Sarah.
Crane peers through the windows at the weapons which belonged to Daniel Lancaster and declares that they are celebrating a scoundrel. Abby arrives on the scene just in time to stop Crane from breaking in through the windows and orders him to meet her in the woods. Crane tells Abby that Lancaster was no patriot and only sided with the rebels when it became clear that the British were going to lose. Abby directs Cranes attention back to the present and Crane sees the site of a struggle and blood splatter. The trail quickly grows cold but Abby finds a hollow bone on the ground with holes in it. After examination, Crane says that the object is actually a bone flute; the oldest known instrument which originated in China. After pressing the flute to his mouth, Crane begins to play and Abby begins to hallucinate and become dizzy, even as she moves away from Crane towards the swamp. Crane barely manages to pull her from her daze in time. Crane tells Abby that Sarah was lured into the woods by a pied piper.
After sneaking back into the headquarters because Reyes is still rightfully suspicious of Ichabod, Abby and Crane sit to discuss the evidence they have found. Ichabod says that during the height of the war, a mysterious man lured a garrison outside with music, only to kill each soldier. Apparently, Ichabod didnt think that this was paranormal until he saw how the pipe effected Abby. Abby questions the connection between that incident and the now missing Sarah. Abby suggests having Crane play the pipe in the hopes that it will lead her to the pipers lair. Before leaving, Crane records the pipe in a thirty second loop.
Once they arrive at the location in the woods, Crane hands Abby the phone with the recording and promises to be with her every second. From almost the first notes, Abby becomes entranced and begins to move forward, with Crane following closely behind her. After a few feet, Crane pulls Abbys airbuds out, saying that they may have found their target. They sneak up on a man hiding behind a group of rocks, only to find Hawley, who says that there is still time to save Sarah.
Hawley reports having seen The Piper while he was out on a job. Apparently, The Piper attacked Hawley while he was searching for a flute made of bone. Ichabod questions how Hawley knew The Piper would strike that night and Hawley explains that he knew about the curse on the Lancaster family, as well as the fact that Sarah was turning ten. We learn that it was Daniel who hired the original Pied Piper - a man who had given his soul to a demon. Daniel then killed the Pied Piper, which caused the Piper to regenerate in present day and lure Sarah into the woods when she turned ten. Ten apparently, is the age at which the bones become the right size to make a pipe, with each pipe having a different effect on its victims. Hawley says that he got blindsided by a sicko with a costume and most certainly does not believe in the legend. Hawley adds that the victims dies of exposure and starvation and Abby realises that because it has been less than 36 hours, they still have time to save Sarah. Abby and Crane agree to hand over the pipe, as long as Hawley helps them with the case, even as Ichabod expresses doubts on the trustworthiness of Hawley.
In the meantime, Irving is in the mental institution reading from the book of Revelations. Suddenly. we a flash to Irving in an all out end of days battle about to face a rider on horse back. When Irvings bible bursts into flames and he drops it on the ground and is pulled back from his vision.
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