Dr. Thomas Lancaster: This is most irregular, Constable. Ichabod Crane: I should hope so, Doctor, but in this case necessary. I shall need to operate. Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Operate? She's dead.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Enough have died already. It is time we confess our sins!
Lady Van Tassel: You're just in time to have your head cut off.
Ichabod Crane: [Studies the horse tracks surrounding Jonathan Masbath's dead body, and takes giant footsteps] The stride is gigantic! The attacker rode Masbath down, turned his horse, and came back. Came back to claim the head. [Takes a small bottle ...
[last lines] Ichabod Crane: [arriving in New York City with Katrina and Masbeth] Ah, just in time for a new century. You'll soon find your bearings, young Masbeth. The Bronx is up, the Battery is down, and home is this way.
Reverend Steenwyck: Their heads weren't found severed. Their heads were not found at all. Ichabod Crane: The heads are... gone? Notary James Hardenbrook: Taken. Taken by the Headless Horseman. Taken back to hell.
Baltus Van Tassel: The horseman was a Hessian mercenary sent to the shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the horseman came for love of carnage.
Samuel Philipse: Five victims in four graves.
Ichabod Crane: [opens the book] It was your mother's? Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Keep it close to your heart. It's sure protection against harm. Ichabod Crane: Are you so certain of everything?
The Burgomaster: Remember it is you, Ichabod Crane, who is now put to the test.
Ichabod Crane: Katrina, I might have killed you. Why have you come? Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because no one else would go with you. Ichabod Crane: I am now twice the man, and it is your white magic.
Lady Van Tassel: Dear stepdaughter... You look as if you'd seen a ghost.
Lady Van Tassel: The easiest part was the first. To enter your house as your mother's sick-nurse and put her body into the grave and my own into the marriage bed.
Baltus Van Tassel: If you are wise, you will leave this place.
Baltus Van Tassel: [to Ichabod] Young sir, you are most welcome, even if you are selling something.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I think you have no heart. And I had a mind once to give you mine.
Lady Van Tassel: The Horseman comes, and tonight he comes for you.
Lady Van Tassel: Still alive? Ichabod Crane: Run, Katrina. Lady Van Tassel: Yes, do run, and jump, and skip!
