'Sleepy Hollow' Stars and EPs Talk Season 2 Plans, Fan Passion for Ichabod/Abbie

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Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie and Orlando Jones

The stars and producers of Fox's breakout drama Sleepy Hollow were on hand Wednesday for an evening during PaleyFest honoring the supernatural series at the Dolby Theatre.

It's been two months since the season finale, which featured many of the show's core characters in various states of limbo, but the enthusiastic crowd was treated to a preview of what's to come. Here's a refresher (Warning: spoilers!): Henry Parrish(John Noble) was revealed to be the second Horseman, in addition to being Ichabod and Katrina's son Jeremy; Abbie (Nicole Beharie) was stuck in purgatory; and Ichabod (Tom Mison) was thrown into a pine box. So what exactly is in store for season two? Impending war.

"[Henry's] going to be in town. It's going to be a major presence in season two," executive producer Mark Goffman said of season two. "It's a season about war, it's a season about redemption. What do you do when your son becomes the Horseman of War in the apocalypse? Ichabod is going to have to contemplate assuming he gets out of the pine box he's in."

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Producers hinted that there will be new villains coming in to Sleepy Hollow for Ichabod and Co. to worry about. Though they were coy, they shared some details as to who will be joining the war. "War doesn't work by itself," co-creator/executive producer Roberto Orci teased. "There are a lot of amazing foot soldiers coming, familiar and also original."

"One of the things we wanted to bring to light was who best to be an opponent for the Horseman and creating a new creature that actually our team kind of controls but doesn't -- a dangerous creation that Headless will have to come to face -- possibly with his own face," co-creator/executive producer/director Len Wiseman shared, likening the new villain to being "as evil and as scary as Headless." Joked co-creator/executive producer Alex Kurtzman: "Dick Cheney."

This new foe will have in its possession something that belongs to Headless: "What would that be? His head," Wiseman said. In addition to supernatural creatures, expect new additions to drop by Sleepy Hollow, Goffman revealed: "Some people who will be populating the town this season."

With Detective Irving (Orlando Jones) in jail, one of the other questions to be addressed will be who will lay down the law while he's behind bars. "Who's going to be in charge of law and order in Sleepy Hollow?" posed Goffman.

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