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: 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: [to Ichabod] Young sir, you are most welcome, even if you are selling something.
[to the horse]
Ichabod Crane: Giddy-up... no, no this way... good horsey.
Lady Van Tassel: The Horseman comes, and tonight he comes for you.
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: Yes I think you loved me that day when you followed me into the Western Woods... to have braved such peril.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: The pickity witch, the pickity witch. Who's got a kiss for the pickity witch?
Ichabod Crane: [the decapitated corpse of Masbath has been found] You have moved the body.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: I did.
Ichabod Crane: You must never move the body!
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Why not?
Ichabod Crane: Because...
[On Katrina's apparent guilt]
Young Masbath: A strange sort of witch, with a kind and loving heart. How can you think so?
Ichabod Crane: I have good reason.
Young Masbath: Then you are bewitched by reason.
Ichabod Crane: I am beaten down by it!
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.
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.
