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When Sleepy Hollow was announced as a show in which Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) awoke in 2013, 232 years after his supposed death to face the Headless Horseman once again, the premise was met with some skepticism. Surprisingly, the pilot episode was well received among critics and the show went on to have a stellar first season. Mison and co-star Nicole Beharie, who portrayed Lieutenant Abbie Mills, appeared to have an insane amount of chemistry in the show, but reality turned out to be a little different.

“So you know Ichabod dies?”

Relax, Sleepyheads. Neil Jackson is kidding as he kicks off an interview about the lead-up to Sleepy Hollow‘s fall finale. The two-part episode starts Monday (Fox, 9/8c), concludes a week later and features one heck of a game-changer — though not the one the actor faux-teases with a laugh.

The hour also brings Ichabod and Abraham face-to-face for the first time since their duel in the woods way, way back in the day.

“They expand the mythology of the necklace a little bit so that other people are now able to see Headless as Abraham,...