Richard Griffiths credited as playing...
Magistrate Philipse
- Ichabod Crane: You believe the father killed her?
- Samuel Philipse: The *Horseman* killed her.
- Ichabod Crane: How often do I have to tell you? There is no Horseman. There never was a Horseman, there never *will* be a Horseman!
- [Pulls a pendant off of The Magistrate's neck]
- Ichabod Crane: What is that thing?
- Samuel Philipse: My talisman. It protects me from the Horseman.
- 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 out of his bag and starts sprinkling powder near the severed neck. The powder sizzles]
- Ichabod Crane: Yes. There's a chemical reaction. It shows there was a powerful, singular thrust to the neck.
- [Puts on strange goggles]
- Ichabod Crane: Now.
- [Using tongs, he lifts the skin of the neck and a beetle runs out. He shudders]
- Ichabod Crane: Interesting.
- Baltus Van Tassel: What is it?
- Ichabod Crane: The wound was cauterized in the very instant, as though the blade itself were red-hot. And yet, no blistering, no scorched flesh.
- Samuel Philipse: The Devil's fire.
- Samuel Philipse: Constable Crane. Jonathan Masbeth was not the fourth victim, but the fifth.
- Ichabod Crane: The fifth?
- Samuel Philipse: Aye. Five victims in four graves.
- Ichabod Crane: What are you running from, Magistrate Philipse?
- Samuel Philipse: Damn you, Crane.
- Ichabod Crane: You had a mind to help me.
- Samuel Philipse: Yes, and it's put me in mortal dread of...
- Ichabod Crane: Of what?
- Samuel Philipse: Of powers against which there is no defense.
- Reverend Steenwyck: [Ichabod comes out covered in blood after examining the widow Winship's body] What in the name of God have you done to her?
- Ichabod Crane: We are dealing with a madman.
- Samuel Philipse: What did you find out, Constable?
- Ichabod Crane: The widow Winship... was with child.