Character Profile: Katie from Sleepy Hollow

Character Profile: Katie from Sleepy Hollow Katie is one of those characters where going back through the earlier scenes changes the way you read almost every conversation she has. At first she's Craig Marsters' girlfriend. She's studying literature, she's teasing him about being obsessed with history, and they have the kind of little conversations that make the relationship feel established. Craig is completely comfortable with her. When he finds a piece of paper that looks like a suicide note, he goes looking for her because he's afraid something is wrong. The note isn't hers. It's something she copied for a literature assignment. But Craig doesn't know that, and his concern gets him to the party where Brian and the others confront him. He's trying to find somebody he loves while they're trying to force him to hand over test answers. Later, after Craig has been killed, Katie appears to be the person trying to correct the record. The police think his death was a suicide because they found the note. She knows why he had it. She tries to explain. On a first read, there's every reason to think she's another person being hurt by what happened. Then Craig sees Ty's memories, and we get the other side of it. Katie was already involved with Ty. Craig being a teacher's assistant made him useful to them. The history exams were something they could sell, and she'd already taken money from people waiting for answers. Her relationship with Craig gave her access to him. When that still didn't get them what they wanted, she proposed using Brian and his friends to beat the answers out of him. That's why I wouldn't reduce Katie to just the girlfriend who cheated. The cheating is part of it, but she's actively helping put Craig in danger. She's the one who sees Brian's aggression as something they can use. Meanwhile, Craig still thinks he's protecting her. She doesn't have magic or a hidden transformation. Everything she does before the Horseman reaches her is ordinary manipulation, and there's quite a bit of planning behind it. The final reveal makes the affectionate scenes uncomfortable because you know what she was saying about Craig when he wasn't there. Her last encounter with him is brutal. He calls her name, follows her through the house and kills her. There isn't a reconciliation tucked into the ending. For Craig, learning the truth doesn't give him a way back to the relationship he thought he had. It tells him that relationship never existed the way he understood it. Source: Grimm Fairy Tales presents Sleepy Hollow #1–4.