Young Masbath

Young Masbath

Background

Young Masbath is a resident of Sleepy Hollow, New York. His father is Jonathan Masbath and his mother is dead.

During the events of Sleepy Hollow (1999) played by Marc Pickering

Ichabod Crane arrives in town and sees Young Masbath saying goodbye to Jonathan as Jonathan prepares to start his shift on night watch duty. After Jonathan's funeral, Young Masbath walks up and offers to work for Crane, but Crane tells him he cannot accept his services. Magistrate Philipse tells Crane that there were actually five victims, but in four graves and Crane hires on Young Masbath. In the morning they dig up the dead killed by the Headless Horseman and Crane finds a stab wound in the Widow Winship's belly. He does an autopsy and finds she was pregnant. Later, Crane walks out of his room and invites Baltus Van Tassel and the other village elders to come with him to find the Horseman's grave, but only Young Masbath will go with him. As they are riding, Young Masbath tells Crane, Jonathan worked for the Van Garrett's and they lived on their property and he heard Peter Van Garrett and Dirk Van Garrett fighting a few nights before their deaths. They find a cave in the woods and speak to the Crone in the cave, who tells Crane where he can find the grave of the Horseman. They come across Katrina Van Tassel who joins them. Young Masbath finds a large tree in the woods and as Crane hacks at its root ball with a hatchet, blood starts to squirt on him. He pulls back a piece of the tree and they find the heads of the victims inside. Crane finds the Horseman's sword embedded in the tree and they dig at the base of the tree and find a skeleton without a head. The Horseman rears out of the open tree wound and rides away. After fighting the Horseman, Crane writes the names of residents on pieces of paper in order to figure out what connects them. He looks at the Van Tassel family tree again and then heads over to Notary Hardenbrook's with Young Masbath.

Crane finds Hardenbrook trying to hide and demands to see Peter Van Garrett's will. Young Masbath finds Jonathan's satchel with a will inside. The will is from Peter, which names Emily Winship as his inheritor along with a marriage certificate. Crane then figures out the connections between the murdered and the four town elders. Crane and Young Masbath return to the Van Tassel home and find Katrina in Crane's room reading his journal. After Katrina leaves, Crane sees a spider go under his bed and orders Young Masbath to move it, revealing a pentagram drawn in chalk. At night, they follow a cloaked figure who walks out of the house. After he decides Katrina is the one that called for the Horseman, Crane says goodbye to Young Masbath and takes a carriage out of town driven by Van Ripper. After she is kidnapped by Lady Van Tassel Young Masbath runs and grabs Katrina and they run to Crane who then brings them back into the windmill and he tries to board the door. They escape to the roof of the windmill as the Horseman chases them and Crane sets the contents of the mill on fire. They then run away from the windmill, which explodes, but fail to kill the Horseman. They take Van Ripper's carriage and ride away. The Horseman rides after them and they eventually arrive at his burial place. Lady Van Tassel shoots Crane and then grabs Katrina by the hair. Crane sees the bag holding the Horesman's skull and takes it from Lady Van Tassel with the help of Young Masbath and offers it to the Horseman. The Horseman puts his skull back on and then grabs Lady Van Tassel and drags her spirit to hell with him after giving her a bloody kiss. Crane, Katrina and Young Masbath then travel to their new home in New York City.