Q: So do we get to learn more about Ichabod's background?

Tom: There was a lot of Ichabod's past explored in the first season, and … in the second season we are going to keep exploring that and … Katrina, Ichabod's ex. There will be a lot more of Abbie's background as well. We've met all of the characters, and now we can explore them all a bit deeper.

Q: The Mills sisters are awesome. They are just very strong women — there needs to be more of that on television.

Nicole: We have quite a few strong women on the show. We have a new sheriff, Leena Reyes, played by a strong woman, Sakina Jaffrey. Katia (Winter, who plays Katrina Crane, Ichabod's wife). Actually, all the women on the show are pretty opinionated, strong-willed, and forceful. More so than any other show that I know of. Thank you for saying that. It's been a pleasure working with Lyndie [Greenwood, who plays Abbie's sister, Jenny] and this character. It's allowed us to ground some of the fantasy that we're experiencing here, with the monsters and everything. And then you have this through-line of passion and guilt and all of these things. It's a huge playground for an actor. I think that's what people are responding to.

Q: Sleepy Hollow had a lot of different monsters in Season 1. Are there any monsters you can preview for us that are coming up in Season 2?

Roberto: Obviously War is here. And, as always, we'll have lots of characters that maybe you're familiar with but we put our own spin on. Like the Pied Piper … We have the opposite of the Headless Horsemen, who is called the Kindred. They are scary, but they are also beautiful.

Q: How does your character, Captain Frank Irving, deal with being locked up?

Orlando: I think for everybody that's a really individual set of circumstances, because I think there is always the amount of guilt that you feel for how you contributed to your own situation. The things that you think in the night when you're all alone. Obviously, I think it's a really difficult position, knowing what he knows now and realizing that he didn't act sooner than he should have, and he was so skeptical. So I think it's probably more torturous in his own mind. In the place he's in, I think he's a bit trapped in his own prison. I'm curious to see how that will unfold.

Q: Are we going to see more between Irving and Jenny?

Orlando: I think really what's special about the show is the chemistry amongst all of us. The way we interact off camera is not as our characters — it's obviously different onscreen — but I think that is what is special about Sleepy Hollow. I'm excited about a lot of the show's pairings. That's one, but just getting the opportunity to be with Ichabod is also an interesting one. Always seeing them together and how Katrina and Abbie are together, that's also complicated and juicy. So that's the fun of it.

Q: Is Katia straddling good and evil? People kind of think you're on the dark side.

Katia: Not quite yet. I think definitely there is going to be a point when she'll have to choose. Obviously because of Henry. She is fighting to be good. She reached her son. There is still humanity there. She is not going to give him up. It's going to be tricky, because there is stuff with the Headless Horseman, who also seems to be evil. I see him as my own fiancé. So there is that, but also me remembering him for who he used to be before that happened. I'm right in the middle of all of it, being torn in different directions.

Q: What can you tease about the next season?

Alex: Well, we left last season on such a crazy cliff-hanger for everybody. We really wanted to do that to put everybody in the worst possible situation and then figure out how we were going to get out of it. I think one thing we can promise is that there are not going to be any easy answers for how anybody gets out.

Last season was plotted with such meticulous care across the board. Everybody knew where we were going from the beginning. Hopefully we set you up for a good reveal at the end. And we want to do that same thing this year. There will be a lot of surprises, a lot of twists and turns. Our cast will find themselves in a bunch of new precarious situations that are going to be very difficult to get out of. I think you can count on more insanity.

Q: Does the tone change in the second season?

Alex: No. I think we are certainly striving to stay very consistent with the tone of the first season. We all wanted to make a show where anything was possible, that was grounded in an emotional reality that allowed everybody to take a leap into the insanity that followed. We are very proud of what we were able to achieve with that. We wouldn't want to change it.

Q: How far out do you have the show planned? Do you have Seasons 3, 4, and 5 figured out?

Alex: We know where we are going at the end of the season this year. You always want to think in those terms so that you get to a conclusion that inevitably springboards you into the next season with a lot left to go. We have not yet worked out all of Season 3, but we certainly know where we are setting up.

Q: Would you say the tone changes in Season 2, or would you say it's the same as Season 1?

John: There are a lot of changes with the characters … The tone thing that is so interesting to me is that extraordinary situation between Crane and Abbie. They speak a different language. It's so funny how Tom's character doesn't understand her. That tone keeps it light and witty and that is still there, big time.

Q: What was the best moment for you filming Sleepy Hollow in Season 1?

Lyndie: There were so many, but the one that pops into my mind is the possession scene. Wearing the harness and the makeup. It was funny: I walked on the set and the still photographer, Brownie Harris — I was in the airbrushed makeup — and he came up to me and said, "Oh, man, you look exhausted. Did you sleep last night?" I was like, "Dude, I'm a demon right now."

Q: What can you tell us about the next season?

Mark: We have a lot of surprises this season. We have some new historical figures, but we're going to be revising their history. We'll see some Daniel Boone and a Benedict Arnold character. And then Benjamin Franklin plays a big part in the season, starting with the premiere. We'll learn some of the history behind his inventions and what he was doing in England. Allegedly he was a spy and a few other things … that deal in the underworld and the dark forces. So that'll be pretty fun. There are a lot of fun comedic moments. Crane is going to learn to drive this year. It's about time — it's been 200 years.

The apocalypse is real this year. I think things are going to amp up a lot, and then we have a really big twist that we are headed toward in the middle of the season. It's really cool — we're getting to do 18 episodes this season, so that's allowing us the freedom to build toward a much bigger season reveal.