At first, it was all fun and games when one of them spelled out “Jack Mehoff.” But then the planchette started moving again and spelled out “H-E I-S M-I-N-E,” about which Liv naturally freaked out. She gave Liv Zoloft to help her even out and get some sleep.īut Zoloft was not going to help when Matt and Liv’s friends came over for dinner and brought an Ouija board. Berger back and she calmly explained to Liv that she was hearing what she wanted to hear because her hormones were on overdrive and she was sleep-deprived. But Matt didn’t hear it, of course, and now thought Liv was losing her grip on reality. She heard the demon saying, “I want him,” as though Ba’al came back to take his baby. Quite the metaphor for people ignoring pregnant women and new mothers when they’re convinced something is wrong.Īfter seeing the demon on the baby monitor again, Liv ran the audio through her computer and played it for Matt. Matt pooh-poohed her fears, saying it was a trapped raccoon and that it was weird that she thought this demon statue was what brought them a baby. When Liv thought she heard a noise in the air vents, she went into the basement to investigate and found one of the ducts ripped open and claw marks on the wall. The housekeeper insisted it wasn’t her who put it there, quit on the spot and ran out the door. But soon enough she found the creepy statue in her son’s crib and it had grown bigger and sprouted wings. Berger (Vanessa Williams) that it felt like the baby hated her, so the doctor sent her home with some tools to help her. She wasn’t sure, but that night on the baby monitor, Liv saw a demon standing over her baby and that convinced her to go talk to the doctor. Matt encouraged Liv to talk to a doctor who specializes in postpartum disorders. She also finally remembered that creepy statue was still under her bed and put it away in a box in the closet. All she ever wanted to do was be a mom and now she felt like she’s terrible at it. That night, Liv and Matt (Ronen Rubinstein) had some intense sex that was intercut with lightning changes, shots of the creepy statue and a lot of snake sounds, which all served to prove things would not end well for them.Ĭut to 16 months later and they had a baby, but Liv was feeling like a failure as a mother - specifically that her baby hated her and it was “a fucking mistake” to have him.
Liv was desperate and thought “a little magic couldn’t hurt,” which immediately had us bracing for demon babies. The receptionist said it had been in her family forever. The clinic’s receptionist Bernadette (Virginia Gardner) felt so bad for the couple that she gave Liv a creepy little statue that one puts under their bed when they are being intimate - in order to magically get a baby.