Review: Reaper “I Want My Baby Back”

The one thing I can say about Reaper is that they definitely give you enough story for your time and dollar every episode. After watching this I had written down so many plot points and different goings on that I was thoroughly impressed by how much they could give me in an hours time. First off we finally get the explanation of what happened to Sam’s dad in that his deal with the devil was so he wouldn’t die and apparently thus dying in the last season he has become undead. Now he just kind of hangs around and doesn’t have much to do as his wife won’t let him in the house so he tries reconnecting with his son through various times in the episode, more or less with decent comic effect. But sadly Sam is busy, as he usually is with escaped souls and what not, and his dad makes those sad puppy dog eyes and looks quite hurt. Eventually Sam tells him that he believes he is not his son and that the Devil is actually his father. His dad is no help as he can’t reveal anything about the deal he made with the Devil without dying but seeing how he is now undead and his wife has left him and his son doesn’t want to hang with him all that much, would that be the worst thing to have happen?
Now getting to the soul it is apparently a woman who was a vampire or thinks she was a vampire, it’s never made quite clear, but doesn’t really matter anyway as the soul is dispatched quicker than usual, in the first five minutes really, and the true story comes from the fact that she escaped hell so that her baby, apparently souls can get down and nasty and pregnant in hell, could stay in the real world. Having it get left with Sam, Sock, and Ben might not have been the option she was looking for and now we get the oddest parody of Three Men and a Baby I’ve ever seen. They even go so far as taking parenting advice from the movie Honey I Blew Up the Kid and luckily for them Tony, the gay demon from the first season, shows up and falls heads over heals for the baby and pretty much wants to take it off their hands right then and there. I first thought it was because he might want to eat the baby, but nothing ever comes of that disturbing notion of mine.
Though the Devil does come to Sam and say that he wants that baby’s soul because nobody escapes from hell on his watch. Also it apparently has something to do with the baby growing up to be evil and do terrible things, so now they must find some way to get the baby away from Tony who now never lets it out of his loving sight. In this episode we also get to see the return of the douche favorite son who tries to take out Annie and tricks her into coming to a restaurant that she thinks Sam has invited her to. Luckily she will have none of it and calls him out on it and he, being of supreme douche bag stock, tells her that Sam is the son of the devil which is apparently something he has neglected to let her know. She ends up becoming pissed off and even more so after she confronts him and he lets her know that Sock and Ben both know his secret.
Then we have Sock’s tale which is the continuing on of him wanting to bang his step sister as, pretty much throughout the whole episode, she is singing karaoke like she’s the grand master siren of karaoke or something. He eventually decides that he must quell his appetite for her and take anti-erection pills but as he is doing so she catches him and says she won’t let him contain the person that he is, not knowing of course that he wants to get it out step sister style. So she asks what she could possibly do to help and it turns out a good game of racquetball is all Sock needs to keep the demons at bay.
So back to the baby as Sam and the gang are forced to get Tony out his apartment, cleverly saying how the tomatoes in the salad are too ripe and that he must get new ones, and then stab the baby with a stake. Unfortunately for them they can’t gather up the strength to stab a baby and Tony walks back into find them all ready to stab up a kid. He then switches into pissed off demon mode and is about to kick all their asses when they figure out a baptism might be the best way to save the babies apparently evil soul, so now it’s off to the church! Annie meets them there as the baby needs “parents† to be with during the baptism and Tony can’t do it because he’ll burst into pretty much flames so her and Sam are forced to pair up together. She has actually forgiven Sam for the most part because she knows he’s a really good guy and it’s not really his fault he’s the son of the devil.
But as the baptism gets underway the Devil tries to suck the carriage, baby inside, towards a portal to hell but Sam will have none of it. He comes to the babies rescue and says that it will be better to keep the baby on earth because it will get more souls for the Devil, all of us knowing he’s just saying so cause he doubts how evil this kid could get. The Devil does agree though only in so much to prove his point that nature will take ride over nurture. So from there the episode leaves off with the douche coming back to depart some words of advice to Annie that it’s really the most evil that can trick you and seem like a good person and then he walks off in all his tool like glory.