Wholly unharmed, Rosemary soon learns that her coma resulted from a spell the coven cast on her when they discovered that she planned to run away with her young son, Andy (who was 7 years old at the time).
Rosemary is also struck and puzzled by a repeated reference to "roast mules", an anagram that many people continually mention.
Her fears are proven when a candle-lighting event that Andy has organized to celebrate the new millennium unleashes a deadly virus that destroys all human life.
The couple is delighted at the offer, until Hutch makes a remark about lighting candles and "roast mules" that causes Rosemary to regard her dream as a possible forewarning of future events.
Writing in Entertainment Weekly, Alexandra Jacobs called it "senseless balderdash, a pity when you consider how gracefully Rosemary's Baby flitted between the real and the fantastic, the paranoid and the paranormal.