Meanwhile, Jason chastises Hope for murdering an old man
While I have a lot of respect for you, Jason, I love that you do the summaries on Thursdays, and I enjoy your posts, I must say I disagree with this one.
I would hardly qualify Stefano Dimeira as an "old man". He was a monster, a psychopath, a heartless murderer himself, a torturer, a downright horrible. Nope, not a human being, again, a monster. We may have loved the actor, but the character, I despised. Even today, Chad, and others, try to say family was everything to him. Come on, he killed Benjamin, he had Lexie put in tunnels, etc.
And when Hope shot him, she was in shock, and Stefano made sure, in fact, that she shot him. He wanted to die, but he couldn't do it himself. I for one think his ending could have been so much better had he taken pills, sat in his chair, while listening to an opera. On the chess table beside him, a message: "I am not sorry" or "Checkmate" or "I still win, you never got me". See, that could have worked. But alas, the "writers" chose another way for him to go. Badly done, but I would hardly compare Hope to Ben Weston.
And definitely, Hope and Rafe, while they may not be liked as a couple, are no criminal couple, no Bonnie and Clyde.