Bo and Hope Reflect On Their Lives Together, Then Make Two Momentous Decisions
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Hope brings Bo some breakfast in bed in the Horton home after spending a passionate night together. Hope mentions Julie’s new oven and Bo wonders why she’s been remodeling so much — which is when Hope tells him about the fire and needing to restore the house.
We flash back to Young Tom and Alice in their early(ish) days in the home, when Tom tells his wife that Addy’s pregnant and they’re about to be grandparents.
In the present, Bo’s sorry he wasn’t there for Hope and all she’s been through. She insists he was, but wishes her dad was there to see them back together. Bo thinks Doug knows and he’s watching over them now.
Bo marvels over waking up to have four grandchildren and Hope asks if Bo’s ready to be a fulltime grandfather. They head downstairs where he remarks that the home looks exactly what he remembers. Almost exactly. Some things couldn’t be replaced, leading to flashbacks of a very young hope making a scrapbook to grandma and grandpa Horton and an adult Hope reading the letter she wrote to Bo on their wedding day.
Hope then tells Bo about the time capsule and how Ciara opened it, full of family treasures. Bo thinks you can see Alice and Tom in every part of the house, proud of their legacy and their family.
They cuddle up on the couch, where Bo admits he’s still a bit stunned over them being together. He was the bad seed, while she was the debutante granddaughter of one of the town’s most prominent doctors. Hope laughs it off, but he admits he still felt incredible when he got his ornament — which survived the fire, Hope says!
They move on to Shawn’s birth, and flash to Hope telling grandma Alice that she’s pregnant and getting Shawn’s first ornament. “And now our babies have babies.”
Next, we get Young Tom and Alice at Christmas time, starting the tradition of Tom reading to the kids at the hospital, then admiring the Horton ornaments, now with Julie’s ornament. Alice feels a bit too young to be a grandmother, but she still loves it.
Hope and Bo take in Alice and Tom’s, and Julie and Doug’s portraits over the mantle, and Hope remembers how tough it was when Julie and Doug first got together. But grandma Alice helped Hope see the best in her sister/step-mother to be.
They flash back to Alice helping Bo and Hope sneak around, and Bo tells Hope that her grandparents were a godsend. They grab some coffee as Hope notices how quiet it is in the house. Bo may have hinted that everyone should give them some time alone in the house for a bit.
He’s got a celebration planned. He sends her upstairs to check in the closet and slip into something “special” he surprised her with.
Flashing back to the Hortons again, this time Steven Olsen is around — though we don’t see him. Tom sent the grandkids to the movies so he and Alice could have some time alone. “Twenty five years and we’ve still got it, don’t we,” Alice asks then kisses him.
Hope, meanwhile, comes back downstairs in a wedding dress and Bo’s got his suit on, the living room all decked out. Bo’s determined that, from this point on, he and Hope will always be together. He asks if he can make her his wife again, then gets down on one knee and asks Fancy Face to marry him again.
“Yes! A million and one times, yes, Brady!” Bo gets up and they hug, after which Bo promises to respect and cherish her and promising to take Hope to be his wife, now and forever. He gives her Hope’s mother’s wedding ring, thanks to Shawn and puts it on her finger. She pronounces them married and they kiss.
And there’s one more surprise. Shawn gave them the Fancy Face back. The boat’s theirs again. We flash back to another mock wedding on the boat from years ago, where they exchange vows before their real wedding. Hope wishes they could go back to simpler times, and Bo suggests they get on the boat and “go wherever the wind takes us.”
Hope’s skeptical, but they lost 12 years, and they could visit plenty of family around the world. She warms to the idea to have Bo to herself for a while. She agrees to go, so long as Bo promises that they always come back to Salem. Of course, he says!
Back to Tom and Alice, they have the house to themselves again, as the kids are grown up and moved out, and she admits to missing the chaos and laughter of the family. Is the house too big for them, she wonders? No, not at all, Tom insists, the family’s still around. They treasure all their memories and agree that this will be the Horton house forever. “For all the generations after us,” Alice agrees.
Bo makes a suggestion to Hope in the present. What if they followed in Doug and Julie’s footsteps and retire to the family home? “I would love that.”
In the Show’s Final Moments
Bo and Hope sit down in front of Tom and Alice’s plaque in the square, reflecting on how the goodbyes never get easier. Then the show gives us a montage of flashbacks of the two of them. They’ve had amazing memories together and so many more to come. “So long, Salem,” Bo says as they stand. “Until next time,” Hope adds as they walk off.
