The storyline that takes the crown in this category (inappropriate) is Stephanie orchestrating... a completely unknown creep to rape her arch-nemesis Brooke. You could try to excuse Stephanie by saying she did not tell him to rape her... but you can't. She GAVE HIM A KEY to another woman's house when she knew that woman would be alone and vulnerable. This is a crime (what Stephanie did a la Ghislaine Maxwell) that puts people in prison for years. In the episodes before that horrific rape, Stephanie was taunting Brooke how she was a slut, a whore... and how she would basically f-ck anybody that has a penis. She told the same type of stuff to this creep, who in his crazy head decided that this is a direct invitation to do what he did.
This is the storyline that completely destroyed Stephanie. The character never recovered. In 5 years she would be gone. I cringe just thinking what Susan Flannery must have been feeling during this period. It didn't help that Stephanie's physical abuse towards characters like Brooke and Donna... was escalating beyond logic. She would regularly choke, slap them, throw knives and threaten them with guns. What was once a multi-faceted troubled controlling woman... was now... a one-dimensional mafia hitman that liked to bully blondes.
It gave us this scene of Brooke, demanding Stephanie's head on a "silver platter".
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