I'm still blown away by the implications of the entire scenario between Edwin and Simon in Hell.
We discover that "unfinished business" is not exclusively reserved for souls roaming the Earth.
Simon was sent to Hell by a demon, not Death. We don't know whether that was his intended afterlife designation or not, we never find out definitively.
However, his torture and the conversation he has with Edwin implies that he's kept there not necessarily because he deserves it, but because he believes he deserves it.
When Edwin appears, Simon finally, after over a century, has the chance to come clean. He struggles to do so until Edwin finds the page with S + E written in the margin. But once he starts, it all comes out. He needs Edwin to understand--maybe not his actions, but at least his motivations. He needs Edwin to know he would never have actually hurt him on purpose. He would never have sent Edwin to Hell. And honestly, he needs to hear from someone that it's OK for him to be the way that he is--that being gay doesn't have to be torture, because he believes it does.
And Edwin takes all that in and does the one thing I imagine he never thought he'd do: he forgives Simon. Not only that, he frees him.
And in that moment, both of them were freed. Both of them finished something that was over a century in the making. Both of them finally let go of their self-imposed torture.
Edwin was Simon's unfinished business.
