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Really? I see a lot of people empathize with him after that scene, or at least hate him less since he "used to be good".I don't see it that way. The whole point of the Stephen flashback is to show a different side of the character, not the corrupt, rotten asshole we know. It's an application of the gray morality that DPC has used over and over again - like he doing with Quinn, Patrick and here too. We see a young man who had principles - he didn't want to commit a crime at work, for this he was fired. We see a man whose personal life is going to hell because he and his wife are completely incompatible. We see him before he's completely screwed.
Does it work with Stephen? No, I haven't seen many people empathize with him after that scene - he's too disgusting for that. But it was definitely a virtue signal of gray morality from DPC and I'm sure Stephen wasn't lying to the psychologist here.