Hope has known Aiden for many, many months, knew he was reticent about his previous life, saw how he stopped his son from talking about his mother, or their life back in Portland, and even saw Aiden refusing to even talk about the beach house. She is a cop. She never once did any sort of background check, old newspaper stories, etc. Not even after Bree showed up in Salem, saw Aiden and mentioned knowing him, not a good guy, etc. etc.
Hope happily arranges to go to the beach house (yes, intending to be there only a couple of hours) and now, despite the fact that Bree had said bad things about Aiden back in Salem, had phoned her sister, who told Kayla, who told Hope who did not believe any of it.....now, because Bree once again shows up, claiming to want to find a video......all of a sudden, Hope is all scared, nervous and untrusting. Does Hope stop to think for a second that Bree could have looked for that video ANY TIME during the past year? Does she not think it odd that Bree waits until she sees "Aiden's car".....that has to be a rental. How does she know it was not a realtor, or a buyer checking the place out.
So, yes, Hope is getting panicked, & there will probably be some sort of confrontation about it all. But the set up shows entirely too many holes in what is transpiring.
Tell me, why haven't the parents made sure the kids landed safely in Frisco, and have joined their class? Why is Hope watching a video with Aiden right upstairs, due to come down any minute? Why is she watching video when she talked him into going to the store so she could make breakfast? Why is Aiden back so quickly with 4 big bags of groceries, when he was just at the store the day before, said the store was jammed, people were buying every thing? Plus traffic! Sigghhhh.