In the original timeline, he felt the need to capture and break Cara so he could use her to steal the stone of tears. What was his play going to be then?In the final timeline, he wanted only to help Richard and made no apparent attempt to get the stone for himself. In the end, Rahl had faith that Richard would fullfill the prophecy, but he didn't before.

The Underworld in LotS does not work like the Hell in the Christian religion many of you are only familiar with. It works more like the Underworld in the old Greek religion, where everyone goes there good or bad. However, there are layers to the underworld. Bad people go to the bad layers and are tortured, good souls go to the nice layers and are allowed to rest in peace or whatever ghosts do. And finally in episode Extinction we are told that there are at least two layers, one where bad people go to be tortured by the Keeper and one where good people go to bask in the Creator's light. The reason we are seeing good people being tortured in the Underworld is because the Keeper has been growing in power since the rift in the veil between worlds. Once the veil is repaired, good people will no longer go to the Keeper. So if you are the type of person who doesn't see the point in doing good deeds unless you are rewarded when you die, this explains that you can be rewarded when you die under normal circumstances in the LotS world. Funny, how I suggested this explaination a long time ago in these forums. So lets stop making threads complaining about there not being a heaven for people to go to in this series. I see ANOTHER one has already been created today.