Beyond the Gates - Season 1 Episode 143

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00:00You're absolutely certain you aren't disappointed.

00:06Not even the least bit.

00:09Disappointed?

00:10Baby, please, look.

00:12We're still fresh in the marriage game, right?

00:14We've got plenty of time to build our family.

00:16I was terrified that after a second fail-go at it

00:20that she'd look at me like I'm...

00:22defective.

00:25What?

00:26Baby, are you out of your mind?

00:28I chose you, not your biology.

00:33Besides,

00:34one day soon,

00:36all of our princes and princesses

00:39will all be able to claim you.

00:40But for right now,

00:42I get to have you all to myself.

00:47All this royalty talk

00:49has me feeling some type of way.

00:51What way is that?

00:54That maybe we should get in more

00:56baby-making practice.

00:58As you wish.

01:01Okay.

01:07You're pregnant?

01:09Are you sure?

01:11Unless the test is faulty.

01:17Are you going to say anything?

01:20Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne?

01:21You just made me the happiest man alive.

01:24Come here.

01:26Wow.

01:27I'm going to say anything.

01:28I'm going to say anything.

01:29I'm going to say anything.

01:30I'm going to say anything.

01:31I'm going to say anything.

01:32I'm going to say anything.

01:33I'm going to say anything.

01:34I'm going to say anything.

01:35I'm going to say anything.

01:36I'm going to say anything.

01:37I'm going to say anything.

01:38I'm going to say anything.

01:39you were saying your conversation with bill you know husband there are about half a dozen things

02:05i can think of that i would rather be doing than dissecting the ancient history of my

02:09trifling x and not a single one of them involves saying his name as of right now this space right

02:16here is a bill hamilton free zone is that right okay now i'm curious about what these half a dozen

02:24things that you are suddenly pressed to do name one well there is no never mind i can't i can't come

02:33on come on you can't be shy now it's a little out there woman please in all of my world travels there

02:38is very little i haven't done or seen i consider myself an ambitious lover so be your worst

02:46in that case

02:53you two know each other

02:56well your mother and i are business partners we've invested in several high potential real

03:01estate projects in the petworth area i didn't know you're expanding from sales into investing

03:07you're always so busy between your studies abroad and those frat parties you're always posting about

03:13i knew you couldn't be bothered with all the boring details of my business it's a relatively new turn

03:19of events uh i'm not your son poor choice of words joey's right you know how this market moves sometimes

03:29an opportunity arose that was so tempting we simply couldn't resist

03:34god ash this chicken alfredo should be illegal it's just pasta derek nothing fancy cap used to spend

03:49hours at the station making his world famous alfredo sauce they really were your second family huh

03:55yeah yeah well the life i got now i'd take over that any day except for this supporting character

04:05right here it's just a plot twist not the ending you're gonna be back on your feet before you know it

04:11oh my god yes do not stop oh they should lock you up for what you can do with those hands

04:38ancient chinese reflexology it's like you're rewiring my nervous system i picked this up when

04:44i was in yunan province yeah they couldn't match my rate for the photo series so i decided to let

04:50them school me instead because you knew it would come in handy smart smart man oh what's this a runway

04:57accident naomi's tiny blocks if you can believe it i was uh pregnant with chelsea and i accidentally

05:05stepped on one of her tiny courthouses which was surprisingly painful i couldn't believe it broke

05:10the skin anyway um bill noticed and he bandaged it up and then after chelsea was born i he i think he

05:19gave me a massage every day for the first year of her life and of course made naomi keep her toys away

05:26bill huh yes so a foot rub was you guys's special thing there must have been some talk at the office

05:35i don't know what you're getting at danny come on we said that we were going to be 100 with each

05:41other remember it's what makes this unconventional situation work when conventional wisdom says it

05:47shouldn't things got a little charged how charged thunderstorm or full-out lightning strike

05:54no property damage i found him studying our marriage certificate like it was evidence in a capital case

06:02he offered to handle our annulment pro bono looks like he's having just as much trouble

06:08letting you go as you are letting go of him

06:15you sorry son of a bitch

06:25you are you are a walking talking toxic storm you are a heartless manipulative bastard and you are

06:52you are incredibly beautiful wait wait wait wait just

07:03oh okay what just happened did i i do something wrong bill no babe not this is nothing's wrong i just

07:14um i just have a lot on my mind that's all i just love them the simmons case is due tomorrow and i

07:21haven't had time to review the final draft wait since when did paperwork interrupt us you've covered

07:27multi-million dollar settlements with less preparation well yeah but i i got the early conference call with

07:33win about the pharma case so it's just except wait the simmons case was filed yesterday and i know

07:39because i delivered it myself to the courthouse and you don't have a call with win until next week i've

07:45seen your calendar look haley i don't appreciate being cross-examined in my own house look i'm not

07:51one of your junior associates that you can just push around bill and i don't appreciate being lied to

07:59why don't we head home i'll make you that braised short rib you love so much

08:02that sounds delicious but i have an idea how about first a drink don't you think that's inappropriate

08:12considering the circumstances it's just one drink something to take the edge off no harm there

08:19you know i was holding out for our first drink together

08:24with your father yeah you know i had it all planned out i thought we'd do it when i got back from summer

08:30break and you poured two glasses of scotch and tell me some profound dad wisdom i never forget

08:38i guess that's an experience i'll never have now have a seat pour this man a scotch

08:46actually vanessa make it two

09:00the doug mcbride a man who raised an incredibly insightful son

09:09to my father

09:20earlier when i showed you my father's watch i mentioned how my mom had it engraved

09:25i remember well you didn't even blink so tell me why you didn't mention that she knew my mom

09:38this is wow naomi we're actually having a baby

09:42okay all right we gotta child proof this joint you know what no we gotta level up we need a bigger place

09:49jacob fairmont crest that's it like i know you moved to dc to get out of your parents pocket but

09:55the schools are better there and our little one deserves the best jacob slow down

10:01i'm sorry i'm going on and on when you're not feeling well do you have to go to the doctor

10:08i'm fine i'm just nauseous okay well you have to go to the guy no asap we got to make sure the little

10:14guy's okay or the little girl like i don't know what we're having as long as we're having a healthy

10:19baby oh my god jacob would you please stop what's wrong are you not excited about the baby

10:31i have never made it secret that i still have lingering feelings for bill

10:35okay we both came into this with both eyes open i know you like bill and you love ashley

10:40sweet simple safe ashley the human equivalent of unseasoned chicken okay are we really gonna do

10:48this tell me does she make you use hand sanitizer before you touch her she smell like hospital

10:55disinfectant that's enough what's wrong because i thought we were keeping it a hundred but you keep

11:00pretending that you're not counting down the days until mother teresa and scrubs realizes she made a

11:05mistake choosing the firefighter okay you're right i do still carry a torch for ashley thank you which

11:13leads me to my question why the hell are we still married everything cool baby of course why wouldn't it

11:22be uh it seems that something on your phone has you spooked um the er is super short staffed and

11:31shinice just wanted to know if i could cover liz's graveyard shift this week this week doesn't she

11:37know we just got engaged you know what why don't you make your way over to the couch and i have a

11:44special treat for you that i've been saving just for tonight that sounds promising

11:49look at these beauties i made them just the way you like extra berries

12:09actually i was thinking something a little more indulgent

12:13what's really going on one minute you're kissing me waxing poetic about how much you love me then

12:23suddenly like a light switch flipped you couldn't get away from me fast enough that's ridiculous

12:29is it or was it that your mind was on your ex-wife in her brand new marriage this again yes bill

12:36we were about to make love but it didn't feel the same something's haunting you and if danny isn't the

12:48problem i want to know what is don't look at me with those puppy dog eyes i'm just trying to read the

12:57room baby this is big news yeah big unwanted news we've had this conversation a thousand times you knew

13:04i didn't want kids i hear you but i thought maybe now that you're actually pregnant you what i would

13:11suddenly feel my biological clock ticking i'm a lawyer jacob not some birthing machine who loses her sense of

13:18self okay i get it all right this is a shock shock this is a whole damn earthquake i honestly don't even

13:28know how this happened i think i know how you're right donnell i should have told you i knew your

13:38mother when you came here asking questions but you didn't because you were already upset that your

13:45father was here that night i didn't think it was the right time please don't blame joey for what happened

13:51to your father if he hadn't been here he would have been at some other bar or

13:55someplace else where he could have bought into a poker game the man who put himself through medical

14:02school gambled away the watch you gave him just make it make sense as awful as it is to accept

14:11there's nothing any of us could have done to prevent it i guess you're right mom i mean it's not like

14:18someone put him in that car that tina the pre-med girl you mean tabitha i know that was last month

14:30mom keep up that's my frat brother rehobo hey what's up fam got something to show you from the chapter

14:40we extend our condolences to brother donnell deuce of all trades mcbride

14:46on the loss of his beloved father dr douglas mcbride a healer of bodies mender of spirits and

14:53champion of our community we share in our brother's loss

14:58man that's beautiful chapter one to pay the respects we got you bro

15:01uh this is nice i've missed this so how about we take it over to the bed look we have all the

15:17time in the world i don't want you pushing yourself too hard ash this chair doesn't change how i feel

15:22about you and i think it's about time i show my fiancee just how much she means to me

15:31unless you don't want to i have always wanted you chair or no chair that hasn't changed

15:39all right we hope it says the brothers are going to roll deep to the funeral that's so sweet of them

15:45yeah and he also picked up on how clean dad's watch was i remember the night i gave your dad that watch

15:52it it was our 10th anniversary we'd been struggling to connect that year him with his crazy hours at the

16:02hospital me trying to start the real estate business but i i surprised him with that and

16:09he when he opened it for once in his life dr douglas mcbride was speechless he would be so proud seeing

16:20it on your wrist now we have joey to thank for that you know if it wasn't for him and pressing that shady

16:26dealer and we might have never seen it again that's the least i can do how this happened let me see

16:37a strong black king and his sexy beautiful black queen make love are you seriously about to explain

16:43the birds and bees right now i'm just trying to lighten the mood well you knew what i meant and this

16:48isn't funny i'm usually so careful with my birth control but between work and ashley derek drama and

16:57chelsea's kidnapping i must have forgotten to take my pills and i was barely eating barely sleeping just

17:03trying to keep it together while my sister was god knows where you don't have to drop your career

17:12because of this that brilliant legal mind isn't going anywhere and you have me all day every day

17:19and together we'll work this out no but no it's different for women you get to be a big time detective

17:25with a baby at home and they'll call you a family man me they'll question why i don't have my priorities

17:32straight they'll whisper and judge and wonder why i'm not at home raising my child you don't know

17:38that yes i do there are plenty female lawyers with families who still kill it in the courtroom i don't

17:44want to be another lawyer i want to be great i want to change laws set precedents fix this crazy messed

17:53up world and a baby is not a part of that plan my pops always said there are no accidents in life

17:59what is that supposed to mean if the stars converged to disrupt our best laid plan

18:07maybe it's time to make a new plan if we both have feelings for other people maybe we should put

18:14pause on this marriage situation i'm just saying i thought we were both clear on what this is

18:20we're just having fun right and don't act like you haven't been thoroughly entertained fun for us

18:25but straight up torture for everyone else who cares what they think in fact weren't you the one

18:30who was giving me grief over worrying about nicole knowing that we were sleeping together yeah back

18:35when we were harmlessly fooling around but the stakes are different now denny a flimsy sheet of paper with

18:40our names on it doesn't change anything don't get me wrong it wasn't exactly a day at the spa getting

18:46shaken down by my mother everyone thinks this marriage is a big drunken mistake okay you might be used

18:52to people being all up in your business but i'm not ted and nicole are all i have and i'd hate to

18:58lose either of them over this especially if the rest of you dupree start treating me like i'm the

19:04villain in your story the way they do bill i need you to talk to me you know what what is there left to

19:11talk about hmm you seem to have everything all figured out according to you i'm still thinking about

19:16danny okay is that your professional diagnosis that isn't fair i'm just trying to understand what

19:22happened between us you know what isn't fair what isn't fair is me having to constantly be on the

19:27defensive in my own damn house every conversation we have ends up circling back around to her

19:33this is my house too have you forgotten we're married yeah it is it is and i bought it for you

19:38in one of the most expensive and exclusive gated communities in the dmv area but instead of

19:42being grateful and instead of enjoying it with me you interrogate me 24 7 about my ex-wife yeah that's

19:48because you won't stop obsessing over her so much so that now you can't even

19:55make love to me

19:58your wife the woman who's supposed to be the center of your world bill okay

20:04that what you think hmm that i'm not attracted to you anymore is that what you think what what else am

20:09i supposed to think huh i'm not fighting for your love bill i'm fighting for space in your damn head

20:15and listening to a woman who isn't even in this house okay you want my attention is that what you

20:19want oh bill wait what are you doing i'm taking my wife upstairs to prove to her just how wrong she is

20:33so random chaos is our strategy now cool you said it yourself you're meticulous about everything

20:40including your birth control color-coded calendar reminders the whole nine yet here we are because

20:45i was falling apart jacob when chelsea disappeared i was falling apart this is not some phenomenon

20:51it's a curveball you don't mean that i meant it before we got married and i mean it now

20:59and you were with me on that with how dangerous your job is we agree to not have kids yes i remember

21:06but maybe just maybe there's a version of you in the future who will want kids you are not listening

21:11to me my work gives me purpose the way a baby wouldn't and i'm all too familiar with what it's

21:18like growing up with a mother who's grieving her old life oh come on i never once heard danny say she

21:23regrets having you or your sister no i don't i don't think she does i'm just there's definitely some

21:30unresolved feelings there i saw it in her eyes when she'd look at old magazine covers because danny

21:38dupree wasn't just a model she was the supermodel black girl magic personified before it ever had a name

21:47and she gave it up for us i don't want to be that selfless

21:55so you're not having a second thoughts surprisingly no i like you andre i always have

22:13even you when you were just my sister's too handsome for his own good nephew

22:17and this union of ours feels freeing yeah i like you too and believe me being your husband

22:26definitely has its perks all right slow your roll cowboy i think we need to lay some ground rules

22:33oh so we need rules now like rules that ensure my second marriage doesn't end up like my first

22:46what are you doing in there the suspense is killing me

22:53how do i look you always look beautiful in scrubs or like that

23:00well getting you into this bed was easier than i thought

23:08janice has got me grinding in my upper body pt but nothing motivates muscle development

23:14like the prospect of holding will make you love

23:22are you sure you're ready for this i mean we can just be here together however that looks right now

23:28i need to find our way back to us ash i need to remember what it feels like being a man with you

23:37not just a patient you've never stopped being a man to me derek not for a single moment

23:45look just leave it alone hayley i'm gonna do some work why don't you listen you know

23:56you think that insulting me is effective foreplay oh you're the one who swept me off my feet like some

24:02caveman trying to prove that danny isn't in your head and all you did was confirm what i already knew

24:08you need to choose your next words with extreme care hayley look you aren't the only one in this

24:15relationship and i can't just turn it on when i know who's really in your head and what happened

24:21earlier yeah it happens okay it happens and it would have been a passing incident but you're still

24:26searching for this proof that i'm still caught up on danny and now you think you found it look i'm just

24:30frustrated that i found out that i'm not carrying your child look

24:43you and danny share a connection because you created two human beings together

24:48if i gave you a child of our own we'd have that same unbreakable bond bill baby

24:55how many times do i have to keep telling you this

24:57what we have together what we share it runs deeper than dna look you're just saying that to

25:03smooth things over to make me forget what happened or didn't happen here i'm saying it because it's the

25:10truth in that case maybe you should talk to dr riddles oh my god what they have medication for exactly

25:25i don't need pills hayley i don't need that so what i had performance anxiety so what it was a one-time

25:32thing damn there is no shame at getting help babe but i'm not talking about this no more

25:39where are you going clear my head

25:44excuse me

25:44what's on your mind baby i'm just having a hard time picturing dad in a place like this

25:58you know i still remember his lectures about fiscal responsibility those little budget books he made you

26:03keep he wanted you and your sister to be better than he was that's all any parent ever wants

26:10you know everything i learned about him it's like there was two doug mcbrides you know the man who

26:16raised me and a man who i barely know you know a guy who gambled away his watch and drove drunk

26:23how could those be the same people

26:25baby i would never in a million years ask you to give up your career

26:40that degree you busted your ass for the way you go to war for people who can't even fight for

26:44themselves that's who you are at the core it's my whole life jacob and i'm so so proud of you

26:51and one day our son or daughter will look at you the same exact way

26:57just you wait until some screaming infant is waking us up for 2am feedings when you've been

27:02on a stakeout all night and i'll get up every single time and it won't just be some kid it's our kid

27:09with your brilliance and my swagger the physical manifestation of the love we built together

27:15just imagine it baby jacob stop look just hear me out all right picture this saturday mornings

27:24with pancakes and cartoons teaching our kid how to ride a bike in the park watching their face light

27:29up on christmas morning make it sound like a made for tv movie i'm not saying it's gonna be easy

27:35they're gonna be sleepless nights and tantrums and we won't have all the answers but there will also be

27:40those special moments those first watching them take their first steps and say their first words

27:46you hearing them say mama for the first time

27:50and what if i let the kid down baby you excel at everything you do what makes this any different

28:00your father was an addict but those demons he wrestled with

28:05they don't negate how he was there through your asthma attacks during wrestling or the time he taught

28:15you to tie a double windsor for prom his addiction does not change how much he loved you

28:26nothing could ever change that in this world or the next

28:46okay let's get into it what are these so-called ground rules one you and i hold no claim on each

28:54other once upon a time i believed in monogamy but that shattered when bill threw me over for that

28:59nymph vet who probably still has her wisdom teeth okay so you're saying you don't mind us sleeping with

29:03other people as long as we're honest and safe does that work i got you two the second either one of us

29:14has had enough of this social experiment we communicate no ghosting no passive aggressive texts or hints

29:21just straight talk i'd never do that to you anyway i respect you too much so i love that because

29:29when this stops being fun i still want to be friends and if one of us catches feelings

29:34we'll cross that bridge when we get to it okay bet one more lastly

29:42as my husband you are required to give me three orgasms a week just three you underestimate me come

29:53here so bill used to give you foot massages huh

30:02the brazilian toe technique you being well traveled is really paying off

30:07i see we have skipped the honeymoon phase and gone straight to 50 shades of matrimony

30:14baby i don't need a room full of toys to get the job done

30:16you're still up you still mad yeah that's what the walk was for

30:36okay listen baby

30:39you wanted danny out of our lives you wanted me to set boundaries i did that but you're the one

30:48who's still upset i was just making an observation no no babe you were making accusations okay that's

30:58what you always do when it comes to danny but she's not our problem anymore right so her new husband can

31:04deal with her and all of her drama i just hope that andre richardson knows what he signed up for

31:12damn mrs richardson that was next level what you did on that coffee table i know i haven't been

31:18like that since my high fashion posing days a woman could get used to this yeah

31:25so should i stick around oh as deliciously tempting as that sounds i have an early morning

31:30zoom with pamela to talk about the modeling agency so you need to scoot before i change my mind cool

31:37you know um i just had a thought why don't i move in move in here yeah why not you could have me

31:47whenever you want me i jerk a man can i respectfully say thanks but no thanks

31:54i cohabitated with a man for decades and i've actually grown to like living on my own

31:59yeah plus absence makes the heart grow fonder and other parts grow more eager oh okay then how

32:06about a drawer it's a drive to get here the least you can do is to make it easier for your hard

32:11working husband a drawer i can do but ask for closet space at your own risk

32:17oh babe i'm not hurting you am i no it's not that i just this would be a lot easier if i could move my

32:27damn legs if i could just hold you like i used to derek this is never gonna work i can't even make love

32:37to you properly what kind of husband am i gonna be the kind that never gives up even when the world is

32:44burning down around him hey you will be able to make love to me again with your whole body

32:51i'm sure of it what if this is as good as it gets

32:58wow then we are just gonna have to get creative

33:03you know there are plenty of ways to please someone let me show you

33:08you mean you've been sitting here quiet for a while what you thinking

33:23everything you said

33:27that beautiful picture you painted of our child growing up

33:31summers at the beach christmas mornings with too many presents because the grands couldn't control

33:37themselves

33:41how your face lit up when you talked about it

33:46i can see how much this means to you

33:49i never thought this was something i'd want

33:52which is one of the things i love most about you

33:56your capacity for love and how you pour it into everything you do

34:02and i hate that i feel like i am dumping on your dreams

34:06no it's okay you're telling me how you feel

34:09it's what we do it's why we work

34:12jacob

34:15you would make a terrific father

34:20and despite how happy this pregnancy has made you

34:27i'm not happy

34:28you're out of here

34:33yep it has been quite an emotional tsunami today

34:37and i need donnell's input on doug's memorial service

34:42thank you for all your hope mr armstrong

34:44i had being able to have my father's favorite watch it well it helps with the healing

34:53anytime

35:05yeah

35:19thank you for playing along with the kid and the watch was a perfect touch

35:24you'll be paid within the hour

35:26it'll come from the usual channel

35:30no

35:31no i'm not worried at all

35:35there's no way don l could ever piece together what actually happened to his father

35:39next on beyond the gates

35:50people you have to fight clean or dirty

35:53i think it's time we finish what we started date get dressed up feel yourself a little i just need

35:58to know anything that might help me understand why he would leave us imagine if donnell finds out

36:03the truth baby what are you doing here i was gonna ask you the same thing mom

36:07bill get down here right now oh wow you have your own husband stay the hell away from mine

36:13she's the sexiest woman in the world only a damn fool would have kicked her to the curb

36:17getting richardson out of my ex-wife's life and out of her bed is top priority

36:33so

36:40so

36:41so

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