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Beyond the Gates - Season 2 - Episode 61: Thursday, April 2, 2026
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00:05Joey was kidding.
00:07He's got a unique sense of humor.
00:10Unique is charitable.
00:11Distorted would be more precise.
00:14Doctors, always so quick with the diagnosis.
00:16As if you weren't quick to throw shade.
00:19You mock my profession, but don't let me dare mention the rumors about your side businesses.
00:23You know, the ones that don't quite make it onto your tax return.
00:26Oh, you want to go rumor for rumor?
00:28All right, fine. How about you?
00:30Sliding into your best friend's ex-wife's bed before the ink is dry on the divorce.
00:35How dare you?
00:36Don't spare me the outrage, Nicole.
00:38We all have our skeletons.
00:39I just don't dress them up in my Sunday best and parade them around like saints.
00:45Your father built an empire by greasing palms and making deals.
00:51And you sit there and look down on me?
00:55You're just another Dupree, baptized in the same self-righteous water.
01:01Are you finished?
01:02Yes, he is.
01:03Good.
01:03Because I appreciate the candor.
01:06You do?
01:07Of course.
01:08It's always so much easier when people show you who they are up front.
01:13Vanessa, I love you, but I won't do this.
01:23Tab's on you.
01:32Oh, look who finally decided to show his face.
01:36Hey there.
01:39How was Baltimore?
01:40I hope the client appreciated you making the drive.
01:45I didn't go.
01:47No, really?
01:49Chelsea already clocked you here in town.
01:52Truth is, Baltimore was a cover.
01:55I had a job interview.
01:57Oh.
01:59Wow.
02:01I mean, I knew things between you and Bill were tense, but I didn't realize we'd escalated
02:07to update the LinkedIn profile.
02:09Well, keeping my options open is smart business.
02:13Yeah.
02:14But lying to your girlfriend isn't.
02:16You care to explain?
02:49Danny.
02:51Your voicemail was Pete Hamilton.
02:53Oh.
02:54Stately and commanding.
02:55Cryptic and full of yourself.
02:56And I quote, we need to talk about the future.
02:59So I figured if you'd finally come to your senses and decided to dump that leech you'd
03:04married, I wanted to hear it in person.
03:06Yeah, so you can be my shoulder to cry on?
03:08Forget that.
03:09I'm ready to laugh and point.
03:11I must deflate that fantasy.
03:13No.
03:14Hayley and I are still going strong.
03:16In fact, I find myself even more protective of her.
03:18Hmm.
03:19Darn.
03:20Considering you're the one who needs protection from that succubus, she would swindle the
03:24cufflinks off your wrists and convince you it was just for polish.
03:27Look.
03:28I'm trying to take care of the women in my life, Danny.
03:33That's why I called.
03:35And what's that?
03:36My will.
03:39He's worked for a party of four.
03:42Must have just left.
03:45Wait, wait, wait.
03:46Not so fast.
03:48These already pay for?
03:50On their tab.
03:51Oh, set them down.
03:53Go ahead.
03:55Oh, I love a complimentary happy hour.
04:01Based on that 911 text, I was expecting tears, not table service.
04:08You, uh, you all right?
04:10Just drinking my pain away.
04:13Doctor's orders.
04:14Who's the doctor?
04:15Macy?
04:16Your boss.
04:18He summoned me to his casino and advised that the walls were closing in on me.
04:22Say what?
04:23Bill asked Joey to dig into Lynette.
04:27Okay, we can handle that.
04:29Then Joey look me dead in my face and say he know the mug never happened.
04:32That you, me and her, have been working together.
04:36Know?
04:37So thinks he knows.
04:38Friend, he called it.
04:39Okay?
04:40And if Joey has already figured us out, Bill won't be too far behind.
04:45Okay, chill out.
04:46Anakin will not find us a way out of this.
04:48No, but a lethal dose of poison will.
04:52We need to kill Bill already, cash in his life insurance, and get the hell out before he can ruin
04:57us.
05:04This is what I dragged myself here for?
05:07This is important, Danny.
05:08What's the problem?
05:10After the scare we had with Mother, I don't want to think about anyone dying.
05:13Not you, not today, not ever.
05:17This concerns the girls.
05:21Wheels are not about death.
05:23They're about protecting the living.
05:26That's why I'm making some additions to their inheritances.
05:30And does this have anything to do with you waking up and realizing a baby with Haley is a bad
05:35investment?
05:36This is about legacy, Danny.
05:38Yours?
05:38Yours, ours, mine.
05:40What does it matter?
05:44I want what I've built to mean something beyond accolades and dollar signs on a ledger.
05:51So I'm bequeathing Naomi my equity stake on the firm.
05:55You can do that?
05:56Mm-hmm.
05:56Provided the beneficiary is an attorney.
05:59But Naomi's been adamant that she doesn't want to practice law the way you do.
06:03Yeah, I know.
06:03And I'll honor her bleeding heart.
06:05God knows the world needs more idealists.
06:08She's wasting her talent.
06:10You know, I'm hoping that this, you know, forces her hand so she can see what she could accomplish if
06:15she just played in the major leagues where she belongs.
06:18If Neil is already running his mouth to other people, then the last thing we need is to prove him
06:25right by catching a case.
06:26That man drops the air from mysterious anything.
06:29You are suspect number one.
06:32So wait, I'm supposed to just sit pretty and smile while they sharpen knives behind my back?
06:37Naomi already came at me, trying to blackmail me with that whole fake sonogram mess.
06:43And what'd you do?
06:44I got her off my back like I always do, but her fangs are starting to show.
06:50And I'm just ready to be done with this.
06:52I feel you, but we have to start thinking smart, not emotional.
06:57But if we can't take Bill off the board, then what?
07:00I'm not waiting around for him and Joy to connect the dots, Randy.
07:03Then we don't wait.
07:04We work.
07:05I'll undermine Bill's claim and make sure Joy understands Lynette operated alone.
07:11I don't know, man.
07:13Subtle needs to never be your strong suit.
07:16Don't try to play me.
07:17I know how to handle my boss.
07:20Oh, how I wish you'd been the one at dinner tonight.
07:24Come again?
07:24You certainly couldn't have been worse company.
07:28I hope it improves from here.
07:37Go ahead.
07:39Say, I told you so.
07:41Oh, I've had better nights.
07:43But hey, the martinis were perfect.
07:46You really want to reduce this to a cocktail review after what just happened?
07:51What do you want me to say, Vanessa?
07:53I want you to give a damn.
07:56You're treating this relationship just like everybody else.
08:00Like it is some temporary insanity.
08:02Like I will wake up one day and realize it was a mistake.
08:05Well, I am sick and tired of everyone in my life trying to shame me out of the one thing
08:12that makes me feel alive.
08:14I have to apologize for dragging you to that circus.
08:18Please.
08:20Please.
08:20Being called a lowlife by a reputed criminal?
08:23That's one for the memoir.
08:24I braced for awkward.
08:26But I didn't think that Joey was going to go full-blown nuclear on us before the appetizers even hit
08:34the table.
08:34That man declared war the second we sat down.
08:38Now, you saved us both by ending it.
08:40Another five minutes, you'd have found out how skilled a surgeon's hands can be.
08:45And Vanessa, God, she just sat there.
08:48Not a word in defense for us.
08:51Just there with Joey by her side like a trophy.
08:55Like he's the prize that she has been waiting for her whole life.
08:58Sometimes you're friends with people that you hate.
09:01Sometimes they're with people that you love.
09:03There's nothing much you can do about that.
09:06How can you be just so blasé about this?
09:10Joey is not just rude.
09:12He is dangerous.
09:13I realize this, especially after I caught something tonight that rattled me way more than his dicks.
09:20The way that he looked at you when he said something about buried bodies.
09:26Does Joey know something about your family?
09:35Joey wasn't just picking a fight with you.
09:37He was attempting to bait me.
09:39I have heard jokes about political families knowing where the bodies are buried my whole life.
09:43He was definitely on the defensive tonight.
09:46Like a cornered animal lashing out at anything to move.
09:49That is what terrifies me.
09:51Vanessa is walking into something dark and twisted and she has no idea.
09:55She thinks she's in love.
09:57Meanwhile, she is knee deep in quicksand.
10:00I have half a mind to just stage an upscale intervention.
10:05Nicole, do not.
10:06She is a grown woman capable of her own self-destructive decisions.
10:11You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
10:14I have told myself that for months.
10:17That if she is happy, I should just respect it.
10:21But after tonight?
10:23After sitting across from that man feeling the chill in my bones?
10:28I can't pretend anymore.
10:31Vanessa is speeding towards a cliff.
10:34And if I just let her drive over it, what kind of a friend does that make me?
10:40I'm sorry.
10:42I'm sorry for being insensitive and for your friends walking out.
10:47Tonight mattered to you.
10:48And that's the only reason I agreed to do it.
10:51It might have gone better if for once your opinion stayed holstered.
10:57Carlton didn't ask for your op-ed on cosmetic surgery.
11:00And Nicole certainly didn't need your dissertation on the Dupree's.
11:06I'm not built for biting my tongue.
11:09Vanessa, I don't do performance dinners.
11:12And I'm not looking for anyone's approval.
11:15Well, I am.
11:17You may like prowling through life like a lone wolf, but my friendships matter.
11:23More than that, I won't let what we have torch my relationship with my children.
11:29It's only natural that they need more time.
11:32For them to see you with somebody other than their father was never going to go great.
11:36Yeah, we both know it's bigger than that.
11:39They don't just see you as not Doug.
11:43They see your reputation.
11:45It's all they see, all anybody sees.
11:48You know.
11:50I really believed that if Nicole sat across from you, she'd see what I see.
11:55Maybe even understand.
11:56But if the so-called grown-ups can't get through one dinner without detonating,
12:04how can I expect my children to?
12:08You hand Naomi the key and she will burn down your castle by turning it into a legal aid clinic.
12:13You know that, right?
12:14Then so be it.
12:15At least the Hamilton name will still hang over the door.
12:17She is a Hamilton Hawthorne.
12:20In name, but in soul and spirit.
12:24She's a Dupree.
12:25I didn't know birthright meant this much to you.
12:28Well, it didn't.
12:30Not until recently.
12:31You know, over the years I've asked myself, you know,
12:34who has the killer instinct and the intellect and the audacity to step inside this office and make it their
12:39own?
12:39Whatever happened to Pauline?
12:41You used to hype her up like she was the second coming.
12:44Yeah.
12:44I mean, she's a brilliant attorney.
12:46You know, and hungry and Tomas.
12:47See, he's promising too.
12:49That's why I've invested so much time and energy in shaping his career.
12:53Now I'm starting to have serious concerns about his judgment,
12:56which forces me to realize something that I should have known from the start.
12:59That blowing up your life for a bimbo in a bikini wasn't the smartest strategic move?
13:05That strangers don't carry legacy.
13:08Only family does.
13:11I didn't tell you about the interview because I didn't want you forced to keep a secret from your uncle.
13:16Former uncle.
13:18Still, it's my mess to manage, not yours.
13:21That's where you're wrong.
13:22While you were busy chasing new horizons, I was reading Bill for absolute filth.
13:29About what?
13:30The lousy way he's been treating you, obviously.
13:33I told him straight up you did not harass that sketchy Lynette woman, and he's an idiot for believing Haley's
13:39lies.
13:39And since I had the floor, I also told him how tacky he was leaving Aunt Danny for that gold
13:46digger in stilettos.
13:47Yes, it's old news, but now that she's coming for you, I wasn't going to let that slide.
13:53Kat, mi amor, I appreciate you standing up for me, but what you actually did was make it worse.
14:06I don't understand why you're mad.
14:11Seriously, Kat?
14:12I defended you.
14:13That's what people do when they love someone, especially to cretins like Bill, Mr. Lies and Alibis Hamilton.
14:21No, that's what people do when they don't trust the other person to stand on their own.
14:26You think I need you to swing at Bill for me?
14:28I was setting him straight.
14:30Big difference.
14:31To you, maybe.
14:32But to others, it makes me look like I can't handle my own fights.
14:36Like I need my girlfriend to step in and rescue me from my big bad boss.
14:42That wasn't my intention.
14:45I know.
14:47Look, let's just focus on the bright side.
14:51My interview went way better than I expected.
14:55Well, that's a praise report.
14:57It's a smaller firm, not as prestigious, but they're offering me a full partnership.
15:03Wow.
15:04Okay, next steps.
15:06HR drafting the offer letter.
15:08I don't want to jinx it, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
15:12Baby, that's amazing.
15:15No Bill, no Haley, no toxic workplace drama.
15:19This sounds perfect.
15:21The only catch is I'll be strapped for cash for a little while,
15:25so no vacations or extravagant gifts in the near future.
15:30But if you're a full partner, shouldn't you be making more?
15:34I will, in the long run.
15:36But full partners have to buy in.
15:38It's a huge chunk of cash up front in exchange for a percentage of the firm's profits.
15:43And since I've been sending money back home, savings are tight.
15:48I'll have to take a loan out to make it work.
15:50Hmm.
15:52Or you can let the private bank of Cat Richardson handle it.
15:58Did you not listen to a thing I just said?
16:02You know, I figured we'd squeeze in a few more girls' nights before you run off chasing your next mark.
16:10Oh, you trying to get rid of me now?
16:11No, I'm just calling it how I see it.
16:15Randy's sweet, sure, but he's not built for your Cartier taste.
16:20Sooner or later, you'll be back out there hunting your next will.
16:24Well, it's going to be really hard to top Bill.
16:29Yeah, I mean, you have better odds winning the lottery than ever finding another man as brilliant, loving, and fun
16:39as my husband.
16:41But maybe even a rich, big Texas oil man.
16:48Texas?
16:48Mm-hmm.
16:49Girl, no.
16:49The DMV is swarming with sharks.
16:53You just have to know where to swim.
16:58You know, I wish I had some clever magic trick to win your children over, but I don't.
17:04I can't control how people see me.
17:06And I stopped trying a long time ago.
17:09Well, there are things you could do.
17:13Smile more, perhaps?
17:15Talk less?
17:16I think you've seen Hamilton one too many times.
17:20Make yourself more approachable is what I'm getting at.
17:24play up at the clinic donation.
17:27Or how you took a chance on Isaiah when no one else would.
17:31Show them there's more to you than the rumors.
17:35Vanessa,
17:37I would do damn near anything for you,
17:40but I will not put on a show just to make people comfortable.
17:43People can love me or they can hate me, but I have to do what feels right in the moment.
17:59Confidence is what pulled me in.
18:01I love how you move through the world like it's yours.
18:06I just wish Deanna could see the other parts of you that I do.
18:12The man who listens to me ramble about my day.
18:16Who remembers how I like my coffee.
18:20Who holds me when I can't sleep.
18:25Listen.
18:27If you need us to be less public or even take a step back, I get it.
18:32Joey, no.
18:32Then we have to face facts.
18:34Some people will only see me as the villain.
18:38There's nothing we can do about it.
18:41Vanessa has always flirted with the wild side.
18:44But now she is diving in head first.
18:46She is raw and vulnerable, and Joey, Joey is just swooping in like a vulture.
18:54Because of him, she has already lost her daughter.
18:58And I am terrified as to how much more she will lose if this goes on.
19:02You know better than most that nobody changes until they admit they have a problem.
19:07You cannot force recognition on someone who isn't ready.
19:10I have spent my career persuading persistent patients
19:14to confront things that they would like to bury.
19:17This isn't your office.
19:20And Vanessa isn't your patient.
19:22Is that your professional opinion?
19:24I am not criticizing your capabilities.
19:27You know that I think the world of you, Nicole.
19:30I just...
19:31I wonder if you're getting so worked up about Vanessa because...
19:38maybe you're doing a little projecting.
19:43Pro...
19:44Explain?
19:46Think about the year that you've had.
19:48Okay?
19:50You found out that Ted's been lying to you for decades.
19:53He's got a whole grown-ass daughter out there.
19:56You just went through a divorce, and now your mother is battling cancer.
19:59That...
20:00That's a whole lot of trauma.
20:03Packed into a really short space of time.
20:05And what does any of that have to do with Vanessa and Joey?
20:12Because like Vanessa, you've been through the ringer.
20:18And like Vanessa, you started to act a little out of character.
20:29You know what?
20:30I actually like the idea of Naomi inheriting the firm.
20:33Yeah, yeah.
20:34See, now you're starting to see it my way.
20:35I mean, she's got the chops, right?
20:37And it fits.
20:38I suppose I could bequeath Chelsea my share of the agency.
20:42Although I'd never force it on her.
20:44She's really carving her own way.
20:46She's making something completely hers, huh?
20:47Actually, our baby girl is already covered.
20:52I earmarked the size of a fund for Chelsea.
20:54I mean, strictly for her entrepreneurial endeavors.
20:56No fine print, no strings, just capital she can use to grow.
21:00That's a vote of confidence, if there ever was one.
21:03Well, they've earned it.
21:05Our girls came away with the best of us.
21:08Brains, instinct, grit.
21:10And just enough recklessness to keep life interesting.
21:13And with that mix, of course, they're destined to rule the world.
21:16Well, it's nice to hear you admit that I had a little something to do with the raising of our
21:20phenomenal daughters.
21:22Well, more than just a little.
21:25Come on, you carried the load.
21:27That's why I put you back in my will, too.
21:32Sure, DC's cute and all.
21:34It has that whole power and posturing thing going for it.
21:37Yeah?
21:38And that's where decisions get made.
21:39By people who ain't us.
21:41So I should just dip?
21:44Fresh city, fresh ID.
21:46Fresh everything.
21:49You know, I can see you as a Monique.
21:53Maybe a Tyra.
21:55Girl, you could be whoever the hell you want to be.
21:58So what's wrong with Lynette?
21:59Just a straight shooter who cuts through the crap.
22:02And I think it's time you did the same.
22:04I've been nothing but straight with you.
22:05Girl, please.
22:07You and I have been in the trenches too many times for me to believe that.
22:13And you're saying that you're giving up the hustle?
22:16I see you.
22:18You're running your biggest con yet.
22:23As much as I want my kids and everybody else to accept us,
22:29I won't let their disapproval run my life.
22:33Darnell and Deanna are grown.
22:36They can disagree all they want.
22:38That's their right.
22:38But they don't get to make decisions for me.
22:43Glad to see my influence is finally rubbing off.
22:47I refuse to hide us.
22:50That would mean I'm embarrassed to be with you.
22:53And nothing could be further from the truth.
22:57Then you better brace yourself.
23:00Sticking by me means taking on my reputation.
23:04And the people in this town have long memories.
23:08And even longer tongues.
23:12Then I'll grow a thicker skin.
23:16You were there when Doug died.
23:19When I was drowning in casseroles and sympathy cards.
23:24You made me feel alive again.
23:29Reminded me I was still alive.
23:31And you make me feel beautiful.
23:39Desired.
23:40Loved.
23:41If Deanna ever finds a man who gives her that,
23:46maybe then she'll understand why I can't let you go.
23:57I'm busy.
23:59Hey, Deanna, Rob, boss.
24:00I just wanted to run something by you.
24:02Unless you need me to circle back later.
24:06Forget it.
24:07Moment's ruined.
24:09I'll let you two talk.
24:11Evening, Randy.
24:12Vanessa.
24:14Vanessa.
24:21This better be important.
24:23So what exactly are you saying?
24:25I'm an imposter now?
24:27What?
24:28No, no, no.
24:30Never.
24:31Nicole, I have never met anyone more real or vital than you.
24:40Then clarify.
24:46Ever since the divorce,
24:49it seems like you've been working overtime
24:54to reinvent yourself.
24:56The hair, the clothes, the whole vibe.
25:00So what I'm hearing is that you don't like the woman I'm becoming.
25:04That is not what I'm saying.
25:06That you liked me better when I was boring and predictable,
25:10when I fit neatly into the little box you created for me.
25:13Nicole, I think that you are amazing.
25:16I always have.
25:17All I'm saying is I didn't see anything wrong
25:18with the woman that you were before.
25:21Well, thank you for your unsolicited character assessment.
25:26But I think I am ready to call it a night.
25:29Nicole.
25:29This has been a very long and trying evening.
25:34Let's not prolong it.
25:40When you replay the clumsy
25:45and well-intended words that I said tonight
25:50and no doubt get angrier,
25:53please circle back to this moment.
25:58I love
26:03spending time
26:04with every iteration of you.
26:18Good night.
26:26I can't believe this.
26:27You giving me so much as a dime
26:29after you swore I was bleeding you dry through the divorce.
26:33Okay, I'm not talking about money, okay?
26:35You already took me to the cleaners.
26:39What you wanted and what you earned is my respect.
26:43My acknowledgement of what you sacrificed for me.
26:46Well, as lovely as this sounds,
26:48I can't do diddly-squat with acknowledgement
26:50and it doesn't fit in your will.
26:52I'm referring to the Amy Sherald portrait.
26:55The piece you had commissioned of the girls?
26:57The very one.
26:58I was livid when that mediator ruled that it was yours.
27:01Especially since you stuck it in your study
27:03where nobody can see it.
27:04Come on, it's personal.
27:06It belongs in a private space.
27:08Translation, Hayley couldn't stomach
27:09having her morning coffee
27:10with a daily reminder that she's a homewrecker.
27:13Ooh, but I bet she already had it appraised
27:15and she's going to have quite the tantrum
27:17when she realizes that it's not hers.
27:20It's not about her.
27:23It's not about the price tag.
27:25That portrait has sentimental value to you.
27:28That's what matters.
27:30You call Hayley a gold digger,
27:32but then you want me to play that role
27:34in your family's eyes?
27:37What happens when Bill finds out his protege
27:39couldn't even secure his own buy-in
27:41without your family's money?
27:43This isn't the same thing.
27:45Partners invest in each other.
27:47I'm not trying to buy you.
27:49I'm trying to support you.
27:51If I take your money,
27:53it changes us.
27:56And that's the last thing I want.
27:59I have this picture
28:02of how I want our lives to be.
28:04After a few years of full partner,
28:06I'll finally have the financial security
28:08I've been chasing my whole life.
28:10then we buy that house
28:13with the wraparound porch,
28:14travel wherever we want,
28:16and build something solid
28:18as equals.
28:20That's the future I see for us.
28:22And I can't let anything cheapen it,
28:25not even your generosity.
28:29I love that vision.
28:31But baby,
28:32you already are my equal.
28:35Money doesn't change that.
28:37Good.
28:38Because Bill pushing me in this direction
28:41might be the best thing that ever happened.
28:44Well,
28:45there's one more bonus to that for us.
28:50I am not going to second-guess myself
28:53because some man thinks
28:55he knows me better than me.
29:15So,
29:15I've been working some new angles,
29:17found his liquor supplier
29:18who can hook us up.
29:20That's why you interrupted me?
29:22He's offering a way better deal
29:24than what we're getting right now, Joey.
29:25You could have put that in an email.
29:27I just figured you would appreciate
29:30me being all proactive.
29:32Or you want to impress me.
29:33Oh, well, that's very different.
29:35Here,
29:36have a seat.
29:38A couple of things I'd like to discuss.
29:41All right, boss.
29:42Whatever you need.
29:44So, Bill Hamilton
29:46asked me to look into
29:47Haley's new friend.
29:49This, uh, this woman
29:52who just happened to witness
29:53her mugging.
29:55All right.
29:56Say less.
29:57What do you need me to find out?
30:00As if you don't already know everything.
30:04I don't know what you mean by that, Joey.
30:06Yeah, sure, I know Haley,
30:07but this random chick,
30:08she don't mean nothing to me.
30:10Huh.
30:11She meant enough for you
30:12to suck her fingers
30:13in the middle of Orphe jeans.
30:31If this is a dream,
30:34my subconscious
30:35has great taste.
30:38Oh, baby,
30:40I am very,
30:41very real.
30:50Just think of this
30:51as a fairy tale.
30:53Only tonight,
30:55the prince
30:55gets awakened
30:56by the kiss.
30:58From the princess,
30:59he entrusted
31:00with the magical keys
31:01to his castle.
31:07A part of me
31:08thought you put that
31:09key in a drawer
31:10just to torture me.
31:14No more words.
31:16I have talked
31:17enough tonight.
31:27Hey, I'm Joey.
31:29You really do
31:30have eyes everywhere.
31:32What else did
31:35June tell you?
31:38Now, you know,
31:39I can't confirm
31:40or deny
31:40where I get my intel.
31:43I just hope
31:44Lynette's fingers
31:45were worth it.
31:47You tell Bill?
31:49Haven't felt the need.
31:50Bill's a sharp guy.
31:51He'll put the pieces
31:52together soon enough.
31:54Or
31:55you can do me a solid
31:57and lead Bill
31:57down the wrong path.
31:59Come on, Joey.
32:01What do you need?
32:02You need me
32:03to lean on somebody?
32:04You know I'm good for it.
32:05That's tempting.
32:08But
32:08no,
32:09I just can't
32:10in good conscience
32:11lie to the man.
32:13When has that
32:13ever stopped you before?
32:15Sorry, Randy.
32:16I'm not gonna save
32:18your ass on this one.
32:19But
32:22good luck.
32:24you're gonna need it.
32:27You realize we just
32:28had one of those
32:29heavy conversations
32:30and we didn't even
32:31come close to arguing.
32:33A miracle.
32:35Or maybe it's growth.
32:37Who knew?
32:38Us
32:39teetering on the brink
32:40of functionality.
32:42Past the brink,
32:43actually.
32:44I just never thought
32:45we would get
32:46to this point.
32:47I thought we would
32:48be destined
32:49to be those
32:50bitter exes
32:51who can only
32:51communicate through
32:52lawyers and
32:53passive-aggressive
32:54holiday cards.
32:55Well, I'm damn
32:56glad we did.
32:58You know, honestly,
33:00I can't imagine
33:01my life without
33:01you in it.
33:03That
33:05wasn't me.
33:06I wasn't trying to...
33:06I know what you
33:07mean.
33:08We're always
33:09connected.
33:10There's no
33:10debate in that.
33:12I don't know
33:13what to call
33:13whatever this is.
33:15We're not spouses.
33:15We're not enemies.
33:18Maybe we're
33:18just friends.
33:20Is there such
33:21thing as a friend
33:22with a beneficiary?
33:24Well, there is
33:25now.
33:28Once you walk
33:29out of Bill's
33:29firm, there's
33:30nothing tying
33:31your hands,
33:32which means
33:33we can finally
33:34investigate Lynette.
33:36Pat, no.
33:38The whole point
33:39of this new gig
33:40is to leave
33:40all that behind.
33:43I was hoping
33:44I could forget
33:44she even existed.
33:46See, that's
33:46the problem.
33:47My gut won't
33:47let me forget,
33:48and my gut
33:49is always on point.
33:51One, Lynette
33:52flirts with you
33:53the literal second
33:54her charges vanish.
33:56Two, she's
33:57suddenly besties
33:58with Haley
33:58like they've been
33:59tight forever,
34:00which, oops,
34:01maybe they have
34:02been.
34:02And three,
34:03she hardly has
34:05a digital footprint,
34:06not even a
34:06dusty burner account.
34:08Maybe she's
34:09just old school.
34:10Not everybody
34:11wants their
34:11business out there.
34:13Not having
34:14any receipts
34:14online is the
34:16biggest receipt
34:16of all.
34:18Look,
34:20the way
34:21Bill played you
34:21was foul,
34:22but this isn't
34:23about him anymore.
34:25If Lynette's
34:26running some scam,
34:27it could blow
34:28back on him,
34:29or worse,
34:30on my family.
34:31And I don't play
34:32about my people.
34:34So what?
34:35You want us to go
34:36full Sherlock and
34:37Watson?
34:38Well,
34:39with your legal
34:40smarts and my
34:41podcast trained
34:43sleuthing,
34:44we're unstoppable.
34:47Lynette Wise
34:48is cooked.
34:54Why is it so
34:55hard for you
34:55to believe
34:56that I went
34:56legit?
34:57Because,
34:58boo,
34:59this has
35:00every fingerprint
35:01of your old
35:02grips.
35:05You bagged
35:05your mark,
35:06you locked
35:07down your ring,
35:08and then you
35:08moved into the
35:09mansion.
35:11And now you're
35:12sitting here
35:13acting brand new
35:13as if you were
35:14born into this
35:15life.
35:16Okay,
35:16so getting
35:16married and
35:17building a home,
35:18that's what people
35:19do when they
35:20fall in love.
35:21And speaking of
35:22my ring...
35:23Right,
35:23because if that
35:23marriage was so
35:24solid,
35:25then you wouldn't
35:26have staged that
35:27desperate housewife
35:28nonsense.
35:28I never asked
35:29you to hit me.
35:30I just needed
35:31a way to get
35:32Bill to stay
35:33with me and not
35:34run back to his
35:35ex because I
35:36love him.
35:37No,
35:38you love money,
35:39and you always
35:40have.
35:41And Bill's
35:41sitting on more
35:42paper than the
35:42printing press,
35:44which means that
35:44I'm not bouncing
35:45until I get
35:46with smiles.
35:47Lynette,
35:47you're tripping.
35:48And don't worry,
35:49because I ain't
35:49gonna wreck
35:50whatever you
35:50got going on.
35:53Unless you
35:54refuse to cut
35:54me in.
35:57You're putting
35:58me in a
35:59difficult position.
36:01Don't test
36:02me, Val.
36:04Because I
36:05will blow
36:05your plan,
36:06Sky.
36:15I'm not
36:16I'm telling you,
36:20I'm not
36:20anymore.
36:23You're
36:24One.
36:25One.
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