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Beyond the Gates - Season 2 - Episode 70: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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00:04There should be an award for a flawless shopping mission.
00:07I think the closest thing is the CFDA stylist award.
00:10Well, we should come up with our own award for how we cleaned up.
00:14Did mom text back yet?
00:17She's usually more responsive when shoes are involved.
00:19I put 10 toes down on her being busy with Andre.
00:22Or 10 toes up.
00:25Ew.
00:27You know, I went over there the other day and mom is still smitten.
00:32She and Andre are really good.
00:34You know, having the sickness and health part of their vows down
00:38before he and mom were barely over their Vegas wedding hangover
00:42and standing up like he has, Andre should be getting a hubby reward.
00:46And maybe right now.
00:48Okay, nah, fuck.
00:51None of us were prepared to watch Gran go through the ringer.
00:55Mom has a double because she may be facing the same fate
00:58with the Brock of Jean looming.
01:00It has to be haunting her no matter how bright she shines for us.
01:05Hell, I think the only thing that's saving her
01:06is knowing that her daughters don't have it too.
01:09You know what's saving her?
01:11It's seeing us all pulled together.
01:13Like the Dupree boss family that we are.
01:16Like Gran says, we love each other through it.
01:22Okay.
01:22All right, how's that?
01:24Don't come at me again.
01:27Courtesy of Rowena.
01:28I was thinking between my mocktails and your juices,
01:31we could start our own mocktail line.
01:33Imagine us.
01:34Let me guess.
01:35There'll be Danny Teenies.
01:37And Anita Garitas.
01:38And Dr. Hot Petrotties.
01:42Look who I found.
01:44I know we're supposed to stagger our visits, but...
01:47You couldn't have had better timing.
01:50Does that mean?
01:51We have some news.
01:53Good news.
01:54Good news and some bad news.
01:56Which do you want first?
01:59The worst first.
02:01Well, I'm more of a dessert first kind of girl,
02:05but have it your way.
02:09I have to have a couple of more rounds with the Red Devil.
02:13Oh, great.
02:14And I am continuing this wretched courtship
02:18because that Red Devil juice is working.
02:22The tumor has shrunk far more than I dared hope.
02:27Fantastic news.
02:31Cheers.
02:33Cheers.
02:34Cheers.
02:46Cheers.
02:56Cheers.lings.
03:07hey hey we could have carpooled would i be crowding to ask you and isaiah to join me
03:13i think i would be the one crowding no isaiah today i'm expecting mama you're welcome to
03:20ah it's okay i get it i need to make an excuse
03:24do you feel completely restored after what we just did back there yes was it good for you
03:33beating another couple that tennis is so hot
03:38does you being available for lunch mean you finished your latest assignment and are free
03:43for the rest of the day it means i hit a brick wall and need to recalibrate and privilege blocks
03:50you from sharing details doesn't block you from guessing not lynette okay this is kind of fun
04:00i get to piece together what i know so you told me bill was acting suspicious but he's sticking you
04:08on her now okay close but not quite not sticking you exactly private eye but you're supervising
04:19assuming i'm right you can answer this because it's not about your client
04:22what's that do you think hayley's in the loop or did bill go rogue
04:38how was discovery granted got permission from the court to dig like you know i know how
04:44who went to the victor goes to spoil lunch rain check naomi booked me to talk about madison's case and
04:53i
04:53got the impression she wanted me to herself you know for reasons do you remember how you lied to my
05:00dad about that sonogram okay i wouldn't exactly phrase it like that you claimed you went and got
05:06checked out but we both know that didn't happen i could have blown your whole cover but i didn't say
05:12a
05:12word you think she's ready to talk about her missing hubby i yeah i mean what else could it be
05:21yeah it's great that she's finally sharing okay well i can go grab something with caroline okay great
05:28thanks i should head out wait there's something else i need to make a confession
05:44oh shoot it's almost dead since when does my sister not keep it at 100. oh my gosh no charger
05:51what kind of
05:52self-respecting influencer am i one too busy running an empire to be posting every minute
05:58sure you don't want to come with you know i'm hella grateful for you and dad crushing
06:02madison's my practice nonsense but i'd just be extra with all my questions what you ask great questions
06:10but you have chelsea cat business calling which i'll be tending to solo while cat hangs with tomas
06:18oh mom texted i should get back to her go say hi to dad okay well i will see you
06:24later but we should
06:25start more days like this yes we should bye can we trade the club's burger for the atrium's wings
06:38okay okay all right see you look i will always tolerate dana for your sake but today is just not
06:49the day but having your parents tolerate one another is every kid's dream eva grown woman here okay
06:57besides mama's glaring with a kilted vibe for you and chanice chanice is not my lunch date andre is
07:02oh well tell my cousin we're overdue you and chanice still dealing with friction
07:09we had a talk thanks to my insightful daughter's advice and uh i told her i needed to slow things
07:17down that's not exactly my advice but if it worked then great you know i'm learning that being on the
07:25same page makes everything better yeah i wouldn't say all that well then what would you say
07:31whatever it takes we'll talk it out instead of going to the breakup place it sounds like she's
07:38making all the right noises but nicole casts a pretty perfect shadow what does nicole nicole is
07:47in her face at work every single day being all the things a dupree a famous psychiatrist a veritable
07:54goddess chanice might not want to compare but i don't know if she can help it
07:59any more than she can wonder if you are comparing too but i would never
08:06i gotta go yeah yeah all right good talk good talk love you love you
08:13bill thinks lynette orchestrated hayley's attack i didn't say that you didn't have to it's logical
08:20but would that mean lynette was working with sledgehammer facts already in evidence since he
08:26was the accused murderer but from what i hear his name is the most violent thing about him
08:31tracking him down will hopefully get us some answers us you and bill c.i which i'm betting he can
08:39find anyone just don't start investigating i'm merely a concerned citizen i mean it cat this cannot get
08:48back to hayley no tipping for me but you need to be careful you just got your job back sniffing
08:54around
08:55the woman who almost got you fired could put you back in a tricky situation don't worry i'm no longer
09:00in the line of fire the tides turned all morning i've been revisiting every interaction i've had with
09:08lynette and if maybe she was playing me after all so what brought you to that conclusion no she was
09:16just
09:16so good at making herself poor lynette the bank was persecuting her she was shook from the mug and you
09:24know i almost forgot i was on the receiving end of that punch and she was just bystander i've been
09:31trying to tell you instead of knowing what i was doing was its own reward lynette kept putting her hand
09:37out for more like we made her case pro bono we paid for her hotel and when she hinted hard
09:45for that
09:45apartment i should have known something was off but instead i i volunteered because if lynette wasn't
09:57a good person then i was a damn fool and you know how embarrassing that was hey hey anybody can
10:04get
10:04played right but i'm glad you have a big heart i should have listened to you from the beginning
10:13john listen nothing and no one is going to change how i think about you okay you're my wife
10:28so dr bauer says after the final chemo treatments they will repeat breast imaging to confirm the tumor
10:35size and move on probably to lobectomy
10:41i am not eager to go under the knife but if it will excise this cancer once and for all
10:47after the surgery what's the recovery like will it be radiation or reconstruction we're managing
10:54this one step at a time the doctor's been clear that mom's relationship with cancer doesn't end
11:00with treatment no i have to remain vigilant but you are winning and cancer is losing
11:07and is it okay for me to just say how in awe i am of you your whole life has
11:13been a study in courage
11:15but this why because you've never seen me so scared because i've never seen you so human
11:23maybe that's a mistake we decrees have made not showing how fallible we are
11:29my courage wasn't always accessible there were many times i reached out and it wasn't there but your
11:39granddad was just a touch away his courage never wavered thank you for taking such good care of mother
11:49yes thank you you don't thank a man for fulfilling his purpose in life job you are the reason waterproof
11:58mascara was invented she is right but these tears are different right happy tears they don't sting and
12:06i know cat shared a few when you told her well since you're planning on seeing her later i thought
12:13that
12:13you could tell her the good news she will be thrilled oh and smitty and the kids might like to
12:19hear this directly from you i would love that i can surprise them on our debutante strategizing call
12:27later and i am going to call andre where did i put my phone excuse me you should get in
12:32touch with
12:32tracy she must be worried after your earlier conversation that was sharon i spoke to then tracy
12:39was having some kind of wardrobe issue oh right right well i think you should call them both
12:52what's the word mom is beating cancer's butt she still has a few sessions of chemo and surgery but
13:01she's headed toward remission that is the best thing i've heard give her a kiss for me i will
13:10promise some news from the anita scares oh man thank goodness there is no one tougher than anita dupree
13:20even so she was struggling when i saw her last
13:25nicole must be dancing right now
13:29well what happened in court today is not a license to repeat offend
13:34yeah we'll see that you don't
13:37i'm sorry where were we you were refraining from i told you so and i was thinking of ways to
13:45make
13:46it up to you oh yeah
13:49hey sweetheart hayley and i just need a couple more minutes okay i can oh no say naomi i need
13:56you to hear this too oh what's the big drama kat told you about the red flag i was raised
14:04about tomas
14:05and our client lynette but it seems she has some red flags of her own
14:12yeah and you know i should be saying this to tomas
14:16no he just wants to keep rolling thanks for not throwing it back in my face hey you want to
14:24join us
14:24for lunch no i don't want to intrude naomi you don't mind do you of course not
14:34what you said before reminds me we need to celebrate oh what are we celebrating did you seriously think i'd
14:42i forgot okay you had me going how could we not toast to you getting chelsea cat into fenmore's
14:56oh not today with these two can we relocate uptown anywhere but here
15:10ladies pepe lepew mama don't consider it a birthday present to cat oh that's right you
15:17and kick out a mere weeks apart where's her tiara i'm sure that'll happen at some point
15:28isaiah wanted to surprise me so he gave it to me early class act pre-gift a mousse bouche
15:36movie trailer reminds me of that cake i gave you last year on uh cute cats birthday great minds baby
15:44great minds uh it's not a pre-gift it's an actual gift mama yeah well if he wants to stick
15:51he better
15:51give you a present on your day he had it made for me for us like these strands they're braided
15:59together they symbolize me and isaiah how we're better together than we are apart baby did you
16:05spill that from the uh articulates i mean it's really sweet and everything but you know i've been doing
16:10your box braids since you were just a baby all right so um braids don't have magic in it now
16:19maybe a
16:19diamond does that might but on a banner because salary okay so how did isaiah go from marriage
16:26material last week to you dragon well i had to make a course correction after beating his
16:32judgy 9-1-1 dispatch and mama okay so you're rejecting isaiah on the basis of his meddling mama
16:40you have to know how hypocritical that sounds when looking at her is like you staring in the mirror
16:44uh looky there naomi hawthorne slumming it huh yeah she'd sooner dangle that little tiny dancer from
16:54her ankle than sit down and break bread
17:00have you figured out which stamp you're gonna put on chanice's passport
17:03work it well i can hook you up anywhere i do know of some vegas spots but you best be
17:11careful or
17:12you'll end up rolling up to that chapel like danny me uh chanice and i had to have a little
17:17talk about
17:18where we are in art and what brought that on some unfortunate miscommunication i told her how much i
17:28i loved how her mind works she heard i loved her it was hella awkward because it's not true or
17:38because it's too soon to say we're still new i mean i told her as much as i enjoy and
17:42respect her
17:43i'm not there and she was mortified and i felt like an absolute ass damn but but you know the
17:52road
17:52to love is paved with cringe and honesty yeah i may have told her the truth but am i giving
17:58her
17:59false expectations i mean if i'm not ready and chanice is am i wasting her time well that depends
18:07on if you think you'll ever will be uncle chet what or who is holding you up and i think
18:14we both know
18:14the answer to that and remember to exit through the kitchen oh i haven't forgotten my mission i expect
18:22nothing less bye baby mother i cannot believe you went to all of that trouble oh no your daddy did
18:34most of the heavy lifting how's that he uh occupied cat by asking for podcast recommendations
18:43she terrified him the man couldn't sleep a wink naomi hit me back you'll want to hear the happy
18:49hey dad how are you holding up well if you're referencing that slip of the tongue in there uh
18:58no cause for alarm who's alarmed if i had a nickel for every time i called chelsea naomi and naomi
19:03chelsea while they're running around my house but i do want to make sure you're still taking care of
19:08yourself while you're taking care of mother i'm tired but it's the kind you feel when you
19:17can let yourself relax a bit after the worst of the storm has passed then the fight has been worth
19:25it
19:25daddy mother's gonna be all right from your lips
19:33can i join in chelsea's there mom told me the good news this is just a congrats drive-by if
19:40gran is up for
19:41it oh the queen is in wonderful spirits i think we can get you an audience oh lovely
19:50listen did you see your sister earlier it's going straight to voicemail
19:53oh dying phone but she's heading to lunch try that okay
19:59well we're gonna have to um let's take another look at hall too
20:04the grandfather of all my practice cases plus recent liability cases against influencers fomo is
20:11supposed to be for people you actually like not a table full of people who would rather have you
20:16dangling too the only thing i'm afraid of missing is the moment that little shorty over there gets
20:23hers now no one gets that close to that monster of a man without living to regret it
20:29yeah hey honey i promise we're almost done oh i'm fine i love seeing this father-daughter lawyer
20:38act in action
20:42hey danny i hear you're with naomi right what are you stalking me woman you wish
20:49she's right here come on
20:53hey mom hi baby i wanted to tell you that the tumor's shrinking oh mom wait when can i see
21:02gran
21:03oh gosh there are people here so maybe tomorrow okay let her know to expect me okay love you
21:09love you more did you hear yeah i got the gist danny still here tell anita that i'm glad that
21:17we'll be able to squabble up for many years to come how are you feeling like i can finally see
21:24light
21:25at the end of this hellish tunnel oh baby i'm so happy for you all right i'll talk to you
21:31soon bye
21:42she needs slides me up but when we get deeper am i being fair if i'm not ready to be
21:48all the way in
21:50danny and i were right where you are she didn't think it was fair to cross the relationship rubicon
21:56with me when parts of her was still hung up and what made you okay with that there was a
22:03moment
22:03when my ego made me walk yeah i wanted all of her or nothing no and what made you come
22:11back yeah i did
22:12the math the hell do i care if that man has 10 of her heart when i have the other
22:1790 and what we have
22:20is different from what danny have with bill it's it's real and it's new it's it's more fun why would
22:27i walk away from that nah as long as i have danny i can't lose i'll see you andre but
22:36unlike danny who's
22:37trying to give up the ghost of an unworthy spouse i'm trying to let go of a perfect one and
22:44a perfect
22:45marriage i ruin and there's the difference you ruined it uncle ten and nicole shut the door to it
22:56there's no getting around that so are you are you gonna move on and find happiness with someone else
23:02or are you gonna spend the rest of your life pining for what you'll never have again because i sure
23:06as
23:06hell don't want that for you and i hope it's not the future you're choosing for yourself
23:21oh well that was pretty painless right no it was something but just because we were able to hold
23:28it together for a meal doesn't mean your efforts to bring about a rapproachment between naomi and me
23:34have succeeded i think you mean rapprochement it's french that's what i get for reaching above my pay
23:44grade hey we never stop reaching and i'll never stop trying to put you and naomi back together
23:51we'll see yeah well i gotta get back to the office did i make you miss your pilates class
23:57oh i i thought i'd try boxing instead i thought it would be a great idea right after sledgehammer
24:04well well i'm sure you'll enjoy it and we can practice sparring when we get home later bye
24:14rapprochement i don't need all those fancy degrees to take all your money man you can kiss my ass
24:21real rapprochement please you want to sign up for his mama whispering in her boy's ear about how you're
24:30not good enough till death do you perk do you hear yourself warning me about her how many people in
24:36isaiah's life do you think have warned him about you behaving the same way she's practically your twin
24:41no no i don't share anything with that half okay she is strip mall boutique i am couture look at
24:48your
24:48mama okay i'm not talking about your makeover mama your mo oh girl do you know i rolled out the
24:56red
24:56carpet for your boy opened my checkbook planning your play wedding that i didn't ask for darlene is
25:05a mama bear just like you she thinks her child's life is her territory to rule too are you ordering
25:12me
25:12to back off like that could happen no matter what you and darlene are gonna mama and me and isaiah
25:20we're gonna live in love without paying our mothers any mind
25:26toodles
25:32i already put in our order telepathically weeks ago when i first started planning
25:38okay someone order cake no you didn't we did happy birthday
25:53perfect dessert first you remember why save the best for last one you could have it first how could i
26:01forget such a sweet tradition i thought you didn't know what today was what kind of boyfriend would that
26:07make make me are gone boyfriend is that the pont neuf grand's cake she doesn't need to be over
26:15exerting there's more than one way to bake a cake grand supervised how i lived there and i didn't even
26:22get a whiff granddad showed up in your wing for podcast recommendations our grandparents are sneaky
26:30this morning i literally thought i'd woken up in one of those movies where the girl's entire
26:34family forgot her birthday okay take back that grandparent blasphemy oh it wasn't like that
26:41i was actually proud of myself for adulting and understanding that there are more important
26:47things to worry about than cat day and yet you still call it cat day oh the adulting can't happen
26:54at one
26:56like there's a little piece of me that misses mom and dad being disgustingly adorable together
27:04and partying almost harder than me because it was their day too together or apart you know they are still
27:13doing that i'm gonna go grab her some plates you invited her no then she followed us here i didn't
27:23know
27:24showing up accidentally on purpose to one birthday maybe but two years in a row that's a pattern okay
27:32well you don't believe me we'll believe these my text chain whatever
27:37i'm gone enjoy
27:42you know what i'm just really glad that you got positive news about your grandmother
27:48i've been praying what fresh crazy are you on about now you don't know that was going to be your
27:56second surprise grand found out today that her chemo's really doing its thing what oh my god oh my god
28:08this is the best birthday present ever thank you for your prayers again i didn't mean to be a spoiler
28:17hey eva um i can't be mad at anyone right now not even you there's plenty of cake if you
28:34want to stay
28:37really i mean um thanks
28:44so where are my candles i need to make a wish because anything i wish for is gonna come true
28:51i got them right here i'll set up the presents
28:59to my darling nicole it's our baby girl's birthday but it's also the day i thank you for bringing her
29:05into the world all my love ted that man is gonna put your father to shame
29:12nicole i'm so glad about anita's news me too uh you i just went upstairs cool um i'll be right
29:19back
29:23what is this just because we aren't married anymore doesn't mean the tradition can't live on
29:30you will always be the mother of our miracle girl and no matter what separates us i will never stop
29:37being grateful for the gift you gave me on this day many years ago ted can accept i'll understand maybe
29:48danny will like them to celebrate anita's news andre told you did my heart some good i can only imagine
29:57what it meant to you thank you you're beautiful
30:10danny that's good news
30:15hey hey what happened to our good news best news ever but it could have gone the other way
30:25but it didn't but it didn't but it could have i was so scared i didn't know how much until
30:33i heard
30:35come here hey it's gonna be okay it's gonna be okay
30:49did you read sharon i dropped the good news in our group chat and she and tracy immediately asked
30:56about getting into the studio with devon and laying down the new tracks with barbara's vocals oh those
31:02tracks are gonna be incredible whenever you're ready i know we're focused on the happy right now but
31:10i wasn't sure i would ever be capable of singing again
31:16i wasn't sure i'd be capable of doing a lot of things
31:21well i knew of course you did
31:25and here we are and we get to celebrate our granddaughter's birthday tonight oh look at those
31:33smiles
31:37wait is that eva
31:41and cat couldn't look happier well wonders never cease
31:47i like knowing that a weight has been partially lifted off our girls and and the family
31:54look if you want to go over and join the festivities you don't have to babysit me i can
31:59curl up right here with a good book or you could curl up right next to me and we can
32:05both get a good
32:06night's rest i want to make sure you're in tip-top shape for all the articulating in your future
32:15you helped bring me back well that's what we do one of us holds the line at all times and
32:24i am
32:24done being scared we've got this damn right we do
32:34oh
32:37tomas i love this and i love you it's supposed to represent grace beauty and lasting love oh it is
32:45beautiful tomas wait a second are you knocking last year's gift we were new i didn't want to scare
32:51her off i thought it was adorable it was a calculator i wanted her to know that i believed
32:58in the business she was building and now chelsea cat's here it is i was thinking of skipping my birthday
33:05inventory this year because of gran because her health was all that mattered but now i have everything
33:14i wanted our first line my bestie my cousin my brother my man
33:23and that damn calculator
33:33oh tomas said you opted out because you were each going to take me to dinner this is much better
33:39i love it i know you cry no girl i have never missed the captain is it real mom baby
33:46sunny days
33:48ahead for all of us i'm glad you and aunt danny could make it oh yeah it's the perfect way
33:54to cap the anita news
34:01she's demanding her own personal slush fund and you know i am nowhere near being able to make that
34:06happen and you are nowhere to be found fix this hey hey you know when i pound the bag i
34:16get all relaxed
34:17were you so tiny that the bag just bounced back and hit you you need to work on your spying
34:24skills okay
34:25like i decided to forego boxing and had a drink in the card room instead and yet it still did
34:32not
34:33live in your little aura so sad oh my mood is none of your business oh but it could have
34:38been and girl
34:39we could have been besties i mean come on how many times did i offer once twice and somehow the
34:45answer
34:45has always been the same hard pass you know when you were in your newly wedded bliss i thought maybe
34:53we could help each other i mean we did have similar interests and both of our men were dazzled by
35:00the
35:00duprees i mean they just can stay away from them listen there's no problems in my marriage right
35:08that's why your man called her baby and it wasn't even a bedroom slip it was in the throes of
35:15compassion danny dupree is where his heart is okay where his heart will always be baby
35:25and inevitably when she is ready to throw over that little boy toy snack and take og bill back who
35:36you
35:37okay
35:37oh
35:37uh
35:38uh
35:42a
35:48uh
35:49uh
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