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Beyond the Gates - Season 2 - Episode 24: Thursday, February 5, 2026
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00:05so who is the lucky boy who the young man who's escorting you to the cotillion of course jessica
00:13you're all set yes ma'am the rose dads are taking him chuck shopping this week i don't know my
00:19escort will be bad bunny is unavailable so yes benito antonio is doing his world tour
00:28you know bad bunny by his real name great gran knows everyone
00:35noticed everyone staring
00:39let him stare women have been cutting their hair and shaking things up for forever a century ago
00:47f scott fitzgerald wrote a story about a girl getting a bob and shaking up her whole world
00:54we read that short story in english class oh i saw how a show in the 2000s got canceled because
00:59the main girl got her hair the more things change they're buzzing because you look amazing you do
01:09thank you but i am more concerned about how samantha is going to look arriving at her debut stag
01:18stag um what stag alone dateless which ordinarily would be fine the cotillion isn't ordinary
01:28now i'm sure you must have narrowed it down to a few choices and please note an escort does not
01:35have to be a love match or any kind of bunny or have a name that starts within please nathan's
01:42not
01:42even a blip well i don't mean to rush you sweetheart but the young man is going to need time
01:47to have
01:47his tux fitted and learn the dances the clock is ticking my little dab what is it this time
01:54what's what oh i know the game mm-hmm stopping by with a book you forgot to return borrowing sugar
02:03all the check on your grandmother i deny it but you would see right through me
02:09how is she up to her long gloves and debutante planning at the club with your daughter and
02:16jessica i knew they were supposed to have dinner but i thought it would be over by now
02:22samantha's really excited on every level about the cotillion
02:25wow your grandmother's happy to offer her guidance and to have the distraction
02:31and actually i was hoping to have some alone time with you
02:36so
02:42so
02:50so
02:52so
02:53so
02:54so
02:58so
03:09cool
03:12damn
03:13you look incredible
03:15and you do clean up well dr allens
03:18shall we move this
03:20anywhere you want
03:21i was thinking of you
03:24that works too
03:25after you
03:34welcome to my humble abode
03:37at last
03:39i thought you could use a home-cooked meal
03:42and out of the blue
03:44you invited me to your place
03:46after months together
03:47oh you suspect an ulterior motive
03:50you think i'm shaken up over that client's irate husband
03:53well
03:54i could have handled myself
03:56even if randy hadn't run interference
03:58so you've said
03:59but you don't seem to believe me
04:02i'm a woman in the world joey
04:04i know how to lock up
04:05stay sharp
04:06and make it hurt if i'm pushed
04:09dangerous vanessa
04:10i like that about you
04:15and i like you ready to be my dark knight
04:19and that i've finally been welcomed into your castle for whatever reason
04:22you know if i thought that
04:26loser husband was a real threat
04:29he wouldn't be anymore
04:32and i wouldn't have to distract you with a meal
04:36okay you win
04:37feed me
04:38first things first
04:39you're the expert on houses
04:41so go ahead
04:43be brutal
04:46it's exquisite
04:49and surprising
04:51what'd you expect
04:52dogs playing poker
04:53sinatra painted on velvet
04:56maybe a blackjack table
04:58like the one we've put to such good use at the casino
05:01i wouldn't knock any of the above
05:03especially our table
05:06it's warm
05:08which some people might not expect in your home
05:10but i know you're not afraid of sentiment
05:14it's masculine of course
05:16because you're you
05:19sophisticated
05:19as i figured
05:21and thankfully less modern than most guys usually go for
05:26what it is is exactly what i should have expected
05:30a reflection of you
05:32your warmth
05:33your passion
05:36your brilliance
05:37my man
05:39forever full of surprises
05:43i've always had an affinity for
05:46the finer things
05:53sorry
05:54i had to wait for vanessa to leave for the evening
05:56did she ask you to stay late
05:58not at all
06:00i like to spruce things up for her
06:03vanessa likes to have an inviting bedroom after a long day
06:08and just in case she brings joey home with her
06:11is that a regular date
06:12is that a regular date
06:13uh it is
06:13and i have to say
06:15mr armstrong is a dream
06:17charm for days
06:19and marry a crumb or smudge on a glass
06:22because he can't leave evidence behind
06:26do not make me an accomplice after the fact
06:29not all of us can work for the morally unimpeachable dupree's
06:33if you'd seen nicole leaving for her date tonight
06:36honey off the shoulder up the hip
06:39i thought it might meet in the middle
06:40no not dr nicole dupree
06:43oh you haven't seen her new come hither look
06:46i think it sounds shameless
06:50sometimes i think you're like one of those throwbacks mona
06:53from one of those
06:54douglas seroc films we both love on tcm
06:58well if she's doing an imitation of life
07:00it's maybe danny's life
07:03nicole was the most responsible professional put together woman i knew
07:09and now she deserves a scarlet letter
07:11i just mean the fallout from ted's cheating lies and baby mama drama didn't end
07:18with the perfect couple blowing up
07:21it continues with nicole emerging from the ashes of that marriage
07:26like some sexually liberated phoenix
07:32so i haven't scared you off yet
07:33not even with my secret single behavior
07:37i like knowing that under that handsome exterior and those magic massage hands
07:42you're still human and guilty of leaving dishes in the sink
07:45oh i would load the dishwasher for you
07:48that sounded way hotter in my head
07:53what you said in my office
07:55it really stuck with me kyle
07:57well it's like a new adventure every time i see you
07:59so i'm guessing that it had to do with changing things up after a loss
08:03you did it by becoming a traveling doc
08:06and i decided to make some changes a little closer to home
08:12i'm happy to be an inspiration
08:15any changes of note
08:18just getting to know a certain reluctant dishwasher
08:23well then you actually have to answer some of my questions about you
08:28maybe when i get back
08:30oh i'm not moving
08:37did i tell you you're the most ravishing woman here
08:42and you haven't even looked around yet
08:44i don't have to
08:50oh
08:50who's kyle
08:51we should say hi
08:53sure
08:56well if it isn't my favorite nurse from the dmv
09:02dead
09:03kyle
09:04that would mean a lot more if i didn't know you had at least 10 other favorite nurses in this
09:08town alone
09:08why are you out there with them all
09:10just don't tell
09:12please don't tell me you've done so much bouncing around
09:14that your fine self is forced to dine alone
09:17i'm on a date
09:18oh
09:19who's the lucky girl
09:23me
09:29i could get used to this
09:31i'm glad you like it here
09:33i do
09:35and what do you have cooking in the kitchen
09:39ropa vieja
09:41translation
09:42shredded cuban beef
09:44sautéed in pepper tomato sauce
09:46it marinates all night
09:48and then simmers all day
09:51the key is in the waiting
09:52i do love a slow burn
09:55it'll be worth the wait i promise
09:59you're different here
10:02more relaxed more yourself maybe
10:05i like this you
10:08i haven't been completely relaxed since i was a kid
10:13but here is as close as i will ever come
10:17when i'm in here
10:19i can actually imagine what
10:22my life might be like if i'd
10:25chosen a different one
10:27and what would that look like
10:30well i'd try my hand at the great american thriller
10:34like connelly or leonard
10:38and then i'd make dinner for a certain everything woman
10:43and i'd make love to her in every room
10:46starting with this one
10:50then i could almost turn my back on the road i've taken
10:55just almost
10:56just almost
10:59now this is as
11:01free and as safe as i can be
11:03well it is fort knox up in here
11:05i'm guessing that the rock stationed at the door is not the only one
11:09he's not the reason i've lowered my guard
11:13you are
11:21you are going to look so stunning in that gown you've chosen
11:26i agree
11:28thank you
11:29but you've seen hundreds of debutantes
11:32well that is why i am so certain
11:35the line that runs through those white dresses from you to cat to naomi to nicole
11:43and i just i can see them when they were getting ready for their debut and how excited they were
11:48just like you are
11:50and of course jessica you are going to be gorgeous as well
11:53i cannot wait to see you and tyrell descending that staircase
11:59what is this this gen z stare that i've read so much about
12:03sorry mrs dupree no disrespect uh i'm just doing time in my ball game
12:10the whole cotillion thing it's just not me
12:12and yet here you are
12:14my dad is making me
12:17so you resent your father for wanting you to have opportunities in a world that doesn't deal them out
12:22easily poor you
12:24i think there are less problematic ways to make connections
12:28i think i understand why you feel that way
12:31i pretty much had the same opinion of cotillions until i saw one for myself
12:38really so how'd they suck you into the deb cult
12:43attending the cotillion as a guest on the arm of my husband was a wonderful experience
12:49but i was introduced to the tradition when the articulat sang at a cotillion after party
12:55there we were having been raised in the projects having to fight our way through every adversity
13:05fighting to be heard fighting to find self-assurance fighting to carry ourselves with poise
13:13and then we walk into the room with all these beautiful young black women who already had all of that
13:21they were the same age we had been when we were
13:24touring all over the place and clawing our way up the charts except they were already brimming with confidence
13:32you didn't resent that they had it like that i mean without ever lifting a finger
13:37all i wanted was for girls who look like me to step into the world and not have to fight
13:45you still don't understand the value of a cotillion do you i guess not
13:52it's not a prom like you're someone else's date or a marriage like you're someone else's spouse
14:01it is about you you owning you coming out and saying to the world here you are you are proud
14:11you
14:11are beautiful you are intelligent i cannot think of any other tradition that affirms that more
14:20oh when you put it that way i watched those girls grow up and champion
14:26the causes that they pledged when they first came out and they still do now i know you have pledged
14:34to your new clinic what is your cause jessica it's a local organization it helps teach kids conflict
14:41resolution that is wonderful if you and samantha can accomplish half of what the debutants i have known
14:48did you will make yourselves very proud i will me too and i may be biased but i think one
14:59of you two
15:00young ladies may be crowned platinum deb at the ball oh please jessica doesn't even want to oh i would
15:07never take that from you as if you could well it's not up to either of you but the barrington
15:14county
15:14debutante society would be lucky to have either of you beautiful young women wearing that tiara
15:22i wouldn't count on it my granddaughter francesca is a shoe-in for that title and there's not a
15:28damn thing anita dupree can do about it so my grandchildren have teamed up to decide what's best for
15:37me now no naomi and i realized that i was selfish for taking even a moment of your time when
15:44it's time
15:44away from gran now you've already helped me with my campaign by training me every day of my life
15:51your gran's the one battling cancer not me but you haven't left her side for a moment but it takes
15:59a
16:00toll you have to take care of yourself too taking care of your grandmother isn't a burden it's a gift
16:08and taking care of this family that's my reason for being i know but with everything going on no one
16:16would fault you for taking a step back i would
16:27who wouldn't want a horizontal house call with the good dr carlton or a roll around with dr rollins
16:34i'm not being a church lady oh but she's been her whole life with ted and now she's just out
16:41on the
16:41loose exactly she spent her whole life with one man that philandering jerk repays her with a secret
16:49baby and baby mama who my heart goes out to leslie is relentless i mean who would begrudge nicole a
16:57revenge makeover you should be cheering her on not judging her in the comment section i hope you're
17:04right but i pray she doesn't move too fast for her own good nicole hi this dress was made for
17:11you
17:12and you are always fierce yourself and i'm gonna have to get an air tag for you if you keep
17:17showing up at
17:17all my dates a small town great minds well don't let us keep you i'm sure chanice could use a
17:26cocktail
17:27right let's uh let's go to the bar it's not my place but uh go on i thought you and
17:38carlton were a
17:39thing at least that's what carlton thinks definitely not your place because i live every aspect of my
17:47life openly and honestly carlton knows about kyle and kyle knows about carlton and they both know that
17:54i'm nowhere near ready for anything resembling a commitment because i am newly out of a marriage
17:59hey i didn't i didn't mean to so i believe we are all up to speed unless you want to
18:04ask
18:05kyle his intentions i'm good ted i think nicole's right i'm thirsty let's see about those drinks
18:12kyle nicole you two have fun you two oh thank you for what you're setting us up in the first
18:20place
18:21i owe you i've spent the evening convincing these girls that being a debutante is about merit
18:29character achievement and sisterhood and now you've just reduced it to nothing more than
18:36rivalry and bragging rights you can't preach if you've never worn the robes and you anita never wore
18:45the dress or the gloves you were never a deb and yet you sit here holding court while with all
18:53those
18:54lessons anastasia what did you walk away with not an iota of decorum is this what you're passing down
19:02to francesca i am fairmont crest born and bred insult me and you're insulting vernon my husband used his
19:12privilege to step into the world helping others and that's where he found you scraping and gyrating and
19:20hustling like a common emmy grammy oscar tony award-winning quadruple threat i don't dabble
19:29i dominate without vernon you your daughters your granddaughter and most assuredly your great
19:37granddaughter who doesn't even have a drop of dupree blood wouldn't be allowed inside these gates
19:43let alone into the ranks of polite society
19:52you have to give me the recipe guess definitely pecan and hair a hint of something savory pancetta
20:09never mind what do you have against pancetta never mind about the recipe
20:15i don't need it i have you you do and you can just make those little puffs for me all
20:25the time
20:26when i move in you really set them up carlton canceled winterfest and i didn't want to leave my girl
20:33hanging huh and you didn't mention it to me why would i you claimed you've moved on was i wrong
20:44are you bothered why would i be bothered because since nicole walked in here with that freakum dress
20:50on and that fine man you have spent more time looking over there than you have at me
20:55it's not like that what's it like ted i didn't put on these lashes in these hills to spend the
21:01night
21:01with a man who's still caught up on his ex
21:08what if i told you
21:11i need to campaign as much as you need me in it
21:17you see what's happening with your grandmother is terrifying
21:22but clarifying you see we've touched many many lives her with her music and me with my politics
21:31so we want that to live on you're not going anywhere no not anytime soon anita's music and films
21:43will be here for generations you will carry on for me you're you're my legacy
21:51not just me granddad you have inspired so many and don't stop me now
22:00all right oh great one what should i be doing that i'm not doing now
22:09you have to put more skin in the game
22:13you want me to cardruple my face to face and meet and greet stops leading up to the primary
22:19you disagree great strategy but wrong timing
22:24there's no way i'm sacrificing another moment with my family especially the kids
22:32you and i are overdue to get a few things straight
22:42oh and of course i've missed you you drove three hours that's so sweet okay i'm leaving out
22:52i just have to drop some knowledge on my bestie i'll see you soon go i can't be responsible for
23:01making you miss one minute of happy with mr love boat i just have to say if i can meet
23:07a man in the
23:08middle of the atlantic you can meet one closer to home your last man shouldn't be your last man get
23:15out
23:15there and live
23:18i thought we'd come to a place of understanding we love each other we spend practically every night
23:26together at my place which has all those memories your place could be ours
23:33only it's mine our situation's changed doug's gone we're closer than ever that picture you painted of
23:43us here together it can be real you're moving in here could really mean something that you can't be apart
23:51from me danger for you
23:59if you were living here my enemies would have no doubt how much you mean to me and how much
24:06is that
24:10sometimes words won't do
24:20look nicole and i are always going to be connected you know by the kids and perhaps one day as
24:25friends
24:26but i still know her better than anyone else on the planet and that's just not the nicole that i
24:32know
24:32because she is not the same woman you once knew because of me you don't get to dictate how she
24:39puts
24:40you in her rear view nicole is evolving which is her right and if you were ever really going to
24:45be her
24:45real friend okay i have to check myself nicole is free to do whatever she wants but i just know
24:55if she's
24:56showing out because of me then that's on me i saw a woman just walking in her power okay maybe
25:06i was out
25:06of bounds and i couldn't see that but it's going to take me a minute to get used to this
25:11evolution
25:13especially when she's evolving in the same room i can get with that but you do know they serve food
25:22in drinks and other rooms where your ex-wife isn't she is not the only one who can evolve
25:31thanks bartender no i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth or up my butt like you oh
25:38there
25:39she is i've been waiting to meet the real anita williams but i have earned my place in this life
25:47in my marriage and in fairmont crest we have created a family that has glittered behind
25:54and beyond these gates with dignity integrity heart and grace and we have passed that down through blood
26:03but most importantly through deed to our children our grandchildren and now our great grandchildren
26:11like this lovely young woman you see before you now we may not have passed your 23 and me purity
26:18test
26:20but yet here you are with all that privilege and opportunity and you didn't bother to ever
26:28develop the kind of traits that truly matter my family was giving to charities while you still were one
26:35and what have you done with your high and mighty self with all that you have just crown yourself the
26:42queen of mean
26:47that's all you got miss egot
26:52i would call for a standing ovation but this isn't showtime at the apollo it's fairmont crest divas
27:03aren't welcome here have you looked in the mirror and you might have been able to tip the scales
27:09for nicole naomi and cat but do not expect a four pete the crown belongs to my thoroughbred
27:17not your samantha it is francesca belle claire's time to shine and no dupree will stand in her way
27:27well if that is the lens through which you've decided to see this may the best matriarch win
27:49that woman is the exact reason debbie taunt should just fade away fortunately tradition is a living
27:57thing and it can only flourish with new blood like yours and samantha's don't throw away our history
28:05before you've experienced it yourself with a open heart and mind jessica
28:11you might find you like it i will try mrs dupree good now i want you two to focus
28:20on being the best damn debbs you can be leave miss anastasia to me i understand putting family
28:30before calendar when smitty and i got back together i promised him that i would be there
28:36for him and the kids we don't have that much more time before we have an empty nest
28:42it's tyrell's senior year and samantha's going through our own rite of passage the kids are proud
28:49of what you do i hope so but it's not just about them smitty is finally getting back into the
28:57swing of
28:57his career and i want that for him it's a lot of change son you're used to being the center
29:06of their
29:06world and now all the pieces are moving and growing and i can't wait to see how it all turns
29:14out
29:17and and i just want to push the pause button and keep us in this little perfect bubble forever
29:24familiar words anita and i used them once nicole said the same about you and kat
29:33now my poor girl's gotta grow again her nest's empty and the ink on her divorce papers is dry
29:47has anyone ever told you you are an amazing kisser doesn't come to mind
29:51hmm they should give you a kissing award you should be in the kissing hall of fame
30:00they should be writing songs about your kissing oh it may have come up
30:04yeah i do believe other descriptors were used
30:09oh then you're funny too i got an idea why don't we keep doing this again and i'll be inspired
30:15to find
30:15more words no more words
30:23hmm when you said you wanted to get out of here i thought you meant
30:28a different restaurant no what you thought wrong lucky me he's so beautiful she needs
30:38to get out of here i don't want to kiss that spot all night
30:47this one and this one you you had me right up until the all-night part we both know your
30:58mind has
30:58also been elsewhere tonight maybe you suddenly have to have me because you're trying to forget
31:05that nicole's with kyle right now
31:25if it isn't the hero
31:29Mona right you saved Vanessa McBride from that skeevy guy
31:35how'd you hear about that waitress's talk listening's one of my things noted being a hero is not one of
31:45mine
31:46but i refuse to stand by when a woman's in danger everybody says that not everybody walks the walk
31:55you do surprise how'd you manage to maintain a semblance of decency while still working for that
32:03devil joey armstrong
32:10poor courses joey this must have taken you all day i love cooking for you
32:16you know what goes great with devil's food cake do tell whipped cream
32:22be right back or i believe you were saving the bedroom for the end of the tour
32:29i'll meet you in there
32:43well ladies we should head home now i've got my car but thanks it has been an education
32:54do you need to sit down should i get someone no no i'm fine i'm fine i just need to
33:01throw some cold
33:01water on my face
33:08is she really okay i hope that wannabe burger can be watched and like throw off her game
33:13great gran is fine she may have never been the platinum deb but she's the toughest woman i know
33:24dare i ask what cranked up that smile what if i said it was you i like that
33:39you want to take this someplace maybe my place
33:44i am very very tempted but can we say to be continued
33:52did i blow this because i just assumed that we were on the same page oh we're on the same
33:58page
33:58i just haven't quite changed up everything about myself i need to keep this at the kissing place for
34:07now moving locations levels up to something a little more serious we don't want that
34:16i promise that i won't fall madly in love with you as long as you promise that you won't
34:23you are adorable but if kissing has us here imagine what a night together we'll do oh i am
34:33i am enjoying where i am right now and i need to just stay here for a minute no fast
34:41moves
34:42i'm enjoying keeping all the possibilities on the table i hope you understand
34:49i've been where you've been when you move i'll move
35:00okay look don't don't don't go look this takes time no i won't be someone's consolation prize while
35:09you wait for your wife or girlfriend to come back to you i deserve much more than that better than
35:14that
35:14yes you do and i wouldn't have asked you out if i wasn't ready to move on i want to
35:22believe that
35:24it was a reflex not interest i should have kept my eyes fixed on you where they belong
35:32you have brought me back from a really dark place and we're good together
35:38you make me laugh and when we're not laughing you make me want to do things i really want to
35:45do
35:47how do i show you there's nowhere else i want to be what do i need to say chanise
36:09you can start by explaining these because if i am the one then who do these tacky ass panties belong
36:16to
36:21you
36:23so
36:33you
36:48you
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