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Beyond the Gates - Season 2 - Episode 33: Thursday, February 19, 2026
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00:04Good afternoon, Senator and Mrs. Dupree.
00:07Good afternoon.
00:08Oh, something smells delicious around here.
00:12He knows.
00:13The club is offering a special Creole menu this evening.
00:17Gumbo, jambalaya, crawfish etouffee.
00:20You want it, we have it.
00:21Sounds lovely.
00:24While the specials do sound wonderful,
00:27Mrs. Dupree and I will be ordering from the regular menu today.
00:31Well, if you're sure.
00:33Oh, we're very sure.
00:34As you wish.
00:35But before you go, would you mind bringing us two ginger ales?
00:38I'm feeling a little parched.
00:41Of course.
00:42Vernon, you don't have to deprive yourself
00:45just because my stomach can't handle Creole cuisine today.
00:49I know how much you love your etouffee.
00:51I love you more.
00:53And there's no way I'm going to shovel spicy food into my face
00:58right in front of you
00:59when chemo is wreaking havoc with your appetite.
01:03I guess this is what they meant
01:05when they said in sickness and in health.
01:08I'll take you any way I can get you.
01:11Hey, we'll celebrate Mardi Gras next year in New Orleans.
01:16So, you think?
01:18Oh, we'll do it right in the Big Easy.
01:23Yeah.
01:23It'll be our celebration for you beating cancer.
01:26Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
01:28Hey, I am calling into existence the reality that I want.
01:32It's like my mother used to say.
01:34If you want it, claim it.
01:37You know?
01:37And if we believe strongly enough,
01:40maybe we can manifest our heart's desires.
01:45Anita, isn't this a happy coincidence?
01:48I was just thinking about you.
01:51You were saying?
01:53Yeah.
01:55We're putting as much manpower on this case as possible.
01:58Yeah, I understand your concerns.
02:01Look, Hamilton.
02:02Hamilton, you calling me every hour
02:04is not going to make us catch the man
02:06who was holding your wife any faster.
02:08I will keep you apprised of any developments, okay?
02:11Goodbye.
02:12Damn.
02:13I take it my father-in-law's giving you a hard time
02:16about finding the man who mugged Haley.
02:18He acts like that's the only crime we have to investigate.
02:21I wish that was the case.
02:23But I understand him.
02:24I probably would react the same way
02:26if something like that happened to your mother.
02:28And I'd be right behind you
02:29nailing that son of a bitch to the wall.
02:32Yeah.
02:32So tell me you got some good news
02:34about your case, Elise.
02:36Are we any close to bringing this plasma ring down?
02:39As a matter of fact,
02:41we are.
02:43We're going to be right.
02:46Maybe說
02:46Maybe you'll do it somewhere
02:52Just hurry up
02:53We let's do it everywhere
02:54Bye
02:54Bye
02:55See my clip
02:55Bye
02:55Bye
02:55Bye
03:14i heard about what happened with hayley it was crazy i mean one minute i'm walking to my car
03:20and the next minute hayley's screaming like i knew i wouldn't be able to pull the guy off off
03:27of her so i did like the best thing i knew how i just i yelled to the top of
03:31my lungs and i tried
03:32to draw as much attention to myself as possible you know well fortunately it worked and i guess
03:39it might have just scared the mugger because he just ran off i guess the saying is true criminals
03:46are cowards it all sounds so unreal you probably saved hayley's life i just did what anybody would
03:56have done definitely not most people wouldn't have done anything at all hayley was damn lucky that you
04:03were there when she needed you do you need me to come back to the hotel bill don't be ridiculous
04:10okay caroline just left well i should have had her stay with you until i wrap things up here
04:15babe that wasn't necessary you needed her back at the office and i'm perfectly fine here at the hotel
04:20especially with a guard at the door okay baby i have to go all right i will see you when
04:28you get back
04:29okay okay yes ma'am you have a visitor who is it me
04:45if you're looking for your father he isn't here i actually came to see you
04:50and check on how you're doing thank me stunned ouch i keep telling myself it's not as obvious as i
05:00think
05:00no no it looks better if i hadn't just seen you after it happened i probably wouldn't have even
05:05noticed how are you feeling almost back to normal well as normal as possible being guarded 24 7 in this
05:15ivory tower yeah when you dream of being a princess as a child you
05:20never think about how lonely it can be well you can't blame my dad for being overprotective
05:27given the circumstance attacked while walking to your car that could have happened to any one of us
05:36crazy bitch well that isn't a moment i am keen on reliving oh no of course not i'm sorry
05:44um is there anything i can do for you actually naomi there is tell me why you're really here
05:56i couldn't have just walked away or stood there and watch hayley be assaulted
06:04i mean i'm the reason why she was there in the first place but why was that hayley shouldn't have
06:12been meeting with you about your case without my knowledge i'm your attorney and you should have
06:18come to me with any questions or requests hayley's just a paralegal
06:23just a paralegal well i'm surprised that you're talking down on her responsibilities and ability
06:31i mean especially since she's your boss's wife tomas don't get me wrong hayley is great
06:38at her job but my job is to represent you and attend to your legal needs if you needed something
06:46for your case you should have reached out to me
06:51so this wren he's a mid-level guy in the organization yep and i want his trust i'm this
06:57close to him making me one of the couriers and when he does and hopefully soon then i'll be the
07:01one making the drops and we'll be that much closer to shutting down this red market ring for good
07:06this close once that happens that's all you got pops my assignment was to infiltrate the plasma ring
07:12learn who's behind it and get evidence to bring them down i know what your assignment is i remember
07:17the way you pleaded for it i've only been on this case a short amount of time and i'm already
07:21on the
07:21inside and finding out a lot of the answers that we need would it kill you to admit i'm doing
07:26a good job
07:29leslie my husband and i were hoping to have a nice quiet lunch alone oh i won't take up too
07:36much
07:36of your time but i always believe in going straight to the top the top of what
07:43i need to schedule my lunch with you and the other articulates so just go on and whip out that
07:49phone viewers girls so we can pick a date right now excuse me leslie surely we can discuss this
07:57at some other time but i can't wait to sit down with the three women who knew my mama best
08:03i have so many questions to ask and we will be happy to answer them some other time when how
08:11soon
08:11can we articulate articulate adjacent sit down and break bread together because honey my schedule is wide
08:29open
08:30leslie
08:32anita
08:34i'm sorry if you weren't given the necessary information at the time of the auction
08:38someone from the winterfest organizing committee should have told you there are procedures you need
08:44to do in order to claim an auction item i paid ten thousand dollars and the check cleared so what
08:53procedures do you need when it comes to items such as personal lunches there are proper channels you
09:02have to go through to set a date that works for everyone involved but i'm here now we don't need
09:08any
09:09silly channels the point is you're not going to be able to set the lunch date for some time why
09:15not
09:15because sharon and tracy are on tour oh okay then when are my articulates aunties coming back okay i am
09:26dying to spill the tea and also take a lot of photos and just blast those suckers all over social
09:34media
09:34leslie thomas and the articulates not until the end of spring or probably even longer
09:41the tour is going so well i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was extended
09:47exactly so you should probably be looking at the fall if then
09:57i see what's going on you two and you're not going to get away with it i beg your pardon
10:04beg all you
10:06want i know how you and sharon and tracy disrespected my mother all those years ago and i'm not about
10:15to
10:15allow a remake christmas has been over anita dupree so you can stop with these reindeer games this is not
10:24a game
10:26i won the lunch with the articulates fair and square and i will be damned if i'm gonna let you
10:34weasel
10:34your way up out of it while i can understand why you'd question my sincerity i am not a monster
10:44haley
10:45i can hate what you did to my family and to our friendship for that matter and still feel for
10:50you being violently attacked you could have been killed some people might think that that would be
10:58karmic retribution for all the things i've done yeah well some people are idiots i'm pretty sure your
11:04mother is one of those people i bet danny thinks my beating is no more than i deserve well i'm
11:11sorry
11:12that my reaction disappointed you i must have confused this station for some place where you get
11:17a cookie for basic competence or doing the bare minimum of decent police work i'm not asking for
11:22that well then stop acting like it look i give credit when it's due this isn't like the cub scouts
11:28when you got all in your feelings because they didn't give you your merit badge as fast as you
11:32thought you were entitled to look i'm not asking to be praised or commended or any of that what do
11:35you want i want some damn respect
11:46i guess it must have slipped your mind that not only am i your father boy
11:49i am your superior officer no sir good that's more like it
11:55jacob i get that you're eager and you want to make your mark and you see this case as your
12:01big
12:01opportunity of course i want to be the best detective out here but this wasn't some career
12:05move i didn't take this undercover gig just so i can climb the ladder good because this is bigger
12:10than that these people that you're messing with son that you're dealing with they don't mess around
12:15lives are on the line i get that and they're attacking the weakest among us getting them to sell
12:20their plasma for dirt cheap just so they can move it on the global red market but don't let that
12:24take
12:24your eye off the big picture i'm not pops okay i hear that clock ticking every day that goes by
12:31there's another chance of some unvetted plasma getting into the city's blood supply even people
12:35here in our own neighborhood could die as a result yeah you take these scumbags down but you have to
12:42be
12:42smart about it so you come home safe a cop's life is constantly in danger it's the nature of the
12:47job
12:47what are you telling i knew the nature of the job back when you were stinking up your diaper
12:52now of course our lives at risk every time we put the shield on some but this undercover work
12:57is a specific kind of danger this red market ring that trend for trade if you do your job right
13:04and you
13:04you gain their trust they'll become to look at you as one of their own good then you'd be like
13:10family to
13:11them and if they learned that one of their own members of their family betrayed them before we managed to
13:16bring them in and god help you son are you seriously standing there complaining about somebody trying
13:25to weasel their way out of something when you consistently try to weasel your way into my family's
13:31lives i'm demanding my rights the right to tick me off because you're doing that so very well leslie will
13:37you please go through the proper channels as anita suggested huh we don't need all of this besides you're
13:45upsetting my wife she's upset what about me i paid good money for this lunch and i am not about
13:53to wait
13:53around a whole year just to cash in on it what do you think you're doing having lunch
14:04with the articulates well at least one of them we've been working on a motion to dismiss and are
14:12just about ready to file it once we've nailed down a few points so when will my case be dismissed
14:19that will depend on the judge's calendar and the ruling of course there is one way that we could
14:25resolve this issue relatively quickly wonderful one of the advantages of working with our firm
14:32is in addition to our legal expertise we have good working relationships with the assistant u.s
14:37attorneys and the usa himself there's actually a pretty good offer on the table for you to plead
14:43to a much lesser charge with no jail time whatsoever just probation no i'm innocent i understand that
14:53but i wouldn't be doing my job if i didn't convey this offer to you and as i said it's
14:58a good one
14:59i think i can make it even better better than being found innocent well you are not hearing
15:08i don't want to plead to anything i want my charges completely dropped and you're working towards
15:17that then work faster
15:20or should i get your boss involved to see some real results
15:25my mother may despise you and for good reason but she doesn't wish you dead and i really hope you
15:33don't say things like that around my dad i suppose you're right danny did try to come to my rescue
15:39back when i lost my baby just another example of karmic payback i suppose okay hayley you have got to
15:48stop with that god and or the universe didn't make you miscarry your baby because of what you did to
15:54my
15:54parents's marriage any more than you being the victim of a violent attack was the result of some cosmic
16:01forces okay that is just your guilt talking and while i suppose it's a good thing you're still
16:06capable of feeling it this one time you have nothing to feel guilty about it's not like you somehow
16:15made yourself get mugged thank you naomi i don't deserve your kindness and when i had your friendship i i
16:26didn't value it the way i should have well you'll get no argument from me there but you're you're still
16:33in my life although in another way you are still comforting me even as my stepdaughter
16:42do you think that we could ever be close again
16:56there's no need to involve bill i am more than capable of representing you i've got your case
17:01completely under control see that's the thing thomas i'm not so sure about that i think our problem here is
17:08communication you're right that is the problem you have a problem with hearing and comprehending
17:14my needs and now that i've heard them my marching orders are clear glad we're on the same page
17:23but i need you to understand where i'm coming from as well i am your point person at the firm
17:28and when you need something you need to come to me not hayley or bill even for that matter
17:34for example not only did i prepare the documents hayley delivered our office would have delivered
17:40them to you by messenger and hayley never would have been in danger excuse me i have to take this
17:52hey i'm in the middle of something then get out of you can get your ass down to uptown asap
17:57i'll let
17:58you take your call i just wanted to say that in the future there would be no need for you
18:02to reach out
18:02to hayley and ask her to bring her anything i never gave hayley those paper she was the one who
18:07brought them to me in the first place what did you hear me yeah girl i heard you you got
18:13a situation
18:14i'll be right there okay so see soon
18:19we good yeah
18:24what did i just walk in on nothing don't say that bill i just told naomi that i think what
18:32happened to me was a result of my karma for all the hurtful things that i've done and
18:37she talked me down from my guilt oh well that was very kind of you sweetheart thank you for easing
18:43my
18:43wife's concerns unjustified as they might be that's not a problem i'm just happy to know that hayley's
18:51physically okay thank goodness for that but she won't really feel safe again until her attacker is
18:55behind bars oh well that's not likely to happen and we'll just have to accept it good luck with that
19:02yeah right you know your dad well when it comes to protecting my family acceptance is never an option
19:07have you been harassing the chief of police yeah hourly and there still hasn't been any forward
19:14movement at all they haven't even identified hayley's attacker no nothing not yet and i could barely get
19:19anything out of elon about how the investigation is going did jacob mention anything to you about
19:25it uh no but he hasn't been home much so we haven't had a chance to discuss it
19:32uh i don't like the sound of that are you two having problems again oh naomi and you just let
19:39me
19:39go on and on about my feelings okay everything between jacob and me is fine you don't have to worry
19:44about it dad he's just been really busy at work no apparently not busy enough since hayley's attacker
19:50is still on the loose well if i hear anything i promise i will let you know and i meant
19:56it when i
19:56offered you help hayley if there's anything just you being here for me is enough glad i could help
20:05feel better thanks naomi for everything no problem bye baby
20:18pops i'll be fine i passed a specialized training course the department offers to prepare us to go
20:23undercover okay so you passed some tests it's not the same as real preparation it gave us practical
20:28knowledge like how i had to maneuver to make sure i wasn't being tail coming into the station this morning
20:34from the rear okay the instructor gave us practical exercises on surveillance and counter
20:40surveillance and informant management and the psychosocial aspects of going under pops i aced them
20:45all i'm trained and prepared thinking you prepared isn't the same as being good to go hell you got
20:52doctors that ace mad school and then turn around and lose their lunch in the er the second they see
20:55real blood well thanks for the vote of confidence this back and forth that you're doing you don't even
20:59have to go there if i didn't think that you can handle this your behind would be back behind that
21:05desk and not out in the streets trying to infiltrate this blood sucker son of course i want you to
21:10excel in your assignment the same way you did in that class but i need you to understand that there's
21:14a
21:14big difference between doing well and of course and successfully bringing down a criminal enterprise from
21:20the inside and i need you to treat that distinction with the respect that it deserves i will okay i'll
21:26do a
21:26good job i just need you to trust me i just hope that i can trust you to have the
21:31good sense to take
21:32care of yourself too son of course because i don't know what i would do something that happens to you
21:39not that i would have a whole lot of time to think about it because your mother would kill me
21:45me and the articulus go way back i mean i was a itty bitty when i could barely clap in
21:55time to the music
21:57is that so yeah yeah you know you're well i mean my mother's group really played a big role in
22:05my life
22:07maybe that should have been a sign that we were all connected i mean it's like our bond is
22:15just unbreakable isn't that right anita how's it go better together
22:25come on nita don't leave me hanging you know the words nope i'm not doing it no fun
22:31i know and isn't that a shame maybe you don't want that lunch after all nice try now this might
22:42be
22:42a little bit tmi you know frankly leslie everything that comes out of your mouth is too much oh nita
22:51well if i was a little bit more sensitive that might hurt my feelings but i forgive you this time
23:01okay so this is gonna knock your socks off
23:07i lost my virginity to the architect you let's baby
23:15what you mean burn i need them to cancel the rest of our order
23:21oh fernan i know you didn't just lose your appetite over a little sex talk you are a man of
23:27the world
23:30and as i was saying you need to there you were you and sharon and tracy all up in my
23:38room singing let's get
23:40closer oh and there i was with my man my boyfriend and i let him get just as close
23:51because he wanted to get why in the world would i need to know that i just want to emphasize
24:00how much
24:01it uh means to me since i paid a fortune for that much
24:06senator dupree what can i do for you could you please oh listen i need a refill baby cakes all
24:13right now listen not too much ice this time would you cue sir yes ma'am in the meantime could
24:18i offer
24:18you guys some hot crab dip or hudan balls yes and yes anita vernon my treat no i like my
24:28crab dip cold
24:29i don't know girl you don't know what you're missing i mean listen it's always better hotter and
24:36spicier okay because see that's when you know it's good because it just goes down it just burns all
24:43through your esophagus i'll take our check and uh cancel the rest of our order hold up you're leaving
24:51burns yeah i have a previously scheduled appointment that you just remembered hey banneker is hoping to
25:02convince my wife to perform a jazz set at their summer concert series that's right is that today i
25:09completely forgot leslie we have to go but you do stay and enjoy the rest of lunch vernon
25:28here's some water sweetheart thank you you're probably a little dehydrated should we call a
25:34doctor anita you don't look so good i'm fine just got a little lightheaded no wonder the way that
25:41vernon rushed you up off your feet and didn't even give you a chance to eat anything let the banneker
25:47shirts wait i'm gonna call for some of that hot crap dip for you and have it at the table
25:52okay
25:53it'll help get your blood sugar up no no no no thank you no i insist i mean you are
25:59probably
25:59collapsing from hunger sweetheart do you feel like you can stand let the woman eat something damn ver
26:07the name is vernon senator dupree would be even better
26:13okay sheesh such formality for an old friend of the family not my family leslie
26:21winterfest will refund you the money from the auction because this lunch is definitely over no
26:27but that was for charity um rest assured the charity will be protected we will make up the difference
26:35no no let's not be hasty all right you guys keep the money i have plenty and let's do that
26:41little
26:42procedure thingy and reschedule when all the articulates are available i mean those proper channels you
26:48were talking about yeah it is the fall you say or the turn of the next century vernon let's go
27:00why am i here bill wants the guy who attacked his wife found and put behind bars
27:07well i'm not a guy and i don't intend on being caught so he's flat out of luck you got
27:16me here like
27:16this is some type of emergency randy oh because it is joey armstrong wants bill to owe him a favor
27:23and now he is on my ass to find the mugger and if i don't deliver let's just say joey
27:28will be a
27:29little less than enthused well that sounds like a you problem not a us problem
27:37how was your shower refreshing you're right it's what i needed good that's good
27:46what's wrong are you still stressing about my attack well yeah of course i am but
27:52you know i was just thinking about what naomi said earlier about her and jacob yeah yeah you picked
27:58up on that too yeah but we might be making something out of nothing i don't know i mean i
28:05know she and
28:06jacob have been really busy but yeah naomi sounded like whatever's going on is something new i wonder
28:14what jacob could be doing that's taking him away from his wife so much
28:21smitty i took the loyalty test yeah i don't know if i passed yet i just have to wait and
28:25see
28:27you've seen how these guys operate it can go either way
28:31yeah the next time i see ren either i'm getting my first assignment or a bullet between the eyes
28:41i gotta go more later
28:47jacob you scared the life out of me i'm sorry
28:52you look different yeah it uh it kind of goes with the assignment well are you okay why are you
28:59sitting
29:00here in the dark i didn't want to risk anyone knowing i was here you're getting deeper into that
29:05investigation aren't you i figured as much since i haven't seen you for days i am and you might not
29:13hear from me for a while okay define a while a week longer i can't say you can't or you
29:27won't a little bit of both
29:31and there's more
29:34tell me i'm moving out
29:43it's my fault that you're feeling so bad i should have taken command of the situation sooner
29:49and demanded that leslie leave please don't blame yourself for a thing
29:55leslie will always be leslie and as far as me not feeling well well we can't even blame her for
30:01that
30:04unfortunately in my condition i have my good moments and i have my bad moments and you helped me
30:10have a good moment today by not treating me like i'm too frail to handle leslie thomas
30:15even after i almost fell over but you were right there to catch me any excuse to have you in
30:21my arm
30:21no leslie was lucky that you weren't feeling a hundred percent or i would have snatched her behind
30:28up out of that chair like we did in chicago back in the day that would have been a sight
30:34to see well
30:35i think i would need to save that pleasure for when anastasia is present wouldn't want to rob her of
30:41the opportunity to spread a tasty bit of dupree gossip throughout barrington county extra extra read
30:48all about it anita dupree snatches leslie thomas up out of fairmont country club by her silk press
31:00oh thank you for that i almost forgot about being sick
31:06well let's build on that theme why don't we go home and watch one of those
31:12old screwball comedies you like so much i would love that my man godfrey yes my man vernon
31:29you look very content i am yeah well it seems that naomi's visit did you a world of good
31:36not to say i told you so but you will well i did tell you that she'd come around eventually
31:42okay i'm sorry but you know i am really glad naomi came to see me even more that she appeared
31:52to be
31:52concerned about what happened to me yeah of course she is i don't know don't read too much into it
32:00i doubt you and i will be going on any double dates with her and jacob again anytime soon
32:15i don't know who you think you talking to but you might want to take some of that bass out
32:21your voice
32:22i ain't wanting your little marks then stop acting like it go handle your business and stop whining to
32:31me about it like a little bitch
32:37you want me to handle my business bad then this is how we gonna play this
32:43if i go down you and hayley are going right along with me now go run tell that
32:56you're moving out i'm getting a second place just until this case is closed is that really necessary
33:02what does your father think about this it's standard protocol anytime you go as deep undercover as i am
33:07and besides he reminded me today that i'm not the only one taking a risk in this investigation
33:14i can't chance that somebody that i'm working with will follow me back here jacob you know how to
33:18ditch a tail and i will be fine and if ever i'm not i'm sure my father or the department
33:24would be
33:24willing to post a guard i wouldn't be able to live with myself if i brought danger to our doorstep
33:28naomi
33:29if something were to happen to you my life wouldn't be worth living
33:34okay fine well what's the address of this new place no i'm not going to visit you jacob i just
33:40want to know where you are you can't and that's final
33:46well what if i need to get in touch with you what if there's an emergency
33:51a burner yes i have my own and i put my number in there in case you need it but
33:57only in the case of
33:58emergency should you call me and when you do use this burner to call mine never use your real phone
34:03yeah i understand only in the case of an emergency all right we have to keep this super close to
34:09the
34:09vest you never know who could be watching or listening oh god i hate this i hate not knowing
34:16where you are i hate not knowing what could be happening to you i hate all the secrecy too
34:20and i can't wait until i can explain everything to you i get it and i know that this is
34:29your job
34:29and that danger comes with the territory but this feels different because it is the stakes are much
34:37higher the people i'm working to take down are playing for keeps but so am i okay just promise me
34:46promise me you will be careful okay believe me the plan is to come back home to you safely all
34:51right
34:54all right i gotta go wait wait wait already why it's been so long since we've had a chance to
34:59be in the same room well then we should make the most of it then
35:25what's wrong nothing it's just like you said this this feels different
35:50so
35:58so
35:59so
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