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Beyond the Gates - Season 2 - Episode 63: Monday, April 6, 2026
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00:03Previously on Beyond the Gates
00:07Jennifer Holliday
00:08Anita Williams
00:09Get over here girl
00:10Bring it in
00:12Joey was arrogant
00:14He even insulted my family
00:16You're just another Dupree
00:17Baptized in the same self-righteous water
00:20And that's why you came over last night
00:22Just give me the damn bag
00:23So we can go
00:24Every action has a consequence
00:27That someone must pay
00:29And if Joey has already figured us out
00:31Bill won't be too far behind
00:33Okay, chill out
00:34We need to kill Bill already
00:36And get the hell out before he can ruin us
00:42Man
00:43I've never been so happy to get a text from an unknown number
00:48It's not proof of life
00:49Until you hug your big brother
00:51Tell mom I'm okay
00:53I shouldn't even be in your face right now
00:55I thought it was being a good son
00:56But I was fumbling
00:58Asking Naomi to set up a call for you and Ma was not the move
01:01You meant well
01:02Naomi's just holding on right now
01:03She was so upset
01:05Yeah, I realized real quick that I messed up
01:07And then Ma laid into me double
01:09The do not disturbs, the family mandate
01:11I was out of step
01:13Per usual
01:14That's not true, bro
01:15Ma, you know I'm the reason we're one blue blood shy of our own CBS cop show
01:20Okay, now that's true
01:21But seriously, Isaiah, we're good
01:24Any idea how much longer?
01:27I'm closer
01:28No one wants this wrapped up more than I do
01:30Yeah, I know you're missing Naomi
01:31Especially today
01:40Happy anniversary, Naomi
01:42Happy anniversary, Jacob
01:54Hey
01:54Hi
01:56How are you holding up?
01:58For better
01:59After last night
02:00Whoa, Jacob came home?
02:02I went to him
02:03The no-tell motel
02:05So hot it's like out of a movie
02:07Yeah, cheap, tacky movie, maybe
02:09But all that washes away when I see him
02:14Well, please tell me it won't be so long until the next time
02:17It's day by day
02:19And right now, he's on standby
02:21They, God, whoever they are
02:25Want him at the ready
02:26For what?
02:28Jacob can't tell me
02:30I mean, we've kept cases from each other before
02:32But this is different
02:35Please, no pity today
02:37Okay
02:39Have a presence
02:42What?
02:47Ashley
02:49You did not keep our wedding favors from all these years
02:53No, no
02:53I gobbled up those troubles even before you threw the good pay
02:56But I went to the same confectioner with a picture and
03:01Ashley
03:03Ugh, I thought I could make it through this day without crying
03:07Happy anniversary, Naomi
03:08So yeah, you're sick, Naomi
03:09God forbid you're so full of Demi
03:11I mean, we'll let that happen
03:12Yeah, it was pretty good
03:22I hope you did not 23%
03:22You fall into the type of something
03:22Huh, mercury
03:24Bluece
03:38Bluece
03:38Bluece
03:38Bluece
03:42it's just too pretty i want to wait to share it with jacob yeah
03:50which is why i've got two okay now i'm gonna have to hurt you you're welcome ashley
03:57you want me to come by after work maybe i'm heading to mom's now she's pretending she just
04:03happens to need some company you're doubting i'll be lucky if there isn't a recreated wedding cake
04:08when i get there she and dad pressed at brunch about jacob being gone for so long i couldn't
04:16keep my game face and now their minds are heading straight to divorce court who better that than
04:21knowing what he's really doing we should have come up with a better cover story than training sessions
04:25no it wouldn't have mattered it's a step too far for anyone to believe that you or jacob
04:31would miss your anniversary there wouldn't be an anniversary if you hadn't nudged so hard
04:37i don't know you would have found a way or we might never have happened if it weren't for you
04:43bestie
04:43i'm done i'm way too cute and way too accomplished to be waiting around for hottie cop
04:49you are so not done and besides hottie cop made the first move
04:55yeah and ever since i did not give him my number at the coffee shop he got gun shy he'll
05:01flirt with
05:01me all he wants to at the courthouse but he won't pull the trigger and today i literally said i'd
05:07give
05:07him my number if he promised to use it and he bolted but get this you know that cute bailiff
05:14hmm jt oh he is gorgeous he overheard and he offered himself up said he'd worship those digits and the
05:23goddess who gave them okay mega points for jt yeah he uh wants to take me to a monster truck
05:31rally
05:32you snob you know what next time you see jt you give him my number because i'm gonna go places
05:38yeah to paris not the manassas truck pole
05:44and there's something about hottie cop
05:48the fact that he's hot and he hasn't once asked me what my sign is he's funny and i just
05:56have to let
05:56it go or you can make hottie cop stay you could ask him out yeah and when he turns me
06:03down i'll have
06:04to look at him on the daily and when i'm right and you two fall madly in love i'll buy
06:09you a coffee
06:11i hope you win the love of your life and all i get is a latte yeah that's nowhere near
06:16enough
06:17thank you i'm getting you a cookie too okay
06:26so how come you had time to see me and not your wife i'm kind of on call today i
06:31don't want to
06:31bring naomi here i have to bail if you're hitting the home stretch you want her nowhere near can i
06:37jump in with a little brotherly support uh-oh college man's about to start philosophizing
06:43did you boys ever say anything about lovers separated by crime solving you know it actually
06:47go with bell hooks when we choose love we choose to move against fear damn man let me get your
06:54new
06:54girlfriend inspired with that maybe did pop say anything just that ma and eva had their own very
07:00special meet the parent moment you know darlene hawthorne don't play she probably thought i was
07:05showing up with a debutante like you did but eva is so not that and so right for me you
07:10were right
07:10in history ma didn't like naomi either but none of that mattered to me i mean from what i
07:17remember you said you showed up with your isa ray with a law degree how did anyone in our fam
07:21have
07:22a problem with that yeah right man try me her last name alone was almost a red flag
07:28i can't believe you know orphie jeans how many times have we been in the same room without knowing
07:32it trust me if we were in the same room i would have noticed
07:40you know we just found out that you were at the same scissor concert as me last month
07:45you know now that i think about it i did feel very handsome that night was that you
07:51like a buddy of mine moonlight's had a dive bar over on the wharf and she likes to drop in
07:55sometimes so
07:56maybe we could hmm i wonder if jt likes her too the bailiff okay fine i deserve that i should
08:07have
08:07asked you out and you still didn't i asked you well you're the one who curbed me at that bougie
08:13coffee
08:13shop over on marshall wait that is not fair we had never said a word to each other i wasn't
08:18gonna give
08:19my number to some stranger just because he was a cop this was different fine but look you know
08:26you're fine and you're brilliant and my ego can handle both but you're also a dupree but you can't
08:34handle that it's not about what i can handle it's about what your family name means black american
08:41royalty being a dupree isn't what you think it is oh let me guess it's better different
08:48we're about blazing our own path and that path doesn't have to be fancy just has to be
08:54something good something additive
09:00sounds more like a mission i don't need the fancy i've attended balls and i've worn designer clothes and
09:07i'm not knocking it or returning it but what i want out of life is something good inside the courtroom
09:18i'm sure you have one hell of a closing argument you sure this isn't some waste station on the
09:23way to the white house i don't know i could have taken a place at my dad's firm or use
09:29my grand's fame
09:30to launch a singing career wait you can sing oh uh you're not getting to that base yet
09:40i'm a public defender not some nepo baby that's how i dupree you know i want to do the same
09:47to do
09:48good and cop families have a legacy of their own i'm sorry here i am riding you because you're a
09:56dupree
09:57but i'm following in my father's shiny service shoes would i still be a cop if it wasn't for pops
10:03maybe do i think he's my personal superhero absolutely my family has been friends of the
10:10station forever and they speak highly of the chief must be really proud
10:19oh shoot judge henson is not a fan of tardiness please henson's a pussycat in what universe since
10:28he was my scout master i'll tell him i held you up you're an actual boy scout let's get you
10:37to court
10:37shall we come on did he ever show you those married badges i helped him earn a few new ones
10:44too i'm pretty good at earning badges and bad behavior well no wonder darlene gave you this side
10:50eye oh i don't think it would have mattered how i behaved no one was good enough for her boys
10:56when it came to jacob and his ma my last name was a strike against me you know it's it's
11:02funny we
11:02haven't properly met before oh we met you and your sister nearly ran over me at the police charity
11:09ice skating fundraiser you were dressed like princesses you were adorable but it's never too
11:15early for home training my gran would agree sounds like good southern manners where's she from chicago
11:25originally my people came from south carolina i'm guessing you're not familiar oh actually uh my
11:32sore and i we spent spring break in mount pleasant i was completely southern charmed by the people
11:38and the sunset zip code is nothing but luxury i'm sure your hometown's lovely where are you from where
11:49the real people live mrs hawthorne i didn't mean to oh i may not have gone to a fancy school
11:57home or been a part of some sorority but i'm proud you should be being a dispatcher is one of
12:05the most
12:06valued jobs period it takes nerves of steel which can't be taught wife's the woman you want on your
12:13side for any crisis and not everyone needs college indulge me who in your circle didn't go to go ma
12:22really
12:23my mom and grandmother gran made it from cabrini green all the way to the top of the charts without
12:31stepping on a campus that's quite a rise and my mom she stepped off the runway to raise us and
12:38help my
12:38dad start his firm you know scouting clients and designing the offices every good man there's a woman
12:45pulling the strings is that what you're planning for our son i like jacob just as he is thank you
12:54baby
12:55ma seriously come on
13:04hang on man i got a tinnitus
13:10listen man if you want eva to stick she's gonna have to rise above mall shade noted all right man
13:17i'm out of here hey don't be a hero or do just come home hey man can you do me
13:25a favor
13:30sparkling cider for me dr on suggested i keep my alcohol count low for brocca reasons which i have
13:37been doing consistently every sixth tuesday of the month but since you didn't inherit the demon dna
13:42you want real bubbles no i like these bubbles too that's fine okay to my perfect baby and her perfect
13:52mate happy anniversary thanks mom
13:58you know i knew you're always in our corner from day one well almost but once in you were all
14:05in i
14:06was just protective because i had never seen you crushing so hard oh except when you fell for what's
14:12his name um you encouraged me to run away with what's his name because i thought you were going to
14:18use that voice that you inherited from your gran to pick up the mic and change the world
14:22in that band of his but you decided to use your voice for other reasons yeah to help those who
14:28don't have one proud of you thanks mom whatever happened to what's his name he's still backing big
14:37bands and on the road and you are exactly where and with exactly whom you belong yeah i just needed
14:45you
14:45to make the case okay be brutal it's flawless why are you doubting after winterfest dress gate last year
14:55your father waited until we got home to imply that my outfit was a hot mess whatever you were just
15:01too
15:01hot period that was rude okay my lawyer daughter just tell me if i need to be protected from this
15:07dress
15:08trust your sartorial gut not dads and speaking of my personal protective detail at winterfest i need
15:17an extra ticket for jacob someone is leveling up does he know that showing up on your arm means something
15:26to the family to society if the fairmont crest ladies need something to goss about they should be
15:33kiki-ing over jacob and me cohabitating well he's at my place or i'm at his every night don't act
15:43like
15:44this decision is being made from up here when we both know it is coming from a place that's much
15:49lower
15:49mom your heart dirty girl you said that you wouldn't take this step unless you were sure
15:59well mom i love him and he loves me
16:08parents always want the next generation to have it better and i gotta say my girls are killing it
16:14jacob is such a good man he's never disrespectful boy was raised right
16:18mm-hmm whatever elon and darlene did their boys show up for their women
16:23mm-hmm you got a different set of skills from your father such as how to make a deal do
16:30you
16:30remember when you moved in with jacob you had those plans more laid than some people's edges
16:35you even mapped out proper plate placement in the dishwasher okay first of all i learned a lot from
16:41my supermodel mom and i thought prepping would keep the nerves at bay did it work not even a little
16:49why this pizza hit different in a new apartment babe you have a little sauce on your
16:54hmm what no no i'm not there yeah
17:08here let me take that the air mattress okay we'll bring this back to your mom as soon as our
17:14furniture
17:14arrives tomorrow okay yeah make sure you thank her for us sure
17:21okay give me that boy i know can i stay and help you unpack
17:29oh he's not wasting any time you know what i'm gonna leave you two to uh christen
17:36no please stay you can be our first dinner guest
17:40hawaiian it's one of those soft top mattresses nice well duh miss private school here hasn't even
17:46ever slept on an air mattress oh wait that is not true i was the queen of sleepovers i felt
17:52like i was
17:53raving simone and princess diaries too the princess sleepover when she and julie andrew sing and then
17:58they slide down that massive ramp into a pile of mattresses pillows you don't know what we're talking
18:04about i don't but i'm sure this is gonna be even better because you're here now yep well my work
18:12here is done bye bye
18:18you want another slice uh i think i want to test out that air mattress okay not so fast
18:48do you remember when the reverend was supposed to say who gives this woman to
18:53this man and he left it out yeah i thought he just got nervous and forgot it was your dad
19:01fathering he thought it was barbaric oh that is so funny because i told jacob he couldn't ask dad
19:08for my hand because it would be an affront to my agency oh poor jacob caught between two very
19:14stubborn hamiltons not the way your detective handled it or would have handled it
19:22mom what does that mean what mom did jacob circle back and ask dad for a secret blessing
19:33no he asked for mine you want a scotch well at least sit down
19:42is naomi okay i just wanted to let you know what an incredible woman you've raised didn't do it
19:49myself i know she loves her dad but i'm here to talk to you naomi and chelsea they're they're a
19:58testament to you their ambition their generosity their kindness and i want to let you know
20:06that i'll only be additive to that equation whatever dreams naomi has and wants to pursue
20:14i'll champion
20:17i'll never stand in her way i wouldn't imagine anything different okay
20:23so did you two have a fight don't tell me you stepped out on my daughter no no no no
20:28of course
20:29not then what's with all the hopes and dreams jacob well i want to make naomi's come true
20:35and mine wait sorry sorry okay i'd like to ask for your daughter's hand
20:52yes jacob welcome to the family baby why tell me now i thought you needed to hear how wonderful
21:03jacob is today unless you don't think it's wonderful no it it was and he is jacob wanted
21:11you to know that he was offering me a future where he never ever took anything away from me like
21:17like your dad took from me your man kept his word you knew before anyone else that i was getting
21:26married and you actually kept the secret all this time and i helped plan the proposal
21:30even though you did everything in your power to blow it up
21:38babe
21:42like i know it's just ashley but you gotta throw in a dress
21:45ugh i already begged off i had an awful day in court well maybe talking it through with your
21:50best friend will help i just want to curl up with my man and the second season of our show
21:56and what about ashley well she's already seen season two okay baby listen you said you didn't
22:05want to be one of those women who gets into a relationship and avoids her friends right
22:09besides ashley doesn't want you to start telling her things like how much of an asshat judge faraday
22:14was this morning come on let go listen part of being a bestie is the freedom to say you're too
22:21tie-tie and part of being a girlfriend is knowing when her boyfriend is being totally sus okay well
22:28did it ever occur to you that i just might have plans myself no because we share that adorable eye
22:34cow well i didn't put it in the adorable eye cow well then by all means if you have some
22:39place to be
22:40don't let me stop you jeez you know what fine
22:55jacob just relax
23:01have you lost your damn mind
23:13you want to know what my plan was
23:20i'm supposed to be wearing a tux right now at brookside gardens the sun coming down behind me
23:26lighting you up as you're walking on a path strewn with yellow roses your favorite
23:33and there i am standing there waiting for you all while this song is playing
23:37it but i guess now we'll have to improvise jacob
23:43naomi hamilton i've never met anyone more infuriating more stubborn and more beautiful than you
23:53and i know this isn't what i planned but i couldn't wait another minute without asking you this question
24:01naomi you caught me by surprise i had this whole plan laid out for my life i was good
24:09but the second i laid my eyes on you you blew all that up i had to talk to you
24:15i had to hear your voice
24:17and as soon as i met you i realized you were more than i could ever have imagined for myself
24:22more than anything i could dream of more than the poets and the writers and the singers could ever say
24:29you were prettier kinder brighter smarter and somehow you liked me too more than liked me
24:40i couldn't fathom how somebody like you could choose me but you did and you continue to choose me
24:46each and every day naomi you came along and blew my heart wide open i love you more than anything
24:53in
24:53this world baby i love you too do you choose me now do you choose me forever
25:03naomi hamilton will you marry me
25:12yes i will marry you okay oh i did that backwards didn't i that's okay it still counts still counts
25:21i love it yeah mom gave me my grandmother's necklace and i melted it down and added that stone
25:28i've never seen anything like it wait your mom knows which means my mom has to know which
25:35me and ashley and chelsea baby relax everybody's in your mom and dad's living room right now waiting
25:41with champagne and ashley too oh no she's actually at the park with her phone waiting to capture the
25:47moment i was just about to text her all right i'm calling her all right we'll do it while you
25:51get
25:51dressed no no no jacob hawthorne you did not propose to me with my bonnet on baby you've never
26:00been more beautiful well if you didn't love him already that proposal would have clinched it oh the
26:08heart and timing on that boy i swear he could have been a poet or a lead in a rom
26:12-com no my man was born
26:15to be a detective cracking cases like he cracked you i couldn't ever imagine someone getting past
26:23these walls let alone setting up permanent residence
26:30this mystery training means your husband stepping it up as a detective doesn't it jacob pledged you'd
26:38never hold me back from my dreams so how can i hold him back from his doesn't mean it's easy
26:44being
26:45the one sitting by the phone naomi but isn't that what love is you know supporting your person as
26:51they become who they're meant to be my wise girl i didn't know that my first go-round but i
27:02know it
27:03this time with andre maybe i learned it from the two of you
27:12why don't you just stay over you're trying to keep me from my wedding albums i know you stole
27:19the tradition from the grams but it can wait until how we remember where we've been and to think about
27:24where we're going there's another reason you should look at those pictures and what's that so you can
27:30remember who was at your wedding because that day you two only had eyes for each other
27:36guilty as charged you said i opened your heart but i was the one stumbling around closed off
27:46emotions aren't my first language but with you the words just came tumbling and part of me
27:55you wondered if i said too much naomi but there you were just receiving making me feel protected
28:08and seen and heard we made this place a place where the love goes both ways
28:19jacob hawthorne you are my safe place you are my happy place you're my whole heart i vow to spend
28:30the rest of my life making sure you feel just as safe and happy as we search for new joys
28:37each and
28:38every day naomi a partner is steadfast he communicates his needs and anticipates yours he has integrity
28:51if it gets tough or if things go haywire he always has your back i promise to give you my
28:59heart
29:01jaco i didn't know life could be this full i didn't know this level of happiness existed
29:07it's always you naomi hamilton i pledge myself to you today tomorrow and forever
29:17and i now pronounce you husband and wife jacob you may kiss your bride
29:30take care of my girl baby it was so beautiful i will sir i'm so happy mom i can see
29:37that
29:37oh looking sharp pops yeah nice sneaks i'm here you know less formal than the cater waiters
29:48the groom's not noticing my footwear maybe but he couldn't miss that you opted out of standing
29:54by him today because you wouldn't wear a monkey suit why would you deprive your mother seeing her
30:00son's line up together almost like a real family huh but one of these things is not like the other
30:07so this is payback for calling you out on things that you should be embarrassed about
30:13you think i didn't want to stand up for jacob no i just couldn't stand you
30:19you're a heat-seeking missile targeting every which way it is a point you have the snake fits
30:23all you had to do was be a man for what to hell with that and with you turn your
30:30back on your back
30:32this is not how hawthorns behave jacob deserved one day one i'm so sorry that my son bought his
30:43insolence son this is not that kind of party this is a family matter well we're all family now
30:52you want to talk to me isaiah i'm not exactly feeling the love i'm out stay think of your brother
31:02i am i am okay he he doesn't need to see this isaiah no no let his ass go
31:13he doesn't belong
31:22i'm late bro but happy to suit up now
31:32i just wanted to see how you're doing listen
31:38i've kept my mouth shut but this so-called training that jacob is doing i don't where was this
31:45father-in-law concern when you convinced jacob to arrest mom naomi you know what you asked of him
31:52sent jacob and me spinning while you move forward with your honeymoon plans no you knew better than
31:58anyone how i feel about my father and what he did to my mother and then you did my job
32:03you executed his
32:05sneak attack that's what you did how do you expect me to trust you after that because right now i
32:10don't
32:10recognize the man that i married i should have made a different call naomi i know something
32:18confessed her between a couple okay and if mistakes were made jacob and i aren't you and mom pro tip
32:27sleeping with your daughter's best friends it's not great for marital health
32:32i just want you and jacob to do as i say and not as i did
32:37i could have stuck my head in the sand but jacob was the one to force the issue until it
32:43wasn't an
32:43issue anymore he is lovingly relentless when we got married i meant every word of my vows
32:51i did too for better or for worse right along with all those other things we're supposed to be there
32:58for each other through the good and the bad the hard and the easy the day i put this ring
33:04on your
33:04finger i signed up for the full ride that's all i know that's all i know me too jacob's not
33:18making an
33:19excuse to stay away okay we are missing each other like crazy right now
33:29i know i came down hard on you but i'm glad you stopped by well i can be lovingly relentless
33:35too
33:36sweetheart you know your wedding is still my pinnacle
33:39not either of your own yeah not too many nerves at the first one too many bullets at the second
33:43all compliments of your mother no no i shouldn't laugh i've said my piece
33:51when you tell jacob that his favorite father-in-law sends his regards okay i will
33:59bye bye bye
33:59Bye.
34:21Jacob.
34:26Sick.
34:40I hope you're reading this wearing my t-shirt and you're upon it.
34:44You know how much that gets me going.
34:47Everything came at us this year and kept coming.
34:51When we said I do, we were so sure we could love our way through whatever.
34:56But now we've lived it and proved it.
34:59And we should be honoring it right now.
35:01We should be looking at our wedding album, curled up on the couch with that bottle of wine we've been
35:06saving.
35:07But I promise, baby, we'll make it all up.
35:12Maybe we finally use our trip to Mexico.
35:15You know what? No.
35:16No.
35:17No more maybes.
35:18We will.
35:19Soon.
35:21And now, I need you to tap into your imagination.
35:26I need you to imagine I'm there with you.
35:30Holding you.
35:32And I'll be imagining the same thing.
35:35My arms are around you.
35:38My breath's on your neck.
35:40I kiss that spot you love and you can imagine all that comes next.
35:45Well, not that part.
35:47The part where I tell you I love you.
35:50I love you, Naomi.
35:52Just keep imagining it until I can wrap my arms around you for real.
35:57Because that's where we are, baby.
35:59We're the realest thing in the whole world.
36:03I need you, I need you now.
36:09I need you, I need you to show me how.
36:16I need you, I need you now.
36:33Love you, I need you.
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