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Beyond the Gates - Season 2 - Episode 08: Tuesday, January 13, 2026
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00:05Sweetheart, I am capable of walking under my own power.
00:08No one is questioning your might, my love.
00:11I'm just following through on my promise of door-to-couch service.
00:16You promised not to treat me like a porcelain doll.
00:18I am not leaving your side until we know how you're going to respond to chemo.
00:24Aren't you tired of watching?
00:26You watched me read, you watched me nap,
00:29you watched that medicine drip into me, hopefully working its magic,
00:33all this watching.
00:34Your time could have been better spent.
00:37Where else would I have been?
00:38With the girls.
00:40I know how nerve-wracking it is waiting for these results.
00:43They were waiting for word that you got through the chemo.
00:47Any other answers are for another day.
00:50Well, Leah said today.
00:53And you haven't made a single call.
00:57I've been busy watching my favorite program.
01:00The Anita Show.
01:02Vernon.
01:05Martin called.
01:08If it was good news, you would have already shared it with me to lift my spirits.
01:12The doctor said for you to stay calm.
01:15And my husband's closed lips are preventing that.
01:18The results are in.
01:21Nicole is not a carrier.
01:22Oh, thank God.
01:26You always use your words precisely.
01:28You didn't say Danny.
01:30We always knew there was a probability.
01:34Now it's a reality.
01:37Danny has the Broca gene.
01:41A watched phone never rings.
01:43I know no such thing.
01:46What does it say about me that the people I love the most don't want me around?
01:50Father says he's fine to tend a mother on his own and my girls didn't want me to come get
01:54their blood drawn with them.
01:56And you think your presence is going to change how tired Anita will be or impact the results?
02:01No.
02:02Do you need to be there for them or be there for you?
02:06For both.
02:08My mother made me and my girls are me.
02:11Naomi and Chelsea are the best parts of me.
02:16And you think your comfort's in?
02:18As a mother, I...
02:20I would be bawling over the needle going in and they don't need that.
02:23They still need you and they want you.
02:26Even if you can't be there physically.
02:30Besides, there's a chance that they don't even get the gene.
02:32This is me, Andre.
02:34The math just doesn't math like that for me.
02:37The chips rarely fall in my favor.
02:39My girls.
02:41Hey, come on.
02:41Come on.
02:42There's no sense in getting yourself all worked up.
02:43I am trying to be positive.
02:45But my results are in.
02:47Why would I think my kids would escape the same fate?
02:50Why wouldn't you?
02:51I just keep thinking about all the choices.
02:53Maybe you should stop thinking altogether.
02:55Okay?
02:57Let me distract you.
03:01Hey.
03:03You came.
03:04You texted.
03:05I love that we're here.
03:07At Uptown?
03:09That I can text you with no notice and you show.
03:12I'm here for whatever you need.
03:14No judgment.
03:16But was this really a spontaneous text?
03:19Didn't you get the results today?
03:20Are you trying to find out if I am dying to see you or if I'm actually dying?
03:26Sorry.
03:27I can't seem to steer myself away from Gallo's humor.
03:32Yes.
03:33The results came back.
03:37Nicole.
03:37I tested negative.
03:40I don't get it.
03:42Why aren't you happier?
04:16Hey.
04:17Oh, my bad.
04:20What's up?
04:20What you need?
04:21The sticky fingers case?
04:23Akai has to sharp-nip the crew hitting some kitty smash and grab.
04:26It's an organized six-figure menace.
04:29Right.
04:29Right, right.
04:30Okay.
04:31Um, yeah.
04:32Detective Wells.
04:33He's staking the warehouse.
04:35And, um, Officer Lane.
04:38He set up a meeting with Defense Gerber.
04:41You want to let me know when you clocked in and ready to work?
04:44I was just about to review this file.
04:46But you never give me an update without thorough details.
04:49Where's your head?
04:52All my life.
04:54I've gotten blood work done more times than I can count.
04:56But this time, this could really change everything.
05:00Well, I hope you still think that knowledge is power.
05:03Because it is.
05:04The more you know, the more you can prepare.
05:07Yeah.
05:07And knowledge is time, too.
05:09Time to appreciate your health if the test comes back negative.
05:12And if it's positive?
05:15Time to make a plan and to stay out of it.
05:18You managed to peek in on your grandmother?
05:20No, only Grandad was allowed in.
05:22Grand's edict.
05:23But they just got home.
05:24And Chelsea?
05:25Same as me.
05:27Anxious.
05:28But Chelsea and Needles are not friends.
05:31So, Madison's in there holding her hand.
05:34Hey.
05:35Thank you again for getting us in there so quickly.
05:39Don't mention it.
05:40I'm just happy I can do my job.
05:42And thank you for connecting us with that new lab tech.
05:46He really has a magic touch, doesn't he?
05:48I wouldn't know.
05:49Well, you could when you go out with him tonight.
05:53Oh.
05:58When we were in med school, they framed it like it was a game of chance.
06:02Rolling the dice to see what your body was wired for.
06:06I wish my sister's luck had been different.
06:09It's just the first steps.
06:12Yes, there is an elevated risk.
06:13But it doesn't mean that Danny's going to develop cancer.
06:16And you'll be there with her along the way.
06:20I will do a Long Island iced tea.
06:22Excellent choice.
06:24Club soda for me.
06:26I'll be back with your drinks.
06:31You usually go for a lot less proof and more presentation.
06:35You knocking a classic?
06:37It gets the job done.
06:39What's the job?
06:41What happened to I'm here for you, Nicole?
06:43Whatever you need, Nicole.
06:44I am here for you.
06:46I know the science.
06:48But she is my sister.
06:52She is the first person I got to love since the day she was born.
06:58Not just love.
07:00Protect.
07:03When those results came in, all I could think was not Danny.
07:11I would trade places with her in a heartbeat.
07:14Is that what she would want?
07:17She is happy I was spared.
07:21The only good thing to come out of this is my clean test means that Kat and Martin are out
07:27of danger.
07:29And Danny's beans.
07:31Her daughters may also have inherited the gene.
07:36Anita got diagnosed with breast cancer.
07:38Oh, man.
07:41I'm sorry to hear that.
07:43Her children got tested to see if they inherited the carrier gene.
07:46And Danny's test came back positive, which puts Naomi and Chelsea at risk, too.
07:50Yeah, baby.
07:51Why didn't you tell me?
07:52Well, at least switching it to your mother.
07:55Because you always said to not act until you know all the facts.
07:58This isn't the case.
07:59I'm where you unload at the first end of trouble.
08:01And Naomi's our family, too.
08:04How's she doing?
08:06You know her.
08:07Going full on Naomi.
08:09Making playlists for Anita and blowing up her group chat with her mother and her sister and scouring the internet
08:13for info like it's her job.
08:15Any cracks in the armor?
08:16Nah.
08:18Naomi's made of Dupree Steel.
08:20I'm the one who's feeling it.
08:22This cancer thing is scaring the hell out of me.
08:26Well, Madison must have a way with her hands because you don't look phased at all.
08:30Well, not just Madison.
08:32That cute lab tech.
08:33You had me doing this breathing exercise thing.
08:35I barely felt a prick.
08:37Closest thing I've been to a threesome since I gave them up for true love.
08:41See?
08:42The hot tech's got fans.
08:44You're relentless.
08:46Go to her.
08:47You've got this, little sis.
08:50Yeah.
08:51Nurse Tia, dial me.
08:52I'll need to.
08:55Well, thanks for coming to the lab.
08:58Yeah, I couldn't leave you alone with Grayson.
09:00That man takes off his lab coat and I swear, all the nurses just stop and watch like he's Magic
09:04Mike.
09:06You did amazing.
09:08Well, now if you just hold my hand 24-7.
09:11Millions live with a variant and never get the disease.
09:14Keep reminding me.
09:16Graham getting sick, it's forced me to take a long, hard look at myself and I need to make some
09:21major changes.
09:24You are more excited about my date than I am.
09:27What?
09:27He's patient and dreamy.
09:30I like him for you.
09:31And you're basing this off what?
09:33A blood test?
09:33If my coffee date ends like that, things will have gone very, very wrong.
09:38Oh, come on.
09:40You can enjoy his excellent bedside manner, if you know what I mean.
09:45I'm just dipping my toe in the water.
09:47What is with the hard sell?
09:48You survived the first awkward run-in with Derek, did the moping and ditched the sweatpants.
09:55Ergo, you are showing signs of actually being over your ex.
09:59Isn't it time to see who else is out there?
10:03I love these shoulders, and your skin is so soft.
10:08Mine, your lips so supple and sweet are mine.
10:14Mine love you too.
10:17And I love you.
10:23I may have lost the genetic lottery, but the loved one?
10:28Baby, I ran the tables.
10:33We both did.
10:36Danny, I was out there wandering, because no place felt like home.
10:41After my parents died, I had convinced myself that I wasn't bothered, and that my life was exactly the way
10:50I wanted it.
10:52But then this magical, beautiful, insanely inspiring woman popped up.
10:59You made me stop wandering, Danny.
11:02You became my home.
11:08And here I was, thrashing around, mourning something that meant nothing.
11:16You didn't know what you were missing.
11:19And I didn't know you were coming.
11:23You're my home too.
11:30Danny's finally pulled her life back together.
11:33The boy we thought was a toy is now our favorite son-in-law.
11:36She couldn't be prouder of Naomi's success.
11:39She and Chelsea are closer than they've ever been.
11:42Her business is growing.
11:44Danny is flourishing.
11:45And now she's got to deal with my broken genes.
11:47I will not be the reason our baby girl goes off the rails.
11:51Danny's resilient.
11:52I still hear the sound of the gunshots of Danny's resilience.
11:57That was then.
11:58This is now.
12:00And you cannot possibly blame yourself.
12:03Can't I?
12:05Vernon, I don't know when it happened, but I believed our hype.
12:10I bought into the Duprees, the shiny family up on the hill.
12:15But the bloodline that we are so proud of, that's where the culprit lies.
12:19We thought we were passing on our prized family genes when I was really passing on an intruder.
12:26And that cancer that is not only threatening my life, but now Danny's and possibly our grandchildren,
12:33also kept me from being with her when she found out.
12:36It's not a curse.
12:39It touches almost every family.
12:43That's not on the name.
12:44It's not on you.
12:46It's the nature of the beast itself.
12:49Well, that beast has kept me away from my baby long enough.
12:53We can call.
12:54I need to look her in her eye and tell her I am sorry with my arms around her.
13:00After you've rested, Dr. Bauer was adamant, as am I.
13:05Vernon, this is our journey, but it is my body, and I know when I'm fine.
13:11And Dr. Bauer's instructions are not law.
13:14Nor are they mere suggestions.
13:17You've just acknowledged that Anita Dupree is human.
13:21I am being as good a patient as I am capable of.
13:26But coddling me when what I need is just a few streets away
13:29is the exact opposite of the prescription for peace.
13:34You are as stubborn as the day I met you.
13:37More!
13:41I'll have Titus bring the car around.
13:51Do you know what I hate on top of everything else?
13:54Tell me.
13:55This just reinforces the narrative.
13:59The tale of two sissies.
14:01Danny's poor Danny.
14:02The hot mess with drama around every possible turn.
14:05And I, I am.
14:07Little Miss Perfect Nicole.
14:10Aren't you poor Danny-ing her right now?
14:12Thinking you can handle cancer better than she can?
14:15Ouch.
14:15But fair.
14:18I've never seen Danny like that.
14:21But you, you're pretty flawless.
14:24Mm-mm.
14:25Mm-mm.
14:27Don't say that.
14:28I've looked at you.
14:29I've listened to you.
14:30I've kissed you.
14:32You, you should own it.
14:35I am just as messed up as everybody else.
14:41I have just learned ways to cope.
14:44It comes with the territory of the profession.
14:47Josh, can I have another one, please?
14:49Nothing for me.
14:51Life isn't a professional setting, Nicole.
14:53Doctor, heal thyself.
14:55Or maybe just be yourself.
14:58No one expects the calm and perfect veneer at all times.
15:02I expect it.
15:04Hell, just a few months ago, I called myself the family fixer.
15:08Well, my family doesn't have fixers, so what does that job entail?
15:11Making sure that nobody falls.
15:13And if and when they do, I am there.
15:18Sounds noble.
15:20And exhausting.
15:24It is.
15:28I don't need fixing.
15:31So how about you pack up all those tools?
15:34And just be real with me.
15:37You want me to be real?
15:39Yes.
15:40Fine.
15:43Take terrified.
15:45Multiply it by a million.
15:47And that is me.
15:54You do know how to distract.
15:57But now that the tell portion is over, show me the love.
16:04No words.
16:06Just hands.
16:07Tens.
16:10Lips.
16:14And...
16:16And...
16:19No.
16:33Okay, okay.
16:36I'm going to get that.
16:37When I come back, I'm going to make sure the rest of the world is forgotten about.
16:48Oh, Miss Anita, Vernon, we were not expecting you.
16:53Please, can I get you some tea or some juice?
16:55I just need my Danny.
16:57Sure, she's in the bedroom, but she may not be dressed yet.
17:02I brought that child into this world.
17:03You think I haven't seen her naked behind?
17:07You can't stop a determined Dupree.
17:11Let me get that for you.
17:12So, uh, how was chemo?
17:16Well, she seems to be tolerating it well so far.
17:20Or she could be operating on sheer adrenaline.
17:25And how are you?
17:29Everything in our family flows from her.
17:32If she's sick, it feels like we all are.
17:36And this news about Danny.
17:38Just tell me, what can I do?
17:41Well, while Anita's holding her baby, maybe you and I can have a father-in-law to son-in-law
17:47chat.
17:49Danny?
17:50Mother?
17:52You're not supposed to be out of the house.
17:54Do you think I pitched a fit with your father to come here and talk about myself?
17:59Daddy told you I have the Bracca gene.
18:02He did.
18:04Come here, baby.
18:12When those vials were filling up, the only thing I could think about was my kidnapping.
18:17Oh, Chelsea.
18:18This isn't about crazy, Allison.
18:20It's about after.
18:21You've been doing amazing.
18:23But I've also been something else.
18:25Something I've never been before.
18:26Careful.
18:28With reason.
18:29You took control of your socials.
18:31You've been teaching your Chelsea fam about online safety.
18:33Remember what I said when you asked me the meaning of life the day we met?
18:37That you're game for anything.
18:40I used to go to the airport, close my eyes, and pick a destination on the board.
18:44And you and I, we've never had a real getaway.
18:47We're busy.
18:48We live full lives.
18:49We have demanding schedules.
18:51We do.
18:52But how much of that is me just being chicken?
18:55Being spontaneous used to be my superpower.
18:58What are you saying?
19:00Graham's sick.
19:01And she's lived a lifetime of doing the right things.
19:05I think it's time for me to stop playing it so safe.
19:10What are you afraid of?
19:13Mother shouldn't be Anita Dupree.
19:15Anita Williams.
19:16She came from the poorest part of Chicago.
19:21Used her voice, led the articulat, earned an EGOT, became a philanthropist.
19:26And still, somehow, she genuinely feels that her children are her greatest accomplishment above everything else.
19:37She beat every single odd to become who she is today.
19:45What if she doesn't be this one?
19:48She will bring all of the above to the fight.
19:51I have seen it personally with every reconstruction that I've done.
19:55And you have seen it in the patients that you counsel.
19:57Mind over matter is real.
20:01She will get the best care money can buy.
20:06But Cancer doesn't care about that.
20:09It doesn't care that she is a mother, a wife, a grandmother, a star.
20:15All it cares about is taking.
20:18And the kind Mother has, it is violent.
20:24Josh, can I get another drink, please?
20:27No, no, no, no.
20:27Let me take you home.
20:29What?
20:31You don't like the real me already?
20:34No, no, I just don't know that you want to share her with the whole restaurant.
20:42Being scared doesn't mean you can't also be strong.
20:45God knows if anything happened to your mother, I would be lost too.
20:49But you need to hold it together for Naomi, son.
20:53I'm trying, Pops.
20:55Look, the priests have their hands full, but mine and your mother's aren't.
21:00You know, Naomi's our family too.
21:02Lean on us.
21:05Let's say a prayer for her at church Sunday.
21:08Or you can come with us.
21:10Yeah.
21:11Yeah, we'd like that.
21:12Good.
21:14Now go see your woman.
21:16All right.
21:17I just gotta take care of her.
21:19Hand your calls off.
21:20This mess will be here in the morning.
21:22All right, we'll debrief then.
21:26Take good care of Naomi.
21:28All right?
21:29Thanks, Pops.
21:31Coffee?
21:31Coffee on the first date is a tragedy.
21:34The coffee breath, the laptops.
21:37Grayson deserves better.
21:39You know what?
21:40I think you should go on this date instead of me.
21:43Or I could come with you.
21:45Come again?
21:47A double date?
21:48No.
21:52Grayson.
21:53Ashley wants to ask you something.
21:58Ashley wants to ask you something.
22:00What's up?
22:02Um, non-stop drama.
22:04Hmm.
22:05You?
22:06Low light kid with leukemia this morning?
22:09Mm-mm.
22:09Yeah.
22:10High light, you finally agreeing to do coffee with me?
22:14Um, high light, me being able to help my bestie and her sis thanks to you.
22:21Low light, the reason why.
22:24Yeah, I could tell.
22:25They were anxious.
22:26You know, alleviating tension's kind of my gift.
22:30Oh, is it?
22:31Mm-hmm.
22:32You know, there's only one way you're going to find out.
22:38Um, would it be okay if we change plans tonight?
22:41If you need to be with your friend, though.
22:43I totally get it.
22:44I do.
22:44I just want you to come, too.
22:51It's not easy to take on a Dupree.
22:55Jacob and Smitty, they, uh, they rose to it.
23:01Ted and Bill, they failed spectacularly.
23:05They forgot the secret.
23:08Which is?
23:09Appreciate their strengths, their bravado.
23:14Be the place where they can feel what they need to feel.
23:20The soft place to land.
23:22You follow?
23:24I do.
23:25Good, because otherwise, there'd be someone else waiting to be Danny's safe space.
23:33Sweetheart, I want to apologize to you for passing on this gene.
23:38Come on.
23:39This isn't your fault.
23:40It's just cells and bad luck.
23:43I know it's beyond my control, but if I could have, I would have done anything to spare you this.
23:49Maybe if I had known sooner.
23:51How?
23:52They didn't even know this gene existed until after Nicole and I were born.
23:57You couldn't have changed the course of our lives short of making us not exist at all.
24:02And I sure as hell am glad to be in this world as your daughter.
24:09You know, when your father and I first got together, I imagined that our daughters, or sons, would be little
24:19versions of us.
24:21You wish I'd been more like you, I'm sure.
24:23No, no, no, I was delighted at how you and Nicole were not mini-me's, but your own wonderfully independent,
24:34occasionally infuriating selves.
24:38But of course, my vanity, I always enjoyed seeing those little bits of us in you.
24:43And some of that fire definitely came from me.
24:49But I never thought that I would pass on something that could hurt my baby girl.
24:54No.
24:56What you feel is exactly what I'm feeling.
25:02The guilt.
25:03The bargaining.
25:06Because that thing in you, that might be in me, I might have passed down to my girls.
25:15And that feeling is worse than being sick myself.
25:19I will find this a table while you guys get the apps and cocktails.
25:23Ashley is just so very thirsty.
25:30Yeah, sorry about that.
25:33She's usually not so mad matchmaker.
25:36And I know that bringing my bestie on our first date is breaking pretty much every role.
25:40I get it.
25:41I get it.
25:42Besides, she's got me from coffee to drinks and a whole double date.
25:46Maybe she's my best friend.
25:47Hey, babe.
25:48Hey.
25:49Aren't we supposed to be curled up binging reality TV right now?
25:52Ugh, she's been so much sad this week.
25:55I couldn't miss a chance to do some healing.
26:05Do you remember Long Island's can also sneak up on you?
26:08Boo!
26:10I'm not scared.
26:13I just want to make sure you don't feel like the Long Island Express train hits you in the morning.
26:17Wouldn't be my first hangover.
26:19Besides, I am in my own home with my own liquor cabinet, which means the highest quality.
26:27And it's not like I am leaving and driving.
26:31Worst case, I might do some internet shopping.
26:35Nicole.
26:37One night.
26:38Just one night.
26:39I don't want to have any answers.
26:41I want to let my hair down.
26:42Just one night, Carlton.
26:45I thought you were the guy that I could let loose with.
26:49Turns out that you are all sentiment and no follow through.
26:52You know what?
26:52You have been kind.
26:54You brought me home.
26:55You can leave now.
26:57Maybe you can take Miss Perfect out when she returns to her factory settings.
27:01That is, if she still wants to go out with you.
27:03Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
27:07I would not dream of letting you drink alone.
27:16I thought you were going to say we should start jogging or cut back on steak.
27:20You know, things that actually prolong life.
27:23Living on the edge sounds like the opposite.
27:26Close your eyes.
27:27Why?
27:28Do you trust me?
27:30Yes, then close your eyes.
27:38I want to do much more of that.
27:40Well, that makes two of us.
27:42But I don't need to take some big physical risk, okay?
27:45I just want to feel at home in my skin again.
27:48Even if that means sharing my body with this evil gene.
27:52I want to kiss my girlfriend in the middle of a hospital.
27:55I want to fill up that map on my phone with so many pins that you can't even see map.
27:59I want to learn things from strangers.
28:03And this ticking gene bomb, it may be just that.
28:08But it's also a gift.
28:10It reminded me of what I'm missing.
28:13Do you get what I'm trying to say?
28:16Yeah.
28:17Yeah, I do.
28:18And I want you to be with me every step of the way.
28:21This adventure, it isn't just mine, okay?
28:23Maybe it's ours.
28:27I thought you might enjoy an Aperol Spritz.
28:30Slightly less aggressive than the Long Islands you love.
28:36Yum.
28:37You thought right.
28:45Do you remember this one?
28:47How could I forget?
28:49A certified classic.
28:52I enjoyed dancing with you at our indoor picnic.
28:56Then maybe we should do it again.
28:59Nothing I'd like more.
29:07Would you like that more?
29:14Nice.
29:15Oh, I'm sorry.
29:17Is this version of me not to your liking?
29:20No, no, no, no, no.
29:21I want every version of you, Nicole.
29:26But tonight isn't our night.
29:29I want you to choose me when you aren't taking time off from being yourself.
29:34Look at me.
29:36I don't want to be your escape, Nicole.
29:40I want to be your real life.
29:46I'm looking at these bottles of scotch, and I'm trying to figure out why none of them are together with
29:51their friends.
29:53Friends?
29:54Yes.
29:55But then I realized that the bartender organized them by size and shape as opposed to type, which I think
30:03is much cooler.
30:04And you think is lame.
30:08Interesting.
30:10Now, most men don't have that attention to detail.
30:14Well, does it help that I also noticed that that bottle of Cognac has a sexy shape?
30:20And?
30:21And yours is even sexier.
30:22Okay.
30:25What?
30:26How many times have you used that line?
30:28Just a few times.
30:29Yeah, maybe a couple.
30:30You know.
30:31You know it.
30:31But you're the first woman to call me out on it.
30:34The others are being polite.
30:36And you're being honest.
30:38Mistake?
30:39If honesty scares me, then yes.
30:42But, spoiler.
30:44It doesn't.
30:46That was definitely a scoot.
30:47You saw that?
30:48I saw the scoot, babe.
30:50And I also see that new couple friends alert going off in your head.
30:53But remember, Ashley has to like the new puppy before we adopt him.
30:57Well, she's definitely attracted to the new puppy.
30:59So what do you do to relax?
31:03Um...
31:03Read.
31:05Work out.
31:07Okay, fine.
31:07I'll admit, I like to clean and organize.
31:10But now it seems like I'm saying that just to impress you.
31:14I'm just very detail-oriented.
31:17You see, I'm a guy who really enjoys details.
31:20Hmm.
31:22Like the way you naturally tilt your head so when I come in for that first kiss.
31:27No head-butting.
31:28How very conscientious of you.
31:30Actually, bumping noses is the number one cause of injuries in first kisses.
31:34Hmm.
31:35If that's your way of saying you are an expert, maybe you should initiate things.
31:42I mean, what if I go in for the first kiss?
31:44Oh.
31:44Have you ever?
31:49Actually, no.
31:57Okay, I was, uh, I was about to go in for it, but, um, Naomi's watching, so...
32:02Oh, oh, oh, you're gonna let that stop you, huh?
32:04Uh-huh, yep, I am.
32:05I'm gonna let that stop me.
32:06I'm gonna take a step back and I'm gonna stay professional in front of my friends.
32:11If that's what you want.
32:14But I was wondering.
32:16Yeah?
32:17You know how some people can tie a knot in a cherry stem with their tongues?
32:23You offer me to do that?
32:24Well, I can't do all the work.
32:26I'm initiating the first kiss.
32:30Okay.
32:31Deal.
32:33Right here?
32:34Now?
32:35My apartment.
32:37In the time it takes to get there.
32:39Okay, let's go.
32:45Now, where were we?
33:16You know I enjoy acting like we're body language experts with TMZ, but is there any chance we're
33:21on Ashley's date because you wanted to skip out on your hospital visit?
33:25Nope.
33:26Grayson has excellent hands.
33:29Naomi, listen.
33:30This jean thing is like a loaded gun being waved around your family.
33:34It doesn't have to go off for you to feel the trauma.
33:37Grayson isn't the only one with hands, shoulders, and ears here for you.
33:41And knowing that is part of the reason I haven't fallen apart yet.
33:45But can we please not worry about things we can't control?
33:49Sure.
33:49Anything you want.
33:51I want to put all my energy into getting grand better, making sure my friend is happy, and
33:57right now being third and fourth wheels with my husband.
34:01Okay.
34:02Hey.
34:02Grayson, this is my husband, Jacob.
34:04Thanks for letting us crash.
34:05Hey.
34:06Happy to meet Ashley's people.
34:08Uh, don't hate us, but we're going to take off.
34:12Where to?
34:15Ashley's going to show me how she organizes her place.
34:20You're welcome.
34:22Thanks, Naomi.
34:23I really need it tonight.
34:25Me too.
34:28Okay.
34:29Good to meet you, Jacob.
34:30You as well.
34:32How are my granddaughters?
34:34Better than their mother.
34:36Blood tests are done.
34:37Now just waiting and praying.
34:42And you scheduled your follow-up?
34:44If the worst happens, you need to act quickly.
34:47I will.
34:47I will.
34:48I just need a minute to process.
34:50Only a minute.
34:54Thanks for coming, Mom.
34:56You are exactly what I needed.
35:00You always are.
35:07Not only do you have to watch for Danny's demons,
35:10you've got to look for the one waiting in the wings, too.
35:14Yeah, I remembered your warning earlier today
35:17when that demon showed up in Danny's room, comforting her.
35:20Yeah, I know Bill Hamilton is lurking.
35:23Oh, but I drew a line.
35:25Yeah, I told Bill that Naomi and Chelsea might need him,
35:27but Danny doesn't.
35:29Yeah, she already has a husband, and that's me.
35:31Good man.
35:32Yeah, allow me to ease your worries where Danny's concerned, sir.
35:37There is nothing or no one more important to me than she is.
35:41Losing Danny to this disease or to someone else is not happening.
35:45Hernan, it's time to go home.
35:47Are you tired, my love?
35:49Relieved.
35:50I see exactly what I hoped I'd see.
35:54Our daughter is the same capable woman today as she was yesterday.
35:58Like mother, like daughter.
36:01This road may be tougher than we thought,
36:03but then so are we.
36:05And no one needs to pity either of us.
36:09Cancer simply is no match for two formidable, Dupree women.
36:14And that's that.
36:23That's what we all see.
36:26Thank you so much for listening.
36:27And it was just a fond drop.
36:27I love you now too.
36:27I love you.
36:28I love you.
36:28And I love you too.
36:31And it was really great.
36:32I love you too.
36:35Merry Christmas.
36:36I love you too.
36:37I love you too.
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