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Beyond the Gates - Season 1 - Episode 191: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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00:00You
00:05Sorry to keep you waiting
00:08Thanks for coming. I couldn't exactly talk earlier. Yeah, I got that
00:17It's good to see you Val. That's not my name
00:22Right
00:24It's
00:25Haley this time. It's not this time
00:30I am Haley Hamilton respectable wife of Bill Hamilton as a liar
00:38Lynette wise has been charged with embezzlement. She's out on bail. The bank has filed a lawsuit to recoup damages
00:45She says she's innocent
00:47Do you believe her do a full rundown on her?
00:50Background check for any priors debts social media personal life
00:54Associations I want to know who she's hanging with who she's sleeping with a deep dive
00:59Yeah, the deepest
01:01Shouldn't I be researching the opposition?
01:03No, there's no point in wasting billable hours on an unwinnable case
01:07I'll vet her and let you know if the case is worth your time
01:10Not my time
01:12Yours
01:17Hello
01:19One sec
01:21I love that you and Madison are back in your I love you I love you more era
01:25But we're supposed to be working and right now
01:27The only thing you're working is my last minute
01:30We're playing catch-up
01:32You two were mad at each other for less than a minute
01:35A minute away from Madison is like an eternity
01:45Sending nothing but love your way cuz
01:52Seven of hearts
02:00Seven of hearts
02:01What are the rules to this one?
02:04Are you tossing her away?
02:06Or keeping her?
02:34I'm puts you in the back
02:36and theodge balance
02:41yeah uh-huh yes that is it that's it okay you want me to move on to that other spot
02:49i know i can
02:49hit i'm sorry did you say something sweetheart okay i didn't think i was so good that you
02:54couldn't hear me good well your fingers are magic but these moans were about my handiwork
02:59not yours what could be better than my magic fingers let me see boom
03:08i leave you alone and you're cheating on me with ada
03:12miss wright and i were just passing time while waiting for you
03:17i remember when you brought me my first book of poetry
03:21well you had suitors rolling up with all kinds of extravagant gifts jewelry rooms filled with roses
03:30cadillac outside your hotel with a big old bowl on it and you handed me this book and said you
03:38needed to borrow words from ada m wright to encapsulate me no i couldn't sing save my life
03:45but i knew how much lyrics meant to you
03:49poetry became a call and response for us
03:52as close as i could come to doing a duet with you
03:56we had other ways to do it
03:58we still do
04:05i love a friend whose cheering voice can soothe my aching heart
04:11can wipe the tears of grief away when sorrow bids them start
04:22everything okay love
04:30you always see right through me
04:33i'm just tired
04:35well you haven't given yourself time to come down from the winterfest triumph
04:42and now i have to wrangle the beast that is the dupree family christmas
04:47i don't envy you
04:48oh but you'll be right by my side
04:50oh but you're my captain
04:52oh captain
04:54navigating which house we visit when
04:57meanwhile i'll carry the gifts
05:00wearing my approved holiday blazer
05:04eating cookies and drinking eggnog at each stop
05:08and making sure we don't miss one single sprig of mistletoe
05:13you do have it good don't you
05:16no just call me papa dupree
05:19oh you mean father christmas
05:22how about a ride in papa's sleigh
05:25we could jet off to some place quiet
05:31with no cell service
05:34no construction noises
05:36some place where the decorations aren't your purview
05:41a few days and you'll be healed
05:45now that the area's numb
05:46we're gonna go ahead and start our biopsy
05:50you might feel a little bit of pressure
05:54you are the most thoughtful man
05:57but
05:58i can't relax just yet
06:01aren't we running out of sleep still christmas
06:03even my christmas cards make an entrance
06:06one year i didn't get them done till july
06:09why don't we go full out kardashian
06:11just the dupree ladies will be good for your brand
06:13the only brand i'm interested in
06:16is the happily ever after one with my new hubby
06:20i know you're a private person
06:21but this is just for friends and family
06:24indoor christmas club yeah
06:26no photo says us more than our wedding photo
06:30it's spontaneous sexy and we were completely in love
06:34even though we didn't know it yet
06:36and you looked magnificent
06:38i looked like i took a swim in the bellagio fountain
06:42which we may or may not have done that night
06:44and jackie tyree was stunning
06:46but we don't want her to pull focus
06:50what i want is a moment where we actually did know
06:53how completely
06:54and madly
06:56deeply we were in love
06:58i love that
07:02okay let me see
07:04all right
07:05uh no
07:06all the ladies would come for you
07:09all of these are nsfcc
07:12they're not safe for christmas cards
07:15so
07:16what we'll do is
07:18fire up my camera
07:19and we'll have our own
07:21sexy santa and mrs claus shoot
07:23i have some props somewhere
07:25hold on mr claus
07:27we need to drop in on mother claus
07:29and make sure we lock ourselves in
07:30on the dupree family christmas calendar
07:32before nicole
07:33we can play some sexy reindeer games
07:36when we get back
07:36you be prancer
07:39and i'm always a little vixen
07:42didn't expect to see you tonight
07:45this is what we do
07:47i run
07:48you chase me
07:50you run
07:51i chase you
07:54definitely not my emma
07:56joey armstrong doesn't chase right
07:59i'm not proud
08:01i'd crawl to get to you
08:05the words are romantic
08:07but one minute you're bonnie to my clyde
08:11and the next you're cashing in your chips
08:13but i can never stay away
08:17i want you
08:19more than i thought possible
08:21more than i've ever wanted anyone
08:25i'm just never quite sure if i'm alone in that
08:31hayley hamilton
08:35the name's hot
08:37you know i never expected you to find the keeper
08:41the name for the man
08:44you really quit the game
08:47settling down and
08:50now you got all that class that money can't buy
08:54didn't you
08:55so did you
08:56right
08:58right hayley
08:59i mean i never had it like you
09:01i was always tracing your moves
09:05you had that catch and release in your blood like you were born with it
09:08and while me and randy we were just
09:11living in hayley's game
09:13okay
09:14cut the hayley crap
09:16no
09:17you have to live in the con
09:20every moment
09:22never saying the real name
09:24make it real
09:26keep it real
09:27you taught me that
09:28that was
09:30another me
09:31another life
09:32you don't have to convince me
09:34your husband
09:37he's fine
09:38but in every other way
09:40he resembles
09:41all the other marks
09:44sneaking into a rich
09:46married man's bed
09:49after infiltrating his life
09:51through someone close
09:56if it looks like a mark
09:58and acts like a mark
09:59why shouldn't he be
10:02because
10:04i fell in love
10:06the one thing we
10:08never dared to dream back then
10:12don't we
10:13deserve it
10:14after everything
10:16we probably deserve the opposite
10:19okay
10:20i got mad respect for you
10:22and every secret
10:24that we have
10:27is safe with me
10:29so you don't want first chair
10:31it's just
10:32this is a criminal case
10:34i've only been the lead on civil
10:35partners have to be nimble
10:37playing all parts on the field
10:40pauline has a background in forensics
10:42put me in coach
10:43i don't have courtroom experience
10:45but i killed at every criminal clinic in law school
10:47i'll hit the briefs
10:48and be ready to flex that muscle again
10:50yeah well hey
10:51don't flex too hard
10:52i wouldn't want you to get back on the ir
10:55injured reserve list
10:58any chance we can just
10:59forget my lowest point ever happened
11:03not a chance in hell
11:05there
11:06i'm all yours
11:07our chelsea cat christmas promotion
11:10is through the roof
11:11higher than santa slay
11:14look at those numbers
11:16i wish that we had some bubbles
11:18our moment needs a moment
11:20we've arrived six months ahead of my projection
11:23we are on fire
11:26just like me and my gorgeous girlfriend and you and tomas
11:29well as aunt danny says always work the win
11:32i was distracted before
11:34usually when i'm texting madison you're texting tomas
11:38well not all of us are about sexting in public
11:42oh is he bugging because we turned down his cohabitation proposal
11:47well i already talked to your mom and martin about it
11:51but not me
11:52you were busy rebonding with madison after being sick
11:56i didn't seek them out
11:58it was more like an accidental focus group
12:01okay and where did you land
12:05vacillating between protecting my heart and the opposite
12:08then
12:09yeah
12:11then tomas showed up at the studio
12:15and accused me of avoiding him
12:17well were you
12:18not exactly
12:21but he wanted me to explain my no
12:25and
12:27i'm still trying to figure it out
12:29i didn't mean to hurt him
12:31but
12:32i did
12:34and now i suspect he's just telling me what i want to hear
12:38i've been all over the place lately
12:40don't apologize
12:44do you know how good it feels to know that you want to step into the light with me
12:49i just don't want you to regret anything about us
12:52i
12:55couldn't find the right words joey
12:57you know there's nothing you can't say to me
13:00so tell me what was so urgent about making us official
13:06what was so important about that night that party
13:11when we have all the time in the world
13:16that's probably what doug thought too
13:22what happened to doug won't happen to me i can promise you that
13:27living with danger doesn't make you immune to it
13:31i wasted so much time with doug i don't want to waste another minute
13:37i loved him but i wasn't in love with him anymore
13:40well i'm glad you got past the guilt of that revelation
13:43before the kids left for college i knew what we were and what we weren't
13:48but i was going to stay until death did us part
13:52hence my temporary solutions like escorts
13:56vanessa you don't need to justify that
13:58i met you
14:01if doug hadn't died
14:04i still would have left him for you
14:08doug isn't here to test that theory
14:11i'm yours
14:13rewriting our history isn't necessary
14:15you're still smarting
14:18because i went too far
14:19pushing the ex-wife button when you brought up doug
14:22you think i don't know or understand that move
14:25or all your moves
14:26but you still don't believe me
14:28being with you in the moonlight of puerto rico
14:31it was everything i was missing
14:33when i took that ring off it was supposed to be forever
14:37if the unthinkable hadn't happened
14:39i would have left it on that dresser
14:41come home and and told doug that it was over
14:44we would have been together
14:45for the world to see and envy
14:48maybe doug would still be here in some bachelor pad across town
14:52these are all just what ifs
14:55but the unthinkable did happen
14:57but it still doesn't change facts
14:59the world thinks i'm this widow grieving my husband
15:04i i'm mourning the man
15:06the doctor the father to my kids but
15:10the husband was gone long ago just like the wife
15:13and it is time to come to terms with that loss
15:17of all the law offices in the dmv you happened to walk into my husband
15:23i asked for the best i was referred to bill
15:27so you weren't looking for me
15:29i was looking to avoid 30 years of prison time
15:32plus i am way too creative to serve that time
15:37i can see you looking for the skin behind those lashes
15:40but i was just as surprised to see you
15:44as you were to see me
15:48we used to engineer coincidences
15:52this isn't that
15:54i was just tired
15:57of not being able to see my real name on the side of a coffee cup
16:02because everywhere else i was someone else
16:06that'll be much easier to buy
16:10if you weren't up on embezzlement charges
16:13maybe it's my karma
16:15me getting charged with something that i didn't do
16:18after all the stuff that i did
16:22or maybe it's something else
16:24fate
16:28i think i was gonna admit
16:30that's what i was thinking after you said it like that
16:34it's nice to have you back or whatever your name is
16:38and it's nice having my girly back to kiki with about the good old days
16:44the only thing tomas navarro will be synonymous with
16:47is excellence
16:49starting with the lynette wise case
16:51going forward it's about winning
16:52nothing else
16:55that's what i wanted to hear
16:58this was a test
16:59just needed to see how you handle a little gentle ribbing
17:03look this is the last time i'll reference your injury
17:07you took the heat and devised a plan
17:09proper partner skills
17:11thanks
17:12hey look go
17:13get out of here
17:14take kat out on a date
17:15while you still can
17:16your work-life balance is about to become unbalanced
17:24yes
17:26you've always had a picture of your life
17:28and living with your boyfriend on the way to be maybe marriage
17:31wasn't in it
17:32is that what's stopping you
17:33it turns out i'm a security cad
17:35but for a completely different reason
17:37than upsetting the kat richardson grand plan
17:40your mom made me realize that
17:42how
17:43by reminding me that she was on top of the fashion world
17:47met your dad and then five minutes later she gave up her danny dupreeness to be his
17:53missus cut to decades later and she's firing bullets at flower arrangements at your dad's wedding
18:02yeah my mom can't be your example
18:04well then my mom can
18:06same scenario different daddy who was a disappointment and all it took was the bitch who wrecked my parents marriage
18:13and the scraggly mutt sidekick to come along and now my mom's adrift
18:18okay but aunt nicole isn't packing heat
18:20nor did she marry a child groom
18:21no but my parents were so entangled that my mom had to relearn how to be a queen
18:28your dad screwed up with your mom my dad screwed up with my mom and tomas
18:33slept with eva
18:34yeah
18:36i know tomas isn't perfect and neither am i
18:40but moving in with him brings up this picture of me twisting myself into becoming someone i'm not
18:46slept and when girls like me stop being themselves for a man they snap
18:54just like aunt danny and just like all the girls from the murder podcast
19:03tomas wants to meet tonight and i'm sure he wants to talk about moving in again
19:09why am i feeling a vibe
19:12i don't believe in vibes
19:14oh vibe free love just racing for the christmas magic
19:20all that work just for this place to look effortless
19:23oh i bet you know a little bit about that from taking pictures
19:27yeah if only all of my subjects looked as beautiful as these women
19:30i see why you married him
19:33we dropped by to pitch in on the dupree family christmas
19:36ah well in that case gentlemen if you'll excuse us
19:41oh well since we uh don't get to see how the wreaths are made
19:47why don't we bowl a few frames downstairs find out if you're good enough to make a seven to ten
19:53split what's a seven to ten i only throw strikes
19:56oh now we're gonna talk track
20:03so what is on the agenda are we doing a movable feast from house to house or are we all
20:07coming here
20:09i want you to make me a promise
20:11should anything happen to me that you'll look after your father
20:15i promise
20:17now tell me why i would need you
20:18oh i don't know just
20:21all that talk at winterfest i guess just got to me
20:23you know about looking after your loved ones during the holidays
20:27and i just want to make sure your father feels the love
20:29i thought nicole this is the one who takes care of
20:32you know you know how we would say we adore you and your sister equally
20:37is this where you break it to me that nicole's your favorite
20:40no favorites
20:42but you have always been your daddy's baby girl so
20:46see to him okay
20:48mom you're scaring me
20:50no it's don't mind me it's just a
20:52a case of holiday emotions
20:55and honestly i don't know if i'm feeling the idea of going from house to house this year
21:01so why don't i have rowena make us a little hot apple cider
21:05and then we can sip and brainstorm
21:08okay
21:15have a seat
21:18i am obsessed
21:19that will definitely sell
21:21for genius group office
21:22serious
21:23couldn't agree more
21:25sorry we're still in the throes might be another hour or so
21:28i'm happy to watch genius just work
21:33oh i gotta go
21:35wait but
21:37we still haven't talked about class
21:39well later it's kind of a christmas mission impossible
21:48if she won't talk about your work mind if we talk about money
21:53i love that we're both ambitious
21:58what's up
22:00bill's trusting me with my very first criminal case
22:04but you've only done civil
22:06tackle something new prove myself to him and make partner
22:09ew
22:11it's one thing to work for bill but you can't risk your career to impress him
22:17why is it a risk why are you always dropping negativity when it comes to my career goals
22:24girl starter wives do not like second wives especially ones who look like me and happen to fall in love
22:33with their best friend's dad who just happened to be married to a new free
22:38do you like cry yourself a river in a big bed in a big comfy house with this big man
22:47in his big bucks with his big you know what
22:54i know we thought once we land a place like this all our problems would melt away but
23:00behind the gates is
23:03new problems
23:05just dressed up in designer clothes
23:09you've had more lives than a cat
23:14and landed on your red bottom stilettos
23:16i swear if you weren't born to the manor and i hadn't come up beside you
23:21but you've always
23:24have been bullshit
23:27now the curtains just match the drapes
23:30a toast
23:33to my friend
23:35for finally getting what she deserves
23:43if you are going to insist
23:45that you make the yellow cake with chocolate frosting
23:48perhaps andre could be your kitchen assistant
23:50he can lick the bowl
23:53okay
23:55don't make me put you in the naughty list
24:01so much to do
24:03there is a lot of noise
24:04and not just from the construction of leslie's ratchet dollhouse
24:08from your kids and grandkids drama
24:11to the articulets
24:13this whole year
24:15is it
24:16catching up to you and daddy
24:19we're golden
24:21you're tense
24:22maybe
24:23if you don't want to talk about it
24:24you can do something about it
24:27so miss thing has
24:28answers
24:29maybe a massage
24:32even i can have the occasional fleeting emotional moment
24:36and i am this close to having another one
24:39with a much more heightened tone
24:40if my lovely daughter does not get her head back in the christmas game
24:44okay okay i'm all gingerbread and frankincense
24:48well here comes the turkey now
24:51vernon
24:52manners
24:53what
24:53that's what you call it when you get three strikes in a row
24:57okay
24:57normally i would have gotten a lot more
25:00listen to this
25:01he blames his shoes
25:02hey i bowl better in a pair of rentals
25:05worn by random people at the bowling alley
25:07you two are so adorable
25:15and that is our cue
25:17okay well
25:18enjoy
25:19my beautiful parents
25:25later
25:29tell me i'm not a horrible father
25:31for making danny and andre kick rocks
25:35i just wanted to pamper the woman i love
25:38oh well then have at it
25:39oh
25:42oh
25:43i often wonder
25:45how did i get so lucky
25:47i don't know what i did to deserve it
25:50and i don't even want to think about what my life would be without you
25:55and hopefully you will never have to find out
26:00all right
26:01thank you
26:12for so long it was about what everyone else needed and wanted from me
26:16i was super mom for my babies
26:19the drop-offs and pickups
26:21play dates
26:22bake sales
26:24pta
26:24after-school activities
26:26and for doug
26:27i was the
26:29ultimate doctor's wife
26:31he had the hands
26:32but i had the touch
26:33with the chief
26:34the other doctors and wives
26:38i was mrs dr mcbride
26:42and i and i felt like i was losing a little bit more of myself every day
26:46so i so i went to work i i opened my real estate venture and that gave me back a
26:51part of
26:51myself
26:52i was good at selling houses it gave me something more than a
26:56than an empty marriage with a
27:00string of meaningless affairs
27:03and then you came along
27:07unexpected exhilarating i i felt more alive than i have in a long time
27:13you made me feel
27:15like an equal
27:18respected
27:21appreciated
27:21appreciated
27:23i'm glad you feel all those things
27:25you deserve to feel them
27:32but you don't have to set fire to your life to be with me
27:40mom
27:42andre
27:58ready for our x-rated christmas card photo shoot?
28:03almost
28:03let me catch up
28:05how'd you get your clothes off so fast?
28:10can i get a ho ho ho?
28:12oh
28:15no no no no no no please just put something on
28:18chelsea bear
28:20you can open your eyes
28:25what am i looking at?
28:28i thought we'd be celebrating my good news right now
28:30why aren't you excited for me?
28:32because i know my ex-uncle a hell of a lot better than you
28:37i've seen him operate my whole life
28:39he broke my aunt's heart but he also broke naomi's who spent her whole life wanting to be just like
28:46bill
28:46her dad was her mentor her lawyer goals she idolized him just like you're doing now
28:54no
28:55and then hayley happened
28:57no
28:58bill happened
28:59he had the vows and if
29:02he would do that to his family what'll he do to you?
29:05i never hear who worship bill
29:07that doesn't mean he isn't a good boss and mentor or that he doesn't see my potential
29:12bill's not the only game or law office in town
29:16i'm not gonna throw away all the time i've invested into bill's firm or the opportunities that are finally coming
29:21my way
29:22i got into law to be bill hamilton
29:24no
29:25yes
29:26if you look beyond the affair and the second marriage to the guy who came from nothing and acquired everything
29:33the money the stature the respect
29:36but there are other ways to do that
29:39do you have any idea what it was like watching people look down on my parents just because they were
29:45poor
29:46or seeing the way kids looked at me when i told them i wanted to be a lawyer
29:50i might as well have told them i wanted to be lebron james
29:53i know that
29:54but
29:55here in the story and living it are two different things kat
29:58i promised myself there'd be no going back to being that kid who was disrespected teased and dismissed
30:06look at me now
30:07i'm this close to the promised land
30:10but who will you be when you get there that matters tomas
30:15i'll be me
30:17with you at my side
30:19and i'll hold out my hand to my family and all the tomases out there who need someone to take
30:24a chance on them
30:25just like bill is taking a chance on me
30:32hey baby
30:34come here
30:35i thought i'd have to wait to get home to put my lips on yours
30:39oh well mine made me circle back to my honey
30:42and your nails
30:44i decided to stick with the same color but my fingers toes lips and other parts would be happier someplace
30:53with palm trees
30:55soon baby
30:56how soon
30:58well it depends on what you think of the net wise
31:01oh right
31:02the case that's delaying my rotation of teeny mini bikinis
31:08nothing will get in the way of those bikinis
31:10but i don't know did she come across as innocent to you
31:16we barely spoke i didn't really form an opinion
31:20huh
31:21well you read everyone in seconds
31:23i've never seen anyone with your social problems
31:26which is why i want you on the next case
31:29after our island getaway of course
31:31tomas will be taking lead
31:35okay
31:37i want to test tomas's mettle
31:40you object
31:41in a big way
31:42instead of you concentrating on our vacation
31:45you're planning inter-office espionage
31:48well i can read you too
31:51you don't want to spy on your friend
31:59you don't believe i'm ready to move on
32:02i believe that you're ready to leap into where we're headed
32:06and if you were alone i would jump but you're not
32:09you have donnell and deanna and they're not where you're at
32:12the kids
32:14for you your marriage was long over but they just lost their father
32:20they need to mourn him
32:22and the family
32:24they can't lose you to me
32:29i'm doing this for them
32:32donnell wasn't just crushed by doug's death but by the secret life he kept from him
32:38i
32:39i want my kids to know me all of me i don't want to lie to them about us
32:45what if they're not ready for the truth of us what then
32:49well
32:50there's no good answer is there
32:52i am damned if i do and damned if i don't but i
32:57there's no one else i would rather be damned with
33:00you are the answer to the longing i've had my whole life
33:04i i don't know where i'd be without you
33:12i'm not going anywhere
33:19it won't be easy
33:20there'll be internal conflicts to face
33:23with criminal cases i might have to do things and represent people that
33:28offend my moral sensibilities but i'll find a way to combine my ambition with my compassion
33:35but why would you put yourself in that position life's too short to be miserable
33:40to grow
33:41to learn
33:42but do you have to do that with bill
33:44i mean
33:45look at naomi
33:47she decided to hang her own shingle and go independent
33:51she's helping people while also making a name for herself
33:55naomi
33:56has the dupree connections and probably a trust fund to fall back on
34:01i paid for college by serving in the military
34:04my family
34:04sacrificed
34:05every step of the way
34:07if i let up even for a second
34:10i'd betray that sacrifice
34:11i can see that
34:13but
34:14you kept your job with your dad
34:16until you knew
34:18chelsea cat could support itself
34:20think of the time i'd lose time
34:22i've already spent in bill's firm
34:24if i went out on my own to start from nothing
34:27i can't take that loss
34:30i'm all in with bill hamilton
34:34your partner in crime
34:37your fake lover the one time you tried to make me jealous
34:40you want me to spy on tomas
34:42what do you say
34:45tomas has been good to us
34:48but having someone check your works the price of admission
34:52like when he spied on the review board
34:55that's my baby
34:56besides you know i can learn a thing or two from your lady embezzler
35:01like how not to get caught when i fleece you for all your worth
35:13you aren't supposed to be here
35:15serves you right
35:16did your little bird text you to tell you we were at your grandparents
35:20oh i was just
35:22you know rowena was my sneak long before she was yours
35:25what am i six why would i need to sneak into your house to look for presents
35:30we are still kids at heart jesse bear
35:33if your mother could she would sneak into your studio every day before christmas
35:37to help you look for your elf on the shelf
35:39he knows me so well
35:41and you're not gonna find your presents so just give up
35:44making no promises
35:45did you figure out the holiday sketch with gran
35:48have you noticed anything different about her
35:51she's just as fierce and fabulous as she always is why
35:54a couple things she said
35:56she seemed
35:58a little cryptic
36:01maybe she was trying to work you for her christmas gift
36:04probably i mean she's the one who taught me
36:07yeah
36:08i may have been my daddy's girl
36:11but i'm my mother's woman
36:14she'd tell me to trust my instincts
36:16something's off
36:44something's off
36:46you
36:47you
36:49you
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