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Beyond the Gates - Season 1 - Episode 136: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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00:05Now that I'm here, it's like stepping into a dream.
00:11Welcome to the Enchanted Isle.
00:14More and more.
00:18You know, I've been coming here for years, hiding in paradise,
00:22but never with someone who made me want to see it through fresh eyes.
00:28Enchantment.
00:30That is your specialty, isn't it?
00:35Leaving spells with those silver-tongued promises?
00:38Oh, I'm just glad you said yes to our little escape.
00:42Tell me, what is it exactly we're escaping from?
00:50How about some blackjack?
00:51Better gate. Simple odds.
00:53See if your boy can savage this train wreck of a night.
00:58I was under the impression you were tapped out.
01:08Love, V.
01:10Our tenth anniversary.
01:12My wife said this was to remind me that time was precious,
01:17and that I should spend it with those who mattered the most.
01:27Another one of these while you're at it.
01:29We have all Cópницы.
01:34Have a good moment.
01:35Thanks.
01:35Bye.
01:36Bye.
01:42Take care.
01:49Bye.
01:50Bye.
01:51Bye.
01:51Bye.
01:52Bye.
01:52Bye.
01:53Bye.
01:54Bye.
01:58Bye.
02:05That was fun, huh?
02:08That's the first time I've really enjoyed myself since the accident.
02:12It was, wasn't it?
02:14It almost felt normal.
02:24What are you doing?
02:25Just showing my appreciation.
02:29It was just dinner, Derek.
02:31No, it was more than that.
02:33I mean, you really held it down, Ash, with everything.
02:36Even going with Naomi to go pick up the food.
02:40I'm getting a beer.
02:42You want one?
02:44No, thanks.
02:49To be honest, it felt like you were trying to get rid of me.
02:54What?
02:55No, I wasn't trying to...
02:57Yeah, almost like you and Jacob had some secret business that required my absence.
03:02I mean, come on, Ashes.
03:04Not like you and Naomi don't conspire to leave Jacob and me alone when you want to have your private
03:08girl talk.
03:11No, Naomi and I had girl talk, all right.
03:15What about?
03:18Me?
03:19Kind of, sort of.
03:21Yeah, Naomi, she, uh, grilled me about why I really asked you to marry me.
03:32Well, well, well.
03:33But ain't the boy scouting his lady lawyer.
03:35Yeah, I'll pass your bedtime, huh?
03:38Detective Malone, I didn't expect to see you here.
03:41This place serves actual food, not just donuts and coffee.
03:45Hey, your brother's got to expand his palate sometime.
03:48Evening, Counselor.
03:49You looking mighty nice tonight.
03:52Heard you finally escaped desk duty.
03:54Your daddy finally let you off the leash, huh?
03:57And while you were occupied, I was assigned a new partner.
04:02Bright kid.
04:03Eager to learn.
04:05I might even ask that the assignment be permanent.
04:08Is that right?
04:09And what does this model officer think about your boss?
04:13Well, everybody in the department loves your father.
04:17Chief Hawthorne's a legend.
04:19Even I can admit to that.
04:20Nah, see, you got it twisted.
04:23I'm talking about the man pulling the leash around your neck.
04:26Joey Armstrong.
04:28So, are you going to tell me exactly what we're escaping from?
04:34Or make me guess?
04:39No.
04:41Tonight, we're escaping everything.
04:44The limitations, the judgments.
04:47No more hiding in dark corner booths where no one can see us.
04:51And no more whispers about what is that high-end real estate agent doing with that questionable businessman.
04:58No more of Fairmont Crest's polite society wondering what a woman like me could possibly see in a man like
05:04you.
05:04Exactly.
05:06Here, we're just another power couple enjoying ourselves.
05:12Free to be as public or as private as we desire.
05:18May I vote for as much privacy as we can get.
05:28I guess we can't completely escape your work, even in paradise.
05:32Sorry.
05:33This won't take long, I promise.
05:43Excuse me, Mr. Armstrong.
05:45I believe we were just having a discussion about priorities.
05:51Are you sure that little hustle of yours needs more attention than I do?
05:56Because if you're too busy, I hear room service does late night visits.
06:03Room service?
06:06That's for tourists.
06:10You need the kind of service that isn't on the menu.
06:30I could let it ride, or I can try my luck and split it.
06:36You only live once, right?
06:46Hot damn.
06:50That's right.
06:51You, you are about to bust, and I am about to get paid.
06:5921.
07:05Respectfully, perhaps it's time to call tonight.
07:08No shame in preserving what you have left for another day.
07:12Deal.
07:13And shut up.
07:15You still fetching Joey's slippers?
07:17Or does he finally let you sit at the big boy table now?
07:20You know one word in your daddy's ear, and I could see that you're back on desk duty before
07:24you could spit if you'll excuse me, a real cop's work is never done.
07:28How would you know?
07:33You're lucky you're from a rich family, because this guy's career is going nowhere fast.
07:37Well, the world does need more principled cops, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
07:53You know you don't have to fight my battles like that, babe.
07:56It wasn't yours, it was ours.
07:59I mean, the way you stood your ground without stooping to his level, I couldn't let you have
08:04all the fun.
08:04Well, you're pretty good at it, too.
08:06The way you cut Marcel down without raising your voice, it's like you had practice.
08:10Have you met my family?
08:19What's wrong?
08:21This is, um...
08:24I'm not sure I have the words for it.
08:26Well, I can think of a couple.
08:28Special.
08:29Extraordinary.
08:31Intoxicating.
08:32How about...
08:34First.
08:37This is the first time I've actually packed a bag and left Doug behind.
08:43Maybe I didn't do it before, because it would have felt like I was crossing a line, but, um...
08:49Now that I'm here, a magical feeling to it all, I am wondering what the hell took me so long.
08:59Well, maybe you were just waiting for me to come along.
09:02I mean, I'm sure the other ones weren't worth the plane ride.
09:05Yeah, maybe you're right.
09:08I know I am, and actually, that reminds me, I have a question for you.
09:15Actually, it's, uh, it's more of a request.
09:18Hmm.
09:20Name it.
09:24Take off your wedding ring.
09:37My ring?
09:39I'm not wearing one.
09:40You're divorced.
09:41I'm not, and I never take it off.
09:43Even though your marriage to Doug is in name only?
09:46It's more complicated than that.
09:48I love Doug, even if it doesn't always seem like it.
09:52Even if he enrages me sometimes.
09:55Enough to pack a bag and go away with a man for the first time.
09:59Doug's bitter about the way things have been going lately.
10:03How is that on you?
10:05It's not, but I told you, he still threw it in my face.
10:09You deserve better, Vanessa.
10:11The moon, the stars, the ocean.
10:14It's the gambling and drinking.
10:16It's not good for him.
10:17You don't say.
10:19Still, it...
10:21Taking my ring off?
10:22Why now?
10:23Why not now?
10:24I've worn it every other time we've been together.
10:28Well, I never felt like I had the right to ask before.
10:31So what makes this time different?
10:32Consider where we are.
10:35A beautiful, romantic destination, if there ever was one.
10:38Yes.
10:40And right now, right here, it's all ours.
10:45I want to feel that.
10:46And I want you to feel that.
10:50I want you to be here with me completely, not partially, not looking over your shoulder at what you left
10:58behind.
11:01Your ring is a symbol of that.
11:05I want you to feel that.
11:07I want you to be here with me.
11:11And be mine.
11:16I hear everything you're saying.
11:21I just can't.
11:25Come on.
11:26Come through for a brother just once.
11:31A son of a...
11:32Gotta be kidding me.
11:38Hey, I'm dark.
11:39You need to watch yourself, for real.
11:42Oh.
11:43You.
11:44Play as fool who scoffed my shoes, paid with an ambulance ride.
11:50Not a mark.
11:52Consider yourself blessed.
11:53Well, that's a first.
11:55The only blessing here tonight would be if this whole damn place burned down.
11:59After you.
12:01Let's see if Joey's bloodhound won't get played like I did.
12:06Even so soon?
12:07Night's barely started.
12:11Table's gone cold.
12:13I'll have better luck performing bypass surgery blindfolded.
12:20You know, you surprised me, Doug.
12:24Yeah?
12:26Why's that?
12:27Luck's the kind of thing that can flip in a heartbeat.
12:31Any real player knows that.
12:37Samantha told me about a class project she was working on.
12:41Something to do with Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larson.
12:46It warms my heart to know she's learning at such a high caliber.
12:50Something I never could have provided.
12:52You good?
12:53Yeah.
12:55What were you saying?
12:56Just filling your man in on the talk I had with my daughter.
13:00Of course, her father didn't like it very much.
13:04Which one?
13:05Martin or Smitty?
13:07The reporter.
13:09Suspicious is a job requirement.
13:12For cops, too.
13:14But at least you actually listen to folks instead of just waiting for them to mess up so you can
13:19pounce.
13:19So, what were you and Samantha talking about?
13:22It must have been pretty significant if Smitty has opinions.
13:26Look, no offense.
13:27You have been good to me.
13:29But I'm trying to build something real with my kids.
13:32So, I'm not going to be spilling all of their business every time they open up.
13:36Some stuff is just between me and them.
13:40Period.
13:41Well, we're about to head home, but we can stick around if you need a ride at the end of
13:45your shift.
13:46Did you not just hear me say I like it when it's nice and quiet in here?
13:51Besides, I hate the way he's been looking at you.
13:55Like you the last glass of sweet potato pie.
13:58All right, we get the hint.
14:00Bye, June.
14:01Let's go.
14:11Stay wherever you want, but the kitchen is already shut down, so don't come in here trying to order a
14:17full meal like you're hard to hear.
14:20Just wanted some coffee if it's not too much trouble.
14:25She starts asking me all these questions, like, where do I see things going with you?
14:30Have I really thought about my future?
14:33She was trying to be a friend.
14:35Wanted to make sure this is what I wanted.
14:40And what'd you tell her?
14:43What do you think?
14:47I told her that this is absolutely where I want to be.
14:54Right here.
14:56Building a future with you.
15:01Well, since you brought up our future.
15:05Oh, God, let me get some towels.
15:07Oh, well, that is going to set if I don't catch that.
15:09No, baby, baby, it's fine, it's fine.
15:10No, no, no, I'll only be a minute, please.
15:12I don't want to stay in that rug.
15:13Please, one second.
15:26The man nearly died.
15:28And now he's paralyzed, possibly permanently.
15:31I'm just saying that's a whole other level of commitment than what they signed up for when
15:35they first got together.
15:38Bro, you can feel your legs.
15:40Not easy.
15:41Slow down.
15:42It's not what you think.
15:43Why are we celebrating this?
15:45I haven't told Ashley.
15:48Babe, maybe we should just date this conversation for now.
15:51They're our friends, Jacob.
15:52Don't you care?
15:53Of course I do.
15:54But we've been with them all damn day, and I don't want them in our bedroom, too.
15:58Fine.
15:58You have something better you want to talk about?
16:00Well, I don't plan on using my mouth for talking at all.
16:04Oh.
16:06Wow.
16:07Mm-hmm.
16:08Mm-hmm.
16:16Mm-hmm.
16:18Baby, why'd you stop?
16:20We were just getting started.
16:22I'm trying to figure out why my wife took off her wedding ring.
16:25I never took off my...
16:28Oh, my God, Jacob.
16:30My rings are gone.
16:32Here you go.
16:33Hot and fresh.
16:35I'll be over here if you need anything else.
16:39Or you can stick around.
16:41Me.
16:42You want me to sit with you.
16:45For what?
16:46Well, truth be told, I've never seen you here before.
16:50I call myself a regular.
16:52My whole family comes in here, and I thought I knew everybody that works here.
17:01That's because I'm new here.
17:03Uh-huh.
17:04And I'm loving every second.
17:06Yeah.
17:06Folks here got good energy.
17:08Yeah.
17:09And that food don't play either, huh?
17:12If I was coming up in here every day, shoot, I'd be testing everything that came out of that kitchen.
17:17Have my tailor looking at me with the side eye.
17:20Please.
17:21You ain't never had to worry about your way today in your life.
17:24I wish.
17:25But thanks.
17:34You're a married man.
17:36That's why you got to keep it tight.
17:38You got to keep it right for your wife.
17:40Yeah.
17:41Married.
17:42At least for now.
17:45You have a family?
17:48Besides the wife, I mean.
17:50Mm-hmm.
17:52And they're everything to me, you know?
17:54Special in ways I can't even put into words.
17:56Even when they try to make me out to be the villain in their story.
18:01What about you?
18:03I didn't for a long time.
18:05Mm-hmm.
18:07I made a lot of bad choices.
18:09Mm-hmm.
18:11But my kids, they're back in my life now.
18:14That's beautiful.
18:15Mm-hmm.
18:16Well, you make sure you hold on to them with both hands very tight every chance you get.
18:27Mm-hmm.
18:28Uh.
18:31Some habits die harder than marriages, apparently.
18:36I hope you can understand about the ring.
18:38I know it might seem trivial, but I...
18:41I guess I'd just feel naked without it.
18:44Wouldn't want that.
18:47You just can't keep that thing in your pocket, can you?
18:52Old habits.
18:53Much like your ring.
18:59I better check it.
19:01It could be one of the kids.
19:06Uh...
19:07Sorry.
19:10Doug?
19:11Why on earth are you calling me right now?
19:14Since when do I need a damn appointment to talk to my wife?
19:18I would rather not engage with you when you're clearly swimming in vodka.
19:23Vodka?
19:23Woman, please.
19:24I drink that dark liquor.
19:26I have better things to do than be your designated emotional lifeguard.
19:29All these years and you don't know what I drink when I'm drowning in my sorrows?
19:34I guess that's on me too, then, huh?
19:36Regardless, this isn't a good time.
19:38Good night.
19:39No, wait, wait, wait, V.
19:40V, wait, wait.
19:40Don't, don't, don't hang up.
19:42What's wrong, Doug?
19:44Everything.
19:47About?
19:47I should have never taken my sorry ass out to gamble, tonight or ever.
19:53The house always wins, right?
19:56But what they don't tell you is that it's more than just the money that you lose.
20:02It's your pride, your self-respect, your family.
20:07I'm the biggest loser tonight in gambling, in life, and mostly with you.
20:17Oh, Doug.
20:19I could have had something that lasted when I was too busy chasing the high winning to see what I
20:26was losing.
20:27I'm happy to hear it.
20:30Even if you came to this realization the hard way.
20:33Who knows, this, maybe it could even be a turning point.
20:40M-maybe?
20:42What?
20:43You want a Chateau Margaux with dinner or what?
20:46With him?
20:49I'm sorry.
20:58You are, aren't you?
21:00You're with that bargain basement Tony Soprano.
21:05Listen, Doug, you've been drinking and we both know how you get when alcohol starts making decisions for you.
21:10And what exactly have you been doing, Vanessa?
21:14While I'm out here with my soul laid bare like some idiot, you're, what, bearing your body to a man
21:21that only sees you for a play thing?
21:23Just stop, we, we, we, we can talk about this in the morning when you've sobered up and I'm back.
21:29We, we, when we can both think clearly, but for now, please, just.
21:34Don't you dare please me.
21:39For a moment, I, I thought I needed someone to talk to.
21:44And I called the only person, the one person that was guaranteed to make it worse.
21:51The one person who could break what little heart I had left.
22:00Doug.
22:01Doug, you deserve each other.
22:15Let me have another five grand.
22:23I thought you were out.
22:25Doug, you thought wrong.
22:27When you lose everything that matters, but it's a few more chips.
22:34That's what, uh, separates the men from the boys.
22:38Knowing when to walk away and when to double down.
22:42Here.
22:43Let me get you another one of these.
22:49You okay?
22:54Don't play innocent with me.
22:56Doug just heard every syllable you projected across this room.
23:00I swear, I didn't realize that you were still talking to Doug.
23:03I just wanted to know what kind of wine you want with dinner.
23:06Joey, how gullible do you think I am?
23:09Do you really believe that I would speak out loud just for Doug to hear?
23:14Do you?
23:16I don't know.
23:17I don't know what to think anymore.
23:19He, he was just so devastated when he realized I was with you.
23:25He was finally honest for once.
23:28And then it was like, it was like something inside him just shattered.
23:32Which is exactly why I wanted you to take off that ring.
23:36I don't want Doug in here.
23:38I don't want him in this room, not his voice or his problems or his grip on your emotions.
23:45I just want it to be us.
23:49So you can step away from all the wreckage he's made in your life.
23:57Only for one night.
24:00That would be lovely.
24:03Well, I do admit that I'm a little selfish in that.
24:07I just want you to be here with me in every possible way.
24:41God, this can't be happening.
24:43This is not happening.
24:45Baby, breathe.
24:46But they've got to be here somewhere, right?
24:49I mean, we would have found them by now if they were here.
24:52When's the last time you took them off?
24:54I don't know.
24:54I don't know.
24:56Maybe they slipped off my finger.
24:57I could have been on the street and they rolled into the gutter.
25:01Oh, God.
25:01They could be down a drain somewhere.
25:03Babe, relax, okay?
25:06We're going to find them.
25:07And even if we don't, it's not the end of the world.
25:09You've got to calm down.
25:10You think I'm being irrational?
25:13I didn't say that.
25:14You didn't have to.
25:15I saw it on your face.
25:16Look at our place.
25:18We trashed it over some rings.
25:20They're not just any rings, Jacob.
25:23They are our wedding rings.
25:25The symbol of our marriage.
25:27Do you have any idea how much they mean to me?
25:31You spent months designing them.
25:34You melted a piece of your grandmother's necklace to weave into the band.
25:38Your own handwriting is engraved on the inside.
25:42You even measured my ring finger while I was sleeping to get the perfect fit.
25:48Babe, and none of that goes away just because the rings aren't on your finger.
25:53Look, we can make more.
25:54Exactly the same if you want.
25:56They'll never be the same.
25:59Those were the rings that you put on my finger when we got engaged.
26:04When we got married.
26:05And what does it say about our relationship if we have to replace them?
26:09Especially with all the couples around us falling apart.
26:13My parents, Aunt Nicole and Uncle Ted, I don't want to be like them.
26:17I don't want to lose you.
26:18And you won't.
26:19This isn't some sign that our marriage is doomed.
26:22They're misplaced pieces of jewelry, that's all.
26:26There is no one in this world that I love more than you.
26:29Same here.
26:30And that's why I need those rings.
26:33They make me feel that love.
26:36And I can't replace them because they're irreplaceable.
26:42Babe, you got most of it.
26:43It's fine.
26:46Look, I know you feel bad because you're in that chair and you can't help, but don't worry about that.
26:50You're going to be completely healed soon and you are going to pitch in more than your fair share around
26:54here.
26:54Because that is the guy that I fell in love with.
27:03Oh, that could be the hospital.
27:05That.
27:07Hey, miss.
27:08Don't worry.
27:10Yeah, I'll be right there.
27:12You're leaving?
27:14Just for a minute.
27:15It was Miss Bowles from upstairs.
27:18It's garbage pickup tomorrow.
27:19Oh, right.
27:20I used to take a Benz out for her.
27:22And now I do it.
27:24Be right back.
27:25Bye.
27:32Bye.
27:35Bye.
28:06I forgot I wanted to take some catalogs up to Miss Spieth.
28:11What's up?
28:15Derek, what's going on?
28:18What do you mean?
28:23Is that what I think it is?
28:26I've been trying to give that to you since Naomi and Jacob left.
28:30But then I dropped it like the klutz I am.
28:33And then you tried to reach for it.
28:38But how...
28:40Are you able to...
28:41No.
28:42No.
28:43Not at all.
28:45That's why I'm so exhausted.
28:46I was trying to use my torso to do everything.
28:50And it was just too much.
28:55Well, this is why you shouldn't push yourself too hard.
28:58Especially when it doesn't even matter.
29:01But this does matter.
29:08You made a dream come true for me when you said you wanted to get married.
29:12That I wanted you to have this so you know how I felt.
29:18You didn't take it the first time.
29:22But I kept it, hoping that one day you would change your mind.
29:29So that's why I'm so out of breath.
29:32Because giving this ring to you is the most important thing in the world to me.
29:47So here we are.
29:51Still strong.
29:53Even after every cruel twist of fate tried to tear us both apart.
30:00Because you never let go.
30:03No.
30:04Because we never let go.
30:14You all right?
30:16Looked like you saw something that shook you.
30:18I just found these in the ladies' restroom.
30:21Sitting on the sink.
30:23Hmm.
30:24Somebody left them like they were nothing.
30:26I asked everybody in the kitchen, but nobody claimed it.
30:30Wedding rings, huh?
30:31Well, somebody's going to be missing those.
30:33Unless they're not.
30:34I don't understand what you mean by that.
30:37Well, see, someone must have either left those by mistake or they left them on purpose.
30:56Well, maybe someone was so done with their relationship they couldn't stand to see it on their finger another day.
31:09It happens sometimes.
31:11You know what?
31:13This marriage thing ain't nothing but a high-stakes gamble.
31:16And odds are never in your favor.
31:19You know, we put these on with such certainty and hope.
31:26Young and foolish.
31:28Thinking it'll be different for us than the sorry souls that walk the path before us.
31:36The promises, the hope we cling to, and the moments of blind optimism.
31:44The fiction we tell ourselves that our good intentions are enough to get us through.
31:52It was nice talking to you, take care of yourself, and these rings, whoever they belong to.
32:05Good night.
32:07Good night.
32:09Good night.
32:11Good night.
32:15Good night.
32:17Good night.
32:19Oh, snap.
32:21I know who these belong to.
32:22I know who these belong to.
32:23I know.
32:25I know.
32:25I know.
32:27I know.
32:29Something finally went my way.
32:32Let's run it back and tell that brother to bring me another.
33:00you take my breath away more business
33:06no only pleasure
33:24thank god for june she really came through forgive me
33:29naomi no i was stupid and reckless with something that's sacred i will never ever be careless with
33:37these rings again or forget what they mean look the ring is just shiny metal holding a pretty stone
33:43that's all it's our love that matters it always has been yeah
33:50now that you got those rings back where they belong i was hoping there was something else you
33:54could put on what you remember these oh i like that
34:20like i'm home god i've missed this
34:26i've missed you
34:39okay wait wait wait maybe we shouldn't push this too fast you know you've got a long way to your
34:45recovery and i i don't want to set you back just because we couldn't wait no yeah you're right
34:54but um maybe we could just cuddle here for a little bit like this
35:06perfect
35:09just like my wing
35:15oh my gosh wait until joey finds out that i cleaned him out yeah you had quite the night
35:25i sure did
35:31man where'd everybody go i guess they had some place to be
35:41hey hey that's that that's my money that's okay you won't need money when you go
35:48you're
35:53you
35:54you
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