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Beyond the Gates - Season 1 - Episode 161: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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00:11You always knew that I thought Nicole was and is an incredible woman who deserves to be with a man
00:16who recognizes that and treats her accordingly.
00:19And I suppose that man is you.
00:27What can I say? Truth hurts.
00:30Not as much as my fist is going to hurt going upside your head.
00:34The way your shoulders have been living up at your ears,
00:37seemed like you needed something stronger than teeth.
00:41Wanda, sometimes I swear you read my mind better than I read my patients.
00:45Oh, if that is anybody other than a package delivery, I am not here.
00:48I do not have the emotional bandwidth for any more drama today.
00:51Don't you worry. I'll send whoever it is away.
01:07Yep, exactly what I needed.
01:10I imagine you do, after that show your ex-husband and I put on for you earlier.
01:20Samantha, really? What are you doing?
01:23Dad, Pop, I swear it's not what it looks like.
01:26Oh, really? Because what it looks like is that my underage daughter is half naked about to get it on
01:31with this boy.
01:36Look out of aacksaws, mate.
01:38That's what it looks like.
01:39I think it's more money than Jungari.
01:39And I think it's more than the mother, of most of the mothers.
01:39I think it's a good person to do.
01:40I feel that much less than you are going to be in fail than you are doing always.
01:42I think it's not going to be...
01:43You don't believe me.
01:56So much better for you tomorrow.
01:57I'm getting very excited out of time today.
02:01You don't be a minute.
02:07what did that salad ever do to you oh the salad is innocent there are certain individuals i would
02:15rather skewer with this fork that's too ambitious since they are both protected by laws
02:21social norms so here we are i'm sorry vanessa i'm about a million miles away today
02:27more bill drama or is it hubby number two this time neither actually i'm worried about nicole
02:35i heard through the fairmont crest grapevine her divorce was finalized
02:38how's our girl taking it a little unsteady but you know my sister she's gonna be so busy managing
02:46everyone else's emotions that she barely has time to process her own i should give nicole a call i've
02:52been so wrapped up in my own whirlwind i haven't checked on her properly i think she'd like that
02:56we did have lunch here the other day i got good eyes on her i just had to make sure
03:02she wasn't
03:02putting on a brave face for the family and it's fine until we saw a pair of husbands stealing vipers
03:11with their heads together hence the fork i swear this club is infested with interloping sluts
03:17please tell me that hayley and leslie aren't friends now that is a nightmare coalition i can't even
03:24begin to process yeah from what nicole and i could gather mrs shamilton showed a rare moment of i don't
03:33know good sense by running off on louie to leslie apparently husband stealers have standards
03:39thank goodness for small favors the last thing this place needs is those two on the same team
03:44holding seminars on how to snatch a husband in 10 days or less or emotional manipulation for
03:50beginners can you imagine speaking of nightmare scenarios how are things with you and joey
04:01joy hawthorne chief hawthorne
04:12you're so right chief hawthorne you wear it well too almost makes you look respectable
04:18like a drink this isn't a social call oh i thought you were coming to check out my new bourbon
04:24i've uh i've aged it with care just like our arrangement i don't drink on duty you know that
04:33i sure as hell don't break bread with men who try to dictate department personnel decisions
04:40oh well that's too bad for you it is have a seat
05:03oh stop it thank you so much
05:17hey you busy i could really use a buddy
05:22what are you doing here carlton i told dr fitzgerald you weren't receiving visitors
05:27but he insisted on barging in like he owns the place
05:30it's okay wanda i'll deal with this rather impertinent guest myself
05:39i don't be too hard on her i had to see you after what happened at the hospital
05:42like you and ted had to embarrass me two grown men acting like testosterone adult teenage boys
05:48in a locker room in front of shanice no less that is precisely why i'm here
05:53i came to apologize i thought i made it clear how disinterested i am in your apology back at the
05:58hospital but you you did but i had to give it another shot
06:03now usually i take a more backseat approach to things like this but lately i'm trying something
06:07different is that why you're ignoring my wishes i wasn't myself earlier and i regret that i never
06:14let my emotions get that out of hand but when ted started going in on you for agreeing to go
06:19out
06:19with me after what he and that leslie woman did to you i lost my temper so you thought you'd
06:26come to
06:26my rescue on your white horse is that it well my intention certainly wasn't to upset you you think
06:31i don't know your intention was to impress me you saw your shot to play hero and you jumped at
06:36it
06:36without a second thought as to how it would affect me newsflash i am not a damsel in distress
06:42i am a grown-ass woman who is perfectly capable of taking care of herself
06:48i am so sick and tired of being interrogated about joey you sound like your sister no my sister would
06:55scold you for deigning to be associated with such a man in the hopes that the drone of her voice
07:00would
07:00scare you into not making the same mistake again and that's not what you're doing no honey i'm using
07:06a much more hands-on approach like you did the other day when you cornered joey i've yet to hear
07:11what gave you the right decades of friendship i'm not some hapless widow who can't make her own
07:17decisions i just wanted to let joey know how much you mean to me to us
07:24you were there when bill left when he looked at me after decades of marriage and told me that
07:30hayley was worth losing everything that we built and then i watched doug slip away from you
07:37dimming some of your light you are family to me vanessa not the kind bound by blood or
07:45marriage certificates but the kind chosen through survival
07:51and that's all that was about that was the gist
07:55and letting joey know that if he ever did anything he'd have to answer to me and my gun
08:04malone came to see me uh-huh how's he doing not too good seems he was all set to put
08:12in his
08:13retirement papers oh right yeah he intends to sail off into the caravan that's all he talks about
08:19after decades under force he put in his time good for malone it was until you supposedly told him
08:26that he couldn't is that right maybe no i don't like it one bit that guy is bad news okay
08:34malone
08:34stand on my force one second longer doesn't work for me well then i guess we have a problem
08:41we were just hanging out you're gonna have to do better than that
08:46samantha speaking facts mr richardson and who the hell are you
08:49nathan sir samantha's friend is this the one you told me about and we saw just how friendly you
08:57were we didn't plan this okay it just sort of happened kid trust me silence is your best friend
09:05right now samantha invited me over because i needed her help which class chemistry chemistry
09:11it's a little on the nose don't you think next you're gonna be telling us you were studying the
09:16bonding properties of hormones i'm being for real samantha knows her stuff but my folks don't play
09:22if i get another d i'm cooked we were just studying for the test and we vibed but like she
09:27said it
09:27isn't what it looked like you care to weigh in samantha it's not like we were actually gonna have sex
09:33in the living room that's ridiculous ridiculous huh then how the hell do you explain this then
09:49that it must have fallen out my pocket just in time for you to use it on my daughter
09:54we needed it for our chemistry assignment now earlier it was a test but now it's an assignment
10:01okay you out now
10:05no
10:07martin he's just a kid which is why he still has his limbs intact before you go
10:12sir pop my daughter is off limits to you that means no calls no texts no dms there is no
10:21contact
10:21at all and if you see her walking down the hall at school you better run the other direction
10:27fast you got that words i get it now you can go
10:39are you serious right now pop you just ruined my entire life
10:47i smell again
10:50look yolanda i got your texts and i don't know why we can't just talk
10:58you know what never mind
11:02take care of yourself have a good life
11:08so we're buddies now
11:14please tell me you did not threaten to shoot joey armstrong over me
11:18why
11:19you concerned your new boo is conspiring to have your oldest friend fitted with cement lubitons
11:25that isn't funny danny joey isn't someone you play games with i know which is why i didn't
11:31actually threaten him i don't have a death wish i just told him that he can't take advantage of you
11:37that's all but why why even get involved you know i don't judge i've certainly made my share of
11:44questionable decisions but joey isn't one of your usual indiscretions he's dangerous
11:51and that's why i needed to let him know that if he so much breathes in your direction with bad
11:56intentions he's gonna feel mine it's not like i owe you any explanation chief
12:06but malone is essential to certain operations certain operations for a man on the force who
12:14knows how to keep his head down and yet he does the exact opposite so we put him on a
12:18tighter leash we
12:19rein him in this isn't about reining anyone in it isn't a kink in your money machine malone
12:24is a liability with a badge let's not be theatrical what exactly is the issue malone is the issue
12:31do you mean behaviorally why don't we try a little old school conflict resolution you're not
12:37hearing me i didn't come here in broad daylight when i got a precinct full of real crimes and real
12:42people to protect for you to spend me pr malone needs to go i'm trying to work with you here
12:50let me handle it i don't want you handling anyone who works under my command
12:55all right elon let's be smart about this we both know that there are bigger entities at stake here
13:18so what's up why are you sitting here all alone looking like a sad drink album cover
13:24i'll take that but the energy shifted as soon as you showed up i appreciate you for pulling up
13:30you said you need a company so spill what's going on heartbreak hotel other than my old man
13:38bad issues yeah you're going to need another round for that conversation
13:43it's whatever i've been dealing with the same bs since grade school maybe that's how he shows love
13:49through being constantly disappointed maybe but it's my brother who's really throwing me off
13:55he was always first to fall in line first to defend every move like it was gospel
14:00but something's different now it's like somebody finally laid the receipts on the table and he can't
14:06unsee the fine print like the spell broke and he's not sipping the kool-aid no more
14:12he's pouring it down the drain sometimes you grow up and the filter comes off and the people who
14:20raised us start looking real different i used to think my mother was a magician she always had these
14:28new projects and new hustles wrapped in a pretty little bow took me a very long time to see that
14:36i was
14:36just another trick in the deck i hate you had to deal with that but it seems like you're not
14:42letting
14:42it slow you down what's the alternative repeat the cycle no i'm not her i want to be better good
14:52for
14:52you the difference between us i always knew who my family was at their core not saying they're not good
14:59people just impossible to live up to so i bother you know i just wish i had the same radar
15:06when it
15:07came to yolanda the girlfriend you were telling me about the ex now she just dumped me via text
15:18nicole you are without question one of the most formidable women i've ever known
15:25you know from the moment i laid eyes on you i knew that you were exceptional i've never seen you
15:32as a
15:32victim ever thank you for saying that no thanks needed so how about we hit reset and you give me
15:44a
15:44chance to make all this up to you we could keep our dinner date at obelisk that ricotta gnocchi that
15:50janice was raving about if it is not on the menu i'll call in a favor just so you can
15:54experience it
15:56that sounds lovely but i can't carlton i'm it wouldn't be fair to either of us okay i understand
16:07if you need more time but we can postpone until you're feeling more centered i don't think you
16:11understand i'm not simply postponing the date i'm calling it off i'm calling this off well why go to
16:20that extreme what happened at the hospital it drove home the point that i am nowhere near ready
16:26to start dating somebody new the wounds are still so fresh the ink is barely even dry on my divorce
16:34papers
16:36is this because i embarrassed you or because you still have feelings with ted
16:45practically everyone we know has been lecturing me about getting involved with joey
16:49with good reason you're the only one who's letting me make my own decisions even if you did feel the
16:54need to put him on notice nicole's got her therapy couch mother's got her look that could freeze hell
16:59itself meanwhile i'm more of a live and let live kind of gal i am still living and i refuse
17:06to apologize for
17:07wanting to feel something other than grief and guilt what does joey make you feel well oh oh all right
17:17v look at you switching streams and glowing about it you must be putting in that work is the sex
17:23really
17:23that good better than good in fact it's the best i've ever had
17:33i think you're forgetting the bigger picture but i'm happy to refresh your memory
17:40i didn't drag myself across town for story time joy humor me
17:44you know this this unholy alliance the network spreads far and wide
17:49and it includes names that are embossed on charity galas foundations city councils
17:55the halls of congress we alone you can say their names i try not to make a habit to do
18:02that
18:03but we both know who i'm talking about what about them we know their halos are store-bought
18:10and it would be a shame a real scandal in fact if that globe were tarnished by a little thing
18:17like
18:18the truth no actually multiple truths so i'm annoying stays or you tip the table well i don't want to
18:25tip
18:26anything but i do want to keep the board stable you know this this thing we have
18:34it isn't just a house of cards it's a stacked deck and one wrong move and the whole thing can
18:40come right
18:41down on top of us no winners the truth laid bare and brother that's you hell that's me
18:49and everyone else caught in a shuffle the debris
18:59protecting that family is more important to you than it is to me
19:03but i have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo as well
19:07having to do with malone i need a man inside the force who knows where the bodies are buried
19:14but he isn't dumb enough to dig them up to unless i just had an idea i'm almost afraid to
19:23ask well if
19:24you're so bent out of shape about malone keeping his badge why don't i just groom his replacement
19:31like who your son jacob comes to mind
19:38what right there on the poker table twice remind me to bring my hand sanitizer next time
19:46let's just say the second time was better than the first there is a reason
19:50they call joey a high roller and trust me he tipped very well okay maybe i understand the attraction now
20:00but i still think you're playing with fire at least the blaze is worth the burn see that's just it
20:06with joey what you see is what you get i find that so refreshing after duck not to mention exciting
20:15i can definitely empathize there was never a dull moment in my marriage to bill
20:20in or out of the bedroom but the constant cheating little digs to feed his ego that that was the
20:27real
20:27damage but andre he would never be that intentionally unkind so you do get where
20:34i'm coming from absolutely it's just my rebound was with a sexy photographer while joey is an
20:41entrepreneur uh-huh and al capone was just a mild-mannered liquor distributor
20:49you're better than this we raised you to be smart and thoughtful someone who understood the
20:56impact of her choices and today you showed none of that you still didn't have to humiliate me how
21:02did you expect us to react with balloons and confetti
21:08did you know your sister had a boy over what no nathan ring any bells tyrell doesn't know him
21:16i didn't even know samantha was home i thought she was out working with cat and chelsea that's where
21:21she was supposed to be i was i just came home early so what samantha what you were about to
21:29do
21:29could have changed the trajectory of your entire life and you're 16 for god's sakes which is the age
21:35of consent in dc you two are both blowing this way out of proportion are we you lied to us
21:43and you snuck a
21:44boy into our home to do god knows what tyro brought jessica over and you didn't stage an exorcism then
21:50hey come on samantha do not act like we are being unreasonable here okay i made a mistake
21:58i get it this is a risk physical emotional life changing consequences so i'm supposed to just act
22:06like i don't have any feelings that's not what we're saying no what you're saying is that you want me
22:12to be your perfect little girl who wears appropriate clothes and uses appropriate words
22:18are you two really gonna pretend that you've never done anything like this before when you were
22:22our age your pop and i are not saints we've made mistakes big ones but that's the point we want
22:31you
22:31to learn from our experiences you get that right we do
22:39right whatever are we done here not yet you're grounded figures phone
22:50your tablet and laptop comes too should i learn to chisel my homework into stone tablets enough with
22:56the back talk and don't tempt me whatever
23:11samantha i'm so disappointed in you
23:26i'm gonna just go do my homework
23:36go ahead tell me i was too hard on her
23:41no not this time
23:44yes carlton i still have feelings for ted
23:49he was my husband for three decades we built a life raised children now we're watching those
23:56children raise children of their own
24:01that kind of bond you just don't dissolve
24:05so you are still in love with him no i didn't say that i am moving on from ted that
24:11hasn't changed
24:12but moving on doesn't mean i'm ready to move on to someone new
24:17when one of my patients is navigating a life-altering shift i tell them all the same thing don't make
24:22any
24:22decisions while your heart is still bleeding i should have listened to my own advice
24:29i am not ready to be with somebody and not because i don't see your heart carlton i do
24:37but because i can't meet it halfway right now
24:45well that was the most graceful rejection i've ever received
24:50it is not a rejection it's a pause maybe even a kindness to me or to yourself both
25:08whoop spicy but not as spicy as getting dumped via text i mean she couldn't even send a voice note
25:15cold-blooded huh now all the brooding at the bar makes sense
25:19wait hold up what's that supposed to mean oh come on you really want me to break down the post
25:25breakup gender playbook like you don't already know go ahead school me all right
25:31so isa and lawrence on insecure right breakup goes down and there's molly wine in hand
25:38isa's curled up on that ratty couch and shambles but where's lawrence
25:46with tasha yep getting freaky like isa never even existed
25:51so you think that's why i'm here that i'm on the prowl
25:55i mean you do have on some really nice cologne
26:02what if i'm not here hunting what if i'm just trying to forget it
26:07yeah i'm pretty sure that's exactly what lauren said too
26:13you're ruthless i'm observant and real all the women in this room are you really gonna sit here
26:20and tell me that you haven't started scoping out your rebound roster
26:29i plead the fifth exactly
26:34danny i'm not oblivious i know who joey is and what he does i just needed to hear it out
26:40loud
26:41but i also know what we're building and before you roll your eyes let me remind you
26:46this started as a business arrangement and we both know what they say about mixing business and
26:51pleasure whoever said it was a bad idea was dead wrong my professional and personal partnership
26:58with joey is progressing beautifully in fact i've decided i want more from my involvement
27:06much more vanessa please tell me you aren't talking about becoming mrs armstrong you want my son jacob
27:17that's supposed to be some type of sick joke elon i plan with you joy if you so much as
27:23breathe
27:23in jacob's direction you are not gonna have problems that can't be fixed elon will you take
27:27it down a notch i'm pulling your chain i swear you are wired tighter than a spring
27:34maybe it's time to get a little fiber in your diet i can give you some recipes it's not funny
27:38that's kind of funny all right we both know saint jacob wouldn't get dirty if you paid him double
27:45i think he's the kind of cop who wipes his feet before he enters a crime scene and i wouldn't
27:49have
27:49it any other way jacob and luke stayed the course i couldn't be more prouder than the men they become
27:55aren't you the father of the century i ain't exactly say that i got a third
28:04isaiah i'd uh never heard of him yeah because he hasn't been around
28:10i try my best with that boy at least that's what i tell myself
28:16isaiah's been a hothead since a teen he used to run around with gangs and get in all sorts of
28:21trouble
28:22he even had to arrest him one time for dylan weed well who'd have ever thought that the hawthorns
28:29worked both sides of the law not anymore isaiah record got expunged he left got himself together
28:37and you'll never guess who helped the expunging our so-called rogue cop i gotta give it to malone
28:43he came through for my son when he was in a jam
28:47i know isaiah don't believe this but it's nothing i wouldn't do for that kid
28:57you got a little you had a little something right there oh thank you i swear i'm usually more put
29:05together anytime
29:12so what's good with that banneker offer you're taking it i told my brother i was going to accept
29:18when i heard back from yolanda but being that close to my pops again i'm seeing serious danger
29:24signs trust me i get that look i love my mom but if you search hot mess on urban dictionary
29:32you'll probably find her rocking some ridiculous wig and serving face for the camera your mom sounds
29:38like a character that's putting it mildly sometimes i wonder if coming back is worth the headache
29:46whatever you decide i hope it really works out for you but i'm kind of hoping you stay
29:54and why's that i'm not exactly surrounded by friends here most people judge me because of who my
30:01mother is but you're different and something tells me you might be a real one to have in my corner
30:09maybe dc has more to offer than i thought maybe that kid had a condom smitty a condom in our
30:21house
30:22i know i am just as stunned as you are
30:28what was samantha thinking
30:32she wasn't that's the point when teenagers do this they push boundaries they explore their
30:42sexuality i mean we can't pretend that sex wasn't in every song that we listened to growing up
30:49or on every season of the real world that's exactly why i didn't want her to date in the first
30:54place
30:56i'll let you talk me into it so this is on me that's not what i meant i'm the one
31:03that they can
31:04talk to about anything you're the disciplinarian that's the balance smitty no i maybe you're right
31:13samantha certainly didn't talk to me about this maybe i'm too soft smitty look at me come here
31:28you're the heart that these kids need that i need when i go nuclear you're the cooling system that
31:39keeps us from melting down because that doesn't happen often i spend all day fighting battles in
31:48congress sometimes i forget when i come home to stop but you you've helped me work on that you're a
31:58sinner and maybe this isn't the apocalypse that i'm making it out to be we knew there would be growing
32:05pains hell we practically signed up for them and we'll get through this like we do everything else
32:16yes this time we face this together no more pops versus dad just us listening figuring it out
32:27together i love that
32:33so what they say about me after i left i didn't stick around i wasn't trying to be collateral damage
32:39when pop goes supernova like that yeah he really hit me with the deeply disappointed line wild isn't
32:46it what's wild is you what nathan seriously okay so he's not some straight a overachiever
32:58but he's not just some guy he's he's sweet no he's not he's a walking red flag with sneakers
33:05and gross you should hear how he talks in the locker room always capping about the girls he smashed
33:11i didn't know that now you do look i'm not trying to be like pop but i'm your brother
33:18and i don't want some try hard dragging your name like that maybe you're right
33:27thanks for having my back big bro even though most of the time you do get on my last nerve
33:35feelings immutable have you heard the new little tega not yet the beat goes crazy here put your
33:43headphones on
33:57turning off notifications okay this is actually tough told you
34:13so
34:15well i must admit nicole i'm a bit disappointed
34:20i know and i feel terrible
34:24if i hadn't let ted bait me we would have had what i am certain would have been an incredible
34:28evening
34:30we would have and that's what scares me what the possibility of happiness
34:37the possibility of jumping from one relationship to another without ever taking the time to learn
34:42who i am on my own and i cannot expect you to sit in the wings and wait until i
34:49sort it all out
34:50well let me stop you right there
34:54i've admired you for more years than i care to admit
34:59and i don't mind biding my time a little longer
35:18girl please tell me you are not about to save joey armstrong in marriage in the same sentence without
35:23never in a million years in between i just buried one husband i'm in no rush to hitch myself to
35:30another
35:30one not even mind-blowing orgasms are worth that that's a relief but if not marriage then how
35:37do you plan to deepen your involvement with the dmv's most dangerous bachelor
35:42i told joey i wanted to expand our business partnership
35:47i don't want to be the woman standing behind his throne i want to sit on it with him oh
35:54boy
35:57yeah malone has been useful over the years but it's getting sloppy and way too visible this
36:03conversation is going in circles the matter's settled make peace with it
36:12i don't want to be the man standing behind his throne i don't want to be the man standing behind
36:37his throne
36:37and if i don't
36:37my husband standing behind his throne hThat's done
36:45no
36:46i don't know
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