Beyond the Gates Recap for Friday, May 2, 2025: Leslie broke off cold, hard truths for the Duprees – and Eva

Here's what went down Friday, May 2, 2025 on Beyond the Gates, when Leslie went nuclear and everyone else was left to deal with the fallout.

What happened on Beyond the Gates

On Beyond the Gates, Doug came to check on Vanessa, who had been admitted to the hospital with nausea that may or may not have been caused by bean sprouts. Vanessa wanted to be sure Doug had expressed to Nicole and Ted why they couldn't make it to their party. Mrs. McBride was sure that Mrs. Richardson was having the night of her life.

Bill was just as happy to have skipped the Richardson shindig, but Hayley figured he'd have been there if it hadn't been for her. She noted that Bill and Ted used to be friends, and that she felt guilty for how much Bill had had to give up to be with her. Bill scoffed that Ted was no better than the rest of the Duprees. Hayley was curious and started guessing what Bill had meant; he maintained a poker face, but only until Hayley suggested that Ted had cheated on his wife. Hayley couldn't believe it.

Ted told “Dana” – in front of the Richardsons and their stunned party guests – that she was supposed to have left town, making Nicole realize that her husband knew the woman whom she recognized as “Sherry.” When Eva beseeched “Leslie” to back off, Nicole exclaimed, “How many names does she have?” Leslie made fun of how much shock Nicole was going to be in when she found out who she was. “Are you going to tell wifey who I am to you, or should I?” Leslie put to Ted.

Eva screamed for help, saying Leslie had been targeting Ted and Nicole and that the woman had locked her in the supply room. Martin and Smitty grabbed Leslie while Eva begged Ted to escort Nicole out. Nicole instructed the Richardson-Smiths to let Leslie go and demanded to know what was going on. Ted promised to tell Nicole everything, just not in front of everybody. Leslie yelled that Ted wouldn't tell Nicole the truth – but she would. She wanted everyone to know who Ted was.

While the guests became animated, and Dani barked for the “lunatic” to be removed, Nicole asked Ted if it were true that “Sherry” had been threatening him. “Not physically,” he replied sheepishly. Nicole insisted that Leslie was “Sherry,” and that Ted had only placed her as the woman from the hospital roof – but Leslie purred that “Sherry” was “one of my better get-ups.” Kat piped up that she had met her as “Anna,” and Martin added that he and Vernon had encountered her at Orphey Gene's. Naomi, who had arrived late and in the middle of the fracas, told Chelsea to stop filming, or that video would go viral like her “Gunslinger Dani” clip had after Bill and Hayley's wedding. “Word,” Chelsea agreed.

Kat revealed that the multi-named woman was a friend of Mona's, and had been the one to recommend hiring Eva as Laura's replacement. When Kat scowled that the woman and Eva had been working on the showdown together, Eva cried that she had tried to stop Leslie, only to be locked in the closet by her. The Richardsons' friend Carleton, who had freed Eva, vouched for her. “Don't worry, Your Highness,” Leslie cooed to a flummoxed Nicole. “You will hear the whole sordid story.” She told Ted that he was no longer in control.

Mona, never having seen Leslie behaving in this fashion, asked Leslie if she were out of her mind. Kat wanted Mona to confirm the revelation that Leslie and Eva shared a living space. “I didn't know they had hidden motives,” Mona apologized. Naomi desperately tried to reach Jacob while the elder Duprees sprung into action: Anita flew to Nicole's side and Vernon told the non-family guests that they intended to get help for the intruding woman, who was obviously in the middle of a medical crisis, and advised the partygoers to leave. Leslie countered that Vernon was expertly trying to gaslight them and noticed that they had stayed put, because they wanted to know what the Duprees were hiding.

Ted gave Leslie one more chance to stand down, but she vowed that his sidelining her was “not gonna work anymore...lover.” Nicole burst into tears. Ted and Dani suggested that Nicole leave, but the psychiatrist insisted upon staying, and Leslie reiterated that she had been Ted's “hanky panky lover.” Kat told Eva that if she really wanted to stop Leslie, Eva needed to tell everyone that Leslie was lying. Leslie assured Kat that she hadn't even been born when she was with Ted, but asked Martin if he remembered the nice waitress who used to give him brownies when Ted took the young boy to a coffee shop. Martin did.

Ted wanted his family kept out of the ambush, but Leslie announced that Ted had been ready to leave that family for her. “That is a lie!” Ted shouted; Leslie replied that Ted sure had been convincing back in the day, and because of that, she'd thought that he'd be thrilled when she gave him the news that she was pregnant. Nicole nearly wilted. Ted denied Leslie's claim that he'd told her he was staying with Nicole because she was pregnant as well; Leslie explained how Ted had made her leave town and get an abortion, appealing to Nicole to understand how she had felt. The Duprees blanched when Leslie revealed that Ted had called Bill, who had dared Leslie to have her baby anyway and threatened to have the child kidnapped and sold to the black market if she did.

Leslie was sure Ted had known to what lengths Bill would go, and so she had given in – to a point. She had taken Ted's money, gone to Chicago, and given birth in secret. Leslie introduced Eva to Ted as his daughter, causing Kat to yelp, “No...no!” and clutch her brother Martin. Eva had been crying quietly, but expressed dismay that Leslie had told Ted she'd had an abortion – Eva had grown up thinking her father hadn't wanted anything to do with her. Kat called the whole thing a con. Andre and Ted suggested that the Richardsons' talk about the revelation in private. And Nicole, sobbing, ran out of the room. Kat followed.

Vernon ordered Ted to explain himself, but Ted – and Martin – gave chase to Nicole. When Leslie called after Martin, reminding him that Eva was his half-sister, Smitty commanded her to be quiet. Dani wanted to confront Leslie, but her parents stopped her. Chelsea and Naomi were sick at the thought of how vicious their father had apparently been with Leslie.

In the country club lobby, Martin stopped Ted; the congressman had put together the timing. Martin now realized what his parents would whisper about when they thought he wasn't listening. He remembered how distraught Nicole had been recovering from her miscarriages – and that was the time Ted had gotten another woman pregnant? Ted tried to defuse the confrontation, but Martin fathomed that Ted had only taken him to the diner as a boy as a smokescreen so Ted could see Leslie. “You're despicable!” Martin roared, shoving his father hard. Smitty ran up and urged the furious Martin to breathe, escorting his husband out.

Eva timidly approached Ted, who didn't want to talk to her. He kicked himself for not listening to Kat, who had been right all along that Eva had been up to no good. Eva conceded that Kat had seen through her, but asserted that, all her life, Leslie had drilled it into her about how Ted had abandoned her, and now she didn't know what to think. “That makes two of us,” Ted granted. Eva pleaded with Ted to understand how she had tried to stop Leslie and implored Ted for forgiveness.

Leslie entered, sneering that Eva should be asking for her forgiveness after painting her as crazy to everyone. Ted left to find Nicole, and Leslie reinforced her position that Ted couldn't be counted on, seething that Eva had made the wrong choice. With that, Leslie left Eva alone, weeping.

Anita swore to Mona that she bore no responsibility for letting Leslie recommend Eva as Nicole's assistant. Vernon looked forward to taking Ted's “narrow behind” to task for bringing Leslie into their lives. When Dani came by, Anita told her to bring Naomi and Chelsea to the house so they could figure out how to do damage control.

Vanessa wrapped up a call from Nicole, telling Doug how the Richardsons had been blindsided at their party. Doug agreed that Nicole was wonderful and hadn't deserved what Ted had done to her, but he also pointed out to Vanessa that they didn't know the whole story, and therefore shouldn't make judgments. “People do stray,” Doug commented. “I wouldn't think I'd need to tell you that.” Vanessa tried to weave around the subject, but Doug remembered how Vanessa hadn't been upset when Bill cheated on Dani. “Some couples have...understandings,” Vanessa said cryptically, pivoting to how that hadn't been the case with Ted and Nicole.

Andre understood that Dani needed to beg off their date and couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. Dani humphed that, for once, the chaos didn't revolve around her; Andre didn't want Dani beating up on herself. Dani's heart hurt for her daughters, the way they'd had to hear how their father had menaced Leslie. It was Andre's observation that Leslie wasn't all there, and therefore, what she'd said about Bill wasn't necessarily true. Dani felt that if even part of the story had merit, it was a bridge too far, especially given Bill's “ethical blind spots.”

Turning back to the subject of Ted, Andre noted that his uncle had been faithful for the twenty-plus years following his indiscretion, but Dani couldn't be sure what further secrets her brother-in-law was hiding. Dani thought that Andre was unusually calm about the skeletons that had just come out; Andre merely said he was unshockable, then looked around quickly to make sure no one saw him giving Dani a kiss.

Ted ran into his house, calling for Nicole. He found Kat instead; she told him that, because Nicole wanted to be left alone, that had to mean that Nicole considered Leslie's story to be true. Kat needed Ted to assure her it wasn't, but Ted could only say that he didn't know if Leslie had had her baby, or if Eva was that baby. Ted tried to impress upon Kat that his selfish affair had happened before she was born, but she didn't want to hear it, and walked out on him.

Andre saw Eva sitting alone in the lobby. She nodded when he asked if she were really his Uncle Ted's daughter. Andre deduced that fact made them cousins. Eva wished she'd known sooner that Ted wasn't a deadbeat dad, as Leslie had wanted her to believe. Andre defended Ted and admitted that, like Eva, he could also have stopped Leslie...because Ted had told him about the affair. Yet Andre had convinced Ted not to confess to Nicole. Eva felt bad for Andre.

Leslie returned to the empty banquet room and poured herself a glass of Ted and Nicole's champagne. Unexpectedly, Nicole entered, and Leslie advised her to say her piece and leave so she could continue enjoying “the good stuff.” Nicole refused to compete with Leslie for Ted's affections; Nicole remarked how Ted had changed, becoming more carefree and spontaneous – but she had thought that had happened because the birth of Kat had set right their marriage. Nicole divulged that Ted's “light” had dimmed a few years afterwards, and when Leslie presumed that Ted had gotten boring, Nicole didn't disagree. Nicole deemed Leslie vivacious and bold and surmised that Ted needed someone like her. Leslie praised Nicole for being woman enough to let Ted walk away...but Leslie had only been imagining her nemesis.

At the Dupree manse, Dani and Anita were worried that they hadn't been able to reach Nicole, but Chelsea and Naomi reported that they had gotten a text from Kat stating that Nicole and come home and headed for the shower. Vernon and Dani wished they could write off Leslie's admissions as the rantings of a crazy woman; the raging Martin didn't know if the part about Eva being Ted's daughter was true, but he had confirmed Ted's affair. Vernon was disappointed in Ted and exchanged glances with Martin when Bill's daughters asked if Bill could really have been so cruel to Leslie. “Ask him point blank!” Martin growled.

As Bill massaged Hayley's foot, he got a text from Naomi. “Holy hell,” he exclaimed upon reading it. Bill detailed how Ted's secret had been exposed and how Bill's daughters were adamant that they learn exactly what part Bill had played in everything. Bill disagreed with Hayley that Naomi and Chelsea would simply see Bill as someone trying to protect his brother-in-law's marriage.

Kat returned to the country club to retrieve her purse and ran into Eva, who repeated to Kat that she was right all along.

At the Richardson home, Ted stood in the dark, and Nicole entered. Ted apologized, but all Nicole could do was shake her head.

The family discussed “that awful child,” Eva, working for Nicole and spying on her, and how Kat seemed to have a sixth sense about Eva that no one else did. Chelsea wondered if Kat had picked up on the fact that Eva was her half-sister. “No,” Dani spouted. “Kat probably sensed that Eva is actually a lying little bitch!” The doorbell rang, confusing everybody considering the late hour – their visitor was Leslie.

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