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Here's what went down Thursday, June 5, 2025 on Beyond the Gates when Kat and Jacob continued squabbling over how to handle the investigation into Leslie, Ted saw motion with Nicole, and Barbara's memory loomed large over The Articulettes.
What happened on Beyond the Gates
On Beyond the Gates, Leslie was chilling in her apartment when Jacob arrived with backup and a search warrant. “Well, what took you so long?” she smiled, letting the men in and offering her help. She laughed that she could have gotten rid of the motorcycle – whose rider had sideswiped Laura – by breaking it down and shoving it in the toilet. Jacob thought he'd hit paydirt by finding a box in the closet, but it was empty; Leslie said that she stored her hopes and dreams in it. She deserved to love and be loved “as much as anybody beyond those gates.”
Jacob and the officer made their way to the door with a few bagged items, with Leslie asking when she was going to get her restraining order against “that lunatic” Kat. Detective Hawthorne noted Leslie's overconfidence and was sure she was going to trip herself up at some point. Leslie snapped a few pics of the law enforcers as they left, telling herself, “When I'm through, I'm gonna own you and your whole damn jurisdiction.”
Sharon met with Tracy at Orphey Gene's, smirking that they should have had Anita feed them a fancy breakfast now that all three of them were on board for the comeback show. Tracy revealed that she'd received a call from Vernon relaying that Anita had decided not to do the concert – and added that Vernon had hinted she and Sharon could change Anita's mind. “Damn that woman to hell and back!” Sharon shrieked.
Vernon watched Anita picking up her phone and putting it down. He reasoned that Anita hadn't called Jim Price, the music promoter, to call off the Articulettes reunion because, deep down, she didn't want to cancel it. Anita felt there was no getting past Tracy barely tolerating her, Sharon's hostility – and her guilt over Barbara's death. Vernon reminded Anita that it had been Dante who wanted Barbara out of the group and Barbara who had taken her own life. Plus, Anita had stopped running from her pain and had met it head-on. “Meeting things head-on can give you a concussion,” Anita quipped.
The former senator told his wife that if the concert had even the slightest possibility of bringing Anita some peace, she should go for it. Anita worried that doing the performance with Tracy and Sharon could make things worse. Vernon felt that the show would honor the women's connection and bring joy to their waiting fanbase. Moreover, Vernon advocated for the healing that taking the stage together could bring them.
Anita expressed that she had loved being with Tracy again, despite the initial tension, and it had made her believe that the concert was possible – until Sharon had provided the reality check of how Dante Green had forced the trio to push Barbara aside. Anita divulged that, after Barbara died, the group had taken a break to mourn her – except Anita had never come back; that was the time she had decided to go solo. Vernon hadn't been aware of that detail, but decided not to “flog on” Anita when she was doing such a good job of it herself.
A grateful Anita proclaimed how much she loved Vernon; she posited that, while people always said that marriage was about telling the truth, it was also about being able to hear the truth when it's told to you. Still, defeated, Anita said there was no concert without Sharon...who rang the doorbell and barged past Vernon, getting right up in Anita's face about changing her mind. Anita had had enough of Sharon and demanded that she take her negative energy somewhere else.
Vernon excused himself and asked Anita to let him know if there was any bloodshed. Tracy tried to prevent her co-singers from getting into a physical altercation, while Anita said she was done with Sharon dumping on her. She wasn't going to let Sharon or Tracy make her the only one to blame anymore. If they had been so against what Dante and Anita had done, they could have teamed up with Barbara and formed their own group. “You rode the gravy train that was me all the way to the end of the line,” Anita fumed. As far as Anita was concerned, the other Articulettes could take the narrative where they were innocent and she was the villain, “and stick it where the sun don't shine!”
Even Sharon announcing that she had decided to sign on to the show wasn't enough to convince Anita to relent. “The Articulettes are as dead as Barbara,” she declared as she pushed past her fellow singers and told them where the door was. Privately, Anita couldn't hold back her tears.
Laura, fully recovered, entered the Richardson abode and found a bottle of Febreze – and a surprise party waiting for her. Nicole, Kat, and Mona all enthusiastically welcomed Laura back to work and filled her in on Jacob's investigation on Laura's behalf. Laura was surprised to hear that Kat suspected Eva in addition to Leslie; to Laura's knowledge, Eva had never directly acted against her. Nicole allowed that Eva was difficult to figure out – she had tried to stop the plan, yet had set it in motion in the first place. Kat didn't want to hear her mother giving Eva any slack and insisted that her opinion about Eva was the right one.
Laura had some trouble re-acclimating when she saw how Eva had reworked the computer system. Nicole assured Laura she'd catch right back on, and Mona regretted that she had ever recommended Eva as Laura's replacement. After Kat piped up that she'd been on to both Eva and Leslie all along, Nicole decided she didn't want to rehash the situation and left with Mona. When Laura remained flummoxed by the changes Eva had made, Kat told Laura to blame any mistakes she made on Eva and move on.
At Uptown, Eva told Ted how well things were going at the salon he'd set her up in; Samantha had even come by to have Eva do her hair. Ted wanted to know if Leslie had discouraged Eva about the job, and how Eva felt overall. Eva didn't care what Leslie thought about Ted helping her, but Ted could hear in Eva's voice that something was wrong. Eva conceded that the Richardsons had spoiled her by allowing her to fill in for Laura – she'd found the assistant job demanding and challenging, and she'd been surprised by how into it she'd gotten. Though Eva hated that she'd betrayed the couple's trust, she was strangely glad that they had trusted her to begin with.
Ted understood that it was hard to move on – he himself was still having trouble navigating his life without Nicole and being a parent to Eva. He realized that he'd been the married one when he had his affair with “Dana”; Eva was impressed with Ted's self-own, followed by admitting that she couldn't blame all her actions on Leslie. Ted also struggled because he knew Laura was back at work – he wanted to join in greeting her, but knew he wasn't welcome in that house. Eva didn't think Laura would hold a grudge against Ted for what had happened, despite her loyalty to Nicole.
Eva and Ted discussed Kat's antagonism; Eva was grateful that she could sit and talk openly with her father. Ted encouraged Eva to share what she really hoped for, which was to be able to have the family dinners she had spent years thinking weren't available to her. She even wanted to have relationships with Nicole and Kat. Eva got a text and ran into Nicole on the way out without explaining why she had to go.
Nicole watched Eva leave, then listened as Ted acknowledged that Nicole wasn't ready to talk. Ted was glad that Nicole had gotten his flowers, and a slight smile threatened to break on Nicole's face as she remarked that the blooms had reminded her of a happier time. Ted made a case for how much he loved Nicole and noted that she wasn't telling him to shut up.
Just as it seemed Ted was getting through to Nicole, Leslie entered and interrupted. Nicole deemed her convo with Ted over and departed. Leslie commanded Ted to get the cops off her back – or she'd be forced to take matters into her own hands. Ted balked that he didn't own the police, and that, if they were sniffing around her, they had good reason. Leslie grinned that Ted completed her; Ted shot back that the woman who completed him had just left and made his own exit.
Having gotten Laura's text, Eva met her at Orphey Gene's and was shocked to hear from her. Eva assumed Laura wanted to drag her for filth over her hospitalization; Laura wasn't sure what to think of Eva, but was certain that Leslie was a...well, Laura didn't have a word to describe her. What Laura really wanted was for Eva to walk her through the notes program she had installed that was tripping Laura up. Eva willingly agreed to help Laura and said she was sorry Laura had been hurt.
Kat sat at Jacob's desk, waiting for him; he was annoyed and said the department should get "the constant presence" her own office. Jacob confessed Leslie's place had been clean; he had only taken the items Kat asked about to make Leslie nervous. Kat suspected that if the motorcycle helmet was nowhere to be found, Eva must have helped Leslie get rid of it. Jacob got angry that he had to keep telling Kat to butt out or else risk tainting his case. The two admitted they were frustrated; Jacob again assured Kat the department was doing what it could.
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Jacob shut down Kat's idea of searching Eva's hotel room, as a search warrant wouldn't be granted to do so. When Kat hinted that she could hunt for clues herself, Jacob said that if Kat found something and took it from Eva's room, she would only end up arrested for stealing. Kat stalked out after Jacob stressed he needed to follow the law, saying, “You're right – it's just better to let Eva and Leslie go free.”
Beyond the Gates airs weekdays on CBS and streams on Paramount Plus.
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