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Here's what went down Monday, May 5, 2025 on Beyond the Gates when Martin had another outburst, Kat and Eva got real, and Leslie faced down the Dupree dynasty.
What happened on Beyond the Gates
On Beyond the Gates, Nicole exclaimed that she didn't know who the pleading Ted was. She wanted back the man she'd met in Hawai'i, who had promised to protect her heart and love her forever. Nicole called every day of her marriage to Ted a lie. Ted swore he didn't know he had another daughter, but Nicole deemed Ted's affair with Leslie the beginning of a ticking time bomb that had ended with the Richardsons standing in the rubble. She felt that if she had known the truth of the affair when it happened, she wouldn't have gone around for decades wishing her friends were as blissfully happy as her. She likewise regretted being condescending toward Dani while she was spinning out over Bill's infidelity.
Ted reminded Nicole that they had been struggling at the time he had cheated, but Nicole lashed out that her body had been betraying her at the same time Ted was. Nicole had so much wanted to have another baby with Ted because their life had been so perfect, yet Ted had been carrying on with another woman. Nicole fumed that Ted had known Leslie was in town, threatening their marriage, yet never said a word. Here Ted had gotten another woman pregnant while Nicole was losing babies herself. “Did you grieve them when you were in her bed?” Nicole asked coldly. Ted kept trying to apologize, but Nicole lamented that Ted hadn't spared her the humiliation of having his affair broadcast in front of their family and friends. He had taken the most disgusting thing he could have done to her and made it worse.
Ted swore that he had confronted Leslie and ensured that she would again leave town — and that she hadn't said a word about any baby. Ted yelled that he had never loved Leslie, but Nicole was appalled that Ted had taken her little boy to see the woman he'd been screwing — and that Ted had brought Bill in to “wave his magic wand” and take care of Leslie. She couldn't believe her husband would trust “that bottom feeder” with the truth over her. Ted admitted being aware he'd have lost Nicole had he said anything; Nicole pondered whether Ted would have run off with Leslie if Nicole had miscarried yet another baby.
Ted was adamant that Nicole was the only woman he'd wanted to have children with, and that, since Leslie had lied about everything else, they couldn't know for sure that Leslie hadn't also spewed falsehoods at the party. Nicole berated Ted for publicly accusing Leslie of lying about Eva when he knew Eva could actually be his, and for doing everything to save himself except be forthcoming. When Ted said that all he cared about was his family, Nicole doubted he'd thought of them while with Leslie. She resented the possibility of catching an STD from Ted, unsure if Ted had even used protection.
Nicole caught herself asking if there had been other women besides Leslie; she didn't actually want to know, and couldn't be certain that Ted would be honest about it, anyway. Ted wanted to save their family and their marriage, but Nicole told Ted that he was leaving. When Ted pledged that his love for her and their kids had always been real, Nicole snapped, “Does that include both of your daughters?” Ted felt that the only way they could repair things was if he stayed, but Nicole avowed that if she even smelled his cologne from his coming into the house, it would be the last thing he did. Ted voiced his commitment to finding his way back to Nicole's heart and sullenly left for a hotel.
In the empty country club banquet room, Kat sighed that it hadn't done any good that she had been right about Eva; her family being so nice was their downfall. Eva wondered what had made Kat suspect her — Kat replied that Eva had tried too hard and done too much. Eva surprised Kat by agreeing with Kat's wish that she had done more to prevent the destructive evening. Kat reminded Eva that she had arranged the entire thing so Leslie could spout her lies; Eva meekly corrected that some of what Leslie had said had been true. Eva gave Kat a copy of a DNA test listing Ted as her father, a result obtained from the straw Eva had procured from Ted weeks earlier.
Eva reinforced that she had tried to stop Leslie, which Kat had witnessed, but Kat wouldn't give Eva a gold star for trying to derail her own plan at the last minute. Kat was sickened by her father's affair with the “cray-cray” Leslie that had produced a “curbside delivery daughter with half a brain.” Eva insisted that she had changed her mind about Leslie's scheme because she loved Kat's parents; Kat retorted that she could never have done anything to harm her loved ones the way Eva had. Kat labeled Eva a toxic parasite and stormed out, but Eva called out, “There's more.”
Eva noted how Kat had grown up with two parents who loved her no matter what, while Eva had grown up thinking her father had hated and shunned her. “Well, neither of us had the father we thought we did. Yay!” Kat spat sarcastically. Eva admitted that, when she and Leslie had come to Washington, she had been willing to destroy Ted because of how often Leslie had defined him as a monster who had left them penniless. But Eva hadn't counted on Ted being funny and lovable and a great father. Kat observed that their opinions about their father were now switched: Eva found Ted wonderful, while Kat had just watched him devastate her mother.
Understanding how hurt Kat was about what Ted had done, Eva reiterated that the love she'd gotten from him all her life was real, which had Kat in tears. Eva considered Kat lucky and beseeched her not to let the revelation about Ted shatter what Kat and Ted had. Kat, forcing herself to be polite, acknowledged that Eva had been conflicted about Ted after getting to know him, but Kat declared that she knew who Eva really was, because Kat had seen the “evil” look Eva had given her after she had erased Kat's security footage, and after Kat's parents had taken Eva's side. Eva called Kat out for comparing her to her mother, which didn't stop Kat from adding that Eva was a “sinister creation of a woman blinded by rage” who was programmed to hurt others before they hurt her. Kat derided Eva for strutting through their house pretending to be some miracle worker when she could have stopped Leslie in her tracks at any time. “You're dead to me,” Kat sniffed. Eva collapsed in guttural sobs.
Dani and Martin were appalled that Leslie had shown up at the Dupree mansion, and Leslie asked if the room she was in was the place where the Duprees massaged facts to make themselves look like victims – and, in this case, make Leslie look like the one who wrecked Ted's marriage. When Martin wanted to call the police, Leslie called him “Little Brownie Man” – her nickname for him as a little boy when Ted had brought him to see her at the diner. Leslie was confident no one would bring in the cops because of the optics...but Anita was sure that what she had to say would have Leslie worried.
When Leslie decided she should leave, Anita promised hospitality and wanted to know why Leslie thought she had the right to “darken our doorstep.” Martin raged, demanding answers about what Leslie wanted from their family. Was it money? Fame? Martin seethed that if Leslie were smart, she'd leave. He remembered the waitress who would always take a break and sit next to Ted. Anita held Martin back as he lunged toward Ted's mistress, who asked, “Is that any way to talk to your Auntie Leslie?” Vernon had to calm Martin down as well; Martin claimed he was needed at home and departed. Anita interrupted the sniping Dani and Naomi and deduced that Leslie had come to deliver righteous indignation. Vernon implied that Leslie wanted forgiveness. Leslie corrected that what she really wanted was understanding.
Leslie recalled how Vernon had always been one to fight for the underdog; the Duprees balked when Leslie claimed that she deserved to be “on the wall with King, Fauntroy, and Angelou” for what she had suffered. What Ted had done to her, she wouldn't wish on a dog, Leslie said. When Anita wanted proof of Leslie's claims, Leslie produced Eva's birth certificate and her own copy of the DNA test proving that Eva was Ted's daughter — which proved Eva was a part of the Dupree legacy. The family's faces fell when they realized that Kat and Eva had been born within two weeks of each other.
Leslie wanted Eva to have a connection to her other half and for Ted to treat Eva like a princess. Was that too much to ask? Like Anita and Dani, Leslie was a mother, but they scoffed that Leslie was nothing like them. To Leslie, Eva was her gold; Eva was out there needing her mother, and when Leslie found her, she would wrap her arms around her. “Like a boa constrictor?” Naomi snarked. Leslie laughed that “little Dani Oakley” didn't believe her, but dialed herself back. She just didn't want the Duprees to hold what she had done against Eva — who, like it or not, belonged to the Dupree family through Ted. The Duprees, Leslie determined, could give Eva so much that Leslie couldn't, especially a whole loving clan on birthdays and such. If the Duprees were the good people they cast themselves as, they would accept Eva.
Leslie moved to leave, but Anita wasn't going to let her have the last word. Anita applauded mockingly and stated that Leslie had had decades to hone her Shakespearean speech. “Aw, she thinks she has a heart,” Chelsea sneered when Leslie insisted that was where her entreaty had come from. Anita didn't buy that Leslie only cared about Eva. Anita accused Leslie of putting Eva through hell to serve her own agenda, wielding Eva like a weapon. “Shame on you!” Anita shouted. Anita assured Leslie that she wouldn't get Ted, nor a place in their family, since that was likely what she was after. Though the affair between Ted and Leslie had been private, Anita pointed out, what Leslie had done that evening had been done to the Duprees, and the Duprees didn't forget.
Once Leslie was gone, Dani worriedly asked if anyone had heard from Nicole. Vernon put forth that perhaps Nicole and Ted were home, trying to work things out. Chelsea thought they should go to Nicole; Anita was concerned about Martin. Vernon rallied his family to remember that they had often walked through fire and always come out the other side. Anita surprised everyone by suddenly playing the piano and singing “Amazing Grace.” In a montage, Smitty helped Martin put away the books in the living room, Ted settled into his hotel suite, and Kat found Nicole and held her.
Martin arrived home, remembered Leslie's words, and chucked a book Ted had inscribed for him. The congressman proceeded to throw every book on the shelf across the room, which Smitty walked in on. Smitty encouraged Martin to open up; Martin broke down about “that bitch” who had screwed his father and ruined everything when he was just a little boy. Smitty embraced Martin, but couldn't understand how he could have trashed the room. Smitty empathized with how much turmoil Martin was in and vowed to help him get through it. Martin was grateful, and, along with Smitty, realized they needed to restore the living room to normal before Tyrell and Samantha came home. Smitty proclaimed them stronger than anything that had ever tried to tear them down.
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Eva arrived at her apartment, but Leslie had chained the door and wouldn't let Eva in.
Beyond the Gates airs weekdays on CBS and streams on Paramount Plus – but will be pre-empted again on Tuesday, May 6, and Wednesday, May 7 for UEFA soccer. New episodes will resume on Thursday, May 8.
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