Beyond the Gates Recap for Monday, May 12, 2025: Leslie admitted her love for Ted and Mona read the Thomas' beads

Here's what went down Monday, May 12, 2025 on Beyond the Gates when Vanessa chose not to take Joey up on his offer, Anita got maternal with Eva, and Nicole needed to Febreze the Leslie out of her house.

What happened on Beyond the Gates?

On Beyond the Gates, Dani went to see Ted at his hotel room, calling him a scumbag. Ted complained that he had already been flamed by everybody; Dani added that Ted was despicable for letting his side piece and her daughter blow up Nicole's world. Ted realized the issue hit home for Dani because of Bill, but he stressed that he was nothing like Dani's ex-husband. Dani deemed Ted worse, since Bill had never pretended to be good. She wondered how Ted's legitimate children were handling the upheaval.

Dani acknowledged that she was a handful and that there were those who thought that she'd pushed Bill into Hayley's arms, but she couldn't understand how Ted could have treated a perfect wife like Nicole so poorly. Shamefaced, Ted rationalized that he had probably used the affair with Leslie to escape the miscarriage woes he'd been having with Nicole; Dani found that low. He added that he never would have left Eva to fend for herself had he'd known he'd had a daughter with Leslie. Ted found the discussion pointless and showed Dani out, but Anita was at the door with a few of her own things to say.

Ted took sole responsibility for what he had done, but told the mother-and-daughter Duprees that the issue was between him, Nicole, and their children. Anita called Ted a coward for hiding his affair, having Bill make it go away, and holing up in a hotel when he should be fighting for Nicole. The matriarch didn't find Ted man enough to be worthy of a Dupree woman. As Anita continued berating him, Ted stated his intention to earn his family's forgiveness. Ted was shocked when Anita reported how Leslie had shown up to the Dupree mansion with Eva's birth certificate and the DNA test proving that Eva was Ted's daughter. While the clan had handled Leslie, La Dupree advised Ted to start cleaning up his own messes instead of letting others do it for him.

At Uptown, Vanessa checked on a grateful Martin and an insolent Kat. Once alone, Kat told Martin how she had seen Eva and Tomás being too friendly; Kat sniped that they were probably off scheming somewhere together. Martin suggested that an innocent explanation was possible and that Tomás could have been reading Eva for filth. Kat acquiesced and said she wasn't feeling great about men overall. Martin described his visit with Ted and how Ted wanted to make up for everything. “As if that's possible,” Kat scoffed.

Kat found it “beyond nasty” that Ted had gotten two women pregnant at the same time. Martin shrugged that he and Kat had to find a way to deal with having Eva as a half-sister; Kat proposed that they “run that basic bitch back to wherever she came.” Martin felt for Eva but averred that their focus needed to be on Nicole. Kat followed Martin out, saying they'd better get over to Nicole's “before Eva and her mercenary mama try to take the house, too.”

Joey joined Vanessa at the bar, observing that she had the weight of the world on her shoulders. Vanessa told Joey about Nicole's predicament and admitted she'd feel like a hypocrite if she tried to help Nicole through it. Joey found Vanessa to be a romantic and that she was, through Nicole, mourning her belief in happily ever after. When Vanessa was impressed by Joey's insight, he said that he knew her better than she thought he did and joked that they had only scratched the surface of his infinite wisdom. He invited to her his place to explore that wisdom further...not knowing that Dani, who had arrived with Anita, was watching the exchange. Vanessa was tempted by Joey's offer, but she passed on it, surprising even herself. Her gut was telling her to go home, which she did.

Mona went to the casino, where she met Randy; he offered to comp her in to the high stakes table, but she instead asked Randy if he had seen Leslie. Randy held to player confidentiality, though, when Mona inquired into the slot machines on which Leslie had supposedly won her windfall, Randy informed Mona that there were no such machines at that casino. Mona was about to leave – until she saw Eva at a table. Eva had never cast Mona as a gambler, to which Mona replied, “I never thought you'd be the type to play a backstabbing heifer, yet here we are.”

Mona realized that Leslie had been pulling the strings, but Eva was grown and could have made her own choices. It had been Mona who had recommended Eva to Nicole, and now the Duprees would never be able to trust Mona again. When Eva said she'd quit as Nicole's assistant, Mona made sure she got Nicole's house key back from Eva. Sighing, Eva said that she felt like she'd lost everything. Mona placed a gentle hand on Eva's arm and replied, “Good.”

Having gotten Fairmont Crest access codes from Eva, Leslie visited Nicole, swearing she'd never meant to hurt her. Nicole huffed that if that had been Leslie's intention, all she'd needed to do was stay away; if Leslie was so bent on exposing Ted, Nicole said, Leslie could have come to her any number of times or even just written. After Nicole wrote off Leslie's tears as crocodile, Leslie clarified that her actions hadn't been about Nicole; she'd needed to show everyone in Ted's family what kind of man he really was. Leslie handed Nicole the DNA test proving Ted as Eva's father, which Nicole had already heard about. Nicole understood that Leslie had fallen in love with a man who had never made her a priority and demanded that Leslie finally show some grace – by leaving Nicole and her family alone. Rejecting Leslie's apology, Nicole ordered Leslie to get out.

Nicole liberally sprayed from a new bottle of Febreze, then received a visit from Kat and Martin. The younger Richardsons were appalled to hear that Leslie had just come to see Nicole and wanted to report her to Fairmont Crest security. Kat also wanted Eva added to the watch list, worried that she would try to dig her claws into Ted. Nicole lamented that she hadn't seen anything in sinister in Eva; Martin shared Chelsea's view that perhaps, since Kat and Eva were sisters and close in age, they possessed some kind of bond. Kat sniffed that the DNA test could have been a fabrication as well.

Having recognized Ted's blood type and certain genetic markers on the test results, Nicole had to admit there was no way Leslie and Eva could have faked them. Nicole stoically told her children that they had to accept Eva as their sister – and as part of Ted's life. Martin was grudgingly willing, but Kat refused and promised to make the Thomases pay for what they'd done to Nicole.

Upon arriving home, Leslie fumed at Nicole having spoken to her the way she had. She calmed when Mona arrived at her door and was happy they were still friends, but Mona didn't want Leslie trying to hug her. Now knowing that Leslie couldn't have won her bundle at any slot machine, Mona asked Leslie where the money had come from; Leslie claimed she had maxed out her credit cards. Dubious, Mona accused Leslie of using the talks with her and Jan as intel-gathering sessions – and using Mona to get Eva hired by Nicole. Leslie conceded that she'd had ulterior motives in the beginning, but that she'd come to view Mona as a real friend. “Hell was made for people like you, Leslie,” came Mona's response. “Enjoy the burn.”

Leslie was astonished to find Ted at her door – and this time it wasn't a fantasy. Wasting no time, Ted told Leslie that if she went near the Duprees again, she would have to deal with him. Leslie slipped that Nicole must have gone running to her parents; Ted was outraged that Leslie had approached Nicole, too. Ted explained how Nicole, Kat, and Martin wanted nothing to do with him. Leslie wasn't pleased that she'd ruined Ted's life and confessed that all she'd wanted from her actions was him – because she was still in love with him.

Ted didn't think someone as twisted as Leslie was capable of love. Leslie felt she'd been entitled to her anger toward Ted considering the hell he had put her through, but she avowed that her heart wasn't far beneath that anger. Part of that was because Ted was the father of her child. “That little girl that you just kicked out?” Ted asked, squaring his eyes. “The child that you had no more use for?” Leslie smiled upon learning that Ted had decided to take care of Eva's housing. Ted coldly replied that it was Eva he cared about, not Leslie.

Leslie replied that if Ted was opening himself to Eva, he was also opening himself to Leslie. Her rationale was that Ted could love her again – yet Ted let Leslie know that he'd only ever come to believe he'd loved Leslie to make himself feel better about cheating on Nicole. He would never need anything from Leslie again. Once he departed, Leslie grinned to herself, saying, “I don't know about that, Teddy-boo. Just wait.”

At the hospital, Doug's attention drifted away as he thought about the card tables. Shanice intuited that something else was wrong with the surgeon besides his broken wrist and advised him to take care of himself. Doug visited Randy at the casino, feeling he needed to play a few rounds for the sake of presenting himself as steady to his co-workers. Randy accounted how Eva, who had earlier won a decent amount gambling, quit before she lost everything; he warned his childhood friend that he was on the edge and urged Doug to likewise walk away. Doug agreed and let Randy walk him out, but once Randy was out of sight, Doug snuck back in and threw a wad of cash to the dealer.

Dani and Anita postulated on Nicole's marriage, with Anita wondering if she could have done more to teach her daughters what she'd learned about toxic men while in the music business. When they saw Eva entering the club, Anita indifferently noted that Uptown was a public place and they couldn't boot Eva out, so Dani tried the tack of inviting Eva to join them. Anita took Eva's hand and granted that Eva had been through a traumatic experience, but when Dani sarcastically took note of how resourceful Eva could be, Eva relayed how Nicole had said she was the best assistant the shrink had ever had. Dani told Anita how Ted had offered to provide housing to Eva, “which was the least he could do.”

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Eva proudly informed the Dupree women that she had always worked, and would again; Dani submitted that Eva could return to being a hairstylist. Eva was gleeful when Anita expressed her hope that Ted would become a real father to her. However, Anita's tone changed as she promised Eva that, because of what she had done to Nicole, Eva would never be a part of the Dupree family. Eva's eyes became swollen with tears.

Beyond the Gates airs weekdays on CBS and streams on Paramount Plus.

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