Beyond the Gates Recap for October 2, 2025: Dani had Bill seeing red and it was easy for Naomi to be clear blue

Here's what went down Thursday, October 2, 2025, on Beyond the Gates when Joey put out one fire with Donnell only to have another spring up, Dani decided Bill was so last year, and dealer Drake got dealt a bad hand.

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On Beyond the Gates, Bill pulled back from kissing Dani and said he shouldn't have initiated it. Dani chalked it up to “standard macho ownership,” saying Bill just wanted to keep his mark on her even though she was married to someone else. The new Mrs. Richardson grinned that it drove Bill crazy that she was now with a man better for her than he, but Bill barked that Andre didn't know Dani and that she had only married Andre to get back at Bill for proclaiming they had been spending too much time together.

Dani admitted that Bill's statement had been a knife to her heart, as had been Bill shutting her out when she had just begun to trust him again. Bill apologized for having been too harsh, but when he returned to making comments about Andre's age, Dani spat that Andre was “every inch a man” and that he was able to show her worlds she hadn't known had existed. With Andre, Dani felt impulsive and fearless and like she was Dani Dupree again – someone she'd missed.

Bill reminded Dani that he had loved her and that he still knew her. Dani countered that she had become invisible to Bill years before their divorce and was happy to be with someone who fully saw her. When Bill referred to Andre as a “seat filler,” Dani fumed that it was Bill who had married a child and that Hayley was only pretending to be insecure to get her way. She couldn't believe that “D.C.'s puppet master” was so blinded by love that he couldn't see Hayley's manipulations.

Dani offered her ex a deal – she would stop talking smack about his marriage if he would do the same about hers. Bill was aghast that Dani planned to stay married to Andre and suggested that he and Dani should go forward as if their kiss had never happened. Afterwards, Bill went home to Hayley, who was unusually quiet; Bill apologized for their earlier fight about Dani and her marriage, but Hayley was more upset about her bad news – she thought she might have been pregnant, but it turned out she was just late.

Bill didn't want to rush having a child, particularly since he and Hayley were still healing from having lost one. Hayley, however, was determined and promised to make Bill a father again sooner than later.

Andre heard from a friend in Paris that his marriage to Dani had made news there; he grumbled that the Duprees had failed to contain the story despite their bravado about planning to. Naomi arrived, disturbed to see Andre in her mother's house; she had hoped that the wedding had only been a rumor. The lawyer accused Andre of marrying Dani as a reaction to Ashley's engagement to Derek; unable to have Ashley, Naomi said, Andre had settled for the next best thing. Andre replied that Naomi should know her mother would never allow herself to be anything but the main character, and pointed out that he and Dani had their own style of commitment, since Dani had never completely let Andre in had prevented him from fully investing in their relationship as well.

Naomi was certain that Andre would dump Dani should Ashley become available. Andre's opinion was that Naomi should be more worried about Bill, since he still walked around Dani's world like he owned the place. Naomi felt that Andre had taken advantage of Dani's latest falling out with Bill and demanded that Andre sign a post-nup; Andre was absolutely willing and reinforced the fact that he already had plenty of his own money. Andre was tired of defending his marriage and gave the Duprees free rein to sit in judgment of it; he just wanted to enjoy his happiness.

Andre said that Naomi and her family viewed his and Dani's marriage as wrong because it wasn't what they thought the institution was supposed to look like; he added that it's not fitting into a box didn't make it less real. Andre assured Naomi that he wasn't like her dad, who had devalued Dani. The thing that Andre loved most about Dani was that she made him laugh. Naomi couldn't help thinking of a time when Vernon and Anita had been unable to stop Dani from giggling in public because a socialite's wig wasn't on straight.

Naomi grudgingly welcomed Andre to the family, but maintained that not only was she a “super skeptic,” she had inherited both of her parents' worst traits. Therefore, Naomi said, Andre had better do right by Dani, or he would have to answer to her. Later, after Dani returned home, she relayed to Andre how she had told Bill that Andre had fulfilled her in a way Bill hadn't been able to. Andre praised Dani's stand, yet she still wistfully thought back to her kiss with Bill.

At Garland Memorial, Jacob interviewed Ted about Doug and learned about Doug's sudden resignation. Ted read between the lines when he asked Jacob if he suspected foul play in Doug's death, and Jacob said, “Not at this time.” While Ted couldn't deny that Doug had begun behaving erratically, he didn't know of Doug drinking on the job and averred that no patient had been harmed because of Doug. Jacob asked if Doug had been having trouble at home; Ted conveyed that Doug had had an open relationship with Vanessa, which not many people knew.

Vanessa came to see Shanice and asked her to speak at Doug's memorial. Shanice felt bad about running her “big ol' mouth” to Donnell about Doug having quit the hospital months earlier. Vanessa said that she'd hoped Doug would return to his post before having to tell their kids Doug was no longer a doctor – and she sighed that there was so much she didn't know how to explain to her twins.

After Ted took Vanessa away to his office, Jacob asked Shanice some questions about Doug's personal life, then let her know that he also knew about the improvement in Derek's condition. Jacob took Shanice's wordless shock to mean she knew about it, too, though she insisted to Jacob that she was forbidden from discussing Derek's case. She would only say that she had never told Derek to lie. Jacob was surprised to learn from Shanice that Derek had been told about Andre's elopement, and wondered if Andre being off the market would inspire Derek to tell Ashley the truth about his leg sensations. Shanice couldn't be sure.

Ted and Vanessa spoke of Donnell and how he was taking a break from school in the wake of his father's death. They both agreed that they wished they had paid more attention to just how badly Doug had been doing before his death. When Vanessa bemoaned her neglect of Doug, Ted spoke from his experience with Nicole and advised Vanessa to go easy on herself, since “guilt [was] a horrible place to live.” As Doug's friend and widow talked over the fact that neither of them had known that Doug had come to Nicole about his gambling addiction, Ted remarked that “you can get good at hiding what shames you,” adding that it was especially difficult to be hooked on something so destructive yet so irresistible at the same time. Vanessa barely hid her knowing reaction.

While Joey tried to console Donnell about the loss of his father, Donnell raged that Doug's blood alcohol level had been determined to be twice the legal limit, and he wondered why Lakeview staff had kept serving Doug drinks instead of cutting him off. The young McBride informed Armstrong that he and his family would be filing a wrongful death suit, since nobody had noticed how inebriated Doug had been. Joey claimed he hadn't been “on the floor” that night but tried to assure Donnell that there were already changes in protocol taking place at the casino, agreeing that transportation should have been arranged for Doug instead of him driving.

Donnell was outraged when Joey told him there was no legal liability for bartenders who overserved customers – at least not in their state. When Donnell maintained that Doug had been drunk and alone, and that no one had helped him, Joey suggested that the college student have a few words with his “son-of-a-bitch bartender.”

“I didn't think he was that drunk,” Drake, the dealer, insisted to Donnell, who suddenly noticed that Drake was wearing Doug's watch. “It's mine,” Drake held firm, but Joey made Drake take the timepiece off so Donnell could examine it. After Donnell identified the inscription Vanessa had made on the back, Joey excoriated Drake for his lack of compassion in keeping something a customer lost in a game and fired him on the spot. Donnell was grateful and confessed that he'd planned to somehow “take from [Drake] what he took from me” – but that his father would have been disappointed in him if he had.

When Donnell stuck around, Joey texted Vanessa to “come get your son.” Vanessa soon walked in, mentioning that Joey had alerted her to Donnell's presence, causing Donnell to ask how Vanessa and Joey knew each other.

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Jacob called Naomi, wanting to take her out to dinner, but Naomi was feeling run down after her confrontation with Andre. By the time Jacob came home with chicken soup from Orphey Gene's for her, Naomi apprised him that she'd found out she wasn't sick. “I'm pregnant,” she said matter-of-factly, handing her husband her positive pregnancy test.

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