Beyond the Gates Recap, September 30, 2025: Jacob remembered Doug's words, and Tomás and Kat had weird reasons for wanting to be together

Here's what went down Tuesday, September 30, 2025 on Beyond the Gates when June got (most of) the real deal about her crush, Smitty and Martin switched roles, and Nicole did the Carlton.

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On Beyond the Gates, Kat proposed that she and Eva really could be close as sisters, even sharing things. Just then, Tomás emerged from Eva's shower, only a towel wrapped around him. Tomás stammered that he had been helping Eva move, while Eva said that the uninvited Kat wasn't owed any answers. “You all are both garbage,” Kat stated when she realized Eva and Tomás had had sex.

“Did you take a page out of my father's playbook?” Kat asked, noting that Tomás had hooked up with someone else despite having the perfect girl. Tomás reminded Kat that she had ghosted him; he thought their relationship was over. Kat fumed that Tomás had run right to Eva, who had planned to seduce him. Eva was honest: she had wanted Tomás, and she'd loved every second of it. Tomás decried Kat's name-calling of Eva, who commented that Kat had been a “top-tier bitch” to Tomás “since forever.” Tomás didn't want Eva getting into Kat, making him jump through hoops before finally offering up her virginity, or how Tomás hadn't lived up to Kat's expectations afterwards.

Eva purred that she had shown Tomás what it was like to have a woman who really wanted him and prophesied that men held on tight when they got what they wanted in bed. “How could you?” the hurt Kat asked Tomás when she learned that he had shared details of their sex life with her rival. She wondered if it would be equally appropriate if she went to Tomás' boss, Bill, about their intimacy, with Eva making asides. When Kat stated that Tomás had gotten revenge on her saying he was bad in bed by having sex with her half-sister, Eva called Kat out for finally acknowledging her as family just so she could cast herself as the victim.

Kat decried how everyone had insisted that she give Eva a chance; Kat added that she now knew Eva, who had gotten her degenerate DNA from their father. Tomás wanted Kat to direct her anger at him, but she would only thank him and Eva for making her day “so memorable,” taking back the ChelseaKat purse she'd brought Eva as a peace offering as she stomped out.

With Kat gone, Eva snarked, “When her claws come out, that bitch gets feral.” Tomás felt that having sex with Eva had been impulsive, and he wished he hadn't done it. Eva begged to differ, saying that Kat had brought the situation on herself – and that Eva and Tomás had both known all along they would end up making love; they had only held back out of respect for Kat. Eva was stunned to hear Tomás implying that he had used her; their encounter had meant something, but only because they were friends.

Eva felt that their connection had gone beyond friendship, and that Tomás was backtracking because he felt guilty. Tomás called what they'd done “a beautiful escape,” which stung Eva. She couldn't believe that Tomás still wanted Kat and stood stone-faced as he reiterated that he and Kat had only technically been broken up. Tomás still hoped to share good times and conversations with Eva, who spat, “What, we supposed to just be bros now?”

“Lose her!” Eva finally said. They were the ones who were supposed to be together, and Eva had thought that Tomás had come to that realization at long last. When Tomás maintained that he was with Kat, Eva balked that, to him, she had just been some sexual experience to disprove Kat's words about his poor bedroom performance. Eva accused him of wanting to stay with Kat for the financial and vocational advantages – realizing in horror that she had acted just like her mother. Falling apart, Eva demanded that Tomás get out and never come back.

Ted was incredulous to learn from Andre that he had married Dani in Vegas. “Nothing like rebounding with a friend,” Andre shrugged as Ted learned that his nephew had been reacting to Ashley's engagement. Ted saw Nicole entering the country club banquet room with Carlton, complaining that his wife was going out with his “so-called best friend.” Andre saw the glare that Nicole had shot Ted and wondered what he had done to her.

Carlton and Nicole discussed the loss of Doug. Nicole admitted that she could “happily strangle” Ted in that moment, but she would be devastated if something happened to him. Across the room, Andre couldn't believe that Ted had slept with Leslie and pointed out that Nicole was mad at him as well because he had married Dani. Ted figured Nicole now hated marriage – and him and Andre on top of it – though he reckoned that he could turn things around if he could find Nicole's soft spot.

Ted and Andre approached Nicole and Carlton's table. After Carlton countered Ted's compliment to Nicole with one of his own, Ted changed the subject and relayed how he didn't want Nicole venting her fury at him on Andre. Nicole felt that, if Andre were old enough to get married, he could take the heat – particularly once she learned that Andre and Dani weren't getting their promised annulment after all. Andre hit Nicole where it hurts by saying she didn't think of him as family anymore and implored her not to turn her back on Dani.

Carlton and Ted bandied words as well, with Ted calling his colleague “dumb as a box of rocks” for not knowing his place. Nicole said that Ted had no call to question her about how she spent her time with Carlton, especially after he'd had sex with that “disturbing individual.”

After Ted and Andre finished drowning their sorrows and left, Carlton expressed gratitude that Nicole was able to divulge the more difficult parts of her life with him. Nicole was amazed that Carlton felt sympathy for Ted – Carlton clarified that if it had been he who had messed things up with Nicole, he would climb every mountain to make things right with her. It pleased Nicole when Carlton said she was worth fighting for. In the lobby, Ted happened to see Carlton and Nicole sharing their first kiss.

Joey hurried off his call with Marcel and stammered that Vanessa should be at home. Vanessa remarked that Doug had spent so much time in Joey's back room gambling, she half thought about holding his memorial there. While Joey suggested that Vanessa be with her devastated children, Vanessa announced that she needed to talk to the police. Joey realized that Vanessa was looking for something or someone to blame so she could stop blaming herself and assured the widow that Doug's death hadn't been her fault.

When Vanessa was self-critical about not stepping in with Doug about his drinking and gambling, Joey held that an addict who didn't want help couldn't be helped. Vanessa felt that Doug might have been in the state he'd been in because of her affair with Joey; Armstrong replied that Doug had taken some dangerous chances, and that was what had gotten him killed.

Vanessa had been trying to make sense out of what had happened and kept going to back to her final conversation with Doug. To Vanessa, Doug had been apologetic and hopeful for a reconciliation until he realized she was with Joey – and she wanted to know what had transpired between the call and the accident. Joey worked to convince Vanessa that she'd have to learn to be comfortable not knowing, but Vanessa refused, notifying Joey that her search for closure was going to begin with the crash site.

Joey tried to dissuade Vanessa from visiting the scene of the accident and quietly probed to find out if the police had any reason to believe Doug's death had been caused intentionally. Vanessa reported that there had been no other vehicles present, so Joey counseled Vanessa to focus on making arrangements of Doug's funeral instead.

Madison was glad to be with Chelsea after Allison had cut in on her online purse launch; the neurologist was thrilled when Chelsea showed her the event's stellar preliminary sales figures. Chelsea felt she had come into her own – and she was even grateful that Allison had called; even though the experience had been terrifying at first, it had served to remind Chelsea that she had survived being kidnapped. She was ready to conquer the world again.

With Madison's support, Chelsea went online and posted a live video thanking her fans and customers – and acknowledging that she had been the victim of a violent attack. The influencer confessed that, in its aftermath, she had wanted to withdraw into herself, but she added that that wasn't who she wanted to be. Chelsea encouraged those who were going through things to lean on their loved ones and believe in the path forward, even if it seemed invisible in the moment. After Chelsea clicked off, Madison kissed her approval.

Kat came home upset about finding an essentially naked Tomás with Eva, so Madison took that as her cue to leave, allowing Kat to vent to Chelsea. After Kat wondered if there was a Dupree curse that made all men they were involved with cheat, she collapsed into Chelsea's arms. Chelsea noted that Kat and Tomás had barely been hanging on – and Kat realized that Chelsea had sent her to Eva's on purpose, figuring that Eva would be taking advantage of the rift.

When Kat said she wanted Tomás back, Chelsea exhorted her cousin to hold out for someone better. It was truly over, Chelsea reasoned, but Kat didn't think so – she loved Tomás. “Did you just use the L-word about someone who slept with your sister?” Chelsea asked, aghast. Chelsea didn't want to hear Kat's rationale that Tomás wouldn't have turned to Eva if she had been honest about her feelings for him – especially after watching Bill being emboldened by Dani's constant forgiveness of his indiscretions.

Kat was convinced that she and Tomás had simply hit a rough patch, causing Chelsea to exclaim, “Girl! You didn't even like the sex with him!” Chelsea shot down every excuse Kat made for wanting to patch things up with Tomás...finally getting out of Kat that she simply didn't want to let Eva win.

Naomi went to Orphey Gene's, telling June that she had informed the manager about June's conscientiousness in going beyond to return Naomi's wedding ring, which June had found in the restroom. “If I had a man that loved me the way Jacob loves you...” June sighed. Naomi felt that June needed people in her life; the waitress had come to realize that she could find love someday and told her friend about having talked to a customer who was “Morris Chestnut gorgeous.” June wanted romance advice from Naomi, who saw Jacob entering and teamed up with him to teach June how to approach a man and gently flirt with him.

June couldn't wait to try the Hawthornes' examples on her guy, whose name she had seen on his credit card: Theodore Richardson. Jacob and Naomi were shocked to hear that June had been crushing on Ted; Naomi informed her friend that Ted was bad news. When Jacob concurred, the flustered June left the table, and Naomi told Jacob that there was no way she was also going to point out to June that Ted was the adoptive grandfather of June's children. “And he was a part of that Martin and Marcel mess,” Jacob remembered.

Naomi had been under the impression that she and Jacob weren't going to discuss that matter further, but Jacob revealed that he'd been thinking about it because there had been another death that Joey had been peripherally connected to. When Jacob mentioned Doug telling him that he had information that could convict Joey, Naomi chalked up the claim to Doug's increasing use of alcohol. But after Jacob continued that Doug had said Joey had had someone murdered, Naomi began to wonder if Doug's life had intersected with Joey's. Jacob cited Doug gambling at Joey's casino as a potential tie between them.

Martin made dinner for Smitty, to whom the meal recalled memories of a time before they had adopted Tyrell and Samantha. The couple remembered not being ready for parenthood but jumping in anyway, and Smitty remarked that Martin had evolved recently. Martin was glad that Smitty had noticed but stopped his attempted kiss and said that they needed to talk. The congressman opened up that Smitty had broken his heart after they'd had sex because Smitty had qualified that he'd only been getting his needs met.

Seeing that Martin felt used, Smitty wanted to take his words back, but Martin felt that they needed to stop hurting each other – done with sleeping on the couch like “a nice uncle,” Martin was leaving so he could figure out exactly what he and Smitty still meant to each other. Smitty objected that they were still partners despite their fights, but Martin was tired of walking on eggshells. Either he was fully a part of Smitty's life, or he wasn't a part of it at all.

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“But you'll be back – right?” Smitty wanted to know. Martin responded that he'd be back for the kids, but only for Smitty if Smitty was ready to accept him, flaws and all. Smitty was wrecked as Martin went upstairs to pack.

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

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