Beyond The Gates Recap: Kenneth Tries to Suck Martin Dry
On today's Beyond The Gates recap:
Fairmont Country Club – Locker Room: Martin is on his phone and calls Zack to draft a memo about affordable housing, as someone watches. He hears a couple of doors slam and is confronted by the young waiter – Kenneth. Martin wants to know exactly what he wants. Kenneth says he wants to watch him squirm and Kenneth wonders if he actually remembers what happened that dreaded night. Further, he asks how his adopted kids are, especially little Samantha. Martin grabs him by the neck and Kenneth simply laughs.
Martin calls Kenneth out as a backwoods nobody trying to squeeze money from a sitting Congressman. He thinks the irony is hilarious and pathetic. Kenneth says it's only about the justice that money can buy. Martin inquires and Kenneth says 100K shouldn't be too much to ask. Martin says he'll write 10 of those checks to get him gone. Kenneth smacks Martin on either shoulder and says they will have a long and profitable partnership.
Martin isn't ready for long-term blackmail which leads Kenneth to say he should think about it how 'his people' do and call it reparations. Martin goes off until Kenneth says he is only trying to get his and will expose him if he makes a misstep. Kenneth says he is the one who has right on his side and knows how this town runs on favors. Martin says he can make Kenneth disappear without a fingerprint. Kenneth wonders why he has yet to use all that power. With that, he makes his exit and Martin explodes.
Orphey Gene's: Jacob meets up with Kat who is insistent about hearing more about Leslie's case. Just then, Leslie walks up and takes a seat. Kat tells Leslie to get gone. Leslie knows she is the big bad bitch they are discussing and who they continue to pin crimes upon. Jacob tells Kat to stand back and let Leslie talk for a moment. Leslie thinks it's so much fun to watch them get all worked up and knows they will try to plant MORE evidence on her and muster up fake witnesses. She wonders what exactly they are trying to prove. Further, Leslie thinks the duo is better off working with her than against her.
Kat can't believe Leslie's audacity and tells her to get gone, immediately. Leslie counters saying how pressed Kat is and needs to stand down. Jacob defends Kat saying she has been legitimately helping a police investigation whilst Leslie has been stirring up trouble her entire life. Leslie thinks the witch hunt is real and says she called a very powerful and expensive old friend to help her (intimating Bill). With that, she puts on her glasses and makes her exit.
Dani's Home: Dani makes a call about the new modeling agency when she sees a vision of Bill in the chair next to her. She shuts her eyes and flashes back to their time in his hospital room. Just then, Pamela arrives and wonders what the hell she's doing. Dani snaps at her and Pamela tells her friend to cool her jets. Dani hates she can be read so well, and Pamela says she has a PhD in her Bill issues. Dani thinks everything is different since the stroke and maybe mortality has changed everything.
Dani explains seeing Bill at the hospital put her right back in wife mode, despite Hayley's presence. Pamela says there needs to be a middle ground between wanting to kill and reunite with her ex. Dani says they built a life together, but Pamela says everything Bill did to him demands she move on. In addition, it's Andre who is giving her everything she wants from a man.
Anita and Vernon's Mansion: Bill arrives, and Vernon says they have a challenge to deal with. Bill tells Vernon to be careful as THEY do not have a problem HE does. Vernon tries to remind Bill who he is and wants to get down to business. He reminds Bill he was there from the beginning which means they can all fall together. Bill wonders if there was ever a time this family was in crisis that he didn't swoop in to clean up the mess. He thinks, at the very least, he deserves an apology for him and his wife.
Vernon notes how he destroyed Dani and their children. He can't believe Bill's audacity for demanding an apology. Bill says the way they treated Hayley also created scars. Vernon says he has shown restraint with Hayley despite her horrid behavior, but he doesn't owe Bill anything.
Bill wants to lay out all the actions he's taken, and Vernon says most of them have served him equally or more than the Dupree family. Bill says he answered Vernon's call out of respect for his family but will no longer do so if that same respect is not returned. He asks if Vernon wants him to save his family once again, what's in it for him.
Bill tells Vernon the worst mistake of his life was getting in bed with the Duprees. Vernon notes he has no clue what regret is… yet. He reminds Bill how the Dupree name gave him every connection he has. His entire career is based on Dupree connections. Bill indicates he has paid that debt but Vernon says owing the Duprees comes with INTEREST. Bill tries to make his exit but Vernon wonders if that move is wise. He thinks when questions are asked Bill will go down and the revered citizen will remain supreme.
Garland Memorial Hospital – Ted's Office: Ted tells Eva all about her new job by saying how amazing Kat was. She looks down and says she doesn't feel like she's qualified enough for the tasks at hand. With that, she exits.
Nicole runs into Eva in the lobby. Eva immediately tries to walk away as she assumes her former employer can't stand the sight of her. Nicole stops her and asks what's going on. Eva dissolves in tears and asks if she was ever good at her job. Nicole says she was brilliant. Eva gives her the details of Ted offering her Kat's old job and Nicole completely understands her insecurities.
Nicole admits to Eva they have a lot to unpack but admits she ran her office flawlessly which is why Ted offered her the job. Eva is grateful for everything but know Kat is not going to show her the ropes. There is no way she can compete which is why she walked out on Ted. Nicole thinks it's just Eva's anxiety talking and tells her not to let her fear stop her from trying. She thinks her former assistant is not going to have many problems. With that, she exits leaving Eva in a much better place.
Anita and Vernon's Mansion: Vernon leaves Anita a message saying how much she is missed. Just then, Martin arrives and tells him about his encounter with Kenneth, who says the young waiter blackmailed him for multiple payments of 100K. Martin wants to come clean, and Vernon tells him to take several seats. Martin doesn't know what to do but Vernon says they will handle everything as a family the same way they always do. They will wait, watch and see what happens next.
Bill's Law Office: Bill is on the phone saying he should have cleaned this situation up before and tells his informant to await instructions. Just then, Tomas arrives with files Bill wanted. His boss says to make sure he knocks before entering his office. Tomas apologizes but Bill gives him all kinds of business. He says knowing too much is often worse than not knowing enough. With that, Bill instructs him to do as he says and not as he does before throwing him out.
Dani's Home: Dani and Pamela agree they will be so good once they find the right face for their new company. She then sees something in the paperwork which gives her pause. At that point, she flashes back to a conversation with Bill where they agreed they were a team. In real-time, Pameal pulls her back in and Dani signs off. Pamela exits to hit up the attorneys so they can get going.
Dani grabs her phone and sends someone a text.
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Ted calls a temp agency to find someone to take Kat's place. Just then, Eva returns ready to begin her now post. Ted doesn't want to push but she says 'someone' helped her realize she shouldn't let fear guide her way. Ted is impressed with her turnaround, and they agree to go forward.
Jacob tells Kat the DNA results came in and there's almost a 100% match. Kat thinks they have Leslie dead to rights, but he tells her to slow her roll. He says they can prove Leslie wore the helmet at some point but not that she wore it in an attempt to run Laura off the road. They don't have enough grounds to establish a charge.
Dani looks through pictures of models and is unimpressed. She looks at her phone and tries to call Bill.
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This story was originally reported by Daytime Confidential on Jun 23, 2025, where it first appeared.
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View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver Datsun 280-ZX Turbo 1982 Datsun 280-ZX Turbo 180-hp inline-6, 5-speed manual, 2960 lb Base/as-tested price: $17,500/$17,500 (est) C/D TEST RESULTS 60 mph: 7.1 sec 1/4 mile: 15.4 sec @ 90 mph 100 mph: 22.0 sec Top speed: 135 mph Braking, 70-0 mph: 191 ft Roadholding, 282-ft-dia skidpad: 0.76 g C/D observed fuel economy: 15 mpg Each five-speed car will be fitted with a modified rear suspension with re-angled lower control arms and relocated pickup points; a modified differential mounting, which alters the deflection-steer characteristics of the rear crossmember for less wigwag in corners; stronger constant-velocity universal joints; spring rates increased 12 percent over the 1981 Turbo's; and shock-absorber rebound control bumped up by 8 percent. Anti-sway-bar sizes remain the same. View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver Our prototype had most of the new chassis pieces, and the change in ride characteristics was less than desirable. 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Perhaps the introduction of the long-awaited '83 Corvette will see an across-the-board improvement. 1982 Chevrolet Corvette 190-hp V-8, 4-speed manual, 2960 lb Base/as-tested price: $16,258/$19,000 C/D TEST RESULTS 60 mph: 7.2 sec 1/4 mile: 15.4 sec @ 91 mph 100 mph: 19.7 sec Top speed: 130 mph Braking, 70-0 mph: 198 ft Roadholding, 282-ft-dia skidpad: 0.79 g C/D observed fuel economy: 15 mpg View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver The best part of the current Vette is its effortless low-rpm responsiveness to the throttle. A brush of the pedal in almost any gear causes gaps to open behind the car. Unlike all the others (except perhaps the Porsche, to a lesser extent), the Corvette's transmission is almost superfluous in traffic. Likewise, its massive-section Goodyears exert a rousing influence over smooth pavement, sturdy braking gets forward motion arrested instead of you, and grudging understeer quiets your beating heart when you go ramming into comers. Meantime, you've got all the standardized GM life-of-Riley appurtenances to keep you company when the squeaks, rattles, and lurches over bumpy roads begin to take their toll on your peace of mind. By that time, the semi-dreadful seats (to be replaced by Recaros in 1983) may have cricked your spine to a fare-thee-well. The Corvette, more than any other car in this test, requires you to love it a whole lot going in if you're to have much affection for it at all coming out. This car was due a major overhaul it never got way back in the days when John De Lorean was still the man to watch on the GM ladder. Now, like John De Lorean, we are left to balance what each of these cars is against what it does. Sports/GT cars are expected to perform, ideally in some direct proportion to the way they look. The surface answers lie in our results box. View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver We would qualify the Waterford Hills results only by pointing out that it is one of the tightest road circuits we've ever seen, thus favoring the torquey, big-tired, understeering Corvette. Then again, Corvettes usually turn good times over the smooth and predictable confines of artificial courses, and even had the Porsche not been, shall we say, unexpectedly eliminated from that portion of the competition, it's unlikely it would have surpassed the Corvette's easily posted time without lots of practice. The Datsun's brakes faded away entirely at the two-lap mark a number of times at Waterford. Because of this failure, the Turbo only managed to match the De Lorean in bringing up the rear. The De Lorean was hampered partly by its Corvairish tendency for the tail to make mild, unwanted advances toward passing its front at awkward times, but more by its simple lack of power. It is not gutless on the road, but neither does it bend your comprehension of acceleration. On the road course, the Ferrari was mainly involved in an internal squabble with its own curb weight, which outweighs its high-speed agility on successions of snug corners. Still, it finished up second best. View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver It was here that we came to the real world, Ohio style. Do not ask us exactly where the Particular Stretch lies. We are saving its fourteen miles for future unsullied (read, unpatrolled) use. We will tell you only that it is one of the most devilishly tortuous and narrow tracts of pavement ever to give meaning to the words "lumpy" and "unpredictable." It has everything you could ask in order to drain the color right out of anybody's face. It also has one stop sign in the middle of nowhere (which was religiously obeyed); it has virtually no sources for interference except one tiny town with a much-reduced-speed succession of right-angled turns; and, oh, yes, it has a 2.5-mile stretch in the middle across high country that can be taken nearly flat-out, except maybe for the big, blind, bounding whoop-de-dos at about the two-mile mark. Owing to the nature of the course and the tender sensibilities that live even in the heart of the Designated Runner, each car was given only one timed run and each car was kept on its own side of the road, no cheating. Each could have been asked for a last bit of speed, but the relative results would have remained the same. The Corvette came off corners like a house afire, but the bumps set it to kicking around like the Rockettes on reds. Its bulk was too unstable to run as fast as you would expect on a wider, smoother road. The Datsun went a leaping, not as badly as the Corvette, but its brakes went woozy and induced a sickening front-end shudder when making their way down from high speeds. In handling, it was mainly a case of trying to match the suspension's peculiarities with those of the road, managed with limited success. But the Datsun did tie the Corvette in speed. View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver There were two kings of the hill, and they have the sort of pedigrees that might lead you to imagine them on top: Ferrari and Porsche. They took their work seriously, chewed well, and swallowed what they'd been served with never a flinch. The Porsche answered up with fine acceleration, stunning brakes, a suspension that gave not a single damn how bad the road got, and the feeling that it was about half the size of all the other cars. It was easy to place and a lot less trouble to keep track of than its reputation would have you believe. It was a machine absolutely in its breathtaking element. What the Porsche whipped into line, the Ferrari nonchalantly balanced across. Its feeling through the controls was exactly one of ideal coordination. It gathered that scofflaw road under its wing, gave it a little scolding, and sent it on its way the wiser. Its suspension feels as if it has a little less travel than the Porsche's, and its brakes are not quite as inspiring, but it has that gift of drivability that makes it perhaps the most pleasing of all. View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver But you should not be concerned for the De Lorean. Yes, it was the slowest in Ohio, just as it was in most of the proving-ground tests and at Waterford Hills, but then it's got tall gearing, excess curb weight, and the weakest engine. And the best fuel economy. However, its performance outlook is likely to do a complete about-face if John Z.'s deal with Legend Industries, the builders of Fiat's turbo roadsters, bears the twin-turbocharged fruit he's counting on. Engineers at De Lorean are already anticipating the upgradings they will have to make in Mr. Chapman's chassis, but they must be sustaining themselves with thoughts of the legend wrought by the Porsche 930 Turbo. One of the first things De Lorean's technical leprechauns should address themselves to is his car's tendency to get very antsy indeed at hyperspeed over bad pavement. Hopping, darting, and corkscrewing motions are not the stuff of confidence (we suspect that a distinct lack of torsional stiffness between the backbone and the body is the problem), especially when the car cuts into one's outward vision as severely as the De Lorean does. But such thing need not concern California executives and similar breeds, because John's De Lorean will provide them with all the flash and substance they need—and for a car so new and so different, that's a bunch already. What De Lorean has here is no less than the executive sports car. View Photos Aaron Kiley | Car and Driver If De Lorean keeps this up, he could be the only North American besides Henry Ford to leave his mark and his name on this business for the foreseeable future. It's a long row, but John Z. De Lorean is out here hoeing like mad. And the Designated Runner is standing by for the twin-turbo, hoping for no cops.
