Beyond The Gates Recap August 10-14: Bill Cheats Death, Dani Faces an Intervention and Heather Returns
- Jazz
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This week on Beyond The Gates, the Kill Bill story ramped up, the stalker is revealed, and it is a surprise to no one. Dani calls the Duprees together to face the music and dodge accountability.
Black Widow and The Former Mrs. Hamilton
Hayley is in the limo waiting for Bill. She is excited to head to St. Bart’s to execute her plan of murdering her husband. Honestly, why do the calculated semi-villains have to become cartoonish? She receives a phone call from Caroline, who finds Bill unresponsive on the office floor. Shout out to having Darlene answer the 911 call to walk her through CPR.
Hayley goes to the hospital and puts on a horrible performance about Bill demanding to know where he is. Insert heavy eyeroll. Bill is in surgery. Later we learn that Bill had to have a pacemaker installed. He went into cardiac arrest three times on the table. That is what caused him to pass out. Later, she is making demands because Dani is there and ready to kick everyone out of the hospital, including his daughters.
Dani goes off, so much so she calls Bill her husband, and honestly, she looked absolutely insane while doing it. Her family looks on in horror at her meltdown. Hayley bans her from seeing Bill, but it is all moot because when Bill wakes up, he wants to see Dani. Dani goes to see him, and he apologises for the things he took her through, and Dani eats it up. She becomes conflicted. Meanwhile, Hayley is upset that Bill made it through surgery and complains to Randy in the hospital hallway while laying out their plan to Kill Bill.
The Dupree Intervention
Dani calls her family together at the country club to talk about her outburst. She is dismissive and tells them that they have nothing to worry about. They remind her that she has a great husband and that she and Bill have history that is all it is. Nicole reminds her that their children are grown.
Dani dodges all accountability, and by the look on Vernon’s face, he is over her. They take Dani at her word, but someone needs to give her a hard dose of reality.
Other Happenings
Joey is suspicious of Randy when he overhears him talking to Hayley. Randy lies but it looks like Joey may do some investigating of his own, and I do not need to say how I feel about that.
Deanna and her…Noah go on a date. It is just odd because he looks the same age as Randy, who was her father’s best friend. She and Kat are becoming friends, and I like the friend group forming.
Joey warns Vanessa about Heather. He also threatens to kill Heather if she hurts Vanessa. He also says he is not as vile as Heather. Oh Joey, let’s ask Deanna and Doug about how vile you are. You not only slept with his wife, but you also lured him into debt and made it increasingly worse when he paid it off. If that weren’t enough, you killed him.
Eva and Izaiah have the same conversation from last week, and I am bored. I feel like the writers do not know how to write for the younger people, with the exception of Jamey, and he is moving on to a head writing position at another soap. Lesigh.
Andre’s Past and His Present Situation
Andre continues receiving mysterious texts. He also gets a call from Chelsea, who in a moment of…I don’t know, being an airhead makes him think that Dani is in the hospital. When he arrives, Dani is with Bill. Later, Andre talks to Ted about his past and current situation. He tells him about Bill and his concerns over Dani and Bill. Ted tells him that he needs to have a talk with both Dani and Bill. He chooses to talk to Bill first.
Andre takes cheap shots at Bill being laid up. He asserts that Dani is his wife, and Bill smirks. These were good scenes; I just hate that Andre did this while the man was barely out of surgery. Bill wanted to deliver the one punch that would knock the wind out of Andre, but he held back while still standing his ground. Andre later gets a text to meet at a hotel, and this is the cliffhanger; it is Heather. He looks terrified.
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Final Thoughts on the Week
I want to like Heather because I love Ashley Jones, but her portrayal of Heather leaves a lot to be desired. For one, she is as old if not older, than Dani and Nicole. She is being written as the wayward little sister when she should have been Joey’s ex-wife since she slithers all over him, which is creepy. I guess I just don’t buy her as the villain. I will admit, she was better the last couple of weeks, so we shall see.
I feel like with the merger there is an agenda going on at the soap. Joey was a recurring character; why are we getting his sister? Kial is a recurring character. Why are we getting his son? I know Bill has a child from one of his many mistresses; it should have been a Hamiliton. We want to see people related to The Duprees, The Hamiltons, and yes, The Thomases. Leslie’s father, whom I imagine to be Dante, should arrive in FMC.
He should be rich and powerful, and that should be the rival family to The Duprees. As it stands, the Duprees are supposed to be powerful, but they are written as weak. Allowing everything around them to happen to them and needing help from the local criminals. This is why I need Vernon to have a younger brother or a son he didn’t know about. One he had before Anita. I need a ruthless Dupree that isn’t neutered, but all of the recent characters added have no connections to the core families, and I just cannot care about them.
The same problems keep recurring, and if it were not for these recaps, I’d stop watching. I can not watch for a week or two, come back, and not be lost. That is how slow these stories move. Kill Bill has been going on for a year. The Impaler story is slated to go on longer. It had no real resolution, just an abrupt ending to introduce Heather. It was lazy and unoriginal. I digress, I guess.
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