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While a certain bigoted busboy got what was coming to him earlier this year, that was merely a plot development in a story that had more to do with Martin, Vernon, and the Duprees. In the Thursday, September 25 episode of Beyond the Gates, Jacob was forced to deliver the news about a death that hit Vanessa hard, leading to the show\u2019s first big death. Meanwhile, Dani may have come up with a new way to get under Bill\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n
As far as we know, Dr. Doug McBride (Jason Graham) is dead. Apparently, he was in a car accident, and a flask was discovered. He was heading down a highway and solo crashed into a tree. The car caught on fire. That flask meant Doug had been drinking, but are there enough remains for the medical examiner or forensic pathologist to determine if there was anything else in his system?<\/p>\n
Joey (Jon Lindstrom) and Marcel (Darryl W. Handy) may have successfully gotten rid of Doug, and there won\u2019t be anything that could blow back on them. Sure, Vanessa (Lauren Buglioli) knows her husband was gambling, probably at Joey\u2019s casino. And the audience knows that Marcel may have helped along Doug\u2019s drunken spiral. But who will ever find out that they were behind Doug\u2019s descent? Nobody \u2014 unless Joey or Marcel talks, and that\u2019s not likely to happen anytime soon.<\/p>\n
So here we go. Doug died, and Vanessa is devastated. And we still haven\u2019t met Vanessa and Doug\u2019s kids. Let\u2019s hope that will be changing soon. They\u2019re going to want to be there for their mom and to say a proper goodbye to their father, right? Let\u2019s hope we get to meet the twins, Donnell and Deanna, soon.<\/p>\n
And what will a mourning Vanessa look like? Will she stick with Joey, or will she need to grieve on her own or with her friends and family who know her? Joey thinks that it\u2019ll be easy street for him and Vanessa from here on out, now that he has her to himself. But is that the way it\u2019s going to play out?<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Jacob (Jibre Hordges) has that look on his face again \u2014 the one that says he doesn\u2019t want to take things at face value. So he may try to do some digging of his own. And that won\u2019t be good for Joey or Marcel.<\/p>\n
\u2018Score.\u201d That\u2019s what Dani (Karla Mosley) said after Bill (Timon Kyle Durrett) walked out of her house.<\/p>\n
So Dani was ready to annul her marriage to Andre (Sean Freeman) just like that. And then Bill wasted no time laying into her in such a hypocritical way. He yelled at her for marrying someone on a whim who was half her age, as if he didn\u2019t burn down his family doing the same thing. Of course, he said he was worried about what this news would do to their daughters. But we know better.<\/p>\n
But Dani didn\u2019t see it as being torn down or criticized. She loved the reaction it got out of Bill. And she saw that as an opportunity. Instead of bringing an end to her quickie marriage to Andre, she wants to prolong it a little bit more. So does that mean Andre and Dani will stay married for the foreseeable future because she wants to make Bill jealous? Will Andre go for that? He seems to catch on to what Dani\u2019s true intentions are pretty quickly.<\/p>\n
And how will Hayley (Marquita Goings) react to that? She\u2019s already unhappy that Bill hightailed it over to Dani\u2019s instead of going to work.<\/p>\n
What did you think about Dani, Andre, and Bill? How about Anita (Tamara Tunie), Vernon (Clifton Davis), and Nicole (Daphn\u00e9e Duplaix) ambushing Andre like that? How will Vanessa and Joey play out now that Doug isn\u2019t around? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n
READ THIS: <\/strong>Here\u2019s what\u2019s coming up next on BTG.<\/a> This story was originally reported on Soap Hub<\/a> on September 25, 2025. Add Soap Hub as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While a certain bigoted busboy got what was coming to him earlier this year, that was merely a plot development in a story that had more to do with Martin, Vernon, and the Duprees. In the Thursday, September 25 episode of Beyond the Gates, Jacob was forced to deliver the news about a death that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2050386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[353428,375989,358724],"class_list":["post-2050385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dani","tag-doug-mcbride","tag-vanessa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Shows-First-Big-Death-Danis-Sudden-Change-of-Mind.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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