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0:01ABBY LEE: Previously on Dance Moms...
0:03MAN: Until Abby tells me it's okay,
0:05they cannot dance.
0:07HOLLY: Abby's trying to get the number pulled.
0:08Are you kidding me?
0:09The line has been drawn in the sand,
0:11and it's not on the side of the elites.
0:12Ah!
0:14JILL: She's on to her next big thing.
0:15Well, guess what?
0:16Hi, guys.
0:16Hi.
0:18So are we.
0:20STACEY: They're competing at the same competition
0:21as us on Saturday.
0:22SARI: If the juniors don't want
0:23to work with her, we do.
0:25The teens should not be being beat
0:27by the minis, and we're being set up every week
0:28for the minis to beat us.
0:30Is that what you're afraid of,
0:31that they're beating you?
0:33Maybe we do hate Abby.
0:34I just don't give a damn.
0:35JILL: But if we do,
0:36it's because she made us hate her.
0:38ANNOUNCER: Entry number 83,
0:40"And Then There Was One."
0:41ABBY LEE: They didn't win,
0:43but you know what, girls? The grass is always greener on
0:44the other side, but then,
0:46your dog (bleep) in it.
0:48You did that to them.
0:48It was bull, dip (bleep).
0:51You're the dip (bleep)!
0:52I don't know what we're gonna do,
0:54but we won't be at the ALDC L.A.
0:56KIRA: You're dead to us.
0:59♪ Livin' on the dance floor.
1:15HOLLY: I'm conflicted, to be honest with you.
1:19I think that after that
1:21last week that we had with Abby, we just
1:24all really needed the eight weeks off. Our girls
1:26needed eight weeks off, and kind of regroup, and see
1:29if coming back is the answer or not.
1:32JILL: Things did not
1:34end well at the last competition two months ago.
1:37We walked out on Abby.
1:39And now we're back in L.A., because Abby called us.
1:42She wants to talk,
1:45and I have no idea what that woman is gonna say.
1:48Is she going to ask us back, or did she call us back
1:51to give us one final, "Screw you"?
1:55I don't know.
1:56I am sure that we can sit here
1:57and come up with 2,000 reasons why not to go back.
2:00Are there any reasons left why to go back, though?
2:02Because Abby is who she is.
2:04She's always got these good and these bad things,
2:05and the good things are what she's done.
2:07I mean, honestly,
2:08we all know that nobody would be sitting here
2:10if it wasn't for her.
2:11JILL: Well, here's what happened.
2:13When the kids stopped winning,
2:15that's when she went to the minis.
2:16"Well, I need a new team, someone that can win."
2:18She doesn't want us in there.
2:19KIRA: Oh, I think she needs us
2:20in there, and she knows
2:21she needs us in there.
2:21Nope. Nope.
2:23She doesn't know how to, and she's never gonna apologize.
2:25JILL: She doesn't need us.
2:25KIRA: She's not going to apologize to those kids.
2:28JILL: It's not in her nature.
2:29She doesn't know how to do it.
2:30I don't want to go in
2:31and ask for an apology, or ask for forgiveness.
2:33I just want to go in and see where she's at,
2:35and if it's possible to move forward or not.
2:36If she's willing to come back from that place
2:38she went to where she stopped caring,
2:39and come back to caring about our kids.
2:41And if she's not, then we leave.
2:47Are we just going to sit here, or are we going to go find out?
2:51(sighs)
3:13ASHLEE: Hi, Abby.
3:24Look what the cat dragged in.
3:27I've had some time to think about the mini team,
3:31and about the junior elite competition team,
3:32and about what the moms did to me.
3:34I told the moms to come back
3:36to the Abby Lee Dance Company to discuss my take on it.
3:38I don't think you,
3:40as adult women, should have allowed your children
3:43to go against their teacher.
3:45JILL: Abby, you gave them
3:47no choice. You're not... You would...
3:47What do you mean?
3:50I gave... They had lots of choices.
3:50You haven't been there. No, you didn't.
3:52You haven't been there for them.
3:53You've turned your back on them.
3:56I don't think I turned my back on anyone.
3:58Abby, you sabotaged our kids so they wouldn't win.
4:00No, I didn't.
4:00You reveled when we lost.
4:03We don't want to rehash...
4:03Yeah, I-I... I...
4:05Let's not rehash it.
4:06JILL: Do you want these kids
4:07at your studio or not?
4:08ABBY LEE: I set out
4:11more than five years ago
4:12to challenge myself to put
4:14a new competition routine on stage every single week.
4:17I'm not a quitter.
4:19I would like to finish what we started.
4:21I would like to see it through with these kids.
4:26If the girls want to be here, and they are proud
4:28to be members of the Abby Lee Dance Company,
4:31then they're welcome.
4:33You want them?
4:34Right.
4:35ASHLEE: I mean, let's face it.
4:36We're lost without Abby.
4:37We tried, and we failed.
4:40Maddie didn't become famous
4:41because she was on a losing team.
4:43Opportunities came from winning,
4:44so our girls need to be on a winning team.
4:47I have a big announcement to make
4:48that the girls should probably hear.
4:52Let me deal with the minis first,
4:53and then I will call for the girls.
4:56HOLLY: I hope this big announcement is gonna be
4:58positive enough that it's going to make us want
5:00to come back and stay with the team,
5:01because there has to be some type of change.
5:05If Abby can't meet Nia's needs,
5:08we will continue to walk out the door.
5:10♪
5:13ABBY LEE: Hello.
5:15How are you?
5:15Good.
5:17You're good? Yes?
5:18How are you?
5:20YOLANDA: It's great to be back. We went through
5:21a lot with the junior elite's quitting.
5:23I think we have proven to Abby
5:25that we are invested in her.
5:27We are her team, and we are proud
5:29to represent the ALDC.
5:31So it's just us here today?
5:35I...
5:39I really don't know what to think. I'm at a loss.
5:41Because... I did train those kids,
5:45and I've been a lot more influential in their lives
5:48than I have
5:49in your kids so far.
5:51And I feel like
5:52I need to teach those kids
5:56not to be quitters.
5:58So I don't know if my lessons
6:02with them are over.
6:03But I have a big announcement
6:05to make, and everyone should hear it.
6:08HOLLY: So we came in a little
6:10earlier than you-- I know you guys were at school--
6:12to go and check in on Abby.
6:14And we wanted to know where she stood, where she stood with
6:17all of you, and I think
6:19the long and short of it was like, "Don't come
6:21if you're not proud to support the ALDC."
6:23How do you girls feel about being back?
6:25Like, what's your thoughts? What's your feelings?
6:30I think mostly we're here to see if
6:32Abby realizes that she needs us
6:35just as much as we need her, so,
6:37hopefully, things turn out better this time.
6:39I know it's not going to be easy at first,
6:42but maybe, just maybe, it'll get
6:44a little bit better.
6:45SARI: So what does
6:47us being back, what does that say for the minis?
6:49What is it? It's been a year that
6:50we've been here, right? I mean...
6:51You had a good run.
6:58Well, on that note, let me get the girls.
7:10TIFFANIE: I did not see this coming.
7:12They walked out on Abby.
7:14And just to waltz back in as if, like, nothing happened?
7:16That's just ridiculous.
7:19STACEY: You should know
7:21that the moms,
7:22when they left, said
7:23that the treatment they get
7:25from you, that they would be bad parents
7:27to stay one more day, so,
7:29I'm very confused to see them here.
7:30That's what you said.
7:30I didn't say that.
7:32HOLLY: You know what? You know what?
7:33You are correct.
7:34I will own my words.
7:35I have no problem doing that.
7:37And we had a conversation with Abby
7:39about our issues.
7:41So if you want to be a tattletale, feel free.
7:43I mean, stop. Grow up.
7:45STACEY: The fact that
7:47you can leave, say horrible things
7:49about Abby, and then just
7:50walk back in with your heads held high--
7:53that's not fair.
7:55So I am bitter.
7:57ABBY LEE: All right.
7:58So I have a few things
8:00to say.
8:03We've had eight weeks off.
8:05I had a lot of time to think.
8:07I don't think the two teams
8:09worked out as well as I would have liked it.
8:14It was chaos.
8:16You all
8:17want to have an opinion.
8:19Kerri,
8:20you went on the stage
8:22and ripped
8:24all the stuff off of your kid's costume.
8:26Moms coming in, telling me,
8:28"They're not gonna wear a costume.
8:30My kid isn't gonna be garbage."
8:32Da-tata, da-tata, da-tata, dah.
8:34Stops.
8:35You are stifling
8:37my creativity.
8:39It's my dance company.
8:41I don't want to be split in half and do
8:44a mini and a junior.
8:46I-I don't need the stress. I don't need the aggravation.
8:49So, what are you saying exactly?
8:52At the end of this week,
8:54not everyone in this room
8:57will still be here.
9:00I will be sending some of you home.
9:04I'm going to have one
9:07competition team.
9:08Take a moment
9:10and think about that.
9:12Think hard, because your actions
9:16over the next few hours,
9:17over tomorrow's rehearsals
9:19and certainly during the performance
9:22on the weekend
9:23will determine
9:25who stays, who goes.
9:27It's the fight of your life if you want it.
9:30JILL: This is just what we wanted-- one team,
9:34one team to get all of Abby's attention, but
9:37it's a little disappointing that this team is going
9:40to be made up of our girls and the minis.
9:43This is our team.
9:45The girls can't let the minis or the mini moms
9:48push them off of it.
9:49ABBY LEE: This week
9:50we're going to Las Vegas.
9:53(cheering)
9:55We have two solos.
10:00The two solos are going to Kendall and Brynn.
10:07Both of these solos are very powerful women.
10:10Kendall, the title of your routine, and the woman that
10:12you're portraying is Cleopatra.
10:15JILL: Oh, I like that.
10:16Brynn, you are portraying Evita Perón.
10:21The title of
10:23the group routine is "Fight Camp."
10:26This is about the fight
10:29in you.
10:31I want to see the fight that you want
10:33to be the best dancer.
10:37Yes. You are together on stage.
10:43After walking out on Abby,
10:44I thought we would be on probation,
10:46or we'd have to clean her bedroom.
10:48So I wasn't expecting to be
10:50dancing so soon, especially dancing with the minis, but...
10:53I'll take it.
10:55Now remember,
10:57at the end of this week,
10:59I will be sending some of you home.
11:01Right this second now,
11:03everyone has an equal slate.
11:07I want kids who love what they're doing.
11:10And if you're too old,
11:12if you're too young, if you can't hang,
11:16or you have too many other opportunities,
11:18maybe it's time to go.
11:20KERRI: Is it a true clean slate
11:22for everyone, or are you still taking things that happened?
11:25I have to take things that happened
11:27with everybody into consideration.
11:30So it could be, "I still don't want you.
11:32You're not gonna be here," and it's not worth trying,
11:34because...
11:34I don't know, Kerri.
11:36Answer your own question.
11:41Where are you going?
11:49Yes, certainly.
11:49(crying)
11:56JILL: You know, Kerri didn't get a good start from the start.
11:59And the problem is, if Abby doesn't like you,
12:02she makes it miserable for your child, and Peyton's
12:06so little, so young,
12:09that I think Kerri made the right decision
12:12in just not sticking it out.
12:14Abby was going to cut her anyway.
12:23Oh.
12:23(laughs)
12:27KERRI: I can't put her through a week knowing
12:32she already feels the way she feels about me.
12:33She's been trying to kick me out from day one.
12:36She's called me trash multiple times.
12:38I'm not trash. I may not be rich.
12:40I may not have billions of dollars,
12:41but every penny I have goes for her dance.
12:44And I'm not trash.
12:45ABBY LEE: Oh, well.
12:47One down, lots to go.
12:59♪
13:02ABBY LEE: All right, girls.
13:04The name of the piece is "Fight Camp." I want
13:08to see fight. Don't worry about the tricks.
13:10This is fight camp.
13:11This isn't day camp.
13:13Understood? All right, come on, let's go.
13:15All right.
13:17Do the jump.
13:18Freeze. She steps right.
13:21You walk left, right, left.
13:25Okay. So let's see.
13:33ABBY LEE: I'm doing a routine that's very similar
13:35to the routine I did when all the elites walked out.
13:38They left because this wasn't a winning routine.
13:41Well, they're wrong. It is a winning routine.
13:43This dance is about
13:45their fight, their integrity.
13:47I'm going to cut people at the end of the week.
13:50Who is fighting for their life?
13:51Who doesn't want to get cut?
13:53Show me, girls.
13:55How much fight do you have in you?
13:57TIFFANIE: So are you guys worried that they're gonna replace you guys?
13:59ASHLEE: I think everybody sitting up here
14:01has considered that possibility.
14:03HOLLY: I put nothing past that woman.
14:05ASHLEE: I think part of what's going on is
14:06she wants to see who wants to be here.
14:08Did she say she's cutting one or two kids?
14:10She didn't say.
14:11She would not commit.
14:13I do think is that she will keep some of
14:16the minis. I don't think she's gonna get rid of all the minis.
14:18I have no idea what she's doing with us.
14:19I mean, what exactly do you deserve?
14:21You walked out on her.
14:22JILL: Listen, it's a cause and effect.
14:25She turned her backs on the kids.
14:27We had no other choice...
14:27STACEY: That's not true.
14:29...to leave and... Yes, it is.
14:30That's not true.
14:30How do you know it's not true?
14:31Don't talk to me like I'm two years old.
14:34Grow up, Stacey.
14:36I thought you were a professional.
14:36Tattle like you're two years old.
14:38I am a professional. That's why I don't need
14:39to be talked to like a two-year-old.
14:39Then don't talk like that.
14:40You don't talk like that.
14:42KIRA: You have
14:43the bitchiest stink face I have ever seen in my life.
14:45TIFFANIE: That's just the way you'll talk, though.
14:46You need to, like...
14:48STACEY: Why would we not be upset
14:49when my daughter is crying last night, saying,
14:51"Abby brought me here,
14:53and now she's going to throw me out like trash"?
14:55And sorry to burst you guys' bubble,
14:57but the ALDC did not crumble
14:59when you walked out of this building. It went on.
15:01But your cookie... your cookie might crumble soon enough.
15:05JILL: Am I worried that Kendall
15:07might get cut from this team?
15:08Of course I am.
15:10But Abby's gonna do what she's going to do, so,
15:13these mini moms can freak out
15:15as much as they want, but it's not going to help.
15:19ABBY LEE: All right, girls.
15:21This competition team was
15:24originally formed with a rivalry, a big one.
15:27You know who I'm talking about.
15:29It's healthy to want
15:31to be better than somebody else as a dancer.
15:34A few seasons ago
15:36when the ALDC won 14 times in a row,
15:39there was a big rivalry between the dancers.
15:42And that's what kept pushing everybody to be the best.
15:44I don't
15:46see that anymore on this team.
15:47I want to get back to those glory days.
15:49I want those 14 wins in a row,
15:53and you don't get that by playing nice.
15:56All right. Brynn, you're doing Evita.
16:01All right? This is a big character.
16:04This is somebody that was a voice of the people,
16:07and you need to be that voice.
16:09So relevé, relevé,
16:12and then lower your heel in... in, um, to plié.
16:17Okay, from the top.
16:19(piano playing slow, gentle tune)
16:25ASHLEE: So far, Brynn was the only soloist
16:27who won an overall high score.
16:30Abby has a winning soloist on her team, and that's Brynn.
16:33I'm not sure what Abby means by cuts exactly, but
16:37I guess it could be anybody at this point.
16:38That's good.
16:38It would be just like her
16:40to cut somebody you would never think she was going to cut.
16:43Brynn just feels like she knows she has to prove herself.
16:46ASHLEE: I think what Abby is looking for
16:48is the kid that gets on stage and wins for her,
16:51and still wants that.
16:52Kalani is moving on to a professional career.
16:56Nia is moving on to a singing career.
16:58Kendall has some big things going on for her.
17:00I think for the Abby Lee Dance Company,
17:02she's looking for somebody who wants to be here
17:04and dance here at her studio, and represent her,
17:06and go to competitions and win solos.
17:09JILL: It can't only be about the win, because
17:13sometimes you're just not going to win.
17:14It has to be about your personal best.
17:16I'm talking about who's going to be the next star,
17:18the next winner, the next kid
17:20that Abby counts on to win when we go to competition.
17:22That's what I'm talking about.
17:23No, you... From the very beginning,
17:25you said Abby brought Brynn in
17:28to replace Maddie.
17:29So you came in to be the new Maddie.
17:29Uh, no, no, no, no.
17:32And then you were all ticked off when you weren't the new Maddie.
17:34She'll never be Maddie.
17:36I don't want her to be Maddie. You guys...
17:37You said, "Who here doesn't want their kid to be Maddie?"
17:39And we all raised
17:41our hand. Do you remember that?
17:42Okay. We have to change the semantics of that.
17:44Who wants their kid to be the next star?
17:44You said it,
17:46Ashlee. But see, you say things, and then you back it up.
17:49And the Maddie word
17:50has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
17:52JILL: You know what?
17:55Ashlee can have rivalry all she wants,
17:57but Abby wants to cut the team.
18:00That's what I'm worried about.
18:01I think Kendall could be cut, yes.
18:04Do I think it would be the right move on Abby's part?
18:06No. Does Abby always do what's right?
18:09No.
18:10ABBY LEE: All right. You're dismissed.
18:12Very good work. I'm gonna work with Kendall.
18:13Let's go!
18:14Kendall,
18:15you're doing Cleopatra.
18:17She was
18:18flirtatious and seductive, so I need to see all that.
18:22Dancing, turning like a top effortlessly.
18:25In Egyptian dance, it's all about the right angle.
18:28KENDALL: Okay.
18:28ABBY LEE: Shh. Boom.
18:29Bah. Okay?
18:31Let's go from the top with the music.
18:34♪ Hypnotize
18:38♪ Hypnotize...
18:41So, arm.
18:42♪ I'm the queen of the Nile...
18:43Abby thrives on rivalry.
18:46Loves it.
18:47But it's not always a fair playing field.
18:50You know, she's gonna give her a prop.
18:52She's gonna give her a goofy costume.
18:54It happens time and time and time again.
18:56All I can ask
18:58is that my kid go out there and do her best.
19:00ASHLEE: Do you like the solo?
19:02JILL: I do like it, but
19:05the fact that she only gives Brynn lyrical
19:08means she wants Brynn to win.
19:10KIRA: What in your mind is Kendall's winning
19:14solo? What's Kendall's style that you would say...?
19:17Well, Kendall could win at any style.
19:19I'm just saying when she pits them head-to-head,
19:21and she gives Brynn lyrical, to me, that's
19:26Brynn's best thing.
19:27It's like no competition.
19:28ASHLEE: So I don't
19:30understand this fold-before- it-even-happens mentality.
19:32Like, give up before you even try.
19:34JILL: I'm not giving up.
19:35I-I have faith in Kendall all the time.
19:38It's Abby who doesn't,
19:39and Abby who's put that into Kendall's head.
19:42ASHLEE: But I think it's gotten in your head, too, a little bit.
19:44Ashlee, I don't care what you think.
19:46Quit worrying about my kid.
19:48That actually wasn't about Kendall. That was about you.
19:48If you don't want
19:50to be my friend, I don't need friends like you.
19:52But if that's who you want to be,
19:53that's who you are, that's fine.
19:55No. I just don't like
19:56how sometimes you can't really see...
19:58That's fine.
19:58...all the things that you say, and all
20:00the things that you do that create a situation...
20:00That's fine.
20:02Okay. Okay.
20:02And I don't like people that do that.
20:04Well, fine. I don't like you, either.
20:06Jill is not a fan of a rivalry.
20:07It upsets her.
20:09There are certain words, like, or phrases,
20:11that just trigger her in a different way.
20:12Like, mention Brynn and Kendall
20:13in the same sentence,
20:15and she just, like, loses it.
20:25♪
20:30ABBY LEE: All right, let's go!
20:32GIANNA: Down.
20:33Down.
20:35ABBY LEE: You know you're doing a front toss?
20:37We're doing aerial walkovers.
20:39There's an arch in your back.
20:40We don't have time to teach that right now,
20:42and you know that.
20:43Let's go.
20:44ABBY LEE: This is the last day of rehearsal.
20:46And we're getting on a bus today to travel to Las Vegas,
20:49and the group routine is not finished.
20:50We've had two days of rehearsals,
20:53and I honestly could not tell you
20:55who I would cut right now.
20:57I don't know what's gonna happen.
21:00This is our last fighting chance as a group,
21:01because she said at the end of this week,
21:04someone, or several,
21:07will be gone.
21:08So this is it. This is our last chance.
21:10STACEY: I feel like, probably,
21:12my daughter is the most at risk.
21:13If she's gonna make one team, she's now
21:15the youngest and the smallest.
21:17SARI: I mean, I'm nervous.
21:18I'm nervous for my daughter.
21:20We've given up everything for a year
21:22to be here, and I feel like
21:23we've earned our spot.
21:25No one's safe.
21:26Like, she's just looking for weak links.
21:28Go get on the bus, girls. Let's go.
21:33♪
21:38(cheering)
21:44(all chanting): Abby, Abby, Abby...
21:48Everybody's on the chopping block.
21:50They don't know if they're gonna be here next week,
21:51or if they're not,
21:52and this is their last hurrah.
21:54(cheering)
21:54Hey.
21:56We're back!
21:59(squealing)
22:00JILL: Let's go in. Let's go in.
22:01Wait a minute, wait a minute,
22:03wait a minute. The mini moms,
22:04you are not going in the room.
22:06You don't need to be in there,
22:07'cause they don't have any solos.
22:10So not until after lunchtime,
22:11and then you will go in that room.
22:13So where do they go?
22:14They get to watch.
22:16Oh, really?
22:17It doesn't matter that those are the deserters.
22:20We're the ones sitting on the bench,
22:21sitting on the floor, while they're in there
22:23with the huge dressing room.
22:25It's almost like, are you trying
22:27to make them feel bad, so that they do poorly,
22:29so that you have a good excuse to kick them off the team?
22:33ASHLEE: Do you really think
22:35she'd eliminate someone from this team?
22:36JILL: I do.
22:37The way we left and walked out on her.
22:39She has a slogan on her T-shirt: "Everyone's replaceable."
22:43JILL: How would you guys feel?
22:45I would be really sad.
22:47NIA: I'll be really disappointed
22:48if Abby cuts me, because
22:50I've been with her
22:53for 12 years now.
22:54And actually, that's most of my life.
22:57KIRA: I would be sad,
22:58because you guys have worked so hard to be here,
23:02and you've given up your entire childhood.
23:11The name of the piece is "Fight Camp."
23:13So we need to fight,
23:14or we need to go.
23:14For our girls?
23:16We can't just sit here.
23:16Look, there's Abby.
23:18Hello.
23:20My daughter said to me, "I don't understand.
23:22"Abby brought me here,
23:24and now she's gonna throw me out like trash."
23:25Come on.
23:27Who are you guys kidding?
23:29If your kids stunk,
23:31they would be hugging
23:33and kissing you. They're jealous.
23:36GIANNA: The mini moms have Abby,
23:38like, cornered over there.
23:40Yeah, and they're all, like, crowding her.
23:40ASHLEE: Why?
23:42I don't know. Yeah.
23:42She should be in here with her soloists,
23:43getting them ready. I'll go get her.
23:46Their moms don't even want us to have one second of your time.
23:47ASHLEE: The kids are, like, hair done,
23:49makeup done. Like, they're ready to start running their numbers.
23:52JILL: Are you okay? Come on in and run the solos.
23:55Yeah, I-I am. I'm coming.
23:56They're threatened because Abby's out here talking to us,
23:58and not in there with them.
23:59Tiffanie, we are not threatened.
24:00Then why are you out here?
24:00Because you can't shut your mouth
24:02when you're in there. You guys...
24:02We're not even in there, Jill!
24:04I know you're not in there!
24:06You're out here where you belong!
24:08We don't want you in there.
24:08So you go back in there,
24:10and we'll keep talking.
24:10SARI: You don't want us there,
24:11'cause you're jealous!
24:14HOLLY: Abby, why would you tell them
24:15that our kids would be intimidated
24:16or jealous of their kids?
24:17I have never used the word jealous.
24:21Am I in The Twilight Zone?
24:23They're jealous.
24:25(in slow motion): They're jealous.
24:26(in extreme slow motion): ...jealous.
24:28I'm going in
24:29to get two kids ready
24:30for their solos that have nothing to do with you.
24:35Anyone notice there's two Abbys?
24:37There's the Abby that talks to us when they're not around,
24:39and then there's a completely different Abby when they
24:42step up. In medical terms,
24:43we call that "cuckoo."
24:52ABBY LEE: You two up here, let's go.
24:54Whatever you do on that stage, you're gonna do.
24:55It's up to you now.
24:56Evita. She's powerful.
24:59She was strong, she was sympathetic.
25:00We need to see all of that.
25:02Kendall-- Cleopatra.
25:04I gave you this because
25:06you're a beautiful girl.
25:07I don't think you use it enough.
25:08I need to see that face front, yes?
25:12Okay. Let's go.
25:13Everybody, come on.
25:16That's a hard battle.
25:18Brynn's an amazing dancer. So is Kendall.
25:20However,
25:22she's got a huge prop, she's got a headpiece
25:24that covers half of her head.
25:26But if she wants to stay on this team,
25:29Kendall needs to outdance Brynn.
25:33♪
25:41(cheering)
25:44ANNOUNCER: Next to the stage,
25:45make some noise for Brynn
25:47with "Evita."
25:47(whoops) Let's go, Brynnie.
25:49(cheering)
25:56(piano playing slow, gentle tune)
26:02♪
26:07♪ I did my best for you
26:10♪ Don't turn your back on me
26:13♪ Even though I'm taking over now ♪
26:18♪ I'm still just like you
26:21♪ So please believe in me
26:23♪ I'm dancing my heart out
26:26♪ For the whole world to see
26:32♪ Save your tears
26:34♪ For your pillow tonight
26:37♪ There's nothing to fear
26:40♪ I'm still by your side
26:43♪ This will be my task
26:46♪ To express myself
26:48♪ Through my dance
26:51♪ Through my heart
26:54♪ To be an inspiration
26:56♪ To have your admiration
26:59♪ That's all I've ever wanted
27:01♪ From the start
27:07♪ Save your tears
27:10♪ For your pillow tonight
27:13♪ There's nothing to fear
27:15♪ I'm still by your side
27:18♪ Leading our team
27:21♪ To victory.
27:32(applause)
27:33(whooping)
27:35Good job, Brynn!
27:40JILL: Brynn did a beautiful job.
27:42But everything that Brynn does best is in that number.
27:45Abby made sure of it.
27:47So the pressure's on Kendall right now.
27:49ANNOUNCER: Next, judges, we have a contemporary teen solo,
27:52entry number 26.
27:55Please welcome to the Sheer Talent stage
27:57Kendall with "Cleopatra."
27:58(cheering and applause)
28:08♪ Hypnotize
28:12♪ Mesmerized
28:15♪ I'm the queen of the Nile
28:18♪ Ooh
28:19(whispering): ♪ I'm the queen of the Nile
28:20♪ Yeah, yeah
28:25♪ I'm the queen, I'm the queen ♪
28:27♪ Don't deny
28:27♪ I'm the queen, I'm the queen of the Nile ♪
28:30♪ Look me in the eye
28:33♪ I'm the queen, I'm the queen, I'm the queen of the Nile ♪
28:37♪ Yeah
28:41♪ They can't run
28:42♪ And they can't hide
28:44♪ My beauty cannot be disguised ♪
28:48♪ Yeah, yeah
28:49♪ I'll have your head
28:52♪ Thank you
28:54♪ 'Cause I'm the queen of the Nile ♪
28:54♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
28:57♪ I'm the queen, I'm the queen ♪
28:58♪ Feel my power, feel it rise
29:00♪ Victory is in my eyes
29:02♪ Don't deny it, don't you hide ♪
29:04♪ I'm the queen of the Nile
29:05♪ Feel my power, feel it rise
29:07♪ Victory is in my eyes
29:09♪ Don't deny it Don't you hide ♪
29:11♪ I'm the queen of the Nile
29:13♪ Now I'm the chased
29:15♪ Falling from grace
29:17♪ I lost the battle
29:17♪ Charge ♪
29:19♪ But not the war
29:20♪ My dream won't be
29:20♪ Charge ♪
29:22♪ Forgotten
29:24♪ 'Cause I'm the queen of the Nile ♪
29:28♪ Charge!
29:30(cheering and applause)
29:32Way to go, Ken!
29:37It was really good. Yeah, we're not even joking.
29:38Ended up one of your best.
29:38Yeah.
29:39JILL: I thought Kendall was amazing.
29:42There is no reason for Abby
29:44to even think for one minute to cut Kendall.
29:52HOLLY: You know what? Those solos were amazing.
29:53JILL: They were.
29:54That's a great way to come back from a break.
29:56Well, I think that was the whole point, though.
29:57And Abby was saying, "Rivalries are good."
30:00I mean, they obviously pushed both of them to dance better
30:02than when you guys danced with each other last time.
30:05(door opens)
30:05ABBY LEE: Woof.
30:07Hello.
30:09Great job, ladies. Beautiful.
30:11Come give me a hug.
30:12You were lovely. Yes.
30:12Thank you.
30:14Yes.
30:15So between the two of you,
30:17it's in the judges' hands.
30:19JILL: So the cuts on the team,
30:20are you basing it on these two
30:23from that performance?
30:25Some, some.
30:27So Kalani and Nia are safe, and it's down to these two?
30:31I...
30:33I don't know.
30:34But look at these kids.
30:36Look how far you have brought them.
30:38As a group, as a whole,
30:40it would really be a shame to split that up right now.
30:44JILL: I don't put anything past Abby.
30:47It would be just like Abby
30:48to bring us here, and then send us home
30:51and humiliate us, like she thinks
30:53we did to her to get revenge.
30:55Who knows?
30:57ABBY LEE: Come on, guys.
30:58I want to see you up here. Line up.
31:00All right.
31:02"Fight Camp."
31:04I am supposed to cut some of you.
31:08You are fighting for a spot on the team.
31:11But I also want to see your fight.
31:14Do you have any fight in you?
31:16Because
31:17the moms want me to continue
31:19to fight for their children.
31:23I don't know if they'll all continue to fight for me.
31:28It's embarrassing for me to go to a competition
31:31and have my students show up
31:33with another routine
31:34from another teacher and another choreographer.
31:37It's asinine.
31:39JILL: We left because of how Abby treated us.
31:42We had no other choice.
31:44But Abby doesn't
31:45want to hear that.
31:46She will never let us live it down.
31:47ABBY LEE: All right.
31:49Let's go. Everybody, come on.
31:50♪
32:07ABBY LEE: "Fight Camp" is going to show me
32:10who wants to lead the Abby Lee Dance Company
32:13to victory all season long.
32:15I want to go back to the glory days,
32:16and in order to do that, we've got
32:19to get rid of who's holding this team back.
32:21I'm going to have one team.
32:23We'll see who ends up on it.
32:25ANNOUNCER: Please welcome to the stage "Fight Camp."
32:29(applauding, cheering)
32:36(upbeat rock intro plays)
32:54♪ We're on fire
32:56♪ Burning up on the floor
32:59♪ Takes us higher
33:03♪ Than we've ever been before
33:05♪ Like a tiger
33:07♪ We fight for our team
33:10♪ Our desire to reach for our dreams ♪
33:16♪ We're on fire
33:20♪ We're on fire
33:35♪ We're on fire
33:39♪ Burning up on the floor
33:41♪ Takes us higher
33:43♪ Than we've ever been before
33:46♪ Our desire
33:48♪ To reach for our dreams.
33:52(song ends)
33:54ANNOUNCER: Put your hands together for entry number 28.
33:57That was "Fight Camp."
33:59(applauding, cheering)
34:09YOLANDA: I look over at
34:10the junior elites right now, and
34:12they are talking crap about our kids.
34:15I've... I'm fed up with it.
34:16Absolutely fed up.
34:18They have got to win, because if
34:19they don't win, we'll be blamed.
34:28ANNOUNCER: Are we ready for some awards?
34:30(cheering)
34:35So we have teen solo. We have five placements.
34:39Kendall is definitely one that Abby will consider cutting.
34:44I'm really, really nervous.
34:46I'm scared, actually.
34:49Third place...
34:55...number 26, "Cleopatra."
34:57(cheering)
35:04So let's get a drum roll for the overall high score teen solo.
35:10In first place...
35:14...entry number 27, "Evita."
35:17(applauding, cheering)
35:18Yeah, Brynn!
35:21I couldn't ask for a better way
35:24for her to walk back on this team, but
35:26Abby's about to make cuts from the team.
35:27You never know what that woman is thinking.
35:29You never can predict what she's gonna do last minute.
35:31So I think everybody should be prepared
35:33for anything to happen.
35:35Next we have pre-teen group.
35:38STACEY: If this dance doesn't win,
35:41the reason would be that they didn't look good
35:43dancing with the junior elite team.
35:45And maybe she'll just decide-- cut 'em all.
35:47Second place...
35:53...entry number 37, "Unsteady."
35:56(applauding, cheering)
36:00And first place in the pre-teen group category goes to...
36:10...entry number 28,
36:12"Fight Camp."
36:13(applauding, cheering)
36:16(whooping)
36:20HOLLY: It was a great day for competition for us,
36:22but the next stage we're facing is
36:25who is Abby going to cut, and right now, it's tense.
36:28There is no guarantee either that
36:31you're safe or you have immunity.
36:33TIFFANIE: Jill, do you think
36:36you're safe that Kendall got third?
36:37No, I don't think I'm safe.
36:39You guys were saying before that Abby wants winners.
36:42Why are you being such a bitch? Seriously, like,
36:45you need to chill the hell out.
36:46You're gonna know in five seconds
36:47if you're on the team or not,
36:49and you're not gonna want to regret this day,
36:50I promise you, so you better stop.
36:51You've attacked almost every mom over here today.
36:53Exactly how have I attacked? By asking a question?
36:53And you attacked my kid.
36:56You keep trying to bring them down in front of Abby
36:58every chance you get to try to up your kid's chance.
37:00You're saying that I'm a person like that,
37:02when it's coming out of your guys' mouth and not ours.
37:05I have not said one rude thing about your kid all day long.
37:06You just called me a bitch.
37:06KIRA: 'Cause you are.
37:09ASHLEE: Because you're attacking our kids over
37:11and over and over!
37:12That's pretty bitchy, don't you think?
37:13Have I said one thing to your kid?
37:16JILL: Your attitude
37:17towards them.
37:18You're so envious
37:19of what they have.
37:21You're so desperate to be a part of it!
37:24SARI: You're the most jealous person I've ever met.
37:25You've hated us since the minute we walked in the door.
37:27I don't hate you at all.
37:29You're a miserable lady.
37:31You're a miserable, bitter old lady.
37:33That's what you are.
37:33Okay.
37:36Everybody in.
37:38JILL: Good job, girls.
37:40Good job, team.
37:45ABBY LEE: Quiet!
37:47Girls, line up.
37:51So...
38:01I...
38:03am supposed to cut...
38:07people... from this team today.
38:10I have tossed it around,
38:12and tried to figure things out.
38:15STACEY: Abby, I know
38:16you're making big decisions today,
38:18so please remember who was committed and who walked out.
38:23That's a huge part of this.
38:35ABBY LEE: I'm emotionally torn.
38:37I want one cohesive team,
38:40so it makes sense to cut some of the minis.
38:44But how do I cut kids
38:46who didn't do anything wrong?
38:48Who didn't go to another instructor,
38:51like the junior elite competition team has?
38:53But then again, I love the girls that have been
38:55with me for years, and we're a family.
38:59But I have to think about what I want,
39:03what is best for my team.
39:05I'm really, really, really torn.
39:14So...
39:16I...
39:29ABBY LEE (crying): I just...
39:32I can't make the decision.
39:34It's awful, and I'm just not ready right now.
39:37I'm at peace with that.
39:48(Areana sobbing)
39:53ABBY LEE: This season on Dance Moms...
39:56Nationals are around the corner.
39:58I need
39:59winners on this team.
40:00I'm creating one super team.
40:05I want to go back to the glory days.
40:06GIRLS (chanting): We just won again!
40:08ABBY LEE: In order to do that, we got to get rid of
40:10who's holding this team back.
40:11Nobody's safe.
40:13You might be taking
40:16somebody's place that you have watched
40:20for years.
40:22I'm back!
40:24JILL: Of all the enemies, that's probably the biggest.
40:28See you in jail, honey.
40:29Get out!
40:30Get out of my face!
40:31ABBY LEE: I will
40:33crucify them.
40:33It will be a living hell.
40:36Holy (bleep).
40:37YOLANDA: But what
40:38happens after that?
40:39ABBY LEE: That's up
40:41to you and your child.
40:43Why are you so fixated on my kid?
40:43(Kendall yelling)
40:45Shut up!
40:47You're believing two bitches standing there
40:48who are using your ass!
40:50We've worked too hard to let
40:51some kid come in here and screw them up.
40:54You're a sick woman.
40:56ABBY LEE: My biggest mistake I've ever made
40:58was letting you
40:58walk into my studio.
41:00YOLANDA: No matter what happens,
41:01it's gonna be okay.
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