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0:02ABBY LEE (VOICE OVER): Previously on "Dance Moms."
0:04It's the same choreography, exactly to the T.
0:06KELLY: It's never happened before.
0:07She's not letting them watch each other.
0:08Melissa will lose her [bleep] if both of her kids lose.
0:10You ruined your entire number.
0:13In the first place, Too Hot to Handle.
0:15[cheers and applause]
0:16One of our judges, they gave Chloe a 99.10.
0:19She actually had a 96.6.
0:21That means that the overall winner would have been Maddie.
0:25CHRISTI: You're lying. You're lying!
0:27[bleep] you.
0:28You know nothing!
0:30ABBY LEE (VOICE OVER): Coming up on "Dance Moms."
0:31All of you had the opportunity to come and see me in LA.
0:34Maddie came out.
0:36We made an agreement about what we're
0:37going to do with the girls.
0:38We all stood by that, and you didn't.
0:40I know, storm out--
0:42Oh, I am storming out, because this is not being brought up.
0:44CHRISTI: Feel me!
0:44MELISSA: Screw you!
0:46Melissa, she doesn't know what she's doing.
0:47No more recess!
0:49I want to see your character.
0:51Maybe just one of you will be gone to soon.
0:54Maddie's upset.
0:55Maddie's upset, so don't play the game.
0:56I'm done.
0:57I'm so over it!
0:59[theme music]
1:01Get up, get on the floor.
1:05My world is with my girls.
1:08Living on the dance floor.
1:11[music playing]
1:16ABBY LEE: Come on, let's go!
1:17Move it, move it, move it!
1:18Let's go!
1:19Come on, guys.
1:21Come on, everybody.
1:23So did you miss me?
1:26GIRLS: Yes.
1:28Really?
1:29GIRLS: Yes.
1:29ABBY LEE: OK.
1:30You guys, I missed.
1:31I missed all of my students here.
1:33However, the moms, not so much.
1:37So while you guys were in the studio--
1:40well, some of you were in the studio practicing, learning,
1:44training.
1:45I was doing "Abby's Dance Competition."
1:47I was in California learning new things.
1:50I was bettering myself as a teacher and a choreographer.
1:54All of you had the opportunity to come and see me in LA.
1:58Maddie came out.
1:59You worked with the kids, and you performed a new solo.
2:06Did you have a good time?
2:07Yes.
2:08ABBY LEE: Yes.
2:10CHRISTI: Over break, all the moms
2:11made a pact that none of us would send our girls to Abby's
2:14West Coast competition because of the way
2:15she treats the girls.
2:16And when the whole judging mishap took place,
2:19she handled that terribly.
2:21ABBY LEE: I'm anxious to get started.
2:23I want to see what all you've learned.
2:25And I've checked the roll books.
2:26I know who has been in class, and I
2:29know who hasn't been in class.
2:31Let's go through the pyramid.
2:33We can all remember back then.
2:36Brooke.
2:37Brooke, the faculty here didn't see too much of you
2:40while I was away.
2:43I was recording a CD, so I was gone all week too.
2:47Brooke is very passionate about her singing.
2:50And over the break, we decided to record a CD for her.
2:53And I just feel like Abby should be happy
2:55that Brooke is doing this.
2:56And instead, we come back, and she puts her
2:58at the bottom of the pyramid.
3:00Paige, do you feel that you've improved?
3:04Yeah, I think my turns have been getting better,
3:05because we've had normal classes,
3:07so that I've been able to work on them more.
3:10ABBY LEE: And next, we have Kendall.
3:14Kendall, do you think you've been improving?
3:17Yes.
3:18I have a private with James every week,
3:20and he works on my turns.
3:21And he says that they're getting much better.
3:23ABBY LEE: OK.
3:24And Nia.
3:27What about you?
3:28I've been taking four extra classes every single week.
3:31I think that's great.
3:33Good for you.
3:33Nice to hear that.
3:35It's a refreshing change to have Abby say something
3:38nice and positive about Nia's dance training.
3:41But unfortunately, Nia is still at the bottom
3:43of Abby's pyramid.
3:44ABBY LEE: Moving up we have, Mackenzie.
3:47Mackenzie, you didn't win.
3:51You let Asia beat you.
3:52In first place, Too Hot to Handle.
3:55[cheers and applause]
3:57It's this.
3:59And it's that confidence.
4:01You let your face go blank.
4:02Are you cute?
4:04Yes.
4:05But you're getting a little too old for cute.
4:07I'm going to really push Mackenzie hard this week.
4:09If she's going to beat Asia, she has to do what it takes.
4:13And now, Chloe.
4:15You had a great performance.
4:18You went out on stage, you looked beautiful,
4:20your mom was beaming, they announced you as the winner.
4:24EMCEE: Entry number 19 from Abby Lee Dance Company, You Can!
4:28ABBY LEE: The scores were not right.
4:29You did not win, you were second.
4:32Did you dance beautifully?
4:34Yes.
4:35But you have to work on your technique.
4:37Abby would rather go on a diet than say that Chloe deserved
4:40to be at the top of the pyramid.
4:41And next, we have Asia.
4:45Now, Asia is not here.
4:47Asia will be back in pyramid next week.
4:49And on top of the pyramid, we have Maddie.
4:52[applause]
4:53ABBY LEE: Congratulations, Maddie.
4:55You gave a flawless performance.
4:57And when they announced Chloe as the winner,
4:59you didn't even flinch.
5:00You were thrilled for your classmate.
5:03This week, you will be traveling to Syracuse, New York.
5:08The competition is In10sity Dance.
5:11Now, this week's assignments.
5:14Maddie, you will be doing a top solo.
5:17[applause]
5:19Maddie's solo this week is tap,
5:21and she's going to be so amazing, because she's
5:23a phenomenal tap dancer.
5:25Mackenzie, you will also be doing a solo this week.
5:28[applause]
5:29You will not be performing with the group.
5:31You will be doing a straight acrobatic gymnastic routine.
5:35This is your last shot before Asia gets back.
5:38Abby's pushing me to dance more
5:40like Maddie and the big kids, but I think I can do it.
5:43I have one more solo to give out.
5:50And due to what happened last time,
5:53that solo will go to Chloe.
5:55[applause]
5:59I know that it's unfortunate, the whole Maddie-Chloe solo
6:02thing.
6:03Mistakes happen.
6:04I'm giving Chloe another opportunity
6:06to go right up against Maddie.
6:08Chloe, you better start concentrating on your hip-hop,
6:11because it is hip-hop.
6:14CHRISTI: Abby gave Maddie a top solo, which, clearly, Maddie
6:17excels in tap.
6:18She's had tap classes for years.
6:19And she assigns Chloe hip-hop, which we don't even have
6:22hip-hop classes at the studio.
6:23She's so unfair.
6:25The group routine is called Gone Too Soon.
6:30And of course, we're referring to all those Hollywood
6:32tragedies.
6:34Nia, you will portray Whitney Houston.
6:39Kendall, I want to see the sass and spunk of Selena.
6:45Sorry, Kendall, you are not playing Selena Gomez.
6:49I'm talking about the Grammy-winning Latin artist,
6:53Selena.
6:54Brooke will be inspired by Amy Winehouse.
6:59Ah!
7:00Paige, Anna Nicole Smith.
7:02JILL: Ooh!
7:05Your buddy, Chloe, will portray Marilyn Monroe.
7:10No!
7:11That's not fair!
7:14And Maddie, who else is there but Princess Di?
7:18Ooh, I love her.
7:21ABBY LEE: All right.
7:21You can go.
7:22Girls, spread apart.
7:23[music playing]
7:29Let's go from the top.
7:30Let's see what we have. Let's all dance it.
7:32Hit it! [music playing]
7:32I hear echoes inside myself.
7:33ABBY LEE: Come on, push.
7:34Get in the ball of that foot, right off the floor.
7:36One, two, three, four, five.
7:39Yay!
7:40Good girl!
7:41This week, the routine is entitled Gone Too Soon.
7:46This is a contemporary routine.
7:48It has very intricate timing, and it's also characterization.
7:53These girls need to become one with their character.
7:57And they better bring it on, because everybody
7:59in that audience, including the judges,
8:02needs to easily recognize their character.
8:04I got to let you go in a few minutes.
8:06I want to not keep choreographing.
8:08I want to go over the story.
8:09You need to tell the audience and the judges
8:12they shouldn't know who you are because of the costume.
8:15They should know who you are because you're
8:17telling the story.
8:18Do your homework.
8:19Look on the internet, Google it.
8:21Figure it out.
8:22Or maybe just one of you will be gone too soon from the Abby Lee
8:25Dance Company.
8:27KELLY: But what shall we have Abby be?
8:29Well, who can Abby be?
8:31Who's the woman who has the snakes coming out of her head?
8:33Medusa!
8:34JILL: Oh, no, Nefertiti. - Ursula!
8:35Ursula! She's Ursula.
8:36The sea witch.
8:37Oh.
8:38Ursula was the octopus.
8:40The big black--
8:41CHRISTI: She wears black and she steals little beautiful
8:43children's talent. MELISSA: Isn't she?
8:45Yes. She's Ursula.
8:46HOLLY: She's a cartoon. She's not real.
8:47And she keeps it in a jar around her neck.
8:50CHRISTI: She steals talent.
8:51JILL: She's Ursula.
8:52She is Ursula.
8:54JILL: Oh, golly.
8:56ABBY LEE: Hello.
8:57Are you ready for hip-hop?
8:59Yes?
9:00Is Payton teaching her?
9:02Now, remember, the story is if you want to be a celebrity,
9:06you want to be a pop star, you want to move to LA and do all
9:08these things, you better be able to be a hip-hop dancer.
9:12[music playing]
9:15So Chloe is doing a hip-hop routine entitled beautiful.
9:19It's more of a jazz routine with hip-hop elements,
9:23hip-hop costume, hip-hop style.
9:27I want her to succeed with this hip-hop routine.
9:29And I'm bringing Payton in.
9:31Because when Peyton hits hip-hop, she hits it hard.
9:36KELLY: I think Chloe should say to her, why am I doing hip-hop?
9:39I'm not a hip-hopper.
9:40Whatever.
9:41Again, this is just a way to humiliate Chloe.
9:43Sometimes, this is the best dance,
9:44because there's no pressure.
9:46You know you're not going to win?
9:49So you go out there, and have fun, and you enjoy.
9:51Holly, is that what you're saying?
9:52You say Chloe is not going to win with hip-hop?
9:54They tend to be very competitive.
9:56It's so clear that Abby only thinks of Maddie as her star,
9:59that Chloe is not allowed to come anywhere near that.
10:02That's why Maddie got tap this week, and Chloe got hip-hop.
10:05You need to isolate this movement.
10:07The isolation, the shoulder, the rib cage.
10:10That's what hip-hop is.
10:11That's why a lot of people, trained beautiful dancers
10:14can't do it, because it's that sudden change of direction.
10:16Believe me, I was sitting next to the guru of hip-hop,
10:19and I learned something.
10:20Maybe if you would have come out to LA,
10:22you would have learned something to.
10:24CHRISTI: You know what?
10:26I think is really sad is that you point-blank said to all
10:28of us that when the children were invited that you were not
10:31going to send Maddie, but then you screwed the group.
10:34We made agreement about what we were
10:35going to do with the girls.
10:37We all stood by that, and you didn't.
10:39Melissa, if I would have disobeyed the group,
10:43and went, and had Brooke do it--
10:44CHRISTI: Brooke would be in much better standing.
10:46--Brooke wouldn't have been at the bottom of the pyramid this
10:48week, I can guarantee you that.
10:49But I didn't do that, because I'm a team player.
10:52You know What that's my choice as a mother.
10:55So basically, your choice as a mother is dance trumps all.
10:58Just to be clear, sneaky.
10:59[awkward chuckles]
11:00CHRISTI: Well--
11:01That's funny.
11:03Why is that funny?
11:04Because you know Christi sneaks all the time.
11:05You've said it.
11:06No, I'm saying I wouldn't do it.
11:08MELISSA: Oh, OK.
11:08What do I sneak about?
11:10What do you mean?
11:10You talk to everybody.
11:11Give me a break.
11:13If you could sleep with Abby, you would, and you know it.
11:14Oh, yeah.
11:15Oh, yeah.
11:17Well, that's how you tend to get ahead in life, Melissa.
11:19Oh, yeah, I sleep with everybody.
11:20You do, boss.
11:22I've never slept with my boss.
11:23Yes, you did.
11:24You married him.
11:25Yes, I married Greg after--
11:26Yeah, after you slept with him and had an affair when
11:28he had a wife. MELISSA: I did not!
11:29And you had a husband. - Guess what?
11:31I didn't sleep with him.
11:32And don't start with me again, Christi.
11:33JILL: You know what?
11:34I know, storm out.
11:35Oh, I am storming out, because this is not being brought up.
11:37CHRISTI: Feel me.
11:38MELISSA: Screw you.
11:39I did not sleep with my boss.
11:40You know what?
11:40You want to play those games?
11:42What's wrong?
11:43JILL: She has to live with the decisions she made.
11:46Like I'm not going to sit up here and make this easy on her.
11:48She didn't make it easy on any of those six little girls.
11:51JILL: No, but--
11:52CHRISTI: She knew she had that coming.
11:58[music playing]
12:04Hey, girls.
12:05How are you doing? MELISSA: Hey.
12:06Good.
12:07ABBY LEE: Good.
12:08After yesterday's blow out with Melissa
12:10and all of the other moms, I'm not
12:12sure what's really going on.
12:13But I am going to get to the bottom of it.
12:15Nobody is going to mess with Melissa.
12:17So what I need to know is what happened yesterday.
12:24Well, Christi starts screaming that--
12:27about I sleep with everybody to get my kids ahead.
12:31And I'm not taking crap like that, Abby.
12:32I'm done. ABBY LEE: I'm sorry.
12:33That has nothing--
12:34That just shows you--
12:35She's trash.
12:35ABBY LEE: --what she is.
12:37Because she goes to that level.
12:39But I don't--
12:40I'm not like that.
12:41I have lots of mean things to say about her,
12:43and I can't, because that's not my makeup.
12:46Christie fights dirty, and I don't.
12:48I think it's wrong, and I'm not like her,
12:51so I'm not going to act like her.
12:52I'm not white trash.
12:54[chuckles]
12:55Hello.
12:59If I were a betting woman, I would
13:01say that Melissa is probably talking to Abby about me.
13:05If I'm the most exciting thing that Abby and Melissa have
13:08to talk about, then they have a really, really sad life.
13:11If you feel that you don't want to sit up there
13:13and it's getting crazy, come down and work the front desk.
13:16MELISSA: OK.
13:17Come down and work at the store.
13:17MELISSA: I will.
13:18Or come and sit inside the room.
13:20I don't go for parents in the room,
13:21but if you can just sit in the corner
13:23quietly, or play the music, or something, that's fine with me.
13:26OK. That's fine.
13:27- All righty? - Yep, thank you.
13:28OK.
13:29I certainly wouldn't want to sit with them.
13:31So I invite her down into the studio.
13:33She should see what Mackenzie's doing.
13:35[music playing]
13:38Mackenzie is doing an acrobatic gymnastics routine entitled
13:42California Adventure.
13:44It's sassy and fun.
13:46Split!
13:46It's a bigger split!
13:48She does a whole lot of stuff in this number.
13:52She has to have the strength, the proper technique,
13:54and the stamina to get through this routine.
13:57You should be on a diagonal.
14:00Hi, Holly.
14:00Oh, hey, Hol.
14:02Hello, ladies.
14:03Did you see Melissa downstairs?
14:05CHRISTI: Of course, Melissa's avoiding the situation.
14:07It's what she does.
14:08She'd rather high downstairs and kiss Abby's ass
14:11than come upstairs and face the music with the rest of us.
14:13You know, she needs to just admit what she did
14:16and get over it.
14:17She had a meeting with Abby when I walked in.
14:19They were meeting in the store.
14:21Oh, in store.
14:21And they both went--
14:23and I just kept on going.
14:24Ah.
14:25And she's not up here, because, you know--
14:28even though she was the one who sent Maddie to dance for Abby,
14:32even though the teen all agreed not to do it,
14:35and she was wrong, she's punishing all of us.
14:39Own who you are.
14:40Don't sit here and say, I'm so nice,
14:42and my daughters are just amazing.
14:44You intentionally do things to hurt the other kids
14:49but then you claim you're a team player.
14:50You're not.
14:51You know, when it comes to Abby,
14:52she will do whatever she wants her to.
14:55Or getting Maddie a routine.
14:56And you said, because she, Abby, will catapult Maddie
14:59and Mackenzie to stardom.
15:01CHRISTI: Well, but it's--
15:01That's what it's all about.
15:02CHRISTI: But it's--
15:03So there's never going to be a chance--
15:05But here's the thing.
15:06You're teaching your kids that you step on everyone
15:09to get ahead, and that's not a good lesson to teach your kids.
15:12ABBY LEE: So let's go from the top.
15:14It has to be bigger.
15:14It's boring.
15:16Boring!
15:17Mackenzie is not looking too good.
15:19Mackenzie walked into this studio sweaty and out
15:24of breath.
15:25She walked in that way.
15:27Usually, that's how she walks out.
15:29Cartwheel.
15:30Cut, split, arch back.
15:32Why do I have to say that every time?
15:34Cut, split, arch back!
15:35It's one move.
15:36Dah-dah-dah-dah!
15:37Asia isn't here.
15:38This is Mackenzie's shot, but she's not giving me
15:41what I want.
15:42Melissa, she doesn't know what she's doing,
15:46she's out of breath, she can't remember one step
15:49from the next.
15:50No more recess!
15:52Why were you sunburned when you came in here?
15:54Were you outside at recess?
15:56Outside, running around, playing all day--
15:58I know.
15:59ABBY LEE: --and now, she's useless.
16:01That's why these kids need to be home-schooled.
16:03It's ridiculous.
16:04She is useless.
16:05What are you supposed to say when all the kids go
16:07to the playground?
16:08Sorry, my dance teacher said no kick ball.
16:10Abby doesn't want Mackenzie to play during recess.
16:12If it were up to Abby, Mackenzie wouldn't be allowed
16:14to have any friends at all.
16:15Well, you know, just because no one played with Abby at recess,
16:17doesn't mean she has to take it out on poor little Mackenzie.
16:20Why should Abby have any say-so when Melissa's kids play
16:25with friends?
16:26That's the whole reason I send my kids to this school
16:28is to have social interaction with other children.
16:31But Melissa will do it, and she'll
16:33pull her kid from school, and not have her do recess
16:35because Abby said so.
16:37ABBY LEE: Straddle.
16:38Not apron split, a straddle split.
16:39No, before the tag.
16:40You're doing a different every time you do it.
16:42MELISSA: You know, I'm sitting in there watching Mackenzie's
16:44rehearsal.
16:45I'm not looking at the other moms.
16:46I'm looking at my daughter.
16:47I can care less.
16:48All right, you understand what you're doing?
16:50Yes?
16:51ABBY LEE: All right, you're finished.
16:53Melissa, you can go.
16:56I think Melissa's coming up.
16:58[chuckles] Our gossip is over, ladies.
17:01[chuckles]
17:02I'm through avoiding the situation.
17:04The moms can talk behind my back all they want.
17:06They're just going to have to deal with it.
17:08I did nothing wrong.
17:11JILL: Oh, hello.
17:12HOLLY: Hi.
17:14How did it go?
17:15HOLLY: What was that about recess?
17:16No recess.
17:17All they do is play.
17:18How does Abby know what Mackenzie does?
17:20Because she asked her.
17:21And Mackenzie said, we played outside all day today.
17:23But what's wrong with that?
17:26She has no-- she's tired, and she's a mess.
17:29I'm like, I don't think--
17:30I thought she looked great.
17:31Sorry, but--
17:33You're certainly not going to let Chloe,
17:35doing a hip-hop dance, beat you.
17:37Really?
17:38Maddie is doing a tap solo.
17:40I am thrilled.
17:42She's a great tapper, it's a cute little number.
17:44It's called Me and You Against the World.
17:47And it's all about a housewife that woke up
17:50on the wrong side of the bed.
17:51She burnt the bacon and the pancakes.
17:53She spilled coffee on her husband.
17:55I mean, the whole nine yards.
17:57[music playing]
17:58I hope you understand.
18:00Call me up after a bad day of work.
18:04MADDIE: I love tapping.
18:05I've always been tapping ever since I was four.
18:08It's one of my best strengths.
18:12That's a good song.
18:13Yeah, it's a great solo.
18:14HOLLY: Yeah, it really is.
18:15I like the music.
18:17I thought Abby said she wasn't running Maddie's solo.
18:19She did.
18:20She told me that today when I walked in.
18:22That's what she told me.
18:24CHRISTI: I'm thinking she's going to keep her promise about
18:26not running Chloe's.
18:27KELLY: [laughs]
18:28Something just tells me maybe.
18:29That promise she might keep, but I'm--
18:31Melissa's not Chloe's mother so--
18:32of course, Chloe's not working on her solo.
18:34This is the way it goes here.
18:37[music playing]
18:43[applause]
18:45Abby, she make sure that nobody wins.
18:47And when Chloe did win, she made sure
18:48that she went to the judges and fixed their mistake.
18:51This score ended up being 97.5, 97 and 1/2.
18:56This should be 96.6.
19:03This is your winner.
19:05ABBY LEE: Maddie won everything.
19:07Melissa, Christi said, when she came in,
19:09you were having a meeting with Abby.
19:10What were you talking to her about?
19:12I wasn't having a meeting.
19:13I was talking to her.
19:14What about?
19:15None of your concern.
19:22Not that you care, because you hate my kids.
19:24So don't worry about it.
19:25Who said I hate your kids?
19:26MELISSA: It's none of your concern.
19:27My kids are not your concern, so don't worry about them.
19:31KELLY: We all told you though, Melissa--
19:32I don't-- I don't--
19:33I don't need to hear anything.
19:34But whenever--
19:35MELISSA: I don't need to hear.
19:36- Whenever-- - I really don't.
19:37JILL: --we talk to you about this--
19:38I don't care. JILL: --you said--
19:39I don't care.
19:41I'm over it.
19:41OK.
19:43But then you can't be mad at us for something you chose to do.
19:46For talking about my husband, it
19:47has nothing to do with my kids.
19:48JILL: No, I'm not talking about your husband.
19:50Oh, bull crap.
19:51I never said anything about your husband.
19:54What did I say about your husband?
19:55Nothing. I don't want to talk about it.
19:56But I want to know why you don't think we should say
19:58something to you when-- - I don't care.
19:59You already said something.
20:00JILL: --it was affecting our kids.
20:01Whatever.
20:03JILL: We just want you to live up to what you do.
20:06I told you what I was doing.
20:07And I'm done with it. - No, you didn't.
20:08MELISSA: I'm done talking.
20:09We called you and asked you about it.
20:10My kids, they come first.
20:11And I'm fine, I can handle my kids.
20:13I can take care of my kids.
20:15That's what we're doing with our kids.
20:16We're trying to protect them. - Then protect them.
20:18JILL: Because--
20:19MELISSA: That's your job.
20:20--you want against us and hurt them.
20:22I did not hurt your kids.
20:24- Yes, you did. - OK, whatever.
20:25I hurt your kids.
20:26I'm a bad person.
20:27Kill me.
20:29I'm sure you wish I would die in a car accident too.
20:31HOLLY: Oh, no, Melissa.
20:32Oh, my god.
20:39CHRISTI: Shall we belly up to the bar?
20:41Let's do it.
20:42I love when the moms finally break free of dance jail.
20:44You know, we get to hang out, we get to have drinks,
20:45you know, vent a little bit.
20:46I'll have a diet cola.
20:47WOMAN: Sure.
20:48Shoot, I was going to get that.
20:50She lives on the edge.
20:51I'll have the $100 martini.
20:53Is anyone really missing from the picture?
20:56No.
20:57We're all here.
20:58I could not believe earlier that Melissa
21:00said that we hope her and her kids died in a car crash.
21:03Yeah, I hate that.
21:04I hate, hate, hate that-- HOLLY: That was just crazy.
21:05That's crazy.
21:06If she really believes that, then we're in trouble.
21:07Who thinks that way?
21:08I don't know.
21:09That was crazy.
21:10I mean, if that's the way she feels,
21:11you know, I don't want to be her friend.
21:13Melissa sat there and told all of us--
21:14She wouldn't go.
21:15CHRISTI: She promised.
21:16What does that make you think?
21:17Because that makes me think that she doesn't really
21:19value our friendship.
21:20She's definitely made it out that dance
21:22is more important than school.
21:23If the only thing that's important to you in life
21:26is getting your kids ahead of other people in dance,
21:28don't sit upstairs and pretend you don't care.
21:32If your kids win or lose, own who you are.
21:35Yeah.
21:36Stop lying to our faces.
21:38Maddie had an hour with Abby, Mackenzie had two hours
21:41with Abby, and Chloe got none?
21:43If you can't see that's wrong, then you are really blind.
21:46You have a problem.
21:47The fundamental issue is your word.
21:50You know, friendship, what is it worth?
21:53And what has taught was that I can't trust everybody
21:57when they give their word.
22:00[music playing]
22:02ABBY LEE: Guys, come on.
22:03We're getting on a bus, we're going tomorrow.
22:05This is the first competition we've
22:07been back since I was gone.
22:10The group number is fine choreographically.
22:14But I don't see that skill of characterisation shining
22:18through.
22:19And your competition except exit.
22:21That was a hot mess.
22:23CHRISTI: I don't like sitting up here.
22:25I like sitting at the bar last night.
22:27The bar last night.
22:28That was way more fun than this.
22:29KELLY: That was way better.
22:31You should have came with us last night.
22:33I went home with my husband and kids.
22:37I couldn't care less if the moms went out to drink without me.
22:39I'm not much of a drinker.
22:41So I'd rather be home with my kids and my husband.
22:43We all talked about it.
22:44Jill was supposed to ask you.
22:46I was?
22:47Mackenzie wasn't feeling well.
22:49I didn't realize it was my job to invite Melissa.
22:58[music playing]
22:59Banging the walls for help.
23:02Some kind of malady--
23:04Chloe, you need to make sure you're that way a little bit
23:06more.
23:07Point your feet, Paige, in the middle of the stage.
23:08Foot underneath you.
23:09Foot underneath you.
23:11Some of the kids are still trying to remember what step
23:14comes next.
23:15Come on, kiddos.
23:16You have been doing this for three years.
23:20[suspenseful music]
23:23Hey, ladies.
23:24JILL: Hello. - Hey!
23:25How are you?
23:26I'm good.
23:27How are you?
23:28HOLLY: I'm hanging in there.
23:29Christi, by the way, Payton's going to stay 15 minutes late
23:32and help Chloe with her solo.
23:34Did Leslie just rear her ugly head again?
23:37I thought we got rid of her.
23:38Why is she back?
23:40You're sitting here listening to this woman,
23:42this drunk, say what she's saying.
23:44And you're sitting here--
23:44Call me a drunk again.
23:47You're not just sitting here and not telling us what you
23:50really-- like you are OK with it.
23:52So when we leave, you're not going to complain to Abby.
23:54If Abby asks Payton to dance with your kids,
23:57then I'm fine with it.
23:58We are in it 100%.
24:01Anyway, we'll see you around, ladies.
24:02All right, bye.
24:05Leslie's back.
24:06I think that she's been planning on trying
24:08to get her daughter in with this team since day one.
24:10Oh, I do think that's her plan.
24:11It's not often that people come up here just to say hello
24:15and be nice.
24:18She likes to stir the pot.
24:19CHRISTI: I have enough crazy dance moms
24:21to deal with sitting upstairs.
24:22I don't need to engage with two women who are clearly here
24:25just to pick a fight.
24:26We're all stocked up on crazy here.
24:28KELLY: Did you think at all, Melissa, about what we talked
24:31about?
24:32You understand where we're coming from?
24:34I got upset when you talk about my personal business,
24:37because it's--
24:38I didn't talk about your personal business.
24:39It's none of anybody's concern.
24:40But you sat here and you said, oh, you guys hate me.
24:43You hate my kids.
24:44I don't-- I never said--
24:46I never said you guys hate me and my kids.
24:49I know you don't like my kids, and that's fine.
24:51But that's not true.
24:52What we're trying to say to you, Melissa, is none of this
24:54has anything to do with Maddie or Mackenzie.
24:57- Right. - None of it.
24:58MELISSA: That's fine.
25:00If you don't want to be my friend anymore-- because I
25:01would do anything for your kid kids, and you know it.
25:03And I would do anything for your kids.
25:05Not any more, you won't I'm sure.
25:07I feel really lost.
25:08I'm torn between my friendships with my friends
25:11and my children's dance careers.
25:13Clearly, the most important thing in the world to you
25:16is if your kids win at dance over our friendship,
25:19over their friendships with the kids.
25:20You've made that quite clear, not in your words,
25:23but by your actions.
25:24And you have denied it for three years sitting here saying,
25:27I don't care if my kids win.
25:28So just sit here and own it.
25:30Say, you know what?
25:32I will do anything I need to do-- don't sit here and act
25:34like you're not a stage mom.
25:38ABBY LEE: Foot underneath you.
25:39Foot underneath you.
25:42JILL: What's going on in there?
25:44What is going on in there? - I don't know.
25:45I thought we were having a lesson, not
25:47a private conversation.
25:49OK.
25:50Dr. Holly might have a PhD in education,
25:53but Melissa has a PhD in kissing Abby's ass.
25:56[music playing]
26:03[upbeat music]
26:06[fans cheering]
26:13ABBY LEE: Thank you for coming.
26:16We're in Syracuse, New York.
26:17This is our first week back, so it's very
26:20important for the girls to win.
26:21If they want to prove themselves, and prove that they
26:23were working, and they were training,
26:25and they were in class, then they're going to win again.
26:27All right.
26:29Remember, this is the first competition back.
26:31This is it.
26:33Don't make me regret coming home.
26:35So ladies, we have three solos.
26:40Mackenzie, you're the first solo up.
26:42Then Chloe, your second.
26:44Then Maddie, your third.
26:46Maddie, are you ready?
26:46I had a different shirt, though.
26:49MELISSA: Maddie, come out.
26:51Yeah, OK.
26:52That's cute.
26:53I don't like the shirt.
26:54MELISSA: You don't?
26:55No, because this is competing.
26:56At this point, Abby and Team Melissa
26:58should just travel to competitions on their own.
27:00Because as it stands right now, we're
27:03just kind of the filler in between the Maddie dances.
27:06ABBY LEE: Let me see.
27:07Do some steps.
27:09I like the back of the shirt.
27:12I like the sleeves bouncing.
27:14I don't know what it is, but as soon as Abby comes back
27:16in town, I seem to get all sorts of flack for any attention
27:20that Maddie gets.
27:25Mackenzie, Asia's not here this week.
27:29I gave you the solo.
27:31If you bomb, she comes back next week, she gets the solo.
27:35I can count on her.
27:37She wins because of this, because of this.
27:43Mackenzie needs to nail her routine.
27:46With Asia gone, this is going to be her opportunity to win.
27:50Now, listen, you two.
27:51This is the first time that you're
27:54going up against each other since you
27:56did the same exact routine.
27:58[music playing]
27:59It takes a moment to break a butterfly.
28:04Unaware that's when you hear an angel cry.
28:08Now, you are doing polar opposites.
28:11So if you want to do a hip-hop dance next time
28:14and you want to go to tap dance in an hour and a half,
28:18we can do that too.
28:20Why shouldn't Chloe be able to do hip-hop?
28:22If she's going to work in this business
28:24as a professional dancer, she better
28:26make sure that her hip-hop is equal with everything else.
28:31All right, let's go.
28:32[music, cheers and applause]
28:39MELISSA: I'm happy Mackenzie has a solo this week.
28:41But Abby told Mackenzie, you have a solo this week
28:44because Asia is not here.
28:45Is it just her way of making Mackenzie work harder?
28:49EMCEE: All right, and to the In10sity
28:51stage is act number 11.
28:52It's a mini acro solo.
28:54Please welcome Mackenzie performing California
28:57Adventure.
28:58[cheers and applause]
29:03[music playing]
29:06Sunshine, I feel the energy.
29:08I need sunshine falling down on me.
29:11Now, sunshine, don't you hide away.
29:14I want sunshine each and every day, hey.
29:21[applause]
29:28Sunshine, I feel the energy.
29:31I need sunshine falling down on me now.
29:36Sunshine.
29:38[cheers and applause]
29:45ABBY LEE: Mackenzie looks great.
29:47Costume's adorable.
29:48I think her shot at winning this is really strong.
29:52CHLOE: This is my first hip-hop solo ever,
29:54and we've only ever done two hip-hop group dances.
29:58So it's very weird to be doing hip-hop, especially as a solo.
30:03EMCEE: And next to the stage is act number
30:0515 is a junior hip-hop solo.
30:07Let's please welcome Chloe performing Keep it Pumping.
30:09[cheers and applause]
30:13[music playing]
30:18Pumping, yeah.
30:20Keep it pumping, keep it pumping in here.
30:26Put your hands up, put your hands in the air.
30:33Keep it pumping, keep it pumping in here.
30:40Put your hands up, put your hands in the air.
30:48[cheers and applause]
30:49HOLLY: Good job.
30:52EMCEE: That was beautiful, act number 15.
30:57ABBY LEE: Chloe just performed, and she was good.
31:00Good enough for first place?
31:02Mm, I don't think so.
31:04But I know that my best shot for first place is coming up next.
31:08EMCEE: This is act number 13, junior tap solo.
31:10Please welcome Maddie performing You and Me Against the World.
31:15[cheers and applause]
31:19[music playing]
31:23I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
31:28And I spilled coffee on your white T.
31:32I burnt your bacon, burnt your pancakes, and my hand.
31:36It's not my day, I hope you understand.
31:41ABBY LEE: The apron starts to come down
31:43in the middle of the number.
31:45You know I'll put you first,
31:49ABBY LEE: And that kid doesn't miss a beat.
31:52She is right on the money the entire routine.
31:56Me and you against the world.
31:58Me and you against the world.
32:02[cheers and applause]
32:05EMCEE: That was You and Me Against the World.
32:07That kid was like a pro.
32:11JILL: I thought all of them look great.
32:12Mackenzie is looking so strong.
32:15And Maddie looked great.
32:17Maddie's apron came down, and I looked over at Abby--
32:19JILL: Abby was laughing.
32:20--and Abby laughed.
32:21I know.
32:22When Chloe lost her headband, Christi was like--
32:24Dead
32:25--murdered.
32:28Oh, my god.
32:28It came forward.
32:30What did you want me to do?
32:31You were in the bar having a drink,
32:32and her head piece is falling off!
32:33Like she's not going to come in here and yell at Melissa.
32:35She's not going to be upset with Maddie like she screamed at me,
32:38she was angry with Chloe.
32:39Like, that's not going to happen with them.
32:42It is what it is.
32:49I guess I should have pinned it.
32:50But I had it Velcroed really good.
32:52But you must have gotten it like--
32:53Just--
32:54MELISSA: You must have just gotten it in your hair.
32:56Melissa, you are on my last nerve.
33:00Amazing job.
33:03I was nervous. Seen
33:04Chloe, you did a great job too,
33:06but we're back to right where we started, forgetting the dance.
33:09Did you forgot the dance?
33:10You forgot this whole thing.
33:13That's eight counts.
33:15I did--
33:16You did not do this.
33:18This, swish, swish.
33:20You're really going to argue with me?
33:22[sighs]
33:23ABBY LEE: Really?
33:24CHRISTI: As far as I can see, Chloe didn't forget any piece
33:26of her choreography.
33:27And if she did, I put that back on Abby,
33:30because she gave her two times to run the dance.
33:32Who remembers that entire dance with two rehearsals?
33:34[music playing]
33:36OK.
33:39Look, it keeps getting curly again.
33:42CHRISTI: [gasps] Don't touch it!
33:43I'm sorry, Maddie.
33:44Oh, Maddie, I'm sorry.
33:45I'm a wicked brusher.
33:46I forgot to tell you.
33:47I'm sorry.
33:48Woo, baby!
33:50ABBY LEE: All right, come on. Let me see this looks.
33:52Let's go.
33:53Good.
33:54This is it, ladies.
33:55Chloe, Maddie, now is the time to go out and prove
34:00how wonderful you are.
34:01Go out and do what you were taught.
34:04Now, this group, I'm a little worried about.
34:07I don't understand why the kids aren't more
34:09familiar with these characters.
34:11Let's go.
34:11Come on.
34:12[music playing]
34:19[indistinct chatter]
34:21EMCEE: And to the In10sity stage is act number 86,
34:24a junior contemporary small group.
34:26Please welcome, Gone Too Soon.
34:28[cheers and applause]
34:31[music playing]
34:32I hear echoes inside myself, banging the walls for help.
34:39Eating at my heart, choking on the darkness outside myself.
34:47Some kind of malady I can't spell.
34:51Eating at my heart, choking on the darkness outside myself.
34:59Banging the walls to tell me that' I'm not an empty shell.
35:07It comes from the inside of me.
35:09My reality is nothing I can't be.
35:15Oh, I won't wait.
35:24[cheers and applause]
35:28EMCEE: And that was Gone to Soon, act number 86.
35:33ABBY LEE: The kids went on stage to dance.
35:35They looked beautiful.
35:36Now, can I be honest?
35:38The only person I watch was Maddie.
35:40I was watching her face.
35:42She was all over the place.
35:43She was sad, and she was angry, and she was haunting
35:48all at the same time.
35:49[upbeat music]
35:58EMCEE: In the elite mini solo division, in second place,
36:01with a score of 271.5 points, is Miss Kayla with act number one,
36:06Paw Paw Patch.
36:08[cheers and applause]
36:09And your highest scoring elite mini soloist,
36:12with a score of 280 points, is Miss Mackenzie with act number
36:1711, California Adventure.
36:19[cheers and applause]
36:21Congratulations, you guys.
36:23Great job.
36:24MELISSA: Mackenzie won first place.
36:26Abby really wanted Mackenzie to prove to her
36:28that she could win.
36:30And she won by 8.5 points.
36:35EMCEE: And now for our elite junior soloist.
36:38In fourth place, with a score of 275.3 points,
36:43is Miss Chloe with act number 15,
36:45Beautiful, from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
36:48[cheers and applause]
36:50First runner up with a score of 280.7 points
36:56is Miss Maddie with act number 18,
36:58You and Me Against the World.
37:01Yay, Maddie!
37:02[cheers and applause]
37:04That is a joke.
37:05And your highest scoring elite junior soloist
37:10is Miss Haley with act number 10, Pardon my Southern Accent.
37:14[cheers and applause]
37:14This is a joke!
37:16I am livid.
37:17Second?
37:18Are you serious?
37:20EMCEE: All right.
37:21Now for our elite junior small group, in third place
37:24was act number 81, Mannequin.
37:26[applause]
37:29In second place with a score of 275 points is act number 88,
37:33Rockebel's Canon from Tawn Marie's.
37:36[cheers and applause]
37:38And your highest scoring elite junior small group,
37:41with a score of 277.5 points, is act number 86,
37:46Gone Too Soon from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
37:50[cheers and applause]
37:53Congratulations to all of our elite junior small groups.
37:56The group just won first place,
37:57and Abby can't even bother to look up from her phone,
37:59because she's so upset that Maddie got second place.
38:03Oh, boy.
38:04Thank god that we won in the group dance.
38:06Yeah.
38:07I know.
38:08Oh, I don't think Abby cares that the girls won.
38:10The only thing she cares about is Maddie's solo.
38:13KELLY: I feel kind of bad that the girls probably
38:15won't get to enjoy their win.
38:17So all your kissing ass and doing whatever has paid off.
38:21And aren't you glad that you went to LA to make sure
38:24that she will protect you?
38:26But you don't see when you do things against the group
38:30that it hurts our kids.
38:35My kids come first to me, and they always
38:37will come first to me.
38:39I can't say that I'm fed up with Melissa's lying
38:41and fakeness, because I've always been fed up
38:43with Melissa's lying and fakeness.
38:44But I think all of the other moms in the room
38:47are finally fed up with it too.
38:49[girls whooping]
38:51Good job!
38:52I got fourth with hip-hop!
38:54CHRISTI: I know. High five!
38:55KELLY: You did good. - High five.
38:56See?
38:57And Melissa thought you were upset.
38:59Uh, you said that Maddie was so upset, OK?
39:01So kiss my ass!
39:03CHRISTI: She looked upset.
39:04Why are you saying this in front of your kids?
39:05Because guess what?
39:06You do it all the time.
39:07You talk about my kid all the time.
39:09You said, oh, Maddie is upset.
39:11Every time Maddie doesn't win, oh, my god, Maddie's upset.
39:14Maddie's upset.
39:15So don't play the the game.
39:17She was crying.
39:18Thank you.
39:19Oh, whatever.
39:20Screw you!
39:21I'm done.
39:22I'm so over it.
39:23You know what?
39:24You're always against me.
39:27Come on.
39:28Why don't you tell that that trashy girl to stop?
39:30Let's go.
39:31we're leaving.
39:33When I walk into the dressing room.
39:35And Melissa's mad.
39:36She's leaving.
39:37The other kids aren't even in there.
39:38They're all milling around.
39:39What is going on with the Abby Lee Dance Company?
39:41Come on, girls.
39:46You are all sitting here like we have another number.
39:48It's over.
39:49Get your stuff together.
39:51OK, let's go.
39:52We don't have yet our children.
39:55Stop it.
39:56MELISSA: Maddie, please, stop.
40:05ABBY LEE: Melissa, what's going on with you?
40:07Tell me what happened.
40:07Maddie is fine.
40:12Maddie, learn from Chloe or learn from Christi being evil,
40:17not to cry.
40:21You've got to save it for the pillow,
40:23because people like that make it worse.
40:27Every time you get knocked down, you fight that much more.
40:31And that's what makes you Maddie.
40:34You're a survivor.
40:35Got it?
40:37The moms?
40:37They're jealous of Maddie.
40:39This is Maddie's time to shine, and they don't understand that.
40:42Come over here and give me a hug.
40:48Oh.
40:50Next on "Dance Moms."
40:51This week, you will be performing in the annual dance
40:55concert.
40:55Now, something else is going on.
40:57We're going to throw in a photo shoot.
41:00Shush the beak!
41:00Stop it.
41:02Since when does your ass go on my stage?
41:04If you think Christi and Kelly are going to make your kid
41:06a star, by all means, go.
41:09Pick which side you're on.
41:10Never in 40 years of being in the Abby Lee Dance Company has
41:13anyone been giving a solo the day of the [bleep] recital!
41:18She's going to crap all over me and talk to me that way
41:20in front of my customers?
41:21No way.

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