[upbeat music]
Go into Studio A. OK, babe?
Hey, you.
How are you?
What are you doing here?
You know, I'm trying to come back.
Why would you do that?
Why would you put yourself through this?
Well, it's not me, it's Kendall.
Why does it matter?
What's she gonna get out of this?
You know, when I started this studio
Kelly and Christi got to me.
You have no idea what Melissa did to me.
They're never going to accept you.
And I don't like them, and I don't think you like them.
Who are you gonna have on your side?
You're gonna be all by yourself.
You're gonna just have to defend yourself constantly
and your daughter constantly.
I couldn't tolerate them before.
I'm not gonna tolerate them now.
Then why are you here? Then what are you doing?
I just said, for Kendall.
This isn't about me. - And it was for Payton.
It doesn't work. - That's right.
It's not going to work.
LESLIE: When I saw Jill going into the studio,
I thought it was fair that I would
just forewarn Jill that these women will just chew--
chew her up and spit her out.
These women are brutal liars.
It's not like Jill doesn't know these people.
Christi is a snake.
Melissa's a liar.
And Kelly's a snake.
Find another group for her to dance with.
This isn't about me.
I'm coming back to put my daughter in class.
You're getting thrown to the wolves, woman.
They are gonna chew you up and spit you out.
Just be prepared.
[music playing]
Big!
Move!
Bigger!
This week rivals any dance competition.
This is our 2012 annual dance concert.
KELLY: Is Paige really improving with her boot?
Just shake your boot, Paige.
CHRISTI: [laughs]
ABBY LEE: Two, two, three, four, five, six--
KELLY: The doctors x-rayed Paige's foot,
and we were given permission from the doctor to walk.
We were not given permission to dance.
So my agreement with Abby was for Paige to do
the dance from the waist up.
ABBY LEE: --six, seven, eight.
Cross and hit.
One of the reasons I chose hip hop
was so that I could incorporate Paige.
She can do all the upper body movement.
She can hit all the isolations.
Payton!
Is Payton here?
Come in here.
Payton is a long-time student at the studio.
She is one of my best hip hop students.
I'm teaching them a hip hop dance.
- Payton. - The star of the show.
- Payton. - --seven, eight.
One, two, three, four--
Well, who didn't know that was coming?
ABBY LEE: Do you see the isolations?
Would you like to be in our hip hop dance for the show?
ABBY LEE: All right.
It's just irritates me that, like, she's
never been on our group and we did
a dance that she's not good at.
Now that Payton's added to the hip hop routine,
that just means that Leslie is one more
addition to my week of hell.
Hey, hey, hey.
I have red bra tops for the hip hop number,
and I have red hats.
So you're gonna have to figure out how these stay on.
Now, girls, they're calling you down to the stage right now
for the hip hop dance.
So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna do it in this.
And then later tonight we're gonna run it in the costumes.
Understood?
Did you run that already for lighting?
Yes?
So we're doing the hip hop dance first.
Hurry up.
Throw a black leotard on and your boots.
I'm in 15 numbers this year, and every single number I'm in
has a quick change.
I don't get how Abby expects me to make it on time.
KELLY: Question about the hip hop dance.
ABBY LEE: What?
I was under the impression that Paige was just going
to be doing upper movements--
So did I.
KELLY: --arm movements and stuff.
That's what I told her.
KELLY: Well, she obviously was not just doing upper movements
because she broke her boot.
Pfft.
I'm rehearsing three shows in one day.
And I am too busy for any mother or any kid
to interrupt my plans.
Is anyone in children in Elite Pointe?
Payton?
No.
That doesn't work.
All right.
I'm gonna need a minute to fix this,
so let's just go with this hip hop number.
[joy enriquez, "light my fire"]
You're in the fire with all the smoke.
(SINGING) Middle of the night, I can hear your heartbeat
calling out my name.
Abby.
Did you see the lineup that Payton's in?
She can't do that.
No.
There's no way.
Can you take care of her?
We understand.
We're fixing it, but we can't fix it right this second.
We have to till we have a break. - I get that.
Everybody here is getting paid.
- I get that. - OK.
But this is my schedule too, that I have to--
I know, but you shouldn't even be in here.
Because right now you're wasting my time.
ABBY LEE: Leslie couldn't wait till I figured it out
that we needed another number added into so
that Payton can make a change. No.
This is just not all about her.
It's about all the kids. - No.
It's about whether she can make it on stage in one number.
That's what it's about.
Well, she better make it on stage in one number.
Every other number?
You have her in one number before that with ballet.
I just came up and asked you to correct the lineup.
That's all.
I know, but you have a smart-ass mouth and it's--
No, I didn't. You turned it into that way.
You shouldn't be in here!
This is off limits.
LESLIE: I got what I accomplished.
ABBY LEE: Go. Go.
LESLIE: And now I will go. ABBY LEE: Go.
James--
LESLIE: Thank you for changing it.
No parents. Write it on there.
P-A-R-E-N-T-S. Maybe she can figure it out.
Ladies, I need to remind you, absolutely
no parents in the light box.
Everybody up here is doing a job.
I'm serious, ladies.
[music playing]
- She can't do that. - No.
Like, sorry.
ABBY LEE: Don't do the feet, Paige.
Just do those arms big.
Is she still doing, like, where she kneels down and goes
to push-up position, and kneels back down and stands up
and stuff? 'Cause that's all right on the part
of her foot that's broken.
ABBY LEE: Kelly takes it upon herself
to scream from the audience.
Paige needs to sit down!
Her poor foot!
She needs to sit down!
Well, you know what?
You could go home and sit down.
Go over there on that part quickly.
I have about two more minutes to spend on this.
KELLY: I don't want you to have to redo this whole dance.
Paige just doesn't need to be in it.
Am I allowed to come up there?
ABBY LEE: No.
I need to start again.
Paige.
She said it hurt.
She's sitting down.
She can't stand up.
We're getting ice.
OK.
KELLY: My agreement was for Paige to do
the dance from the waist up.
I mean, I had strict instructions from the doctor.
No dancing for four weeks.
I know you want to, but you can't injure, like, it more
and not be able to do nationals.
I have to step up being a mom.
And Paige's health is way more important than being
in a stupid dance.
ABBY LEE: Honey, I just don't have
time to re-choreograph a dance on stage from 200 feet away.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
I don't want you to have to re-choreograph it.
I just--
All right?
I mean, if it comes to you having to change everything,
she might as well just not do it.
All right.
On with the show.
CHRISTI: I don't know.
Not let her dance?
Because, Leslie, she was supposed
to only dance from the top up and be a statue in the back.
So why didn't she do that?
I wasn't that rehearsal, and they were teaching it to her.
I was at rehearsal, and she didn't speak up.
I didn't hear you.
Why did she show up for the rehearsal
if you knew that's the only number they were practicing?
Because she was supposed to be in the number, Leslie.
LESLIE: Everybody knows that hip hop is a really hard dance.
You know, you're up, you're down,
you have to bend your-- you know, you bend at the knees.
You're hopping, you're jumping.
And I'm a little surprised that she is still in it, being
that Kelly pulls her kids out of umpteen numbers time
after time.
I don't under-- if she's hurt, why was she
supposed to be in the number?
Abby wanted her in the recital.
So she was supposed to stand in the back of the number
and dance from the waist up at the fire.
Were you one of the mothers that was in there videoing it?
No, it was not.
OK.
Well, everybody else was.
And if I would have known, I would have told you.
I was there videoing.
So where's all these other mothers,
if they would have told you?
KELLY: I was hoping to not have to deal
with Leslie this weekend.
I have enough pressure on me at the dance concert right now.
You know, I have a daughter with a broken, foot
I have another one who has a bad back,
and I just can't deal with Leslie right now.
She's not supposed to be dancing.
The doctor hasn't cleared her. - I get that.
But I'm very confused, after she was in the rehearsal
last night. I don't get--
Leslie, it's none of your business--
LESLIE: OK, Kelly.
--what I do with my kids. LESLIE: You know what?
Add that meeting to your list. - You worry about Payton.
You need AA meeting, now you need to go and see a therapist.
So now you got two meetings that you should be attending.
And you're a [bleep] liar.
LESLIE: I'm a liar.
Go spread another fire about me again.
Go ask your daughter if she really pushed my-- you lied.
No, I didn't.
Go get my daughter and bring her in here.
Yeah, and I did.
And I'll go get Diane Banks.
[arguing]
Kelly can never even elaborate on why Payton
supposedly pushed Paige down.
It's all lies.
These women are brutal liars. They're liars.
Let's go get them.
You're a liar.
You all-- you're a liar, and Melissa's a liar.
Let's go get them, Leslie. LESLIE: You bring 'em here.
I'm not following you. Bring 'em right here.
I will. I will bring them in here now.
LESLIE: And you know what? Now you passed your best friend.
She'll lie.
[bleep] you.
Brittany, can you do me a favor?
Yeah.
Yes.
If Abby wants Leslie and Payton on this team,
then she can have them.
But I am not sitting in a dressing room
and having somebody sit and attack me after everything
I say.
So if Abby wants Payton, you can have her.
And guess what?
They're your friends, aren't they?
See where that gets you too, Melissa.
First incident that I started not to trust you.
Kelly, where are you going?
I don't have any reason to come down on you.
LESLIE: I'm not gonna sit in this room
and every once in a while these women throw their little dig.
I'm not gonna sit back and take it.
What are you gonna do now?
MELISSA: What about prep?
MELISSA: What, the recital?
MELISSA: We'll call you after. OK.
KELLY: Can you please just tell Brooke to come out?
Yes. I'll get her.
I don't care.
I'm here just for Payton to dance.
Right.
So let it go in one ear, out the other.
No. I'm not that kind of person.
I don't have a problem with the drama.
But when Leslie [bleep] lies every other word out
of her mouth, that's when I have a problem.
CHRISTI: Oh, she does lie. She does lie.
Not one thing she has said has been true.
I mean, it's-- it's over.
She is definitely not coming back.
I mean, I-- I swear on my mother's grave.
Everything that you and I have said is true.
Now, that's not-- what are you talking about?
Our kids are good enough to go on that stage
without a Hyland on there and just dance
a dance without reblocking.
Like, they can reblock it right on stage.
- Abby will flip. - Kelly.
Hope everybody does good.
OK.
I'll miss you, girl. - OK.
See ya. JILL: Abby needs to know.
MELISSA: It's a recital. You know that.
This is her show.
This is her reputation.
We better go tell her. MELISSA: This is her show.
It's not our show.
Someone needs to tell her.
CHRISTI: She's pissed.
LESLIE: You know, I don't need it anymore.
So, you know what?
She can have the upper hand. She got it.
I'll leave.
I'm done.
We have a really big problem.
Kelly and I kind of went at it, and she quit.
And she took all her bags and left.
So what are we gonna do?
ABBY LEE: If Kelly has a tantrum,
she needs to walk away and honor her children's contracts.
They were to be there from beginning to end.
I feel bad about the girls.
ABBY LEE: Tomorrow is the Abby Lee Dance
Company's annual dance concert.
Kelly better have those two kids here, or else.
Girls, please listen.
There's a ton of colleagues that are dance
teachers that I'm sure are snooping
around and looking for ideas.
So let's make sure that we get out there
and we do our very best.
What about Paige?
Paige, what's the deal with you?
Are you ready to dance?
Are you gonna do it?
ABBY LEE: You have to hit it hard.
Show everybody that you can do it all.
Get down there quick and make sure those hats are on tight.
[music playing] (SINGING) I know what you need.
Baby, it's right here with me.
Yeah.
I told every girl in that hip hop number I wanted fire.
What did I get?
Lukewarm.
(SINGING) Oh, hey, come and light my fire.
Come and light my fire.
I know what you're looking for.
I know what you need.
And nothing's worse than sitting and watching
little girls come out who are incorporating their jazz
and trying to call it hip hop.
(SINGING) Come and light my fire.
Light it.
[cheering, applause]
CHRISTI: I think that "Light My Fire"
proved to Pittsburgh, if you want to learn hip hop,
don't come here.