-[girl] Hello! -[Abby] Hi sweetie, how are you?
Go ahead in and start warming up.
Last week was really tough.
I pulled a replacement team in.
-Hi! -Go ahead.
Right into the den. The girls can start stretching.
Even though we got second,
I would much rather work with these kids.
Pretty soon, those old moms
will just be a distant memory.
Real dance moms are here.
[car door slides open]
Melissa's a high-maintenance friend.
I realize now that the way Abby treats my girls
is never gonna change,
but they miss the studio and they even miss Abby.
I know the last person Abby wants to see is me,
but the other moms won't come back without me,
and all of our girls are dying to be at dance again.
You're part of the team.
That's the whole point of this whole thing.
It's great that Kelly wants to be back on the team.
The problem is, it's too late.
Abby's replaced us,
and now we have to go crawling back to Abby,
begging her to take us all back.
I'm not signing a thing until your name is on it
and you're walking through the door.
We all need to stick to that.
[line ringing]
[woman on phone]
Hi, Shelly? This is Abby.
It's about a half an hour into rehearsal
and I don't have Ally.
She is not the kind of kid that's gonna be late.
I'm calling to find out where Ally is.
She was supposed to be here at 4:00.
She is in New Orleans!
All the way back home.
How did this get screwed up?
Your daughter came in second place,
probably the reason the team came in second place,
she's gonna come in and be mad,
and you're just like, "It's all good."
Ally could not be blamed for that group dance.
She was magnificent.
Give my best to Ally.
They were blaming her
for the group dance coming in second? Crazy.
Oh my God.
Here we go again!
Same old story.
Jealousy is an ugly disease.
You can ask Christi.
Girls, go ahead into the studio and start warming up.
I just got off the phone with Shelly.
She said, "Those other two mothers
were telling my kid that she was the reason
we lost the group."
-No. -This is my livelihood.
This is what I do.
I don't have a husband that has a million-dollar job.
I don't do that.
And the kid cried all the way home.
These moms pushed one of my best dancers out.
You know what? No more Mrs. Nice Guy.
It's over.
You two are out.
Glo? Marcia?
Poof! Begone.
Why do we have to leave?
Mom! You guys are the one that fighted.
Just don't fight!
I wanna stay!
Why don't you go say sorry?
We did!
I want this really badly! [sniffles]
[Abby]
I am left with one member
of the Abby Lee Dance Company Elite Competition Team.
[emotional music plays]
All right, take off now.
You are the only one left.
So when we go away this weekend, you need to win your division
and
I don't wanna piss her off more.
Me walking in.
So you're dying?
I'm dying. I think we need to go--
Let's move along. This is stupid.
[Kelly]
So I think if I stay outside,
we'll have a better chance at reconciliation.
-What are they doing? -Oh my God!
I can't believe the same moms who quit
for Kelly and her two kids
are back in my parking lot again.
But you know what? I just might have some openings.
Ladies?
Contact.
You come in and dance, or you leave.
You don't loiter in the parking lot.
Are we being invited in? Can we come in now?
If you wanna come, the door is open.
-All right, let's go. -I'll come in.
This isn't a church, Holly. It's a dance studio.
I got God all on my side. He comes with me wherever I go.
You got God on your thighs too.
The moms quitting was their choice.
They're quitters. That's what they do.
That wasn't my choice.
They walked out of here.
And if they think that they're gonna walk back in,
they have another thing coming.
Each year, Abby has us sign this
stupid contract that locks us in for a year.
And in that year, you can't leave her studio
short of death.
You will not get past this front desk without these being signed.
Where's Kelly's?
Kelly called me names.
Kelly quit.
Kelly boo-hooed and her kids are lazy slugs!
We feel that Kelly is a part of our team.
Jill, did you come here because Kelly's kids were here?
You wanna be loyal to somebody, it should be me!
This is the hardest thing for me because my kids wanna dance
and I don't know how long I can hold off.
[Abby] You took Maddie
and put her on the same level as the rest of those kids.
We didn't.
We worked our butts off with your kid.
[tense music plays]
Make a decision.
Well, I brought Kendall here to dance.
I need her to dance. I want her to dance.
That's my decision.
[Abby] Finished.
Make a decision right now.
You either choose the Abby Lee Dance Company
or you can go play with Brooke and Paige.
Well, my kids are not gonna be playing.
They're gonna be dancing.
[Holly]
We have worked so hard.
It's like all of that was in vain.
[Abby] Time is ticking, ladies.
[Christi]
have really done as much as we can do.
We have said we're not going back in without Kelly,
Abby's like, "Don't let the door hit you on the way out."
All right, let's do it.
Okay. Give us the contract.
I think Kelly needs to go in
and fight for herself and her daughters.
If Kelly comes to you and they say that they wanna
be back on this team, you'd listen?
I would certainly listen to them.
I just want today to be the last day for this.
She made us sign the contract.
[Kelly]
back on the team.
-Hi, Kelly. How are you? -Good, how are you?
-Why do you want to come back? -I don't want to come back.
My kids want to come back.
And every single mother in the group
and kid in the group wants us here.
You called me a whore.
You made fun of my weight.
You gave me the finger.
And you called my kids stupid.
They are. They make dumb choices.
I don't want to argue with you anymore.
I want you to get over the [bleep] that happened
with us 30 years ago and treat my kids
like you treat everybody else in this studio.
That's what I want.
I don't want your kids to be mediocre.
I want them to be amazing.
And if they're not willing to be amazing,
then... hit the door.
[Kelly]
My kids want to be back on the team.
They tried out for the team. They made it.
They should be on the team.
[tense music playing]
[Jill]
In walks Jacyln
straight off of the streets of L.A.
Skinny, skinny, skinny, gorgeous,
but it's obvious she does not fit in
with our team of dance moms.
[Abby] Well, well, well...
Here we all are again.
[Kelly]
as hard as it's gonna be for me,
go in there and kiss up to that woman,
I'm going to do it.
Here's your contract.
Get in there, girls.
Kelly hands me her contract without a peep.
There it is. Signed.
Her signature.
Now, let's just see if she can keep that mouth shut.
Ladies, last week we went to a competition
in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
There were over a thousand people there
just to see the Abby Lee Dance Company.
While you all were out in the parking lot,
Sophia was in here,
learning.
As you can clearly see,
we don't have a pyramid here.
Chloe.
Nia.
Maddie.
Mackenzie.
Kendall.
You all realize,
with the exception of Sophia,
that you are on probation.
You are all on the same playing field.
Abby chooses one kid in the studio
that she focuses on.
Now Maddie did something to piss Abby off,
and now she's moving on to somebody else.
That's what all of you wanted.
You didn't like the pyramid, Moms.
You want all the kids to be treated equal.
That's what you got.
Chloe's worked her butt off for Abby,
and she won a national title.
And now Abby's gonna replace her with some girl off the street?
Jackie, you're okay with your kid being a winner.
I know that I can count on her.
That she's a team player.
And Jackie, I watched you in the dressing room.
I watched you help everybody with their hair,
I watched you be kind to all the other women,
and I appreciate that.
Jackie seems like she's this perfect mom,
but I've heard a lot of things about her,
and, I don't know, she doesn't seem so perfect.