[music playing]
Hi.
Payton's back to dance.
I know I walked out, but you didn't throw me out.
That is not your place.
Know what? - No.
ABBY LEE: Sometimes I have to speak in simple terms.
You do not disrespect me.
Don't.
Ever tell me to shut up again you were wrong, Abby.
You were wrong.
ABBY LEE: I didn't throw you out,
Leslie, and I don't want to throw you out.
I just want you to realize you go off,
and you take all these things so personal--
I do.
--instead of doing what you do,
and then when you get in your car
and you're going home, explode.
So when you do things and I have to put the kibosh on you,
it's just as embarrassing for me as it is for you.
Thank you, Jill. - You're welcome.
Is that another gift?
Ooh.
Oh, I love it!
[gasps]
LESLIE: I guess Kendall gets another solo.
Right?
We will be traveling to Orlando, Florida.
[applause]
Melissa, can I have Maddie and Mackenzie go early with me
and help with the audition?
Yeah.
- You guys want to do that? - Yes.
ABBY LEE: OK.
All right, so that's a plan. LESLIE: Wait.
So they're gonna leave--
LESLIE: This isn't a competition.
Can Payton-- she could do that too.
ABBY LEE: Yeah, but I don't need her.
Leslie, they could all do it. She picked those two.
Now, see-- see, Leslie, this is where--
now, see, this is where your mother
speaks out of turn, acts like--
I'm just asking. ABBY LEE: --a yahoo over there.
All right?
Is that wrong.
I don't understand why Maddie and Mackenzie
get special treatment by Abby.
It's clearly obvious that they're the only two
safe in these auditions.
I know.
But those are maybe things you should say in private as to not
embarrass your daughter.
Let me start the pyramid.
Payton.
I didn't know that.
You knew that was coming.
And it's sad, because you're not there because of your dancing.
LESLIE: Well she shouldn't be there then, because she
didn't do anything wrong. - But you did.
OK. I know that's--
You're one. You're a unit.
You're a unit.
Payton is at the bottom of the pyramid again.
We know that when we act out of line in Abby's words,
that our child will get punished.
My feet hurt.
ABBY LEE: The group routine is a gorgeous lyrical piece
entitled "Team Spirit."
And we called it that because I'm having open auditions.
Somebody might be going and somebody
might be coming to my team.
Stop.
Nia, you're in the front.
You're right there in front of a judge
with a sickled foot in their face.
You're gonna be on a plane.
We can't rehearse on the plane.
HOLLY: Abby has talented dancers that she has produced
since the age of three.
They are childhood to Abby since there are three years old.
She's not gonna find better dancers
just because she's going across the country
having open auditions.
So I hope Abby remembers that when she's in Orlando.
CHRISTI: What? MELISSA: What's wrong?
CHRISTI: What happened?
Payton just fell and she said she snapped her ankle
and she can't move.
CHRISTI: [gasps] Oh, my god.
What?
GIANNA: She was just walking.
It wasn't even like we were rehearsing.
She tripped over a chair.
JILL: It snapped?
LESLIE: What happened?
Where?
What did you trip over?
What did you trip
over?
ABBY LEE: Tell me now, 1 to 10.
Pain on 1 to 10.
9.
LESLIE: I get to Payton, and she is in so much pain.
She's not gonna be able to get out there and dance
with whatever is wrong.
CHRISTI: Oh, my god.
You heard it crack?
ABBY LEE: All right, stop. Stop.
Stop. Stop.
Get over there and start reblocking this number.
Wake up.
Go.
The show must go on.
Payton is getting the medical attention she needs.
And the girls need to stop watching Payton,
and reblock the number, and perform
without Payton like the professionals
that I'm training them to be.
What she heard cracking could be popping.
It could be a ligament, be a tendon.
Take a break.
[crying]
ABBY LEE: Take a breath.
Look who's here.
KELLY: Can you take us?
Oh.
Hubba, hubba.
My foot hurts too.
Ouch.
ABBY LEE: You all right, Payton? Strong.
She's strong.
She's really strong.
LESLIE: I don't know what's gonna happen.
It can be broken, it can be sprained.
You know, it doesn't matter.
It's an injury.
She's going to be sitting out no matter what, and--
which makes her even more vulnerable
to being replaced on this team.
[crying]
Bye.
I'll call.
We don't know.
We have to get x-rays.
All this pressure that's been put on these kids all week
because of the open auditions-- then, on top of it,
Payton can't dance.
I really need for these kids to go
out there and nail this number.
All right, girls, you reblocked it,
you should know it.
That's your responsibility.
If somebody goes out there and does the wrong spacing
and messes it up, it's not gonna be Payton's fault.
It's gonna be your fault. You never know what's in store.
I need to see each and every one of you start to want it.
Because if you don't want it, somebody else does.
Everyone's replaceable.
All right, come on.
Here we go.
Break a leg, everybody.
HOLLY: The girls just have moments
to rehearse and reblock the number before they go on stage.
I can barely hold my breath.
I'm like, I can barely breathe at this moment
because I'm so nervous for this group's performance this week.
ANNOUNCER: This is the Junior Small Group, judges.
Entry number 68 with "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
[cheering, applause]
ABBY LEE: I'm judging this group performance
as if it were an audition for the Abby Lee Dance Company.
I can cut somebody right here and right now,
just like I did at the open call audition.
[music playing]
(SINGING) Your body is of flesh and bone
and highways full of blood.
Your body is of stardusts once and will become of mud.
I hold your hand.
I hold it tight, follow every line.
I revel in each changing curve that comes about in time.
In time.
Time.
Oh, I hope there is a soul and a meeting place.
Losing you.
[vocalizing]
[cheering, applause]
ABBY LEE: The group looked good.
The reblocking definitely worked.
They went out there and performed like professionals.
They did their job, and that's what they're expected to do.
Ladies and gentlemen, your highest scoring
Elite Junior Small Group, with a score of 281.2 points,
is act number 68, "Smells Like Teen Spirit,"
from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
[cheering, applause]
Good job, girls!
HOLLY: Our group won first place overall.
Abby doesn't need anybody else for this team.
She has her team right here, and she
should be more than satisfied.
Congratulations!
I think it was good, but they're trained to do that.
They know how to do that.
My group should be 10 points above, or my duet or my trio,
against anybody else.
So I think Maddie and Mackenzie are safe.
Congratulations.
Has anyone heard from Leslie?
I did.
She sent me a text.
And I said, hows Payton.
She just said, good.
I have no idea how long Payton is gonna be out.
I might bring somebody else on the team to try them out.
Come on, girls! Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go! Get in here!
Move it!
Those kids ran onto that stage for those auditions.
They ran up there.
Congratulations, the overall high score winners.
[applause]
[music playing]
[cheering, applause]
I wish it was a great weekend in Orlando, Florida.
Wasn't so great.
I saw some things that I hope to never see again.
Did you ever hear that expression,
it's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye?
All right.
Let's get to this pyramid.
Of course, Payton.
Payton, you have yet to admit that you were fooling around.
First, you tripped over the leg of the chair.
Then it wasn't the leg of the chair.
Then it was Kendall's leg.
But I'm hearing that you were making
fun of the ballet routine on stage,
and you were doing ballet steps fooling around,
and that's how you fell.
Who are you hearing these stories from?
Every single person that was backstage.
She turned around and tripped over a prop.
Don't try to make lies about my daughter.
Payton put this entire team and your victory in jeopardy.
If you don't want her on the team
and you want to kick her off, just kick her off.
- Goodbye. - Goodbye.
Let's go, Payton.
ABBY LEE: Go.
Remember that when you go to ask her back again.
You can't keep messing with somebody's head over and over.
You're the liar, not my daughter.
Every single one of you have learned in this studio what is
acceptable behavior backstage.
Is it acceptable to be dancing, to be
fooling around in the wings when another group is on stage?
No.
If you learned one thing this past weekend,
everyone's replaceable.