[music playing]
We're at Star Bound.
And it's our final nationals.
So this is big for us.
I think the moms and the girls are starting to feel
a little bit of pressure.
Abby's not used to having losing numbers.
And we don't want to be the ones who tarnish the Abby
Lee Dance Company name.
So it's up to us to step up to the plate and bring it.
Let's get the game faces on, get the energy going,
and you get backstage, and you psych out every other kid.
Do you understand?
[overlapping speech]
KELLY: Uh-oh.
Curt is here at the competition because Melissa's on vacation.
Curt's their dad.
They're going to be across the country.
And I think it's only normal that they have a parent there.
- Hey, Mad. - Hi.
How are you?
- Boy, you look pretty. - Thanks.
- You ready? - Mhm.
Are you going to win again?
Just be yourself.
Just don't worry about anyone else.
- I won't. - Right?
You make me nervous when you say that.
No, don't get nervous.
There's nothing to be nervous about.
CHRISTI: We're getting our girls ready.
And all of a sudden, Curt walks in.
And Maddie's like, OK, Dad, nice to see you but go.
I don't know if he makes her nervous.
I don't know if she feels conflicted between taking
a side, and she feels that she's betraying her mom
if she's nice to her dad.
But she definitely didn't want him around.
Break a leg.
OK, bye.
Go.
You go.
Please.
All right, I'll let you go.
OK. Bye, Kenz.
I'll see you a little later.
Bye, dad.
OK.
You all right?
Sure?
He just makes me so nervous.
I get a little nervous when my dad comes backstage.
He freaks me out sometimes because it's
not the same as my mom.
ABBY LEE: It's very important that the girls win
for their group number because this
is our last competition of the season, our final nationals.
I want the girls to win.
They have worked too hard.
They've come too far.
We need a winning number.
And they need to pull it together.
Remember Lake Tahoe, the gorgeous lake,
the beautiful mountains, how pristine,
how beautiful everything was?
That's why I took you there.
I want you to walk on stage and be that same vision.
So when those judges look up, they go, [gasps]..
If the tops come up, do not freak.
The judges have seen it all. Believe me.
They're all in show business.
You've seen one boob.
You've seen them all.
Hey, no, no, no, no, no.
CHRISTI: So Curt comes in the dressing room.
And Abby doesn't even let his foot cross the threshold.
And she's like, you, out.
I need to talk to you.
And I'm just sitting there thinking oh, for once,
it's not me.
ABBY LEE: I don't want you near her.
CURT: Why?
Because you get her worked up.
I've told you before, this is not the place or the time.
We want to win this group dance.
She's an integral part of it.
And I want her to be focused.
Why he makes her nervous, I don't know.
But he was an athlete, he claims.
And he did all this.
And he knows everything.
And I think he tries to give her tips that don't make sense.
And he's rude to other people.
So that is offensive to Maddie.
And it gets her worked up.
And she doesn't want to be embarrassed by her dad.
I'm not working my daughters up.
How am I working them up?
ABBY LEE: You don't think you are.
CURT: How am I working them up?
ABBY LEE: What other dad is in that room right now?
Not one other dad.
That goes to show you that I'm here for my kids.
Five minutes before she's supposed to go on stage,
she does not need you in there saying something stupid.
What do I say that you think she--
- Maddie just gets upset. - She does not get upset.
- Yes, she does. - No, she doesn't.
ABBY LEE: I've seen her.
I know my daughter more than you do.
Trust me. I know my daughter.
I spend more time with her.
You know what this dance has done to me and my family,
don't you?
ABBY LEE: Well, you know what?
You keep saying that.
- It's true. - But I'll tell you what--
You have them brainwashed to live in fear.
I didn't need Melissa to be at the studio.
She wanted to be there all those hours.
That's not what I'm trying to tell you.
ABBY LEE: She wants to be there. - And I want you to know too--
ABBY LEE: But when she wasn't at home with you making dinner--
You didn't make my daughters.
You didn't make my daughters. - I trained her.
CURT: You trained her. - And I put her name on the map.
CURT: That's right. I will tell you this--
I will do everything possible for my daughter
to leave your studio next year.
I know my daughter more than you do.
Trust me. - I spend more time with her.
I am making the sacrifices for his child.
He doesn't even need to be here.
She's great.
She's fine.
Everybody knows who Maddie is.
And I did that.
Are you ready McKenzie?
Come on.
Head front on the grand jete.
Look right at the judges on the coupe sote.
The girls have not been winning on the road.
And this is the last chance for the Abby Lee Dance Company
to get that national title.
Everything depends on winning here at Nationals.
I don't want to place.
I want to win the whole thing.
ANNOUNCER: Judges, we have standing open,
ages 9 and 10, number 1001.
This is My Beauty.
[applause]
[music playing] So this is me.
This is you up close and true.
Let's all be so bright and new.
Oh, how good It feels to be beautiful.
How wonderful it feels to be beautiful.
Say hello to your reflection.
See yourself, your true perfection.
Oh, you know just who you are.
You're meant to be.
Oh, how good it feels to be beautiful.
How wonderful it feels to be beautiful.
oh, whoa, oh, whoa, Oh, whoa.
Oh, whoa.
How wonderful it feels to be beautiful.
Oh, how good it feels to be beautiful.
How wonderful it feels to be beautiful.
Oh, whoa.
Oh, whoa-oh-oh.
Oh, whoa.
Oh, whoa-oh-oh.
[applause]
CHLOE: I think we did really well.
I thought we were really together.
And we really told the story.
BROOKE: After we did My Beauty, I thought we
did really good and nailed it.
And I really want to get first place with that number
just because I think it's a really good number.
ANNOUNCER: Thank you very much.
One more big round of applause for every performer
on this stage.
One point.
One single point, just one, separates
second and first place.
I'm going to call both groups up here.
In no particular order, This is My Beauty,
Abby Lee Dance Company.
Rolling in the Deep McCoy Rigby Conservatory.
[applause]
Now, audience, are you ready for your top junior group
winner of a cash prize?
I am too.
This is My Beauty Abby Lee Dance Company.
Make some noise.
ABBY LEE: They won the whole thing.
They won the whole thing.
I am so proud of the girls.
This number won everything.
They were the highest score in the entire competition.
And nobody is ever going to forget the name
Abby Lee Dance Company.
You want to remind us one more time who your dance teacher is?
Abby Lee Dance Company.
At what studio?
Real loud.
Abby Lee Dance Company.
Top junior group.
Thank you very much.
Both of you take a bow.
ABBY LEE: I'm very proud.
You looked beautiful on stage.
Put the hands in and--
TOGETHER: 1, 2, 3, we are Abby Lee.
4, 5, 6, you should see our kicks.
7, 8, 9, we are really great.
9 and 10, we just won again.
[applause]
CURT: I'm going to try to pull Maddie and McKenzie out
of Abby's dance studio.
If I can do it, I'm going to do it.
I'm just sick of the way she treats
people, the kids, the mothers, everyone around her.
She don't care who she hurts in the process.
I don't want them around that environment.
I really don't.
Our job here is done.
ABBY LEE: Your job here is done.
But your job has just begun.