[music playing]
We are headed to Wheeling, West Virginia.
We will compete at Sheer Talent.
We have two group routines.
I will start with you guys.
All of you will be in the routine.
It's contemporary.
The name of the routine is "Light as a Feather,
Stiff as a Board."
And now, over here.
This group will also be doing a contemporary routine
entitled "The Rapture."
I'm doing a piece entitled "The Rapture."
And this rapture is a belief that all
the good people go off to heaven,
and the bad people are left here on earth.
Well, the select team is experiencing
its own type of rapture.
This week the group is dancing a really dark, scary,
contemporary number called "Light as a Feather,
Stiff as a Board."
It's about a bunch of little girls at a sleepover,
and they're playing around with a Ouija board.
Chloe is the lead and she becomes possessed,
and she gets to play this dark role which--
hey, it's the lead.
I'll take it.
So how do you think the number's going?
We love it.
The girls love it.
I was like--
I figured Christi is going to go off the deep end.
Uh, I'm going to interrupt you.
I've heard every word you guys have said.
Good.
This is my studio, and I'm not going anywhere.
[bleep] bite me.
Honey, if I had lips the size of [bleep] Texas, I would.
Hey, hey.
[yelling]
Get her out.
Their behavior is deplorable.
They are an embarrassment to the Abby Lee Dance Company,
and an embarrassment to me.
Come out and you apologize to this woman,
or the kid gets taken out of the dance and there's no solo.
That's it.
Just say you're sorry, so we can all move along.
No, she needs to apologize first.
You know what?
I extend my hand in apology.
So do you apologize for-- - Yes.
--being the way you were?
Absolutely.
The new team, they're amazing, and they
have their dance together.
But we just have to show them that we've
been dancing together forever.
We need to show them that there
is something special about knowing who you've danced with.
It's apparent now that Abby's doing
everything in her power to set it up for the other team
to win. There is nothing we can do.
Let the best team win.
[screaming]
Girls, you remember the last time we were at Sheer Talent.
It was the incident with Kelly.
I think we already had an incident.
And they're still here.
She can't suspend her two youngest members of your team
because you have all teenagers.
You couldn't compete against us.
If Abby didn't need you guys right now, you'd be gone.
This is the Abby Lee Dance Company.
I make the rules.
OK judges.
Entry number 62 is a preteen group, contemporary.
"The Rapture."
[cheering] [music playing]
And could it be?
This is how it's always been.
[applause]
I need this team to understand that life is just not fair.
And when life's not fair, you have to fight back.
But does the Junior League competition team
have any fight left in them?
ANNOUNCER: Entry number 63 is a preteen group, contemporary.
"Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board."
Light as a feather, stiff as board.
Light as a feather, stiff as a board.
[music playing]
[applause]
Despite everything that Abby did to give the other team
an edge, our girls did it.
They were amazing.
But is it enough for a win?
ANNOUNCER: We have our preteen groups.
In second place, we have entry number 63,
"Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board.
[applause]
And in first place-- can I have a drum roll please?
Entry number 62, "The Rapture."
[applause]
When we got called to second place,
I was so devastated because I actually thought we were
going to win this one today.
Abby said, may the best team win.
And obviously, we didn't win.
No tears.
They were better. They won.
Life's not fair.
Life is not fair, but you know what?
These kids deserve better.
You're wasting my time, and I'm not getting paid to stand
down here and argue with you.
Maddie, stop crying.
Tell her to stop crying.