ABBY LEE: My junior
team members have a ton of numbers
in this year's dance concert.
So our tech rehearsal is extremely important.
And the show never stops.
[ominous tone]
CHRISTIE: Chloe?
After rehearsal something just wasn't right with Chloe's foot.
She was limping around. Is it awful?
CHRISTIE: OK, OK.
Get your pointe shoe on, and see how it feels.
[somber music]
CHRISTIE: Don't force it on. No.
ABBY LEE: It's not looking good.
CHRISTIE: We can't get it on.
Oh god, Chloe.
MELISSA: Is this-- am I hitting it?
Express care is open till 9.
(UNDER BREATH) God.
You won't ruin it.
She'll re-bloch it.
You have a lot of stuff coming up.
Nationals?
You don't want to be hurt.
Chloe's injury couldn't have come at a worse time.
National's is next week, and last year Chloe
didn't dance at nationals.
Like, what did we do?
CHLOE: How am I supposed to know.
CHRISTIE: Well, but you know what you want to do.
Yeah.
I want to dance.
[intensifying music]
[ambient music]
- Hi guys! - Hi.
What's going on?
CHRISTIE: So, Chloe is--
we're broken.
I had Chloe's foot X-rayed, and the doctor said that she has
a buckle fracture in her foot.
She has to be in a boot for at least a week.
Here's the good news.
It's very minor.
If we take it easy this week she's not out of the running
to dance in nationals.
GIANNA: Just head on in there anyways with the girls.
Maybe you can just look out for them.
You know? CHRISTIE: Yeah.
CHLOE: All right. CHRISTIE: Is Abby coming today?
She is coming.
She had a few appointments this morning, but she will be here.
CHLOE: I have a buckle fracture in my second metatarsal,
and I can't dance for this week.
But there is a really good possibility I'll
be able to dance nationals.
CHLOE: Not this week.
[intensifying music]
Six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six--
I hate that Chloe is sitting in that corner.
Chloe hurt her foot and cannot dance at the dance concert.
And I'm really sad about it.
Because for the first time in 12 years
she's not going to be on that stage.
ABBY LEE: What's wrong with Cloe?
CHRISTIE: She has a buckle fracture
in her second metatarsal.
So tape the toe together.
CHRISTIE: No, it's--
ABBY LEE: Up in her foot? all the way up in her foot?
She was at the hospital last night.
She cannot dance this week.
She can dance next week.
ABBY LEE: I don't know.
I have the X-ray.
It's very faint.
It's very tiny.
But it's in her foot, not her toe.
Wouldn't want her to injure it further.
We need to get better not worse.
They're not counting her out just yet.
Well-- Chloe's mother is doing everything she can to convince
me that her foot is just going to be
fine and dandy for nationals.
It's a week away.
You all have a lot riding on this,
and we have an injured dancer.
Last year she wasn't at nationals.
This year she may not be able to dance at nationals.
Is that a winning team?
[dance music]
[laughing]
CHRISTIE: You guys look cute!
I think they're cute.
Hello!
CHRISTIE: Oh, hey!
ABBY LEE: How is everybody?
It is a great audience.
They are excited.
They're coming to see you.
You have people here that are your family members,
your friends, your neighbors.
If you make a mistake on that stage
the whole world is going to see it.
All right. Let's go.
[competition music]
CHLOE: It's really hard sitting in the audience watching
all of my teammates perform, because I've
always been a part of the dance concert
since I was a little girl.
So just to sit there and watch Camryn and all of them
is really hard for me.
[clapping]
CHRISTIE: It makes me sad to sit there and watch.
This is the first time in 12 years you
haven't danced in that recital.
Not being able to dance, like, makes
me want to dance even more.
It's kind of like getting me excited for next week
so I can show Abby. Like--
But what if Abby doesn't let you have a chance?
CHLOE: I can't imagine not dancing with the girls.
Even if it's not healed by then I'm still going to dance.
I mean, I'm not ready to miss another nationals.