ANNOUNCER (OVER LOUDSPEAKER): Next up, we have number 34--
CATHY: So here's the big moment.
We are going to do the same song that the Abby
Lee Company is using for Chloe.
And I'm feeling very confident.
ANNOUNCER (OVER LOUDSPEAKER): From Candy Apples Dance Studio,
it's Taylor.
[KADIE HODGES, "DREAM ON A STAR"]
[dramatic musical sting]
(SINGING) Dream on a star.
Dream.
CHRISTI: I'm backstage helping Chloe get ready for her solo,
and I hear Chloe's music playing.
I don't know.
So I'm thinking, is she supposed to be on stage,
or are they playing her music?
Did she miss her call?
[applause]
CHLOE: I think Cathy purposely did that to steal my thunder,
I guess, and to make it seem like if we
have the same music, well, it depends
on who's dancing better.
CHRISTI: I guess Cathy looked up the schedule online, saw
Chloe's name, saw her music, and decided
to choreograph something to it.
Who does that?
ANNOUNCER (OVER LOUDSPEAKER): Please welcome, from Abby Lee
Dance Company, this is Chloe.
She will be performing to "Dream On a Star."
ABBY LEE: Come on, kid.
Come on.
[KADIE HODGES, "DREAM ON A STAR"]
(SINGING) Hush now.
Don't speak.
This is just the start.
Words can't save us, spinning in my heart.
Yes.
CHRISTI: As I'm watching Chloe dance, more than anything,
I want her to come off that stage and think to herself,
I did the best that I can do.
(SINGING) Dream on a star.
ABBY LEE: Come on.
Face.
CHRISTI: At this point, it's about Chloe's self-confidence.
And I wanted her to come off that stage
and feel good about herself.
ABBY LEE: Push.
(SINGING) --on a star.
Dream, dream, dream.
ABBY LEE: Yeah!
(SINGING) Dream, dream.
[applause, cheering]
ABBY LEE: Good girl.
[upbeat dance tune]
KELLY: OK.
Well, we need to remember what Laquifa taught us.
CHRISTI: And it goes the same for a sassy number
as well as a pretty number.
You still have to own it.
ABBY LEE: The stakes are really high.
We have to do well in Hollywood.
We have one more week until the national conclusion
in Lake Tahoe.
ANNOUNCER (OVER LOUDSPEAKER): Please welcome,
from Abby Lee Dance Company--
[ERICKATOURE AVIANCE, "MY PUMPS"] Come on, girls.
Do you believe in pumps?
'Cause I got something to sing about,
and it goes something like this.
My pumps get me into it.
My pumps hook me up.
My pumps take me up so high, I can't never get enough.
HOLLY: So I'm watching the group number.
I'm worried, really, from the start of the performance,
is Nia going to be able to pull off the death drop?
(SINGING) Lord Jesus, I am home.
You can't bring me down 'cause I've got the shoes.
You can't bring me down.
You take away my blues.
Pumps, pumps, pumps, pumps.
Pumps.
My pumps.
Pumps.
My pumps.
Pump, pumps, pumps, pumps.
My pumps.
[cheering, applause]
Nia nailed the death drop, and I thought that "My Pumps"
was super-fabulicious.
HOLLY: That's what I was worried about-- will she nail it?
And she did.
I heard gasps in the audience.
The judges were like, wow.
If you're not prepared for it, it's a shocker.
[dramatic musical sting]
We'll begin our awards ceremony
with adjudications from our pre-qualifying competition.
ABBY LEE: The judging at iHollywood is really intense.
This is an important competition for us
not just because we're here in Hollywood,
but because we're up against Candy Apples.
And there is no way that I'm not going to beat Cathy.
[cheering]
CATHY: There was suspense for me because, honestly, we
have to win.
We cannot lose.
ANNOUNCER: Junior solos, Oscar category--
[deep suspenseful notes]
--going to Abby Lee Dance Company,
act number 33, "Dream On a Star,"
with a first-place finish.
CATHY: I know that I boasted around to Abby,
or put it out there, that we were
going to have this huge battle.
So, really, I'm feeling upset Taylor got beat.
Moving along to your top-three scoring
junior Oscar small groups.
In third place, from Abby Lee Dance Company,
in the genre of open floor jazz, number 50, "My Pumps."
[applause, cheering]
ABBY LEE: I'm sitting there.
I get slapped in the face with the Maddie thing.
Then "My Pumps" gets third.
Third?
Unacceptable.
The Abby Lee Dance Company does not
place third in an overall national competition.
No way, no shape, no how.
Not going to happen.
And I really wanted a big win here
so that we would walk in with our heads held high,
like we were on top of the world.
And now, that didn't happen.
Here comes trouble. You got it right.
Hi, guys.
Congratulations.
KELLY: I think Cathy's an idiot.
She came to our studio, wanted to be part of our team.
Obviously, her daughter couldn't hang with us.
So she goes back home and comes and competes against us here?
You know what, guys?
I can go home and fix what my kids did wrong.
You can't fix [bleep].
KELLY: Well, you can't get any better than first, Cathy.
ABBY LEE: I cannot believe that's a grown
adult that teaches children.
They think I'm bad?
CATHY: We may not have done as well in Hollywood
as I had hoped for.
But the Abby Lee Dance Company has not seen
the last of my Candy Apples.
I want to say one thing.
I was very proud that you stood on that stage,
you took that second, you smiled,
you had fun with your friends.
That even proved more of a professional
than winning all the time.
And, Kelly, all the crap about the choreographers--
KELLY: All I want is for you to make my kids
feel like, before they go on stage, that you
care that they do well.
But, see, I think you're enabling the stupidity.
You are enabling them to not be able to go in
and work on their own.
It's still a game, and that's OK because you keep telling them
it's OK.
And I'll tell you what, I am here,
and my mother is in a hospital.
And I'm here with your kid.
CHRISTI: But I think what you're missing, honestly,
because maybe you're not a mother,
is that these children crave your approval just
like they do their mother's. ABBY LEE: That's right.
CHRISTI: They do.
And I want them to keep craving it.
It's fine. Let's just leave it at that.
ABBY LEE: --other kids that want to make a career out of it.
You want my undivided attention, but you don't
want to be serious about it.
KELLY: The only reason I brought a choreographer in
is because I want my kids to get the special attention.
And you see where that got you.
KELLY: So let me not pay someone to do it
and have Gianna do it the way she does it with Maddie.
Maddie and Gianna have a special relationship.
KELLY: That's what I want.
Well, I want to have somebody here
that has a special relationship with my daughter
to run her numbers the way she runs them with Maddie.
I don't know, what did Kelly give you for Christmas?
I don't need to buy Gianna something for Christmas.
She's a [bleep] teacher.
That language is not allowed in my school.
I'm sorry, girls.
When we get to Lake Tahoe, that's it.
It's the end of the road for us.
Third?
How do we go from third to first in a week on the road?
[dramatic musical sting]