ABBY LEE: Maddie, you will be doing a tap solo.
[applause]
MELISSA: Maddie's solo this week is tap,
and she's going to be so amazing because she's
a phenomenal tap dancer.
I have one more solo to give out.
Chloe, you better start concentrating on your hip hop
because it is hip hop.
CHRISTI: Abby gave Maddie a tap solo, which
clearly, Maddie excels in tap.
She's had tap classes for years.
And she assigns Chloe hip hop, which we don't even have
hip hop classes at the studio.
She's so unfair.
ABBY LEE: Oh, you're ready for hip hop.
Yes?
Is Payton teaching her?
ABBY LEE: Now, remember, the story
is if you want to be a celebrity,
you want to be a pop star, you want to move to LA
and do all these things, you better
be able to be a hip hop dancer.
[music playing]
So Chloe is doing a hip hop routine entitled "Beautiful."
It's more of a jazz routine with hip hop elements,
hip hop costume, hip hop style.
I want her to succeed with his hip hop routine,
and I'm bringing Payton in because when Payton
hits hip hop, she hits it hard.
KELLY: I think Chloe should say to her, why am I doing hip hop?
I'm not a hip hopper.
Whatever.
Again, this is just a way to humiliate Chloe.
Sometimes those are the best dances
because it's no pressure.
You know you're not going to win?
So you go out there, have fun, and you enjoy it.
Holly, is that what you're saying?
You say Chloe's not going to win with hip hop?
They tend to be very competitive.
It's so clear that Abby only thinks of Maddie as her star,
that Chloe's not allowed to come anywhere near that.
That's why Maddie got tap this week and Chloe got hip hop.
You need to isolate those movements.
The isolation, the shoulder, the rib
cage, that's what hip hop is.
That's why a lot of people, trained, beautiful dancers,
can't do it, because it's that sudden change of direction.
Believe me.
I was sitting next to the guru of hip hop,
and I learned something.
Maybe if you would have come out to LA,
you would have learned something too.
CHRISTI: You know what I think is really sad is that you,
point blank, said to all of us that when the children were
invited that you were not going to send Maddie,
but then you screwed the group.
We made agreement about what we were
going to do with the girls.
We all stood by that, and you didn't.
Melissa, if I would have disobeyed the group and went
and had Brooke do it--
HOLLY: Brooke would be in much better standing.
--Brooke wouldn't have been at the bottom
of the pyramid this week.
I can guarantee you that.
But I didn't do that, because I'm a team player.
Do you know what?
That's my choice as a mother.
So basically, your choice as a mother is dance
trumps all, just to be clear.
Sneaky.
[laughs] KELLY: Well--
That's funny.
Why is that funny?
Because you know Christi sneaks all the time.
You've said it-- - No, I'm saying--
MELISSA: [inaudible] - --I wouldn't do it.
- What do I sneak about? - What do you mean?
You talk to everybody.
Give me a break.
If you could sleep with Abby, you would, and you know it.
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's how you tend to get ahead in life, Melissa.
Oh, yeah. I sleep with everybody.
You do, boss.
I never slept with my boss.
Yes, you did.
You married him.
Yes, I married Greg after.
Yeah, after you slept with him and had
an affair when he had a wife. MELISSA: I did not.
- And you had a husband. - Guess what?
I didn't sleep with him.
And don't start with me again, Christi.
CHRISTI: You did. - You know what?
I know. Storm out.
We love it.
Oh, I am storming out, because this is not being brought up.
CHRISTI: Sue me. MELISSA: Screw you.
- I know. - I did not sleep with my boss.
[inaudible] MELISSA: You know what?
You want to play those games?
What's wrong?
KELLY: She has to live with the decisions she made.
Like, I'm not going to sit up here and make this easy on her.
She doesn't make it easy on any of those six little girls.
KELLY: Yeah. Right.
CHRISTI: She knew she had that coming.
ABBY LEE: After yesterday's blowout
with Melissa and all the other moms,
I'm not sure what's really going on.
But I am going to get to the bottom of it.
Nobody is going to mess with Melissa.
So what I need to know is what happened yesterday.
Well, Christi starts screaming that--
about I sleep with everybody to get my kids ahead,
and I'm not taking crap like that, Abby.
I'm done. ABBY LEE: I'm sorry.
- That has nothing-- - That just shows you--
She's trash.
ABBY LEE: --what she is because she goes to that level.
But I don't--
I'm not like that.
I have lots of mean things to say about her,
and I can't because that's not my makeup.
Christi fights dirty, and I don't.
I think it's wrong.
And I'm not like her, so I'm not going to act like her.
I'm not white trash.
You're certainly not going to let Chloe
doing a hip hop dance beat you.
Really?
Maddie is doing a tap solo.
I am thrilled.
She's a great tapper.
It's a cute little number.
It's called "Me and You Against the World."
And it's all about a housewife that woke up
on the wrong side of the bed.
She burned the bacon and the pancakes.
She spilled coffee on her husband.
I mean, the whole nine yards.
[MUSIC - VERENICE BUERLING, "ME AND YOU AGAINST THE WORLD"]
(SINGING) Call me up after a bad day of work.
I love tapping.
I've always been tapping ever since I was four.
It's one of my best strengths.
That's a good solo.
Yeah, it's a great solo.
HOLLY: It really is.
I like the music.
I thought Abby said she wasn't running Maddie's solo.
She did.
She told me that today when I walked in.
That's what she told me.
CHRISTI: I'm thinking she's going to keep her promise
about not running Chloe's.
[laughter]
Something just tells me.
That promise, she might keep.
Melissa is not Chloe's mother, so of course, Chloe's
not working on her solo.
This is the way it goes here.
Maddie, are you ready?
I had a different shirt, though.
MELISSA: Maddie, come out.
Yeah, OK. That's good.
I'm not-- I don't like the shirt.
MELISSA: You don't? - No, because this is competing.
At this point, Abby and Team Melissa
should just travel to competitions on their own,
because as it stands right now, we're just kind of the filler
in between the Maddie dances.
ABBY LEE: Yeah, let me see.
Do some steps.
I like the back of the shirt.
I like the sleeves bouncing.
MELISSA: I don't know what it is,
but as soon as Abby comes back in town,
I seem to get all sorts of flack for any attention
that Maddie gets.
CHLOE: This is my first hip hop solo ever,
and we've only ever done two hip hop group dances.
So it's very weird to be doing hip hop, especially as a solo.
ANNOUNCER: And next to stage, number 15
is a junior hip hop solo.
Please welcome Chloe performing "Beautiful."
[applause]
[MUSIC - CUT ONE AND MEG COTTONE, "KEEP IT PUMPIN"]
(SINGING) Pumpin'.
Yeah, keep it pumpin'.
Keep it pumpin'.
Yeah.
Put your hands up.
Put your hands in the air.
Oh, keep it pumpin'.
Keep it pumpin'.
Yeah.
Put your hands up.
Put your hands in the air.
[applause]
WOMAN: Good job.
ANNOUNCER: And that was "Beautiful," act number 15.
ABBY LEE: Chloe just performed, and she was good.
Good enough for first place?
Mm.
I don't think so.
But I know that my best shot for first place is coming up next.
ANNOUNCER: This act number 13, junior tap solo.
Please welcome Maddie performing "You and Me Against the World."
[applause]
[MUSIC - VERENICE BUERLING, "ME AND YOU AGAINST THE WORLD"]
(SINGING) I got up on the wrong side of the bed.
And I spilled coffee on your white tee.
I burned your bacon, burned your pancakes and my hand.
It's not my day.
I hope you understand.
ABBY LEE: The apron starts to come down
in the middle of the number.
(SINGING) You know I'll put you first 'cause it's--
And that kid doesn't miss a beat.
She is right on the money the entire routine.
(SINGING) Me and you against the world.
Me and you against the world.
[applause]
ANNOUNCER: And that was "You and Me Against the World."
That kid was like a pro.
In fourth place, with a score of 275.3 points,
is Miss Chloe with act number 15,
"Beautiful," from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
[applause]
First runner-up, with a score of 280.7 points,
is Miss Maddie with act number 13,
"You and Me Against the World."
[applause]
Yay, Maddie.
ABBY LEE: That is a joke.
ANNOUNCER: And your highest-scoring elite junior
soloist is Miss Haley with act number
10, "Pardon My Southern Accent."
I am livid.
Second?
Are you serious?
Oh, boy.
Thank god.
Thank god that we won the group dance.
- The girls won. - Yeah.
I know.
Oh, I don't think Abby cares that the girls won.
The only thing she cares about was Maddie's solo.
HOLLY: I feel kind of bad that the girls probably
won't get to enjoy their win.
So all your kissing ass and doing whatever has paid off.
And aren't you glad that you went to LA to make
sure that she will protect you?
But you don't see when you do things against the group
that it hurts our kids.
My kids come first to me, and they
always will come first to me.
I can't say that I'm fed up with Melissa's lying
and fakeness because I've always been fed up with Melissa's
lying and fakeness.
But I think all the other moms in the room
are finally fed up with it too.
[cheering]
- Good job. - Good job.
- I did fine with hip hop! - I know!
High five! - You did good.
High five.
See?
And Melissa thought you were upset.
You said that Maddie was so upset, OK?
So kiss my ass!
She looked so upset.
Why are you saying this in front of your kid?
Because guess what?
You do it all the time.
You talk about my kid all the time.
You said, oh, Maddie is upset.
Every time Maddie doesn't win, oh my god, Maddie is upset,
Maddie's upset, so don't play the game.
She was crying.
Thank you.
Oh, whatever! CHRISTI: OK.
Screw you!
I'm done.
I'm so over it.
You know what?
You're always against me.
Come on.
Why don't you tell that--
that trashy girl to stop?
We're leaving.
ABBY LEE: But I walk into the dressing room,
and Melissa's mad. She's leaving.
The other kids aren't even in there.
They're all milling around.
What is going on with the Abby Lee Dance Company?
Come on, girls.
You're all sitting here like we have another number.
It's over.
Get yourself together.
OK, let's go.
We don't have any children.
MELISSA: Maddie.
Stop.
ABBY LEE: Melissa, what's going on with you?
Tell me what happened.
Maddie is fine.
ABBY LEE: Maddie, learn from Chloe
or learn from Christi being evil not to cry.
You got to save it for the pillow
because people like that make it worse.
Every time you get knocked down, you fight that much more.
And that's what makes you Maddie.
You're a survivor.
Got it?
The moms, they're jealous of Maddie.
This is Maddie's time to shine, and they don't understand that.
Come over here and give me a hug.
Oh.