[music playing]
ABBY: Smile!
Stop.
She forget it?
Payton doesn't know the routine.
ABBY: All right, you come with me.
[dramatic music]
Go ahead, honey.
Get your costume on.
Where are the bags so she can practice with those?
KERRI: In the back. ABBY: Can you get them?
KERRI: Yeah.
ABBY: Thank you.
Hello.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
She's not dancing with a Maxi pad on her.
Are you serious?
I am so pissed that Abby has physical trash glued
to my daughter's costume.
See if you can get in here.
KERRI: I'm worried about the tricks and the tucks
and the rolls.
This can get tucked right here.
Do you want her to get made fun of?
I mean, I think the costume could have been cute.
ABBY: I'm not answering that. I'm not validating that.
Why does she have to look like this for the routine?
Well, why does Big Bird wear a bird suit?
I don't know.
KERRI: I-- I get the whole trash bag.
I get the whole prop thing, but I don't want my daughter
looking like garbage on stage.
ABBY: This is a gimmick.
- It's-- but she's seven. - OK.
You know what?
This is her first solo her--
I know.
And we're so concerned-- - --time.
--with this.
So sweetheart, what your mother is saying
is you're not doing a solo.
That's your mom's wishes. - No.
Sorry.
No.
ABBY: She doesn't know it anyway, so.
This isn't fair.
Goodbye.
[whistles] Go.
And she's out of the group dance too.
Let's go.
KERRI: We're going.
No, you're not.
Kerri, Kerri, Kerri, Kerri, Kerri.
No.
Kerri.
KERRI: Take it off.
Take it off.
This is exactly what we did not
want to see happen with Abby.
I just feel like everything is falling apart,
and this is really scary.
I didn't do anything disrespectful.
I just questioned the costume.
Goodbye.
All right, girls.
Let's go.
You know, Abby, the elite team left,
so I just don't understand why.
I mean, I had the garbage bags.
She's been practicing with them.
I didn't do anything remotely close to what the juniors did
to you.
Cherry.
Is her name Cherry?
The minute you walked out of the room
and you said about shoving the costume,
it sounded exactly like another mother
that I had that said something like that.
[bleeps] you, Abby.
So I've learned from that mistake.
You nip it in the bud.
You find the cancer.
You go in.
You cut it out.
You get rid of it.
For my entire life, I have put somebody else's child
before me.
I'm not doing it anymore.
The mini moms said they will stand up,
and if Payton didn't dance, they wouldn't dance.
But nobody's saying a word.
You guys have no loyalty to anybody.
Every one of you said yesterday that if Payton doesn't dance,
you guys aren't dancing either.
This is a team, and they should be dancing together.
- Uh-oh. - What's going on?
Why are you crying?
There's no loyalty with me and the moms in there.
It's what?
They didn't stand up for me and Payton.
- I could have told you that. - I'm sorry.
It's OK. Don't cry.
We saw it. Don't cry.
Well, I want her to still do it,
but Abby doesn't want it under her name.
Well, if you compete with us, you can change her costume
and do it how you want to do it.
It's mommy's dancing school.
HOLLY: We know what it's like to be discarded by Abby.
And we know the kind of support you need when that happens.
So we're definitely there to help them at this time of need
and get Payton where she needs to be so she can compete
on stage.
[music playing]
Abby, I feel bad for Payton because I know
Payton wants to do the solo. - Don't.
I don't want to, like, pressure.
You know. I'm not.
I know, but you don't understand.
I think this is a bad environment for that kid
to be in.
I just feel bad because Payton has been practicing the dance,
and she was heartbroken yesterday.
That's why I feel bad.
ABBY: Well, I'm heartbroken that she used to live
has to live in a house with that mother every day.
That-- that breaks my heart.
But she has to understand the one good thing
I can do for that kid is to make her mother realize
that her actions affect the child.
I think there's deeper issues there that you,
and you, and you, and you know nothing about.
You're a psychologist.
Do you not think so?
I can't make any judgments like that
unless it's a patient of mine.
OK.
I don't want to look like a brat, Mom.
But I love Payton.
I love Alexis.
I love Lily.
I love Elliana.
I love everyone on this team.
ABBY: Stop.
Zip it.
I feel bad for Payton this week
because she's not in the group dance
and Abby took away her solo.
That was not fair, even though Kerri did say.
to (WHISPERS) stick it up her butt.
ANNOUNCER: All right, judges.
Next up, number 76, "I Love Trash."
[audience cheers]
[MUSIC - BROADWAY PUPPIES, "LIFE AIN'T EASY"]
(SINGING) When you feel like it's over,
brush it off of your shoulder and smile at tragedy.
When you've lost your composure and your luck's getting lower,
just stop and try to see, cuz life ain't easy.
[cheering, applause]
So we have small mini solo.
Second place, entry number 76, "I Love Trash."
[cheers]
KERRI: I have never been more proud of my child
than this moment.
This has been a tough week, but Payton is a strong dancer.
And she has proved that she deserves to be on this team.