[suspenseful music]
ABBY LEE MILLER: This is our last week before we go to LA.
[applause]
Maddie is not here.
She is in New York City rehearsing for "Saturday Night
Live".
OK, so this week we are going to World Class Talent Experience.
[applause]
And since it's in Ohio, we know those rotten apples
are going to be there again.
Now the group routine--
Maddie is not here, so I hate to do a contemporary
or lyrical without her being present.
ABBY LEE MILLER (VOICEOVER): The style
of this routine is jazz funk.
We're reminiscent of the Spice Girls.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Hurry up! Keep going!
[music playing] Chin up.
Chin up.
Their faces don't change enough.
ABBY LEE MILLER (VOICEOVER): This
is a perfect example of the type of routines they need to know
to compete in LA, where everybody is better and more
fierce.
And I need 100% energy if we're going to beat Kathy.
JILL VERTES: If we want to win and we're going up
against Cathy, we do what we do best.
I don't know if a tribute to Spice Girls
is good enough to win.
[music playing]
Who knows the Spice Girls the best, like, their characters?
Baby, Ginger--
And you're Sporty.
JOJO: --Sporty, Scary, and Posh.
- Whoever play-- - Who am I?
Like, what do I do?
Because I'm just Ginger.
I just have red hair.
What's with that?
Well, I think she was ginger.
She had red hair, but she was feisty--
JILL VERTES: She was-- - --and spunky.
- --gorgeous. - Yeah.
Remember, we looked her up. Yeah.
HOLLY FRAZIER: She was like a firecracker redhead,
like, look at me. - Look at Jojo.
Channel your inner Jojo.
[laughing]
Well, she-- she had, like, a fierce attitude.
HOLLY FRAZIER: Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
KIRA GIRARD: This dance is fun and high-energy.
And it's everything they need to get into LA.
I think it'll help them to get in the zone too.
ABBY LEE MILLER: OK.
Girls, Maddie's not with you.
We're going against everybody in Ohio.
Then you also have the Wicked Witch of the West.
Those people know they have good dancers, some of them
better than you, than you, than you, than you, maybe even you.
[music playing]
[screaming]
Last week was our trial and error.
There's no room for error this week.
We have to go out there and just kill it.
This group dance is the last group dance we're
going to do before we go to LA. - So--
So we need to go out with a bang.
- We can do this without Maddie. - I mean, she's--
Even though she's a part of our team
and she's one of our team members, we can--
- We just-- - --win without her.
We can-- we can win without her.
ANNOUNCER: Please welcome to the stage, from The Abby Lee Dance
Company, "Tell Me What You Want."
[cheering]
[MUSIC - WIZARDZ OF OZ, "PARTY GO BOOM"]
WIZARDZ OF OZ (SINGING): They say a party,
won't be on until I get up in the place.
Hey, people say my name.
Hear that alarm?
It's going off when I'm walking starting flames.
Hey, I'll make you go insane.
Blow it up, blow it up.
I want to see you blow it up, blow it up
when you walk in the room.
Blow it up, blow it up.
I light a fire, babe.
I make the party go boom!
You never see me coming, see me coming,
but I'll knock you right off your feet.
We make the party go boom!
You feel your blood is rushing, blood is rushing
and your heart keeps skipping a beat.
We make the party go boom!
We blow it sky high.
The sparks are gonna fly.
No, you can't handle this, so don't you even try.
We make the party go boom!
Ain't no stopping us, so keep it rocking.
And watch me as I bring it, make you sing it, make the party go.
I like the way you're making heads turn.
Don't try to touch me unless you wanna feel the burn.
So let's get to it, make it real up in here.
Let's get it started, need a party I can feel up in here!
Make the party go boom!
You never see me coming, see me coming,
but I'll knock you right off your feet.
We make the party go boom!
You feel your blood is rushing, blood is rushing
and your heart keeps skipping a beat.
We make the party go boom.
We blow it sky high.
The sparks are gonna fly.
No, you can't handle this, so don't you even try.
We make the party go boom!
Ain't no stopping us, so keep it rocking.
And watch me as I bring it, make you sing it,
make the party go boom.
Hey, Boopie.
No.
Yeah, they're with me.
Yep, all of them.
Let's get it started, need a party I can feel up in here.
So watch me as I bring it, make you sing it,
make the party go boom!
[cheering]
[music playing]
JILL VERTES: We had nothing to worry about.
They were amazing, good enough to win.
ANNOUNCER: Next up is act number 111.
Please welcome, from the Candy Apple's Dance Center,
"Stand Up."
[cheering]
[music - clooney, "stand up"]
CLOONEY: (SINGING) Light the corners and the dark side.
This is where the few hide, making all the trouble
for the world.
Why?
Why are we waiting?
Come on and stand up!
Break the waves and breach the last wall.
It will take no time at all.
We will leave no stone unturned by nightfall.
Why are we waiting?
Come on, come on.
Stand up.
One voice and one heart, everybody
come together and not apart.
Think of what it means to you, the wonders we could do.
So stand up, stand up!
Like the others we have come for,
good is what we need for saving all the lonely from their lost
cause.
Why are we waiting?
Come on, come on.
Stand up, stand up!
One voice and one heart.
Everybody come together and not apart.
Think of what it means to you, the wonders we could do.
So stand up, stand up!
Woah, woah, woah, woah, oh, woah, woah, oh, woah, woah,
woah, woah, oh.
[cheering]
[suspenseful music]
HOLLY FRAZIER (VOICEOVER): Their dance looks familiar,
and I recognize some of those moves.
But they were great, and that's not good for us.
Moving forward into the advance team small group
category--
second overall goes to act number 112,
"Tell Me What You Want."
[clapping]
And our first overall in team small group category
goes to act number 111, Stand Up.
[cheering]
[suspenseful music]
ABBY LEE MILLER (VOICEOVER): If there's
one thing I hate more than coming in second,
it's coming in second to the rotten apples.
And this is not the way I intended to return to LA.
HOST: And your studio, nice and loud!
Candy Apple's Dance Center!
[cheering]
[music playing]
[screaming]
I have to tell you, their faces were on the ground.
They usually, like, sit like this.
And they're so tense.
And they said that they were number two, and they went--
[laughter]
OK, so I have a fabulous gift for you guys.
I have a fabulous, fun little thing to do.
We took a bite out of Abby.
Now we need to go enjoy our--
our victory with them.
I'll show you what I have.
ALL: Oooh.
[suspenseful music]
[cheering]
CATHY: Now wait.
Now wait.
[laughter]
Isn't that a priceless picture?
Let's go over and ask her if she wants a piece of cake.
Yes.
Let's go.
ABBY LEE MILLER: We did not win!
Was it about Maddie?
I can count on one hand how many times Maddie was ever second
in her life.
HOLLY FRAZIER: Abby's in a really horrible mood right now.
We lost to the Candy Apples.
And that's just about the worst thing that could happen--
especially as we head to LA.
At this point, we need to just leave and avoid
any confrontation.
[music playing]
Hey.
Here it comes.
We're still celebrating.
We thought we would come and bring a cake for all of you.
Abby, do you want some cake?
Abby, I can't even believe you just did that!
- Go get her. - What did she do?
Go get her, Liza.
What'd she do?
Go get her, Liza.
LIZA: Abby!
Abby, I can't believe you just did that to my daughter.
Everyone knows this girl is a beautiful dancer.
But what Abby said is horrible.
Abby's just mad that we lost.
They came in to rub it into our faces,
and Abby let her have it.
It's like waking a sleeping bear.
They came in, poking at Abby.
And Abby let her have it.
LIZA: Turn around, Abby.
What is wrong?
Why would you do that to my daughter?
I didn't do it to your daughter.
I did it to you.
My daughter was in there and saw that!
You gotta come up with something,
and that's all she could come up with.
Trust me.
When we watch you dance, we go, ohhhh!
You're beautiful, and she knows it.
Hold your head high keep doing what you're doing, honey.
You're beautiful, OK?
This is the same Abby that we saw in LA last time--
meltdown after meltdown after meltdown.
I just pray to God that this won't happen next week.
This isn't what we need going back to LA.
I gave up my entire life for two weeks to be humiliated, OK?
I can't stand her either.
And I'm right in your court, honey.