[music playing]
ABBY LEE MILLER: This week, we're traveling back to Ohio.
We're going to attend Expressions Dance Competition.
There will be two duets performing this weekend.
Pressley, step forward.
Lilly, step forward.
So you two each have duets this week,
and you will be picking your duet partner.
PRESSLEY: I'm going to pick--
Brady because I think that he is an amazing dancer
in every style.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Lilly, you get to pick second.
Based on her performance last week,
I think I'm going to choose Hannah.
Interesting.
All right, Hannah.
Congratulations.
Come on up here.
DANCE MOM: Yay.
Go, Hannah.
[music playing]
ABBY LEE MILLER: This is great for him.
No one's going to know your name, Pressley.
[laughs] You shouldn't have picked him.
DANCE MOM: I mean, I'd be worried
if she said that about my duet.
ASHLEY: Well, I hope she takes the critique and fixes it.
STACEY: I feel like we've spent a lot of time on this duo,
and maybe Abby feels fine because Brady's dance
is the one that's most ahead.
Right.
Thanks, Stace.
STACEY: Lilly and Hannah's duet hasn't even started yet,
and Tricia is just sitting pretty.
Tricia sits upstairs week after week like a statue.
Why wouldn't she when Brady can't do
any wrong in Abby's eyes?
Do you think he has an advantage?
Do you think he's the favorite?
What is the problem?
She feels like Brady is just getting handed things.
TRICIA: He does.
And you don't have to do anything for it.
You don't think that I am worried
that whatever the hell I do is going to get him sent home?
DANCE MOM: I don't think Abby's sending Brady home.
ASHLEY: I think Abby can send anybody home.
She made it more than clear.
She said the actual word, somebody is going home.
If that is not scaring everybody, it's scaring me.
ABBY LEE MILLER: OK, girls.
Listen.
We have right now to finish this duet.
You're going to finish it in this time
we have allotted right now so play it smart, all right?
So we have a big sister and a little sister.
And the big sister, Hannah, is the failure of the family,
and your little sister is just perfect and she does no wrong.
Everything is wonderful.
I'm so tired of Miss Abby always picking on Hannah.
Can she do anything right?
Abby's talking about sending someone home.
It's probably going to be Hannah.
I mean, I'm just--
it's stressing me out.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Hannah, your posture getting up again.
It's the third time.
DANCE MOM: Ann, are you OK?
You OK?
Yep, I'm good.
ABBY LEE MILLER: I think Hannah's butt sticking out
is what looks bad to me.
Hannah's rear end's sticking way out.
She can't play it with her butt out.
I'm going to go the bathroom really quick.
I'll be back. DANCE MOM: OK.
DANCE MOM: (CRYING) Just stop.
DANCE MOM: That's Ann crying.
TRICIA: Oh crap.
What the heck is going on?
The pressure is on.
They have to win.
I'm not handling this very well.
[laughs]
ABBY LEE MILLER: Pressley, you chose Brady.
Everybody is going to have eyes on Brady.
No one is even going to look at you.
Lilly, you were second to pick, and you got to pick Hannah.
I don't know if it was the best decision.
I'm just not sure that Hannah is dancing to your level.
We'll see on stage.
We'll see what the judges think.
All right.
It's time to go.
ANN: I'm just-- I'm just praying.
I'm praying that it all works out.
ANNOUNCER: All right.
Here's Hannah and Lilliana with "We're Breathing"
[cheering]
[music playing]
(SINGING) Looking up, there's a thousand stars.
It makes me think how small we are.
I find for the light.
I'm still stumbling in the dark.
Sometimes it feels like the walls
are closing in around me, so complicated
when it doesn't have to be.
So much to vision in the world we're living in
and it tears us apart when we're really not that far off.
But it'll be all right.
Just breathe.
Breathe.
[cheering]
ABBY LEE MILLER: Lilly and Hannah
were better than I expected.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado,
"Geek Gets the Girl."
[cheering]
[music playing]
(SINGING) Just an average guy with a yearning I can't deny.
Don't suppose you would fall for someone like me.
If you just got to know me, but that's something
I can't foresee.
I'm a sensitive person.
My light seems to worsen.
Won't you open your eyes to love someone like me.
Someone.
[cheering]
No, it was not.
It was over the back.
OK, over the back.
We were too far forward.
Over the back or is it forward?
When we were doing the aerial.
I didn't see that.
It's fine.
We made a mistake.
It's funny because I'm a geek and I
don't know what I'm doing.
PRESSLEY: It wasn't your fault. It was mine.
[breathing heavily] I can't breathe.
ANNOUNCER: Second highest duo-trio of the day,
"We're Breathing."
Woohoo.
We got second.
Are you so proud of yourself?
Yes.
I'm proud of you too.
ANNOUNCER: And your highest duo-trio
of the entire day, "Geek Gets the Girl"
from Abby Lee Dance Company.
[teasing sounds]
[laughs]
I picked the right person, and I'm happy that I picked Brady.
Smart cookie.
ANNOUNCER: You did a great job.