- All right, so for little ones up!
Girls, the name of this routine is called
"Cave Men Undercover," cause you're not men,
you're sassy little girls, but you're going undercover.
You're pretending your cave men. Got it?
Let's go.
This is a big week for these little ones,
since I'm deciding whether they should stay
or whether they should go.
None of them are really old enough to take the initiative
and be the boss of the group, so I ended up actually
putting the Junior Lee competition team in charge
of those little ones so they could see what
it was supposed to look like.
A competition?
They have to really show me what they have,
and the fifth little mini, she's not here yet.
That doesn't bode well for her future.
GROUP: Hi.
WOMAN: We have a mini.
Yeah we're here to start.
WOMAN: What is your name? - This is Kendyl.
I'm Lynn.
Is she cute.
Oh, I have a Kendall.
My name's Lynn, my daughter is Kendyl.
She's seven years old.
I think Kendyl would be a good ALDC dancer because she's
a very hard worker.
She has like a really good attention to detail,
she listens very well, takes correction very well,
and she would work really hard to do it.
Kick her out.
There's only room for one Kendall K.
Hi, I'm sorry to interrupt.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Really? - Yeah.
We just filled out--
ABBY LEE MILLER: I don't think so.
Don't you try to teach your children to be on time?
I give some other kid the opportunity, a fifth girl,
and she's late.
We'd like her to be able to dance, if that's possible.
I mean, she's got her clothes.
Do you realize there's like 12,000 kids in this country
that want to be in this group?
Is it possible for her to just like
stand in for a little while and try and see what happens?
I'll have my secretary call you later.
Let's go, girls, we have work to do.
You're already two hours behind.
Come on.
You want to stroll in late and think
that you're going to waltz right into this number?
It doesn't work like that, sweetie.
Let's go.
You want to ask about if she's on the team?
I think I'm just going to see what happens for now.
Last night it was really emotional,
and I was broken down.
But I had to realize that we're here
to have Kendyl dance, so I'm just going
to come back and make it work.
It's our time to be showcased, because we're
not the official team yet.
So what do you want to show the other moms
that we do deserve to be here.
We're all limited if we don't fight for the spot.
They were saying that this is how it is.
We don't have to do everything exactly the way that they did.
WOMAN: Right.
We're fighting a battle for you,
but we feel like you're not.
You're fighting for me?
We fought for you to be on the team.
I'm trying to get her to be safe
and to be here and be with the team.
WOMAN: Safe? - Yeah, yeah.
Don't ever use that word here, or
you're going to get kicked off.
I don't think she even knows your name, honey.
Well, you do it your way, I'll do it my way,
and we'll see what works.
You guys always take advice from us, don't you?
- I'm trying to. - Which one?
WOMAN: Absolutely you do.
I'm just saying, I don't have to do exactly
as they have done in the past.
Why does everybody always have to go through this?
I'm going to fight for it, this and that.
That's how this works, honey.
If you can't handle it, you can't be here, because that's
what our kids do.
Abby Lee Miller runs the show, you don't, and she'll
never let you run the show.
I don't know who this mom thinks she is.
She can't come in after two days and think
that she's an exception.
We had to fight for everything that we get here,
and that's why we're such a tight team.
If Lynn doesn't stand up for her kid, she won't last long.
Just because you've never done something in the past
doesn't mean it can't be done now.
New people don't have to come in and be exact copies
of what's already been here.
Like, you can't come in and just change
the whole premise of the team.
You guys have basically given up on your identities
because everything is focused on what she has done.
What are you talking about?
WOMAN: Identities.
I am who I am, and I'm not--
I didn't change for Abby.
It's one thing for Lynn to judge the mini moms.
That's her team.
Without us, that team wouldn't even exist.
Who is she to judge who we are, and to judge my character?
Lynn has just messed with the wrong mom.
Sweetheart, would you like to come in?
Come on.
Normally, I would never let a kid that showed up
this late on the dance floor.
But luckily for her, I need a fifth kid for this routine.
I need to see these kids onstage performing
to see if I'm even going to keep this mini team going.
Assemble, sisonne, cross, ball change.
The cross ball change faces front.
You ready?
Five, six, seven, go.
GIRLS: Assemble, sisonne, cross, ball change.
They learned something.
For the last two days, I've been trying to get my daughter
on the mini team, and Abby has repeatedly
shut me down until now.
The moms wanted me to keep fighting with Abby to let
my kid on the team like they do, but the moment I stop is when
she actually lets her dance.