LESLIE: I like this spot right here.
Yeah, I know.
LESLIE: Hopefully it's mine permanently.
I'm pretty sure it's still Kelly's.
JILL: Really, Leslie? Is that your goal?
Is that-- - Absolutely it's my goal.
You want Payton, who's 15, to dance with 10-year-olds?
Then she can bring somebody-- there's another spot open.
Bring somebody in her size and it'll equal out.
Wouldn't you want somebody on your team
that is 100% for the team?
If Brooke walked through that door,
I think that she would put Brooke in the number.
I don't think Kelly and Brooke and Paige
should be able to come back.
Three times you leave the team?
When is it time that you're not allowed back?
From my perspective watching Abby yesterday,
she missed Brooke being in this number
because there are things she wanted the kids to do,
and they're not Brooke.
In a group number, you're going
to watch Payton and give her choreography that she can do.
Leslie must be on some sort of mind-altering drug, you know,
probably ones she borrowed from Melissa,
if she thinks she's going to replace Kelly on this tape.
I plan to tell Abby that we really want this spot.
I don't want this to be another fill-in week.
Everybody has to think of the real reason
why we're sitting here in the first place.
It's to get our child ahead and dance.
Well, Candy Apples has a lot of teams.
Maybe you need to go there?
JILL: Cathy is trying so hard to come
up with a group of kids that can beat our group of kids.
Her boys didn't work out, so she gets rid of the boys,
she brings in a new group.
What kind of teacher is that?
I am so sick of Cathy's tricks.
I want to make sure that us moms stick together this week
and we hand that crab apple a loss.
So we're sticking together because, you
know, once we get there, Cathy, they're
going to come after us or me.
Now why are you saying this?
I mean, you guys not stick together in the past?
- Yes. - No, we have.
I feel like I'm getting ready to go to battle.
You're are-- what did you call yourself?
The boy who fights in hockey?
The goon.
I'm not the goon.
Maybe Leslie has a purpose after all.
I could get used to her going in as the muscle to fight
with Cathy this weekend.
ALL: Good morning.
Good afternoon.
New face, how are you? - I'm good.
Good.
Finally getting to sit in Kelly's seat?
I just want to let you know that she is really enjoying
this and we're going to take every opportunity that
comes our way, and that's why we are here.
Payton has the energy.
Payton has the desire.
She wants to do it.
She wants to be the best.
She wants this.
But for this routine that we're doing right now,
when I envisioned this number, I had Brooke on that prop
and she could do all that contortion work,
that rolling around the fall.
All of that was supposed to take place on that prop.
Payton doesn't have those skills.
She has other skills.
I hate to say it, Leslie, but we told you so.
Brooke just has a certain skill set that's difficult for Abby
to replace.
You know how hard it is that when you--
when she gets kicked off of this team every time?
It's not about being kicked off the team.
It's about not being right for this--
But it still feels that way to a 14, 15-year-old.
So every time I explain to her that you still have to be there
when she asks you back and we are going to keep
doing that, we don't want that.
We want to be a permanent spot.
Leslie is in my face about Payton being on the team
and being a permanent member, blah, blah, blah.
You know what, Leslie?
You are not making a very good case for Payton's future.
So, Leslie, let me just say, Payton,
that I'm happy you're here.
Are you happier that we're here and Kelly's not?
Is that what you're trying to say?
I can't say happier.
ABBY: Oh, I am!
That's not fair.
I'm hoping that you guys get used to it being Payton
and I here and Kelly not coming back.
ABBY: It's fine.
Listen to me, Kendall.
Just so all of you know, my name is Payton.
It's not Kendall/ it's not Brooke.
It's none of you. It's Payton.
LESLIE: Yes, yes.
ABBY: Just what she did right now,
like saying her name like that?
That's a 15 going on 16-year-old thing.
You would never, ever hear one of these kids talk
to me that way.
- She wasn't talking to you. - She just said that.
That's a smart mouth.
She wasn't being smart.
And as a parent, you should take her outside
and have a little chat.
No, you're missing what she's trying to tell you.
She's trying to tell you--
ABBY: No, because I kept calling her Kendall
in rehearsal by mistake.
I say lots of kid's names.
She's lucky I even know her name.
So shut your mouth!
I'm going to ask you a question right
now, Miss Payton, and if you answer me yes,
then you're where you should be at 15 years old.
Do you have your solo costume with you?
No?
Then keep the smart mouth to yourself
because you'd have brought it just in case
I wanted to write you in.
Leslie wants Kelly's spot so desperately.
That seat has a name on it and it's not Leslie.
Clearly as soon as Kelly comes back, Leslie is out the door.