This weekend, we will be traveling
to Greensboro, North Carolina.
We will be attending Dance Troupe Challenge.
Since Brooke's not in the pyramid,
does that mean she's not going this weekend?
Well, Brooke, I want to know what happened over the weekend.
ABBY: Right.
So you didn't come to rehearsal Sunday?
You're 14.
You've been taking ballet class since you
were six or seven years old.
Gabby, if she's going to do that,
like, she spent the entire week learning
the number with this group.
Why wouldn't she just go away with us and compete the number?
But that doesn't mean you don't do anything
dance-wise all weekend.
I realized that Brooke didn't dance last week
so she's not on the pyramid.
But she is still part of the group.
Sophia's not even here.
And she's at the top of the pyramid.
And Brooke is, and she's not on it at all.
The group piece is entitled Voyage Home.
This is a very serious piece.
You will be immigrants.
Everybody will be in the routine, but Brooke, who will
be staying home, and Mackenzie.
Brooke, I want to see you work to get back into this group.
Brooke, go over there and play the music for us please,
because I don't want Jonas like counting you in this
and you're not in it.
Let's use Mackenzie.
I am planning on Sophia showing up as the competition
and participating in the group number.
I have special parts built for her.
She's going to work out just fine.
Start backing up.
Everybody backing up.
I have Mackenzie being the swing and blocking
the spaces for Sophia.
- It should be up there, Brooke. - Wait, wait.
I said that already.
She put Mackenzie in now?
Yeah.
Brooke's now running the music.
ABBY: Dig your right foot back.
Dig your right foot.
This week's theme is very lightly about immigrating.
It's more about getting across that border.
It's about the struggle.
And now, we're stepping out and across.
It's a really cool contemporary piece.
The music's great, and I want the kids to push
themselves artistically.
Some of the feet are flexed.
They're pulling on each other.
There's some partner work.
And that's something new for these kids.
And run!
So Brooke's really going to further
her dance education by running the music and watching.
This is Sophia.
This is not anybody else.
She's playing, like, Sophie.
You know what I mean?
Although, I'm happy I'm not competing this weekend,
there is a part of me that really wishes I was there,
because I wanted to show the girls
that, although I'm not on the team, I still do really care.
And I just wanted to support them.
My daughter was here all last week,
and she's here today for pyramid.
Two weeks in a row she's been here for pyramid
and has not been on that pyramid.
Sophia is on top of the pyramid.
And she's not going to be here all week.
And she's not even here.
Brooke is part of the team.
She needs to be at the dance competition with me.
It's [bleep].
Remember, you're an immigrant coming through the desert
or coming on a boat that you've been on for days,
and days, and days.
Wait.
Did Abby just say that they're immigrating?
It has to do with them being immigrants in the Ivy
League Dance Company.
Except they've been on this team since they were born.
Yep.
That's what it is.
She got lucky, because these little immigrants
are good dancers.
Now, the girls, obviously immigrants.
Watch, ladies.
The costumes for this week's competition
need to be dark and dramatic.
I want the girls to look as though they've
been through a whole lot to get across that border.
Where are these children immigrating from?
We don't know.
They're trying to cross the border.
It's not about where they're coming from
and where they're going, it's about the voyage home.
I'm listening to Abby's definition of immigration,
and I'm confused.
How on Earth can you immigrate home?
[music playing]
Hi, Jim.
Good morning.
You wouldn't know what to do if we didn't have pink suitcases.
That's right.
We're going back to Greensboro, North Carolina
this week.
And we actually attended DTI last year, so we're
familiar with the competition.
We know the judges.
We did well last year. ABBY: Come on, Jim.
Let's go.
Ladies, we're going to the Dance Troupe Challenge,
and we need to remember that those kids are already there.
They're already working.
So when you step into that hotel,
you don't know who's a judge.
You don't know who's a faculty member.
You don't know who's running it.
Game faces on.
No back talking your moms.
Get in there and pretend you're dancers.
Yes?
Oh, here we go.
Good luck today.
Thinking of you all.
Just got set here in LA.
Last day of filming.
Miss you all.
So what does that mean?
No Sophia this weekend.
See?
You should have just put Brooke on the team from day one.
Well, day one, you weren't there.
You didn't show up on day one.
Day one is this week.
Well, this week is a little late, Kelly.
- She was there. - Yeah?
Well, Sophia wasn't there day one of this week either,
was she? - No.
Brooke was there.
She wasn't.
Nope.
She was doing a movie in Hollywood.
Brooke was at school with her friends.
Big difference.
Kelly, you have to understand, I want stars.
I don't want mediocre.
We know you want stars, Abby.
And it's clear that you'll do whatever
it takes to get those stars.
[music playing]
Congratulations, girls.
Congrats, congrats, congrats.
You should all be just fine without Sophia.
Kendall, you remember your part, how you move into the middle
where Sophia used to be.
You're not going to screw that up.
You know what you're doing.
I think the girls will be fine doing the parts,
because Sophia never really did the dance.
No, I know.
Just, I mean, compare her devil pipe point blank to Chloe's.
Yes, and her dance teacher from San Diego
taught it where you taught Chloe.
So her--
No, I taught Chloe to do it correctly.
Chloe pikes it forward, and she gets told about
it every time she doesn't.
Right now, we're getting ready to do the group.
And since me and Maddie won for the duet,
I think we have a big chance of winning with the group.
Let's welcome the Abby Lee Dance
Company performing Voyage Home.
[applause]
[music playing]
[applause]
[crowd cheers]
That was the Abby Lee Dance Company performing Voyage Home.
[music playing]
Most of the girls did a good job on the group dance.
I just hope the judges weren't watching
the immigrants with the sickled feet and the bad timing.
[cheering]
Good job.
I liked it.
Does anybody know who messed up?
Don't throw anyone under the bus, children.
No, no, don't throw anyone on the bus.
Because Abby was like-- somebody messed something up,
and Abby was-- just like looked at all the moms.
I was like--
She was all--
So Christi, I'm not so sure that was amazing.
No, but they usually are very amazing.
Christi's mouth is always big and full of things to say.
She wants to think that everybody's amazing.
I don't wake up amazing.
It takes me hours to get this way.
Come on, girls let's go.
[applause]
[music playing]
And now the scores for the small groups.
Our third place trophy goes to Smooth Criminal.
[applause]
Our second place trophy goes to Blow.
[applause]
And our first place trophy goes to Voyage Home from the Abby
Lee Dance Company.
[applause]
Oh, yes.
You were amazing.
Pipe down over there.
The Voyage Home was a success.
Was it amazing, Christi?
No.
And is it your place to say that?
Certainly not.
But they won.
And it'll go down in the history books
as another victory for the Abby Lee Dance Company.
[crowd cheers]
High five.
Congratulations, girls.
Oh, amazing, Christi, amazing.
They were amazing.
Amazing.
You really think that just because they got lucky and won?
Kendall, are you going to admit
that you screwed the whole dance up
and that you were off timing?
I messed up one part, not the whole dance.
It couldn't have been that bad, because they
won the whole thing, Abby.
Yeah. You know what?
Last week, they were looking at Sophia.
You're so quick to point--
Today, you couldn't take your eyes off of Maddie.
How hurtful is that?
How ignorant is that to say to a child in front of everybody
when the number just won?
Some people are good soloists.
Some people are better in a group.
Other people choke on stage.
There, you have it.