We're going to Sheer Talent.
I'm sure we'll be embarrassed and humiliated there.
HOLLY: Abby has not been a good manager for Nia.
What she did last week was wrong.
Abby ruined Nia's audition.
She took the character in a different direction,
which was her mother.
That was mean-spirited, what you said.
You gave her an opportunity, you took it away.
She's the only girl on this team that you
ever take something away from.
That's kind of a bold-faced lie.
HOLLY: No, because when there are dances,
who pulls the dance?
ABBY: I've done nothing.
Girls, you can go in the other room, and you can dance.
HOLLY: I refuse to be in the room
with this woman who's lying.
And I'm not your new Kelly, and Nia
is not Brooke, Paige, or Chloe.
So you get your act together, and you stop telling lies.
ABBY: Nobody is going to talk to me that way--
no one!
I'm not going to stand here and do something
that I don't want to do.
Holly is dedicated to the studio and to Abby.
But she's not here today.
ABBY: All right, girls, we're going to get into the group
dance right away.
GIA: Abby, do you want JoJo to be a swing in the group, or--
ABBY: Yes. GIA: Yes, OK.
ABBY: Nia's out. JoJo's in.
JoJo is chomping at the bit to be a permanent member
of the ALDC competition team.
The piece is about children that are left, that are survivors.
When you enter, you're looking at the aftermath
of an explosion, so I need to see all of that story.
Can you tell that in eight counts or less?
Let's see.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Sloppy left knee, Mackenzie!
I think Nia's making a huge mistake by not being here.
[CHEERING]
We don't know where they are.
It's your spot.
GIA: Let's start slow.
5, 6, 7, 8.
1, 2, 3.
5.
You do what Mackenzie does.
KELLY: Are you kidding me?
I've had enough of her drama and enough of her kid's head bugs.
Thank god Holly's back.
Hello? ABBY (ON PHONE): Hey, Gia.
How you doing? - Hey, Ab.
I'm OK. How are you?
Uh, Nia is here.
HOLLY: I was hoping Abby would come to her senses
and not take her anger out on Nia, but apparently she has.
And she's not even here to tell me herself.
Abby is not the world, just one small piece.
People who seem larger than life because they have
such big personalities and they tell you,
you can't do it without me, and they break people down so
much that they think it's true.
And what you have to remember, it's not true.
You get to do whatever you want, if you really
put your mind and heart to it.
Sure, it's nice that Nia's here for the girls
and for the team, but Holly is skating on thin ice,
and if she opens her mouth to me again, she might just fall in.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm kind of bummed that I'm not in the dance this weekend,
but I don't want Abby to see me upset,
because that means that she wins.
ANNOUNCER: In first place in the Pre-Teen Group category,
entry number 68, "Collateral Damage."
[MUSIC PLAYING]
If you don't dance for Abby Lee Miller,
then you don't get to go up to get the award.
That's it.
Oh, yay!
Our winners.
Very nice, girls.
You did it!
Good job, girls.
Very nice. - Yay.
Yay.
HOLLY: Actions speak louder than words.
The moms keep saying that Nia's part of the team,
but as soon as Abby walks in the room, they're silent
and they have nothing to say.
See you tomorrow.