Wait, here, let me check y'all's nets.
Everybody zipped?
What's wrong with you?
What you looking like that for?
Tanesha starts to act really, really weird right
before we get ready to go out on the floor for our stand battle.
And I'm wondering what's wrong.
What did she eat?
Did she eat breakfast?
I don't understand what's going on with her.
Hello?
What's the problem?
Then what you crying for?
Because people don't cry for no reason.
Tanesha, what's the problem?
She keeps saying nothing.
Nothing.
Something wrong with you.
Open up your mouth and say something.
I understand that Tanesha has stage fright,
but if Tanesha wants to be a part of the battle squad,
she's going to have to suck it up, get her ass in gear,
and get out there on the floor.
And you're not going out there with them.
It's not fair.
So you know what else is ruined?
Their formations.
They don't have time to fix it.
They gotta go now.
Whoever your partner is ain't got no partner now.
It's not fair.
Now I'm starting to think that adding
additional girls so the battle squad this week,
it may have been a big mistake.
My instincts tell me that Tanesha should
not go out there on the floor.
I don't have a--
I don't have patience for nonsense.
My nerves are already bad.
I can't take no more.
And the girls have no idea what's going on.
When you're injured, sick, hurt, whatever--
open up your mouth and say something, so it can be fixed.
If you don't open your mouth, there's no way
in hell I'm going to know.
And sitting up crying about it?
That's not how I work.
So what are we supposed to do?
Captain?
What are we supposed to do?
Miss Dianna is asking me if Tanesha should dance or not,
but I don't know.
But I'm the captain, and I need to figure it out.
Do you think you should dance?
Sometimes before a stand battle, I get nervous a little.
I hear the crowd just screaming and yelling.
I don't want to let the team down, but I do not feel good.
Good?
You sure?
I'm good.
All right.
I can see in Tanesha's eyes that she's scared,
but I know when she goes out there she's gonna do great.
At least, I hope she does.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is our stand battle.
From Jackson, Mississippi, we have the Dancing Dolls.
Oh, yeah.
Right there.
Bam.
All the way from Dallas, Texas, Xplosive Dance Company.
[applause]
This is the make or break battle.
We have to make sure that all of our stands
are super strong to knock out Xplosive in this round.
Let's get it!
Let's go!
[music playing]
Watching the Xplosive Dance Company do their stands,
they're definitely tough competition.
They are a large group, and they come in in full force.
So I don't want my girls to feel intimidated in any way,
and I want them to be able to step up.
(SINGING) I'm starting with the [inaudible]
to get away from the--
We got Xplosive, and that means the Dancing Dolls are
gonna have to come on with it.
And we need to send them back on to Texas.
Get it, Dolls!
[music playing]
[applause]
Let's go, Dolls!
(SINGING) I'm fighting you with everything I know.
Seeing Tanesha out there on the floor--
hell, I knew she could do it.
Tanesha just has a mental block, I think,
that sets itself up right before she's
getting ready to go out there on the dance floor to perform.
And I'm glad that she was able to pull herself together.
During the stand battle, when the music started,
I immediately felt better.
It must have been the adrenaline or something,
because once I started dancing, everything clicked.
[applause]
Right now, I'm really nervous.
You have Xplosive doing all the acrobats, and then on our side,
our girls are very clean, very neat.
The energy is high.
Everybody's on edge.
We're not sure what's going to happen right now.
We'll let the judges deliberate,
and then we'll move to the critique.
ALL: DD for 'ev!
DD for 'ev!