ABBY LEE MILLER: Clearly, Brady leaving was not enough.
So, I am bringing in a new team member.
[gasp]
What?
Who is it?
Elliana.
ABBY LEE MILLER: This kid will blend better with you
guys as a group.
She can be beat.
Right, Lily?
Yolanda and I have an ugly past.
You called me a bitch.
I called you [inaudible]. - Hey!
Hey!
Hey! - Call the police!
Call the police!
You stay away from me!
I'm not happy.
So, I don't understand.
Why are you going to bring somebody in that's
toxic to this group right now?
Do you think that's beneficial to the rest of us?
She choked out Cece.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Well, we'll have to make
sure that doesn't happen then.
It's just like psychotic.
It's not just that she choked me.
It's that she makes you insane, like she makes you crazy.
I have history with Yolanda.
I know that she can be obsessive and too critical on other kids.
Savannah and Elliana have competed
with each other three or four times now,
and she's never beat Elliana.
She came in first runner-up at the dance awards
and Elliana won.
So.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Maybe you and Yolanda should
go head to head doing solos.
I thought Stacey would be the one
throwing a fit when I announced that Elliana was coming back.
But I think I struck a chord with Erin.
Erin, you should have kept your mouth shut.
Where is Savannah?
I have no clue.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Is her car in the parking lot?
No. No.
No. She's not here.
She's not here. She left.
Yeah, I don't think she's coming.
It just doesn't make sense to me.
I feel like if I can be here, you can be here.
ABBY LEE MILLER: I mean, you've had
a physical altercation with Yolanda, so I understand that.
Exactly, but I came protected this time.
ABBY LEE MILLER: I'm insulted.
I'm offended, and I'm ticked.
I cannot believe that somebody would
have this opportunity for their child, who is a dancer.
This is the best place for her to be.
That's telling me that that mother does not
have any faith in her child.
The first solo goes to Elliana.
She's not even here yet, and her kid's already got a solo.
I hate her.
ABBY LEE MILLER: The title is The Strangler.
[laughing]
What is [inaudible]?
ABBY LEE MILLER: I don't think there's any explanation needed.
Where's Elliana [inaudible]?
This is a serious piece.
She can't dance.
Why?
Elliana can't dance?
Why?
She doesn't have enough educational hours.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Well, you're a school teacher.
I am a school teacher.
And so, I've been homeschooling her.
She was studying ancient Roman civilization,
so I took her to Rome to study it like hands-on.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Well, no one's going to buy that, Yolanda.
This is ridiculous.
Yolanda is here and no Elliana.
This is worse than cancer.
This is even worse than prison.
Oh, you're in Cece's seat, actually.
Oh, there are no assigned seats.
Yeah, we have-- we've been-- we were here,
and her stuff's there.
You're in her seat.
Well, she can sit here.
She can sit there.
But, there are no assigned seats.
Yeah.
I think you need to move.
Like, that's Cece's stuff.
So, who's she watching?
Our kids?
Because she doesn't have a kid in there.
She forgot her kid.
Stacey, you are fired up.
You are just fired up.
Actually, she's not, but you need to move.
Actually I don't.
There are no assigned seats.
This isn't kindergarten.
OK, well can you kindly move your seat,
so Stacey can come back.
I'm not moving.
Who the hell does Yolanda think she is?
OK, great.
Can you move your seat, please?
No.
ABBY LEE MILLER: I cannot believe this week.
Here I am, cleaning this kid's routine in the dressing room
before the competition.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
Chin up a little bit.
Yeah, she's fine.
You think? ABBY LEE MILLER: Her technique--
Yeah.
The number is great, Gia. All right.
Let's rock.
Let's go.
Are we ready?
It's enough time on this.
From Abby Lee Dance Company is Elliana
performing The Strangler.
The part I'm most nervous about is definitely the rope.
You never know what's going to happen to it.
It could just go another way you don't expect it all.
So, I'm hoping that everything goes well
and that the rope is on my side.
So, rope, better be on my side.
[MUSIC - AUDIOANDROID, "SHOW ME WHERE
IT HURTS"]
AUDIOANDROID: (SINGING) Talk about your feelings, baby.
Tell me what it's like.
Living in the ocean, baby.
Beneath those layers of time.
Talk about your feelings, baby.
Oceans on your mind.
Deeper than the chasm waiting.
Somewhere close behind.
Bare your bleeding heart.
Through your gritted teeth.
Show me where it hurts.
Imagine that it's me.
Imagine it's me.
Celebrate the darkness, baby.
Do your little dance.
Jig around those same old themes.
Just like a stale romance.
Walk us down this road again.
Oh, I've missed it so.
Look into the void again.
Cause it's all you know.
Show me where it hurts.
Imagine that it's me.
[clapping]
She's crying.
I can tell.
I honestly don't know how Miss Abby's going to feel.
I feel like I kind of let her down, just because I
missed the rope one time.
I kind of like grabbed it, but didn't make it.
But otherwise, I thought like my technique was really good.
Ellie did a good job on the stage.
She looked really pretty.
[scoff]
Your kid missed her rope two times.
'Cause she was fantastic.
I mean she was amazing.
You guys, she shouldn't even be here, period.
So, get out.
Please don't use anything that you have
against me against Elliana.
No.
no.
Because you hurt an eight-year-old child.
You're an older woman--
I don't even know what you're talking about.
What, I'm two years older than you?
OK, whatever.
You as a grown adult--
let me finish my sentence.
Lied to a bunch of people, saying
that I had a restraining order against you,
which is impossible.
Because you would know about it.
You threatened, and people told me, You better
be careful, because she has a restraining
order against you about something
that never even happened.
That's what I'm going off of.
She's saying it never happened that she choked me.
Um, no I didn't!
Do you-- I did not.
Look up on your phone what it means to choke somebody.
Pushing somebody back is not choking--
-- It's called-- with your hands on someone's neck--
It is not!
Yes [interposing voices] it is.
That's why your kid is dancing with a rope.
Are you serious?
Yes, what do you think?
It's a coincidence?
[interposing voices]
a restraining order against you.
[interposing voices]
You know that nothing ever happened.
You would know.
I defended myself, because you know what?
[fighting]
Security!
you were going to kill me.
The girls don't need this.
The team doesn't need this.
That's why you lost your [bleep] practice.
You couldn't be a psychologist anymore, because you--
I am still a psychologist, you stupid bitch.
Take a breath.
I don't' want the damn water.
You are not allowed to lunge at somebody like that.
We have to come to a point that we can exist.
Your top overall junior soloist--
[music playing]
"The Strangler."
It's Elliana from Abby Lee Dance Company.
Come on up here, Elliana.
Yeah, baby!
Woo!
And I did not expect to win first place,
because I learned my whole solo in an hour and a half.
But since I'm an Abby dancer, and I know what Gia wants,
that's why I did so well.
Our top three--