ABBY: Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Come on, girls! Get in here!
ALDC lost again.
Two weeks in a row.
How are we going to recover?
How are these dancers going to get better?
How do they improve in a week?
Put the effort forth.
You get out what you put in.
Let's talk about this week.
We are headed to EnerGy Dance Competition
in Youngstown, Ohio.
I'm sure that Cathy's boy group will be back in full force.
The group number is entitled, "Hear No Evil."
Everyone is in it, except McKenzie and Maddie.
Maddie, you will be assisting me with the choreography.
I don't think the rest of the group is as serious as Maddie.
They just say, oh, Maddie will figure out the counts.
Maddie'll know the music.
So I want to teach them a lesson.
They all need to be the leaders.
They all need to know what's going on.
I'm taking you out of that group because I think
they're dragging you down.
And if you had a bunch of people to dance with that were
on your level that wanted it, you would
be first place all the time.
You got to worry about you.
JILL: If Abby thinks that Maddie is too good for this group,
pull her.
Have her dance with your seniors.
We don't need her.
It's totally unrealistic and illogical to make it
so that Maddie's the only one that has goals, aspirations,
and everyone is basically-- - And talent!
And talent, and ambition.
ABBY: The group routine is entitled, "Hear No Evil."
It's going to be a challenge for the girls.
The music is difficult to count.
So I'm going to pull their leader out of the group,
and see how they handle it.
All right, Kendall and Brooke obviously
were doing a different time, and they felt they were right.
And the other people were way ahead.
They kept going because they thought they were right.
Maddie, who do you think was right?
"Fighter" is when we do the jump.
ABBY: All right, let's go again.
Melissa, who do you think that Maddie's
uncomfortable with Abby leaving her in charge of her friends?
Yes.
She said that she's happy and sad at the same time.
Do you think Maddie misses being
in a group dance this week?
Absolutely.
Whatever Abby wants her to do, you know,
she's going to listen to that.
We're here at the EnerGy Dance Competition
in Youngstown, Ohio, and there are a lot of amazing dancers
here.
The skill level is set really, really high.
So we have to be on our game, we have to be focused,
and we have to win.
I cannot believe that we are in Youngstown, Ohio,
and there's not applesauce.
This is the best news I've heard all week.
ABBY: One more time, this is it.
Passion, intensity!
The group dance is up next.
Abby's bold experiment of taking Maddie out of the group number
and using her as an assistant is about to play
out in front of all of us.
I just hope that this experiment doesn't blow up
in front of all of our faces.
Maddie is going to go backstage with you.
Listen to her.
All right, game faces on.
Let's go!
Maddie, if they don't do well, I'm
going to need a new assistant.
Everyone!
Paige, go.
Go.
Up, push!
Up, good.
You have to stay exactly on the line.
Make it really powerful--
[interposing voices]
I think Abby puts all of her eggs in one basket.
And she depends on Maddie.
And I think that this is their time
to go out and show Abby that we can do this without Maddie.
[MUSIC - WE THE COMMITTEE, "THIS WON'T END QUIETLY"]
Fighter, fighter.
You told me we were fighters, fighters.
Fighter, fighter.
You told me we were fighters, fighters.
This will be beautiful, my love.
I think I've accomplished my goal.
The girls learned to just survive without Maddie.
Our EnerGy junior small group top overall winner
goes to "Hear No Evil."
ABBY: I'm thrilled.
The girls learned not to rely on Maddie.
Now, if they could learn not to rely on their mothers
and think for themselves, I might have
a whole new team on my hands.
Congratulations!
Congratulations.
Congratulations to everybody.
Everybody did well.
I think you got lucky.
I think it's hysterical that the group
dance got first place.
I just would like to rub it into Abby's nose.
That see, our girls can dance without Melissa's kids in it
and still do well.