Zatia, I don't trust you.
So Makiah, does she seem like she's getting better to you?
Mm-mm.
Talk.
No.
DIANNA: You need to be practicing every day.
So the thing is, being a part of the battle squad
is not about doing it when you want to.
If you're gonna be a part of the battle squad,
you have to be all in because I'm not
going to waste my time constantly helping you
or trying if you don't care.
I'm gonna be like I did Sunjai the whole first season.
SUNJAI: I feel bad for the team because I've been through that.
Last year, I had to go through cuts.
It was tough.
But it was motivation to me.
Like, it made me just want to work twice as
hard as I was working already.
So if you don't stop pushing yourself,
you're never going to make cuts.
It's going to be a long season.
You're gonna be cut.
What's going on?
She cutting them?
- Yes. - Yeah.
OK.
Hey.
WOMAN: This crazy fool Tawantza is banging on this window
as hard as she can.
Stay out of it.
No.
I am banging on this window.
I want her to come out.
DIANNA: It's normal for parents to get upset
if their kids get cut.
Who wouldn't?
But for Tawantza to respond by banging on my window?
The only thing I want to do is break her damn knuckles.
What-- what are trying-- are you
trying to get Miss D attention?
DIANNA: [inaudible] I don't want that damn feeling sorry.
Not tonight.
MOM: I see Dianna.
She's coming out.
Can the ground just move and swallow me in?
Because I want no parts of this at all.
I want to know why she clear got cut.
I can't help it.
[interposing voices]
MIMI: I didn't know whether to run, to get me some popcorn,
or to go find somebody car and hide up under it.
Y'all sitting up here letting her knock on this window?
[interposing voices]
I'm knocking on the window because I'm trying to figure
out why Zatia got cut.
I know-- I know this window is not dirty.
It's very clean.
And you got a bird's eye view.
And you can see what your daughter
is in here doing and not doing.
Tawantza tells me that Zatia is not making
cuts because of my coaching.
If Tawantza actually is looking through that window
that she's banging on, she can see
that ain't no way in hell Zatia ready to do nothing right now.
First of all, Zatia do not know all them stands.
She don't know them.
Why should I know them?
Ask yourself that--
I'm not [inaudible] to ask myself--
Ask yourself that--
You the director.
DIANNA: I do my job.
OK, hold up. Hold up.
Pause.
First of all, I'm here every day at 6 o'clock.
I leave every night at 10:00.
And I stand in here, and I teach.
I do every damn thing that I'm supposed
to do for your child, her child, her child,
her child, and her child.
I do my damn job.
So don't put it back on me because I do my job.
The conversation is over.
Come on, Zatia. Come on.
Get out. - She will be making cuts.
Come on. Get your stuff.
TINA: Tawantza's not ready for this battle.
No matter how much you curse, scream, fuss, act like you
gonna fight, the bottom line is your daughter
wants to dance on this team.
So explain to me who you hurting.
She's no longer a Dancing Doll at this point.
Because you feel like I can do because I said so, baby.
I make the [bleep] rules.
Look what your child did.
She don't know the stand!
I know what--
And she--
[inaudible]
[interposing voices]
But I'm glad you know.
Long as you know. - [inaudible]
Bye bye, baby.
And I know why she--
Bye bye.
My daughter is too good of a dancer.
Zatia is still coming back.
She still will be a Dancing Doll.
Damn!
She'll be back.
How could she not come back?
I mean, that's like Destiny's Child without the Beyonce, huh?
[laughs]
We coming back.