Abby gave you the solo because you're someone special,
not just to us, but I feel like a lot of people.
So show us that in this dance.
You've won nationals.
You know what to do.
How many solos have you had in nationals?
Several, right?
And you've won.
You didn't dance last year.
Make up for it this year.
Go.
Maddie couldn't do a solo last year at nationals because she
was working with Sia.
Maddie's the most famous 12-year-old in the country
right now.
And it's really important for her to win.
[MUSIC - RACHAEL SAGE, "NEWSPAPER"]
RACHAEL SAGE: (SINGING) Saw you in the newspaper.
You were in the police blotter.
Can you go this way?
RACHAEL SAGE: (SINGING) Run away, run away.
INSTRUCTOR: You can look back on that.
RACHAEL SAGE: (SINGING) Run away home, run away.
Run away.
Run away with me.
Run away, run away, run away--
Slower, slower, slower.
Even though Abby's not there, Maddie is always focused.
So she just has to be Maddie.
I mean, that's all she has to do.
Thank you.
[piano music]
MELISSA ZIEGLER: Maddie is given a solo this week.
It's in the junior division.
And she's going to be competing head to head against Ava.
And I don't think we have anything to worry
about Mackenzie beat Ava.
Just saying.
[dramatic music]
Sorry.
I didn't mean to interrupt.
[sighs] Well, only an idiot would open a door when they
heard music playing.
Well, I didn't hear music or else I wouldn't open the door.
So.
We just gotta get moving.
JEANETTE COTA: OK, well we're going to go ahead and walk
to the stage.
All right.
Ava wanted to say good luck to the girls.
Well, it's good we got it.
Yes.
I think Jeanette is a fool.
I think she's trying to intimidate.
But she is pretty pathetic.
Maddie has gone against her and won every time.
So just accept it and move on.
[MUSIC - RACHAEL SAGE, "NEWSPAPER"]
RACHAEL SAGE: (SINGING) I was only 12 years old when
I saw you in the newspaper.
You were in the police blotter for stealing things
you could afford.
And I was just a lonely girl who wanted to be someone special,
someone neighbors talked about, when they were drunk or bored.
Run away, run away, run away.
We could be together.
Run away, run away, run away with me.
Run away, run away, run away, oh, run away.
Run away, run away.
We could run away, run away, run away with me.
La da da da da duh.
I was only 12 years old when I saw you in the newspaper.
[cheers, applause]
ABBY LEE MILLER: I thought Maddie was beautiful.
She looked like something special.
ANNOUNCER: Now to our class division junior solo category.
In fifth place, "Bloodstream," Jordan.
[cheering]
ABBY LEE MILLER: There's a kid that just won one division,
level-wise.
How can she be in two different levels?
What is going on?
There is definitely an error.
Hold on.
So if I could get--
just bring your trophy right back up here real quick.
Just bring it right back here.
Your tuxedo is fabulous, but you got to-- you got to figure
out what you're doing.
All right, in second place--
[suspenseful music]
"Someone Special," Maddie.
[cheers, applause]
She's second.
How is she second?
And in first place, "The Myth of the Mermaid," Ava.
[cheers, applause]
What-- what is this?
It's a joke.
Guess what, the judges hear her.
Like, that's disrespectful to them.
They had given out the overall high scores.
Then they took them back.
Then they were giving them out again.
Nothing else the man said could be taken seriously.