[music playing]
CHRISTI: I personally am very nervous that Abby's
out to replace Chloe.
She has made it perfectly clear that Chloe is not
what she views as an asset to the team,
and I think Chloe is one of the girls she's out to replace.
ABBY LEE MILLER: We will be traveling to Orlando, Florida.
Yay. [light applause]
Brooke, why does it have to be all
the singing or all the dancing?
Why can't it be both?
You can do that, but you have to perform.
KELLY: I don't really want my kids to be replaced,
but if Abby didn't suck the joy out of everything Brooke did,
maybe she would perform better for her.
And then I have a trio.
"See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil."
[quietly laughing]
So Brooke, you're going to be lead.
Chloe, Paige-- you are her backup dancers.
So there's going to be a microphone on a stand--
an old fashioned radio mic.
And you're going to be in front of it doing all the stuff.
And you two are on her either side,
and you'll switch back and forth and so forth and so on.
Got it?
Yes? OK.
So let's hear it.
Learn the lyrics, because you're going to be lip syncing it.
This week, the trio is a jazz number.
It's a take on the 1940s radio hour.
This is a huge opportunity for Brooke.
If she wants to be a singer, she's going
to learn how to work a mic.
Hey, hey, hey.
Come on, come on, come on.
JILL: Oh, it's it a microphone.
CHRISTI: Oh, fun.
HOLLY: Girls get a microphone. It's a [inaudible].
MOM: I love that.
Oh, my god, I want to get on that thing.
MELISSA: That's like-- oh my god.
Jill wants to get on that thing. HOLLY: We know you do, Jill.
Did I say out loud? HOLLY: Yes.
ABBY LEE MILLER: Between six ears in here,
we don't have one that can really
hear the music correctly.
If Brooke wants to be a pop star, she needs my help.
Let's face it-- she needs everybody's help.
Breathe, breathe, breathe.
You can hear [imitating old radio music]..
You can hear that in there. MOM: Perfect.
KELLY: I find it hysterical.
Abby feels that desperate that she has to have something to do
with Brooke's music career--
Looks what's she's teaching her-- how to sing.
- --that she has to teach her-- - --to lip sync.
--how to lip sync, that she is revolving the trio around it.
Brooke might not perform the way Abby wants her to,
but that's the reason why I don't have
Abby being Brooke's manager.
Because this is something that Brooke and I want to do the way
we want to do it, not the way Abby wants to do it.
[all cheering]
ABBY LEE MILLER: Here we are at the competition.
Let's just think of this as the ALDC Elite Competition
Team's own audition.
They should be nervous, because somebody could be going home.
Oh, I love them.
Oh, you guys look cute.
They are so cute.
MOM: I love them.
1940s.
I want to go to a diner and have my chocolate Coke.
KELLY: (QUIETLY) Brooke, make sure you lip sync.
If you don't know the words, just
sit there and say watermelon. - Watermelon.
I just say watermelon.
KELLY: Just move your lips.
The three girls in this trio are Abby's least-favorite
on the team, and she would want nothing
better than for these girls to go up on stage and fail.
And I think that they need to go out there and show
Abby that they can do this.
[MUSIC - BADABING BADABOOM, "POOLSIDE"]
(SINGING) Poolside, it's cool side.
Who's died?
The hippest stage and new time, moonlight.
Poolside is the place to be.
Sleazy-jeezy, don't you see?
Poolside is the place to be.
Trinidad to Hackensack, poolside is the place to be.
[applause]
KELLY: You know, this trio is something totally different
than what Brooke normally does.
She usually does contemporary and contortion.
This is totally different, and she went up on stage
and nailed it. She looked amazing.
ANNOUNCER: Now for our Elite Teen Duo/Trios.
Starting off in third place with a score of 270 points
is act number 67, "It Doesn't Hurt,"
from Robin Dawn Dance Academy.
In second place with a score of 276.6 points,
is act number 20, "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil,"
from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
CHRISTI: The trio got second, and I think that that
is a really admirable thing, but I know it doesn't
matter how well they danced.
All Abby cares about is second place,
and isn't the first to lose?
And our kids are on the chopping block.
Chloe, Paige, Brooke--
you were the only dance that wasn't
the overall high score winner.
What-- what goes on there?
My group should be 10 points above, or my duet or my trio,
against anybody else.