We're going to do each of the solos.
I hope it goes uninterrupted.
We need every minute of this rehearsal that we can get.
Brady, you gonna go out there and be
seventh so that GiaNina and her mother can say, see, told you.
You should have picked her.
It's just she earned it.
That's it.
Gia beat Brady.
She won a first overall.
It doesn't matter.
You're now wasting other people's time, including mine.
So shush.
Shush, shush.
Lilly, you are doing "Inside Out."
I watched you mess up group after group after group.
And then you did a perfect score solo and blew everybody away.
And I think since that moment, you step out on that stage
like you're already a winner.
And that's what I like from the Abby Lee Dance Company.
So as far as I'm concerned, I don't need to worry about you.
And if your mother finds that offensive, too bad.
You've proved yourself.
No, what I find offensive is that you literally
are rooting for one kid--
That's not true.
--when there's three--
- That is not true. - I heard you.
I heard you. - That is not true.
Do I want him to win?
Absolutely.
But I want him to win for himself.
Because he is a winner.
What about for them-- other two solos for themselves?
Why are you more worried about him
than everybody else's feelings?
When he came here on this team, he came here as a winner.
So did they.
So did she.
You know what?
You trained her--
Right.
--since she was seven.
And you're rooting for him.
No.
Yes, you are! I heard you!
This in your little, pathetic mind.
No, it's not.
Because you said several things in the last couple of weeks.
I know.
I'm not stupid.
I heard my kid's teacher say, I want this kid to win.
He hasn't won.
I do want him to win.
Why-- why is that, like, wrong for me to say that?
She wants someone else to win.
You hear her?
She wants him to win.
How do you feel now?
You want [inaudible] us to win because you
want everyone to win.
I do want everyone to win.
Why do you think you're doing a solo?
Your mother is psyching you out.
She's trying to make it so that if he does beat you,
it's OK, because we wanted him to win.
And that's sick.
You just said, I want him to win.
You just said it in front of her.
She heard you.
I just feel like they're trying
to run me out again, like the first half of the season.
You gotta be kidding me.
Well, you sit here and say it.
He's listening to you.
I'm talking about Abby Lee Miller.
How am I running anybody out?
Your teacher should be fair to all the kids.
Well, no one's going to be dancing
at Nationals because they're all going
to have a one minute solo.
Oh, my god.
Ashley.
Yes.
Do you want Pressley to dance tomorrow?
Yes, I do.
Lilly, do you want to dance tomorrow?
Yes.
Let's finish these two solos first.
Everybody out.
Abby, what about Brady?
You're not going to finish his solo?
I will.
Cheers.
Wanting someone to win and wanting people not to win
are two completely different things.
I get it.
I would never, ever say that to a child, ever.
I don't think that you meant it that way.
I've had many kids compete against each other.
I never wanted Chloe to win, and she won all the time.
She wanted everyone to win.
Yeah, but she--
She's just saying that she doesn't
want the dance to look bad.
She's rooting for everyone.
But she's rooting the most for Brady.
Always.
Every time I've gone up against him, every time.
Listen, it's bad enough having all
these moms try to come for me and wanting to run me out.
But it's even worse when my friends agree with them.
I'm not trying to run you out.
Abby literally just said, like, she roots for everyone.
But I--
We all do.
But the reality is Abby always wants
you to win with the type of solo you get and what kind of solo
you want.
ABBY: So Lilly, you've proven yourself
over and over and over again.
You've got to keep doing it.
We're holding you up here to a perfect score.
That's what we want at Nationals.
So let's start.
One--
She can't have three soloists and say, no matter
who's who, it doesn't matter.
You don't say I hope you win of the three.
What in the world?
Abby expects us to put all of our eggs in her basket,
but she's not putting any in ours.
Because she wants full investment from me and my kid.
But she doesn't want to return it.
She's going to outright say that she's
rooting for one kid on a team of six or seven
and not all of them.
So you don't think the weekend of the--
the week of the straitjacket, Abby was rooting for Lilly.
No.
No, she thinks it was Elliana that week.
I don't.
I think it was Lilly, personally.
No, she brought Elliana to raise the bar
and show our kids what's up.
And then Elliana lost anyway.
MOM: Right.
She was not set up to win.
She took away half of her facility
and gave the other kid all of it.
And then another time she did a solo, it was against Brady.
So we know she wasn't rooting for her there.
Do you know how many times a day you say Brady's name?
Just don't say his name.
OK, then stop talking to me.
Talk about Abby Lee Miller.
Don't talk about my kid.
Because I'm over it.
Stacy has figured out a way, and she
ran with what Abby said the other day,
and made this all about Lilly again.
Because Lilly is the one in there doing her solo.
MOM: She's still in rehearsal. I know.
Every day, it's ridiculous. - Everything is about Lilly.
The solo that actually is the it solo is actually Lilly's
because she does have something special.
Brady has a regular costume, music we've heard 1,000 times.
She actually has something special.
There's not a story.
[interposing voices]
She's actually in front of everyone, going to make it look
like there's this big story, and that the two sides,
and she's got to be sweet on one side,
and scientific and fierce on the other.
And that's not the dance at all.
It's just a da--
It's a dance.
Are you kidding me?
She has well planned this and thought this out.
She told you what the story is.
It's not the same.
And you guys know it.
And you're just trying to twist it.
No, you're trying to twist it.
You're trying to twist it.
[interposing voices]
You're trying to twist it because she
has the special solo, the special make-up,
the special whatever.
You're all being manipulated because--
But here's the thing.
--that's the solo that's the it solo right now.
That's so not true.
I can't even really respond to it.
All this talk, it's either Brady or Lilly,
Brady or Lilly, Brady or Lilly.
If I didn't know any better, I wouldn't even
know there was a third solo.
Just sick and tired of you two both playing the victim when,
really, the two of them that have really been
the favorites all season long.
No.
Yeah.
Lilly has done well despite--
Stacy, please.
--everything.
Please, please.
You're not going to tell me-- MOM: Despite.
MOM: --that she has been treated the same
as the rest of our kids.
Give me a break.
You're just pissed now that you're sitting
at the same level as us.
MOM: Piss off.
Oh, my goodness.
These moms are crazy.
I don't know why you're so shocked.
I'll tell you why if you shut up.
I'll tell you why.
Like, they are [roars] tigers.
You know?
Like, they-- when one starts to talk,
the other one starts to talk, and then
the other one starts talking.
Brady is sitting there right to-- listening to all of this.
You don't think that this is for real in his head right now?
She's saying I want him to win.
If someone thinks that that's a right thing
for a teacher to say, argue with me all day long.
I don't care.
You're a professional victim.
MOM: They don't need to worry about it.
Like, they have a lot of things they need
to focus on, like the dancing.
Come on, now.
Thank god we're going to the prom
because you are all so high school right now.