Danger Zone The Next Step

Previously on The Next Step...

-ANNOUNCER:

-Life of Dance!

Life of Dance will be moving on to the finals

here at the Absolute Dance National Championships.

'The dance is going amazing. We have this.

'We're going to win.'

SHE WINCES

CHEERING

You all right?

I don't think I'm going to be able to dance.

We're going up against Life of Dance.

And we have an injured dancer.

We need ten dancers for the next round.

Goodbye, Nationals.

I'm just testing my knee to see if I can put any pressure on it.

To see if there's any way I can dance, any way I can...

not let my team down.

'I have to have some sense of hope that Emily's going to be OK.'

But...

..I don't know if it's going to happen.

Ooh!

Em! Don't do that!

You can't put pressure on your knee right now. You need to rest.

'This is everything I've worked for. I gave up...

everything.

And this happens?

I just can't believe this is happening right now.

Emily's knee looks really bad.

I don't know how she's going to be able

to compete in the Finals against L.O.D.

This is everything we ever worked for!

Riley, this is Nationals!

'Kate said that the physiotherapist'

might be able to treat Emily's knee.

But, if she doesn't stay off it,

there's no way that's she's going to be able to dance.

You need to focus on yourself right now.

I just...

Come on. Let's go.

EMILY SIGHS

I can't believe this happened to her.

She doesn't deserve it.

The team doesn't deserve it.

Yeah, they do.

I don't know if Emily's going to be able to dance in the Finals,

but if she can't...

then The Next Step has to forfeit.

Interesting.

What's "interesting"?

It's just, the energy is very interesting.

'Phoebe is trying some...'

weird healing process.

'I'm just trying to energetically'

straighten out the ligaments,

because I can feel that they're strained.

I have no idea what she's doing, but if it works,

more power to her.

Do I think it'll work?

No.

Probably not.

I can sense the pain.

Can you feel that?

Ow!

We're still trying to get the physiotherapist in here.

'I mean, dancers perform hurt all the time.'

There must be something he can do to help Emily

get through the final performance.

-I wish there was something we could do.

-Yeah, you know, like...

'Today is the day of the finals,

'and we don't know whether or not we'll be able to compete,'

so, we're just waiting to find out whether or not Emily's OK.

-How long are they...?

-I wish I had, like,

physiotherapist hands or something.

So, how's her knee?

Not good. At all.

Where on earth is this physiotherapist?

-Yo, Hunter.

-Yeah?

-Let's go find him.

-OK. We'll leave right now.

-Thank you.

-It doesn't look good for Emily,

so if Eldon and I can go quickly get a physiotherapist,

that's what we're going to do.

We'll be right back.

'Hunter seems to have a really good sense of direction.

'Even when he head slides,'

he seems to know where he's going,

so, he'll be able to navigate towards the physiotherapist.

-COMMENTATOR:

-It's the last day of the Nationals competition

and we have the final dance-off

between The Next Step and Life of Dance coming up.

You know, this whole competition is about that big kahuna,

the National title, but we've got some small hardware to give out

for all the categories we've seen so far.

So, let's have another round of applause for our male soloists.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Fantastic!

Great job, guys.

You know, Chuck, winning the top award in your category is

so important for these dancers.

And it's fantastic to see them get the recognition they deserve.

'The awards ceremony is basically just

'when they award the top three dances of each category.

'So, they have...'

Mr National Soloist, Miss National Soloist,

Best Duet and Best Small Group.

'The Nationals Awards are based on individual scores.

'So even if you didn't win your round'

you may have scored high enough to take home a trophy.

-APPLAUSE

-All right, we are on to

our Miss Nationals Soloist award.

And so, the three female soloists with the highest

scores in the competition are...

Lexi from L.O.D.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

She is such an exquisite technical dancer, Chuck,

like all of the ladies in this group.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Michelle from The Next Step is defending her title

of Miss Nationals Soloist from last year.

It would be quite remarkable to see her win two years in a row, Chuck.

APPLAUSE

Amanda from Elite Dance Academy was eliminated by Michelle

in the fourth round, but her score was still high enough

to get her into the top three, Tre.

And in third place is...

Amanda from Elite Dance Academy.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

'I'm really happy that I got third place.

'I mean, last year I got fifth.

'So, even though I lost to Michelle,'

I'm still improving.

I heard Emily's injury is pretty bad.

Looks like you guys are running out of time.

Well, as a friend of mine would say, "Don't even worry about it."

And in second place, Miss National Soloist goes to...

Lexi from Life of Dance.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

'I'm so excited, because that means that Michelle won first,

'which also means that she is'

Miss National Soloist two years in a row.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Michelle, how's Emily's injury, anyway?

Why do you even care?

And our Miss National Soloist Award for the second year in a row...

Michelle from The Next Step.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well, it has been 14 years since we have seen

someone win back-to-back titles in female solo.

Well, that has been put to bed, because

we have a back-to-back winner at this year's championship.

Yes, Michelle. You better work, girl.

Good going.

You really did it. Great.

Lucien and the rest of the Elite team

don't give me the time of day.

Especially when I need their support the most.

Urgh!

I thought we would find the physiotherapist by now,

but we're still looking.

It doesn't seem like Hunter has a very good sense of direction.

I really want to be at Nationals,

but I'm really mad we missed that football game today.

Pffft! Yo, you're going to trip

when I tell you what I'm listening to right now.

-What?

-I'm listening to the football game.

Man, give me that!

I'm like, "Bro, come on, man. Help a brother out."

There's no reason we can't listen to the football game

and look for the physiotherapist at the same time.

-Yes!

-Second down, dude.

-Yes!

PHONE RINGS

Oh, guys, Riley just texted me.

Michelle won Miss National Soloist.

-What? Seriously?

-Nice! Yes!

-Oh, my gosh!

That's great.

'I don't know what happened to those boys,

'but when you want something done,'

you've got to do it yourself.

I went to go get the physiotherapist.

-This is Emily.

-Hi.

-Hi, Emily. Sorry about your luck.

'When he arrives, I'm a little nervous.

'I mean, my knee is really tender'

and it hurts a lot.

And on a scale from one to ten, one being very little pain,

ten being excruciating pain, how would you say this is right now?

-I'd give it...I'd give it a 15.

-A 15, OK.

I'm just going to pop you right here...

SHE WINCES Yeah, is that where you'd say

-the most pain is?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-So, how is it?

I'll let you know in a couple of minutes, OK?

'I really hope the physiotherapist can do something for the pain,'

cos I just want to dance in the finals.

We are now getting ready for our National Duet award.

Can I have our National Duet nominees on stage, please?

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

The finalists for the Duet award are...

The Joanne Chapman School of Dance.

They are a fantastic troupe, Chuck,

and were eliminated just yesterday in the semifinals by The Next Step.

And, of course, we have Life of Dance,

who are now three for three,

with nominations in every category so far.

Though, as a huge romantic... SHE LAUGHS

..I have to say that my personal favourite came from The Next Step.

But we'll have to see what the judges think.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

This is the first time that James and I did a duet at Nationals,

so to be a finalist in the Duet awards is just incredible.

And in third place, National Duet goes to...

Joanne Chapman.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

'Eldon, West, Hunter and I are also up for the Small Group award.'

I'm pretty confident about that, too.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

And in second place...

the Next Step.

-Yeah!

-APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Winning second place is still pretty amazing.

I mean, it's still within the top three,

so it is really exciting, but...

we did lose to L.O.D, so that's also a little bit scary.

And your first place National Duet award goes to...

Life of Dance!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

'I'm not really surprised. L.O.D is the team to beat.'

-Talk about the eye of the tiger, huh?

-Absolutely!

I just hope that Emily's knee heals so that we can face them.

'No updates on Emily.'

We don't know what's going on and I just hope she's OK.

PHONE BEEPS

Another text from Riley - she's looking for you, Eldon and Hunter.

The Small Group awards are about to be presented

and I've got to run to the stage.

So, you guys better go. You're up next.

-Text her back, let her know I'm coming.

-OK.

I actually don't know where Eldon and Hunter could be,

cos they went off to find the physiotherapist

and the physiotherapist is in the room.

Dude, honestly, I just hope we find this physiotherapist.

Yo, forget the physio, I just want to get out of here.

We've been lost for so long that I honestly think one of us

is going to have to eat the other to survive.

I'm so hungry, I feel like I'm going to faint.

Can I ask our small groups to take the stage?

Cos we are about to give away the National Small Group awards.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I have no idea where the boys are.

-Where would they be?

-I have no idea.

Well, they're announcing them, like, right now.

I'm not sure I can go on alone.

You have to, there's no-one else here!

'Chloe texted me back saying that West was on his way,'

but Eldon and Hunter are nowhere to be found.

Just go on stage for now.

-Are you serious?

-Yeah!

-Go.

We need someone for our studio.

'Um, it's kind of awkward being on the stage alone

'for the Small Group awards,'

but I guess I'm just repping the team solo.

What if we get stuck here

and we have to, like, survive in the stairwells?

No. Dude, don't say that, man. I'm claustrophobic.

I won't be able to survive here. It smells like pee.

Yo. Dude, do you know how to get out of here?

When we see a guy come through, we get really excited.

Maybe he knows the way out.

-Let's go, let's go.

-Yo, dude, dude, dude!

-Are you serious?

-Oh, man.

-'The door's locked behind him.'

I don't know how he walked through it.

I have a feeling that the guy coming down the stairs was just a mirage.

Hey, guys.

West! You need to be on stage right now.

-Wha...?

-Right now!

-Go!

-All right, wish us luck.

-Yeah, yeah.

- Yo. - Yo.

QUIETLY: Where are Hunter and Eldon?

Dude, I don't like this place.

I don't even think we're in civilisation any more.

-COMMENTATOR:

-It looks like we'll have to wait a little bit longer

for the rest of The Next Step's group, Tre.

But, I'm thinking to a person,

they're more concerned with the health and welfare

of one of their star dancers. What do you think?

Absolutely, Chuck. Right now, there's still no news

from The Next Step.

- Why are they not here? - Just smile.

-Bad news.

-One of their lead dancers, Emily, she's got an injury.

Now, how are they going to deal with this injury situation?

As I look across the wings, I see Amanda looking at me and Michelle.

Why is Amanda looking at us?

She asked me about Emily's injury.

Why would she do that?

I don't know, but whatever she's up to, it can't be good. She's trouble.

-TRE:

-..how easy is it going to be to restructure your dance,

so that the judges don't see

you're trying to hide an injured dancer?

They see right through that. They're very smart.

'Only the look on her face wasn't...'

of a schemer, it was...

It was kind of sad.

-TRE:

-We can only pray that she's OK.

-COMMENTATOR:

-Well, we'll see how that bodes for The Next Step,

but once again, they've got a really good shot

with that awesome Luther Brown routine in Small Group.

'We're not even talking to each other any more, just two men on a mission.

'I don't expect to survive this.'

If I can find a pen and paper and create my will,

I'll at least die happy.

-COMMENTATOR:

-Well, Tre, I don't think we can wait any longer

for them to show up.

We finally found our way to civilisation.

What are we going to do?

I don't know, but they're making our studio look so bad.

How are we going to fix this?

We only have two of them on stage!

Guys, what's wrong? Can we help?

-Uh...

-Oh, come!

-What...?

-What are you doing?

LAUGHTER

Wait, what?

It's awards right now?

Smile, smile, smile.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

JAMES: 'They finally show up now.'

They're such meatheads.

Now I don't have to eat Eldon.

-COMMENTATOR:

-Our first small group nominee is Elite Dance Academy

who, despite a fourth round elimination,

continued to impress with their second nomination.

And then, of course, we have The Next Step

and that incredible high energy Luther Brown hip-hop routine.

And finally, again, we have Life of Dance,

who are now four for four with nominations in every category.

In third place, Elite Dance Academy.

APPLAUSE

JAMES: 'It's a little intimidating being up against L.O.D again

'for the Small Group award.'

I just hope we can take it this time.

Your second place Small Group award goes to...

..Life of Dance.

APPLAUSE

When L.O.D gets second place,

that means we won.

We actually won first place!

And our first place Small Group National winner -

The Next Step.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-COMMENTATOR:

-This is amazing, Tre.

The Next Step are walking away with two honours in the top spot.

-TRE:

-I'm sure Life of Dance isn't pleased with these newcomers

having more first place trophies than them, Chuck.

There's a chance that we might actually beat L.O.D in the finals.

If Emily can dance.

And that concludes our Small Group awards,

and we will be back shortly with our finals National winners.

And that big trophy you see right there on our left

is going to be given away to the winner.

CHEERING

# Go, go, shake it, go

# Go, go, shake it, go

# Go, go, shake it, go

# Go, go, shake it, go. #

PHONE BEEPS

Oh, another text from Riley - the boys just won National Small Group.

-Are you serious?

-I'm serious!

-Oh, my gosh!

-How's she doing?

-Not good.

Emily won't be dancing in the finals.

Emily's knee injury is so bad.

There's really nothing we can do about it.

I could accept losing to L.O.D on stage,

but losing because we only have nine dancers?

We worked so hard to get here and it's over just like that.

-Hey.

-Hey.

How are you feeling?

I'm great.

'Of course I don't blame Emily.

'It's not her fault that she hurt her knee.'

'Honestly, I...'

I feel sorry for her.

Don't worry about it, Em. OK? We'll figure something out.

You got a plan, Ri?

-VOICE QUAVERING:

-Cos if you do, I'd really like to hear it.

You don't have to worry about that.

All you have to worry about is getting better.

But I'm letting everyone down.

No, you're not. It's OK.

Do you have any idea how proud of you we all are?

It's my fault that they're not going to get to dance in finals.

It's my fault that they're not going to get the chance to win.

Look, I love you, but I just need some time, OK?

-Yeah. Yeah, OK.

-OK.

Look, guys...

..we need to start thinking about forfeiting.

'There's got to be a different way.

'There's got to be a different way to do this.'

We have worked way too hard to get here.

I know we don't want to, but what other options do we have?

'The rules of Nationals

'are that you have to have a troupe of ten dancers.'

You also have two alternates, but we lost both of our alternates,

so it's just us ten.

And now, with Emily's injury,

we only have nine dancers that can actually compete.

-We can't just forfeit.

-We worked so hard!

Kate, I need to know whether your dancer is going to dance or not.

'When Sandra, the Nationals manager,

'comes up to me with the dance captain of L.O.D,'

I know this is it. We've officially run out of time.

She can't dance, which means we don't have a full team.

OK.

All right, so I'll let the judges know that...

that you're not dancing, then.

- Is that correct? - Yeah.

It looks like we have to officially...

Not forfeit.

'When I was at The Next Step,

'Kate submitted my name on the Nationals list.'

That means they have one alternate left.

And it's me.

I will be dancing with The Next Step.

'I don't know why I want to dance for The Next Step.

'Part of me thinks because I just want to get back at Lucien,'

or I've actually grown to like them,

or maybe I just want to be on a winning team.

But, either way,

I want them to dance in the finals.