The New Girl in Town The Next Step

Previously on The Next Step...

Because Stephanie is here to announce

she's auditioning for A troupe!

Congratulations, Stephanie!

Eldon can't start dating you until he hits 30 pirouettes.

He can't do 30 pirouettes!

So does anyone want to tell me what's going on?

Amanda, I have decided to have Max replace

you in the trio for internationals.

I can't believe Giselle and Thalia would give away my spot.

I don't know where I stand anymore at the studio.

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Honestly, our team has never felt so great as it does right now.

I cannot wait to prove myself and

to show everybody how hard I'm going to work and I'm

so excited to be a part of this team.

I'm excited to go to internationals.

I lost my spot in the trio,

so I need to show Kate that I deserve another chance.

I feel so good about A troupe.

We finally have a full team for internationals.

But we are about to face the hardest competition that we've ever

had to face.

We may not be prepared for internationals yet, but,

there is hope for us, for sure.

Guys! Guys.

Well, now that I'm here, which one of you is leaving?

Leaving?

Is it you? You look like you need a holiday?

What?

# We, we are going to show the world

# Everything we're made of

# We're going to tear the roof off this place

Stand up!

Uh, who's the new girl?

The new girl is Ella. Nice to meet you.

I'm so confused with this new girl arriving at The Next Step.

What do you mean, one of us has to leave?

We just got our group of 12 people.

Ella, here, is part of the exchange programme at Internationals.

-Oh.

-OK. Yeah that makes more sense.

-Yeah.

-She's from a dance studio in England.

Basically, the exchange programme is when every team in internationals

sends one of their dancers over to a different country to

learn about their cultures.

None of you has actually answered my question.

And what was your question?

Which one of you is leaving for the exchange for internationals?

When we signed up for internationals, we also are signed

up for this exchange programme.

We knew that one of us was going to be going abroad,

we just didn't know who that was going to be.

One of you is going to Sweden.

You'll be back in time for internationals, though.

Miss Kate, who's leaving?

-I have chosen Amanda.

-Me?

-Yeah

Amanda is like the luckiest person on the planet.

I don't want to go to Sweden.

I want to stay here and I want to practice for internationals.

I don't understand why Miss Kate chose me.

It would be cool to go to another country, but, if you leave now,

your chances of being featured in an internationals routine

are next to zero.

# Well, hey, you, what do you say?

# I've been thinking about it since yesterday... #

Hey guys. Er...

-That was a good rehearsal.

-A good rehearsal.

-Great, see you.

-Take it easy.

One of the strategies for making friends is pulling pranks on them.

I know it's a little juvenile, but the laughs won't be.

You dropped into the splits.

Well, I think my work here is done.

I could have been injured. I wasn't, but I could've been.

Ella's prank is funny. I don't know what Riley's problem is.

All the dancers on The Next Step seem pretty cool but that one girl,

Riley, she seems pretty uptight.

She just needs to loosen up a little bit.

I don't like this new girl much.

She's been here one minute and she's already causing trouble.

Hi, can I get a juice, please? Great. Perfect.

-Hey, Michelle.

-Hey, how are you doing?

-Good, how are you?

-Good.

Ella's arrival is just another reminder

how crazy internationals is going to be,

and to be dance captain, I need to know how to handle every situation.

So, I think I'm going to need some help.

I really need to know everything you know about being dance captain.

Why would you need that? You're doing a great job.

Have you seen the drama that happens in this studio?

Giselle makes a good point.

Michelle was a great dance captain, so...

I know she'll be able to help me.

So, the Thames, it flows through London and out to Kent?

Yeah, it starts really small and ties into an estuary.

-And then goes out into the sea.

-Estuary. Can you say that again?

-Estuary.

-I really like Ella. She's so charming.

-You have the coolest accent ever.

-Thank you so much.

-Uh, you wanted to see me, Miss Kate?

-Er, yes, you remember Ella, right?

-Ella.

-Yeah, she just said that.

Well, I think we should have someone show her the ropes of the studio.

That's a great idea. I'll go get the dance captain.

Actually, she was just telling me how well you two got along.

-So, I think you should do it.

-Oh. I wouldn't go that far.

Oh, stop joking, bestie. Bring it in.

This is going to be so much fun.

This is going to be a disaster.

I'm in Hidalgo's and I'm really distracted because

all I keep thinking about is Sweden and how I don't want to go.

Why so glum, chum? You haven't even eaten your muffin mguffin.

Ha. It works.

I don't want to go abroad.

Why? Sweden is awesome. It's paradise.

How do you know that?

I once got locked in a Swedish furniture shop

and I ate nothing but Swedish meatballs.

That and I slept in something called a flonter de disk.

A flonter disks? A flinter disk.

I don't know if that is how you pronounce it,

but it sounds good to me and it was comfortable.

I know a lot a things about Sweden. The long distance area code is 46.

OK.

The population is 9.7 million people which makes it 21 inhabitants

per square kilometre.

I think you'd be perfect for the exchange programme.

Hmm...

-Sure, I'll go to Sweden. Why not?

-Cool.

Here I am thinking that I'm out of luck but West wants to go to Sweden.

All we have to do is talk to Miss Kate.

Come on, girl.

-Now that was sick.

-Yeah, Becca!

All right, guys. It's time to do our scenarios for Giselle.

Giselle asked for my help with being a dance captain, so,

I've gathered some of the J troupe dancers to act out some

dance captain scenarios.

-I have an injury, but I'm hiding it.

-OK.

If you think you're able to dance, than you should dance.

Let's do a jete to test it out.

All right.

I heard Giselle and Michelle were practicing some dance captain

scenarios and since I've been reading the dance captain

diary that Emily gave me, I came to check it out.

OK. Your jete was pretty good, so let's try a pirouette.

Really?

She really does not come up with the best answer.

Ooh!

Giselle, you're going to permanently injure his leg.

He won't be able to dance.

Plus, I'm going to sue.

Oh, you just bankrupted the studio.

OK. Not doing so well.

I'm supposed to be showing Ella around the studio

and when I turn around, I see that she's pulling a prank on somebody.

Gotcha!

She just goes to no ends just to make people uncomfortable.

I'm not like that at all,

so I don't know how I'm supposed to get along with this girl.

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We've been at this a while now and Giselle is not getting any better.

I have to work to pay for dance.

Rehearsals are cutting into my hours, so I have to leave early.

Hmm. I have this. You get free dance lessons.

Great.

-Can I get free dance lessons too?

-Me too.

-I like free dance, a lot.

OK. Free dance for everybody.

No! You just bankrupted the studio again!

We've gone bankrupt 13 times now with Giselle.

We could've made a schedule for Becca, so that she could dance

but have a part time job to pay for it.

Richelle knows a lot more than I thought she did. I mean...

She has a solution for every single situation.

How does she know that?

Amanda and I go into Kate's office because

I agreed to take Amanda's place in Sweden.

Miss Kate, West wants to go to Sweden, so he's going to go

-and I'm going to stay.

-No.

Why not? West, tell her all of your Swedish facts.

-OK.

-Well, the national bird of Sweden is the common blackbird.

When Amanda comes into my office

and has West agree to take her spot in Sweden,

I know I have to tell her the truth as to why she's going.

-West, can you please step outside?

-Sure.

When Miss Kate asks West to leave the office,

I know there's more to her reasoning than I thought there was.

Look. You're not going to be featured

in the internationals routines.

I was dance captain at Elite

and I was dance captain at The Next Step

and all of a sudden, I'm an alternate?

We need to feature the strongest dancers at internationals.

And I'm the weakest?

Apparently, Sweden is an incredible team.

You can learn so much from them.

Fine. I'll go to Sweden.

But you're wrong about me.

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

11, 12, 13, 14.

Hi. What's going on?

Eldon is trying to do 30 pirouettes, but he's stuck on 14.

If he makes it to 30, he can date me.

Is that how you guys date in this country?

-No, this is a special case.

-Yeah.

-Can I try and help?

-Sure, yeah, of course.

Ooh, do you have pirouette pointers or something?

Erm, yeah, you can call it that if you wanted to.

OK, so, Elliot? If you...

-Erm, his name is Eldon.

-Does it really matter? Anyway.

-Yeah.

If you can do up to 24 pirouettes, I'll give you a snog.

Ew, that sounds gross. What's that?

It's a kiss, you nitwit.

She doesn't even know my name.

But I'm OK with that.

-Oh, then I like it.

-Oh, really?

-Or not.

You know what?

At this point, I'm willing to try anything, so, go for it.

Hey. Whatever gets me past 14 pirouettes.

-Oh, 24!

-24.

First time ever. 24.

Well, I'm a woman of my word and you deserve it, so, here's a kiss.

-Bye!

-Bye!

This is not how things work.

You don't just waltz in and kiss someone

when you haven't even met them before.

Riley is supposed to be showing Ella around.

Showing Eldon around isn't kissing my almost boyfriend.

You need to get that girl under control before the whole

studio falls apart.

OK, whoa! How is this my problem? You're the one that agreed to this.

Yeah, you're right. I have to fix this.

I'm about to give Eldon even more motivation.

Right now, I'm sitting in Hidalgo's, kind of looking at what happened

today and, honestly, I'm not even sure if I should be

dance captain anymore.

-Hey, Giselle.

-Hey.

-How's everything going?

-Not so good.

-It'll get easier.

Richelle, I bankrupt the studio 19 times,

got three kids injured and one deported.

Yeah, but your heart is in the right place.

I think I have something that might cheer her up.

I think you could really use this.

What is it?

It's the dance captain diary. It has all the tips and secrets.

I've heard of this. I can't believe there really is

a dance captain book. It's a real thing and I have it.

It's like finding a treasure.

-Thank you.

-No problem.

I'm so thankful for this dance captain diary and I'm going to read

the whole thing and make sure I know exactly what to do

in every situation.

I really do miss those football games.

Right now, I'm just having a video chat with Hunter

and, you know, all the stuff he's talking about is really

making me miss Madison.

I heard that things at the old studio are crumbling to the

-ground without me.

-Well, I heard that things at our old studio are

falling apart without me.

OK, actually they're going quite well.

You know, everyone at the studio misses you, though,

-and is wondering when they're going to see you next.

-Yeah, I know.

I miss them too.

I grew up in Madison, I mean, it's where...

I first learned how to dance. So it's...

..it's hard for me to forget about that. I really miss it.

And then this weekend, everyone is going down to Lake Mandota

-for a bonfire.

-That sounds really fun, Hunter.

-OK, Michelle, I got to go, I'm sorry.

-Wait!

I did tell Miss Kate that I was staying in A troupe,

but Hunter talking about Madison just kind of makes me

rethink my decision.

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I walk into the music room and there is this drum kit and I think,

who wouldn't want to wrap these in bubble wrap?

What are you doing? This is James's drum set.

-Who's John?

-James.

And I'm not telling you just in case you might go kissing him.

Aw. Is James your boyfriend?

Yeah.

This prank is actually kind of funny.

Why not join in?

I mean James does dumb stuff all the time, so why can't I?

-Can I help?

-Definitely.

I absolutely love it.

I think I might be getting through to her because she's

starting to loosen up a little bit.

What?

Why are my drums in bubble wrap? What?

Are we moving? Nobody told me we were moving. What?!

What is this?

All right, West. Come out, bud.

-Wow.

-Gotcha.

Wow. You're the worst. That was actually pretty good, though.

I guess.

I have to say I'm impressed with Riley.

For a first time prank, it's a pretty good prank.

It felt really good to let loose and do something

reckless with Ella.

-What? What are we...?

-Shush.

When Thalia drags me to studio A, I have no idea what's happening.

Hey, Elliot. Do you want to see something?

Yeah? Yeah, OK.

Maybe she's mad about the whole Ella thing?

You didn't see it? Do you want to see it again?

Spin!

Nine. Nine Spins.

Nine pirouettes? Nine pirouettes, Eldon? Really?

You disappoint me.

Well, at least now we're even.

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In the song, Destiny, the lyrics really link to the dance

and the way I feel.

# I want to tell you my name... #

Being at The Next Step and being new, I want to show people who I am.

# The words I want to say can't come out any way

# The top of my tongue like I'm lost in the waves

# Oh, I breathe... #

I enter studio A to see Ella dancing

and she doesn't look like the weakest dancer, but if she is,

then her team must be really good.

Hey. That was really good, I mean, for being the weakest

member at your studio.

I don't understand.

Well, I thought that all the weakest members

went on the exchange programme.

At your studio, maybe, but not mine.

In fact, I'm probably the strongest.

-Uh, I'm sorry I didn't know that.

-It's OK.

Don't feel so down, I mean, you know, going away can be fun.

You know, it can be like the tornado, you know? Yeah?

-What?

-You heard me. Go and have fun!

That's what it's about.

OK.

Yeah, I'll be a tornado.

You be a tornado.

That's exactly what I'm going to do.

I need to get out of here and just have fun.

We're just finishing up packing the van because

my mom's moving back to Madison today and I've decided to go along

to keep her company.

-Hey!

-Hey, Michelle!

-Hey guys!

What are you doing here?

We just wanted to say goodbye. Plus we kind of brought you muffins.

We made enough for you and your mom to have one every hour so...

-And don't worry, I did not bake them.

-Oh, OK!

I'm really glad that my friends came to say bye to me,

I mean, it means a lot to me.

They mean a lot to me.

Are you OK?

Yeah, I'm just... I'm really going to miss you guys.

-Well, we'll see you soon.

-Yeah.

Seeing Michelle get a little teary eyed and upset is kind of surprising

just because she's going to be back in a couple days.

As hard as it is to say goodbye to these guys,

I can't imagine how hard it'll be to say goodbye to my mom.

What if I can't? If I decide to stay in Madison, I

may be saying bye to them for the last time.

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