Dance Moms - Season 2 (2012)

Peyton replaces Brooke, causing Jill to worry for Kendall. Holly disagrees with Nia portraying a bully this week. Abby is angry when Peyton is rude backstage and insults the other dancers. The moms struggle to deal with Peyton's mom Leslie.

Brooke comes back to ALDC. Jill bribes Abby.

This week it's solo week and Abby is at breaking point with the moms complaining about costumes, so she lets them design and make their own. However, Jill does not follow the rules. Cathy has an audition for a new dancer at Candy Apples.

When the moms find out this weeks routine is private-eye themed and includes guns, they are very angry. Maddie is placed at the bottom of the pyramid and is determined to get back on top.

Jill leaves Abby's studio and takes her daughter Kendall to Candy Apples. Abby doesn't find out until competition day, when Kendall is set to compete against Nia.

The dancers head to South Beach for a competition. When Paige needs to have surgery on her foot, the moms duke it out for her now-open spot in a trio number.

Abby is determined to turn up the competition heat when the ALDC leaves frigid Pittsburgh for sexy South Beach. After making it back into the coveted Trio, Paige must undergo foot surgery which sends the Dance Moms vying for the open slot like bridesmaids for a bouquet.

Melissa crumbles when two of the moms continue to interfere in her life outside of the studio. Abby puts an interesting spin on a social cause in a unique group number. Holly decides to temporarily leave her job to focus on daughter Nia's dancing.

The dancers and moms feel the pressure when they learn a scout from the Joffrey Ballet is present at the competition. The pot is stirred when Abby makes 2 sets of trios within the group. Over-exertion sends a dancer to the hospital.

Abby's dancers square off against the Candy Apples and feel the wrath of Abby when a top dancer freezes mid-performance

At their last competition, Abby ran and left the moms and the girls at the show after Maddie froze on stage and they lost the group number to the Candy Apples. But now she is back!

Week-long tension between Kelly and Abby comes to a head when Kelly makes a drastic decision seconds before her daughters take the stage. As Maddie struggles with confidence issues, Melissa will stop at nothing to get her daughter back on top. Meanwhile, Holly has the impossible task of creating the most elaborate costumes ever for a group number.

Week-long tension between Kelly and Abby comes to a head when Kelly makes a drastic decision seconds before her daughters take the stage. As Maddie struggles with confidence issues, Melissa will stop at nothing to get her daughter back on top.

The 25th anniversary of Star Power is so big there are two competition venues filled with dancers. Abby covertly enters Maddie in both competitions...but to avoid sending the dance moms into a frenzy, Maddie must keep the secret.

Abby Lee Miller is never happy with second best. When the dance moms get in her way, things often go awry; when out of her way, her young dancers bring home the gold. In this episode watch Abby tackle the mama drama, taking us through her countdown of the worst to the best dance performances.

Abby and the girls are out for revenge when they go against Cathy and her Candy Apples for the first time this competition season. Meanwhile, Kelly decides to takes matters into her own hands when she secretly re-choreographs Paige's solo.

Dance Mom Leslie is back and will stop at nothing until her daughter gets a solo. Kelly's birthday party is a disaster when a big dance moms fight breaks out.

Everyone is completely shocked when Jill and Kendall come crawling back to the Abby Lee Dance Company. Jealousy rears its ugly head when the moms learn that Maddie lands the coveted acting role on "Drop Dead Diva.

With Paige out with a broken foot, Jill seizes the opportunity and spins into hyper-Dance-Mom-mode trying to get Kendall to replace Paige in this week s numbers. Meanwhile, Maddie leaves dance rehearsals to shoot her big guest role on "Drop Dead Diva.

When Cathy learns her Dance Mom Jill and daughter Kendal have gone back to the Abby Lee Dance Company, she plots her revenge at the next competition.

Abby s annual recital for the Abby Lee Dance Company shakes up the studio and the dance moms when she assigns a style of dance they have never done before. Potential disaster then arrives when Cathy and her Candy Apples crash the recital.

The arrival of a new dance mom and her daughter create a huge stir amongst the girls and the dance moms. With her broken foot healed, Paige gets the go-ahead from the doctor to dance in this week's important competition.

Each girl performs a solo for Abby to determine who will compete at Nationals. Meanwhile, Melissa tries to sign her daughters with an agency, and Kelly helps Brooke with her singing career.

The Abby Lee Dance Company battling for a National title, this time in glamorous Beverly Hills. Cathy and her Candy Apples follow Abby all the way to the 90210, where the girls will have another shot at beating Justice and Vivi-Anne.

After the most tumultuous dance competition season ever, Abby and the Dance Moms reunite on stage to set the record straight. Unfiltered and unleashed, everyone gets the chance to tell each other what they really think...May the best Dance Mom win. Part 1 of 2.

After the most tumultuous dance competition season ever, Abby and the Dance Moms reunite on stage to set the record straight. Unfiltered and unleashed, everyone gets the chance to tell each other what they really think ... may the best Dance Mom win. Part 2 of 2.

In this hour long special, Abby will count down her favorite and most outrageous moments from Dance Moms Season 2.