[Superbus' "Invincible and Reckless"]
SINGER: ♪♪ I'm under your spell ♪♪
♪♪ But I'm okay ♪♪
♪♪ You dance it so well ♪♪
♪♪ Don't go away ♪♪
♪♪ I-I'm under your spell ♪♪
♪♪ But I'm okay ♪♪
♪♪ It's magical, physical ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna give up now ♪♪
♪♪ Invincible, invincible ♪♪
♪♪ And reckless symphony ♪♪
♪♪ I'm under your spell ♪♪
♪♪ But I'm okay ♪♪
♪♪ You dance it so well ♪♪
♪♪ Don't go away ♪♪
♪♪ I-I'm under your spell ♪♪
♪♪ But I'm okay ♪♪
♪♪ It's magical ♪♪
PERSON: Previously on Spellbound...
- [winces]
ARMANDO: I've seen the X-ray. - I'm not quitting.
- Nobody said you had to quit, Jack.
But don't miss the warning signs,
or you'll be out for good.
- We're lost. - Both of us?
FINN: It was the worst audition of my life.
I deployed the fifth division.
They booked the studio time
for us for the next four weeks.
KEVIN: How did that A-kith get into that kid's pocket?
- I'll get it back.
- Closer to your introduction,
you'll be able to call spells
with just a gesture.
[magical chiming]
CECE: Yay! - Yes!
[upbeat percussive music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Yes, all elite schools compete.
And yes, it's harder than surviving alone
on an island during monsoon season.
- Was this on the info packet?
- Yes, page six.
It's called High Endurance Leadership Learning.
I underlined it in red,
but apparently you're a skimmer.
- So it's a summer camp?
- Not a summer camp. Boot camp.
- [whispers] Last chance to fast-forward a week.
[both laugh]
- This is serious.
You can laugh all you want,
but this is the third division's coming-out ball.
Like with a dance and every-- - Yeah. [feigns laughter]
No, not like with a dance and everything.
Like the first time outside choreographers
and other schools see us perform.
[sighs] Bring extra water and a second leotard
for the underground challenges.
You don't wanna rank last and have pit stains
down to your waist. BOTH: Wait, what?
CECE: What challenges?
- Ha ha, okay.
Good, good. Whoo!
Welcome, welcome to Hell Week.
Now at the end of this week, we will showcase some
of our hardest choreography to date,
but even more exciting than that,
one boy and one girl will be selected
from each school as spotlight students.
Now these exemplary students will be awarded
with a workshop in London this summer,
so let's get to work.
Let's start by warming up, shall we?
Everyone, fill the space!
Knees up, knees up!
Don't bump into each other!
[light chill music]
[phone chimes]
- Adrian keeps texting.
This is, like, the fourth one.
Okay. [sighs]
What are these extra challenges?
- I don't know. Nobody's talking.
[phone chimes]
What's he texting about?
- Oh, he probably has another secret brother
or something.
- You just need to talk to him.
- First, I wanna talk about these challenges.
[all shushing]
- [softly] This is very secretive.
If Armando finds out, we are finished.
- The students at each school challenge each other
to various challenges, which are uploaded online
and all the schools vote for the winner.
But the teachers cannot find out.
JACK: Your entire rep's at stake.
If you're not seen, you're a nobody.
[phone chimes]
- You ranked last, so it's unlikely
you'll get picked to compete.
Sorry. - Stop shoving that in my face.
- It's just facts.
- I'll give you some facts.
MIA: Oh, yeah? - Ah! Two minutes.
[curious music]
- Let's just focus on the challenges, yeah.
- Just shake it off, hmm?
[phone chimes]
- I'm so sorry. I'll be right back.
♪♪ ♪♪
[line trilling]
ADRIAN: Cece, uh, hi.
I've been messaging you a lot lately, and you haven't--
CECE: I know. I'm busy.
I'm in the middle of a huge dance thing.
- Well, maybe I could stop by the school,
bring you guys some smoothies or something?
- It's Hell Week. No visitors.
Sorry. I have to go.
[line beeps] - Cece, I--
Cece?
[sighs]
FINN: How does the London School of Ballet
have three posts already?
BENOIT: They did the sunrise run.
- We only have an hour time-zone advantage
over London and six over New York.
Post something, anything-- how many pirouettes you can do
or what elite dance companies you went to.
- Or you can utilize your secret weapon: me.
I can tell you everything. Trained in Canada and London,
plus elite camps in Australia.
Ready? Canada missed three weeks of training
last year to snow days, so they're behind.
Australia had a scorpion infestation,
which canceled their mid-season show.
Totally rocked their confidence.
Oh, and two students from London, from Berlin,
and their lifts are killer.
- Oh.
- [sighs]
FINN: Okay, here we go.
Leaps are next. JACK: You're on the staircase.
You're in Armando's office. You float around.
You're on lookout. Go. Go! [sighs]
Oh, sorry. You missed your window.
I thought you could rep for girls in leaps,
but Veronique did them already.
[exhales] You've got this.
You've got the height, just make sure to extend.
FINN: Whoa, I'm gonna stop you right there.
Sydney just made a last-minute substitution.
- What? Who? - [sighs] No.
Uh-oh, Rishi from Sydney.
He's a legit kangaroo.
- Oh, whatever.
You're, like, two kangaroos.
- Just what I was gonna say. Come on.
- Let's show them. - Yeah.
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[alarm beeping]
[punchy music]
- [yawns]
- Pick me first.
♪♪ ♪♪
Nomination.
ARMANDO: Five, six, seven, eight.
Very nice. Straight arms. Good.
High as you can. And up and up.
Good, we're gonna do this for a while now.
And go, guys! Come on!
Very good. Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Come on! Push! Push!
And up, and lunge.
- I could lunge all day.
- I could lunge to London and back.
- Not with a floppy spine you couldn't.
Pull up. Up, up, up, up to the sky!
And up, everybody.
I have been loving what I've been seeing here today,
especially from you, Cece.
So please stand up.
And Finn, you may join her.
Good.
Now whatever you two are doing,
keep doing it.
Very good work.
The strength, the stamina,
it's obvious you've been working on it, so well done.
Take a seat, please.
Now, everyone, close your eyes.
Close your eyes.
Now let me walk you through my vision
of the choreography.
[alarm beeping]
[upbeat music]
[joints crack] - [yawns]
♪♪ ♪♪
ARMANDO: And up and up to the sky.
Good. Slap your thighs. Good.
Let me hear you. Yes.
Very good, Benoit! Very nice!
Round. [dancers shouting]
Up, everyone. And lunge.
- [sighs] We can't put Veronique in the lift.
She's doing jumps.
And Payton kicked Sam in choreo
and stubbed her toe.
ARMANDO: And up.
And lunge.
- I'm doing the lift. We're good.
- I agree with Simone.
- We don't want a recreation
of the face-smash incident.
ARMANDO: Up again.
And lunge. Good.
- Yes, and thank you for bringing that up.
Why don't you trust your boyfriend
for five seconds?
- Good luck.
- And up!
[light percussive music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Ready?
♪♪ ♪♪
- Jack! Jack! - [groans]
DANCER: Are you okay?
DANCER: Is it your ankle, Jack?
- [coughs]
DANCER: [quietly] Do you think it's okay?
♪♪ ♪♪
MIA: Thanks.
[soft tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
No.
No. No.
No.
What are we going to do?
Okay, so Benoit leapt to victory,
but Veronique buckled the landing,
and then Finn pulled a second in cross floor but--
because what?
You botched the lift.
It's a disaster.
- Disaster? Gee, thanks.
- I'm just saying. - Maybe don't
is what he's saying.
- I'm not the one who caused our demise.
What are we gonna do?
- Whoa. Everyone, chill.
I can help.
Maybe I can be a surprise matchup.
ALL: No!
[alarm beeping] - [gasps]
[sighs] [toilet flushes]
[door clicks open]
Where's Cece?
- No clue.
No, she wouldn't.
[Klas Wahl & Olivia Barley's "Don't Stop" playing]
♪♪ ♪♪
SINGER: ♪♪ Rolling on a feeling ♪♪
ARMANDO: Good. Nice spatial awareness.
And I like those elbows. Thank you.
Good job.
- How did they get so polished?
- That's what I would like to know.
[applause]
- Bravo, you two, bravo. That was some excellent stuff.
As I said, whatever you're doing, keep it up,
over and over again, because that is how you get noticed.
Good job.
Now you two can take a seat.
Now the next pair I want to see...
[phone chimes] Bring up the same amount
of attack and commitment,
so who would like to follow?
[haunting music]
Let's see you two.
Come on up, quickly, quickly.
[clears throat] Space.
[singer vocalizing]
♪♪ ♪♪
[unsettling music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[magical humming]
CECE: We are so killing it.
Did you see the look on Mia's face?
I'd sleep with one eye open.
FINN: Our weeks of secret training
are really paying off.
[rapid beeping]
Did I give you the A-kith?
- The what? What are you talking about?
That old thing you showed me?
- Yeah, I need to find it.
- I don't know, it's probably still in your room.
Anyway, stay with me. So I watched all the footage
from the underground challenges.
Berlin's thirds are already doing whipped throws.
We don't do those till first division.
- Great. Gotta jet. See you later.
[indistinct chatter]
[phone chimes]
[Jack sighs]
- Are you okay? JACK: Mm-hmm.
[soft melancholic music]
- I don't think you can do the choreo from there.
JACK: Might be able to.
♪♪ ♪♪
- "Jack Ryder looks like a slider
when he can't stick a lift."
JACK: There's more.
- "Jack's injury has set him back and it might be for good."
No. Get up.
This stops now.
Shake it off. Come on.
Come on.
Don't let them get into your head.
London is always bragging, but--
what are you doing here?
FINN: Oh, I forgot something.
BENOIT: Oh, okay. See you later.
Don't be late for the squat challenge.
I have three memes ready for them.
Just give me the word and I press send--
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- "The most advanced technology
for such an ancient-looking device."
What is this?
How does he know all of this?
"Ask Cece."
Ask her what?
[rapid beeping]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
I'll have you know that the teeny tiny oranges
are a healthy stress release,
not some "weird crutch." [stopwatch beeping]
So let's see what else we have here.
Today is the dreaded last piece of Hell Week: the Susie Squats.
Last year, six people cried,
one slipped over, cracked her tailbone.
Empire did four minutes.
Berlin bested them with 4:30.
You know what? It was actually
seven people who cried, so keep squatting.
We've only done two minutes. [stopwatch beeps]
We are going to do five. Fi-- [door rattles]
- Sir, sorry that I'm late.
[panting]
I forgot something in my room,
then forgot what I went to get.
[upbeat music]
[sighs, grunts]
- [grunts, winces]
- Hey, don't worry about this.
Worry about the choreography.
- I am not letting you out-squat me.
BENOIT: Of course you're not.
You have two choices:
gracefully pull out of that squat,
or I will carry you off like a baby.
- [laughs]
[dancer sighs]
ARMANDO: Ah, yes. Good call, Benoit.
Now the rest of you... JACK: No, dude.
ARMANDO: Stay focused. JACK: Ugh, fine.
[intense music] [stopwatch beeps]
ARMANDO: Three minutes.
[dancers groaning]
♪♪ ♪♪
Keep it strong. Squeeze and hold.
3:54, nice, nice.
- [pants] I'd rather my legs snap off right now
than let you win this.
- Well done, Simone. Well done.
4:26, good stuff.
- ♪♪ Susie, Susie, you're so fine ♪♪
♪♪ Feel the burn on my behind ♪♪
ARMANDO: Come on, girls.
20 seconds to the record.
Breathe.
And breathe-- - [gasps]
ARMANDO: Great job. Great stuff.
Come on, Cece!
DANCER: Come on, Cece. One more time.
ARMANDO: Good. Good job. Keep going.
Almost there.
Hang on.
- [panting, grunts]
- Cece Parker-Jones is the winner.
[cheers and applause] And Paris Opera Ballet School
logs five minutes, ten seconds.
That's wonderful. Well done, all of you.
Excellent work.
[laughs]
All right, that's all for today.
Get some rest.
We'll meet tomorrow at the Garnier.
Let's go. Well done.
[alarm beeping]
[mysterious music]
♪♪ ♪♪
CECE: Oh, she's still asleep.
- [brushing, spits]
- Like a rooster on a farm, you need to set an alarm.
Wakey, wakey, sleepyhead. It's time to get out of bed
in one, two, three.
[alarm beeping]
- Uh, plié!
- [laughs]
- [gasps]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Um, what was that?
- It's new. It's my Wizen gesture.
Cool, huh?
- Hmm.
[car horns honking]
ARMANDO: Make sure you pan
from left to right and get the balconies,
the two girls in the top balcony.
[phone chimes] All landscape. That's good.
All right, it has to be perfect.
The other schools will be watching this.
[soft somber music]
♪♪ ♪♪
BENOIT: It doesn't matter.
- Yeah, I know.
It's fine.
I mean, whatever.
- Does it hurt?
Today we're not auditioning for company,
but one day we will,
and that's when you will need that ankle.
Today is not that day.
♪♪ ♪♪
ARMANDO: Okay. First positions, please.
Now enjoy the moment.
Enjoy the space, this beautiful space.
Uh, yeah. You okay? - Yeah, I'm fine.
Okay. Good lad, good lad.
Okay, wait for the music cue, please.
[Klas Wahl & Olivia Barley's "Don't Stop" playing]
♪♪ ♪♪
SINGER: ♪♪ Rolling on a feeling ♪♪
♪♪ Knowing I must go on ♪♪
♪♪ If I don't do it now, I will never have it ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ Dreaming is deceiving ♪♪
♪♪ Falling to slumber ♪♪
♪♪ If I don't do it now, someone else will grab it ♪♪
♪♪ If I don't, I don't, yeah ♪♪
♪♪ I've wanted it so long ♪♪
♪♪ It's takin' me some time ♪♪
♪♪ I tell myself, "Don't Stop" ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
[vocalizing]
[music ends]
ARMANDO: Yes!
Brilliant. Brilliant. That was it.
Wow, what a week. What a week.
Congratulations, everyone.
Bravo. Well, you are dismissed.
Well done. Thank you.
Go get some rest. You deserve it.
[light chatter]
[upbeat percussive music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- It's now or never.
Ten minutes, or we're disqualified.
We have to get back to school for the plié-relevé challenge.
- My legs, I'm cramping.
Help. Help me.
- I've got her.
- Cece, let's do an arm chair.
JACK: I'll take your bag, babe.
- [panting, whimpers]
♪♪ ♪♪
JACK: Let's get the bars. - It's okay.
[light tense music]
I can't...
[groans] [dancers gasps]
I can't. [cries]
DANCER: Is Mia okay?
[dancers murmuring]
- Fine. Go.
You have to do the last challenge.
- You can never say another bad word about me--
nothing about me ranking last, and no ankle jokes, nothing.
- If you start pliéing now, I'll agree you're my sister
and write you into my will.
Go! You have to do as many as you can.
- Just heard that London's logged 2:55.
- The record is three minutes, which we have to beat.
No pausing or stopping.
Hurry up. We have to start right now.
You have to crush this, Cece.
- Okay, three, two, one, go!
DANCERS: And up, and up, and up, and up!
- Good technique, Cece! Keep going!
FINN: That's it. You're doing great.
DANCERS: And up, and up, and up...
BENOIT: Come on, Cece. DANCERS: And up, and up,
and up, and up, and up, and up, and up, and up,
and up, and up, and up!
[bright music]
JACK: 2:46. Come on!
MIA: You've got this. Keep going!
- Ten, nine--
DANCERS: Eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one!
- You just won the underground challenge!
[cheers and applause]
MIA: And keep going! Come on!
Keep going, keep going!
You could break the record!
Come on. Hang in there!
- [groans]
[cheers and applause]
- I have to admit, that was pretty magical.
JACK: And with a new record of three minutes
and ten seconds.
- Don't go celebrating.
Time zone check.
Toronto doesn't do a plié-relevé challenge
for another two hours.
- Who cares?
That was awesome.
[cheers and applause]
JACK: That's right, girl.
[laughter]
BENOIT: Seriously, that was impressive.
JACK: Really awesome.
[Klas Wahl & Olivia Barley's "Don't Stop" playing]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Well, we definitely had the best choreography,
if I do say so myself.
[laughter] Bravo, everyone, bravo.
And the spotlight winners are...
Benoit and Cece!
Brilliant. Congratulations, both.
Well done to all of you.
- Thank you.
London will be fun, just you and me.
- It'll be amazing.
[soft chatter]
[phone chimes]
- Guys, it's here.
Underground challenge winner:
Paris Opera Ballet School!
[cheers and applause]
[laughter]
[rapid beeping]
ADRIAN: I tore his room apart
and no sign of the A-kith.
They must've moved it.
But why has he been doing research?
What could a pedestrian possibly want with it?
KEVIN: She's behind this. She's playing you.
Your Wizen is not as innocent as she seems.
[upbeat music]
♪♪ ♪♪