♪ - It's an all new season of Relative Race, and all across the country, four new teams have once again submitted their DNA in hopes of finding their family.

However, what our contestants don't know is that this season, Relative Race is coming to their doorstep-- [intense music] --to deliver all new surprises that will push them to their limits.

All of the teams will come away with newfound family, but only one team will win the $50,000 and be crowned our new champion.

Welcome to an all new season of Relative Race.

All right!

Let's get these cars loaded up.

Move 'em out!

♪ DNA tells us who we are and where we came from.

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing-- Man: Come on!

Woman 1: Let's go, let's go.

- Aah!

Dan: --to win $50,000-- - Yes!

Dan: --and to find their family.

[knocking] Singers: ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh.

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh.

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh.

♪ ♪ ♪ - I'm so excited, but I'm really nervous.

♪ [beeping] Man 2: What?

No stinkin' way!

Man 1: [laughs] What on earth is that?

[laughing] Man 3: Liz, come on out!

Look at it.

- Oh my gosh.

Relative Race!

- Yes!

Liz: Oh, it says Relative Race!

This must be it!

- Yeah, Team Red, let's go, baby!

- I'll have you guys sign here for me.

Man 1: All righty.

♪ - Here's your keys.

- Thank you so much.

- Awesome!

Thank you!

Man 3: I mean, if the car's here, it's time to go.

I guess.

I don't know.

Where are the other teams?

- I have no idea.

- That's crazy.

[ding] Huh?

- I'm buzzing.

- Aah.

[ding] - Oh, it's from Dan!

- Nice.

- What does it say?

- Hello, Team Blue.

- Hello, Team Black.

- Welcome to season seven of Relative Race.

Man 4: Open your car's trunk for further instructions.

- [laughs] Oh my-- oh my gosh!

Woman 2: I don't know what I'm looking at, but it's crazy.

Hey!

- Hey!

All: Hi!

Man 3: Oh, there's two of them, that's cool!

- Yeah, we're twins.

- Right, right, we got that part.

♪ All: Hey!

- What's up, Team Black?

Man 3: Welcome!

- We got to meet Green and Blue and Black from all their different locations-- Devin: All over the country, yeah.

- --which was really cool.

I'm Liz, this is Devin.

- Nice to meet you.

My name's Anthony.

- And I'm Joseph.

- Monika.

- And Magen.

- Kacey.

- I'm Sean.

Devin: How you guys doin'?

- We noticed some people in red shirts, green shirts, and blue shirts, and didn't even know what to say.

I was like, boy, this is a new way to start things off.

- It was very surprising.

[all celebrating] - Like, a hug emoji.

[laughter] Monika: That's right.

[all celebrating] Kacey: Dan jumps in on the call, and I turned into a total fan girl.

It's him!

- Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to Relative Race.

How y'all doin'?

All: Doin' good.

- I like the beard.

Dan: I'm glad you like it.

- Yeah.

Dan: Well, I can see that you've all had a chance to meet your competition, and I'll bet you you're more than just a little bit curious as to what is going on.

[laughter] - A little bit.

- Very much.

- Just a little.

Dan: Well, I can tell you this, if you think you know how this game works, you're in for a surprise.

- [laughs] Dan: Because this season, the race starts from where you're standing.

- No!

- [laughs] Dan: But before we get started, I think it's important that we get to know each of you a little bit better.

So, let's begin with Team Black, the Chapmans from Ohio.

[click] - [singing operatically] ♪ We are the Chapmans!

♪ - ♪ And we are going to win!

♪ - [laughs] - I'm Kacey Chapman, and I'm 30.

- I'm Sean Chapman, and I'm 32.

- We're the opera singers-- Sean: From the small village of Navarre, Ohio.

Both: And we are Team Black.

- [laughs] ♪ Sean: To help pay the bills, I help run the family landscape business doing client designs.

- And I'm a professional band-aid applicator.

I chase my kids around all day long, but unfortunately, they just got my clumsiness.

We have three kids.

Kit is 18 months old, Merica's three, and Ezra is seven.

He's biracial, and he's from a previous marriage.

♪ [Habanera from Carmen plays] Sean: We met at Palm Beach Atlantic University in the opera scenes program.

Both: ♪ Amor... ♪ Kacey: I've been taking voice lessons since I was six years old.

Literally, music is my life.

[singing] Sean: I was born in Oceanside, California.

When I was four years old, my dad was involved in a really horrible military accident that claimed his life.

My grandfather actually was basically the closest thing I had to, then, a dad, going through middle school and high school.

Kacey's childhood was a little different.

Kacey: I was adopted when I was nine months old.

I'm on this show to find my mom and any siblings I potentially may have.

Over time, I have discovered information about my biological father.

At this point in time, I'm really not interested in pursuing a relationship with him, necessarily, but I definitely wanna ask my mother why.

Were you too young, or did you just plain not want me?

And that's okay if she didn't want me.

That's fine.

I don't wanna cry.

I have, um, played this through my head over and over, and I think honestly, the first word that's gonna come out of my mouth is, "Hi, Mom."

[laughs] That's it.

I don't know what else to say.

♪ - That is an amazing story, and we can't wait to see how your journey plays out.

All right, let's now turn our attention to twins from the twin cities of Minneapolis-Saint Paul.

- I'm Joseph Pierce.

- And I'm Anthony Pierce.

- And we're from Minneapolis in Minnesota.

- We're 28 years old-- Both: And we're Team Blue!

♪ Joseph: The twin thing is gonna be an advantage for the race.

We'll be able to just know what we're thinkin' and how we're feelin' without really havin' to talk much.

♪ We learned that we lived with our birth mother till we were about two years old, and then we were adopted.

We lived with our adoptive parents till we were about 18.

Anthony: We're lookin' for our birth parents.

- And we really don't have any memories of either of them.

- The one thing we do know is that our birth mother's name is Ruth Anne.

Joseph: And that she was from Melbourne, Florida.

Anthony: We don't know why she gave us up.

- And over the years, I've tried to search for her name and... through any outlet I could, through Facebook, anyplace I could, and I didn't find anything, so.

Anthony: As Joe and I became adults, our relationship with our adoptive family went through some hard times, and Joe and I found ourselves sleeping on a park bench at one point.

That's when we decided to go live at the Union Gospel Mission.

Joseph: At-- in the twin cities.

I was born with cerebral palsy, and, um, I've had over a dozen surgeries.

The surgery was painful, and the recovery was hard, but I'm so glad I got them, because without them, I wouldn't be able to walk and be independent.

Living with CP, I can lead a pretty normal life.

It has no effect on my mind, but it does affect my muscles, and so things like walking, running, balancing, hand-eye coordination stuff are tough, but-- - But that's okay, 'cause, um, I'm gonna put my physical strength and his mental strengths, put them together, and we're gonna knock this out.

- Yeah.

♪ - What an incredible duo you guys make.

We're gonna be rooting you on.

All right, next up, the two best friends that make up Team Green.

[click] ♪ Monika: I'm Monika Bergman from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

- I'm Magen Gamble, from Newnan, Georgia.

Both: And we're best friends, and we're Team Green.

♪ Magen: I'm a wife, I've got two great girls.

They're eight and they're six.

Uh, I work in the airline industry in supply chain.

- And I'm a pirate.

[pirate music playing] Pirates!

Children: Yay!

Monika: Originally, I was studying to become a nurse, but I took a little bit of a different track in my life.

Aarrr!

♪ We actually have a real 50-foot pirate ship that we take kids out on.

They get tattoos, they shoot water cannons, get treasure.

Magen: So, six years ago, I took my oldest on a pirate cruise, and I meet this girl, and that's how Monika and I met.

Monika: I was born in Des Moines, Iowa.

I found out that I was adopted around age 12.

It was just a mind explosion.

It didn't even make sense.

My parents are the only parents I've ever known.

They've been the best parents ever.

But, to know that there's biological family out there that I have no idea who they are is crazy.

Since I've turned 30, I feel like I've learned the value of family.

It's just the perfect timing with this now, and I feel ready to do this, and I'm excited.

Magen: I found out pretty early on in our friendship that Monika was adopted, and Monika could've made a lot of phone calls about who would go on this race with her, and it means everything that she chose me.

♪ - Another emotional story.

Good luck to both of you.

All right, finally, Team Red, the Dobsons from Pennsylvania.

[click] - Hi, I'm Liz Dobson, I'm 36.

- And I'm Devin Dobson, I'm 35.

Liz: We're from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-- Both: And we're Team Red.

♪ Liz: We are insanely competitive in-- with business, game night, each other.

Being competitive is just part of who we are.

Devin: Winning is a part of our DNA, right?

You don't play the game not to lose, you play the game to win.

♪ Liz and I met as coworkers, uh, working in New York City.

We both wanted to work hard, we both wanted to win, even in that setting.

- And then we found out that we're both adopted, so to have somebody that similar to me, uh, really drew me to him.

Devin: So, we started our own consulting company in New York City before ultimately moving to Pennsylvania.

Liz: I started an organization called Family Remixed to help build community for interracial families and/or adopted families with a specific focus on the children who grow up in those dynamics.

[children squealing] Oh!

All right!

We're also parents to two amazing little boys.

Devin: David and Dylan, uh, they are three years old and one years old.

You know, we feel really blessed.

♪ I was actually born in a South Florida housing project.

My mother was mentally ill, so I was adopted by my biological uncle.

Uh, he and his wife raised me as their own, actually adopted me and my younger sister.

So, I knew who my mom was, uh, when I was growing up, even as a little kid.

I knew she was my biological mother, but I also knew she was sick, and so sometimes she was around, and then sometimes she'd have to go away.

She passed when I was 30 years old.

So, my mom wasn't able to tell me a whole lot about my biological father.

Um, depending on when I asked her and how she was, uh, within her illness, I might get a different answer.

I might get, uh, you know, someone that was a famous actor or something like that.

So, if there's an opportunity for me to be able to learn a little bit more about it, I definitely would like to be able to know that.

♪ Liz: The reason why I've always wanted to know my biological family is because for me, it's also about understanding my identity better.

Um, I know I'm biracial, but I don't know exactly what I'm mixed with.

I was adopted into an all-white family, and so, I was the only person who looked like me.

As a biracial person who often gets the question, what are you, about my ethnicity, that would often remind me about what I don't know about myself.

I was very blessed to be able to meet and find my birth mother, but she has very limited information about who my biological father is, so my hope is that I can connect with that side of my family, get some answers about myself and my own identity.

So, when I get asked the question, what are you, I'll actually be able to have an answer.

♪ - Well, it is really powerful to see those journeys and to see how important they are to each of you.

All right, you ready to get this thing started then?

All: Yes!

Dan: Good.

From this moment on, all roads lead to your relatives.

Magen: Yeah!

Monika: Let's do it!

- Awesome.

♪ ♪ Dan: By now, you should all know the rules of the race.

If you don't, well, you're in trouble.

[all laughing] Every day, each team will be given a different allotted time, and that's because you're all going to a different city.

When you get to that city, you'll take a city selfie, send that to me to prove that you've made it.

When you do that, I'm going to give you the location to a challenge that each of you has to overcome.

When you finish the challenge, I will give you the address to your relative.

Find your family, and your clock stops.

[ding] Now, the team that goes over their allotted time the most each day will receive a strike.

You know the rules.

Three strikes, and you're out of the race.

However, the team that comes closest to their allotted time each day will receive a first place prize.

So, the team that wins today will be given a five-minute head start tomorrow.

Joseph: Nice.

Sean: Oh, okay.

- We've got to win that.

- I know.

- Five minutes is a huge advantage.

- Five minutes?

- Yeah, that's just crazy good.

♪ - All right, first things first though, you see a number of items in front of you.

The object furthest to your left is a lock box, and that is for your smart phones.

That's right.

From this moment on, you'll only be able to use the infamous flip phones with no GPS or Internet, which we will provide to you.

So, everybody take your smart phones and put them in the lock box.

- Oh!

Dan: Yeah, like now.

[phone ringing] Monika: My phone was ringing as I was dropping it into the box of doom.

Dan: [chuckling] Now, the second item in front of you is a GPS unit.

This is a first for Relative Race, because yes, you'll be able to use that GPS unit in the race.

Monika: Oh!

- Nice!

- What?

- That's awesome.

- We're like, yes!

Magen: GPS?

We're gonna crush this!

- I thought we weren't supposed to use GPS.

[laughing] [record scratch] - Yeah, don't get too excited though.

This GPS unit is used for wilderness survival, and it only operates using geographic coordinates.

It has no street maps and no road navigation.

Liz: How is that gonna help?

Devin: Give it back.

[all laughing] Magen: Seriously?

- However, using geographic coordinates, your GPS unit acts like a directional compass, and it will provide you with the distance to your final destination.

- Okay.

- Does it come with a user manual?

[all laughing] Dan: So, your first challenge of Relative Race is to use those GPS units to find your backpacks, which will have your flip phones, the paper maps, and the destination city to your first relative.

Liz: No!

- I don't know if I like you guys right now.

Devin: Wow.

- A normal GPS like everyone's thinking is like we got in our smart phones, where it gives you a big old map and drops a pin and it tells you exactly what road to go on.

Nothing like that.

Liz: We had never used this type of GPS before.

- Right.

Joseph: My heart kinda sinks a little bit, and I knew it's go time.

Dan: So, are you ready for a journey unlike any other?

All: Yes!

Dan: Good.

Because the final object in front of you is an envelope.

Inside are the coordinates to your backpack.

And with that, I wish each team good luck, because your clocks... start... now.

Liz: Aaahhh.

Devin: Let's go!

Kacey: Open!

Open, open, open!

[tearing] - Turn it on, push the button!

- I'm-- what button?

- Okay, wait, wait, wait, turn this on, turn this on.

Kacey: Is it on?

Sean: Wait, no.

- Maybe push that button.

- Did you figure it out?

- No.

Kacey: You haven't figured it out yet?

Sean: The biggest struggle of getting the GPS to function was the fact that my fingers are really fat.

- Here, hold this.

- Yeah, you do it.

- Here, hold that.

- Here, I'll do it, I'll tap-- - No, I got it.

I'm good at the techy stuff.

- Where to, honey?

Click where to.

Devin: Go to coordinates.

- I'm going to coordinates.

I got you, babe.

- I got you, 40, 40 degrees.

I think we might have been one of the first or second teams to actually get our coordinates in.

- 31.4.

Liz: All right, it's got it.

Devin: Okay.

Liz: I got it, babe.

Let's go.

Bye!

Let's go.

Devin: All right, let's go.

Dan: And Team Red is out of the picture.

They are on the road.

Kacey: Enter the coordinates.

Sean: I know, I'm trying to.

Definitely took a little-- [chuckling] --little bit of, uh, learning putting the numbers in right.

- Okay.

- Three, and then we're good.

All right, let's go.

Joseph: All right.

Dan: Oh, Team Blue's got grins on their faces.

They're off.

[doors close] - Yes, right?

- Yeah.

- Done.

Dan: And Team Green is off.

Good luck, go kill it.

- Did we get it?

Okay.

Dan: But Team Black is right behind them.

Sean: [laughing] - Bye!

♪ - Wait.

What is that?

Magen: I don't believe it.

Is this where we go?

Monika: I'm not sure.

- At this point, we know we need to go 3.06 miles due east.

- Let's just start walking and see what happens.

- Okay.

♪ Dan: Are they trying to walk to their backpack?

They-- they have a car.

Monika: Still have no idea what we're doing and start running off down the street.

Are we supposed to get in the car?

Magen: No, I don't think so.

Monika: Are you sure?

Magen: Yeah.

Dan: As Team Green takes a stroll, the competition takes off in their cars.

♪ - Tell me where to go, El Capitan.

- It's in about 2.19 miles.

Liz: So, if north is that way, go right.

- It's headed straight.

- I can't head straight, Joe.

Joseph: Yeah, you're right.

You're sure right about that.

Anthony: Exactly.

Liz: This type of GPS device doesn't give you street by street navigation or direction.

It's basically a straight line to the destination point.

[mumbling] Oh, wait.

But that line technically could run through buildings, could run through grass, so when we're trying to follow this line, we still have to be mindful of our surroundings.

♪ Kacey: Are you sure that we're going the right way?

- Yeah, I mean, it's-- it veers off a little bit, but we're-- we're getting closer to it.

Anthony: So, we've got 0.8 miles.

And I can tell it's getting shorter, so I think we're going the right way.

Joseph: Yeah, we are, Anthony.

Chill, I got this.

♪ Monika: Oh my gosh, I'm gonna cry.

Magen: Don't cry.

Too early for that.

Monika: So, should we walk the other way then?

- Yeah, let's try the other way.

Monika: Okay.

Yeah, this is-- [sighs] - Difficult?

- Impossible.

Is there any other buttons?

Should we just walk?

I this the track?

Are we going on that line?

Should we just go back?

I don't know what we're doing!

So, we have to go there?

Are we going towards it?

Should we just look?

Did we put the right one in?

Are we supposed to get in the car?

Liz: Team Green?

Oh, they're hysterical.

- They're so funny.

Liz: The way she was talking about her navigation skills at least made me feel better about our chances.

[laughs] Joseph: Okay, we're-- we're getting close.

0.3 miles, it says.

Anthony: Ooh!

- Yeah, we're-- we're really close.

- Okay, wait, slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down.

- Is it in the park?

There's a park over here.

- Yeah, we overshot it.

Liz: Okay, so it's-- Devin: I think it's back in the park.

Liz: Yep.

Joseph: Slow down, you're getting far away now.

- Okay.

- You're-- you just passed it.

Liz: Yes, yes, yes, yes, make this left, make this left.

Slow down, slow down, slow down.

Sean: Look, there's the flag right there.

Kacey: Where?

Sean: Right there!

Devin: We gotta find a place to park.

- Well, we're here.

We're at the park.

Kacey: And... go, go, go, go, go!

Sean: As soon as we hop out of the car, we sprinted over to the flag to grab the backpack and figure out where we were going next.

Your first destination is Saint Paris, Ohio.

Kacey: All right, let's go!

Devin: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!

Liz: Aaahh!

Devin: Pittsburgh, okay, yeah!

- Conway, South Carolina.

- What?

- We know where we're headed.

Let's go.

♪ Magen: So, we are... Monika: Here's the thing, let's not panic.

Magen: I'm not panicking.

- So, we just walk this way?

Magen: I don't know that that's walkable.

- We still have two and a half miles.

We're not gonna walk that.

So, we have to head back to get the car.

- And we still have to get our luggage!

Go!

Monika: Is this our car?

Magen: Doesn't matter.

Go.

Joseph: Let's see what we got here.

♪ - What is this?

Liz: Oh, that's the-- oh, this is our phone!

Joseph: Oh my gosh, it's ancient.

Like a dinosaur.

Sean: Oh, the good old days.

Dan: While some competitors look through their backpacks, Team Green is still looking for their backpack.

Monika: How many miles are we from it?

- It says 2.31, but that-- - So now, we're going away from it.

- Is it getting bigger?

Okay, let me see.

Yes, we're getting bigger.

Turn around.

- Ugh.

- Right here on Collins.

We thought this GPS challenge would get easier if we started driving.

- No.

- I mean, I guess we're gonna go back left because we were getting further away from it, but I don't know that this is right at all.

- I don't know.

I'm all mixed up.

Like, I'm totally mixed up.

Magen: Yep, no idea.

Dan: The first day of Relative Race is underway, and most teams are making progress.

- Yeah, now we're on track, baby.

- Here we go!

- So, now we're looking for 76.

- Yes, sir.

Dan: But Team Green is still spinning circles at the starting line.

♪ Magen: We have to bend that way, because this doesn't read the street.

This reads the geography, right?

- Yeah.

So, can I turn right here?

- I-- I genuinely don't know.

- [sighs] No.

- I hate this wilderness GPS.

And ultimately, it's on me.

0.88, 0.87.

- Okay.

- 0.86, yes.

- Okay, keep watching like that.

Magen: We are getting warmer.

I don't wanna let Monika down.

This is just so hard.

Monika: Do you think I should go back into here?

Is this a park?

Oh, I see it, I see it!

Relative Race!

- Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!

Monika: Okay, where should we turn in, right there?

Magen: Yes!

You have no idea how relieved we are to find that backpack and grab our destination.

Just rip it!

- Your first destination is Indianapolis, Indiana.

- We got this, let's go.

- All right, let's do it.

Grab the backpack.

Magen: I think the best part of that is tossing the GPS unit, because I never want to see that thing again.

♪ Dan: All of the teams are now on their way to find their first relative and snap a city selfie.

♪ - Exit 91.

- It's 90 miles.

- It's 90 miles.

Dan: Team Red, Elizabeth and Devin, have left their home town of Bethlehem in search of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

They have the longest drive today with an allotted time of 4 hours and 45 minutes.

Kacey: ♪ They'll be comin' round the mountain ♪ ♪ when she comes.

♪ ♪ They'll be comin' round the mountain ♪ ♪ when she comes.

♪ Sing like a hillbilly with me.

- ♪ Nar, nar, nar, nar, nar, nar, nar, nar.

♪ - No.

Dan: Team Black is comin' around the mountains of Navarre on their way to Saint Paris, Ohio.

Their allotted time is three hours and eight minutes.

♪ - Wow.

We're on Relative Race.

[both laughing] - They haven't kicked us off yet.

- Whoo!

- Woo-hoo!

♪ Dan: The best friends, Monika and Magen, have survived an entire morning so far, and are now fighting towards Indianapolis, Indiana.

They have the shortest allotted time of the day at 2 hours and 19 minutes.

♪ Joseph: Okay, I'm looking.

How about this.

Oh, uh.

Okay.

Things here.

Okay.

- Hey, drop that down.

- I really, really don't like maps.

I'm gonna say that for the record.

Thank goodness that they invented GPSs, that's all I can say.

♪ Dan: Joseph and Anthony on Team Blue had better figure out their maps if they want to make it to their destination city of Conway, South Carolina.

Their allotted time is 2 hours and 20 minutes.

With all of our teams finally hitting the highways, they pick up their phones for some friendly texts.

[ding] Magen: Oh, oh-ho-ho!

We've got a text from Team Red.

[ding] Kacey: Oh.

Sean: Team Red.

- They're intimidated by us.

Why else would they be texting us?

Sean: I doubt it.

[ding] Joseph: Oh.

- What happened?

- Oh, sweet!

- But Team Red says-- - This far?

It's hour four of day one.

- [laughs] Magen: They have that little faith in us?

- What's that supposed to mean?

Making it this far?

We're gonna make it all the way.

- Whoa, Team Red is stirrin' that pot early on.

- Oh.

- What do you wanna say in reply?

[ding] - Ha.

Devin: Ha-ha-ha.

- [laughs] Dan: As teams approach their destinations-- - Great, here we go, Indianapolis.

Dan: --it's time to flip their phones into camera mode for a city selfie.

- Here's a bunch of signs right here.

Looks like that might actually be a welcome sign.

- You could have just gotten that street sign.

Monika: Really?

Liz: Please help us find a sign that says Pittsburgh.

Sean: Welcome to Saint Paris, right there.

- All right, all right.

- Oh, right here, here's a sign right here.

- Pittsburgh, it says Pittsburgh right there, right there.

- Okay.

I actually went to school at the University of Pittsburgh.

Devin: You got it?

Liz: Camera, camera, camera, camera, camera.

So, we took the city selfie exactly where I envisioned taking the city selfie.

[camera shutter] Magen: Perfect, let's send that.

[camera shutter] - Uh... - Look in the reflection.

[camera shutter] Sean: Okay.

Kacey: All right.

Good position.

Sean: Okay, so.

Kacey: And then, a crowd gathered to watch.

- It was pretty romantic.

- Uh, no, we're on a TV show.

- So, I finally figured out the phone and snapped a good photo.

[camera shutter] ♪ [ding] ♪ - Nice.

Monika: Oh my gosh, what's it say?

Anthony: Welcome to Conway, South Carolina.

Magen: Your relative lives at 618 South Meridian Street.

- 5 June Field Road.

- 114 Bailey Avenue.

Magen: Okay, let's go.

- All right.

- Let's go hit the Dollar General.

Dan: Our teams are now armed with addresses, which means they only have one last goal to accomplish: to find their relatives.

Monika: Whoo!

Okay, get the city map.

- Get the street map, babe.

- You run in-- - Yep.

- I'm gonna go get the pen and paper.

- Wait, what we gotta find though?

- Church Street.

Magen: BU-25.

It's in this quadrant right here.

- I realized there was gonna be a little bit of a challenge.

So we would get off-- [horn honking] Okay, I'll just tell you in a second.

Because their address is one of the hardest places to get to in the city of Pittsburgh.

Monika: I got it.

Hold on, what was it?

- Meridian, South Meridian.

- What?

I need exact.

Rather than just driving off, we're gonna take some extra time to look over those maps.

Sean: We're trying to get to June Field Road.

- There is a Dollar General across the street, and this really nice girl, and she was like, oh, yeah, I know that place!

Fairly easy peasy.

- I know it's around here somewhere.

We gotta find this, man.

- Go down it.

Let's hope for the best.

- Luckily, I had two hours on the road to study those maps, so I knew exactly where to go.

Mimosa.

Anthony: The Mimosa!

Wow!

We found it!

Joseph: --Mimosa.

- Which one is it?

13... - I know 7.

- 8, 9, 10, 11, it's this white house.

- It's that one.

- Okay, yeah, here we are.

Dude, we're-- Anthony: Sweet!

Sean: Okay.

We're here.

- This is it.

- Yeah.

- I can't wait!

♪ Dan: Back in Pittsburgh... - I mean, how much do we-- Whoa, whoa, whoa, watch the curb!

Okay.

Dan: Elizabeth now puts her knowledge of these city streets to the ultimate test.

- Stay on 376 West.

- Yes.

- Stay on 376 West.

579 takes us somewhere totally different.

- Uh, no.

I need this.

Devin: Okay, you got it.

Liz calls a huge audible and deviates from my directions.

- Fudge, what did I do?

Devin: Uh, yeah, I don't know what you did.

I don't know why you-- gotta stick to a plan.

Liz: It didn't take me long to realize I had screwed up.

Dan: And in Indianapolis-- Monika: And then you know what you're doing up here, you're positive?

Magen: Yeah.

Dan: --Team Green is hoping their mapping has paid off.

- We think our entire route is planned out, but when we get to Meridian Street-- Magen: We've got a problem.

- You're gonna want to get over on the left.

- You sure?

This is west.

Is this where I'm supposed to go?

Is there a west beforehand?

- No.

We were navigating to South Meridian, but ended up on West Meridian.

Big mistake.

Devin: I don't-- I don't know Pittsburgh.

I don't know where we are.

- Okay, yeah, you're right.

♪ Kacey: Okay.

[exhales] - Breathe.

- Breathe.

- Start by breathing.

Kacey: I can do this, okay.

I'm like, already emotional.

I don't know what to do.

♪ [car doors close] Sean: When we were walking up to the door, we saw a woman who had red hair, and we pretty much unanimously thought it must be a relative of Kacey's because of the, uh, red hair.

- Hi!

- Hi!

- I'm Kacey.

- I'm Sean.

- I'm Karen.

- And who are you related to?

- I am related to you.

- You are?

- Yes, I am.

Sean: How are you related?

- Uh, your grandfather and my father are brothers, so we're cousins.

- [gasp] - Awesome!

- Can I get a hug?

I'm so happy to finally meet you!

- I'm so glad you're here.

- You're the first person I met.

- Oh, you've got beautiful eyes, oh, those gorgeous eyes.

- Thank you.

- I'm a very family-oriented person.

I wanted anyone who was a member of our family to know that they are wanted and loved.

- Oh my gosh!

- I'm really glad you're here.

[both laughing] I was excited when I heard about it.

- This is so crazy.

- Oh.

I've been searching and searching, and finally, this is like, the first time I have met a blood relative of mine.

You know, it's one thing to talk about it, but when we hugged for the first time, I-- it just sent, like, a shock of, like, electricity through me.

- So, did you think you were out in the middle of nowhere?

- Yeah.

Actually, we live in Ohio.

- Oh, that's great!

So, you didn't have as far to go.

Sean: No, no, no.

Kacey: No, we didn't.

- That's wonderful, 'cause now we'll be able to see each other.

Sean: Exactly!

Exactly!

Karen: Instantly, Kacey felt like family.

- Thirty years in the making.

[laughs] ♪ - You ready?

Joseph: Yeah.

[car door closes] Anthony: Okay.

Joseph: Walking up that pathway was intense, to say the least.

[knocking] I, uh, I was really nervous.

A lot was going through my head.

- Hey, how are you guys?

- Good, how are you doing?

Yeah, it was exciting.

- Yeah.

- My name's Anthony, and this my brother, Joseph.

- Nice to meet you.

My name's David.

Anthony: Nice to meet you, David.

Joseph: Nice to meet you, David.

Um, so, I was wondering, how are you related to us?

- Well, I'm actually your first cousin on your mother's side.

Oldest cousin.

- Wow.

- Man, that's so awesome.

- Dude!

David: You guys are just like, my brother, man.

Oh my gosh, my heart is pumping so fast, man.

This is insane.

You guys are handsome young men.

Joseph: Yeah.

David: Oh, man.

Definitely.

My name is David Wells, and I had the opportunity to meet my cousin, Joseph and Anthony.

I was elated.

Aw, man, the nerves were getting over me.

It was one of the greatest moments of my life, you know, and, um, that feels really good.

How was your guys' day?

- Um, busy.

- Busy, a little bit hectic, took a little bit to get here, like, it was just-- - I bet you it was.

It was really hot too.

Anthony: Mm-hm.

Joseph: Yeah.

- I think [indistinct], I really do.

I-- I'm so happy.

Like, the minute he came to the door, opened the door, I see his face, and he smiled at me, I was like, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

- Yeah, well, good to see you guys.

You wanna come on in?

- Yeah, sure.

- Sure.

- All right.

[bird chirping] ♪ Dan: Teams Red and Green are still battling it out on the road, fighting to find their family.

Monika: Figure out where Meridian is from there.

So, we finally pull up to the right part of the right street.

Oh, Meridian.

Look.

Devin: Because she's more familiar with Pittsburgh, I defaulted to her being the driver.

I'm gonna-- we're gonna switch.

So that way, you can navigate, and I'll drive.

And I realized at a critical point in the journey we should go back to the original plan.

- Okay, this is-- look for Bailey.

Bailey, Bailey, Bailey, Bailey, Bailey.

- We gotta look for it.

It's 525.

- Bailey Ave. We're on Bailey Ave!

- What?

Devin: We turned in to Bailey Ave. - 618.

- Oh, 114, right there.

Monika: Right there?

Magen: Yep.

- Aaahhh!

Let's go!

Liz: Wow.

Dan: Team Red has arrived, finally ready to meet their first relative.

Devin: Hi!

- Hi.

Liz: Hi.

- How you doin'?

- Great, great, great.

- I'm Devin.

- I'm Liz.

- I'm Vietra.

- And I'm Dietra.

- Nice to meet you.

So, whose-- whose-- I think I know whose relative you are.

When I saw Vietra and Dietra, it became pretty clear to me right away that they were related to Devin.

Both: Devin.

- We're actually your cousins.

Vietra: On your father's side.

- Wow, okay, all right.

- It was awesome.

I got goosebumps right away to see them side by side.

It was-- it was really cool.

Y'all look like twins.

- Oh.

I can see it.

Liz: I think y'all look alike.

- [laughs] Devin: Yeah, I definitely see it.

All-- all in here, for sure.

Dietra: Wow.

Vietra: When Devin and Elizabeth first walked up the steps, I was taken aback.

I saw everyone in him.

I mean, I was like-- [gasps] Oh, wow, I know who it is, I know who it is.

My mom-- Devin: Uh-huh.

- --is your father's sister.

Devin: Sister.

- Right.

- And how many of them are there?

Vietra: There are 12 of them.

- Wow.

- There are 12 of them.

- And where is your mom in the-- in the mix?

- She's the oldest.

Devin: She's the oldest.

Of 12?

Vietra: She was the oldest of 12.

Devin: Wow.

To hear there that I was meeting family members on my biological father's side was-- was something that I had never really even imagined before.

It was really, really nice to be able to get to know them.

Liz: So, hopefully, you have pictures?

- Yeah, I look forward to getting to know you, and hope you can fill in some gaps.

Vietra: I'd love to.

Come on in.

♪ Monika: First relative!

Magen: You ready?

- [laughs] Yeah!

We're walking up the stairs, we knock on the door, and it feels almost like an eternity waiting for the door to actually open, and I'm just taking a deep breath and getting excited to meet the very first relative.

[door opens] Hi!

- Hi.

- Hi!

Monika: How are you?

Are you guys our relatives?

- Yes.

- Who are you related to?

Woman 3: Monika.

Monika: How are we related?

- We are cousins.

- Yes.

- On your mom's side.

- [squeals] Can I give you a hug?

- Yeah.

Monika: Nice to meet you!

Oh my goodness!

Magen: Hi, I'm her best friend, Magen.

It's nice to meet you!

- I'm Karita.

Monika: Hi!

I'm Monika.

- Hi, I'm Magen, her friend.

Hi!

Woman 3: Wonderful, nice to meet you.

- Thank you.

I'm so excited!

This is the first biological family I've ever met.

- It was so sweet to meet Monika, and she's great, and, um, it was just-- it was good, it was very positive.

Karita: It is very exciting meeting you, and I'm just so excited for you.

[Monika squeals] It's really cool.

I feel honored.

- Aww, you're so sweet.

- Yeah, this is so cool.

Monika: You love it?

- Yes, I love it, I do, I do.

- Thank you for being so warm and welcoming.

- Oh, you're welcome.

- The whole thing is so unbelievably surreal to watch my best friend finally do this, and it's just wonderful.

♪ Monika: [crying] I don't know why I'm crying.

- You're allowed to cry.

It's a lot.

Oh, look.

- [crying] I'm like, such a mess right now.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

Thanks.

- You're welcome.

Monika: There couldn't have been, like, more genuine people to meet, so I'm really thankful.

♪ Dan: In Conway, South Carolina, Team Blue is thrilled to meet their cousin, David-- - This is my older son, David, and this is Micah.

- David Jr.: Nice to meet you.

Anthony: Nice to meet you too.

Dan: --who has key information about their mother.

- And you-- do you know your mother's name?

- No.

- We-- we think it's Ruth-- Ruth Anne Jones.

- That's it.

Anthony: That's the name?

- That's it.

- Wow.

Joseph: Yeah, yeah.

- That's awesome.

That's mind blown.

- When I heard my cousin David say Ruth Anne Jones, my heart just leaped out of my chest, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is actually happening.

I can't believe it.

David: It was emotional because I felt like I got a piece of my family back now that I lost a long time ago.

The memory I have, um, of you guys is foster care coming to pick you guys up, and you were babies still, and just taking you away, I remember, I cried, I mean, it really hurt.

Joseph: Yeah.

David: I'm just happy you guys are here now, you know?

Sorry, guys.

Sorry, man.

Anthony: My cousin David got so emotional about us looking for him, I just wanted to go up to him and hug him and be like, yeah, we're here.

David: Meeting them today brought a lot of closure, and I know, moving forward, we're gonna have a great life together.

Absolutely.

- We was told by our adopted parents that our mom is white and our dad was black.

- Well, your mom is-- she-- she's definitely lighter-- lighter-skinned, um, she's Cuban.

[twins gasp] - Wow.

I didn't know what my nationality was.

When people asked me what I was, I'd be like, I don't know what I am.

- Oh, man, yeah, that's crazy, your whole life, you didn't know.

Man, I can imagine what you guys are going through right now.

- Right?

Yes.

Anthony: So, to hear that this time, it's just-- - Mind blowin'?

[laughs] - It's right on time.

Right on time.

♪ Dan: In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Devin settles in with his first cousins, Vietra and Dietra, ready to learn more about their relationship.

Vietra: When I saw you, initially, I was like I was looking at my cousin.

You guys are identical.

- Wow.

- Devin is our first cousin through my mother.

My mother was the oldest of twelve, and there are nine boys, which Devin's father is one of the nine boys.

So, Devin, let me show you how you fit in.

- Okay.

Vietra and Dietra are amazing, and they pulled out this chart that actually shows my entire side of the family.

- So-- - Wow!

Look at that!

That's cool.

- Okay.

- Wow!

And my birth father is one of the nine sons on this chart, but we just don't know which one.

So basically, what you're telling me is that one of these men, based on the DNA, is my biological father.

Vietra: Absolutely.

Dietra: Absolutely.

- Got it.

Dietra: Absolutely, based on the DNA.

- And then based on the age range, we would think in here somewhere.

Dietra: In somewhere-- here.

Vietra: The five youngest.

Dietra: The last four.

Devin: Correct, correct, correct.

In three minutes, I learned more about my biological father and his side of the family than I have in 30 years.

My cousin really helped me narrow it down.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this story unfolds.

♪ Kacey: When we went inside, um, Karen pulls out this book.

- This will give you an idea.

There's your great grandfather, great grandmother.

Kacey: 'Kay.

Karen: And these are all the children.

Kacey: And she opens it up, and it has the family tree, with my great grandparents to my potential biological parent.

- One of these is a parent to you, one of these on this list.

Kacey: Wow.

So, we've just learned the name of either my mom or my dad.

- That's crazy.

Kacey: Donald, Lynette, Sherry, or Jennifer.

- And they are all still alive too, which is-- - They are-- They're all living?

Sean: Okay.

- Wow.

Karen: Kacey seemed very moved by the memory book.

She could see in black and white exactly where her place is in the family, and I think it'll be a wonderful, um, memento for her as she adds to it during this journey.

This is a-- a book that you can take with you on your journey and put memories in it as you learn more and more about your family.

Kacey: I actually almost started crying again, um, that she has so much love in her heart already that she wants to help me make more memories and has already brought me into the fold of her family.

♪ Monika: Finally sitting down next to people that are biologically related to me was crazy and it was exciting, and I wanted to ask them every question under the sun.

There's like, a million things I wanna know.

Um, let's start with you're... my mom's cousin.

- Yes.

Monika: Okay.

I'm like, antsy to know about my mom, like, did you know her, do you know her?

- I met her when I was, like, elementary age, so-- - Wow, so, like, tiny.

Karita: Yeah.

Monika: Okay.

- Yeah.

And so, I don't-- I just remember meeting them-- Monika: Okay.

Karita: --and then that was it.

- Wow.

- And I feel really bad.

Monika: It's okay!

Magen: No, any information-- - It's okay!

- Any connection's a good connection.

- Yeah.

Monika: Karita was only a child when she knew my mom, so she didn't know a whole lot about her, but she did know her name.

My mom's name is Robin Bird.

- And I can kind of relate, 'cause, um, my sister, she doesn't know her dad.

Monika: At all?

- At all.

Monika: Wow.

- So, and, I know the hardship that it's brought her.

Monika: Yeah.

I knew I was adopted since, like, 12, um, but it's weird to know I was in the middle and given up.

I mean, it's-- it's caused some feelings of, am I not good enough, am I worthy, am I-- you know, she kept all the others, but not me.

Niki: Mm-hm.

- So, it's just tough.

- Right.

- I did meet some great family, and super supportive people, and the most genuine people I could’ve asked to meet on day one.

- It just reminded us that this is the first step in the journey of her finding out more, and hearing the information they shared with Monika just-- it gets me pumped to see what else is in store for Monika.

- Well, I hope that you meet your mom, you know, and that this leads to more things for you.

♪ - [emotional] I hope so.

- It will be.

[kiss] - I didn't want to make you cry, I'm sorry.

Monika: It's okay.

[sniffs] ♪ Dan: After a long day of racing, the results have been tallied, and our teams nervously wait and wonder, who will receive the first strike of the race?

♪ Welcome to the end of day one.

Um, the day certainly was a little bit different for all of you, and so, uh, I wanna take you back to this morning when I introduced the fact that you had a GPS unit that you could use, but then you found out it wasn't what you were hoping.

- [laughs] Monika: Yeah.

We at first started walking, and then shortly thereafter, realized we had to get in the car, 'cause it would've been a three-mile walk.

- Oh, wow.

Dan: Yeah, I wondered if they realized that they can use their car.

[all laughing] Let's talk about the real reason why we are all here to find family.

Team Red, both of you are adopted.

Who was on the other side of the door today?

- It was really cool, uh, I got to meet my first cousins on my biological father's side, so this is Vietra and Dietra.

Liz: As soon as I saw them walk out of the door, I knew that was-- that was Devin's relative, and it doesn't matter whose relative we meet each day, it's gonna be special for both of us.

Devin: Absolutely.

- Well, let's turn our attention to Team Black.

- Today went-- we met one of, um, my relatives.

This is Karen, she is my cousin.

Dan: She has that auburn hair, just like you.

[Sean laughing] - Look at us, look at that!

Yes, red hair runs in the family.

- I'm pretty sure I knew who she was related to.

- She actually had hair.

- [laughs] - Exactly, yeah, I mean, that was the first giveaway.

- Monika, who did you meet today, your first day of the race?

- I got to meet... this is Karita and this is Niki, and they're both my cousins on my mom's side.

- Wow.

Monika: Yeah, I've never met anyone biologically related to me at all.

I started crying.

I'm like, oh my gosh, you're the best.

It's just been awesome, and they're so kind and, like, the most genuine people, I think, we could ever meet on day one, so.

- Congratulations on that.

Joseph and Anthony, what happened for you today?

Joseph: Um, so, yeah, today was really exciting because, um, we got to meet our, uh, first cousin on our mom's side.

This is David.

David: Hey.

Joseph: Anthony and I have had no idea about our ethnicity, that we were, uh, Cuban, and so-- - You're Cuban!

- Hey!

- When you meet your relative or someone that's related to you, they do things that you kinda can pick up on that's like you, and that's how I felt with David.

It was very, just-- - Felt like home.

- Familiar, yes, yeah.

- As you said that, everybody else was nodding, because they all just had that same experience for the first time today.

Guys, it's only day one, and I'm really excited for all of you.

But, we've gotta figure out who finishes first and who gets the strike.

♪ Finishing in first place, and first place will earn you the first place prize of a five-minute head start tomorrow-- Kacey: Dan started making the announcement of who was getting what place, I started getting kinda fidgety and nervous.

Dan: This team finished 23 minutes over their allotted time.

Guess what?

Identical twins might have figured it out early on.

Congratulations-- - What?

Dan: --Team Blue, you finished in first place.

Tomorrow, you've got a five-minute head start while Team Black, Team Red, and Team Green has to just sit and listen to you take off down the road.

Anthony: I literally thought we were gonna be last, I did.

Like, I was in shock.

- Yeah.

- I was very much elated.

- Yeah.

- I can tell you this, we have never had this tight of a race on the first day.

Never.

The time difference between first place and third place was only two minutes.

- Oh.

- Wow.

- That's insane.

That's insane.

- With a marginal difference of about two minutes, I'm like, oh snap!

- Finishing in second place, 24 minutes over their allotted time... ♪ ...Team Black.

Congratulations.

- Oh, phew, oh.

♪ - Team Red, Team Green, one of you's going to be safe, and one of you is going to earn the first strike of Relative Race.

Liz: When I realized we were in the bottom two, it was a-- Devin: Sobering.

- It was a sobering reality.

Dan: Finishing 25 minutes over their allotted time and safe for this day, Team Red.

Devin: Phew!

Dan: Team Green, you finished 38 minutes over your allotted time, you pick up the first strike of Relative Race.

And it seems like you kind of thought that was coming.

- I felt it.

- Yeah, we struggled in two major components of the day, and you know what, this one's out of the way, shake it off, and we've got this.

- We'll work it out.

- Yep.

- All right, guys.

It's the end of day one, but ultimately, it's been a satisfying day, because today, you've found family.

Get some well-deserved rest, because tomorrow, the race rolls on.

Magen: 'Night, guys.

- Bye.

Anthony: Goodnight.

- Bye!

- Bye, guys!

- Whoa!

Oh my gosh, yo!

Y'all won it, man!

- Don't cry.

- I know, I just feel like I let you down.

- No.

- Lots of teams will get strikes.

It's just one.

- Tomorrow's a new day.

Karita: Absolutely.

♪ Anthony: There we go.

Is it working?

Joseph: Yep, it's working.

- We met some really beautiful people today.

Devin: Absolutely.

- Watch out, Team Blue, 'cause now we're comin' for you guys.

- Comin' after you.

- Kudos, Team Blue.

You know, getting that first win.

- I know that, like, tomorrow's gonna bring something different, and I'm ready-- I'm ready for that.

- Day one in the books.

Team Red, out.

- Family is so important.

Cherish your family, cherish your people.

Cherish the ones that are-- are your relatives.

♪