Welcome to BB&T Field, here on the campus of Wake Forest University.

♪ It's here in the heart of Winston-Salem, North Carolina that our ten-day odyssey is about to begin for four new teams.

Each have submitted their DNA, and we've located their family all across the country.

Each team's goal?

To find those relatives faster than their competitors.

Everyone will go home with newfound family, but only one team will go home champions with $50,000.

This is season four of Relative Race.

♪ ♪ Paris: Hi, I'm Paris Anderson.

And I'm Preshious Anderson.

We're from Akron, Ohio, Both: and we're Team Green.

Preshious: Three things you need to know about Akron: it's home of the hamburger, Goodyear, and LeBron James.

I'm a distribution coordinator at Newell Rubbermaid.

Preshious: And I'm a trainer at Akron Children's Hospital.

We met at Kent State University our freshman year.

Paris: We graduated in 2012 and we were married a year later.

Preshious: We have two kids and our family is everything.

We devote most of our time to making sure that they have the life that they deserve.

[soft piano music] I'm hoping to find answers to questions that I've had this whole time growing up.

Ever since I was a baby, I was in foster homes, so it's been over 20 years since the last time that I've seen my parents.

I've wondered if I look more like my mom or my dad.

I don't know.

I can't recall their faces.

Not knowing was definitely hard.

I prayed a lot to find them.

Not even having a picture, and getting older, just hoping that they're still alive, wondering if they ever wanted to find me again or how well they're doing now, um... definitely hard.

Jerica: Hi, I'm Jerica Henline!

Joe: I'm Joe Henline.

We're siblings.

And we're sorry.

Back to one.

Hi, I'm Jerica-- Wait, sorry, back to one.

[groans] Hi, I'm Jerica Henline.

I'm Joe Henline.

We're from Cincinatti, Ohio.

Both: And we're Team Black!

I did it!

Yes!

Joe: We are brother and sister.

Believe it or not.

And we make films for a living.

Joe: We've been writing and producing films for about seven years now.

Jerica: The first thing people notice about Joe is his hair.

Joe: I like to say that I didn't choose the hair.

The hair chose me.

We really want to win Relative Race so that we can get our next film project up and going.

Jerica: Our family is a very tight-knit family.

Joe: We want to meet anyone and everyone that we can.

It's not about what we can get out of the race, it's more about what we can give back to others.

Just the thought of bringing a little bit of joy into somebody's day makes it all worth it.

Both: That's a wrap.

Austen: Hi, I'm Austen William, and this is my dad.

I'm Mike Brown.

We're the father-daughter team from Charleston, South Carolina We're-- Both: Team Red!

Mike: I'm kind of an entrepreneur.

I do a lot of things.

I was a diver in the Navy.

I've got a couple of businesses.

I built a food truck.

Got a three-foot flat-top grill.

My passions are writing and painting.

I'm kind of a Bohemian kind of guy.

We are-- Weird.

Peculiar.

Austen: I'm a fighter.

I do karate.

And so I decided to do Mrs. Texas, then I won!

Then I went to Mrs. America.

Then I won again!

Surprise!

Announcer: Mrs. America 2014.

Austen: On top of all of that, I am a wife and a mother.

So, I'm sorry, guys, but we got life experience.

You're going down.

Mike: We're on Relative Race primarily to find out who my biological father is.

I was raised in a white family.

I have three sisters with blonde hair and blue eyes.

My mom's white, and I'm not.

[laughs] So, I would ask my mom what was going on, and they would always just say, "You're Polish."

I realized, looking in the mirror, I'm a black man.

I don't know anything about my father.

That whole side of me is just missing.

It's not there.

Yeah, so I'm going to be filling a lot of holes.

Tiffany: I'm Tiffany Lewis.

Josh: And I'm Josh Lewis.

Both: And we're from Los Angeles, California, and we're Team Blue.

Josh: My name's Josh.

I'm training as a martial arts fighter.

Tiffany: I'm Tiffany, and I'm studying to get my Masters at USC in social work.

We're both competitive people.

How concerned are we about winning?

[chuckles] We're more concerned about the seven-day hold that's going to be on the $50,000 check.

We're not concerned about winning.

That's already done.

We've already-- That's-- Done.

I'm on Relative Race because I want to meet my biological father and family.

When I grew up, my mother raised me.

I was the black kid, and it was an all-white family.

Knowing who my biological father is is a question I've had for 36 years.

Never knew anything about my dad, never saw a picture, so it's tough growing up like that.

But also it carved out who I am, made me stand up taller, take on anybody, take on the world.

If you can go through that, it feels like you can take on anything.

Tiffany: There's absolutely something to be said about Josh coming off as being very intimidating, and it's absolutely 100% a defense mechanism.

As intimidating as his outward appearance is, he is the kindest, softest, warmest human being.

Josh: It's very important for me to meet the black side of my family.

I want to know.

Dan: Welcome, teams.

You're probably wondering why you're standing at midfield here at the home of Wake Forest University Football.

The reason is simple: From here, all roads lead directly to your relatives.

So, are you ready to find family?

[all saying yes] Dan: Good.

Let's go over a few of the ground rules.

Each day, each of you will be given a different allotted time.

Your allotted time consists of the time that it should take you to arrive at the city where your relative lives, to take a city selfie to prove to us that you've made it there, to overcome a unique challenge that we've put in your way, and then ultimately to locate your relative.

When you meet your relative, your clock stops.

The team that goes over their allotted time the most will receive a strike.

Three strikes and you're out of the race.

The team that comes closest to their allotted time each day receives a first-place prize, which consists of either a game benefit or a Day 10 benefit.

A game benefit may benefit you the following day of the race.

A Day 10 benefit will only benefit you if you make it all the way to Day 10.

You think you got what it takes to get to Day 10?

[all saying yes] Dan: Good.

The first place prize for today is a ten-minute penalty that you can award to any of the other teams tomorrow, or you can choose that Day 10 benefit.

Jerica: Dan mentioned the penalty, and yeah, it became really real.

Preshious: I'm thinking Team Blue.

That guy was huge.

Josh: We have a target on our back.

Tiffany: We definitely have that target.

And that's going to help us operate better.

In front of you are your backpacks, and they are loaded with paper maps as well as the infamous burner phones with no GPS or internet technology, which means it's that time when you must say goodbye to your smartphones.

Please pull them out and place them in the basket.

Joe: I'm like, wait a second.

I'm literally not going to have my phone for ten more days.

No, no.

Jerica: I actually had to help him release the phone.

I didn't know what to do.

I was like, "Wait, are they serious?"

This is legit.

Dan: Joe, you going to be all right?

I'm okay.

[laughter] Dan: Well, by now you've probably noticed the four cars behind me.

Those are your Relative Race cars, and you'll be spending the next ten days in them.

Inside is an envelope with your first location.

But before you get to the cars, you're probably going to want these.

In order to get your keys, you must successfully complete your first challenge.

Which begins right here, right now.

Dan: Your first challenge is called Omnisport, which culminates when you successfully kick a field goal through those uprights.

Where you attempt the field goal from completely depends on you.

Preshious: I've never kicked, let alone-- I don't even think thrown a football, so I don't know how this is going to go.

Dan: Here's how the game works: At this end of the field are four trivia tables.

On them are trivia questions.

Each time you answer a question correctly, you earn a piece of sports equipment.

You will then hit, kick, or throw that equipment down the field, and just like golf, wherever it lands, that's where you'll use your next piece of equipment.

The more trivia questions you answer correctly, the more equipment you earn, hopefully getting you closer to that field goal.

If you're unsuccessful in your field goal attempt, you have to get all the way back to those trivia tables and start the process all over again, and back and forth you'll go until somebody kicks it through the uprights.

Once you do, I'll be there with your key.

Come to me, get in your cars, and your race is on.

Your Relative Race starts in 3, 2, 1, go!

[intense music] ♪ Austen: We run up to the table and we see 12 trivia questions attached to 12 pieces of sporting equipment.

If we answer the question correctly, we get to take the item that's attached to that question.

Austen: Okay.

Joe: And the first question is about disc throwing, so if we answer correctly, we earn a flying disc, but if we answer wrong-- Jerica: We have to leave it on the table.

Ugh.

I have no idea.

Let's go with the highest.

No, no, no!

It's got to be the lowest option.

I'm guessing 367 feet.

[buzzer] Austen: [groans] Incorrect.

Okay, move on.

I don't feel it.

[buzzer] Jerica: The trivia questions were sports related, and we definitely struggled with that.

I don't know anything about sports.

We have to pick.

I've played disc golf before, and the 800-foot answer looked about right.

863 feet.

[ding] Preshious: Correct.

Next.

Next.

Read it.

So, we earned the frisbee, and we're on to the next question.

Josh: I immediately whispered in my wife's ear, we have to get the volleyball.

Austen: The volleyball can be hit the farthest, so everybody wants that.

Current speed record for a volleyball spike?

Jerica: I would almost say 63.

You sure?

Yeah.

Joe: You're positive?

Jerica: Yeah.

[buzzer] Joe: Nope.

I'm going to say 96, because you can throw a 100-mile-per-hour fastball.

Austen: Okay.

[buzzer] Austen: Incorrect.

You might want to trust me next time.

Mike: I know, right?

Preshious: Okay, speed record.

Volleyball spike.

Paris: Got to be what, 80 miles per hour?

Preshious: Do it.

[ding] Paris: Correct.

Preshious: Yes.

Give me the volleyball.

I need the volleyball.

[ding] Yes!

Sweet.

For the first round, we got the frisbee, the pickle ball paddle, and the volleyball.

Tiffany: The volleyball is a big deal because I am really good at volleyball.

We got billiards, croquet-- Austen: Badminton.

Mike: And ping pong.

Austen: Yeah.

Josh: With the volleyball, with the field hockey ball, and I thought we'd be in field goal position.

Tiffany: What's first?

I don't like this.

Do you want to do it?

No, go for it.

Okay.

Joe: So the first item we pull out of our bag is badminton.

And wherever that ball-thingy lands after we whack it is where we have to hit our next item from.

So we want it to go far.

Jerica: That's okay.

Joe: Oh my word.

Okay, come on.

Josh: So I'm thinking, just hit.

Just go.

Just be done with this.

Yeah.

Josh: And that really was bad, and it went it in a bad direction.

Mike: Our first item was croquet.

We grew up in Connecticut, where everyone knows how to play croquet, so I hit it far.

Start.

Throw!

Paris: I thought we could get pretty far with the disc.

Go to it, now!

Paris: But it turns out I'm not as good at disc golf as I thought.

Next one.

Austen: The ping pong ball got us ten more yards down the field, so we pull out our badminton, which gets us another ten yards.

So, after exhausting all of our equipment, we are finally within field goal range, and all we have to do is make this field goal.

Dan: Red Team.

No good.

But we both miss our field goal attempts, and had to start all over.

Meanwhile, Team Blue is setting up on the 50-yard line for their field goal, and I'm thinking, "No way."

Josh: I knew there was no way we were making a 50-yard field goal, otherwise I wouldn't be on Relative Race, I'd be in the NFL somewhere.

Just kick right here?

Kick, yeah.

So, our strategy going in was to tap it lightly, get it out of the way, grab the balls, run back, and regroup.

Tiffany: Yeah, that was our first go.

Paris: After blowing it on the flying disc, we made great distance on the field hockey, the pickle ball, and the volleyball.

That put us right on the 9-yard line, so I figure we're close enough to make our first field goal attempt.

[Preshious groans] Dan: No good.

Preshious: But he missed.

Paris: But we have to switch on our last attempt, which means Preshious has to make it.

Green Team must start over.

Jerica: Our first time down the field was-- Tragic.

Okay, come on!

Wait, now what do we do?

Now we have to kick the ball.

We probably only made it ten yards down the field, which means we have to kick a 90-yard field goal.

And go.

Good, good, good.

Wait, no, that's not good.

Nope.

So now it's back to the trivia table to answer more questions and get more gear, but every time we start over, we get two footballs to add to our bag, so hopefully we have enough tries to get it this time.

Do you want to do this one?

Yes.

Okay.

Two more balls?

Josh: So we get to the round two, man, and I'm feeling good that we got to lacrosse.

We got some new toys to play with.

Oh, no, no.

What?

And I totally just whiffed on that lacrosse.

Tiffany: And volleyball is my favorite thing , so I thought I would take the reins and just slam it down the field and it was-- It brought us luck.

Josh: All right, Tiff!

Tiffany: Oh yeah, volleyball champ.

Austen: Okay.

So now we start all over again at the trivia table, but all we really want is the baseball bat.

I pick 125, not that one.

I just told you I'd picked that one.

I thought you already said that!

Nice, baby.

I-- This is 55.

[buzzer] 125.

It's a bunch.

It is a bunch.

Austen: 162.

My girl.

And the answer is 162 baseball games each year, so we earned the baseball bat.

Meanwhile, Team Blue is halfway down the field.

Josh: We have four kicks this time.

Yup.

Josh: So we're lining up for our second round of field goal attempts.

We've got four attempts this time.

We're confident, we're feeling good.

Let's go, babe.

[Tiffany grunts] Paris: I see Team Blue miss a field goal as I pull out our lacrosse stick.

If I make a good throw, I'm pretty sure we can catch up.

Okay, get it, let's go.

And Paris flings it halfway down the field.

[Joe whining] Tiffany: Last ball, Josh hits the ball.

Come on, baby.

[cheering] That was in and we were like, "Oh!"

There's your keys.

Tiffany: Yes!

Preshious: Then I hear this big yell.

Adios!

Austen: Team Blue is the cutthroat kind of competitor, but that's not who we are and that's not how we want to play the game.

[sighs] Tiffany: We're first in the ca, first to open this envelope.

It was the best thing ever.

"Your first destination--" Yeah!

"Is Fayetteville, North Carolina!"

We're going to Fayetteville, baby!

Let's go.

Preshious: Come on, we got this, we gotta get second.

Let's go.

Paris: We finally get near the 10-yard line, which is pretty close, but it's not my turn to kick so I'm pretty nervous because... Come on, girl, you got this.

♪ Oh!

Dan: Good!

Paris: To everyone's surprise, she actually kicks the field goal.

I was so happy it went through.

It's just like, "Whoo!"

There's your keys.

Thank you.

Preshious: Running back, it was the hardest run just to get to the car.

"Your first destination is Hartfield, Alabama."

Okay.

Let's go, let's go.

Mike: At that point, all I wanted to do was beat Team Black.

Now everything-- We don't want to be last.

We don't want to be last.

Um, okay, ready?

Swing as hard as you can.

Good job!

Yay!

All right, come on.

That's not bad, that's not bad.

Good job!

Okay.

I do remember telling Jerica as we were getting ready for Relative Race, if they just do not do anything football, I'll be okay.

Not that low.

Hang on to it.

Oh, shoot.

I should've never said that.

Yup.

It's the first thing we did.

Mike: The volleyball, I really messed us up on one turn.

That volleyball had gone all the way past the field goal and up against the wall in the corner.

Austen: We had one opportunity to make it right with the billiards.

[both sigh] Mike: We gotta use the football from here?

Austen: Yup.

Do it.

Come on.

That whole round just kind of-- It went down quick.

Disaster.

Joe: I was just like "Oh no, I have to turn around and start this process all over again."

Preshious: All right, let's see what's in here.

So we take off out of the stadium and the first thing we do is open the bags that Dan gave us.

Oh, here goes the phones.

Oh goodness.

Tiffany: I just touched the screen.

Did you see me?

[both laugh] Preshious: Maps.

Oh.

Not one map.

Oh.

Wow.

How many maps is that?

I think we have all fifty states in here.

I don't really have the best mapping skills.

Josh: Are you sure?

Tiffany: Yeah.

Josh: Shoot.

Tiffany: There goes my mapping skills.

Austen: Don't go too far.

Mike: At one point in time, Team Black and Team Red were right on top of each other and it was the last ball and I knew that it's now or never.

Dan: Hold onto that ball all the way through.

Yes!

We made it!

Dan: Good!

Team Red field goal is good!

Austen: This way!

Jerica: That was hard.

That was really hard being the last ones on the field.

Yeah.

Austen: Okay.

"Your first destination is New London, Connecticut."

New London, Connecticut.

Austen: I'm stinking tired.

Jerica: I think what kept us going was just the sheer determination to finish and not quit because we're not quitters.

Dan: It's a long day.

You can pick up time.

Don't give up.

Joe: So when she finally kicked the ball and they said it went through-- ♪ Yes!

What are you talking?

It went through!

Joe: I honestly didn't believe them.

I was like, really?

It did?

Hurry, go!

We ran up to Dan, grabbed the key, and we just took off running towards the car.

All right.

Okay.

We gotta read this.

"Your first destination is Fairfax, Virginia."

Joe: He's like, "Okay, go."

And I couldn't figure out how to get the car to go.

It's not going.

Jerica: Is your foot on the gas or on the brake?

Joe: Jerica, I don't know how to work this thing.

Jerica: Okay, you're going to pull back to drive.

It won't pull back.

Like oh, great, we can't even get out of the challenge.

So I actually had to put it into drive for him.

Okay.

Slowly, slowly.

Joe: I know, I'm going slow, I promise.

So literally as soon as we got in the car, we couldn't figure out how to get out of the stadium.

So there's a different exit-- Turn around.

Jerica: Yeah.

Like, how?

Jerica: We were going the wrong direction immediately, right off the bat.

Great.

This is off to a great start.

Jerica: I think it's out-- Joe: Is this the exit here?

I have no idea.

I don't even-- We don't even know how to get out of the stadium?

We're literally just going back and forth in this parking lot of our starting location.

Excuse me, I hate to interrupt-- Do you happen to know where 32nd street is?

Jerica: And he tells us, um, you were actually right on the right street.

I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation.

We were going the right way after all.

We were, we were.

♪ Austen: We realized that we need directions, so I hop out of the car and I start asking everybody.

Josh: So I first get out of the car after we leave the stadium and I want to confirm where we're going.

Austen: We need to find the fastest way to get to 85.

Do y'all know how to get to 85?

Josh: So I went to the cable gy 'cause obviously the cable guy knows these streets and he talked someone who knows the traffic and lead you steering the right way.

Austen: That was right!

Mike: You're always right.

Thanks.

So you're going to turn left on University.

Josh: I might go back to buying cable.

I doubt it.

We both need to think sharper.

Austen: So getting directions took time, which means Team Black, they've probably already caught up to us.

♪ Can you help me look?

I'm looking, Jerica.

Jerica: I realized suddenly I hadn't fully checked where Fairfax was.

So-- just ask him how to get to Virginia, basically.

Joe: We had to turn right back around and go back to the guy we talked to the first time.

Okay, there he is.

We got him.

I'm so sorry.

Jerica: We actually need 40 West.

We're trying to go to Virginia.

Jerica: He definitely gave us good directions to get us going the right way.

Joe: Thank you so much.

Jerica: Thank you.

Man: Good luck.

[laughing] Joe: Oh my word.

I feel so bad.

It's fine.

Chill.

It's okay.

We finally got it.

♪ Dan: All four teams have now left the stadium and are traveling to separate states in search of their first relatives.

Alright, I got the heebie-jeebies out of my system.

Let's get-- Get focused.

Let's get right.

Dan: With the longest drive of the day, Team Red is heading north in search of New London, Connecticut.

Their allotted time, accounting for the challenge and their drive, is 9 hours and 57 minutes.

I feel-- it feels different now that we've had at least one challenge.

I don't feel as-- I feel better.

Dan: And traveling in the opposite direction, Team Green will be navigating to Hartford, Alabama.

Their allotted time for the day is 9 hours and 39 minutes.

Okay, can you go faster?

No, I'm going 40 miles an hour.

Okay.

I have rules.

It doesn't feel like you're going 40.

I know, it doesn't, but I'm looking at my mono-moneater.

Dan: After a difficult start, Team Black is finally on their way to Fairfax, Virginia, with an allotted time of 5 hours and 18 minutes.

[whistling] This map folding business... Dan: And finally, Team Blue has the shortest drive of the day, traveling to Fayetteville, North Carolina with an allotted time of 2 hours and 27 minutes.

All of our teams are off and nobody knows where the race will end 10 days from now.

What the teams do know, however, is that the rules can change at any time.

♪ [phone ding] Oh.

What's that?

[phone ding] Whoa, what's that?

New text.

View now.

A text?

Tiffany: Oh, yes.

First text from Dan.

Preshious: As you all know... Austen: Every season of Relative Race can change at any time.

Jerica: This season, you will no longer be able to seek directions... Tiffany: From a fire station, police station, or ask your relative to drive you out from their home.

Jerica: All the things that we were strategizing about.

Great.

That's cool.

Thanks, Dan.

No thanks, Dan.

Tiffany: We got you, Dan.

All good.

We weren't even going to go to those people anyways.

Stay away from cops, bro.

Dan: With the rules out of the way, our teams begin to size up their competition.

Mike: The teams are very uniqu.

Tiffany: I would not choose anyone else to compete with.

I think it's like-- well think about it.

All of us are so different.

Austen: I still love Team Black.

I just want to hug them.

Jerica: Team Red.

Hum.

Well, I don't know if it's okay to say this, but when I first saw them, I wasn't sure if they were a couple... somebody finally told me that-- I shouldn't have said that on camera.

Austen: Team Green, I really like them.

They're really focused.

They're probably like the silent but deadly people.

I like Red Team.

I think they're smart, depending on-- They're super smart.

I said to Josh, "Hope to see you guys on Day 10."

He said "Hope not."

Is that what he said?

Yes!

He said, "Hope not?"

Hope not.

Hashtag rude.

Austen: Team Blue is a different kind of competitor than I think we are, which is fine.

There's a space for that.

Josh: If these are the rules I'm playing, we're going to beat them.

Straight up and down.

That's just a fact.

Preshious: The guy.

The girl seems like she may be okay but him, like I don't know.

Dan: After a long day of driving... Preshious: We're not in the city limit yet.

We're getting close.

Dan: Our teams are on the lookout for their city selfies.

Josh: Where's something Fayetteville, are you kidding me?

Like honestly.

Relax, Tiff.

Preshious: That says Hartford.

Paris: Hartford highway.

You on there 30 minutes before you hit Hartford.

I don't even know if that's going to be good enough.

Preshious: We need to pull in.

We finally make it to New London, saw the sign, and start running as fast as we can.

Austen: Come on, Daddy!

Mike: [grunting] My legs are asleep!

[shutter click] Ah!

I accidentally took a picture.

Come on!

Tiffany: Oh my gosh.

The city selfie game with that phone is-- it's ridiculou.

Josh: Alright, we need to improve-- Tiffany: The angle, where we take the picture.

There's a trick to it.

I can't see.

I know.

That's the whole point, Tiffy.

Preshious: So I literally take the camera and then position it with the sign in the center and tell him to grab it and then just place myself next to him and send it.

Got it.

Send it.

♪ Dan: Okay.

Thanks.

[phone ding] They're not even in the city limits.

Okay, come on come on.

It's not good enough.

Frustrated that I didn't wait until we were further into the city.

Okay.

Come on this side.

My legs are asleep!

Come on this side.

♪ [phone ding] Preshious: Hartford.

Right there, right there, right there, right there.

Stop.

Right here.

Left.

Joe: Ready?

Go.

[shutter sound] Joe: Yeah, I'm surprised we got it the very first time.

I thought we were going to be like that old couple trying to, like, hm!

Doing like ten takes.

Josh: Let's put our heads together.

Tiffany: A million years ago when I used to have that phone, I took amazing selfies, so I just got to improve that.

Gotta figure that out.

Right there.

Okay.

Ready.

Nice.

Austen: Dan says... Let's go!

Come on.

Come on, come on.

We got the selfie.

Paris: And we got that address.

Now we have to go to our relatives.

Dan: After finishing their challenge first thing this morning, and completing for some a very long drive, all four teams are now racing to their relative.

Aw, man, we're all the way down here.

We gotta turn around.

Joe: Go go go go go go go go!

We have a race to win, people!

Preshious: That's a fire perso.

Are they-- they're not in there.

Can't ask them anyway.

No, yes you can, they just can't be at the fire station.

Paris: So the first thing I spied across the street is a police officer.

Think that policeman is in the car?

Go.

And he should know.

I'm telling you.

Preshious: When we tell him the address after he asks us, he says like "I know that address."

Yeah.

Yeah.

So then he offers to take us directly there.

And this is Fort Bragg.

I'm trying to avoid Fort Bragg the whole time, and in my head, I'm like, man, I gotta stay away from Fort Bragg.

I gotta stay away from Fort Bragg.

It's right there.

And then I end up just pulling into Fort Bragg.

It's a good thing this police officer is willing to go the extra mile to show us where this place is.

I just don't know what to expect right now.

Preshious: I know.

Run, run, run.

Josh: Oh, come on.

Hey!

Are you our relative?

I'm your relative.

Josh: Are you related to me or her?

Relative: Tiffany, hi.

Josh: Whoa!

Tiffany: How are you related?

I am your cousin.

Tiffany: When I saw her, I was like-- I felt like I was looking at myself.

We had the same features, we have the same hair.

I can't even explain like how wild that feeling is.

Josh: How, like-- granddaddy?

Yes, through my granddad.

Yes.

On the Filipino side.

Whoa!

That's amazing!

Josh: That's awesome, man.

That is so cool.

Calista: I'm Calista Smith.

I'm a stay-at-home mom from Fayetteville, North Carolina and I'm Tiffany's cousin.

I have a lot of fun things for us to do.

Oh, I'm so excited.

We gotta get you checked in first.

Tiffany: So now that we've met Calista, she's going to take us on base and we get to meet her husband.

And hopefully eat something.

Dan: As Team Blue prepares to enter Fort Bragg...

Team Green prepares to meet new relatives.

Preshious: Hi!

Hello, hello here.

Hi!

Jesse Ward, Hartford, Alabama.

Paris: Hey, nice to meet you.

Alright, I'm your cousin.

Oh!

Yeah.

All right!

Jesse: My name is Jesse Ward.

I'm from Hartford, Alabama.

I've been farming ever since I was seven years old and I'm Paris' cousin.

Paris: And I never would've thought that I had family out in Alabama.

Nice meeting you all.

Yeah, y'all come right on in.

All right.

Yeah.

So right after I meet him, he brings me into the home and there's even more family members.

Preshious, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, Preshious.

Hello.

Paris: Both his daughters and you know they're just so welcoming.

Jesse: Yeah, we fixin' to go over here and look at some tractors and show you the way poor folks live.

Yeah.

Paris: Just being from the cit, I'm just curious to see what kind of activities that will be shown to me.

Of course, I'm going to teach you how to drive this tractor here.

Okay.

Ready for that?

Y'all ready?

Paris: I think I'm ready.

He actually teaches me how to drive it and allows me to get behind the driver's seat.

Ain't a whole lot to it.

Not as hard as I thought it would be.

That's for sure.

Dan: While Team Green settles in on the farm...

There's a FedEx office.

We could pull over.

Dan: Teams Red and Black are racing to find their relatives.

What is that street right up there?

Crescent.

CRESCENT!

Mike: Man, oh man.

Team Black: Coney View!

Oh.

Okay.

Austen: 54, 54, 554, 54, 54!

Okay.

My buckle won't unbuckle!

♪ [knocking] Hi!

Hello.

Hi!

Are you our relatives?

Relative: Hi, yes.

Nice to meet you.

Dan: Our last two teams have clocked in.

Now all four teams can relax with family while they wait for the final results to be delivered at the end of the evening.

Hi, I'm Kathleen.

Nice to meet you.

Kathleen: Nice to meet you.

Austen: That's Dad.

Hi!

How are you?

I'm Camille.

Hi Camille, I'm Mike.

Nice to meet you.

And this is my mother.

Hi!

Hello!

Kathleen: Nice to meet you guys.

So do you guys know what side we're related to you on?

Both: No.

Your dad is my grandfather.

My dad's your brother.

That's kind of cool.

Um-- cool.

Yeah.

Well, hi, niece.

You're-- my dad is your grandfather.

Yes.

My name is Camille Williams, I live in New London, Connecticut, and I am Michael Brown's niece and Austen's cousin.

Um... it was... joy because she was the first person on the black side of my family that I have ever met.

Well.

You look a lot like my other uncles.

Really?

Yeah, you do.

This-- this is what I look like.

Yeah.

Austen: Immediately you know you have a brother because you just met-- my brother's daughter.

You have a brother.

You have three brothers and three sisters.

Dude.

Yeah.

That's a big tree that I didn't know was planted.

This is a trip.

I just found out I have a niece, three brothers, three sisters, and she knows who my father is.

Now that we're here, um, the question is, my father is your grandfather and so where is he?

What's going on?

Unfortunately, he's not alive.

He passed away when my dad was seven, so a while ago.

I've never met him, but I've heard lots and lots of stories.

Because of my age, I was kind of expecting this, but I really wanted to meet my father.

I was kind of trying to set up myself for that just 'cause I just knew 'cause I'm old.

It's okay.

Daddy, he's your dad.

It's okay.

Mike: I'm sorry.

Don't be sorry.

Just the whole buildup and never knowing.

So Camille invites us inside and I'm going to learn about my father for the first time in my life.

You okay, Daddy?

I'm fine.

Jerica: Hi!

I'm Taylor, I'm your cousin.

Jerica: Nice to meet you!

Joe: Out comes a girl our age and she says she's our cousin.

And then she also has a brother.

Come on down!

Taylor: This is my brother.

These are our cousins.

Joe, nice to meet you.

I'm Jerica.

Jerica, I'm Dalton.

So we got to meet siblings who are our relatives, which was really cool.

I'm Taylor Hedrick.

And I'm Dalton Hedrick.

Taylor: I'm a personal trainer.

I'm a theater artist.

We're cousins through their father's side of the family and our father's side of the family.

You guys ready to go see what I have in store for you?

Jerica: Yeah, let's do it.

All we told Joe and Jerica was we're getting in the car and I'm going to take you to where I work, but they had no idea where I worked.

Dan: While Team Black drives towards their mysterious activity, Team Blue drives right into Fort Bragg.

Tiffany: So Calista takes us on base and she lets us know that we are going to meet her husband, Blake.

Calista: Hey babe.

Hey, pretty lady.

Is this your long-lost family?

Calista: Yes.

Well, welcome to Fort Bragg.

Team Blue: Thank you.

And that he is going to take us on a lovely adventure to jump from a 35-foot tower.

Blake: So, ready to jump out of a tower?

Josh: Parachutes or... You're going to have it on, it won't deploy, but you're going to have it on.

This is dope, thanks man.

I'm with the 20th engineer brigade, so.

Airborne is huge for us.

Everyone in my family is pretty much airborne.

Josh: I'm ready to do this.

I just know the pain in the butt Tiff's going to be because-- I'm afraid.

She's afraid.

I'm afraid of heights, I'm afraid of everything.

Man: Go!

No.

Go!

Josh: Tiff, go.

Do it.

Guys, I'm sorry.

I can't.

Josh: Everybody who knows me knows I love my wife to death.

However, I also know my wife very well and that means I have to take her to that point.

Tiff.

Tiff.

You handle it, you're on T.V., step it up.

Let's go.

Do it now.

Go.

Let's go.

Move.

Man: Just jump.

Josh: Move.

Tiffany: And then Josh likes to just come past that line and says "I'm going to push you if you don't jump."

Man: Go!

I can't, I'm sorry.

Josh: Tiff, move, now, go.

I'll push you out if you don't go.

Go, go.

And guess who jumped.

Yeah.

[scream] Tiffany: I know it's out of the kindness of his little, old heart.

He doesn't ever want me to not do something because of fear.

Man: Go!

Oh, this is awesome.

Tiffany: Josh comes down after me and he's so excited, he's like twisting around.

Easy.

That was awesome, baby.

Calista: I'm so excited and proud for them.

Blake: I'm really proud of them for everything they did today, getting through that.

Calista: We're super proud.

Blake: I mean, that is impressive.

Dan: Meanwhile, Team Black also has a challenging activity in store for them.

Joe: We pull up and we see the sign and it says "Ninja Warrior Training."

What?

This is a training facility.

I coach here.

Jerica: Are you serious?

Dalton: And they are-- Very nervous for the course.

Quite speechless, really.

Jerica: So we walk in and I instantly see a ropes course and rings and bars.

Joe: They told us this was goig to be a confidence builder.

I'm not going to do good at this.

Yes, you are.

Okay.

So grab high.

Okay, grab high.

Perfect.

Taylor: When everyone first enters this gym, they're scared.

Oh, close.

But that's why I was so excited to get them to the course and show them everything that they're capable of.

You got this.

Dalton: Nice.

Taylor: There it is, perfect.

Jerica: We learned from Dalton and Taylor that we're stronger than we think.

Taylor: Awesome.

Oh, yeah.

Jerica: Sweet, he's doing tricks now.

And that we can be confident in ourselves.

Taylor: Big step, big step, yeah!

Team Blue, we're coming for you.

Dan: As evening approaches, all four teams settle in with newfound family.

[laughter] However, some teams will settle in a little more comfortably than others.

Joe: We grab our suitcases and they take us around the back of the house.

Dalton: Right?

Yeah.

We just wanted to show you guys where you guys are going to be sleeping tonight.

Jerica: Okay.

And I see four tents.

Joe: Um... what?

Dalton: Yeah.

We decided we'd have somewhat of a cousins campout.

Jerica: What?

Joe: No way.

I looked over the tent and it was really small.

Where am I going to put all my clothes and my hairspray?

I'm a little concerned how I'm going to make it through the night.

If any bears come and get me, you two come and rescue me.

As crazy as this is, I don't think there's any other two people we'd rather do it with.

Dan: And in Connecticut, Michael sits down with his niece, anxious to learn about his father for the first time.

Camille, who's my dad?

So your dad's Elward Williams.

Elward?

Camille: Yes.

I'm going to take some notes.

I had resigned myself to the fact that I was adopted and-- that's it.

That's it.

Now I can start filling those pages in with beautiful family.

Camille: I have a picture of him.

Would you like to see it?

This is kind of scary.

Alright, yeah.

Austen: So then she pulls out this picture of my grandfather.

So this is your dad.

Oh.

[laughing] Who does that look like?

Camille: Scary, right?

That's a trip.

Austen: And it's like... holy wow, Dad, you look just like him.

He's browner than you but you look just like him.

Mike: Wow.

Wow, wow, wow.

Hi, Dad.

Hm.

Now there's a face and there's a name.

That was pretty strong.

That was pretty strong.

And then here is another old Polaroid from the same day but this is everyone together, the six of them.

Wow.

What a beautiful family.

After learning all about my family, I asked Camille about my father's death.

♪ The way they passed isn't really the best.

I was getting ready to ask what happened.

Camille: So... um... unfortunately, Elward did cheat on my grandmother and so she did file for a divorce, and before the divorce was finalized, he killed my grandmother and-- He?

Who killed-- Camille: Elward.

My father, he killed his wife and himself.

Yes.

[sobbing] He murdered his-- he murdered?

Camille: He did.

Are you okay?

No, you're not okay.

Mike: Disappointing is a word that sounds like a letdown.

This was a devastation.

Camille: At first after telling Michael, I was extremely worried because he seemed very angry and seemed to shut down a little bit, but there's a lot of great that Elward created, which are his kids and then his grandkids and there's a lot of good here.

It's a terrible-- I mean, it's very unfortunate, but if they told every story and never told you that, you would be in love with your father.

The kids, they loved their father.

He was the most amazing father.

Every single one of them say they woke up every single day happy in that house.

Mike: But then, I look at my niece and her mom and the pictures of my brothers and sisters.

I really want to look in their eyes and say hi.

[laughing] Now we know what the goal is, to meet all of those relatives, all the family, and it started the filling process of a void that's been in my life for 56 years.

♪ Dan: After an emotional evenin, all four teams nervously await the day's results.

Alright, where are we at, guys?

Joe: It was a bad first day, but all I can do is my best and see what happens.

Josh: I'm 100% confident that we won, obviously.

It's a safe assumption we're first place today.

Dan: Now the times have been calculated and one team will receive the very first strike of Relative Race.

Welcome, teams.

You all seem to have survived Day 1.

Very first thing out of the gate, I want to get reaction on what you thought of your first challenge, Omnisport.

Josh?

Tell me about that.

Josh: Absolutely, we are mentally, physically ready to kill it.

Tiffany: And we did.

And we did.

Mike: What I heard from Team Blue tonight was "Bring it."

I'm glad it's on now, 'cause it's on.

Dan: Alright, let's move forward to when you discovered your first relative.

Joe and Jerica, whom did you meet today?

Joe: Today, we met a brother and sister who are our cousins.

Jerica: And also our cousin Taylor is a ninja trainer and we are bona fide ninjas now Joe: So watch out.

Dan: Mike, you're searching and have never known who your father is.

Mike: Yeah, that's right.

Dan: Can you share with us what happened?

Mike: Being 56, I knew that-- what the possibilities could be, and that part that I was preparing for was actually tru.

My father has passed, but I wanted to know what he looked like so here's my father Elward.

Yeah.

Jerica: I can't imagine what the emotions that Team Red has gone through all in one day.

Just the amazing feeling it must be to finally have answers that you've never had your whole life.

Mike: A whole new book that's been presented to me and-- um.

I really like to read and this is going to be a really good book.

Dan: And having said that, it's now time.

♪ Finishing in first place, 23 minutes over their allotted time...

Team Green, Preshious and Paris.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

We won!

First place!

We won!

Josh: I'll tell you this, I don't care how happy and sappy I'm going to be when I find out some info about my dad or my family.

If I don't come in first, I'm still going to be this.

Dan: Team Green, you now have a decision to make.

Do you want a game benefit or a Day 10 benefit?

It's early in the race.

What do you choose?

Dan, we're going with the Day 10 benefit, 'cause we're going to Day 10.

Dan: Wow.

Early on.

That's a very interesting strategy.

Finishing in second place now, only 13 minutes behind Team Green, Josh and TIffany, congratulations Team Blue.

Meh.

Thank you.

I don't care.

Josh.

I know where that 13 minutes is, I'm upset at myself, it's for us finding the city selfie.

Dan: It's now between Team Black and Team Red.

♪ Both of you struggled with Omnisport.

Both of you had amazing discoveries.

One of you is safe for another day.

Finishing 1 hour and 38 minutes over their allotted time...

Team Red.

Rock on my varmint!

Wow!

Dan: Henlines, you had a tough day.

You finished 2 hours and 37 minutes over your allotted time.

You have received your first strike.

However, you're now ninjas, which could help you tomorrow.

Get some rest and good luck.

[all saying goodbye] Great job, Red Team, great job, Green Team, great job, Blue Team.

Wow.

Way to go.

Preshious: That is crazy.

[applause] Dan: The results are in, and the first strike goes to Team Black.

In first place is Team Green.

Preshious: Look.

Oh.

So this is our Day 10 benefit?

Okay.

Flag.

Hm.

Preshious: And I don't really know what it's for.

It's a flag, so I don't know.

Race car.

I don't know if it's maybe a head start to a race.

Maybe collecting them.

Josh: We thought Team Green was going to be a strong competition and unfortunately they beat us tonight.

It's just going to turn up my game.

Yeah, like it's on.

Unfortunately-- go ahead.

Yup.

Yeah.

It's on.

I was kind of hoping Team Green would pick the 10-minute penalty and give it to Team Blue.

Amen.

We're here to win, baby.

Oh my gosh.

Thirteen minutes is unacceptable.

Austen: I think Team Blue needs to take a piece of their humble pie and eat it because that's probably why Team Green won.

We're going to Day 10.

We're going to Day 10, no doubt about it.

Joe: Alright, guys, it's late, I'm camping for the very first time.

It's been a rough day and we did get our first strike, but we met some awesome relatives, so tomorrow's going to be such a great day.

Woohoo!

Go Team Black.

I'm so excited about getting to know these new cousins of mine, but because I don't have any girl cousins that are my age.

Anywho, see you tomorrow.