Dan: Previously on Relative Race, four new teams began their journey in Savannah, Georgia.

But first, they started by getting to know each other better with a surprise viewing of each other's backstories.

Trinesha: You never know what else someone else has had to fight.

Lizzy: This season seems totally different than any other season.

Dan: Patrick discovered he had two little sisters.

Katie: So you have two sisters.

Patrick: Ah.

Finding out that I have two sisters, little sisters, is amazing.

Dan: Trinesha got emotional seeing a picture of her father for the very first time.

Trinesha: Gosh, he looks just like me as a, when I was a baby.

Dan: Geselle met a kindred creative in her cousin Aura.

- My whole life is music.

I-- - Ah, man, come on, man.

That's me.

That's what's up, that's what's up.

Dan: After wondering his entire life, Andy finally learned the name of his father.

- You're the sister of my dad.

- John.

Andy: John.

Lizzy: Your dad's name is John.

- My dad's name is John.

[laughs] ♪ Dan: But in the end, it was Team Green who got their first strike of the race, and with their first place win, Team Red chose the prize of fuzzy dice.

And on this episode, they're gonna find out what that really means.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... Geselle: Woo!

- Are you kidding me?

Dan: ...to win $50,000... Mitchell: Go, go go go go go!

Dan: ...and to find their family.

[knocking] Singer: ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Dan: After a rough start to the race, Teams Blue and Green plan and reset for the day ahead.

Trinesha: I just feel better today.

I just, I said, I said, I noticed a glow, there was a glow, and I was so happy.

And, um, I can't wait to make more memories.

- Today we're back on it.

We're ready to go.

We feel way better than we did yesterday.

Today is gonna be about, you know, slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

We gonna stick to it.

- Patience.

- Yes, patience.

- And communication.

Lizzy: After we got our strike last night, we talked this morning about how best to plan the day.

I've already pulled out the maps that I, like, think that we potentially could be going to.

Man 1: Look and see how many towns are along.

Robin: Well these, it looks like a major highway, so you're, you're just-- Man 1: Yeah, but you're, you're get more traffic, 'cause there's towns there.

There're gonna be people comin' on and off that have more traffic.

- True.

Dan: The break of a new morning brings us to the second day of Relative Race.

Our four teams are scattered all along the southeast part of the country.

Starting their day in West Virginia is Team Green, Lizzy and Andy.

They'll depart from the city of Charleston.

Team Black, Callie and Patrick, will navigate from Nashville, Tennessee.

And right below them in Conyers, Georgia, is Team Blue, Trinesha and Mitchell.

And in Panama City, Florida, Team Red, Geselle and Taquida, are awake and sitting down with Geselle's new cousin, Aura.

Geselle: This morning, I wanted to just sit down with my cousin and just make some music together.

Like, yesterday, you were talkin' about music, so I just want to see, like, um, what the vibe is.

- You wanna make some music together?

- Yeah, let's go.

- All right.

Aura: When Geselle suggested we make a little music together, I was... excited.

It's rare that I get to make music with someone that's like me.

And because I saw some of her music that she showed me, I was really excited.

♪ Oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, we're the Red Team, yeah ♪ [vocalizing] - [beatboxing] - ♪ Oh, with the best team ♪ - Oh, she rockin' with the Red Team Matter of fact, man, we comin' through, man, yes, we crispy clean, uh We mad when we step up on the scene It's the Red Team, man we comin' through, know what I mean?

[laughs] To connect with my cousin through sound, it felt like heaven on earth to me just to have that moment with her and then really to find out that there was just such a unique sync.

♪ Callie: Here they are.

Wave good morning, guys.

Patrick: So this morning, we, uh, definitely got some more photos and stuff like that.

They're, they love to ham it up like we do with the pictures, so that was a lot of fun, too.

- Oh, is that your go-to goofy face?

Michael: That's my go-to goofy face.

Same go-to goofy face!

Callie: Yeah, that's my go-to, yeah.

Katie: Let me see what's your go-to.

Yeah, look at that!

[laughing] Callie: We wanted to spend as much time as we possibly could with them, but in the back of our minds, we knew that any second that we could get the text from Dan and we'd be out the door.

[phone chimes] Taquida: Hey, we got a text from Dan.

Geselle: We did?

Taquida: See.

- "Good morning, teams, and welcome to Day 2 of Relative Race."

- "Team Red will be traveling to"-- Both: "Pensacola, Florida."

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Fayetteville, Georgia."

- "Team Black will be traveling to Evansville, Indiana."

- "And Team Green will be traveling to Morgantown, West Virginia."

Mitchell: "Your time starts now."

Taquida: Oh, gosh.

Aura: Can I help?

Okay.

Mitchell: Let's go, come on.

We got the text from Dan, so now we're on our way to Fayetteville.

But today, it's all about sticking together and getting there with no problem.

That's, that's the goal.

Taquida: I've never been to Pensacola, Florida, so there's another surprise.

Lizzy: All right, well, let's find Morgantown, West Virginia, before we even go, 'cause what's the point?

We talked this morning about make sure we both understand where we're going, where the city is located, and what the major thoroughfares are we're going to be going on.

Michael: You wanna start there and then... Callie: Sixty-five?

When we find out that we're headed to Evansville, Indiana, the first thing that we do is get the maps out, and Michael finds Evansville right away, so they help us, uh, figure out our route.

[door thuds] [thud] [thud] - Good luck.

Andy: Thank you so much.

Michael: Welcome to the family!

Callie: I'm so glad you guys were our first stop.

Patrick: We'll win this thing.

Mitchell: Come out, right out-- take a right out of the neighborhood.

Take a right out of the neighborhood.

Lizzy: Bye!

Andy: Bye!

We love you!

Lizzy: We'll miss you!

Katie: See you Buddy!

Michael: Bye Buddy!

Hope you find your dad!

♪ Taquida: Okay.

[phone chimes] Geselle: We got a text.

[gasps] Taquida: What are these?

Both: [laughing] Aura: Oh, I like that they're red, too.

Taquida: Right?

Geselle: Oh my gosh.

Taquida: We get in the car this mornin', and there're some dice hangin' from the rearview mirror.

Don't know again what to think.

Geselle: We got a text.

- Hey, congratulations on finishing in first place and picking my personal favorite prize, fuzzy dice.

Ha ha, we've had a lot of fun with that in the past, and we hope you do, too.

By now, you've discovered your dice, and here's what I need you to do.

Roll them, and remember the number, because it will matter.

Why?

Huh, you won't find out until tonight.

Taquida: Oh my.

Aura: My gosh.

There's so much mystery.

Geselle: Ughhh!

Taquida: Okay.

Aura: Want me to roll 'em?

Geselle: Okay, yeah, can you roll 'em?

We wanted to have Aura roll the dice this morning because she's part of Team Red.

Aura: Six and two.

Taquida: Eight.

Aura: Eight.

Don't know what that means, but... Taquida: Okay.

Geselle: Okay.

Well... Aura: Love you.

Geselle: Love you.

Taquida: Nice meeting you!

So, we got a eight, and, uh, don't know if it's good, don't know if it's bad.

We just don't know, but I guess we'll find out tonight.

[electronic whir] Callie: ♪ Go West ♪ ♪ Life is peaceful there ♪ ♪ Go West ♪ ♪ In the open air ♪ ♪ Go West ♪ ♪ This is what we have to do ♪ Dan: Taking a western route that eventually takes them north is Team Black.

Leaving Nashville, Tennessee, they're driving to Evansville, Indiana, with an allotted time of two hours and forty-one minutes.

[electronic whir] Mitchell: If this don't lead us there... Trinesha: I don't know.

- I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, - [giggles] - I'm 'bout to throw out the bat signal.

- [giggles] - Everybody gets one.

[laughs] Dan: Hoping for a sign from above is Team Blue.

Their journey will take them from Conyers, Georgia, to Fayetteville, and their allotted time today is one hour and thirteen minutes.

Taquida: Gracious God, we come to You.

We ask You to cover each team as we go to and fro on these dangerous roads today.

Please let us have a clear mind and a clear heart and an accepting heart to be able to love one another.

We just ask that Your will be done, nothin' more, nothin' less, and nothin' else.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Dan: Sending heartfelt prayers from the South is Team Red.

They're traveling from Panama City to Pensacola, Florida.

They have an allotted time of two hours and thirty-two minutes.

♪ Lizzy: ♪ Country roads ♪ Both: ♪ Take me home ♪ Lizzy: ♪ To the place ♪ Both: ♪ I belong ♪ - ♪ West Virginia, mountain mama ♪ ♪ Country roads take me home ♪ Dan: West Virginia's country roads are taking Team Green to their next destination.

They're driving from Charleston to Morgantown.

Their allotted time for the day is two hours and forty-one minutes.

[electronic whir] Back in Kentucky, Team Black is about to hit some bumpy roads.

Callie: We're gonna take 24 West into Kentucky, and then right over the Kentucky border, then we'll hop on the 169 North.

Patrick: Uh-oh.

Callie: What?

Patrick: That was our, that was our exit... to 24.

- Where is this?

- Where's-- I don't know.

That was the way to get onto 24, and it was closed.

And the adventure begins.

We start off this morning feeling really lucky, because we need to get back onto 24, which is the way that we came into town.

And we find out that the actual 24 is closed.

- Yargh!

- Bummer!

- We don't really have a choice.

We can't continue on 24, so we have to just trust our gut and follow 65.

Really?

You had to shut down the whole way to get onto 20-- I didn't even see a detour thing.

- Get over.

At this point, I'm super frustrated.

[wind whooshes] Dan: The navigation struggles continue as Team Black desperately searches for an alternate route.

Patrick: We were goin' 40 West, so we want to go 40 East.

Callie: Yep, go 40 East.

- Neeowm Callie: 211, Exit 211, why is everything closed?

Ugh, I'm so irritated.

- It's fine.

Callie: So we end up having to go seven miles down the road to get to the next exit.

Oh wait, here we go, here we go.

Callie: Sixty-five North.

Patrick: Okay, there we go.

- To 24.

- Okay, so straightaway.

All right.

Callie: Thankfully, that did reconnect where we needed to go, so we lucked out there.

That's okay, it was a little dipsy-doo.

[whirring] Dan: With miles of road behind them, teams are looking forward to their destination cities.

Taquida: You see, Pensacola.

- Oh, Pensacola!

Mitchell: Fayetteville.

[phone dings] Lizzy: "Welcome to Morgantown."

- "Your challenge is located at..." Mitchell: "101 Fieldhouse Drive."

Trinesha: Okay, let's go.

Andy: We got this, we got this, we got this.

♪ Lizzy: Oh, oh oh oh, right there, right there.

Mitchell: Come on.

Taquida: Come on, we got it!

Come on!

♪ Andy: Oh, there it is.

Let's see what it says, let's see what it says.

♪ Taquida: Okay.

- "Welcome, teams.

Your challenge today is Hamper Havoc."

Dan: Today's challenge is Hamper Havoc.

In this challenge, teams will shoot T-shirts behind a yellow line into a giant hamper.

Teammates will rotate between firing and catching the T-shirts.

Once they have caught ten T-shirts, they must spell out a word on their clothesline.

Spell out the word correctly to complete this challenge.

Taquida: Okay, let's go.

♪ Taquida: Come on, you got this.

Lizzy: Come on, baby!

We arrive at the challenge, and we see hangers on a tall beam and rolled up T-shirts and some sort of an air gun.

Andy: So I'm thinking, okay, this is just like a football game, it's just like a basketball game.

Baby, we got this, we got this, we got this!

Lizzy: Okay, ready?

Andy: Go for it!

[pop] [buzzer] - Don't even worry about it.

Next one.

[pop] [buzzer] Taquida: I gotchu, I gotchu.

[pop] [ding ding] Lizzy: Yes!

Mitchell: Just angle it up a little bit more.

[pop] Trinesha: Once I push the button, it launches so quickly, it's very easy to get thrown off.

But it's almost like you can't even calculate the right way.

How's that, how's that?

Mitchell: Too high.

That's okay, it's all good.

[pop] Lizzy: Ugh!

[ding ding] Andy: Perfect!

Callie: Park right up here, there's- Patrick: I'm gonna park right here, I'mma park right here.

Callie: Okay.

Patrick: All right, ready, ready, ready.

Callie: We finally get to the challenge, and there's a envelope that tells us that we are about to shoot T-shirt guns.

Here.

I'll shoot first.

Patrick: Okay.

Callie: You catch first.

I decide that I am going to shoot first, and Patrick is catching in the hamper.

All right, you ready, Pat?

- Sure, give it a shot.

Callie: 'Kay.

[pop] - That's... not gonna work.

[pop] [buzzer] Callie: Oh, so close!

[pop] [buzzer] Why am I not going far enough?

[pop] [buzzer] Patrick caught nothing, but that's okay.

- It, like, most of them didn't even make it there.

- Hey.

I'm tellin' this story.

Patrick: Okay.

We'll leave that part out.

[buzzer] Mitchell: Oh!

[buzzer] [ding ding] Lizzy: For once, he was actually putting his laundry in the hamper, but after five tries, we had to switch places.

- And then it was your turn to do the laundry.

Mitchell: Go!

Trinesha: Okay.

Geselle: We don't have enough shirts to, to catch at this moment, so we're runnin' back and forth.

Taquida: Come on!

Geselle: I'm just tryin' not to pass out.

Both: [laugh] [pop] [ding ding] - You got it, come on.

I catch the first one, and I was like, yeah, let's go.

[pop] [ding ding] Callie: Got it.

- Do you not see how this has gone?

- You know what?

It takes two, my friend.

- Not really.

Seems like it's taking one: me.

- You are so dead when we are off this show.

Patrick: I'm just sayin'.

[buzzer] Lizzy: Higher!

Ah!

[buzzer] [pop] Trinesha: Oh, we got one!

Mitchell: Let's go.

Great!

[pop] ♪ Geselle: So we weren't allowed to touch the shirts with our hand.

I had one on the hip, and, uh, I did a little dance to get it into the, to the basket.

[ding ding] [ding ding] Callie: That counts.

- That was, that was pretty impressive.

- Thank you very much.

[pop] ♪ [smack] [pop] [pop] [ding ding] Callie: Yes!

Patrick: Nice!

Bring it back, bring it back!

Trinesha: Bring it here!

Mitchell: After we got ten shirts, we had to race down, get shirts on the hangers onto the board.

Andy: Let's finish it out!

Taquida: You unroll 'em, I got it.

Mitchell: Get goin'.

Just pull it off on the end.

Yep.

Taquida: There's nothin' on those.

Callie: I have a shirt with no letter.

Mitchell: What are you doin'?

Trinesha: It's blank.

Lizzy: How many hangers are there?

- Ten.

Eight.

Eight, sorry.

- There are ten T-shirts.

There are eight hangers.

Patrick was thinking that they're, like, spaces.

Trinesha: First thought wasn't, oh, it's blank.

I, I thought it was inside out.

[laughs] Mitchell: Guess we don't got to hang that one up.

Throw that to the side.

- So I rip the blank ones off, set them to the side.

Andy: After we get all of the shirts hung up and we're seeing all the letters, we're trying to figure out what it spells.

Trinesha: Put the Es in the middle.

Kind of-- or just kind of if you can-- You still got-- Mitchell: I gotchu.

Lizzy: Okay.

Andy: Let's see what the last one is.

♪ Mitchell: E-S-N-I-C-T-G-E. Andy: So, sign, set.

- Um... Taquida: Can it be somethin'... can it stand for somethin'?

When we were lookin' at the words, there were a couple of things that we thought that it could be, but nothin' was just comin' to us, so we just tried to switch it around a little bit.

- N-T. ♪ Patrick: Ent.

Mitchell: That makes no sense.

Trinesha: I know.

Lizzy: What were some eight-letter words we were thinking of earlier?

Andy: Um... Relations, but there's no R. Uh... We have to look at the letters and figure out what the word is that they're supposed to be spelling.

- And when you spell it mixed up, you could get a little confused.

Geselle: Yeah, let's make E the second letter.

Trinesha: I don't, I don't think we used the G, so what is that, E?

Mitchell: Genetics.

Trinesha: Genetics?

Lizzy: G-E-N, gen... Andy: Genetics?

Mitchell: Put it right there.

Lizzy: Yep.

Mitchell: Nope, down here.

Lizzy: Put 'em up, put 'em up.

Mitchell: All right.

Trinesha: Genetics?

[ding ding ding] Whew!

[clapping] Andy: Yes!

Lizzy's of course like, no, think about where-- what show we're on.

Lizzy: Together we come up with the word genetics.

Mitchell: Open it, see what we got.

- "You will find your relative at 131"-- Both: "Winston Drive, Fayetteville, Georgia."

Mitchell: Let's go.

Andy: Go, go, go.

[doors thud] [music crescendoes] [engine purrs] - Oh, I feel so slow.

We're comin' down to the wire, and I know we only have a minute left.

Callie: Put an E at the end?

♪ Patrick: Move the T?

Callie: At this moment in time, I am inventing words.

I'm playing my own game of Scrabble.

It's gotta have something to do with what we're doing.

Taquida: And with seconds left to spare, the puzzle finally came together.

[laughs] Genetics.

[smack] [buzzer] Callie: In the background, all I hear is ding, ding, ding, and I know we have just timed out on a word puzzle spelling genetics.

[whoosh] We have run out of time on a word puzzle.

How embarrassing.

Patrick: Mm.

"You will find your relative at 1104 North Main Street."

Callie: Yes, yes!

Patrick: Let's go, let's go go go!

Callie: The silver lining is Main Street is on the map for Evansville.

Taquida: All right.

"You will find your relative at 600 Bayou Boulevard."

Let's go.

After the challenge and we got done, I'm a little disappointed, because I feel like we should have got it a little sooner.

Okay, so we're goin' to 600 Bayou Boulevard.

Lizzy: We are looking for Goodwin on the left.

- Says University Ave. - Honey.

- Okay, sorry.

Trinesha: Right now, I just think we are in the middle of neighborhoods.

Mitchell: Right.

- There's nothin' we can do right now.

Mitchell: Okay.

The drive today was a little bit of a challenge just 'cause the area we were in, there wasn't too many places to go to ask anyone.

- That's not open.

- And everybody's closing, too, 'cause it's, like, right around so there's nowhere.

Mitchell: It's 5:00, yeah.

Taquida: We started headin' in the direction, didn't see nobody.

So we were just hopin' for the best.

We're comin' up on a stop sign.

Geselle: Okay, this is Bayou.

- Heh-heh!

All right.

And it so happened the main street was the street we were lookin' for.

Callie: Oh, left, left, left, left, left.

Callie: I don't care.

Andy: That's 304.

Taquida: 618, so we are very close.

Lizzy: 131, right there.

Andy: I assume we're here.

Lizzy: Yep.

[ticking] [ding] Andy: Shall we do this?

Lizzy: Yep.

That's it?

- That's it.

You good?

- Yep, I'm good.

♪ ♪ Andy: We came up to the house, and there was a beautiful young lady standing outside.

I'm Andy.

Uh, this is Lizzy.

- I'm Erinn.

- How are we related?

- I am your cousin on your maternal side.

Andy: Oh!

My goodness.

It's so good to meet you.

- It's nice to meet you, too.

Andy: Oh.

Erinn: Hi.

Lizzie: Hi.

Nice to meet you.

Erinn: Nice to meet you, too.

[laughs] So exciting.

You do actually look like some of my dad's cousins.

- Oh really?

Erinn: Yeah.

- Okay.

Erinn: Yeah, there's a little bit of a re-resemblance there.

Andy: Well, it's funny.

Looking at you, I can see a lot of myself-- Erinn: Eyes, for sure.

Yeah.

You, you really do look like that side of the family.

That's crazy.

[laughs] Andy: Give me another hug.

Erinn: Oh.

- Thanks for coming and doing this.

Erinn: I've been so excited to meet him.

I thought he looked like my family.

[laughs] It was kind of surreal.

So fun.

[laughs] Andy: It's so great to meet you.

Erinn: It's nice to meet you, too.

Lizzy: On your mom's side.

Andy: On my mom's side.

Erinn: On your mom's side, yeah.

Andy: Okay, fantastic.

Erinn: Yeah.

We've actually talked before, sort of.

Our DNA matched, and I received a message from you, and responded.

Andy: Okay, that was you.

Erinn: Yeah, that's me.

Andy: Awesome.

- Yeah.

Andy: One of the first things she told me was that we'd actually had communications with each other in the past.

She, um, was one of the first people that reached out to me and actually offered at that time to help me try and figure out who my family was.

So I know that you are related to me on my mother's side.

Erinn: Yes.

Andy: What do you know about my mother?

- I don't know your mother.

- Okay.

- Um, but I can tell you about that side of the family.

- Awesome.

Erinn: Would you like to go inside?

- Please, yes, definitely.

Erinn: Let's go.

♪ - So we're here.

All right, let's see.

[ticking] [ding] You ready?

Geselle: So my immediate thought, seeing this woman that comes out of the house, I begin to look at her, and I started, like, kind of watching her mannerisms.

Yeah, I knew that she was mine.

[doors thud] Taquida: All right.

Hello.

Woman 1: Hello.

- I'm Taquida.

- I'm Geselle.

- Hi.

I'm Laticha.

Geselle: And whose relative are you?

- Geselle.

- How are we related?

- I'm your sister on your dad's side.

- [exhales] ♪ ♪ Geselle: Hearin' the words "I'm your sister," there was an immediate weight that lifted, and that weight had been somethin' that I've been carryin', like, for years.

I've been feelin' like I was the only one out here, but to find out that all along that I had a sister.

- Huggin' my sister for the first time, it felt good.

It felt good that I was able to comfort her.

Geselle: So, so how old are you?

- I'm 49.

- Okay, so you're my big sister.

- Yes.

- Wow.

Laticha: Yep.

- [sniffs] I don't even know what to say right now.

[exhales] Wow.

Laticha: It's okay, it's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Geselle: Wow.

It's just, it feels good to, to know that I have a big sister.

- Yes.

Geselle: You know, and... yeah.

Can I have another hug?

- Yes, you can.

Yes, you can.

♪ Geselle: I got to experience something that I've been waiting for my whole life, which was siblings.

And, um, for the first time, it felt like home.

♪ [electronic whir] Dan: Back on the road, Team Blue and Black are still dealing with some driving drama.

- Okay, so probably just go, keep goin' straight.

Oh wait, no, should I take a right?

- Take a right.

Mitchell: The sign on the neighborhood said Princeton Chase.

- Did we need to turn around and go look?

- Yeah, go ahead.

Getting here was definitely a struggle, which did bring our spirits down a little bit.

Look, you're gonna see it.

It's gonna be on your left hand side, and it says Princeton Chase.

Callie: We're looking for Main Street.

Callie: God bless you.

Thank you so much.

Mitchell: Right here.

Trinesha: Oh, 110, right there.

[ding] Mitchell: Oh, right here?

Trinesha: We made it to our destination, and that was the, the key to the ending of our day.

Mitchell: Further, closer.

Up, up, up, up, up, up, up.

[car door clicks] ♪ Trinesha: Hi.

Mitchell: Hello.

Man 2: Hi.

- Hi.

Man 2: Hi.

- [laughs] How are you?

- Good, good, how are you?

- My name's Mitchell.

This is my wife, Trinesha.

- Hi, good to meet you both.

Trinesha: Good to meet you.

What's your name?

- I am David.

Trinesha: David.

Which one of us are you related to?

- Well, that would be... Trinesha.

Trinesha: You're related to me?

And you are my... - Cousin.

On your father's side.

- Oh, can I give you a hug?

- Absolutely.

Trinesha: Nice to meet you.

David: Nice to meet you.

Both: [laugh] Trinesha: Oh my gosh.

It's so good to meet you.

David: Good to meet you.

So... Trinesha: I'm so excited.

David: You've come a long way.

- I'm so-- I'm-- I'm so excited.

- I'm David Seagraves, and I'm Trinesha's cousin.

It was truly wonderful to meet Trinesha, and actually to get a connection to the part of the family I don't know that well.

- So, how are we related?

- Um, on my dad's side.

My father is a World War II hero.

- When you mention-- I heard about him.

Um, Auntie Yvonne was saying that you all, it's like-- - Like this big party.

- You guys always gather on the Fourth.

- Yes.

Trinesha: And he's turning 9-- yeah, he's turning 97.

- They said it's one of the biggest parties of the year.

- One of the biggest parties, and he always throws his birthday party, and I was like-- David: He loves his family.

He loves his family, and he can't wait to meet you.

Trinesha: Oh my goodness, yes.

And tell me his name?

- John.

Both: John.

- Oh.

- Well, would you like to meet him?

Trinesha: Yes.

[laughs] - Absolutely.

David: Well let's go.

♪ - Where?

- 1104 should be right over here.

1104, right there!

Once we pull up to the house, everything that's transpired throughout the day is just kind of gone, and we just kind of have to shake that off, but as soon as that door opened, I think it all kind of disappeared.

♪ [door clicks] [door slams] [door slams] - Well hello.

- Hi there.

I'm Pat.

- Good.

I'm Callie, sorry.

Man 3: Hi Callie.

- Hi.

Patrick: And you are?

- I am your Uncle Pete.

- Hey.

[patting] ♪ Oh.

- Hi, I'm Callie, it's nice to meet you.

Sorry, we hug here.

Pete: Yes, don't want to leave you out.

Callie: No, not at all.

- Oh, wow.

It's been a journey, huh?

- Yes, it has.

You're on my... dad's... - Reichenberger side.

Patrick: Okay, that, okay... - Yes.

Definitely, uh... wow.

Meeting Patrick today was... just, uh, it was just amazing to see the similarities, features in his face.

He looks so much like our side of the family.

Really good to see ya.

Yeah.

Patrick: I can't wait to talk.

Callie: I can't believe how much you guys look alike.

It's wild.

- It's been crazy.

Bunch of Patricks showin' up.

- It's incredible.

- You're as handsome as I am.

Patrick: I, I know.

That's what I was thinkin', too.

I'm sure you knew my dad pretty well.

- Yes, I know him very well.

- So how close are you to him in age?

- I, um, I am ten years younger than he is.

- Okay, you're ten years younger than him.

Peter: Yes.

Um, we've been very close.

Patrick: Awesome, awesome.

- Yeah, but why don't you come in?

Patrick: Uh, awesome.

- Wow!

♪ Dan: In Fayetteville, Georgia, Trinesha is excited to find out more about a third generation relative.

- I'd like you to meet my father, John.

- Ah, good to meet you guys.

Mitchell: Nice to meet you.

Trinesha: You too.

John: This is only the beginning, wait till you meet the rest of them and now here we are.

Mitchell: Yeah.

David: So, Trinesha and Mitchell, they're in search of their long-lost family, and you are their great-great uncle.

John: Okay.

Well this is news to me, but welcome.

Trinesha: Thank you so much.

It's news to me.

I would be your great-great niece.

David: That's exactly right.

Yes.

John: Welcome.

God bless you.

Both: Thank you.

John: Now I understand you're in the food-- you're into, into-- Trinesha: Yes, I, I was just going to say, I noticed that everyone loves, [laughs] that everyone I met loves cooking or some variation of, and I, um, I've gotten into cooking.

I love cooking.

- This is a foodie family.

Trinesha: Yes, I can tell.

[laughs] David: What I do is I'm a business manager for the family restaurant.

♪ So it's a Southern cooking cafeteria-style establishment.

Trinesha: Great restaurant.

[laughingly] Southern, yes.

One of the most interesting things that stuck out to me was that John actually runs a family restaurant, and I love food, and that really, like, solidified just an immediate connection.

When I think that, oh, I love something just myself, or that, you know, and then you find out that your family that you meet, everyone, like, same interests, and... - It really is DNA.

- It's literally in the DNA.

David: Yeah.

So I found it fascinating that she had that connection to food.

It's definitely a strong link throughout the family tree.

It started with my father.

Being in the restaurant, the food and beverage industry, for a lot of my life, I got part of that, but it's fascinating to see that she has that, too.

- I'm so excited I got to meet you.

- Well, this's been exciting.

- I want to ask, is it okay if I give you a hug?

- Yes, of course.

- No, you don't have, you don't have to even get up.

You don't even have to get up.

I can bring it in.

[laughs] John: God bless you.

Trinesha: I can bring it in.

Do I get a invite to your birthday party?

♪ - So I can tell you quite a bit about our family, our shared ancestors.

And I actually have a little bit of a family tree here.

Andy: Oh.

Erinn: So... Andy: Oh, O'Leary.

Erinn: You are an O'Leary.

Andy: Oh my goodness.

Erinn: So it's a chart of our common ancestors.

So this is your great-grandfather.

Andy: Okay.

Erinn: So second great, so great-great.

Third great.

Fourth great.

- [laughs] This is amazing.

Erinn: This is George and Ellen.

Um, they are from County Cork, Ireland.

- Okay.

- [laughs] - George and Ellen are the first immigrants that I have found that came to America.

Andy: Okay.

Erinn was amazing because we actually had the opportunity for her to show me a family tree that she has put together that goes back literally four, five generations, all the way back to Ireland, which, I had never known that I was Irish.

The dates stop here.

Why is that?

- I have to tell you that on this journey, you will not be meeting your maternal side of the family.

- Okay.

- So that's why the chart ends here.

I hope at some point they want to meet you.

Andy: Erinn was really amazing and brave, because she, uh, shared with me the fact that my mother's side of the family did not want to have contact with me at this time.

At one point, I just became really overwhelmed with the information we were just given, and um, I felt like I really needed just to step away.

Um, and fortunately Lizzy followed me and was really there for me.

♪ ♪ Lizzy: I understand there's a lot of reasons why it would be difficult to meet a child you gave up for adoption, but there's a lot of other people in a family, not just the mom.

I'm a mother, and I can't imagine not wanting to be in my child's life in any aspect.

Um, I can't imagine not wanting to be in his life in any aspect.

Andy is an amazing person, and he deserves everything.

Andy: Being adopted, a lot of your history and a lot of your emotional history is based around a feeling of rejection.

Although it was hard to hear, I'm so grateful to her for letting me know that.

♪ Patrick: We get inside, sit down, and I'm hopin' that I'm finding out some more stuff about my dad.

Pete: So when we found out, um, I actually was sitting next to my brother, your dad.

He was ear-to-ear grin.

Um... - [laughs] Pete: Extremely happy to hear that.

- So he was really, he was really receptive to the whole thing, and... Peter: Absolutely.

Him and his wife were actually talking, I think about a week or so prior to, and they were saying, you know, oh, I wonder what it would have been like if I would have had a son.

Callie: Wow.

- Just like a week before this.

Callie: Wow.

Peter: Yeah, so.

I wish that, uh, Patrick would have been in our lives a lot sooner, actually.

And I'm grateful that he was taken care of, but I really wish he would have been with us from baby, you know, and I know that, uh, the rest of my family is gonna feel the same way.

I have some photos, and, so this is, uh, all of your uncles and his car.

- Wow.

Peter: And obviously, this is me, uh, when I had hair like you.

Both: [chuckle] Peter: Um, this is your Uncle Tommy, Uncle Danny, this is Uncle Gibby, Uncle Tommy, and your dad.

Callie: I knew it, I knew it!

Patrick: I know, as soon as I saw that.

- [laughs] I knew instantly just by the way, you know, one of them was built and the way that he was leaning up against a car, I instantly knew who Pat's dad was.

[laughingly] This is you!

This is crazy!

Pete: You are a piece of everybody.

I see the two of you, you know, havin' the same kind of... You can tell that you're my brother's son.

Callie: [laughs] I love how close you guys are.

I think that's so incredible.

- It was a, it was a great moment for all of us.

Callie: Wow.

I, I feel very fortunate and very blessed that they're allowing me to also be a part of this journey, and to be a part of this experience.

- So I don't know if you know, but you have two-- he has two daughters.

Patrick: Yep, yep.

- Would you like to see your sisters?

- Yes.

- Yes.

Pete: All right.

This is them.

Uh... Callie: [laughingly] Oh my gosh.

Yes, this is... Wow, yup.

Pete: [laughs] They're definitely, uh, very excited to see you.

Patrick: So lookin' at the pictures of my sisters, yeah, definitely getting me very excited to meet them.

Callie: I'm, just, I can't wait.

I can't wait to meet every single one of them.

Patrick: Uncle Pete, thank you so much for sharing all of this with me.

Uh, this is amazing.

Uh, overwhelming is the word I keep using over and over and over again.

And, uh... - There's a lot to share.

Patrick: I know, I know, so much, so much.

I, I need a hug.

The big thing, though, is that Uncle Pete is in my life now forever, and always will be.

♪ Dan: Despite delivering heavy news, Erinn shares a heartfelt gift with her new cousin, Andy.

- You are absolutely welcome into our family.

I actually got something for you.

[sniffs] Um, this is céad míle fáilte.

It's a hundred thousand welcomes.

Andy: It's beautiful.

Thank you.

Erinn: In Irish.

[laughs] Andy: [whispers] Thank you.

Come here.

Erinn: I felt heartbroken to have to tell him that he will not be meeting his maternal side of his family, and I just want him to know that he's welcomed by our side of the family.

Andy: Thank you so much for doing this.

Thank you.

When Erinn gave me the framed, uh, saying in Irish, in Gaelic, there aren't even words that I can come up with to tell you how meaningful that was to me and how powerful that was.

- It's perfect.

♪ Laticha: I did not know that we had any other... that I had a sibling, another sibling, nothin' like that.

When I, when they called me, I was just like, wow.

I'm not the baby no more.

You're the baby.

So I can do what I want!

All: [laughing] - Yes.

- So how many, how many siblings do I have?

- That's a surprise for you.

- So, so growing up, did you grow up with, um, our father in place?

Laticha: Yes, I did.

He... was the best.

He protected his daughters from everything.

He protected me.

And our dad... he, he was murdered.

They used him as a shield.

He got shot in the St. Thomas Project.

October 29, 1987.

He would have been too happy to meet you.

He wouldn't have let you go.

Telling you, he would not have let you go.

Geselle: At the moment when she begin to share about my dad... it felt like somebody took all the lights and turned them off, and everything became dark.

♪ ♪ [sniffs] ♪ ♪ [sniffs] Laticha: It's okay.

Got a piece of him right here.

You got a piece of him in my heart.

You have a piece of him.

Geselle: [crying] I was havin' the hopes of findin' my birth father, and to hear that he passed, that was a little dart to the heart, and, um, it just felt like the whole room just got dark.

It, it literally felt like... something died, um, which was hope, you know, of seeing him, or hearin' his voice, or a laugh, or hugging him.

[sniffs] Laticha: It's gonna be all right.

It's gonna be all right.

You're gonna be all right.

You're gonna be all right.

- [sniffs] Laticha: You got me.

- [sniffs] Laticha: We got each other.

We have each other, always.

Geselle: But when she put her arms around me, she said to me, she said, he's still here, like, you know, he's in my heart, and he's, and-- That moment for me, um, that's when I broke, because... ♪ ♪ I needed that.

I, I, I needed to know that even though everything seemed dark in that moment, that there was somebody standing with me, and for my sister to step in and stand with me in that moment, I really needed that.

I just really want to say, again, thank you.

Thank you for taking the call.

Thank you for being here.

You know, uh, thank you for opening up your heart and allowing me in this space.

- No problem.

Geselle: I'm just excited for what's next.

- I'm excited, too.

'Cause I'm gon' drive you crazy.

Geselle: [laughs] That's okay.

I'm good with it.

Laticha: I'm gonna drive you up the wall.

Geselle: No, don't do that!

Don't drive me up the wall.

Both: [laughing] ♪ Dan: As the evening grows dim, all four teams nervously await the final results.

- Today was not our day.

- Definitely not our finest work.

Mitchell: Going into the call, to be honest I feel like we might get a strike just 'cause of the trouble we did have finding the relative's house.

- I'm hopin' the other teams... did just like we did.

Bombed in the challenge.

- Right.

Andy: I don't know that we won the day.

Lizzy: I don't know if we won the day.

Andy: But I mean, I, I'm just hoping we don't end up fourth.

[dramatic music] - Hey everybody, how you guys doing?

All: Hey!

Trinesha: Oh my gosh!

Callie: Hello, creative.

So we find out that second night in a row, we have the opportunity to [mouth click] chitty chat with the other teams before speaking to Mr. Dan.

Uh, and tonight, the energy was a little different.

- Everybody was a little exhausted from the challenge, trying to regroup.

[laughs] Trinesha: So what did y'all think about the challenge?

Geselle: I think I lost about 20 pounds today.

Both: Oh yeah.

Mitchell: Easy.

Trinesha: I, I enjoyed it.

I thought it was a really fun challenge.

- Uh-uh.

Oh boy, no.

Andy: How'd you guys do with the drive today?

Patrick: Driving was even more fun.

Trinesha: Oh yeah, driving was great.

- Oh yeah.

Outstanding.

Trinesha: [laughs] Andy: I feel like everyone's being not honest with their opinions on this.

Taquida: I agree with you, Andy.

[laughs] Lizzy: It must have been a really rough day.

- But you can also see that people are letting their guard down a little bit and granting themselves a little more grace.

- It got real.

Yeah, it got real for us today as well.

- Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see how today turns out, um.

Team Red: Yeah.

Geselle: Yeah, pretty much, yeah.

It is.

All: [oohing] Andy: I think we know this guy.

Dan: Hey, everybody.

It's great to see you here at the end of Day 2, and I'm anxious to find out how everything went for you today.

So remember yesterday, I said, look, Team Green had a really tough time, but I guarantee you, all of you are gonna go through tough times as well.

Did that happen to anybody today, or do they feel like that happened?

Oh, Team Black, Team Blue, and Team Red all raised their hands.

Very interesting.

All right.

Well, let's start with Team Green.

You actually had a really tough time yesterday.

Did you do anything different today?

Lizzy: Absolutely.

We woke up this morning and, and planned our route before we started driving.

- Yeah, I was actually literally sitting there chomping at the bit, going, okay guys, we gotta go, we gotta go go go!

Dan: So even though you knew that was costing you time, you were on the clock, you felt that was the better way to approach this day.

- Slow and steady wins the race.

Dan: We shall see.

Team Blue.

Your reason for coming on this race, Trinesha, was to support your husband.

You do find the relative, and who is waiting not for Mitchell, but for you, Trinesha.

Trinesha: Yes.

I found out where I get a lot of my interests [laughs] and a lot of my hobbies.

I met another cousin.

This is my cousin, David.

And this is my 96-year-old great-great-uncle, his dad.

Dan: Oh, wow.

Trinesha: And I found out that we have all lived so close for years.

- Well that makes for easy family reunions, then, in the future, and that's something to look forward to.

Team Red, you have a tough time with the challenge, but then you do arrive at the relative's house.

Was it worth it once again?

Geselle: It was absolutely worth it just for this moment.

I got to meet my big sister, Laticha.

- Hi!

Callie: Wow.

Dan: Man, look at your smile.

Geselle, you are just beaming.

Geselle: I am so ecstatic right now, and I'm so grateful.

Dan: Well, it's only Day 2, and it's only gonna get better.

Andy and Lizzy.

Another great surprise waiting for you, Andy?

- Definitely a great surprise.

Uh, today I had the honor and privilege of meeting my cousin, Erinn, and finding out that I am an O'Leary.

Dan: Now we know why you're Team Green.

- Right.

Dan: [Irish accent] You're O'Leary, there.

Top of the mornin' to ya, there, Andy.

- [Irish accent] Indeed, indeed.

Dan: [laughs] Team Black, who was waiting for you today?

- So, today, Dan, I met my Uncle Pete.

Trinesha: Oh wow.

Callie: [laughs] - Oh wow.

Oh, man.

Relative Race is real.

Is it almost surreal to you guys, though, at times?

It's like, oh my gosh, is this actually happening?

Patrick: Absolutely.

And, and almost every moment.

- Every moment.

Dan: Well, obviously a good day because you all found new family.

But now is the time to find out once again who finished in first and who picks up the strike.

Team Red, you finished in first place.

Do you think you're going to repeat on that performance today?

I think the look says it all.

[laughs] You didn't finish in first.

You finished 22 minutes over your allotted time, which was good enough for second place.

But the reason why I want to start with you is you chose as your first place benefit fuzzy dice.

[electronic slide] These look familiar?

Team Red: Yes.

Taquida: Little slightly different color, but yep.

Dan: Geselle, you had your newfound cousin roll these dice, and they came up with what number?

- Eight.

Dan: Well that means you get eight minutes deducted from your time.

Callie: Oh, nice.

Dan: So you don't finish 22 minutes over.

You actually finish 14 minutes over your allotted time.

Now, it's time to find out who finished in first.

Wow, Team Green, you finished in first place 11 minutes over your allotted time.

All: [applauding] Callie: Nice.

Good job, you guys.

- Team Green and Team Red, you're safe.

Team Black and Team Blue, one of you finished in third.

The other will pick up their first strike of the race.

Finishing 29 minutes over their allotted time and still without a strike...

Team Blue.

- Oh.

Dan: Patrick and Callie, you have finished in fourth place and picked up your first strike of the race.

But for Team Green, your first place finish means you get to pick what prize you would like.

So let's go ahead and take a look at what prizes are available to you.

[electronic buzzing] Fuzzy dice, gone.

It's off the table.

The locked boxes will be unlocked on the day that is noted there.

But what about those other prizes?

Now remember, Andy and Lizzy, which one seems to be the one that you think will give you the big advantage tomorrow?

Lizzy: There were only two benefits on the board.

One was Get Outta Town, and one was Leg Up.

- Leg Up just sounds fun.

- And I don't have any idea what Leg Up is, though.

Andy: Yeah, it sounds fun, though.

Lizzy: Might as well pick it.

Andy: Get a leg up.

I'm thinkin' we need to get a leg up.

What about you?

- I'm thinkin'... Leg Up.

Andy: Let's go with Leg Up.

Dan: Okay.

I'll betcha you'd love to know what that means.

Lizzy: We would love it.

Dan: Well, so sad, too bad.

You're going to find out tomorrow.

That's when Day 3 starts for all of you.

You're only two days in.

You have found family that is already changing your lives.

Imagine who is out there waiting for you.

Good luck, everybody.

Be safe, and remember, family is everything.

Geselle: Go Green!

- Yeah, Go Green!

Lizzy: Love you!

Team Blue: Love you!

Erinn: Luck of the Irish!

Lizzy: Yay!

Yes!

- We actually went from worst to first.

- No strike.

- We didn't get a strike.

- We came in third again, but that's fine.

Long as, you know... You know, we don't have to come in first, just not last.

- Um, we knew that strike was coming.

Remember earlier today?

- Spoiler alert.

X. I'm thinkin' we got a really good chance to be fourth.

Wah-wah.

Yeah, we totally called it.

Uh, today just was not our day, but, uh, tomorrow we will be.

Taquida: Good job, good job.

'Cause we were definitely worried.

- Woo!

- I'm excited.

I'm excited for y'all.

- Thank you.

- And excited that I have a little sister.

- [chuckles] That you say you gonna drive her up the wall.

- Yeah.

I'm gonna drive you up the wall.

Geselle: Again, thank you.

Thank you.

♪