♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race... Four new teams converged on a Cincinnati neighborhood.

Go!

The husband and wife, two cousins, the sisters-in-law, and a soon-to-be-married couple, through service, changed the life of two strangers.

Scott: We’ve really been in need of a wheelchair ramp.

Kelly: So, I’m glad that we were able to help you.

Scott: You may have finished last, but you’ve, you’re helpin’ us finish first in this, and we sure appreciate all you’ve done.

Dan: Tiffani discovered her biological family name.

Tiffani: Mayo?

Charley: Yes.

- I know that I have heard that name.

It hit me, I just got goosebumps that there’s a question that has already been answered.

Dan: Angie learned she wasn’t forgotten.

Shonna: The whole family knows about you.

Dan: Rachelle found out that her father is still alive.

Sabrina: One of these men in this picture is your dad.

Dan: And what began with only notes and photos became reality for Layton.

Kelsey: It’s the very first tattoo he got, about a year after she was born.

And that’s his way of remembering you.

Dan: But, in the end, Team Black took home a first-place finish, while Team Green received the first strike of the race.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.

Rachelle: Whoo!

Kyle: Here we go!

[car revving] Dan: To win $50,000.

Angie: We’re here!

We made it!

Dan: And to find their family.

[knocking] Singer: ♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ oh-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ whoa-oh-oh.

♪ ♪ Whoa-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ oh-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ whoa-oh-oh.

♪ ♪ Whoa-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ oh-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ whoa-oh-oh.

♪ ♪ Dan: It’s Day 2 of Relative Race, and four new teams are beginning the journey of a lifetime to find their families.

Today, Team Red, Jose and Tiffani, begin their day on the West Coast, in Eugene, Oregon.

All the way across the country, on the East Coast, is Team Green, Angela and Kelly.

They’re starting their day in Syracuse, New York.

Over 16 hours away is Team Black, Kyle and Layton, in Osborn, Missouri.

And down in Georgia, is Team Blue, Karim and Rachelle.

They begin their day in Morrow-- with Rachelle’s auntie, Sabrina.

Sabrina: So, I want you to know that I really have enjoyed your presence in my home, you and Karim, it was just such a pleasure to meet you.

I don’t want you to leave-- - I don’t wanna leave, either.

[chuckles lightly] - I was very happy, very happy to meet her, very happy to be blessed again with their presence, just, just that connection that we had, as, as a auntie and a niece, is so genuine, considering that [laughs] I have, I’m just now meeting her, but I felt like I’ve known her my whole life.

I know I showed you pictures yesterday, of my brothers and my momma, but I wanted to give it to you to keep as well.

Rachelle: Thank youuu.

Sabrina: Along with pictures of Kerry and Uncle Johnny.

Rachelle: Thaank youuu.

- My Auntie Sabrina showed me this photo last night, and one of the brothers in the photo is actually my biological father, so it’s very special to me to be able to take this photo with me on my journey, um, and search to find him.

Sabrina: And... - Thank you so much.

Sabrina: Give you a little keepsake of my book, that you can remember me by, and that has-- Karim: Did you sign it?

- I did.

Rachelle: Okay, I was gonna say, did you?

- I di- I did.

Rachelle: Okay.

My Auntie Sabrina gave me a book of her poetry, and I am so excited to read it.

As a writer as well, um, it’s really inspiring to see one of my family members as a published writer.

Thank you.

Sabrina: That’s just for you to remember me by.

Rachelle: Thank you.

Sabrina: You’re welcome.

- Let me give you some love-- Sabrina: Now you have a framed picture-- - I know, I can’t wait to hang that up.

Sabrina: [laughs] ♪ - This morning, we woke up with my cousin Charley, and he shared a family photo with me.

This is the first time I’m actually seeing family members that I look like.

- This is kind of an older picture.

This would be your Uncle Buford.

Tiffani: Oh, okay.

Is that your dad?

Charley: Yes.

Tiffani: Okay.

Charley: Um, this would be your Uncle Mickey-- Tiffani: ‘Kay.

Charley: --um, and then your grandparents-- Tiffani: Oh!

Charley: --um, Jean and Red.

Tiffani: Jean and Red?

Charley: Yeah.

- I look like Red.

That’s my baby picture.

[all laugh] Tiffani: Oh my goodness.

Charley: He was probably as big as you were.

Tiffani: That’s where I get the ears!

Look at that!

[laughs] Oh my goodness.

Charley: Yeah, he was a character, man.

He loved to make jokes, make everybody smile.

Tiffani: Yeah.

Jose: His name, Red?

Tiffani: Red.

Charley: Yeah.

Tiffani: Oh, that’s awesome.

So, Charley shows me a picture of my grandparents, my grandmother and grandfather, and immediately I see the resemblance.

I, we have the same ears, I have the same nose, and to go this long to finally find somebody who I look like, who I take after, it, it just, it, it just hit home, like, it gives me goosebumps to think, like, this is, this is where I come from.

[laughs] And I look like an old man!

[laughs] Oh, but he’s handsome.

I am super excited to meet more, more relatives.

I can’t wait to see where this journey takes us, to, to go on, and, and to find out more and more answers to my questions that I’ve had.

It’s, it’s gonna be amazing.

♪ - We had a very early start to the morning today, in order to hang out with our newfound relatives before we had to head off for Day 2.

And I was able to make breakfast with Destiny and Kayla, so we had pancakes, and eggs, and bacon; it was a really good start.

- All right, this is update: breakfast for the first time with our perfect family here-- we got Kelsey in the corner.

Layton, what do you think?

What do you think?

You’re the, you’re the official cook here, the official taste test.

Whaddya think?

- Fantastic.

- Fantastic?

Y’all, we’ve had a fantastic day.

It was actually kind of invigorating, would be the word for me, ‘cause it’s like, this is people that we’ve never met, we met ‘em last night, and they’re already opening their house to have breakfast in the morning?

Like, Kayla’s a wonderful cook, and so is Destiny, and Kelsey is such a wonderful host.

It was just a wonderful time to spend with them.

Layton: Bye.

Kyle: Love you!

Say goodbye, everybody!

Signin’ out.

♪ Angela: This morning, we wake up in Syracuse, and my aunt Shonna has something really cool to show me about my family.

- Uh, today I’d like to show you something.

[cap pops] Nine generations-- - Wow.

Shonna: --of, of, of the Geyer family-- Kelly: Oh wow, this is really nice.

Shonna: --through the years.

Angela: Wow.

Shonna: But-- So, it starts all the way back in 1735 with your six times great-grandfather.

Um, his son, Johann Peter Geyer, and so on and so forth, to, to David, to Robert, to John, to Donald, to your grandfather, to your mother, and then to you.

Angela: Wow, that’s amazing.

Shonna: Yeah.

Angela: This is, like, just unbelievable, that it can be traced back that far.

That’s amazing.

♪ "Barbara Geyer, 1963.

"She’s worked for Winn Dixie for 34 years "and has been a deli/bakery manager "for 27 of those years.

"She loves bike riding, drawing, baking, cake decorating, and animals."

So we have a lot in common.

[laughs] - Yes, you do, yes, you do.

- Learning details about my mother, Barbara, and that we have some similar interests and, um, similarities, it’s, it’s really neat.

I hope I get to meet her along this way, along this journey.

- They are all from Franklin County.

Yeah, Franklin County, Franklin County, Franklin County, all the way down to my father, who’s born in Franklin County as well.

- That’s, that’s amazing that everyone has been in Pennsylvania.

Shonna: Mm-hmm.

- And everything started in Pennsylvania, and I’m still there.

Like, that’s just unbelievable.

Wow, that’s amazing.

That’s just unbelievable.

This is just awesome to find this out.

- [laughs] Angela: Thank you for everything.

- Absolutely.

And there’s our phone.

There’s our phone.

Kelly: Wait.

- There’s your phone.

Kelly: S-- is that a text from Dan?

Angela: It must be.

It must be.

♪ Tiffani: "Good morning, teams."

Both: "And welcome to Day 2 of--" Angela: "Relative Race."

Tiffani: "Team Red will be travelling to Medford, Oregon."

Both: "Team Blue will be travelling to Jasper, Georgia."

Layton: "Team Black will be travelling to Wichita, Kansas."

- Wichita.

- "And Team Green will be travelling to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania!"

- Today’s first place prize is 15 minutes off the clock to shop for a surprise gift for your relative.

Your clock starts now.

Let’s go!

- All right.

- We gonna go?

Lewisburg.

- Let’s go!

We’re goin’ to Lewisburg.

Let’s go.

- We’re goin’ home.

- Thank you so-- Shonna: Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Angela: Thank you so much.

Shonna: Hurry, hurry, hurry.

I’ll pack this up, I’ll pack this up.

- We learned that we’re going to Lewisburg, Pennsylva.

Basically, where I’m from, it’s 15 minutes from where I grew up.

Things are looking good today.

Rachelle: We will see you.

Let’s go.

Karim: We know where we’re going.

The navigation, that will be fine.

It’s just the unknown of the traffic.

Jose: Getting third place right out of the gates yesterday really stunk.

- Yeah, Black Team is here to win, so we really need to kick it up a notch.

[dramatic music] ♪ ♪ - Sometimes I wish I had my compass.

Wait.

Sun rises in the west.

Layton: We’re going south.

- Sets in the east.

- That’s east.

That’s west.

That’s north.

♪ Dan: Embracing their basic knowledge of the Earth’s rotational patterns, today, Team Black, Layton and Kyle, are following the sun from Osborn, Missouri, to Wichita, Kansas.

They have an allotted time of 3 hours and 31 minutes.

♪ - So yeah, we’re goin’ to Lewisburg.

We’re basically going home.

I mean, like-- - I’m excited.

- We’re, we’re basically going back to where we live, like, it’s where we know the area, we know the roads.

- Finding out where we’re going today, it’s 30 minutes from where we live, so navigating should really be a breeze for us.

Dan: Heading extremely close to home is Team Green.

Angela and her sister-in-law, Kelly, are confident in their navigation, and will be racing from Syracuse, New York, to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

They have an allotted time of 3 hours and 27 minutes.

♪ - ♪ Goin’ to Jas-per, Jas-per, ♪ ♪ we goin’ Jasper, ♪ [in high voice] ♪ we goin’ Jasper.

♪ [cop show theme music] - ♪ J, A, S, P, E, R, ♪ [high voice] ♪ J , A, ♪ [low voice] ♪ S, P, ♪ Both: ♪ E, R ♪ [cop show theme music] Both: ♪ J, A, S, P, E, R, ♪ ♪ Jasper, Jasper ♪ Dan: Singing all the way to ♪ J-a-a-asper ♪ is Team Blue.

Today, Rachelle and Karim are headed from Morrow to Jasper, Georgia.

They have the shortest allotted time of the day at 1 hour and 21 minutes.

♪ Staying stone cold and focused is Team Red.

Today, Tiffani and Jose are staying in the state of Oregon.

They’re headed from Eugene to Medford.

Their total allotted time is 2 hours and 37 minutes.

♪ Layton: When I was 22 years old, my family shared with me the photos and letters that my biological parents had sent to me throughout my childhood years.

♪ If I was to write a letter to biological father Brian in response to all the letters he’s written me, I would probably say thank you, honestly.

Because, especially after hearing Kelsey say that he regretted giving me up, I, I know that’s probably something he felt, but honestly, it was the best way my life would have gone.

- Right.

Layton: Once you know that you’re adopted, there’s always the question of, if I do reach out to them, would they even care to meet me?

And having these letters, it’s taken that what if away from me.

Being adopted was the best way that they could ensure that I had a great life, and I can only appreciate and applaud them for that, because that’s so hard to do.

Thank you for having the courage and love to give me away, and to trust these people that you just met, and taking the, the few days in the hospital to get to know them, and thank you for wanting to keep tabs on me.

And like you said, like, it’s, it’s a regret you had, but you leaned into it, you accepted it, you continued to write to me, you thought about me, you told your family about me, and you didn’t hide me away.

Thank you for not shaming me, thank you for... being such an outstanding man.

I see this whole experience of Relative Race and being able to meet my biological family as something that you can say will and will not change me.

I know who I am as a person, but there’s something beautiful about knowing where your genetics come from, I'm going to be able to see people that sound like me, look like me, and, and act like me.

And that’s something that will bring comfort and fill a void that I didn’t know I had before I started this process.

Really meeting my biological family, it’s, it’s going to increase the number of people in my life that I can care for, and that also care for me.

♪ ♪ Jose: Medford, next two exits.

Mile marker 32.

- Jasper, where are you, where are you?

Layton: I am so glad we skipped the city selfie today, because there is nothing that says Wichita.

Since we won first place yesterday, we didn’t have to take a city selfie today.

- But we thought we’d kind of rub it into Team Blue’s face, and so we sent them a selfie.

One, two, three.

[shutter clicks] Rachelle: We just got somethin’ from Team Black.

They sent a picture.

Ha ha!

It say “Hey, love y’alls faces, so here’s ours.

[laughs] Cute little pic, Team Black.

- Be careful not to poke the bear too hard, kids.

Things could change real quick.

- See anything over here?

- No.

I’ll look over here, you go on that side.

- Usually like the John Deere say, like, Jasper, Jasper’s John Deere.

- Oh, really?

- Or whatever.

Angela: Oh, look, there’s a sign that says Lewisburg.

- Medford right here, right here.

Medford Autos.

- Jasper, Georgia, right there.

- [frustrated sounds] ♪ Kelly: ‘Kay!

All right.

[camera shutter clicks] [phone chimes] [whoosh] ♪ - Welcome to Medford, Oregon.

Both: At Lee Newton Park.

- Fichtner-Mainwaring Park.

- You ready?

Let’s go!

♪ Tiffani: Way over there, way over there.

I see it, I see it, I see ‘im.

- You see?

- Yeah, all the way over there.

- There it is, there it is.

Angela: There it is, okay, we see it!

♪ - Welcome to-- - Puzzle Pillar.

♪ Dan: Day 2’s challenge is Puzzle Pillar.

Teams must shoot paintballs at targets placed on a giant pillar, hit the targets in the right place to reveal a key.

There are three keys waiting to be found, one of which will unlock the lid to their puzzle.

Once the teams have solved the puzzle, they will have discovered their relative’s address.

♪ Jose: Go, go, go, go, go!

♪ [paintballs firing] [music stops] - Where’d it go?

[music and paintballs continue] - We were trying to break the target with enough shots to get the corn to start flowing out.

It’s actually pretty hard.

♪ [paintballs splatting] Jose: With me being military, I believe it gave me a slight advantage, although it’s not exactly the same thing, but it helps.

[paintballs firing] Rachelle: I’ve never shot paintballs before, so when I learned that this was my challenge, I was excited, but also a little nervous, because my hand and eye coordination is not that good.

♪ - Neither of us have ever shot a paintball gun before, um, but we actually did bow and arrow training for the show, so, maybe this will help us today?

♪ [paintballs firing] Kyle: Our plan was just to pick one target and shoot the crap out of it until some type of corn came out.

[paintballs splatting] Ah-ha-ha!

[indistinct]?

Layton: Yep.

- I got a key, right there.

- Check that one.

♪ [buzzer sound] Kyle: ‘Kay, it’s not the right one.

Layton: ‘Kay.

So we got really lucky on the first go.

The first target that we chose to hit had the corn in it, but it didn’t have the right key inside.

[paintballs firing] Angela: I didn’t see anything silver coming out, and I think-- - Go up!

[paintballs firing] ♪ - I was shooting from one target to the next.

My thought was shoot it once or twice, and the key was coming out.

Tiffani: That’s when we realized we had to group our shots to, to really find the shot.

Jose: And, and really, yeah, we kind of just scattered all three targets as much as I can to see which one would give first, and which one would give us a key.

[paintballs firing] Tiffani: There it is, okay.

Jose: Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it!

Tiffani: Because we’re using paintballs, the paint is mixed in all with this corn, so just digging through that wet corn with paint all over our hands made it a little bit difficult to find that key ring, because it kept slipping out.

Ugh!

Jose: Try it, try it, try it, try it, try it, try it, try it.

[buzzer] Tiffani: Nope, no.

Jose: Go, go, go, go, go!

Tiffani: The first key did not unlock our lock, so we had to flip it around and go to the next side.

Angela: I guess that’s it.

Let’s stop, stop!

It took us a while to figure out, like, oh, we thought the key was literally going to fall out, but it was like, no, you have to run up and dig through all this stuff that was coming out.

Kelly: Paintball guts, and-- Angela: The little corn kernels.

Kelly: It looks like the inside of a pumpkin, so.

Angela: Yeah, yeah, it’s kind of like the inside of a pumpkin.

Kelly: We dig through all that corn-- Angela: Dig through the corn.

Both: Find the key.

Angela: Go, go!

Oh, ew.

Yeah, my manicure’s ruined.

Okay.

[buzzer] Angela: Oh, no, that’s, like, really not it.

Okay.

And it didn’t work.

Kelly: Yeah.

[paintballs firing] [metallic trigger sound] [slow-mo splats] [rhythmic shots] [slow-mo shots] [airhorn] Jose: Should have come out by now.

Tiffani: It should've.

Layton: Go, go!

Kyle: Gotta go!

[rhythmic music] Kelly: Oh, no.

- I'm-- Okay.

Oh, come on!

♪ Rachelle: So we shot at all of the targets, but we still don't have a key, so we're thinking we obviously missed something.

Here!

Tiffani: Oh, right here, right here, right here!

♪ We finally found another key.

Hope this one works.

Ugh.

Jose: Come on, come on, come on.

It's open, it's open, it's open, it's open!

♪ Tiffani: Ah, okay!

Relative Race, Relative Race!

Kyle: We opened it up, and it's one of those slide puzzles.

And then on the puzzle was all the colors of Relative Race, so it was black, yellow, red, and green.

- I'm a puzzle person, but I hate slide puzzles.

Kyle: I love puzzles.

I grew up doing puzzles with my dad all the time, and that's actually something that we love doing.

Rachelle: Relative Race.

Okay, we need to put that together.

[paintball gun firing] Kelly: We really hope the key is in this one and that it's the right key.

Here.

Angie: Okay.

- So we find that the key opens up this big board with a slide puzzle inside.

- Which we're both really good at.

Let's just get these out of the way.

So this has to get out of the way.

- Slide it over.

So that one has green and red on side.

- [laughs] - Oh my gosh.

Okay, and this one's gotta come down here in the center.

Jose: The puzzle was very difficult.

Very harder than what it looked.

Tiffani: We're not great at slide puzzles, so it was a challenge for us, for sure.

Kelly: This whole thing has to be up here.

Angie: Yeah.

Karim: Over.

Uh-huh.

Over.

That goes up there.

When we saw the slide puzzle, I was thinkin' that Chelles probably has never done one of these.

- [laughs] - I really did think that.

- And I, di-- hadn't.

- [scoffs] Kelly: We're, we're close.

Bring that one down.

Angie: Okay.

We did it!

Let's go!

Woo!

Kyle: We got it, we got it!

We gotta get the card.

Go!

Layton: Rip it open.

- Got it, got it, I got it.

Nice.

Angie: To find your relative's address, you must go back to your puzzle.

[dinging] Tiffani: Ugh.

Jose: Hope you know what you're doin'.

There we go, you got it!

Layton: We ran over to the table, and clearly we were confused when it said that our relative's address could be found within the, the challenge, but then we remembered that it's a clear puzzle table, so we immediately ran to the table and looked underneath.

- What do they mean it's on... Angie: It's just on the bottom of it, that's all.

Kelly: We realized the address was on the back of the puzzle; we flipped 'em over to piece together our relative's address.

Tiffani: To find your relative's address, you must go back to your puzzle?

What?

Rachelle: Okay.

♪ [gasps] Oh!

Tiffani: Look!

Both: Your relative lives at... Jose: 3333 Madrona Lane.

Angie: 'Kay, your relative... Kelly: Oh, it's spell it, okay.

Angie: ...lives at... one, we messed up the order.

Uh.

Rachelle: At 179 Picken Street.

Tiffani: Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

- At 1706 University Street.

- Perfect, perfect, perfect, let's go.

Angie: We messed it, we messed up the order!

- No, your relative at, lives-- - 131 Verna Road.

- Verna Road.

- Okay, let's go.

Kelly: Go, go.

♪ ♪ Dan: With the challenge behind them, all four teams put the rubber to the road to find their family.

Karim: Come on, car, come on, car!

- Woo!

Layton: We were completely lost.

I mean, we didn't have any sort of city map.

Luckily, we were right next to a post office, so we walked inside and asked if somebody could give us some directions.

Jose: Does time stop at red lights?

- [sighs] Hopefully.

It's killin' me, smalls!

Of course this is happening right now.

Team Red is hitting all the red lights.

I really hope this doesn't cost us a strike.

Lights, really!

♪ - All right, let's pull in here really quick and ask all these people, okay?

- Uh-huh.

Right across the street from where we're doing our challenge, there's a tennis match going on with lots of spectators.

- Yeah, someone here has to know where Verna Road is.

Kelly: Do you know Verna Road is?

Woman 2: Yes.

Kelly: Please tell me.

Ang, Ang!

The spectator gives us step by step by step directions to Verna Road, and we just decided, let's both write it down really quick 'cause this is gonna work today.

Angie: All right, thank you so much!

Kelly: Thank you.

Angie: Thank you!

♪ Tiffani: Madrona Lane, 350 feet!

Oh gosh, which, which way do we go?

Right or left?

Jose: Uh, we're gonna go, we're gonna go left.

Well-- Tiffani: Right.

Right, right.

Jose: Oh yeah.

Karim: We're lookin' for 1791 Picken Street.

That way?

Back the other way?

Kyle: Awesome, thank you, sir!

Oh, we were so pumped.

We found a mailman, and he gave us a turn by turn directions straight to the house.

So we're running to, we're gonna go down here, we're gonna go down to Maple.

Got it.

Tiffani: 29, 27... Jose: Yep, 3333 in a minute.

- 1791.

- 3333.

Rachelle: Oh, right there.

[dramatic orchestral note] Rachelle: We made it!

Karim: Blue Team here.

It's Day 2, and we just arrived at the relative's house.

So, since yesterday, you actually got to see a picture, one of the men that possibly could be your father.

What are you thinkin' now?

Rachelle: I'm thinkin' that I am finally one step closer to knowing who my father is, so...

I guess we'll just have to see who's on the other side of the door.

Karim: Hello.

My name's Karim; this is my cousin Rachelle.

- How you doin', Rachelle?

My name is Anthony.

- Hi, Anthony!

Whose relative are you?

- Rachelle, I'm your uncle.

Rachelle: So good to meet you.

Anthony: Feels good to meet you, too.

Rachelle: I saw a picture of you.

Anthony: You did?

Rachelle: Yes!

Anthony: Oh, it's so good to meet you.

Rachelle: It's so good to meet you.

Anthony: It's so good to meet you.

Rachelle: You know what's so funny?

Your sister said that.

Anthony: When I opened that front door and looked at Rachelle for the first time, I seen my mom.

That broke me down.

I seen my mom.

I seen somebody that I've been searchin' for for a long time.

Somebody that I can call my niece.

Look at you.

[laughs] - We do look alike.

- Yeah, we do.

Wow.

It's amazing.

[laughs] Rachelle: When I first hugged my uncle, Anthony, he told me that I looked like his mother, which was so beautiful because that was the same thing that Aunt Sabrina had said to me, and so, kind of hearing that confirmation again [emotionally] really made me feel like I belonged.

And I never, I've never had anyone that I looked like, so hearing, you know, that I look like someone was so comforting and such a confirmation.

Singer: ♪ When you lose your way ♪ ♪ And the path begins to fade ♪ ♪ Just close your eyes ♪ Anthony: Oh, Rachelle: It feels so good to hug you.

Anthony: So good to hug you, too.

You don't have to cry, okay?

You're gonna be okay.

Everything will be okay from this point on.

Singer: ♪ Take a moment to wipe the tears away ♪ Anthony: She's been lookin' for her family, and so, I wanted to give her that hug, let her know, I'm gonna always be here for you, Rachelle.

I will never leave you, nor forsake you, nor let you down.

Everything's good.

Karim: Watchin' the moment when they embraced, it just felt good to know that Rachelle will always be protected no matter where she's at.

We're cousins, but she's always been like a little sister to me.

I just always want her to be in good hands and always protected.

- We're so glad you found us, and I'm so glad I found you.

Rachelle: Oh, me too.

- Okay?

You're in our life forever, and you don't have to worry about that.

Rachelle: Forever.

Anthony: Forever.

So y'all okay?

Karim: Yeah, yeah.

I mean, we had a little trouble getting here.

Anthony: Oh, that's okay.

Karim: Just a little bit.

Rachelle: But we're here now, so.

Anthony: You're here now.

You're lookin' just like your grandmother.

Yeah.

Y'all wanna go in inside and get out the rain?

Karim: Absolutely.

Anthony: Yeah, let's do that.

Singer: ♪ I fall in love with you ♪ ♪ A little more every day ♪ ♪ Kelly: 41, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, stop!

- Where?

Where?!

Kelly: Okay, stop.

We're here.

We're here.

Okay.

- I'm all right, but I'm a little worried.

I don't know.

I'm not really sure.

These people have wanted to meet me, like, this was meant to be.

I was meant to find these people.

[tender piano music] Kelly: Hi.

Angie: Hi.

- Hi, how's it goin', I'm Richard.

Angie: Hi, I'm Angie.

- Hi, I'm Kelly.

Angie: Whose relative are you?

- I'm related to you, Angie.

- And how are we related?

- Through your mom.

I'm your first cousin.

- [gasps] It's nice to meet you!

Richard: Nice to meet you.

My name is Richard Deeter, and I'm Angie's first cousin.

- We were given a few names last night of who her siblings were.

Who's your parents?

Richard: It would be, uh, my mom is Linda.

Angie: Linda, okay.

Last night, I learned from my aunt, Shonna, that my mom, Barb, has several siblings, and one of them is Linda, who has unfortunately passed.

Richard: Here, let me get another hug.

Angie: It's, it's so nice to meet you.

- Did you notice his eyes, Ang?

- Yes.

Kelly: The blue, the blue?

Angie: I think everyone in this family has blue eyes, I think.

That's what I was told last night.

Richard: Oh yeah, yep.

Kelly: The Geyer eyes?

- So... Richard: Yep.

That's, that's very true.

I've been looking forward for this for a while now because my aunt, Barb, her, Angie's mother, she always, she always talked about this.

You know, it's nice to have another family member that I know that I did have, and I really wanna, you know, be back in her life.

I have, I have some guests inside if you guys would like to meet 'em.

- Yeah, yeah.

Absolutely.

♪ ♪ Tiffani: We pulled up to our relative's address, and we're so excited and nervous after meeting one already.

I think the jitters were just a little, not as much as it was the first day, 'cause we didn't know what to expect, but still very excited to see who was gonna be behind that door.

Jose: Hello!

Tiffani: Hi.

- Hi.

- I'm Jose.

This is my wife, Tiffani.

- Hi.

- I'm Amy.

Tiffani: Hi, how, um, whose relative are you?

- I'm yours.

- How are we related?

- Your cousin.

Tiffani: You're my cousin.

- Yeah.

Charley's my brother.

- Charley's your brother, oh!

Nice to meet you!

Amy: My name is Amy Hamann; I'm Tiffani's first cousin.

Tiffani: So, tell me about your family.

Amy: I have three boys.

Tiffani: Oh, nice.

Amy: Yeah.

Um, my oldest one is, uh, 14, but he looks like he's 18.

- [laughs] Amy: My nine-year-old is super shy.

He doesn't speak very much, uh, so, and then my youngest one, he just doesn't stop talking.

He's like, he's like me.

- We have three, also.

We have a nine-year-old boy and then two six-year-old girls.

Amy: Tiffani seems to be, like, have a big family, and, uh, she married into that, too, and so did I.

So my husband had a lot of family, and it's like, it seems like she's really close with her family, and it's what we all are.

They just seem very happy and friendly.

My kids like thrill rides and speed.

Got a treat for you guys.

Do you wanna grab my kids and head on out?

Tiffani: Yeah, yeah, let's go.

Jose: Let's do it.

- Amy tells us that, uh, her family, they like thrills and speed, and my first thought was, "Ugh, we're going on a roller coaster."

And I'm so afraid of heights.

I'm just thinking in my head, "Please don't be a roller coaster ride, please don't be a roller coaster."

♪ Layton: Heavenly Father, I am grateful that I am able to meet yet another person from this biological side of my family that I haven't met before.

I pray that we can have the energy and spirit to welcome them into our hearts and that we can have conversation that will allow us to get to know one another.

Heavenly Father, we pray that they feel our gratitude as they have welcomed us into their home, and we pray that this is a positive experience, in the name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, amen.

[reflective piano music] Man 1: Hi, how are you guys?

Kyle: Doing good, how you doin'?

Man 2: We're good, how about you?

Kyle: Doing great!

Layton: So now I guess introductions.

Man 2: Yes.

So, I'm Jacob.

- I'm Brayden.

- Okay.

- Brayden, okay.

I'm Layton, and this is my fiancé, Kyle.

- Nice to meet you all.

Jacob: Nice to meet you guys.

- You guys are related to?

- Who do you think we're related to?

Layton: I mean, I would assume me.

- We are your cousins.

- Okay.

Jacob: So, Kelsey is our mother, and Uncle, Uncle Bryan is our uncle.

Layton: Okay.

Kyle: No way.

Layton: Shake hands, whatever.

Kyle: Shake hands and hug.

Hey, it's nice to meet you.

Brayden: Nice to meet you guys, too.

Layton: Hand shakes are formal, but... Kyle: I can do that.

Nice to meet you, man.

Jacob: Nice to meet you, too.

- I'm Brayden Grimshaw.

- And I'm Jacob Grimshaw.

- And we're Layton's cousins on her father's side.

We've actually heard about you guys a lot from our Uncle Bryan in the past.

- Okay.

Brayden: How everything started, and we were shocked.

- Yeah, just hearing that, because all we had known that you were put up for adoption, and after that, we, nothing.

You know, we hadn't heard anything about you.

We've known about Layton since I was about 12 years old and Brayden was about 9 years old.

We heard about her from my mother, telling us about how our uncle had given up his daughter, Layton, up for adoption, and after that, we've never really heard anything about her.

Brayden: And now that we're having that chance to be able to reconnect, it's very heartwarming.

Family member, never got to meet.

Hey, let's extend the family!

Kyle: Let's do it.

- The phantom cousin comes to life.

Jacob: Exactly.

Just, just a cousin removed.

Kyle: Oh, there we go!

Layton: It's really nice knowing that I haven't been hidden away.

And it's very different in every single case of adoption, but, I just am very lucky and blessed that in this case, Bryan, my biological father, was able to continue thinking about me, bringing me up in his life, and not having that be a sore subject to him.

That's something that happened in his life, and he'll talk about it.

Jacob: Well, do all of you guys want to go see in the inside?

Kyle: I would love to see inside.

Layton: Please.

Richard: Hey guys, this is, this is your other family member we got here.

Woman 3: Hi!

How are, come on in, sit down!

Angie: Hi!

Hi!

Richard: When we came inside, uh, Angie didn't know that I had, you know, a few other guests there.

And hopefully, I surprised her.

This is my uncle.

This is, this is your mom's brother.

We've got Aunt Shelley, and we've got my sister, Stephanie.

- Hi.

Angie: Hi, it's nice to meet everybody.

My cousin Ricky surprises me.

He has three more relatives inside.

They're all really closely related to my mom, and I can't wait to hear what they have to share with me.

Is everyone from around here?

Does, do you all live here?

Richard: Um, I'm from, I'm from Pennsylvania, well, you know, I'm actually, I'm actually from Lewisburg.

- I'm from here, too.

I grew up in Sunbury.

Stephanie: Really?

Angie: Yeah.

- Are you serious?

Angie: Yeah.

Richard: Wow.

Kelly: You probably have passed, have crossed paths at some point.

Angie: And I'm kind of still local.

I live in Burwick.

Stephanie: We used to live in Sunbury.

Angie: I don't live far from here.

- A hop, skip, and a jump.

Richard: Yeah, guarantee we walked right past each other and didn't say nothin'.

Guarantee it.

Angie: All these sort of communities are near each other that we all live in and grew up in, so, to know that these people that I'm related to have been here my whole life, it's just, it's just amazing, and that I still have these family members that are nearby.

- We've been looking for you for years.

- Oh, wow.

- Barb did not hide it.

She didn't want to give you up, but at the time, she thought it was the best thing for you.

She wanted to make sure that you were gonna be okay.

- That's, that's like, really, I mean, I, I did, I learned that last night that everyone has been looking for me.

Shelley: We have been, we have been.

But it was a closed adoption.

And there was no way that Barbie or any of us could find out any information, because it was a closed.

Angie: It's comforting to hear from my biological relatives that they had always wanted to meet me, um, that I wasn't forgotten about, um, that my, my biological mom, Barb, has always talked about me, and everyone knew who I was.

Um, it's really comforting to hear that and, you know, at the time, when I was given up for adoption, it was just, she just wanted the best thing for me, and I'm really grateful for that.

- This is, this a special, this is a very special moment for me because, you know, your family, I'd like to meet 'em.

I don't have much family of my own.

It's just very special to meet ya.

Stephanie: I'm glad I meet ya.

I'm just glad you're in our lives.

We just wanted you to be in our lives since, since you was a baby.

When I heard that my aunt, Barb, gave her daughter up, it just killed me inside.

But I'm glad she did have a good home, but I'm glad that she's part of my family now.

- I'm really grateful that this family, they're willing to come here and meet me, that they're willing to be part of my journey.

They're giving me so many answers, and I'm just so grateful for this, and I can't wait to just keep getting it more information and filling in all the pieces of the puzzle.

♪ ♪ Jacob: So, how old were you whenever you found out that you were adopted?

Layton: So, I was 8 years old when I first found out, and then I was 13 when I first found Bryon's name, and then it wasn't until last year that I got the actual full story.

- Oh, wow.

Layton: Yeah.

- Wow, so that's a major jump in between everything.

Layton: So I was gonna say, you guys knew way before I did.

Brayden: Yeah, way before.

We finally got to sit down with Layton and learn a bit more about how her life went, how she found out she was adopted, and how she's been going about all this new information she's been handed.

- My mother told us about Bryon's daughter, that he had put up for adoption whenever he was, you know, a kid.

- And it was like, he was like 16 years old.

- Yeah, exactly.

Layton: I'm grateful that I was able to meet Kelsey yesterday.

It was a good foundation for me to be able to meet Brayden and Jacob today because I feel like I can relate to them a little bit more now that I know that, I know their family personally.

So then, when I was 13, I was looking through pictures, and I found not all of these, but I found this one, it's just a two-year-old birthday card, and it had Bryon's picture in it.

Brayden: Oh, wow.

That is... Jacob: That's extremely young Uncle Bryon.

Brayden: Holy cow.

Jacob: He is very young.

Very, very young.

Layton: I was like, I knew nothing else.

So I was just like, I don't know how old he is.

- He doesn't look like that now.

- It was February of 2000, when he was in Japan.

And then, last year, I went down, it was like Thanksgiving, I think?

Sometime around there, and they gave me all of these, and these are all the letters from your Uncle Bryon, my biological father.

Brayden: So you never got to read these until then.

- Last year?

- Until last year.

I started reading them sometime around Christmas last year.

Brayden: I think that Uncle Bryon just wanted to always let Layton know that he's not forgetting about her.

Jacob: Well, thank you for sharing your story.

I, uh, could not have imagined it being as... - Spaced out?

- Spaced out as, I was expecting it to be one big thing that happened, like, this last year.

- Everything happened at once.

You find out, you accept it, then start gettin' in contact, no.

It's a large jump from 8 to 13 to just last year.

Jacob: Last year.

But, thank you so much for comin' out and seeing us and becoming part of our family.

- No, it's, I mean, I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you guys, too.

Brayden: Having more family to spend time with and share, you know, heartfelt moments with, it's a very good thing.

- There's no such thing as too much family.

- I'm happy that I get to know your mom, and now I can get to know my cousins, and I just, it's a lot of unanswered questions being answered.

♪ ♪ Dan: In Medford, Oregon, Tiffani's cousin, Amy, has a speedy surprise in store.

Amy: Hey guys.

I want you to meet my boys.

This is my youngest, it's Kevin.

- Kevin.

- 'Sup, Kevin?

Amy: And this is Lance.

Tiffani: Hey Lance.

Jose: Lance.

Amy: And my oldest, Jaden.

- 'Sup, Jaden, how you doin'?

Jaden: I'm doing good.

- All right.

- Nice to meet you.

Amy: This is one of their favorite activities, karting.

Jose: All right.

Amy: Let's go.

Tiffani: Awesome.

I was terrified that my cousin Amy was takin' us to an amusement park to ride roller coasters, but, now that I know we're going go-karting, I'm all in.

[retro hype music] Singer: [indistinct] ♪ Tiffani: Yeah, Amy's very competitive.

Which is great, because then it brings out the competitive streak in us.

Hey, babe!

Jose: Hey!

I don't care if you're a man, woman, or a child.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna go 100 percent.

I don't have any mercy.

♪ Tiffani: I do have to say that I did take home the fastest lap, and it was a few seconds shy of the track's fastest lap.

- I was letting her win because she's my cousin, and she's like, you know, new to the town, so, I didn't wanna, like, take it all away from her, so I let her win.

Tiffani: After having a great time racing with my cousin, Amy, and her kids, she brings us back to the house to tell me more about my mom's side of the family.

♪ - I wanna show you a picture of your mom's whole family.

Tiffani: Oh, wow.

Yeah, it, this is unreal.

This is the first, like, the closest thing I've been to anyone that I look like, ever.

It was really cool to kinda go through and just, and learn about each one.

She just kinda told me who was who and what they were like, and it was really interesting to, to see the family resemblances in each other and try to pick out how their personalities are and who they are.

So this is my mom's entire family.

Um, where, where is she.

- Your mom lived in Alaska, so, all of, um, her siblings and her parents, we all lived in Modesto when this picture was taken.

Tiffani: Oh, okay, she, how-- Amy: Modesto, California.

- Okay.

And she was in Alaska?

- Alaska, yeah.

- Okay.

- She moved there, um, way before I was even 16, so, she's been there for a long time.

Tiffani: Unfortunately, Amy doesn't know much about my biological mother.

She was able to give me a little bit of information, but, hopefully there are other family members out there who can give me some more answers.

- When it comes to Tiffani's mom, I don't know much 'cause she moved to Alaska.

I hope she finds a lot of more information about her mom, um, throughout her journey.

- Well, thank you for sharing this with me.

This is cool.

- It, well, it's yours.

Tiffani: Oh, I can keep this.

I can keep this?

Amy: Of course.

♪ ♪ Anthony: You guys wanna take a seat?

Rachelle: Yes please, thank you.

My Uncle Anthony is one of the men in the photo that my Aunt Sabrina gave me, and, he's just a wonderful person.

[chuckles] He's amazing.

- We grew up a happy family.

- Mmm.

- Danced all the time.

We love to dance.

- Really.

Anthony: Oh, we love to dance.

- Sabrina was telling me that she dances.

Anthony: We love to dance.

I don't know why we dance so much, but we love to dance.

Rachelle: Wow.

And I dance as well.

Anthony: Oh yeah?

Rachelle: Yeah, I'm a dancer.

- Wow.

Rachelle: Yeah, so I'm actually, I live in L.A., and I'm out there for dance.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yes.

- So you live in L.A.?

- Yes, I live in L.A.

I moved, um, 2015 for school, I went to USC.

- You did?

- Yeah.

- Cool.

- Yeah, yeah.

I didn't know that dance could be a biological thing, and knowing that, you know, that's something that I got from my biological family makes me feel really good, 'cause it's like I had a part of them my whole life and I didn't even know.

- You know, I'm, I'm just tryin' to enjoy my life.

Glad to meet my niece.

- Yes, I'm so glad to be here.

Anthony: She lookin' just like them Simpsons.

- Is that, is that your last name?

- My last name is Simpson.

My name is Anthony Quinn Simpson.

Rachelle: Wow, I have been waiting to know that.

Anthony: So welcome to the Simpson family.

[laughs] Rachelle: I'm so happy to know that.

- Yes, and uh, you know, we, we, we're a strong-knit family, you know, we close.

- I have been wanting to know what my last name was for so long, and hearing him say that Simpson is my last name, it felt really good to know where I came from and who my family was.

I've been waitin' to hear that.

Anthony: Oh yeah?

- Mm-hm.

I've been wondering, you know, what my last name would be, and so, it's very, it feels very nice to know.

Anthony: You've been wonderin'.

- Yeah.

- That's sad, you had to wonder about your name.

Rachelle: It's okay.

I know now.

- Well you got one now, okay?

You got one now.

You don't have to wonder no more.

And like, she'd been waiting all her life to know "What is my last name?"

And that kinda broke me down.

If I'd know, you never know you're gonna be in that situation, to not know who your family members are, where they are, who you come from, that broke me down.

I don't cry that much, but sometimes you get touched and then you can't hold it in.

And I just want her to know that you're a Simpson, and you will always be a Simpson.

Nobody can take that away from you.

You will always have that Simpson love, and I just thank God that I finally got a chance to tell her that.

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

Okay?

- It's okay because I had a, I have a great family.

- Good, good, good.

- Like, my mother supported me, and my family supports me, and... Anthony: Good, good.

Rachelle: Like, she pushed me to dance, you know?

Like I would dance around the house and everything, and she was like, she needs to dance.

And so, I've been dancin' ever since, and to know that.

- You think you can out-dance me?

- I can, yeah.

[laughs] - I'm glad to have you in the Simpson family.

Rachelle: Yes, I'm so glad to be here.

Anthony: Yeah, I, I'm so sorry you had to find out this way, but I'm glad to know that you-- Rachelle: I'm so glad to find out.

Anthony: Oh, yeah.

- A lot of people don't get this blessing and opportunity, so, I'm just thankful.

So, so thankful.

- We're glad to have you in the Simpson family.

Anything we can do for you, you know, we got your back.

Rachelle: Yes, and I will be visiting all the time.

- Oh yeah.

- Getting to see that soft side of my uncle really confirmed his love that he had for me already, and how protective, and how much he cared about me already, and it was really, really nice to connect with him on that level.

♪ Singer: ♪ Hold me in your arms ♪ ♪ I know I found my place ♪ ♪ I'm finally home ♪ ♪ Now you, look into my eyes ♪ ♪ I'll never be the same ♪ ♪ I'm proud of who I have become ♪ ♪ who I have become, who I have become ♪ ♪ who I have become, who I have become ♪ [anticipatory music] ♪ Dan: It's now the end of Day 2, and the teams are gathering to hear the results.

Rachelle: We just had little fumbles, but hopefully, those little fumbles didn't cost us too much time.

Kelly: I can't imagine we did any worse than first place, but, if we got fourth, I'll walk home, 'cause we're only 50 minutes away.

♪ Dan: We're 48 hours into Relative Race.

This is the end of Day 2, and I see you all with smiling faces, and I hope that remains as we talk about the day and ultimately, where each of you finished.

Team Red, you finished in third yesterday.

That was a little disappointing.

Did you have a plan to improve upon that, and more importantly, do you think that you did improve?

- We did have a plan, um, and I'm hoping, fingers crossed, that it helped.

I don't know how well we did on our challenge, but, I'm, I think we did okay navigating today.

Dan: Team Green, I think we all will agree yesterday was a tough day.

Today, you woke up determined to do better.

Do you think you did?

- I think we had a really good day today.

Um, we pretty much were able to navigate from Syracuse to our destination today without even using a map, because we basically ended up where we live, so... Kelly: Yeah, we, we passed the exit to our, where we live.

Angie: I, I just drove here, and Kelly kind of kicked back and took a nap in the car today.

- A very, very short nap.

Dan: As always, I love hearing how the day went for each of you.

Tiffani, who did you meet, and did you receive more answers?

- Yes.

I got to meet another cousin, Amy.

All: Hi.

Tiffani: And, she is awesome.

She took us to a go-kart place, and we got to race go-karts all afternoon.

It was, it was awesome.

- Pretty fun.

- I had the fastest time.

All: [laugh] - I'm just sayin', I also had the fastest time.

Tiffani: It was, well, it's been very hard for me to drive the speed limit.

It, like it's, that's been very, very rough, so for me just to like, get it out of my system for a day, it, it was, it was almost therapy.

Dan: Layton, yesterday, you met your first biological relative that you really bonded with.

Who was waiting for you today?

- So I met Kelsey, who is my aunt, yesterday, and today, I met her two sons, Brayden and Jacob.

Dan: Which one is the cousin closest to you right now?

Brayden: This one?

Layton: This is Brayden.

Brayden: Hi!

Dan: Has anybody told you that the two of you have the exact same noses?

Like-- Brayden: Kyle literally just said that earlier.

Dan: Please, Layton, tell me about this experience.

How, how's this been for you?

- It's just been really nice.

I mean, it's always nice to meet cousins, but I love the transition of I met their mom and their three younger sisters yesterday, and then today, I just get to spend time with them.

- That's awesome.

And your journey is just beginning.

Let's go ahead and talk with Angie and Kelly.

Angie, is this journey what you expected so far?

- We're basically where we live and where I grew up, so, it is completely not what I expected at all.

- Did elements of those surprises continue for you tonight?

- Yes.

I'll show you who I met tonight.

I met my first cousin, Richard.

- How's it goin', guys?

Angie: But he goes by Ricky, and then also, I have met another cousin and an aunt and an uncle that are here, too.

All: Hi.

Shelley: Nice to meet ya.

- Nice to see you.

Angie: And everyone's been so sweet and so welcoming.

We have so much in common because we all basically live in the same area, so it has been amazing.

Dan: Team Blue, wh-who was waiting for you on the other side of that door tonight?

- Well, today I met my uncle, Anthony on my father's side, and what's so cool about this is that I learned that dancing is in the family, so.

He has moves, I'm a dancer, it, it's awesome.

Dan: I love the big, beautiful grin that I see on your face, Rachelle, because that's what this is all about.

Now, how long will it stay there?

Let's find out.

♪ Who receives the strike?

Will it be a second strike for Team Green?

And who receives that first-place prize, and to remind you, we've never had a prize like this.

Whoever finishes in first place today will have a $400 allowance tomorrow and 15 minutes off the clock to go shopping for your relative that you will meet that night.

The difference between first place and fourth place was a total of 17 minutes.

[dramatic chord] Team Black, you finished in first place... yesterday.

- [laughs] Both: [laugh] - You're funny.

- I'm just like.

- Wow.

- I'm not through.

Team Black, you finished in first place yesterday.

You did not finish in first place today.

The team that did finish in first place, 21 minutes over their allotted time... you can just bust out the dance moves again, because Team Blue, you finished in first place.

- Good job.

♪ Dan: Finishing just 9 minutes behind Team Blue, 30 minutes over their allotted time, Tiffani and Jose, congratulations to Team Red.

- Big relief to find out we came out second, and I, I will take that.

That's fine, that's good.

So that means, third, second, tomorrow we'll take first?

- Yeah, climb that ladder.

- Yeah, yeah.

[clock ticking] Dan: The difference between third and picking up a strike was three minutes.

The team that finished in third, 35 minutes over their allotted time...

Team Green, you did have a good day.

- Oh, wow.

- Good job, girls.

Dan: And so, Team Black, you finished 38 minutes over your allotted time.

Teams, this is an example how you can go from first to worst, but Team Black, ultimately, it really doesn't matter.

It's early in the race, and you have family waiting for you tomorrow, as you all do.

Sometimes, they've been waiting their entire lives.

Consider that as you head into Day 3 of Relative Race.

Good night, everybody.

Sleep well.

Karim: Love y'all, love y'all!

Rachelle: Love y'all!

- We're still comin' for ya, Blue!

♪ - Wow!

Karim: First place, baby!

Rachelle: We got first place!

Anthony: Congratulations!

Rachelle: Thank you, yes!

Anthony: God is good,I told you.

Karim: Yeah, amen.

- It's so good that we get to give our, a relative a gift!

- That's, I mean, third and second, so, we're still avoiding that strike, so I think we're, we're good so far.

- So tomorrow, first.

Just keep goin' up.

- Wow.

Okay.

We didn't get first, but we didn't get a strike.

- That's... Shelley: That's good.

- That's great, that's great.

Layton: That was close.

Three minutes.

Jacob: You're our, you're our cousin.

You gotta do better.

- [laughs] - I would like to stay in the family, so at this point, I'm at two strikes.

Jacob: Yeah.

Now you're hittin' two if you don't make it tomorrow.

- Okay.

♪