Dan: Previously on Relative Race.

Load it up, move 'em out!

Your clocks start... now!

- No freaking way!

Dan: The season kicked off with a home delivery.

- Here we go!

Dan: A surprise device changed the rules.

Liz: So we have to go there?

Monika: Are we going towards it?

South?

Dan: And four new families began to take shape.

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

Liz: I've always wanted to know my biological family.

David: I got a piece of my family back.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.

Sean: Come on!

- Let's go, let's go.

[squeals] Dan: To win $50,000.

- Yes!

Dan: And to find their family.

[knocking] ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

♪ Dan: It's day two of Relative Race, and the journey to find new family is just beginning for all of our teams.

Today, Team Blue, Joe and Anthony, start the day in Conway, South Carolina.

Nine and a half hours away is Team Red, Devin and Elizabeth in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

To the west is Team Green, Monika and Magen, beginning their day in Indianapolis, Indiana.

And waking up in Saint Paris, Ohio, is Team Black Sean and Kacey, where Kacey is getting ready to say goodbye to her cousin Karen.

Kacey: You know, I woke up this morning, I thought to myself, I'm a- I'm a different person.

Like, I am loved, you know, and there's these wonderful people, and like my first thought I opened my eyes and I said, "Oh my gosh, I have family."

That was like, it was mind blown it was just like, I have family.

And I didn't have that before, like, that kind of blood connection, so it really meant a lot to me.

I'm just so happy that we can put this together this morning before we head out.

Karen gave me, um, a memory book for my travels.

We decided to put pictures of my great grandmother, family photos of like, her dad and my grandfather, and it really, it kind of sealed more of a bond between us, and it was just really special.

It really, it meant a lot to me.

- Kacey this has been amazing, and I can't wait for you to meet the rest of the family, and especially for them to meet you.

Because I think you're just fantastic.

- Oh!

Thank you.

Karen: I feel like I've known you forever.

[laughing] ♪ Dan: In Indiana, Monika is saying goodbye to her cousins, Niki and Karita.

- I'm just super thankful to meet you, and I wrote you guys a little card.

- Oh, thank you!

Monika: I wanted to write a card to say that I was super appreciative for them being our hosts, and they were the first biological family that I had ever met, and they were the sweetest, kindest people.

- Okay, so Karita and Niki, thank you so much for agreeing to meet me, and being the absolute sweetest hosts.

Thank you.

Day one was a little much, so meeting y'all meant a lot to me.

- Let's stay in touch of course, you'll always be the first biological relatives that I've ever met, Monika.

Monika: Guys, thank you!

Group hug, get in here!

♪ Dan: In Conway, South Carolina, Joe and Anthony begin their morning with their new cousin, David.

♪ David: I've got something I wanna share with you guys, this right here is your grandfather, Larry.

- Oh, wow.

- That's him right there.

[indistinct muttering] Anthony: I am amazed when I see these pictures, 'cause I, I just, I'm thinking to myself like man, this is my-- Larry's my granddad, like that's awesome!

And he-- there is a resemblance to me and him and Joe and him and just, there's a resemblance.

- See, I definitely see some um, resemblance there, yeah.

Anthony: Got the high cheekbones kinda thing, and then he's got like... David: He definitely-- Anthony: Just the way his nose-- David: Yeah, that's what I'm sayin', like that- the face right here, y'all got that.

[chuckling] Joe: Looking at the photos that my cousin David showed us, I could really see the resemblance that Anthony and I had.

Anthony: Yeah it just looks like we're part of a family, it's really awesome.

♪ Dan: In Pittsburgh, Devin shares more about his family with his new cousins, Vietra and Dietra.

Devin: These are some pictures of my family, so these are my parents, Sam and Pam.

Um, Sam is my biological mother's younger brother.

- Okay.

- And they adopted us when they were in their mid-20s.

So this mornin' I was able to share with Vietra a little bit about, you know, my family, how we grew up, you know, my kids, and some of the experiences that we had.

It was great to be able to share a little bit more about my family with them.

So, yeah, it's really cool you know, I've always wanted, you know being adopted, always wanted to have, you know, our kids.

You know, see yourself in your kids.

Liz: Like Dietra and Vietra.

Devin: Right, like Dietra, Vietra, yeah.

[phone chimes] - Oh, okay we got a text.

Devin: Uh-oh?

♪ [clock ticking] - "Good morning teams... - "And welcome to day two of Relative Race... - "Team Red will be traveling to Columbus, Ohio... - "Team Blue will be traveling to Savannah, Georgia," what?

- "Team Black will be traveling to South Bloomfield, Ohio... - "And Team Green will be traveling to Peoria, Illinois."

- Let's do this!

Let's do it.

Anthony: "Today's first place prize is... - "Forcing one of the other three teams to... - Pull over for five minutes."

- Wow.

- We gotta get that one.

- "However, Team Blue... - You're the only team that can leave."

[laughing] - "Team Black, Team Red, and Team Green you must wait five minutes before you can leave."

- Dang!

[chuckling] - "For today's race... - all of your clocks start now!"

- All right, well I'm gonna put this in the car real quick.

- Yeah let's go put our stuff in the car, I guess.

- I'll be right back.

- Enjoy our penalty.

[laughing] - Yes, it should be a straight shot down.

- Okay, 95?

- On 95, take 95, you'll run right into Savannah, you can't miss it.

- We've got five minutes, so let's go ahead and map this out.

I think what we're gonna do is, we're right here by Lucas Oil Stadium.

- It's so cool to know that the other teams clocks are just running, they just have to sit there while me and Joe hit the road.

- Heck yeah.

- Yeah.

[doors close] Liz: So here's the field.

We're gonna take this five minutes to strategize and map our way to our next destination city so there will be zero errors.

Uh, I need Ohio, can you find Ohio?

Joe: Okay, we gotta utilize this five minutes as best we can.

- Mm-hmm.

Dan: Beginning their day with a five minute head start, Team Blue, Joe and Anthony are headed to Savannah, Georgia.

Their allotted time today is three hours and thirty-six minutes.

Magen: West, to 74 North, and it shoots off that way and takes us right into Peoria, okay?

Monika: This five minute penalty thing is awful!

- I know, but here's the deal, now we've got a perfectly mapped route with zero errors.

Dan: Armed with their own strategy, Team Green makes their way from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Peoria, Illinois.

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

- So my thought is, any of the bridges will connect us to 376 West.

Devin: We're just sitting here waiting, but we didn't get a strike, so we're looking forward to today.

- And we're gonna make this time productive.

Dan: Also spending their time wisely, Team Red, Devin and Elizabeth, will be racing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Columbus, Ohio.

Their allotted time is three hours and thirty minutes.

While Teams Red and Green used the five minute penalty to strategize, Team Black, Sean and Kacey, the opera singers, start the day doing what they do best.

[opera music playing] [vocalizations] Singing away their five minute penalty, Team Black is headed to South Bloomfield, Ohio.

With driving and challenges factored in, their allotted time today is the shortest at one hour and fifty minutes.

♪ - There's Palmetto.

- There we go.

- Look at this, man, we on the right track boy.

- Yeah, we are.

Sean: Longest five minutes ever.

- Right around the wolf den, Washington.

- This was definitely time well spent.

Monika: Our five minutes is almost up so we're packing the car so we can hit the road the second we are able to.

- Yeah.

I thought our cousin David gave us good directions, but they're really, really vague.

And he said turn at a Baptist church... - But there's literally dozens of them.

[clock ticking] [ding] [excited chatter] - Hurry, hurry.

- Got it, let's go.

- Got it?

Ready?

- Yeah.

- Let's do it.

Redemption, lady, we got this.

Woo!

- Another church.

Why does it feel like we're going deeper in the woods, man?

- It's gonna be a great day.

- Yeah, it's already.

- It's already a great day.

- Oh, look!

- Yes, that's us.

- 73-A, whoo!

- What, what.

Monika: We got this.

- When we get first place, Team Blue is getting that penalty, so they can feel the burn.

- It's a dirt freakin' road.

Joe: Yeah.

Anthony: Wow.

Well, there goes that five minute head start.

We gon' be a few, like 20, 30 minutes off, but you know what?

We gon' be fine, we gon' be ahead.

♪ It's a dirt freakin' road.

- You only wrote like, take a left.

We needed to write specifically what left, what church, landmarks.

- Yeah, yeah, I did in order.

I did it in order.

- Clearly these directions aren't working, and we're just driving around aimlessly, so I get out one of my maps.

- We need to get off of City Bates, or whatever the plain old street this is that we're on.

We need to get off this street.

Finally, Joe finds a street that will get us and lead us right to the 95.

Joe: We gotta keep going on here, that let us know that we're still on 378.

- We don't even own a car, so we're used to walking around and seeing things go by really slowly.

- And now that we're in a car, everything is flying past us and navigating is new for us.

- Trust me Joe, I ain't worried about it.

Dan: With Team Blue back on track, all the teams are about to receive some... guidance.

[phone tapping] [phones chime] [screams] - A text!

What does it say?

- Wait, who is that?

- It's Dan.

- Dan!

Liz: All right, Dan, whatcha got?

Joe: "Hey teams!"

- [gasps] What?

- That's awesome, Joe, that's so sweet!

Liz: Like, before we get the city selfie?

- Uh...

I don't know.

Liz: I'm excited about that, however, it's important that-- while I think it could be a helpful tool, I think we realized it's important to not over-rely on any one tool.

♪ - That's gonna be so sick!

- Yes, Joe!

You know what this means?

That means like streets, we're good, we can, we can type in, Joe we can, we can literally, yes!

- Coordinates.

- Yes.

- I'm definitely liking this new GPS system we got.

- We're definitely gonna rock it on our navigation now.

Dan: While all the teams are excited about the new wilderness GPS, Team Red begins to reflect on the importance of going on this journey.

- When I saw that we were headed to Columbus, my initial thought was, it could be one of my relatives.

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

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

I feel like I'm trying to keep the bar down, but it would be, uh, either way it's exciting.

- The one thing that I do know coming out of meeting my cousins, you know Vietra and Dietra, is that they know other cousins, and they know other people, and they're involved, so perhaps there's some more people from my side based on that.

- I know, it could be.

- That's just a hunch.

Liz: I was very blessed to be able to meet and find my birth mother, but she has very limited information about who my biological father is.

So my hope is that I can connect with that side of my family, get some answers about myself, and my own identity, so when I get asked the question, "What are you?"

I'll actually be able to have an answer.

♪ Dan: All of the teams are now within city limits and begin their search for their city signs.

- --is look for Savannah signs.

- Okay, stop.

- Columbus!

Right there.

Right there, it says Columbus, right there, right there.

Right there.

- It's right there.

- Where?

- Do you see this?

- Oh, okay, yeah.

- Oh, right here, right here, Savannah.

- Where?

- Right here, right here.

Sean: There we go, right there.

"South Bloomfield founded" blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.

That should be good.

♪ - So you ready?

- Okay ready?

[camera shutters click] [phone chimes] ♪ - Let's go!

- Let's go.

- Okay, cool.

Kacey: Run!

Dan: With city selfies successfully submitted, all teams now gear up for the challenge of the day.

- Yeah, it's gonna be tough, bro.

- Yeah, it is.

- But we got, we got a lot of competition, bro, like if they goin' straight hard, we goin' straight harder.

- Mm-hmm.

- I think this challenge is gonna be a pretty close one for all the teams, honestly.

- Yeah.

Monika: I feel good about it, feel good about us right now.

I think so far we're doing really good.

We'll see what this challenge is.

Devin: Just gotta run our race, and that's the most important thing, like, we can't, we can't control what y'all gonna do, we can't control what the race is gonna do, we can't control what the other teams do, we can only control what Team Red does, Team Dobson does.

And that's it, that's all we focus on.

♪ Sean: Let's go, let's go.

- Go, go, go, get out, get out.

♪ - Shape shift.

Dan: Day two's challenge is Shape Shift.

Teams must stand on opposite sides of a wall of blocks, and work together to unscramble two logos.

Players may only push blocks to their teammate, and cannot place any on the ground.

Once both sides have the correct logo, the challenge is complete.

The allotted time for Shape Shift is 15 minutes.

♪ Liz: I believe it's trying to spell Relative Race.

Monika: As soon as we uncover what the challenge is, my mind is blown.

- Well, we gotta figure out who's side we're gonna solve first, mine or yours?

- Let's just do this, this side.

Kacey: Yeah, try that.

- Okay, there's no way it can go, I mean it's a random-- Kacey: Ugh!

- Yeah, it's a random shape for me on this side.

What is this spaghetti mess?

- I see right away that it's a puzzle, and I'm the master at puzzles.

- Puzzle solver, absolutely.

♪ Sean: Oh, it's an A for me.

Here, put it over here.

- Well if yours is an A, that means that you're spelling "Race" and I'm spelling "Relative."

- I know, I know.

- Right?

Sean: I think I, yeah, I got it messed up.

[laughs] Kacey: Okay.

Sean's like, "Oh, hey, it says Relative Race!"

And I'm like, "I'm seeing really big letters."

- Here, take this out.

- Okay.

A few minutes in, and we are feeling a little confused and defeated.

And the letters don’t even look like letters, they look like shapes, and it's just confusing.

- Um, what happens if I turn both of these to the right, would it still do the same thing?

- Uh, no.

- It's really hard to communicate and try to move these pieces around without being able to see the other side.

- It doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Anthony: Okay, too much.

- Uh... - I'm looking for the L, which leads me to believe this might not be the right one.

I recognize that it was spelling the word "Relative Race" probably within the first three seconds.

Devin: Can you just push this for me real quick?

I just wanna see something.

- Push it?

Devin: Yep.

That's it.

Liz: That's it.

Thank you, good job, baby.

- Once I saw the big R starting to form, well I figured that was Relative Race, and so it allowed me to let Liz take the lead, but if I saw something that would help my side, then I knew it would also help her side.

♪ Magen: So I am pretty certain that my big R is locked in place, but Monika is pretty certain that it's not right.

Let me take this one down a box.

- No, it's correct.

100%.

Magen: Okay, okay.

♪ - Okay, uh, Anthony, how 'bout this.

Can you rotate this one around?

Anthony: Which one, push it.

- This one right here.

No, you're gonna rotate it.

- Which way, like this?

- Just like that, yeah.

- Okay.

Let's just solve your side first, okay, just tell me what I need to do.

We keep going back and forth, and trying to figure out which side we're gonna do, and whether or not we're gonna use the white lines or the yellow lines.

- Okay, that's not gonna work.

- Yeah, Joe, we're not getting anywhere.

Joe, Joe.

Uh, not quite.

♪ - That is coming together.

Whatever you're-- whatever magic you're working, do it.

- Take this one, take this one, take this one.

- No, no, this one match-- oh, no it doesn't.

Okay, yeah you're right, you're right, you're right.

Devin: Let's go.

Let's go!

Singer: ♪ Go!

♪ ♪ Kacey: This one, is gonna go... Sean: I don't think we realized until pretty much the end that I had the logo for Relative Race written out, and Kacey had on her side just the big RR with the lines.

Liz: Okay.

Devin: Now put the red in.

Kacey: Okay good.

I think that's it.

Liz: Done!

- Boom!

Finally.

- Good job!

Okay okay, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Monika: Okay let's go!

Magen: Let's go.

Kacey: "Your relative lives at 8 Hemingway Avenue," and there's coordinates, get your GPS out, let's do this way.

- "Your relative lives at 1469 Cottingham Court East.

The wilderness GPS coordinates are actually printed on the bottom of our relative’s address card.

- Get the map in the compartment.

- Okay, I'll get 'em.

Magen: We make the decision to pull out the maps and map it on the GPS tool, and also on a map, just to cover our bases.

All right, you put the coordinates in, I'm gonna look on the map.

Kacey: So we punched in the GPS coordinates, and we're off.

My windshield wipers [indistinct] [laughter] All right, we're goin', real, we're goin'.

Joe: Is this good, Anth?

Anthony: Yeah, everything's good, I'm just gonna move this.

I'm feeling a little deflated right now, but man, we're so close to being finished.

Joe?

These, all these, we're moving these over.

- I see it.

- The whole bottom row is really messing us up.

We can see where these go, we just need to shift it over.

Oh, switch' em?

Joe: Yeah.

Anthony: Okay.

Yep, there it is.

Good job.

- Good job.

Anthony: All right, let's go.

"Your relative lives at 123 West Waldburg Street."

- All right, let's go.

- Come on, Joe.

Dan: With their wilderness GPS in hand, all teams make a final push to find their family.

Magen: .98, .97.

- Ugh these lights, they're killing me.

- Come on, Peoria!

- Should I turn right?

[indistinct] and then just go-- Magen: .92, I mean, it does want us to go northwest a little stronger, so... Monika: Eventually we'll have to turn this way.

Magen: Right, exactly.

Joe: So 81, no you have 08.

I'm really hoping that we can make up some time with the GPS so we don't have the same problem as we had this morning.

- Now we gotta zoom in and see where we go.

See where we're pointed at.

Kacey: Now where?

- Okay, no.

This thing- this thing's broke.

This thing's not working.

Pull into Dairy Queen, we're asking for directions.

- Are you serious right now?

- It's not moving!

- Okay, don't yell at me.

Devin: Here's the pilot, you wanna go in?

- We need to go to Upper Arlington.

- Eh, don't, that doesn't look like it's... That doesn't look like a thing... - There's a bunch of trucks here, I-- - Do you want?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Devin: So we stopped for directions, but I'm thinkin' this is not the best place for that.

Liz: And I asked this police officer, but he didn't know where the address was.

All right, let's just go, we got it.

I couldn't find it; he doesn't know.

- Turns out I was right.

We just wasted time, no one here knows anything.

Sean: So we stopped to get directions because the GPS coordinates, they're just not working.

But no one can help us.

- This is stressing me out.

Sean: Yeah, oh!

- What?

- Well.

- What?

- That certainly would explain why it wasn't working.

- Why?

- The GPS was turned off.

- What?

- So turns out, I didn't hit confirm.

So, the GPS wasn't working.

Liz: Instead of stopping to ask for more directions, We decided to use the GPS and our maps for now.

I feel like it's straight up.

- Straight up?

- But we've got like another 200 feet.

- 200 feet?

- So, we're close.

Just-- just know that we're close.

Anthony: West, so we're on West, which is a very good sign, and this is one way.

West but-- button.

You've got to be kidding me.

There's no way it's this close.

Sean: Keep your eyes peeled for either the sign that says Hemingway because we are very close it's lookin' like.

Kacey: Now that the GPS is on, we find out that our relatives actually aren't that far away.

- We are like, on top of it.

Monika: Wait, wait, wait, what is this?

Magen: Columbia Terrace, Columbia Terrace!

- Where?

- Turn right!

Devin: Oh, there it is, there it is, Cottingham, Cottingham, Cottingham, Cottingham!

- Where's 8?

Where's 8, where's 8?

There's 11.

Ahh!

It's so close!

Joe: Now we're gonna actually turn here.

- No way!

No way, no way, no way, no way!

- Turn here, turn here.

- West Waldburg 123?

- Yes, yes.

- What?

- This is it, this is it!

303, 303, let's do this!

♪ - I found out that I was adopted around age 12.

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

When I turned 16 I started to really wonder, why do I look the way I look?

Why do I act the way I act?

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

I would really love to find people that are like me.

♪ - Hi!

- Hi.

Magen: Hi!

- I'm Monika.

- I'm Katie.

- I'm Madeline.

- Adeline, hi, it's nice to meet you!

- Nice to meet you, whose relative are you?

- Uh, I'm your relative.

- Okay... - How are you related?

- Uh, I'm your sister.

- I knew it when you walked out!

♪ It's so nice to meet you.

[crying] ♪ - And this is your niece.

- Ah my gosh, you're beautiful, you're so pretty!

- Thank you!

[laughter] Magen: It's very nice to meet you, how old are you, Adeline?

- I'm six!

Magen: You're six?

Ah, oh my goodness.

- What a-- give me another hug.

This is crazy, it's so nice to meet you.

Katie: My name is Katie Byrd, I'm 37, and I am Monika's sister.

- When she said that she was my sister, it's-- was absolutely mind-blowing.

I immediately went in for a hug and started crying, and I've never ever had a sibling before, and this just is the start of a journey to find a lot of answers.

♪ [excited chatter] Everybody group hug!

I'm excited to go inside, get to know her better, and find a little bit out about where I came from.

Katie: Well, do you guys wanna come inside?

Magen: Yes, we do!

- All right, it's cooler in there too.

- That'd be awesome, that'd be awesome.

♪ Sean: Okay.

- We made it!

- Awesome.

Kacey: We pull up to the house, and there's these two women just waiting outside for us.

Sean: Okay, oh boy!

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

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

Because I just want to know who I am and where I came from.

Hello!

Sean: Hi!

- Hi, I'm Kacey.

- I'm Sean.

Woman: Hi!

- And who are-- - I'm Angie.

Kacey: Hi Angie.

- I'm Lynette.

- Hi Lynette.

When Lynette shares with me her name, I instantly remember it from yesterday, and I know that she is either my mom or my aunt.

And who are you related to?

- We're related to you, Kacey.

- I figured.

- I'm your cousin.

Kacey: Okay.

- And I'm your aunt!

- Yay!

Okay, yay!

Oh!

Lynette: Welcome to the family, darling!

- Hello!

Thank you!

[laughs] Lynette: So nice to meet you!

- Oh!

This has been a long time comin'.

You look like you've been crying!

In that moment when Lynette shares with me that she's my aunt, my heart sank a little bit, but then it immediately turned to joy to know that I had another family member.

- Your father is my brother.

Kacey: Okay.

I was hoping to always be able to ask my father's siblings whether or not they knew I existed.

Because I heard that he had other children, and so I wasn't sure if they either knew about me or knew enough to care.

- Well I have to tell you, I didn't even know that you existed.

I didn't know that you were out there.

It's surreal when you meet somebody that you never knew existed.

You know, it's hard to put into words, because it's DNA, and we look alike, and you know, you just fit right in into each other's lives, like she never was gone.

It was a big surprise, but we're so happy to meet you.

Sean: Super excited.

- I'm happy to meet you too!

- We're super excited.

[laughter] Kacey: Meeting my aunt means so much to me, because she can fill in more gaps in my life and answer more questions for me that I would have no access to otherwise.

- Well we have tons of questions for you, so would you like to come inside?

- Yes, absolutely.

♪ Anthony: 123 right here!

123, 123!

Joe, great job!

Joe: Thanks, bruh.

Anthony: Bro, gimme a hug.

Oh I love you so much, you're the best navigator ever!

Joe: That moment when you're walking up to meet your relative, and you know it's gonna change your life, it's hard to describe.

We learned that we lived with our birth mother 'til we were about two years old, and then we were adopted and we lived with our adoptive parents until we were about 18.

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

♪ - Hi!

Hey guys.

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

- I'm Leanna Jones, so nice to meet you guys.

Anthony: Nice to meet you too.

- So, we're related, we're first cousins on your mom's side of the family.

- It's my cousin!

- I know, hugs!

Hi!

Can't believe you guys are twins, I love it!

So when I hugged my cousins for the first time, I felt complete.

[deep exhale] The feels right now.

You know how you have a feeling, where there's just something missing, and you don't know what it is, you don't know when it's gonna come, but you know when it does.

How old are you guys?

Anthony: 28.

- 28.

Leanna: 27.

Ah!

That's so cool!

So excited to talk to you guys, and get to know each other and stuff, so.

Joe: Yeah, me too.

- They look so much like the other side of my family, like the cousins, all the boys, they like, would fit right in, like literally, crayons in a crayon box, like, so perfectly.

When I look at you two I definitely see a resemblance to every other cousin on our side of the family, for sure, like, I definitely see the resemblance.

Anthony: Wow.

That's awesome.

- You know, we're all handsome and beautiful in this family, so I love it, love it!

Joe: It was almost as if it just clicked, like, I understand you, like, I get you.

And, that was a really, really cool feeling, and yeah, I won't forget that.

- You guys wanna come inside?

- Sure!

- It's beautiful in here, come check it out.

Anthony: All right.

Joe: Okay.

♪ Devin: Oh, here, here, here, here!

Liz: Is this it?

Devin: This is it, this is it, 1469.

Liz: I'm Liz, and this is Devin.

- I'm Devin.

- Nice to meet you.

I'm Jerome.

- Hi Jerome, nice to meet you.

- Whose relative are you?

- Whose relative do you think I am?

- It's hit or miss, it could be either one of us.

- Yeah?

No guesses?

- No, I'm not goin' for a guess.

- Maybe yours?

- Maybe mine?

- Yeah, you think so?

Devin: Possible.

- Well Devin, I'm Liz's father.

- [crying] How are you?

Hi!

[crying] Hi.

[crying] - I am Jerome Vincent Willis Senior.

I'm Elizabeth's father.

[crying] - Wait, let me see, get to see your face.

♪ When Jerome looked at me and said, "Liz, I'm your dad," there wasn't a guarantee that I was going to get to hear those words from my biological father.

There's just no words, I mean that was just pure emotion at that point.

[all sniffing] It's so nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you, I've been waitin' a long-- I've been waitin' for nine months.

- I've been waiting my whole life.

- [crying] I know!

I didn't know!

I found out in December I said, "What?"

I got a daughter?

I got a daughter.

And instantly I had love for you, like, like my other children.

Instantly, instantly.

Devin: Being a part of that moment is the reason we said yes to being on this show, I knew how much it meant to her, and because she's my wife and I love her, it meant a lot to me.

- Instantly.

- It's so nice to meet you.

- So nice to meet you.

- Can we go inside?

- Please, come on, come on.

Come inside.

♪ Jerome: [crying] After Liz and I met, I was an emotional wreck.

Devin: You good, babe?

Liz: Yeah, yeah.

Devin: Okay.

[Liz breathing heavily] Liz: Jerome, Devin, and I came into the house, I-- I had to take a moment to collect myself, and basically I thought to myself, "Wow, did that just happen?"

And then I said, "Okay, am I gonna be able to handle what comes next?"

So, we've had-- - These are for you!

- Oh, thank you!

So we've got some catching up to do.

[laughter] Jerome: After Liz and I met, it was so rewarding to both of us to share the story.

My version, you know, I was a 19-year-old kid version.

So, the s-- 'cause Becci, your mother... - Mm-hmm.

- We met.

I was a freshman going into my sophomore year, she was an incoming freshman.

We just started, like dating.

I took her out, and our first date was like goin' to get ice cream and then we hung out, and we started getting more and more involved.

Liz: Okay.

Jerome: And then, so we broke up, not knowing she was already pregnant with you by me before we broke up.

And I was a kid then, I was 19 years old, I was a kid, my mother would've helped me raise you.

- I'm grateful that you're here for this, for this moment.

For this encounter.

I'm grateful to have the opportunity to hear your story.

I've had a wonderful life, my parents are so supportive, so nurturing.

I've grown up very, very loved.

Hearing how Jerome didn't even know about me, actually gives me a sense of peace, and to see how kind, how warm he is, I'm really grateful that I've been connected to him and have the opportunity to get to know him.

- I didn't know how she was going to receive me, and all I knew is that I have unlimited love, agape love, I have so much love for her.

- This has been very enlightening for me.

It sounds like a start to a beautiful story.

And the cool thing is, you're a grandfather too.

There are two awesome little boys that I can't wait to share with you.

- I got someone else for you to meet.

- Okay.

- So, can we go and... - I'm down for whatever.

- Okay, all right.

- Okay!

- My father, Kenneth Irving, has been in a nursing home for many years.

He's also been in hospice, he's also survived Corona, and-- for this moment, to meet his granddaughter.

I feel like he's held on with life to meet her.

Liz: Yeah!

Jerome: This is your grandad, this is Kenneth Irving, this is Elizabeth.

Liz: Hi, I'm Liz Dobson!

Jerome: And this is her husband, Devin, Devin, this is Kenneth Irving.

Devin: Nice to meet you, Kenneth.

Jerome: This is Liz, this is your granddaughter.

Liz: It's so nice to meet you.

Liz: To get to meet my grandfather was-- was huge!

Because my grandfather is obviously an important person in Jerome's life, and he's the first biological grandparent that I've gotten the opportunity to meet, and to hear what my grandfather had to go through just to make it to today is a blessing.

Jerome: For four months he's been in quarantine, he came out quarantine and um, he asked about you, and he said, welcome-- what'd you say when I told you about Liz comin'?

Jerome: You didn't believe it?

But you said, "Welcome to the family," remember?

Liz: That's wonderful, thank you.

I'm grateful for this opportunity, I'm so grateful, I don't think I've ever been speechless like this.

Today is truly one of the most amazing days of my life, and I'll never forget it.

Kacey: So I have a lot of questions, and I'm hoping that you can answer some of them.

- I'll try.

Whatever you wanna talk about, I'm here.

Kacey: So you have three siblings, right?

- So there's a total of four of us.

Kacey: Okay.

- My brother, Donald, and then I have a sister, Sherri, and I have a sister, Jennifer.

My brother has a lot of kids.

[laughs] - Am I one of them?

Lynette: Yes, you are one of them.

- Am I the oldest, or the youngest?

- Um, no, you're not the oldest, and you're not the youngest.

- So I'm somewhere in the middle?

- You're somewhere in the middle.

- Today I found out that my father's name is Donald Miller, and he has been a singer his entire life.

So now, with confidence, I can say that my musical abilities came directly from my father.

- He learned to play music by ear, doesn't know how to read sheet music at all.

And he started very, very young.

- Is that like, one of his passions, I'm assuming?

- That's all, that is his whole world.

Are you in music?

- I went to school for voice performance.

- Oh, awesome!

Sean: We met, we met both going to school for opera.

Lynette: Oh, really?

Opera?

Kacey: Yeah.

Sean: Yeah.

Lynette: Awesome.

- I've always wondered why I love music so much, and now I know.

It's because it's in my bloodline.

- That is, that is one.

The one thing that he is so passionate about.

- I'm really happy that I get to be part of your guys' family now.

- For sure.

Forever.

- Forever and ever.

- Yeah, I mean, we got so much in common.

- I think we look alike, so.

- Okay.

- I can see, I can see.

- I see a lot of resemblance.

- Yeah?

- Yes.

- Tonight I received quite a few answers that I have always been searching for.

Um, which always will end up leading to more questions tomorrow, but at least today I have more answers than I did yesterday.

♪ Dan: In Peoria, Illinois, Monika learns more about where she came from with her sister, Katie.

- Do you remember when... Katie: I do, I was four.

My mom had me really young, and she was still really young with you.

- Which is like, part of why, I don't know, part of me was thinking like, if she was 16, that would make more sense.

You know what I mean?

So young.

- Mm-hmm.

- Like, I don't know, in my head it was like, she was 16, she couldn't handle it, and then 26 you know, you're... - And having one kid already.

- Right, and maybe that's what pushed it over the edge.

I have one, I don't know if I can handle more right now.

I found out that my birth mother went through some really tough stuff, and I don't know exactly what that is yet, but I know that she was trying to make the best decision for me.

- It was kinda known in our family that around your birthday was a really, really, really hard time.

I always fought with my mom in May, 'cause she was just always really sad.

And I always tried not to.

- I didn't even know if you guys like, ever even thought about me, like, I didn't even know if anyone thought about me.

Katie: You were never not on her heart.

Ever.

Monika: Hearing that I wasn't forgotten about was really touching, because I didn't know if they thought about me on my birthday, or if they thought about me when I turned certain ages or if anything.

I didn't know if I was simply forgotten about.

- It was good to be able to express to her that while she wasn't with us physically, she was there with us in our hearts.

- Do you have siblings?

- I do.

- How many?

- Two.

- Okay, how old are they?

- They are 30.

- Oh, they're both 30?

- They're both 30.

- Twins?

Katie: They are twins.

- Both same parents?

- As me?

Katie: Yes.

- Really?

Oh my gosh.

I have like, full-blown siblings.

Meeting my sister, Katie today, it was really emotionally healing.

And to find out I have more siblings to meet on this journey, it just makes me even more excited to go out and to continue this race.

♪ Dan: In Savannah, Georgia, Anthony and Joe learn their new cousin, Leanna's story, is similar to their own.

- What was it like growing up for you?

- My life growing up was very different, so I did have a rough childhood growing up, between like, 14 and 19, when I moved out.

I didn't have much contact with my biological mother, but it was really rough.

I was probably forced into being an adult and growing up at an earlier age than I would've liked.

- I learned that my cousin Leanna is a very strong individual.

Not someone that folded when times got tough, instead of giving up, she continued, she trudged on.

- How, you know, how was your upbringing, you know, how did you guys grow up?

Was it rough, was it easy?

- In a nutshell, it was difficult.

We had, we had a lot of factors set in place, um, you know the parents, like, our adoptive parents, they provided for us, but there wasn't really love.

There wasn't really like, that connection, you know.

And so me and Anthony, we kinda, we kinda always stuck together.

Leanna: Listening to their story really touched me, and knowing and finding out how relatable theirs was to mine, was like heart-wrenching to me.

And I didn't expect someone to go through something even similar to me.

So to know that they have, and to know that one day when we are able to talk about these things in a more relaxed setting in detail, we'll be able to relate so much more and it's gonna bring us together like crazy, and I just know it.

- I would say that for my ultimate goal for our family is I want us to just be there for each other.

Like, just love each other, that's it.

I just-- I just want us to be there for each other, love each other.

When we need each other we're there, and you know, I know that we may not do it perfectly all the time, but that's okay.

- I think the boys are gonna be beneficial to our family healing, because right now, whoever talks to each other talks to each other, whoever doesn't doesn't, and if the boys are involved, we are all gonna wanna be involved, and I feel like they are enough to rip off any Band-Aid and let whatever needs to heal, heal, so that we can all be happy.

And ultimately, I feel like my family will come together, not for us, but for them.

♪ I love you guys already.

Anthony: I do too, I love you so much.

♪ Dan: Back in Columbus, Ohio, Elizabeth's father Jerome has yet another surprise for her.

- So these are some pictures.

So these are your siblings.

- Wow!

Jerome: So you have Jennifer, Jerome Jr., and Angelica, and this is me and Jennifer and Angelica.

Liz: Yeah man, that's wild.

Devin: That is.

That is you!

Liz: I know!

- That's you!

- Ah!

It's like... - That's you.

- Well, I feel like the kind, everything about this picture, like, there's facial features, but then also the excitement about the food in the picture.

[laughter] Jerome: I was glad to be able to sit down with Elizabeth and to share pictures of her siblings.

As I looked at those pictures, I thought about, you know, all this time I've only thought I had three children, when I have four.

And I wish that she was in the picture.

- What was super cool about seeing the pictures of my siblings in addition to seeing all the resemblance that we have, is that even though our childhoods weren't spent together, I feel like I can get a sense of their personalities.

I have a feeling that we'll be able to pick up and just move forward as if like, we've known each other for a long time.

Well, this was a nice bonus treat today for sure.

Oh man, this is exciting.

Oh, this is so exciting.

I absolutely hope that I get to meet my siblings on this journey, because part of me feels like we would just like, be BFFs, and it's like, it's just, it's better than I could imagine.

♪ Dan: Day two has come to a close, and once again it's time to deliver the results.

Magen: We're getting ready for tonight's call, and I don't think we're overly confident, but we had a good day.

♪ Anthony: Between getting lost and the challenge, today was a really rough day for Joe and I.

We had an extra five minutes, but I don't even-- I'm not even sure that that's enough.

[click] Dan: Welcome teams to another day of Relative Race.

Day two is now officially in the books, we have your times and we'll get to that in a moment.

But first, let's talk about this morning.

Team Blue won the game day benefit, which means they hit the road first.

Yesterday, I think you surprised everybody by finishing in first, you have a five minute head start, and then it just kinda goes downhill from there, guys.

Anthony: We had the directions from our relative, and he said turn left at the church, and then we went by like twelve churches, so I didn't know which Baptist church.

There was Treemont Baptist, Missionary Baptist, Ebenezer Baptist, there was like tons of Baptist churches, and I'm like, which one is it?

And of course we make the wrong turn and it's like, ugh.

Dan: Well again, we'll see if you were able to make up the time, because once you got to the challenge, I think Liz might've been the one that was the happiest.

Liz, you pride yourself on being able to solve puzzles.

- Well, you know.

I am a huge fan of puzzles, and it's something I do for fun, so I was especially excited when I read that challenge card and immediately recognized it was gonna be a puzzle.

I was like, oh, this is gonna be a good time no matter what, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna crush it.

Dan: What about Team Black?

Sean, I think it's fair to say that you now have a love-hate, well maybe it's better to say you have a hate-hate relationship with your survival GPS unit.

- Yeah, yeah, I don't know if it's gonna survive.

[laughter] - Liz, you had better luck with your GPS.

Who did it lead you to?

- I think both of us were expecting it to be Devin's relative, but in fact, it turned out to be my biological father.

[all exclaiming] And this is my father, Jerome!

And... [laughs] Both of us like, just melted into tears, and it was like, it made all of the navigating stress and you know, disappointment completely melt away.

Dan: You meet your dad, and you think, how could it be any better?

And yet, the day wasn't over for you.

- I'm, I was like still reeling from processing the fact that I met my dad and then he says, okay, well, I've got somebody else for you to meet.

An older gentleman that happens to be my grandfather.

[all exclaiming] He's somebody who has survived COVID, and I just think...

I mean, like, God knows what He's doing.

Dan: That's what this is all about.

Who is on the other side of that door that has been waiting to meet you, sometimes for their entire life.

Let's turn to the Chapmans.

Was there a good ending to a less than perfect day?

- Absolutely.

Um, today I got to meet my-- one of my aunts, and my cousin.

This is Lynette and Angie.

[all greeting] Right away we connected, and it was just this amazing moment, and we were actually looking through some photos, I just wanted to show you this one.

I brought a random picture of me when I was 16, 17 years old, it was like a school photo.

And I just wanna show this real quick, so this one is my picture.

And that is her, Lynette.

Dan: Oh wow, you guys look like sisters!

- It was like, super weird, but really cool, so... - All right, let's talk to the two best friends.

Team Green.

After the challenge, you guys have dialed in those coordinates and you head right to your relative.

Who did you meet on the other side of the door?

- This was a super, super special day for us, we did well in the race, but it was even better when I got to meet this relative, and this is Katie, my sister!

[all exclaiming] We have the same smile.

- That is awesome!

- It was-- I've never ever met any biological family, and to meet someone so close on day two is just, it's so nice to have a sister, big sister at that.

And I have a niece as well, so it's-- I've never had any nieces or nephews.

Dan: Congratulations on meeting your sister and growing the family.

All right boys, once you get to your relative, who do you meet?

- We met our first cousin on our mother's side, Leanna.

She's lovely.

- Thank you, thank you.

Dan: You know what, your eyes right there, your eyes and her eyes are identical.

That's the power of Relative Race, and I'm so glad that you guys pushed through all the way to the end today, but I'm afraid someone has to receive a strike.

♪ Finishing in first place... 11 minutes over their allotted time... what a great turnaround from worst to first for Team Green!

[laughing] Guys, you finished 11 minutes over your allotted time.

You guys killed it, you crushed it today.

- We can sleep tonight!

Thank you.

- Thank you, Dan.

- I think it just proves that every day is going to be a different battle.

- So now, who's safe for another day, and who will pick up their first strike?

Finishing 18 minutes over their allotted time and finishing in second place... is Team Black.

- Oh good!

I'll take second.

Sean: We're definitely kinda like, gosh, second again.

But at the same time, you know, we're not gettin' a strike, so that just means we're just right there to, you know, get maybe first tomorrow.

♪ Dan: And so it comes down to Team Red and Team Blue.

One of you finished 21 minutes over your allotted time and finished in third place.

Congratulations to Team Red.

Team Blue, you went from first to worst, you finished one hour and five minutes over your allotted time.

You finished in first yesterday, you do pick up the strike today, but it's only your first strike!

Team Green, you have a strike, Team Blue you have a strike, Team Red and Team Black you're both safe, but tomorrow will bring all new challenges, all new conditions, all new coordinates, but most importantly, all new family.

Get some well-deserved and well-earned rest, because tomorrow is day three of Relative Race.

Good luck everybody, and good night.

[all saying goodbye] [sighs] [screaming] - I couldn't scream like that in front of Dan!

[laughing] - Well, we didn't get um... - Okay, yeah.

- No strikes!

- We didn't get a strike, we got second place yesterday too, so.

I'll take second place.

Liz: Meeting my birth dad today has been amazing, and now that I know I have siblings out there, I am that much more motivated to stay in this race so I get to meet them.

- Getting the strike today was no surprise to me.

I knew where we had went wrong, and where we could've improved.

- So, you guys only have one strike, you know, you're good.

You'll be all right.

- I really got to see how much I actually do need Joe.

Best part of the day was you, though.

- Stop it!

Stop it.

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