Dan: Previously on Relative Race... [exclamations of surprise] ...Marcus met his father... - I met my dad.

That is crazy.

Dan: ...and his dad became his driver.

A trio of challenges gave two teams a big head start.

Maria discovered a brother she'd never known about.

Maria: When he said, "I'm your brother," that was crazy, you know?

Dan: Chonta discovered a deep connection to her family roots in slavery.

- That was a very, very, emotional moment.

Dan: The twin sisters endured a grueling drive to Florida, and found a first cousin with connections to their father, but also received the first strike of the season.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... - Yes!

- Blue!

Dan: ...to win $50,000... [cheering] ...and to find their family.

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh.

♪ Dan: It's Day Two of Relative Race, and all four teams are spread out hundreds of miles apart.

Team Green is beginning their day in Arlington, Texas; Team Blue is in Cartersville, Georgia; Team Black is in Davie, Florida; and Team Red is in Nashville, Tennessee.

Maria and Elizabeth begin their day spending more time with Maria's brother, Adio.

- I wanted to leave y'all with something before you left.

Just kinda sharing my gift with y'all a little bit.

- What is it?

- I made this for you.

- No you didn't!

- There you go.

- Oh, wow.

That's her?

- That is our mom.

- Oh my goodness.

Adio gives me this amazing, beautiful piece of wood, and I don't-- I'm speechless.

It has a photo of my birth mother on it, and a picture of me.

And I can see similarities, but I'm still kind of looking forward to hopefully the real thing.

And you made this?

- I did.

Liz: You did this?

Adio: I made that.

Maria: How'd you do this?

Adio: A magician never reveals his secrets.

It's not as hard as you might think.

Liz: It's beautiful.

Maria: That's crazy.

Me wuv you.

Liz: Wow.

That was so thoughtful.

Dan: In Arlington, Texas, Marcus is finding out why he's a natural-born entertainer.

- Okay Marcus, before you go, I want to show you your grandpa's music.

- Okay.

- So I pull out my phone, and Marcus is surprised to know that his grandfather is famous also.

♪ - Got a motor head baby, ♪ ♪ wanna ride all night long.

♪ - That's crazy.

♪ - If you don't have transportation, ♪ ♪ yeah, she...♪ Marcus: That's my grandpa.

I was blown away, 'cause I didn't expect that, like, my granddad is a real life, legendary musician.

- And he's good.

Marcus: And he's extremely good, that's even more of a push for me to continue the entertainment legacy in my family, like, that's really crazy.

Our family is legends in entertainment.

[laughs] That's crazy.

Dan: Waking up in Cartersville, Georgia, Team Blue tries to shake off yesterday's poor performance.

- I'm ready.

- I'm ready too, let's do it.

- It's, like, time to go, because there's no more third place.

We don't do third place.

- No.

Everything needs to be done with a sense of expediency, urgency, like, let's go, let's go.

- But you have to stop and be smart, too.

- Yeah, we do.

But we-- and, making sure that we have a plan and understand where we're going on the map.

- What's that, we got a text?

Who's it from, is it Dan?

[phone dings] - Good morning teams... - And welcome to Day Two of Relative Race.

- Team Red will be traveling to Knoxville.

- Knoxville, Tennessee.

Demetrius: Team Blue will be traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee.

- Team Black will be traveling to Fort Pierce, Florida.

- And Team Green will be traveling to Denton, Texas.

- Today's first place winner... - Will receive five minutes of GPS... - Or a Day 10 benefit.

- Your time starts... - Now.

- Now!

- Okay.

Bye!

- Okay, let's go.

Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Let's go make it happen, let's get to Knoxville as quickly as possible, and let's go knock this challenge out.

- He's driving, I'm navigating.

- Oh, you gotta go.

Hey, let me show you guys how to get out.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Keith: We're going to Denton, Texas, our Uncle Edward was super helpful; he helped us with the map and showed us exactly how to get there.

- Thank you!

- You guys drive safe, all right?

- Thank you, thank you, thank you, we will see you again later, thank you!

- You guys will win.

Kristin: I think because that we are behind, that we're the first team with a strike, it makes us want to... Kaley: Work harder.

Kristen: Yeah, and get first, like, that's what we're shooting for, is first.

- Come on, brother!

- All right, all right.

Liz: We got this today!

We are taking first.

- Yeah, ugh, whatever, see you later Team Blue.

- Bye!

- Y'all be awesome.

- Safe travels!

Chonta: Love you!

- Come on guys, let's go!

- Go, go, go!

- It's Day Two of Relative Race.

All of our teams continue along different paths all across the country.

Each team searching for new family, each in a different city.

All of them looking for the finish line in an undisclosed location.

At the start of the race, all of our teams surrendered their smartphones and all use of technology in exchange for paper maps and flip phones, with no GPS or internet access.

Now they’re headed to a new city.

They must take a selfie to prove that they’ve made it, successfully complete a common challenge, and then find their relative-- each in a different allotted time.

The team that goes over their allotted time the most will receive a strike-- three strikes and you're out of the race.

This is Day Two of Relative Race.

♪ - Aha, like, really?

- Do you see how focused I am?

I'm locked in on this drivin'.

Do you see this?

Chonta: Wow, wow, wow.

- This is what you call serious driving face.

Dan: With a marine-like focus, Team Blue, Chonta and Demetrius, depart Cartersville, Georgia, and race toward Knoxville, Tennessee.

With driving and the common challenge factored in, they have a total allotted time of two hours and 44 minutes.

But Team Blue isn't the only team headed to Knoxville.

[singing Edwin Starr's "War"] [both grunting] ♪ What it is it good for, absolutely nothing.

♪ - Sing it again!

Dan: Team Red, Elizabeth and Maria, are racing from Nashville to Knoxville.

They have an allotted time of two hours and 38 minutes.

- Ooh.

- It smells delicious, look.

- That's smart.

- Oh, give me some.

[laughing] Give me some.

Give me some.

- Little fabric wipe, a little fabric softener.

- Smell like clean laundry.

- Where are you going?

This way.

- I am.

I was acting like [indistinct], Kaley.

Calm.

- But they told you four times, you weren't listening.

So you've gotta listen.

Dan: Team Black, sisters Kaley and Kristen, depart Davie, Florida, and are headed to Fort Pierce, Florida.

They have an allotted time of one hour and 45 minutes.

Marcus: If you see a 35 East, turn on that, Dad.

Dan: Team Green, brothers Marcus and Keith-- and their driver, Marcus's dad Bishop-- continue to head west through the Lone Star state.

They're racing from Arlington to Denton, Texas.

They have the shortest allotted time of the day, at only 55 minutes.

- This whole "driver dad" thing-- - With Team Green is not cool.

- No, not happy about it.

- No.

[laughing] - 35 East, Denton, Denton.

- Where?

- Denton, right, right, right, right, ahh.

- Wow, we gotta come-- sorry.

- I told you 35 East, dad.

- Well, which way will get us back over there?

Sorry.

- Now I'm lost.

Keith: Just like we said about us having a driver, with it kind of being a handicap, he actually missed a turn that we told him to take.

- Sorry guys, I just didn't know it was right there, coming up that fast like that.

- Just pay attention to the task at hand, that's it.

So the other teams may think we have an advantage, but we really don't.

Dan: Over on the east coast, connections between the teams begin to become stronger.

- I really felt bad for, uh, the black team.

- I know, I'm gonna send them, like, a little word of encouragement.

It's like, what can I say?

- Just tell them we love them and we're thinking about them.

[phone dings] - Who's it from?

Kaley: Team Blue.

Both: Aww!

- I love them!

- I know, say, "We love you mama bear and papa bear."

We got a text from the blue team, and they were super encouraging and told us to keep our heads up and that they love us, and, you know, that's why we love them.

- We really appreciate them.

[phone dings] Kaley: Team Red.

Maria: So we reached out to Team Black today, our girls, ah, we felt for them a lot yesterday.

- Yeah.

- They had to drive over 17 hours or something ridiculous, so, we sent them a little good love, and a good luck today, I hope they get right back on track.

Kristen: It's not just about the challenges and getting there on time, it's really about the relationships that we're forming now, even though we're in separate states.

Dan: While three teams are showing a lot of love, Team Green is lost and are trying to fix a costly mistake.

- Sorry guys!

- It's all good.

Right off the gate this morning, my dad misses a turn for Denton.

- Oh, wow.

- So now we have to find another ramp to get on 30 East?

You think if we go down far west enough and just get back on on a turnaround?

- As soon as we missed the turn, I was lost.

But luckily, my brother knew how to fix the problem.

- I honestly think we should have just took the 38 West, get off, and then get back on the ramp.

- Oh, let's do that then.

- So we had to go back, find another route, and get back on track.

Marcus: And that lost us 15 minutes, 10 minutes maybe, I don't know.

- Wait, wait.

- And the toll takes us straight to 35 East.

- Oh, I see.

I guess we just gotta get through the toll.

Marcus: Stay on 35 East.

It's nerve-wracking now, we already have [indistinct].

- No, yeah, that was just a, a hump in the road, something unexpected, little turn.

Dan: In Tennessee, Teams Blue and Red are both headed to Knoxville in a heavy downpour.

- This rain ain't got nothin' on me.

- Rain, rain, go away.

- Rain ain't got nothin' on me!

- Come back another day.

Demetrius: So we're driving in the rain, and it starts pouring down cats and dogs, people are slowing down to see all around us.

Maria: Wow, it's really raining.

It's really coming down.

Driving today is... - I don't know, you're the one driving, how do you feel?

- [laughing] Um, it was a little scary, the hydroplaning just a little bit, um, on top of that the fog, the mist, the Mack trucks, yeah it was a lot.

So this is gonna be a lot harder, okay, we're gonna be fine, but it's gonna be hard to see signs, so we just gotta focus.

Chonta: Are you glad that you're driving right now?

- Am I?

- [laugh] I know you've been thinking that.

Demetrius: I think you would be driving worse than driving Miss Daisy.

I figured out if I stayed right behind the semis, they would push the water behind me, and I could stay at the speed limit without hydroplaning.

You're probably glad I'm driving 'cause it's raining.

- I am, I am.

Demetrius: In the rain, this is our strategy.

Follow the trucks.

Dan: As Team Blue puts their new rain strategy into play, Team Red, Maria and Elizabeth, make a risky move.

- Travel plaza.

Travel plaza would definitely-- it's a truck stop in travel plaza, they would definitely have maps.

So Maria and I are going down the highway and we see a sign that's for a truck stop, so we just assumed, okay, they need to be able to navigate all across the country, they gotta have a map there.

Driver's services center, did you see that?

That definitely means maps.

I think we should just go right back.

So we decided together that we're gonna take the risk.

We got this.

We got this.

Now hopefully we can get right back on and it's not like a whole... we're taking a risk.

- Yeah, I know, we got this though.

- Oh no, I think maybe right over and then back down.

Maria: Right back down.

Liz: Yes!

Maria: Let's do this.

Liz: Yes.

We run into the travel center, and they have the exact map that we're looking for.

The 10 minutes that we took to go back to get it I think actually saved us more time in the end.

Let's do it sister, YES!

Dan: Teams near their city limits and prepare for their city selfie.

Marcus: We are coming a lot closer, guys, we just passed exit 458, and we're gonna get on any one of these five exits I'm looking at.

We got options.

Kristen: Fort Pierce.

Getting off here.

Maria: Look, Knoxville something?

Yes!

Liz: Certified whatever, yes!

- Knoxville, Knoxville, right?

- Yes, all Knoxville, YES!

Demetrius: Knoxville Tire Barn.

Chonta: Knoxville Tire Barn, bam.

Demetrius: Let's do it.

- Fort Pierce.

Kaley: Where?

- Right there.

- Denton, right there.

We're pulling over.

Welcome to Denton.

- Is it right there?

- All right, come on, come on, come on.

[camera shutters] - Ready?

[camera shutters] - Get your face so close to mine.

[camera shutters] [camera shutters] [intense music] ♪ - There we go, there we go.

Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan.

View now.

- My door locked.

Marcus: Unlock the door, dad?

- Unlock the door.

- Sorry.

- Let's go!

Let's go, we gotta go.

Dan: All teams now gear up for their challenge.

Keith: We're on our way to our next challenge, I can't wait to see what that's like.

My brother killed the last one, so let's see what happens on this one.

Kristen: Yesterday we didn't do so well in the challenges, so whatever challenge is today, we have to kill it.

- Hey Team Blue, hope to see you-- here I got it-- at the next challenge.

- Okay.

- We have not run into Team Blue yet, but I hope we do, you know, so they can see how winners win.

Chonta: Oh, we got a text from Red Team.

- Wait, so they're gonna be at our challenge?

- You know what, really?

- We actually put our money where our mouth is, okay?

Mm-hmm.

New York, baby.

- What time is it?

- Game time.

Both: Blue.

Maria: As soon as we pull up, Blue pulls up right next to us.

Liz: I know!

- We're ready for this, we want this challenge.

We want this challenge.

[intense music] ♪ - Block party.

Dan: Day Two's challenge, "Block Party," is the same for all four teams.

For this challenge, teams must correctly arrange large, randomly-shaped and colored block pieces to form a perfect cube.

The allotted time for Block Party is 10 minutes.

[EDM music] ♪ - This has to be a foundation, foundation.

Move it off, move it off.

We have to build a perfect cube utilizing these blocks.

And they're all different shapes and sizes, and they look real funky-- - Just like Tetris.

- Tetris.

- All right, that's not, this isn't a base.

Right off the bat, we just-- we didn't know where to start except just try to throw them together.

- Well maybe this is the base.

- You think we should start at a corner, bro?

I think we could build better from a corner.

- Where's that corner one?

Remember the single corner one.

Maria: Having another team there, we also thought that it would be a distraction, but our strategy coming into it was don't think about them, even turn our back to them.

Don't even look their way, focus on what we have to do, and that's it.

- That's not it.

Ooh, we're close, bro, close, close, close.

- Where did we go wrong?

- Looking at the challenge, I'm thinking it's gonna be super easy, because it's just cubes, and I'm like, I deal with cubes all the time.

- Right, symmetric.

- I play Tetris, you know, stuff like that, so I already thought it was going to be easy, like I'm going to break a record for this challenge or something.

But, little did I know, it was a lot harder than I thought it was, 'cause we're dealing with big blocks.

- Right, right, right, right, right.

- Stop, stop, stop!

I got it.

I got it!

- No.

- No?

- Agh.

Demetrius: Right out of the gate, we almost have the entire thing finished, but our last piece won't fit so we tear the whole thing down.

- All right, start over, start over.

Start over.

- It doesn't fit.

- The biggest breakdown in that challenge was definitely when we would get all of it completed except one square was left, and so we knew there was a piece off.

- No, not that one, not that one, we tried that combination a million times, I don't believe it's that, I really don't.

- At one point after, it was like, okay, what has to-- there's too many cubes.

There's four on each side.

Liz: Yeah, after enough combinations, we said, all right, no pun intended, we have to think outside of the box.

[whispering] Wait, how about this, how about this, how about this?

We’re almost there, we're almost there, we're almost there.

Almost there, yes, what did I tell you?

Get it!

- Keep going.

Liz: Good job, sister!

Demetrius: We got beat plain and simple.

Chonta: And then we had to watch Team Red take off.

- Maria: "Your relative lives at 13 Stonewater Drive."

- Stonewater drive?

Where we just came from?

Come on!

Let's go.

[yells] Chonta: We cannot let Red Team especially get another Day 10 benefit, you don't want the same team keep getting Day 10 benefits.

We need to win a day.

We need to come in first place.

♪ - Uhh, maybe this one.

Kaley: We're trying to make up this cube, and we're both inside our heads, we're trying to think that it's more difficult than it actually is.

- I just want that one on top.

Kristen: Yeah, I don't care about the clock, I just want to get this done.

Kaley: We are barely communicating, because we're trying to do it separately to make one cube.

- What?

- This is not, wh-what?

- Well, I don't know what you're doing.

- I'm thinking about that.

Get a little awkward piece right here.

- All right, start over, start over, start over.

After Red Team finished theirs, we went over and took a look at theirs.

So we know that this goes here.

We were told the rules, Dan never said that we couldn't not go and look at what they had just put together.

- No, no.

- Kaley, stop being rude.

- I'm not being rude to you, it's just not it.

Are you not frustrated?

Kristin: Being a twin is much more difficult than people think.

We work good together 50% of the time, but the other 50%, we're trying to compete within each other.

[exasperated sigh] - Ooh wee.

Close bro, but no cigar.

We're really close to having this cube together.

Me and my brother are on separate ends, I realize from my end that the last piece is an "L." And there's an "L" right in the middle.

It's the "L" right here, bro.

This is the end, bro.

The "L," right here.

- We're throwing this in a box.

- No, this way.

- Oh, where, where?

Oh, hey.

Keith: So I tell him to pass it to me, and we complete it.

- We got it, we got it, come on, brother.

- Bam.

- And then that piece.

- Last one.

Demetrius: I'm not disappointed, um, in relation to putting the blocks together.

It's never been my thing, I'm not a builder.

Onto the next challenge.

- Your relative lives at 3032 North Hills Boulevard.

Marcus: Your relative lives at 433 Water Oak Street.

♪ - Oh my gosh.

[intense music] ♪ Kaley: Come on, we're on the clock.

Come on, come on!

Your relative lives at 2421 South Brocksmith Road.

- I'm better now.

I'm feeling fine, I'm feeling accomplished.

Of course I wanted to not go over 10 minutes, but I'm glad that we weren't here for an hour and we completed it.

Putting that last piece on was just amazing.

♪ Dan: As Day Two wears on, all teams are now on the hunt to find their relative.

- Laurel Street?

Do you see Laurel Street?

- Maria, you're asking, like, a whole bunch of different things.

- Okay, I'm gonna drive slow.

Do you see Laurel Street?

I just need to know if we're going in the same direction, so that's all I'm trying to say.

- Ugh, Maria is asking me a billion questions, and it's really keeping me-- it's hard to keep track of the map.

- Slow down so I can read this one.

Go a little further.

- I'm trying.

- Does that say Brocksmith or does that mean it's a little further?

- That's what I'm saying, I can't see!

- Hold on!

Just hold on!

Don't turn yet!

That doesn't-- that says Brocksmith, good, go.

Chonta: I need you to be able to pull over, 'cause we need to stop and ask somebody for directions.

- All right, go, go, go, go, go.

Chonta: My strategy was just go in there and ask somebody.

Can you help me?

I'm looking for this address.

And there's just a girl standing there and I said, "Hi, do you know where this address is?"

And then she starts to spout off some directions.

And I was like, game.

- Come on, come on.

Let's do it.

Out this way, right?

Out this way.

- Yeah, northeast onto Clinch.

Northeast on Clinch.

Liz: Wait, ask this guy!

Excuse me sir, can we ask a question about directions?

- Nei-neilander drive, southwest.

Man: Oh, Neiland.

- Neiland.

Liz: How do we get there?

This guy knew exactly which street we were looking for.

He gave us turn-by-turn directions.

I mean, what are the chances?

- Thank you!

- We are on a TV show, and you just helped us tremendously with time.

Thank you so much, you're being filmed.

Man: Perfect, awesome.

Bishop: You guys aren't telling me nothing.

- We got the address to our relative, and that's where I want to say it got a little, uh, challenging for us.

- Oh, this is killing me.

Keith: We tried to follow the numbers as best as we could, and we had to do a lot of going back, and going in circles.

Bishop: This is killing me.

We were going around in circles.

I almost wanted to stop, jump out of the car, and just, you know, get some air.

Maria: 2321.

2321, 2320- - Liz: [yelling] 2321!

Hi!

- Hi!

Both: Are you our relative?

- Yes, I'm your relative.

- Whose relative are you?

- Well, whose relative do you think I am?

- I think she's yours.

- No, I think she's yours.

- Those eyes.

- Yeah.

- I think she's yours.

- I don’t know I think she's yours.

- But the forehead is kind of me.

- Whose relative are you?

- Yours.

- Well, Elizabeth, I'm your relative.

- Really?

How are we related?

- I'm your cousin on your father's side.

Liz: Ah, what's your name?

- Shea.

- Shea, nice to meet you!

- Hi, Shea!

- You're beautiful!

- You're gorgeous.

- Look at you!

My name is Shea, and I am Elizabeth's first cousin.

The first time that I laid eyes on Elizabeth, I knew she was my cousin.

The teeth and the forehead gave it all away.

How was your guys’ day?

Both: It was good!

- That's good.

- We just kicked butt in our challenge.

- Yeah we did.

- Um, well, I don't know if you guys are up for a workout, but I'm missing my fitness today.

- Let's go!

- [yelling] Yeeesss!

Shea: All right, let's go!

- Oh my gosh, let's do it.

Come on.

Meeting Shea was so cool.

- Yeah.

- She's our age, she loves to work out, and she's on my dad's side.

[poignant piano music] ♪ Demetrius: All right, let's go see.

- Hey.

Demetrius: How're you doin'?

- Pretty good.

- I'm Demetrius, this is my wife Chonta.

- I'm Chonta, hi cutie!

- How are you doin'?

- I'm Dante.

- Dante.

- I'm your cousin on your father's side.

Nice to meet you, man.

- Man, for real?

- Yeah.

- Man, you gotta tell me everything.

Not in a million years did I think, um, that I was gonna walk up and meet a relative of mine, and that he was gonna say to me, "I'm your cousin on your dad's side of the family."

That's just real unexpected, man.

- Yeah.

- I'm sorry, man.

- Me and you got a lot in common.

It's still in the dark for me, but... Yeah, I gotta open a lot of doors for me too.

- Oh, man.

- Um, it's been real hard for a lot of years not knowing that side of myself, and so it just, it still hasn't really sunk in.

This is so unexpected, and this is?

- My baby girl, she's my oldest out of three.

Demetrius: How you doin'?

- Hi.

Demetrius: So I guess I'm your cousin!

Wow, man, I want to talk to you, I would love to know and share, if you could.

- Meeting Demetrius today, uh, to give him the news that what I found out was we're cousins on our father's side.

To be told that and tell somebody else that, you can't put a label to the emotion that, what I feel right now.

I'm just grateful.

I'm happy, scared, shocked, and I'm anxious to hear and see more.

- Hi!

- Hi.

It's good meeting you too.

- Nice to meet you.

Hey, girl!

♪ - Black Team, that sign said Black Team!

Keep going.

Yes.

Hey there!

- Hi!

How are you?

- Good.

- I'm Kaley!

- Hi!

- I'm Kristen.

- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

I'm Sandra Davis.

I'm your cousin on your mother's side.

- Oh, that's so cool!

- And you guys are actually the first biological relative I've met.

- [gasp] Huh?

Really?

- I don't know any of my biological family.

- Oh my gosh!

Aw!

- It's so nice to meet you guys.

Kristen: We're your first ones?

- Very first.

So nice to meet you.

Kaley: Wait, so are you adopte?

- Yes.

I'm Sandra Davis.

I live in Fort Pierce, Florida, I'm a Driver's Ed.

instructor, and I am cousin to Kaley and Kristen.

I was adopted when I was seven months old, and never knew any of my biological family until today.

Kristen: When Sandra told us that we were the first biological family that she's ever met in her whole entire life, it, like, it put me in a shock for a little bit, because, like, here we are trying to find family on this race, but we're stepping into her life, and it's not just a journey for us anymore, that it's also a journey for the people we're meeting as well.

Kaley: Right.

Dan: Back in Texas, Marcus and Keith have finally found their relative's house.

- Water Oak, Water Oak, Water Oak.

- Right here?

- Right here, right here.

Keith: We found the street, and we pulled up to the house.

We saw a group of people out waiting for us.

- It's good.

- Oh, this is crazy.

Keith: I get out the car, and me and my brother walk up to them.

Hello.

- What's up, nephew?

Keith: How you doin'?

Keith, I am Keith.

- Keith, I'm Mike, man, your cousin.

- Y'all look just alike.

Mike: All right, all right.

This is your family.

That's your uncle, cousin, cousin, cousin... Keith: From there, he introduces another cousin, an aunt... - Right here is your uncle Charles Ray.

Y'all hug, y'all hug.

- Y'all look just alike.

That is crazy.

Mike: This is your grandfather Jimmy.

Jimmy: [indistinct].

Keith: My grandfather Jimmy that I never got to meet.

It was crazy.

They all welcomed me with open arms, let me know that I was at home.

- When I heard that there was another Breedlove we'd never met, we were all ecstatic.

We couldn't wait to see him, so this is great.

- To have family embrace me like that, and let me know that I was loved, you know, that I had another home to go to if need be, and that everything was gonna be okay.

- All right, Keith, brothers, y'all, let's go in, let's get something to eat, we're gonna look at some pictures, and we're gonna reminisce a while.

How about that, how about that?

Come on.

♪ Dan: In Knoxville, Tennessee, Team Red, Elizabeth and Maria, are about to get their groove on.

- So I met Shea, my cousin, and she decided that we were gonna do some Zumba.

- Oh yeah.

- Oh, this is cute!

[upbeat electronic music] ♪ - I was so excited to show Elizabeth and Maria what I love to do, which is Zumba.

Liz: Shea and I are both fitness addicts.

I think it's...

I think it's fair to call us an addict, but yeah, she's a professional Zumba instructor, and I'm a professional personal trainer.

♪ Shea: For them to, like, dance with me and have fun, it just showed how goofy both of them are, and they'll fit right in with us.

- It was just movin', just constantly moving, having a good time, I mean, just having fun with it, and that's totally, totally me and this one also.

[cheering] - Yes, guys.

Good teamwork!

Dan: Back in Fort Pierce, Florida, Kaley and Kristen see how much they really know about driving.

- I'm excited, I don't know what we're doing.

- I know.

Kaley: Sandra told us we had an activity planned, and we had no idea what was about to happen.

- I am a Driver's Ed.

instructor.

Kaley: What?

No way!

- What?

Sandra: It's very important that all of my relatives are good drivers.

So I wanted to put them through the test, and see if they were actually good drivers.

A vertical rectangular traffic sign typically gives...?

instructions to the driver, B. a route number, C, directions to the driver to stop; D, a warning about the conditin of the road.

Kaley: It's been a really long time since we've taken our drivers test, but I'm pretty sure we'll nail it, right?

- It's just common sense.

- Yeah.

[laughing] B, because that looks like Route 66.

I better be right.

- Route 66.

[error noise] - A.

[laughing] - Why don't you let me try to pick some next time?

Honestly, some of the questions were hard, because some of the signs on the questions I've never seen.

So I knew I was going to get that one wrong.

- Okay, ladies, last one.

What should you do?

Or D, notify Dan.

- First C, then D. - Team Black!

- No.

[error noise] B.

When you're passing someone on the road, you have to slow down and drive cautiously.

They did not do too well, but they've had a long day, so, that's to be expected.

[poignant piano music] ♪ - I just don't know that side of myself, and, um, it's real hard, man, to try to put into words how much this means to me.

I grew up as a child not knowing who my dad is.

It was a lot of confusion around that, because when I would talk to my mom about it, she couldn't really share with me anything about who he was.

- I'm there with you, like, every little bit of it.

31 years old, and you're the first person I've met on my dad's side.

Growing up without a father was the hardest thing anybody could possibly do and I respect that, and I respect my mom for doing everything.

- It just felt really good talking to him, and him being able to understand me.

It's hard not knowing that other part of you.

And, uh, I think I do a good job of putting up a front, but, man, that's been something that for a long time is mentally and emotionally bothered me.

- Demetrius is very, um, he has a hard exterior that he's put on ever since I've known him.

So to see him drop to the floor in happiness, to see him just kind of let go like that, that was in a crazy way, beautiful.

- All I can do is introduce myself, and welcome you into our family, and hopefully build this lifelong connection.

- Absolutely.

- And stay in contact.

- Like, you are the only person I know from that side.

- You're the only person I know too.

Demetrius: Such a true blessing, to be able to touch, you know, a physical, uh, family member from that side of me, and so I'm just excited about what's to come with this journey.

Well, you got somebody to relate to now, man.

- Yeah, I look forward to getting to know you.

- Absolutely.

- Starting today, this will be forever, like, can't take it back.

I'm keeping it.

I don't care what anybody says.

- I got a cousin for life.

I'm real happy about that.

[piano music] ♪ - Keith, we'll talk about your dad, M'Quester.

- My dad's name is M'Quester Jones, I got to meet him once when I was young, and after that I really didn't get to see him again.

- He used to live here.

He's been here more than once to stay, um, last time he was here was probably about 15 years ago.

- My cousin Mike explained to me that my dad was also in and out of his life, you know, growing up.

So that further let me know that my dad had some struggles in his life.

- I spoke with M'Quester, Keith's dad, a few weeks ago, and he wanted to come here, but for some reason he was unable to make it, so we're gonna make Keith as comfortable as possible without his dad, that's just the way we are.

- If you don't mind, would you mind showing me a picture of him?

- Sure I will.

That's him.

Look like somebody you know?

- My brother.

- Looks just like you.

- It's crazy to see what my father looks like now, even though I haven't had much of a relationship with hi, and it's been quite a long time.

- When was the last time you saw M'Quester?

- Last time I saw him, I was in my early twenties, I was basically at a bus stop, you know, walking up to it, checking my surroundings, and I saw him, he looked at me, but he looked past me.

So, you know, I kind of felt some type of way about it because he didn't recognize me.

- You recognize him, but that don't mean he recognized you.

Keith: Right.

- Yeah, M'Quester's what, 60 now?

- Really.

- So he's probably-- yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Wow.

- So he's probably cataracts and everything else, so.

He wants to know you, he told me that a couple weeks ago, when I talked to him.

Keith: To hear that he actually wanted to have a relationship with me, and see me, it made me feel really good, 'cause I was unsure this whole time-- especially after seeing him, that he possibly didn't care.

That's how I felt, I felt he didn't care.

Thank you so much, uh, cousin Mike, I really appreciate it.

Today, I really got more than what I expected.

- I think we all did.

- It's great, I love it.

Mike: That's what family's for, bruh.

Personally, I think Keith is still up on a cloud, he can't believe his eyes that he actually has family here that loves him, and we love all of our family, so he's more than welcome to come to my house anytime.

Anytime.

- We've been through a lot, you know-- not having our fathers, our mom passing on us when we were young-- but to have a whole family that you've never been around that you know you don’t ever have to worry about that again, I think any and everybody deserves that.

Dan: Back at driver's ed, it's finally time to get behind the wheel.

- [laughing] Student driver.

- Student driver.

- 'Kay.

- There you go.

- Thank you.

Kaley: Here we go.

Oh, man.

So we finish the written test, and then Sandra took us to the physical test, where we had to get in a car and actually test our skills.

- Mm-hmm.

Sandra: Okay ladies, you'll be tested on three parts: Parking in between the cones, backing up, and then the third one we'll leave it as a surprise.

You ready?

- All right, I'm ready.

Seatbelt on, 9 and 3.

Kaley: Go.

You worried about your blinkers?

Sandra: If you hit the cones, you fail.

And if you scrape 'em, you fail.

Uh, Kristen did okay, she got in very well.

Very good, that wasn't bad.

Now, you have to back out... [laughing] ...without hitting the cones.

As far as backing up, she had a little bit of a problem.

You're good over here.

Kaley: Watch the front, watch the front, No, watch the front.

[laughing] - It was a very good thing we did not have a Ferrari on each side of us.

Kristen: The last thing I did was, she asked me to drive 20 miles an hour... - Stop!

Kristen: And out of nowhere she said, "Stop!"

And I stop, but just really slow.

Oh.

- You failed!

[laughing] The quick stop, Kristen did not do so well.

But that's the one that kind of freaks out most students.

Okay, Kaley, let's see if you can do any better.

- Okay.

Then after Kristen did her thing, Sandra had me get into the front seat so I could take my test.

Sandra: Don't hit any of the cones.

- Slow down, there's two Ferarris on the left and right of you.

- I wasn't nervous to pull into the cones; I think I'm pretty good at parking.

Sandra: Okay, very good, now let's back up.

No.

- Don't hit anybody.

- Look out your back window.

Look out your back window, not your-- [gasp] you're looking out your mirror!

- No, I'm looking-- - That's not a window!

- I'm looking at the-- - Look out your back window.

- I am, I have!

I think they're just picking on me because I am the better driver.

- But you're not.

Kaley: Yeah.

- Stop!

Kristen: [gasp] You killed that, monkey!

- Very good, that was awesome!

I noticed Kaley was much more of an attentive driver.

Well, I think we know who passed the test today.

- Stop.

I passed it, I parked!

Hearing that Kaley's a better driver honestly makes me mad.

If she's the better driver, then she can drive all day tomorrow.

At the end of the day, Team Green, at least we have driver's licenses.

♪ Liz: After Zumba, Shea takes us back to the house so that we can get to know each other.

Shea: Liz, cousin.

Liz: Yes.

- Is there anybody that you're maybe nervous to meet on the journey?

- Um, I'm slightly reluctant to meet my birth father's side of the family.

Yeah.

- Okay, well, you know, I kind of know how you feel.

So I started this journey just as you did a couple months ago.

My mom, your aunt, um, she was adopted as well.

- Wow.

Shea: But she didn't really feel the need to want to know anything more about her family.

- I can relate.

- But there comes a time in your life when you then have kids.

- Right.

- So I was that kid that was born, and didn't know anything about where I came from.

Going through this process, it really showed me how important it is to know where you come from, especially when you're creating generations after you.

And to be the person that can actually give them solid answers is amazing.

- I came into this saying, "I have no expectations."

You know?

I'm not looking for anything.

So it got me thinking, like, "Whoa, okay."

I thought maybe I'd meet one or two relatives, but now I'm thinking that there might be more.

Shea: You have six aunts and uncles.

Liz: Okay.

Shea: This is Joseph Sharon, your grandfather.

- Wow.

Maria: Wow.

May I?

Shea: Yup.

Liz: I'm actually really excited to find out.

And that's the first time I've felt excited to meet someone.

Yeah.

- I just want you to know, and just be open, it's gonna be all right.

- Ah, you're gonna make me cry.

I've already cried for two days.

[laughs] ♪ Dan: As dusk falls on Day Two of Relative Race, tension mounts for the final results.

Marcus: I kind of feel we did all right today.

Um, with the challenge we did okay.

Only one way to find out.

I'm anxious to see.

Kristen: We did not give up today.

And I think because of what happened yesterday, it pushed us harder today.

- To work for the rest of the days.

- And so honestly, I'm thankful that yesterday happened.

We are not getting a strike today.

No way.

[suspenseful music] ♪ Maria: I think literally going back that extra 10 minuts to get that map literally saved us.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Today's challenge was rough.

But I think we made up with it with the navigation.

♪ Dan: Welcome, teams.

Day two of Relative Race finds some interesting twists today that I want to talk to you about, not the least of which two of our teams, Team Blue and Team Red, wound up in the same city and went head-to-head in the same challenge.

Team Blue, you battled the same rain as Team Red.

And yet, you had a very unique solution.

What did you do?

- Used experience.

[Chonta laughs] - I take it you're not gonna share what you did.

- No.

[laughing] - Demetrius, robo-cop, says he has a strategy to get through the rain.

- Yeah, whatever.

We'll see.

Pff.

- Interesting.

Very interesting.

I wonder what the texts will be like tomorrow.

- I love everybody!

But I just-- it's experience.

With wisdom, and age, and experience in life come some tricks and things you pick up along the way.

Dan: Let's talk about Team Red for a moment.

This has really been this amazing journey for Maria.

But Elizabeth, who was on the other side of that door tonight for you?

- So today, I truly, from the bottom of my heart, thought it was gonna be a relative of Maria's.

Um, but it wasn't, it was my cousin.

Dan: Oh my gosh!

- The foreheads.

- The nose.

- The nose, this nos-- like, are you kidding me?

So yes, we're obviously family.

- Our baby cousin.

- Well that's so cool, you guys.

That's what it's all about.

Team Green.

Yesterday was a day of discoveries for Marcus.

Keith, when you knocked on that door, what did you discover?

- I got greeted by my cousin, Mike, who's right there.

I also got to meet my grandfather, um, a couple of cousins, aunties, I got to meet some nice people.

They actually called my dad, they spoke to him, and he said that he would like to build a relationship from here on up.

Dan: To let the other teams know, you and your father, it's been a long time for you since you've talked with your dad, correct?

- Yes.

Dan: How long has it been since you last spoke with your father?

- Um, quite some time, over 15 years.

Dan: It's safe to say that the family's not only growing, but it's reconnecting.

- Oh, yeah.

Dan: I want to talk to Team Black.

Tell me, who did you meet and did the family member that you met tonight help you understand more about your family?

- We are searching for people on our dad's side, but today, we met someone on our mom's side.

This is Sandra, she is our cousin.

- Hello.

Kaley: What is super, super cool is that we-- I'm gonna get super emotional-- we are her first biological family that she's ever met.

Because she is adopted.

Not only are we searching for family, but we've been able to be that for her today.

Dan: We're so grateful that you've been able to make this connection.

We're so grateful that now you have family.

All right, Team Blue.

What happened today?

- Well, um, today, I was able to meet a cousin, um, on my dad's side of the family.

This is my cousin, Dante, and his beautiful daughter, Maya.

We have very, very similar stories.

I feel like I'm truly on an amazing journey not to only do this for me, but to do it for Dante, because Dante also does not know his father.

Marcus: I got emotional with Demetrius.

I really felt him, I felt him through the screen, like, it's really tough of him to show his emotion like that.

Like, some people really don't do that, but I definitely felt where he was coming from the entire way.

- So he knows no one from that side of the family.

I knew no one.

And so we were able to make that connection today, and I'm, um, forever grateful because of it.

Man, it is such an amazing thing, because for so many years I've had this blockage, you know, like really wanted to know that side of myself, and just to be able to, uh, hug and touch him today, um, really has...

I don't care where we came in tonight.

It made it so worth it.

- And you expect me to be able to continue?

That's a little unfair.

That's a little unfair, Demetrius.

Wow, to say that I'm happy for you is an understatement.

It really is at times like this that I just wished nobody had to get a strike.

All of that having been said, it is time.

[suspenseful music] ♪ Going into these final results, only 19 minutes separated second place from last place.

The first-place team will have a decision to make once again: Do you choose a game-day benefit, or do you choose a Day 10 benefit?

The team that has that choice to make, finishing in first, 25 minutes over their allotted time-- it is amazing what some rest ad a new outlook on life can do, because Team Black, you finished in first.

[laughing and sighs of relief] Congratulations ladies, you have a choice to make: Do you choose that game-day benefit of GPS, or do you choose a Day 10 benefit?

It's your decision, and you have to make it now.

What do you decide?

- Day 10.

Dan: All right.

Your relative will give you your day 10 benefit later on tonight.

So now, who finished in second place, just 43 minutes over their allotted time?

Team Red, you powered through your challenge, you finished before Team Blue, and that apparently was enough.

You finished in second place.

- I just don't like second place, so... - It's okay.

- We're gonna work on that.

- Tomorrow we'll be first.

Dan: It's down to Team Blue and Team Green.

Team Blue, you had a solution in the rain.

Team Green, you were better at reading maps.

But not good enough.

Team Blue, you finished in third place.

Team Green, you have earned your first strike.

You finished one hour and two minutes over your allotted time.

Team Blue, you finished 59 minutes over your allotted time.

Team Green and Team Black, you each have one strike.

But tomorrow is another day, and you'll face new challenges.

Hopefully, you'll come up with all-new solutions, but ultimately remember this is all about family.

Remember who you've met, and dream about who you might meet.

Get some rest, and we can't wait to see what happens tomorrow.

Goodnight, and good luck.

- Good night, y'all.

[exhales] - All right.

- I'll take it, girl, I'll take it.

Dan: The standings for Day Two are in.

Making a complete 180 from yesterday, Team Black takes first place and picks up a Day 10 benefit.

Right behind them in second place was Team Red.

Team Blue takes third, and finishing in last is Team Green-- they pick up their first strike of the race.

♪ Kristen: So we got a box that we can't open.

We thought it was coins, but now it kind of sounds more like... - Dominoes and something's connected and it's like rolling?

- Yeah.

But I don't know.

- Let's get back to it.

- I'm so irritated.

- I am too, but.

Chonta: It's frustrating.

I'm honestly a little irritated at this point, but it'll be fine.

- I think we were behind because my dad, he took a couple wrong turns, too, as well.

- Yeah, and had to actually make up for that.

- So when I heard we got our first strike, I immediately thought about my dad missing that turn, 'cause it set us back 10, 15, maybe even 20 minutes, but that's not gonna happen again.

That's not happening.

- Oh, for sure.