[dramatic music] Dan: Previously on Relative Race.

The season started with a splash-- [smashing and splatting] As four new teams set out from Nashville.

- No mistakes.

- Let's go.

Christine: International Airport, left lanes.

JT: Come on, Betsy, you got it.

Kaleigh: C'mon, c'mon, girl!

Dan: Stephen made an emotional connection.

- I'm your uncle.

- [sobbing] Dan: And discovered his mother Charlene had passed away.

JT discovered a brother with shocking similarities.

- I was a firefighter in Mississippi.

♪ JT: To actually have a brother that's in the same career makes my heart explode.

Dan: The twins saw the first image of their biological mother.

Pam: Oh my goodness.

Dan: But also found out that she had passed.

Pam: She was the source of it all.

We'll never get to ask those questions, we'll never get to... you know, just talk to her, hug her, anything.

Dan: Team Red took home a new cousin.

Amauni: I really thought that I knew most of my family.

Dan: And Team Red got the first strike of the season.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.

- Love you!

- Pedal to the metal.

Dan: To win $50,000-- - Go, go!

Dan: And to find their family.

[knocking] Singers: ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day 2 of Relative Race, and the journey to find new family is just beginning for all of our teams.

Today, Team Blue, Kaleigh and JT, start the day in Douglasville, Georgia.

Five and a half hours away is Team Red, Amauni and Jarrell, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

To the west, Team Black, Pamela and Christine, are waking up in Loveland, Colorado, and Team Green, Stephen and Susan, are beginning the day in Oklahoma City, as Stephen is receiving more information about his mom's side of the family from his Uncle Craig.

Craig: Stephen and Susan, I know we got to spend a lot of time last night talking about your mom, my sister, Charlene, and I thought that it would be good to spend a little bit of time talking about my dad, your grandfather.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- Um, so, here are some photographs.

This is one, uh, taken of my father and mother.

Steve: That's you?

Craig: And that's me, in my stripy 70s pants.

- That's my grandpa, huh?

I love the sideburns.

- He was a big sideburn person.

- I love sideburns, I love 'em.

I mean, I wasn't expecting to meet my uncle, and I wasn't expecting to see my grandfather either, so, it's like a double whammy there.

I noticed me and my grandpa have the same eyes kinda, that in those pictures he looked very caring, and that he loved children.

Reminded me of me.

- Another thing that I thought you might be interested in knowing is how much my, uh, father liked art, he had really wanted to be an architect.

- Oh, awesome, yeah!

- And so, this is one of my favorites, just because it's kind of so abstract, and I can see his... - Drafting skills?

Absolutely.

Craig: Yeah, handwriting, that he would do.

Steve: To be able to hold the artwork that my grandpa did 70 years ago, uh, was almost like he was kinda there with us.

You know, I wasn't able to meet him, but it was like a piece of him was there.

- I want you to have this, because of your own interest in architecture, and that, so you can have that, too.

A record of him.

- Thank you so much.

- You're welcome, yeah, you're welcome.

I really wanted Stephen to have that drawing, because I know how precious they are to me, and this opportunity to meet him has also been precious to me, and so, to be able to let him have, also, a trace of my dad, you know, his grandfather, um, is, it's, I think one of the happiest parts of this process for me, so that he can have a way to remember him too.

♪ Dan: In Kentucky, Amauni is doing a little map studying with her cousin Domonic.

Domonic: I mean, I definitely want y'all to do better.

um, I do know that the North and South highways are gon' be even and odd, and then East and West are gon' be the even numbers, so remember that when y'all're tryin' to plan your route.

Amauni: After getting our first strike on our first day of the race, it really stings, so we really need to improve our navigation and get directions from my cousin Domonic.

- Well, um, hopefully y'all do well on the rest of y'all's trip, and I know whenever y'all're done, we definitely gotta stay in contact.

We definitely gonna have to at least FaceTime each other and plan a trip together so that you can meet even more family members.

- Yes for sure.

I'm so grateful in meeting my cousin Domonic.

I can't wait to see who else this journey brings us.

♪ - So we woke up this morning in Loveland, and got the car packed, got everything ready, and as we were, you know, gettin' finished up with that, our cousin Nick and his fiancée Hannah came out and had some presents for us.

- We got you guys a photo album, so every picture you guys take, throughout the adventure you can put in here.

- Okay.

- So if you look, it starts out with your ma.

Pam: One of the gifts that Hannah and Nick gave us was a photo album that said "family" on the front, and we open it, and the very first pictures we see are of our biological mother, Diana, to start the album.

So that was really sweet and very thoughtful of them, and um, I look forward to adding to that album as we go along this journey.

- And we did get you some gifts.

- Aw, thank you!

Thank you so much.

- That's pretty!

- So you guys can wear these while you're goin', and... Christine: Of course.

Pam: For good luck.

Nick: Hopefully every time you look at 'em you can remember us, right?

Christine: "With family I have everything."

That's sweet.

Pam: That's great, thank you so much.

Nick: You're very welcome.

- You wore your Team Black.

- Exactly.

Pam: Nick is our first biological family member that we have ever met, so that is awesome.

But now that we have pictures and a name of our biological mother, I just feel that this is an incredible start to this journey.

♪ JT: Meeting my brother Anthony yesterday was shocking.

I can't believe this is happening this early on in the race.

Kaleigh: Over here.

- So right now, you're a little bit east of here.

Kaleigh: Uh-huh.

JT: Saying good-bye this morning is tough.

But we know Team Green is coming in strong, and we really need to step our game up today.

Today's gonna be a good day.

We're gonna knock out this challenge, and it's gonna be great.

- Team Green, we're comin' for you.

- Yes we are.

[text notification] - Oh, we got a text.

- We got a text.

[dramatic music] ♪ - "Good morning, teams."

- "And welcome to Day 2 of Relative Race."

- "Team Red will be traveling to New Albany--" Both: "Indiana."

- "Team Blue will be traveling to--" Both: "Mt.

Olive, Alabama."

- "Team Black will be traveling to Breckenridge, Colorado."

Both: "And Team Green will be traveling to Amarillo, Texas."

- "Today's first place prize is forcing the three other teams--" - "To pull over for five minutes.

Your time starts now."

- Now!

- We gotta go.

- We gotta go.

- All right, we gotta go!

So leaving is kinda bittersweet, but we don't really have too much time to think about it, 'cause we gotta go into race mode, and then challenge mode, and then prepare to start this whole emotional rollercoaster over again with a new relative.

- Okay.

- Just drive now, please don't stop.

- Okay, you wanna hold this, wanna hold this?

- Yeah, yeah.

- We know Team Green has a penalty to give out today, and we are pretty scared that we're the ones receiving it, but we're just gonna be on point with our navigation, and just give our all to make sure that we come out on top tonight.

Kaleigh: [excitedly slapping legs] Woo!

- Bye, Craig!

We love you!

- The speed limit's 65.

- I'm goin' up, I had to brake 'cause the truck in front of me.

[drumline music] Jarrell: [rhythmically] We are number one, we can't be number two.

Say what?

We are number one, we can't be number two.

Say what?

We are number one, we can't be number four.

Amauni: I think Red Team's gonna do pretty well today, we're gonna do way better than yesterday, because we have a better feel for how this goes and what we need to do.

Jarrell: And Day 1 was just a test for us.

So Day 2 is actually the competition starting.

Dan: Team Red departs Bowling Green, Kentucky, for New Albany, Indiana, with an allotted time of two hours and eight minutes.

Christine: I can't see anything.

Pam: Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna go any faster than what I can see.

It's getting thicker.

Oh my gosh, that's gonna mess up our time!

Neither one of us have experience driving in snowy weather, icy roads, any of that.

Of course it's 25 degrees.

And foggy.

And snowing again.

Why wouldn't it be?

Dan: Continuing to battle the snow and frigid temperatures, Team Black is headed from Loveland, Colorado to Breckenridge.

They have an allotted time, including today's challenge, of 2 hours and 21 minutes.

[mischievous music] Kaleigh: I wanna send somethin' to Team Green.

- Okay.

- Um, tell me how this sounds.

- Okay.

- "Good morning, Team Green.

"We just wanted to let y'all know we love you "and our hearts go out to y'all.

Safe travels today."

- I like that.

- Send it?

- Yeah, send it.

- All right.

Yesterday, Team Green took first place, so their prize is they get to give a team a penalty today on their challenge.

So we figured we would text them first and show them a little love in hopes that they wouldn't give us the penalty.

Dan: Playing the strategy game today, Team Blue is making their way from Douglasville, Georgia to Mt.

Olive, Alabama.

Their allotted time is 2 hours and 24 minutes.

- Sending.

Sent.

♪ [text notification] - [gasps] - Uh-oh.

- Uh-oh, we got a text.

Steve: We're driving down the road, trying to figure out who we're gonna send our challenge penalty to.

- And before we can even send it, we get a text from Team Blue.

- [laughs] Oh.

- What?

What?

- Aw.

- What?

[laughter] Dan: As Team Green decides who to give the challenge penalty to, they'll be racing from Oklahoma City to Amarillo, Texas.

They have the longest allotted time of the day at 3 hours and 54 minutes.

♪ - Oh, it's sent now, I can't change it.

- [laughs] - Oh, this is gonna be fun.

[notification] Jarrell: [singsong voice] We got messages, we got messages.

Wonder who they're from?

- Think we just got a text.

- Who's it from?

- Look, it's a message from our friends!

- It says: - [nervous vocalization] Oh my gosh, I hope it's not us.

- Man, I thought we was all friends.

Green Team, you can't be playin' us like that.

- Oh my goodness, I hope it's not us.

I'll be so-- I'm not gonna lie, I'll be so upset.

- They're probably just doin' it for dramatic effect, I don't know.

Kaleigh: Our strategy might've backfired.

- [laughs] ♪ Dun dun duuun!

♪ ♪ - Team Green says: - [gasps] - Knew that was comin'.

- I expected it, but... okay, that's fine.

That's fine.

It is what it is.

JT: Yeah, we knew this was comin', obviously.

- [relieved sigh] Thank goodness.

Poor Team Blue, but thank goodness.

- Oh.

That's hurtful.

- Burn.

- [singing] ♪ Burn, baby, burn!

♪ - Like how they always say, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

- They told us that.

[laughter] [text notification] Steve: [laughs] So funny!

- [laughs] - [laughs] - Team Blue.

Susan: [laughs] ♪ Dan: As teams navigate to new cities and new relatives, JT realizes how life-changing his journey has already been.

JT: So my brother gave me this, and it's our last name, and it means the absolute world to me that he would give me something like this, this is... this is special, this is very special.

I found out last night I'm a Burkett, from my brother Anthony, and he gave me the nameplate off his military uniform, and I'm gonna keep that with me the rest of this race.

To take it off of a duty jacket, rip it off and just hand it over, with all the love in the world, it's... it's very emotional to have this right now.

Kaleigh: So, we decided we are going to... JT: Stick it up here, with us for our journey.

Kaleigh: For good luck.

♪ You're a Burkett.

- I'm a Burkett.

- I think there's still a lot more to come for ya.

I hope there is.

- It is awesome.

It's amazing, it's...

I'm so grateful.

♪ Jarrell: New Albany.

Yes.

Pam: Breckenridge, five and a half.

Due south.

- Where'd you see that?

I missed it.

- I need you to pay attention, navigator.

- Amarillo.

Susan: Oh my gosh.

We're, that's Amarillo.

Oh my gosh, we-- [gritted teeth] We can't pull over there!

- I know, baby.

Kaleigh: What is that?

♪ Mt.

Olive.

Christine: Well, it would've said Breckenridge.

Pam: "Welcome to Breckenridge."

- Amari-- uh... Amarillo National Bank?

Yeah!

- Where?

- Right there!

Susan: Yes, yes, yes!

Perfect!

♪ Kaleigh: Right there, stay right there.

♪ - Let's go.

Go, go, go, go.

- All right, let's go!

Kaleigh: Ooo, Relative Race, Relative Race, there it is, there it is!

- Yes, it's right there, we made it!

- It got faces, it got faces on it?

Got faces, got faces, wonder what the faces are for?

- Get this challenge goin'.

♪ - "Operation Headhunters."

Dan: Day 2's challenge is Operation Headhunters.

Using a slingshot reclining launcher, teams must knock over all six of their targets, which happen to be in the shape of their competitors' heads.

One player aims the launcher while the other sits in the chair and fires the balls.

Once all six targets are hit, the challenge is complete.

[rock music] Christine: Okay, go.

- "You have been selected for today's penalty.

"You must move the middle two targets five feet back.

Good luck."

Moving these targets back five feet, I think it's gonna make this challenge extremely hard.

Thanks, Team Green.

Steve: All right, there you go, right, a little bit over, over, over.

- There?

- Yup.

Susan: All right, are you good?

Steve: Ah!

So on my first go, I didn't hit a single target.

Christine: Oh my goodness.

So there is a lot of love, uh, that we feel for the other teammates.

But however... Pam: Whatever it takes to win.

Christine: Game on.

We are launching balls at everyone's faces to get it down the quickest so we can move on to meet our relative.

- Yup.

- Left.

- Yeah, yeah, try it.

Both: Ah!

Amauni: I get into the seat, and I'm like, I'm ready, I'm telling Jarrell where to aim and everything, and I think I've got it perfectly aimed.

Over to the right.

And...

I shoot and miss, and I shoot and miss again, and again, and again, and I'm like, I'm not gettin' this, and I'm hoping this doesn't take forever.

Pam: Okay.

To the right!

I'm sorry, left, left, left.

- 'Kay.

Pam: Dang!

Christine: The strategy I thought was just to lean back and aim, but I didn't account for the wind.

Ah... Pam: Go for it!

Christine: Agh.

Not high enough.

Pam: We noticed immediately that it was a little windy out here, we knew we'd have to do something to compensate for that.

It took us several shots to figure out what we needed to do to make up for that wind and still keep the direction we needed.

Pam: 'Kay, okay, I got it.

[ding] Yes, good job!

Christine: Yes!!

Blitz!

Blitz!

Blitz!

- Ooh!

- Oh my gosh, are you okay?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

- Yeah, the step totally jumped out in front of me, and-- - It did, I saw it, it took her out.

- Yeah, instead of letting the step get hurt, I took one for the team.

Literally.

So, I mean, you know, I didn't-- Christine: Tuck and roll, get up, and keep going.

Pam: That's right, that's right.

Did it as graceful as I could and got up and kept moving.

[laughing] I got it, I got it.

- Right there.

[ding] [ding] - Woo!

[ding] [ding] ♪ Kaleigh: We see Team Green's face, and first thing I'm thinkin' is, "We're gonna hit them in the face hard, since they wanna pass on that penalty."

- Right there.

Kaleigh: Almost, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

We take a few shots and then finally, perfect shot right in the eye.

[ding] Okay, switch, come on.

Amauni: Ah, I keep missin'!

Steve: Ah!

♪ - Back to the right just a tiny bit.

Ugh, c'mon, go get the ball, get the ball.

So when we missed the targets, the balls rolled all the way on the other end of the football field.

- And I learned the biggest challenge was that we were gonna have to run after these balls.

I'll go far.

I'll go far, you get close.

Steve: No, you go get close!

I was fine with the running.

My shins were not.

C'mon, baby!

Uh, no, I didn't, I didn't enjoy the running that much.

Susan: C'mon, hurry, hurry, hurry!

♪ Steve: I'm realizing, maybe I should've ran a little bit more before the show instead of weightlifting.

Whew!

I'm not a runner.

♪ Ah!

JT: Go up, to the right.

Stop, to the right.

- Over, right, uh, left.

[ding] Got it.

[ding] Amauni: [shrieks] I knocked down Christine, and we're on a roll.

[ding] Susan: All right, babe, we got one more, we have one more.

Steve: All right, it's not hard, hit the ball!

- So the last shot, alls I got is one more, I gotta get Christine down."

Kaleigh: Yes!

- Woo!

- Let's go.

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

- All right, I'mma go, I'mma go.

[ding] Yes!

- Four down, two to go.

- Okay.

[ding] - Yes!

♪ - All right, right there.

[ding] [screaming] - Let's go!

Let's go!

- Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Amauni: Come on!

- "Your relative lives at 116 Payne Road."

- "460 S 3rd Street."

Both: "2607 S Ong Street."

- South Ong Street!

♪ Pam: Little bit.

[ding] Yes!

We just had to get the aim, and get the force behind it.

- Account for the wind.

- Yeah, and account for the wind.

Um, the balls did their job, we just had to do ours.

Both: "Your relative lives at 878 American Way!"

- Woo!

♪ [rock music] Dan: With the challenge in their rear-view mirrors, all four teams are now trying to find their relative's address.

♪ Steve: C'mon, baby, we're looking for South Ong Street.

Pam: As we're about to leave the challenge, we spotted a police officer sitting in the same parking lot.

Hi, can you please tell me how to get to 878 American Way?

Police officer: You're gonna turn right.

- My pen's not working.

- Turn right, turn right.

- I'm sorry, right at stop sign right here?

Kaleigh: We see the closest gas station, we decide to pull in and ask for directions.

JT: You ready?

♪ Steve: There's a fire truck!

Go that way!

All right, honk at 'im, honk at 'im.

- Wait, wait, wait.

- Honk at 'im!

- No, I don't have to honk, wait, wait, wait.

Go ask him, hurry.

Say, "Sorry to bother you.

I hope you don't mind."

Steve: Hey!

Hey, guys, sorry to bother y'all.

So we see the fire truck and we jump out and ask them, and they give us exact directions to our relatives.

So we go across Washington, right, and then, okay.

All right, perfect, thank you guys!

Hey, we appreciate everything y'all do!

- C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!

Good job, good job!

- Go right, go right!

- Gosh, that's so epic.

♪ Kaleigh: Get out, um, go to the left when you get out.

We get promising directions at this gas station, and we're feeling really confident.

I hope these are good directions.

Pam: Thank you so much!

- Have a great day!

Thank you for your service!

Pam: I can't believe that this officer just gave us turn-by-turn instructions.

We lucked out.

- We needed that.

We needed that after that challenge.

Amauni: Come on, light!

We have somewhere to be, relatives to meet.

- Oh My Lanta, come on!

- Go, go, go!

JT: Come on, can't regret this red light.

Kaleigh: Red lights happen.

They're happenin' to everybody.

- C'mon, guys, the light's green, let's go.

C'mon.

- Pedal to the metal.

Steve: Think we're goin' the right way.

- This has gotta be it.

Ong, Ong, Ong?

Is this Ong?

It's not Ong.

Both: Ong!

[repeatedly shouting Ong] Steve: One more, one more, one more!

Susan: This is it!

Steve: One more!

- [gasps] Oh my gosh.

- Oh, man.

[soft piano music] C'mon.

♪ Hi.

Both: Hi!

Steve: Um, I'm Steve Dimmitt, this is my wife.

- I'm Susan.

- Susan.

- I'm Connie, and this is my sister.

- I'm Laurie.

- Hi, how are you, um, who are you related to and how are you related to us?

- We're Steve's family.

- We're your cousins.

- You're my cousins?

Laurie: On your dad's side.

- On my dad's side?

Connie: Yes, we are.

[laughs] We are!

Steve: Oh my goodness!

Laurie: And we're so, so thrilled to meet you!

Connie: I'm Connie Martinez.

- And I'm Laurie Harrison.

- And we are Steve's cousins on his father's side.

- We're finding out that this whole genetic thing is crazy!

Both: Yeah.

- Like, I've never really had to... never really dealt with it, 'cause, you know, bein' I was adopted.

- Right.

Steve: I was overwhelmed to find somebody related to my father this early in the race.

I always thought that my father was a nonissue, like, nobody could find 'im, so to find them was pretty amazing for me.

- We're so thrilled to meet you.

This was so exciting.

Steve: I think the realization, when I was hugging them and meeting them at first, that they were related to my father, there was a hope that they might know my father, and have that information for me for the first time.

Okay, so, do y'all know my dad?

- Well, actually, uh, we know your grandmother.

Your grandmother and our grandmother are sisters, were sisters.

- Okay!

- Yeah, so... Steve: All right!

- So we have some more information that we can share with you.

- And pictures.

Laurie: Okay, well, let's do that.

Steve: Oh my gosh.

♪ [intense music] Dan: Back on the road, the other three teams are battling to stop their clocks.

- Just to reiterate, we were looking, we are looking for a fork in the road, stay left.

- Stay left?

- Stay left.

- Okay.

Amauni: 3904, we're getting closer, I hope.

Kaleigh: Payne, Payne!

JT: What's the numbers?

116?

- 116.

- Oh my gosh, what do we do?

- Oh no!

It says CR906.

- What do you wanna do?

- I don't know!

- What do you wanna do?

- I-- - We gotta make a decision!

- First three turns-- Amauni: 4000.

It's over there.

It's over there!

JT: [indistinct] I gotta turn around, then.

Kaleigh: 216... 217.

- Yeah, we gotta turn around.

If they're going up, we gotta turn around.

- Where else was there to go, though?

- I don't know, but it's gotta be back there!

- 16.

Amauni: 14, 16!

- 16, right here, is this it?

- Pull up a little bit.

- 117.

- 116, right here, oh my--!

♪ [gentle music] ♪ Man: Hey, how's it goin'?

- What's up?

Kaleigh: Hi.

- Hi.

- I'm Kaleigh, this is Jonathan.

- Hey Kaleigh, hey Jonathan.

I'm Andrew.

Kaleigh: Hi, and who are you related to?

- Well, I'm related to you, Jonathan.

- How are we related?

- You're my brother.

How's it goin', man?

- What's up, dude?

♪ Andrew: Nice to meet you.

JT: Nice to meet you, man!

♪ - Feels good, man.

JT: It does.

- It's good, pretty good, you look good, man!

I'm Andrew Burkett, I'm from Mt.

Olive, Alabama.

I'm JT's brother, we share the same father.

- I can't believe this is happening, again, today!

- I know, right?

Yup.

- It's a lot.

I didn't know-- I didn't know I had this many brothers, and that's one of the things I've always ever wanted.

♪ When you're face to face with 'em, and you hear, "I'm your brother," two times in a row, man.

Just, the world stops turnin'.

- We're here now.

JT: Yep.

- This is awesome, man.

- I'm ready to, ready to get to talk to you.

Andrew: Me too, me too, we got so much to catch up on.

- Yeah.

- A lot.

I'm excited.

- Me too, buddy.

- Man, let me get another hug!

I can't believe this.

Andrew: Huggin' my brother for the first time, it felt like the void that I've had inside of me, it felt like it was filled.

It was a feelin' that you only really come across on special opportunities, and special moments like this.

And it felt great, it felt new, it felt... amazing.

Man, family means everything, you know.

Anthony was really the only one that was ever there with me.

Always.

Out of everybody, it's just uh, always been me and Anthony, and uh... you know, him goin' off to the army was real hard on me, but uh, it was a good thing, you know?

Um, he taught me a lot, he's my hero, man, he's my role model, and uh... You know, I look up to him.

JT: The unique thing that I was knowin' from Andrew is that he always had, you know, he felt that there was somebody else out there.

That just hit home, and deep, in a totally different way.

And it's crazy, 'cause we, we shared that feelin', and didn't know we shared that feelin'.

- We meet new family, man, we've always been so anxious to get out there and find out if we had other family members, and we do, man, and now, they're here in front of us, so, it is a great feelin', man.

I mean, the feelin' of meetin' your sibling, your brother, your blood, is like a puzzle piece that was lost is now found, and it's connected.

♪ Christine: There it is, 878.

[singing] ♪ All right.

♪ ♪ This is it.

♪ Pam: We get out, and we're walking towards the house, and this gentleman comes out, and he tries to figure out which one we are.

- Hold it, hold it right there.

Christine, Pamela.

- No.

- No!

- Christine, Pamela!

- Christine.

- Yes.

Man 2: Christine?

- Pamela.

- I'm Craig, I'm your cousin.

I grew up with your mother, Diana.

- Hi!

[shouting] Craig: I've been waiting for this for forty years.

- You've been waiting for us?

- Forever.

Ever since the day you left.

- Don't start crying now, Pamela!

- Too late.

- Don't start crying now!

- You're crying too.

- I'm not crying.

- Yes, you are.

- Okay, I'm crying.

Christine: It's a snowflake in his eye, it's a snowflake in his eye.

Craig: My name is Craig Phillips.

I am Pamela and Christine's cousin, and I grew up with their mother, Diana.

You okay?

- No, yeah, I mean, no!

[laughs] - You will be.

- I think she needs a full, she needs the full hug.

Craig: You will be.

- She needs the full hug.

Craig: Full hug.

Pam: It's just a feeling I can't explain, when someone tells you, "I've been waiting almost forty years to meet you," that...

I mean, I, how do I even encapsulate that into words?

I just, I lost it at that point.

'Cause it was just kinda like, "You, you have?"

We met Craig's son, Nick, yesterday, who was able to tell us about our biological mother, Diana.

And now that we know that Craig grew up with our mother, I'm really hoping that he can tell us a lot more.

[breathing deeply] Craig: It's okay.

Wanna go inside?

- Sure.

- Yeah, please.

♪ Amauni: We did it, we found it!

We found it!

- We did.

- Oh my goodness, we did so good!

♪ - [laughing] - Hi!

Jarrell: Hi!

I'm Jarrell.

- I'm Amauni!

- Hi, great to meet you, I'm Dovetta.

- Who's relative are you?

- Well, this is my daughter, Keilani, and this is my cousin.

- I'm Desiree.

- And we are your first cousins on your mom's side.

Keilani: And I'm your second cousin on your mom's side.

- Oh my gosh!

[excited screaming] Dovetta: It's great to meet you!

I'm Dovetta Lee Quiroga.

Desiree: I'm Desiree Lee.

Both: And we are Jarrell's first cousin on his mother's side.

[excited greetings] Jarrell: All in one, I met three relatives in one day, and it was... it was just amazing.

Oh my gosh.

Desiree: We are here, we are here!

- You made it, you made it!

[excited screaming] Desiree: Coming on this journey was important, because I think everyone should know where they're from, who their family are, despite how it all fits, despite how it all works out, sometimes it's great, and then sometimes it's not so favorable, but knowledge is power.

We said, "Let's give this young man "an opportunity to know about us, "and to be a part of our family, and us bring him in, and he bring us into his life."

[excited laughter] - All right, so, I know that it's been a long day for you guys, and you've had some challenges, and some movin' and shakin' things.

We have a little surprise for you.

- I like surprises.

Dovetta: Would you like to join us?

It's with food and family.

- Sure, yes!

[excited shouting] - Okay, let's go!

Let's go, let's go on in!

♪ JT: After a really emotional meeting with my brother Andrew, we finally got the chance to get to know each other a little bit.

You grew up in Jackson?

- Yeah.

JT: Who did you live with?

Andrew: So, lived with my-- with our dad, and um, till I was ten.

And then I moved here with my mom.

- So, we share the same father, but not the same mother?

- Right, so we're half-brothers.

But in my eyes, we're real brothers.

Full brothers.

Yeah.

- We have the same blood.

- We definitely have the same blood.

JT: We have that lineage.

- Yep.

- I know... lookin' at him, that this is my relative, like, I see myself in him.

I see the tall, lanky, lankiness that we all have.

It's breathtaking, like, to see that for the second time.

Two times in a row, just... it's a lot.

- He has always had, like, this very just calm... calmness about him, and I feel that with you.

- And that's crazy, because everyone's always said that I was adopted, because I wasn't like anyone else in the family, really.

I was always the calm one, and uh, so that's crazy that... - And now he's here.

Andrew: And I am, I'm always the laid-back, chill person.

That's definitely the blood in us.

So in my family, I've always been the quiet one.

Um, and just knowin' I share those same similarities with my brother, that, that's awesome.

That's a great feelin', and I love it.

For us to go this long until we finally meet is... is hard, you know?

- It is hard.

Andrew: And uh... - We're gonna make up for it.

- I'm sorry, man, I just-- - You have nothin' to be sorry for.

Andrew: I know, but I'm sorry that it took this long, that we couldn't be there with you growin' up, you know, so much time has already gone, and life is already so short as it is, and uh, and I'm excited.

There's so much that I can't wait to share with you.

JT: This experience has given me the feeling of a complete, a better, complete person, more than I've ever felt, and I thank God for that every day.

- You know, you're finally fulfilling this emptiness that you've had so long, 'cause I can only imagine... how it's been.

You growin' up, you know, always wondering, you know, curiosity.

And I just, I can feel your energy, and your excitement, and your happiness, that you're finally fulfillin' this emptiness.

And that's just so, it's God, man.

- It is.

Andrew: Knowing that we both have that same feelin', that we've always felt empty inside, that we were missing a connection, another piece to the puzzle, and... the moment that I met him, I just felt like that puzzle was put together.

- This has truly been... ♪ The best days of my life.

- Definitely.

Today is definitely one of the best days of my life.

- Absolutely.

Andrew: [indistinct] JT: I thank God for this experience that I'm getting now.

[sniffles] ♪ Steve: So, my dad's side, our grandmothers were sisters?

Laurie: Yes.

Connie: We know that your grandmother is Ola.

- Ola?

Connie: Uh-huh, and her sister, Augusta was our grandmother.

And this, your grandmother, Ola, and her, and your grandfather.

Steve: Johnny?

Connie: Uh-huh.

And all of these are their children.

Steve: How many?

Connie: There's eight.

There's eight children there.

- [laughs] That's a lot, so... what is Ola and Johnny's last name?

- Prewett.

Steve: Prewett.

- Prewett, uh-huh.

- So that means my dad's last name would've been Prewett.

- Well, yes.

- Yeah.

- Yes.

- Mm-hm.

Steve: Seeing the photo of my grandparents and their eight kids is crazy!

I can see where I get my looks from, I look like people!

There's uh, one obvious question, though.

Uh... do we-- so is my dad in this picture?

- Yes; there were five boys, so one of these boys would be your dad.

- [sniffles] [pensive music] Connie: And we know that only one of these are still living.

All the others have passed away.

There's only one child, one boy living.

But we don't know which one he is.

♪ And I don't know if we've ever met him, because there were so many of the children that we never got to meet, even when we went to visit, because they didn't live there.

♪ Steve: There is a one-in-five chance that... that one man who's alive is my father.

There's a four-in-five chance that my father's already gone.

So, I either have my father... or he's already gone, and I have an uncle.

- I think in life, we always hold out hope for the happy ending, and that's what I hope for, for Steve.

I hope that um, his father is alive.

- So yeah, we're... have a huge hope that the one that's still alive is his dad.

- It's uh, the odds are kinda... not that great.

♪ [sniffles] So if I don't get to meet my father on the show, because he's gone already, then, I guess the next best thing would be that I get to talk to my uncle, and maybe find out what kind of man he was, and get some pictures, and maybe get some of those answers from him.

♪ [funky music] Singer: Hey!

Dovetta: Okay, so this is the surprise.

We took him to our hometown, The Brown Hotel, and they have the Hot Brown.

- And I'm like, I'm always down to eat, I'm always hungry.

♪ The Hot Brown includes chicken, hot turkey, Texas toast, tomatoes, bacon, cheese, a lot of cheese, it had a lot of cheese.

And it's, it's hot.

You take that first bite, and it's like, [rapid breaths] [laughter] It's hot.

Dovetta: [laughing] ♪ [soft piano music] - Besides sharing a wonderful meal with our family.

- Breaking bread.

- Breaking bread, yeah.

We also got a chance to share some relative names, and information of how we're really, how we're really connected.

- I was adopted when I was 15 months.

- What do you know about your family, your mom, or, do you know her name, or do you know...?

- So, I know my mom's name is Victoria.

That's...

I don't know her last name, I just know her first name is Victoria.

- So then, if your mom's name is Victoria, then she is the sister to my dad, and her dad.

- Which makes us first cousins.

- Yeah.

- Mm.

- Take a bite on it.

[laughter] - Another thing is that our DNA is a match, but my dad's dad Sr., Eugene as well.

- Eugene Sr. Dovetta: Was married three times.

So the reason why we didn't know about you is because there were three marriages.

but we do know that you are ours, because our DNA matches.

- Mm-hm.

Dovetta: You are ours.

You belong to us.

We own you.

I'm just kidding.

[laughter] Jarrell: Learning this information, it's a lot to take in, and it's, it's a great feeling to have all this information, you know, to try to piece the puzzle together.

This moment right here impacted me a lot, because... they are the first blood family that I've ever met in my life, so it's, it's a really big deal.

- We want you to know that we love you.

Dovetta: Mm-hm, for sure.

- You're our cousin.

You're our family.

Dovetta: And now we know about you, so.

- And now that we know about you, we're, we don't let each other go, we don't do that.

We were blessed to grow up with our families, like, these are our blood families.

And I'm grateful to God that he was adopted to a good family that took care of him, but it's nothing like knowing your family, knowing home.

And we are so excited to extend that love to you, and to your wife, and to your family, and I know that you had an adoptive family, and have an adoptive family that was wonderful, but we want you to know that you're ours, you're our family, and you're a part of us, and we love you.

- Love you guys too.

♪ Dan: Back in Breckenridge, the twins, Christine and Pam, receive the truth to their mother's death.

Christine: I mean, the story that, you know, we were told, was that our biological mother left us with a neighbor, and was supposed to come back for us.

Pam: For lack of a better term, they abandoned us.

Why didn't they look for us?

I want the raw story, like, tell me all of it.

I couldn't be more ready.

- So, you were never abandoned.

Your mother's down in Louisiana, she's 15 years old.

And she's got three babies in her arms.

Well, CPS got involved, and CPS was threatening to take you girls away, and that's how we lost you.

Your mother did not give you away, you were never abandoned, by any means.

The whole thing was supposed to happen where another family member was supposed to take you girls in and adopt you girls and keep you in the family, and we haven't seen you since.

Pam: It allowed me to be able to start gaining some respect for this woman.

She was too young to probably stand up for herself, or to have any say-so in it.

I was a 13-year-old girl at once, I was a 14-year-old girl at once, and I, I can't even imagine that.

I was probably playin' with Care Bears, still, I mean, I just can't even imagine what she was going through, but it did change my entire perspective and thought process about where we come from.

So after yesterday, when our cousin, your son told us that she had, our biological mother Diana had passed away, uh, I mean, of course my next question was, how?

I mean, what happened?

- What happened with your mother is... from infancy, your mother started a lifetime of depression, and as she became an adult, the depression became worse.

But one day, she threatened suicide.

♪ And she took all of her depression pills, which were basically muscle relaxers, and she took a wrong turn, she got lost on a logging trail.

And by the time they found her, they couldn't reverse it, and it took her.

♪ I do believe a big portion of your mom's depression, and failure to heal from the depression, was the absence of you girls, and the helplessness of ever finding you, and, you know, she still never hesitated to mention your birthdays, and, you know, often we talked about, "I wonder what they're doing, I wonder if they're in school, I wonder if they're in college, I wonder where they work," things like that, you know.

I believe your mother's character and personality has been misrepresented to you girls completely.

Um, I've known your mom since the day she was born, and your mom always was, and still is, an amazing wonderful person.

And here, I think she was around 15.

That's when she was coming back from Singapore with her parents.

Christine: My parents tell us about Singapore.

Pam: They're from Singapore!

♪ I heard that, and I thought, well, lightbulb, you know, because that's always kinda been a thing in our story that we were told, that you know, this, these countries over here, and Malaysia, that there, that we could potentially have some heritage from that area.

I'm feeling proud of you.

That you're-- because I feel like you're here for her, you're here in her place, kind of, 'cause you guys were so close, you know?

I mean, you're not her sibling or anything like that, but you guys had a bond, and so...

I'm proud of you for being here for her.

You're kinda here in her place, a little bit, I feel like, you know?

Kind of to represent her.

Christine: I think that our biological mother Diana was definitely here in spirit today.

You know, hearing from our cousin Craig that not having us in her life was really something that, a pain that never left her, I think that knowing that we are reunited with biological family in this manner at this time, um, I do believe that she was here with us in spirit.

- To be here today and be able to represent my cousin Diana to her daughters, and explain a little bit about Diana's life in her childhood and her adulthood to the girls, and represent Diana truthfully in the manner that she should be represented, and the type of person she truly was, and explain these things to the girls so they would get to know their mother for the real person she truly was.

It's a great honor, it's a great privilege, and you know, I'm thankful that I'm the person who got to introduce... basically introduce Diana Bilkey to her daughters.

♪ [dramatic music] ♪ Dan: It's now the end of Day 2, and it's now time to gather the teams and hear the results.

- We did so good.

- So, we gonna go from worst to first today.

- I hope so!

- Yeah.

- I wonder if tonight's results are gonna come down to us finding that fire truck and getting those amazing directions.

♪ [click] Dan: Welcome to Day 2 of Relative Race, teams!

Now, Team Green, you finished in first place yesterday and picked up the prize of being able to penalize one of the other teams in the challenge.

Who did you choose and why?

- Well, we had decided, if by chance we won, the only way to fairly figure out who to give it to was whoever came in second, and Team Blue came in second.

Dan: JT, Kaleigh, did you think it would be you that would be penalized?

- We...knew.

- We did.

- We expected it.

- Yeah.

- [laughs] - I heard that you did some gameplay trying to do anything you could to avoid that.

[laughter] Kaleigh: So we decided to just send a very friendly text, um, letting them know that we knew that they had that penalty in their back pocket, and before they decided to give that out, we just wanted to let 'em know that they were just the most beautiful couple we have ever seen.

Steve: Aw, thank y'all.

It almost worked.

[bright piano music] Dan: Relative Race is all about powerful stories.

And what I love is all of us together, every night, get to hear those stories firsthand, and I hope that it inspires each of you to continue to push forward, and look forward, to finding tomorrow's family.

Jarrell, today, you met your first biological relative.

Who was that?

- I did, so, I met three cousins on my mom's side, Desiree, Keilani, and Dovetta.

- Hi!

Dan: Hi!

So what was that like for you, Jarrell?

- It was emotional, because you know, this is the first family that I've ever met on my biological side, at, at any point in time, so, I mean, for me to find out that I have three cousins, is, blood-related, is amazing.

- Hang on to that memory, because hopefully you'll have that for the rest of your life.

Congratulations.

- Thank you.

Dan: So, twin sisters.

You finally got through with the challenge, and then you had some great luck.

You ran into a police officer who gave you great directions to your relative's house.

Who was waiting for you at the door?

- When we found our way to the house, we met our cousin, Craig.

He's right there, and um, Craig happens to be Nick's father from Day 1, our other cousin.

- From Day 1?

Pam: Yeah, so that's Nick's dad, and it was, today was emotional for us, um... Craig has been a treasure trove of information, um, he was very close with our biological mother, which, I mean, we couldn't ask for more.

I'm even more excited to continue this journey.

I didn't know what could top yesterday, and today's even, even better, and it's just, um, this is just so incredible, it's such an amazing journey that you all are allowing us to embark on.

Dan: Well, I will tell you that it's our privilege, literally, for all of you.

We feel grateful that you are allowing us to document every step of what you discover every day, and no matter how difficult it is, or no matter how fun it is, you know that at the end of every day, it will be worth it, because somebody is waiting for you.

♪ Team Green, who did you meet tonight?

- Today, I met my first biological blood relatives on my father's side, and these are my cousins, Connie and Laurie, and they are a handful.

[laughter] They're so awesome, I see where I get my uh, good personality, my carefree side from.

- Congratulations, Team Green.

- Thank you.

Dan: Team Blue.

JT, is it fair to say that this has been a good journey so far?

- Absolutely; so today, I met yet another brother.

Andrew.

Steve: Another brother?

What's up?

Christine: That is so awesome.

- I couldn't, I-- there's no words for it.

It's amazing.

It's wonderful.

It's breathtaking.

Dan: Well, teams, what a great day of discovery, for all of you.

But unfortunately, it's now time to find out who earned a strike.

[dramatic music] Yesterday, we had quite a wide spread in the time differences.

Today, I'll tell ya, not the case.

- Oh.

Dan: Much closer.

So if you had a little hiccup, or if you had a big one, that could be the difference between first and worst.

Without further ado, who finished in first place?

Who picks up the prize of having the other three teams pull over tomorrow for five minutes?

♪ The answer to that is the team that finished only nine minutes over their allotted time, and picking up the first place prize... ♪ You're lucky you penalized Team Blue, Team Green, because you picked up the first place prize.

Congratulations.

Steve: Uh, yeah, I feel like the bullseye got a lot bigger, uh, target-wise on our back after two days in a row first place.

- And, finishing just three minutes behind them, so if you had not picked up that penalty, you might've finished in first place, is Team Blue.

Kaleigh: So far, we're stayin' in second place, we're like, we're keeping a good pace, and we're goin' to come out on top, that's our goal.

That's our ultimate goal is to be number one.

- I will tell you that the difference between third and fourth place was sixty seconds.

- Oh!

Oh my goodness.

- Wow.

Dan: Finishing 16 minutes over their allotted time, and safe on this day... ♪ is Team Red.

[clapping] Team Black, you finished just sixty seconds behind.

You finished 17 minutes over your allotted time.

The journey has many ups and downs, but ultimately, the journey leads to family.

Consider that.

Sleep well tonight, because tomorrow, more family discoveries await, and that's what Relative Race is all about.

So if you dream, dream of that, and we'll see you tomorrow for Day 3 of Relative Race.

All: [saying good-bye] - Sweet dreams, y'all, love y'all.

- Love you.

- Sixty seconds!

- [frustrated vocalization] - Yep, two wins in a row for Team Green, so.

- That means they're doing all the right things.

♪ All right, well, I mean.

- It is what it is.

Pam: Yeah, I mean, we just gotta, gotta keep on keepin' on.

Steve: Third and fourth place was sixty seconds.

One minute.

- I told you today, I was like, "Team Blue's right behind you, Team Blue's right behind you!"

- They literally were!

- If we didn't penalize them... - Oh my gosh.

I didn't get a chance to show 'em about my grandpas, my grandma.

[applause] - Sixty seconds!

Cousins: Wow!

- That's wild.

One minute, sixty seconds.

- Tomorrow, you speed.

[laughter] - Speeding tickets-- Dovetta: No tickets, just speeding.

[laughter] - [sighs] Second.

Again.

Hey, that's, that's better than gettin' a strike.

That's better than gettin' a strike, that's one more day we're guaranteed in this thing.

- JT found another brother!

- That's crazy.

- That is crazy!

That is so awesome for him.

- I get to chill with my brother.

For the first time.

- That is a great feelin', man.

- Hi!

We're playing games now!

Jarrell: Right, it's about, it's about, what, 12, 12:48, and we're still up?

- I told them to go to bed, and they didn't listen.

- She ain't tell us nothin'.

- Hey Relative Race!

Woop, there we are.

These girls are a hoot, these women, I tell you.

[laughs] They are fun.

I see that they have the same, uh, sense of humor I do, and uh, it's just amazing to see how all that comes together.

- But today we did have a good day, and this is a great end to our day.

- So hopefully, you know, more family will come.

- All right, well, we love you guys.

Bye.

- Team Red all day.

Love y'all.

♪