♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race, Team Green caught a lucky break on the way to their relative.

DeShae: Can I ask you a question?

Postal Worker: 'Cause this used to be on my route.

- Can you drive us there?

- Yeah.

Dan: Anitra discovered her family name.

Velarie: You are a Harvell.

Dan: And saw a picture which may reveal her mother or father.

Raymond received the devastating news that his mother had passed away.

JD met a cousin that used to babysit him as a child.

Cyndi: I would come over and stay with you during the summer.

Dan: Team Green won first place and the benefit of having their relative guide them in from their challenge.

And Team Blue earned their first strike of the competition.

Team Blue, you go from first to worst in a 24-hour period.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... - It's on.

- Boom!

Dan: To win $50,000.

- Let's get 'em!

Dan: And to find their family.

[knocking] ♪ - Whoa-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh!

♪ ♪ Whoa-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh!

♪ ♪ Whoa-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh!

♪ ♪ Dan: After receiving heartbreaking news yesterday about his mother, Raymond on Team Red spends his morning reflecting.

Ray: I had to step out on the porch this morning to really let the news of my mom passing away sink in.

- I know it's been really heavy, but there's one last thing that I wanted to show you before you leave, okay?

- All right.

- I think you'd really like to see this.

This is a plaque of your mother at the library where she was a chief librarian.

Ray: Wow.

So now I have an answer of who my mom is and what she looked like, but what I really want to know is why.

I mean, why did she keep my brother and not keep me?

That's the question that I really want to have answered and that's the question that really bothers me and always has.

♪ Dan: On the East Coast in Accokeek, Maryland, Team Blue, Paul and Anitra, receive a gift from Anitra's cousin Velarie.

Velarie: I know Andre gave you a gift yesterday, my cousin Andre, but I wanted to give you something specifically from our branch of the family.

- My cousin Velarie wanted to give me hard copies of all the photos that we went over on the family chart yesterday.

Holding these pictures and looking at everyone's faces...

I can see things start to take shape right in front of me, and it's powerful.

Velarie: I wanted to say just before you leave, it's been a blessing to meet you and you've been a joy, just to know that you've found us and that we're gonna meet us and we're just so happy to have you.

Welcome.

I just wanted to tell you that before you leave.

♪ Dan: In Alpharetta, Georgia, Team Green, Chris and DeShae, are saying their goodbyes to Chris's cousin Kelly and her daughter Julia.

- I made this for you to remind you that you must be positive when you get a strike.

Chris: We're on this journey to find important relatives for DeShae, but for me to meet and connect with amazing relatives like Kelly and get such encouragement from Julia really means a lot.

DeShae: I love this and I think that this will keep me going on the, on the not so good days, so I appreciate it and I love you.

♪ Dan: And in Topeka, Kansas, Team Black, JD and Jenn, are simply trying to wake up and get going.

JD: Packing up all our stuff this morning.

Trying to get ready to go.

It's always a challenge to rush in the morning to get everything ready.

I don't know about the other teams, but at 50 years old, these long days and long nights really add up and we're just moving slower.

♪ Say good morning.

♪ ♪ Velarie: And please, anytime you're in DC, you have to come here and stay here.

I'll kick Grant out of his room again.

- Yeah!

Paul: Hold up, hold up.

Got a text!

- Oh, we got a text from Dan!

[phone chimes] Jenn: Oh, there's our text, babe.

- Okay, I'm almost done.

- Should I read while you... - Please.

- Okay.

- Good morning, teams, and welcome to day three of Relative Race.

- Team Red will be traveling to Greensboro, North Carolina.

- Team Blue will be traveling to Salem, Virginia.

- Salem.

- Team Black will be traveling to Colby, Texas.

I mean, sorry, Kansas.

That was scary.

- I'm like, Texas?

Do you know how far away Texas is, Jenny?

- And Team Green will be traveling to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

- Today's first place winners can skip their city selfie.

- Oh, wow.

- Oh, your time starts now.

All right.

- Gotta roll, gotta roll, gotta roll.

- Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go.

Velarie: All right, guys, go, go, go.

- Your time starts now.

- We gotta go.

- Oh my gosh!

- Bye!

Ray: Get the stuff.

Get the-- Jenn: Perfect.

Let's get out of here.

- All right, all right.

Anitra: We're hoping no traffic, easy challenge, everything in five minutes.

- Five minutes, huh?

- Yeah.

- All right.

Five minute travel.

- Get in, I'm gonna finish loading up.

Nicole: Okay.

DeShae: Coming off of a first place win, the stakes are high, and we have to stay there, 'cause I know there's three other teams that are gunning for us now.

- Let's go.

Bye!

♪ - Colby, Kansas, find it on the map.

- Bye, love you!

- Salem, Virginia.

Here we go.

- Whoo!

JD: Oh my goodness.

- [indistinct] morning.

- How do you even see?

♪ Dan: All four teams are on the roads, searching for their next family member.

Team Blue, Paul and Anitra, are departing from Accokeek, Maryland, and headed to Salem, Virginia, with an allotted time of four hours and 34 minutes.

Team Red, Raymond and Nicole, make their way from Concord, North Carolina, to Greensboro, North Carolina, with an allotted time of one hour and 35 minutes.

Team Green, Chris and DeShae, are traveling from Alpharetta, Georgia, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Their allotted time today is three hours and 49 minutes.

And Team Black, JD and Jenn, make their way from Topeka, Kansas, to Colby, Kansas, with an allotted time of five hours and 32 minutes.

All of our teams are racing to find new family with no help from smartphones or GPS.

They must find the city, complete a challenge, and find their relatives' address.

The team that goes over their allotted time the most will receive a strike.

Three strikes and you're out.

DeShae: Okay, okay, okay, let's do this.

Chris: All right.

DeShae: We're gonna come out here and take a... Chris: Take a right.

DeShae: Right.

Chris: Okay.

DeShae: And then you're gonna take a left on Commerce.

Chris: Left on Commerce.

DeShae: Mm-hmm.

- Uh, make a left.

Jenn: Okay, we're going left out of here and then left again, right?

- Yeah, we gotta get to Ferguson.

Ray: All right, so look.

We're going 85 North, 'cause 85 is gonna drop us exactly where we need.

- 85 North?

JD: I don't know what the speed is, but go faster.

We're in a race baby.

- Let's make a right right here.

Paul: All right.

I think we just follow this all the way out.

Anitra: Yeah, I think so.

- I mean, there's a sign literally that says to I-20, so just keep going.

Chris: Yeah, but I-I just don't want to...

I want to be more cognizant of where we are so we don't get stuck.

DeShae: I'm following exactly where this is, I know exactly where we are and I know exactly where we're going.

Chris: Mm-kay.

Anitra: What is this?

What?

- Oh, man.

So we missed our turn.

I think it would be a good idea to have the map out and make sure that we're seeing like certain things.

Anitra: All right.

You're right.

Paul: At this point, we really need to be dialed in as a team.

Simple mistakes like this, really gonna impact where we place today.

Chris: We're gonna have to turn left.

DeShae: Okay.

Chris: Didn't you say turn on Howard and we missed that?

This is Warren.

We're turning.

- I mean... - I mean, we can get back to Howard.

You said turn on Howard, right?

- Okay, but there's other streets up forward.

That was South Howard.

I don't know if it's the same thing.

You're not trusting what I'm saying.

This is not getting us where we need to go.

Go back.

You're literally driving in a circle right now because you don't want to listen to me.

Dan: While Teams Blue and Green correct their course, JD is trying to focus on texting the other teams.

- I'm gonna start with "Good morning, Team Red."

- Maybe say something along the lines-- - You can't talk to me.

- Well, I'm just trying to give you ideas.

- No, I've got something, and now you're gonna like... - They're my friends too, you know.

- Then you text.

- [laughs] - I, literally, I can't.

This thing is ridiculous.

[phone chimes] - Team Black says, "Good morning, Team Red.

"Quick shout out.

Our thoughts and our prayers are with you."

- Oh.

Ray: I tell you, old JD, tearjerker, man.

- We love you too, JD and Jenn.

JD: Okay, the final text going to Team Blue.

Send.

[phone chimes] Ray: Team Black just sent us a message.

But it says, "Good morning, Team Blue."

[laughter] Nicole: Now he's probably gotta put his sunglasses up, put his real glasses down.

Ray: Yeah.

[phone chimes] JD: Flip, I sent it to Team Red.

[laughter] - That's so funny.

JD: Ha-ha, so funny.

Dan: Hitting the open road and traveling to meet their next relative, Team Red, Raymond and Nicole, take a moment to reflect on yesterday's heartbreaking news that Raymond's mother had passed away.

Ray: I mean, and I can't say I was completely shocked that she was gone, but just to know it, like that's... - Yeah, to have that confirmed.

- Yeah, yeah.

It's like...

It's like, at least if you don't know, you can always hold out hope, even if ignorance is bliss.

But when you know, you just like... That's it.

- But the most awesome part is, you know, out of that tragedy comes new life, because it could have been just happenstance that you found out just maybe by, who knows, that she had passed and not had that opportunity to meet the family that she lives through.

So long after you're gone, Ray, a piece of you is still here.

♪ Dan: With their destination cities fast approaching, all of our teams begin searching for a city sign.

Chris: We've really, really gotta keep eyes peeled for that welcome to Tuscaloosa.

Ray: Something up here should say it.

- What's that?

Both: Salem Civic Center.

Anitra: Take this exit.

- There's Colby's Visitor's Center.

Both: Right there.

JD: Done.

It's on.

- Yay!

Where's our phone?

Anitra: Yep, pull in here.

We'll take it right there.

- All right, there it is, there it is.

Right there.

Chris: Tuscaloosa Fire Station.

We're gonna take our selfie there.

DeShae: Right here, yep.

Chris: Whoa.

Anitra: Oh, good.

Paul; Right on, right on, right on.

Anitra: We got it, we got it, we got it.

♪ Chris: Go, go, go!

Jenn: Okay, don't move.

♪ [camera shutters] Paul: You gotta get in it.

[camera shutters] Oh, that's gravy.

Anitra: Perfect, send it.

[camera shutters] [camera shutters] Chris: There you go, send it!

DeShae: Can't see the whole word.

Can't see the whole word!

Get back over here.

Chris: What?

- First selfie struggle.

[camera shutters] Paul: All right.

- Sending?

Paul: Sending.

Anitra: Whoo!

[clapping] Paul: Connecting.

[laughs] Dial up.

Raymond: All right, yeah, sending, it's just sending slow.

Nicole: Is it moving?

[Paul imitating modem] Anitra: Now sending?

DeShae: Come on, come on.

Nicole: Oh!

Raymond: Hold it up!

Nicole: So we work for a telecommunications company, and we still can't get a signal?

Nothing.

Are you serious?

- Yeah, that's ridiculous.

Paul: Remember, if we don't look at it, maybe it'll... Anitra: That's right, a watched phone never beeps.

Paul: That's right.

Don't look at it.

DeShae: That's a check!

- There we go.

Both: Sent!

- Ayy!

- All right, all right.

All right.

Now let's wait for our wonderful message from Dan.

- [screams] - Welcome to Salem!

Your first challenge is located at 6311 Wayburn Drive.

- All right, let's go!

- Let's roll!

Jenn: Located at 1145 South Franklin Avenue.

- Welcome to Tuscaloosa!

Your challenge is located at 2015 3rd Avenue North.

- All right, go, go, go, go, go!

- 3rd Avenue North, let's go.

- It is moving, it's just moving slow.

- Come on, now.

We're just staring at this picture.

Sending, sending, sending, sending, and nothing.

- All right, come on, come on.

It's almost like complete panic, 'cause we know we're losing time.

Now I'm with you, like, come on, come on, come on, come on.

I feel like just saying it... Oh, now it's sending.

It's sending.

Nicole: Okay, finally.

Ray: Okay now we're good.

All right, good, it's gone!

- Finally, good!

- Man!

- Good grief!

- It's like we had to circle the whole block to get this thing.

- Like we had to build the internet.

♪ - Yes!

Welcome to Greensboro!

Your challenge is located at 3621 Lakefield Drive.

Let's get it!

Chris: Oh, right here.

DeShae: Turn right, turn right, I see it.

- Oh, there's the sign.

Okay, go, go, go.

I'm driving.

I want you to go faster.

Jenn: Go, go, go, go.

♪ - Let's go, go, go!

♪ - Read it, read it, read it.

- All right.

- All right, Goo Goo Blah Blah.

Dan: Day three's challenge is Goo Goo Blah Blah.

Teams look at a large TV and watch toddlers say random phrases.

They must then decipher what is being said and repeat it verbatim.

10 correct phrases completes this challenges.

The allotted time for Goo Goo Blah Blah is 10 minutes.

DeShae: Oh, we got this, come on.

Chris: We got it, got it, got it!

Jenn: If we can't do this after having six kids and a few grandkids, we are going to look awfully bad.

- Oh, whoa!

It's a full nursery.

- Well this is fun.

- I hab baby ducks.

- Is it I have baby ducks?

[bell dings] - Awesome!

- Okay good, okay.

- Is it I have baby ducks?

[bell dings] [clapping] - All right, good, good, good.

- Mommy said have fun wiff da scissors.

- Mommy said have fun with the scissors.

[bell dings] I was thinking maybe having a young child is gonna benefit us in this challenge, and then we started getting to the little harder ones.

[gibberish] [laughter] JD: We're talking about two and three year olds who are starting to learn how to use... Jenn: Big words.

JD: Big words, and... Jenn: Not enough enunciation.

- It was awesome.

[gibberish] - Is it, my dad's hands looked like a hot potato head?

[buzzer] Anitra: We think we'll do well at it because we have a five year old, and all toddlers are the same, right?

- No.

- No.

- They're not.

[gibberish] - Is it, my dad's head looks like a helicopter pad?

[bell dings] Boom!

[gibberish] - I barely lost my pet hamster.

[buzzer] [gibberish] Chris: Is it, Siri washed my pet hamster?

[buzzer] - I thoroughly washed my pet hamster?

[buzzer] - Mastodon?

Are you-- How are you thoroughly washing a mastodon now?

- That's way bigger than you, 'cause a mastodon is a huge dog.

Is a mastodon a dog?

- Of course it's a dog.

I saw a mastodon across the street.

- I don't think it is.

Tusks.

- It's like a Great Dane.

Yeah, no.

Big ears, white.

- Africa.

Paul: There was one kid in particular... Sweet kid.

But he had us a little stumped.

[gibberish] Jenn: He's so scared about something.

- This is some kind of joke.

[gibberish] - I have nothing!

Are you kidding me?

- Like, for real?

I thought he said crapper.

- I can't understand him!

[laughter] - That's not what she's saying, man.

♪ [gibberish] - Panther with what?

- A panda with... - I get paddled with paddles?

[gibberish] - I get panther with pancakes?

[buzzer] - I don't have nothing.

I swear, this one kid is just trying to torment us.

Both: Pampered with pedicures.

- Pedicures.

What's wrong with his feet this early?

Why is the kid getting pedicures?

I-I'm a grown man.

I don't get them.

Now how is this baby, and how d-- - Hold on.

Just because you don't, don't mean you should.

- My feet look good, though.

- [gibberish] alligator driving the [gibberish].

- Is it the yellow alligator driving the ambulance?

[bell dings] [gibberish] - Is it I speak Japanese?

[bell dings] - What?

- That's what it is.

That's why we don't know!

- Yeah, right.

[gibberish] Yeah, yeah, okay.

[gibberish] - I am the great-grandchild of Einstein?

[bell dings] - I eat sum-ghetti wiff sciss-uhs.

- Is it I eat spaghetti with scissors?

[bell dings] - Yeah!

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

- I eat spaghetti with scissors.

[bell dings] - Yes, go!

Let's go!

- These are harder than they look.

- Your relative lives at 9974 Walter Shirley Road.

Jenn: 303 Wilson Avenue.

We rocked this challenge.

- The helicotter looks ang-wee.

- The helicopter looks angry?

[bell dings] - My orange juice is super pulpy.

- My orange juice is super pulpy?

[bell dings] [cheering] - All right.

- All right!

- Let's see what we got.

- Your relative lives at 414 Hargett Street.

Paul: Your relative lives at 6375 Moncap Trail.

All right, let's go!

- I'm gonna review maps.

Where is my map?

Jenn: It's here somewhere.

Paul: Okay.

- All right.

- Let's go meet our relative.

- Let's go.

Let's go.

Ray: So you wanna go right or left or?

- Your guess is as good as mine, babe.

DeShae: Hurry, hurry, hurry, get the map, get the map, get the map.

- Wait.

We don't need the map.

- Oh.

We don't!

Since we won first place yesterday, we almost forgot that our relative is gonna call and give us directions.

[phone ringing] Ah!

- We got a call.

- Got a call.

Hey, this is DeShae.

Man: Hey, DeShae.

- Hi.

I'm trying to get it on speaker phone, but flip phones are not my friend.

Hold on just a second.

Just when I thought I was done with this phone for the day.

♪ Dan: As the teams race to find new family, Team Green is using their first place benefit and getting helpful directions from their new relative.

- Hello?

Man: Yes, I'm here.

Can you hear me?

- Yes, I can hear you now.

Man: This is your relative.

I'm here to give you directions.

- Awesome!

Man: Okay, you guys need to turn left to head south on Academy Drive.

DeShae: This is so awesome.

This has been our hardest part the last few days, and so to not have to stress and be able to get directions.

Absolutely amazing.

JD: Turn here.

Turn here, turn here, turn here.

One of our strategies for today was not to take any one person's word for it, and so if we could get one person to say something and another person got us close, then now we had real information to triangulate and get us where we needed to go.

Straight out here and then through.

Oh my gosh, Jenny.

I need you to go.

I need you to be aggressive.

Jenn: I'm going to.

Nicole: Oh, which way?

- Look at that.

- Let me see, a hotel, huh?

- Yep, I saw a hotel coming right here.

The Hyatt House.

- Okay, we might have to go in there.

- Yep.

Paul: Oh, that's better, my dear.

- We see a mail lady and think she's definitely gotta know where this address is.

Ray: So we run into the café and I'm thinking, somebody in there knows where this address is.

Nicole: Do you know where Hargett Street is?

- What we're looking for now is Utah.

Jenn: This is Pine.

So it's alphabetical.

Pine.

- Queen.

- Queen, P, Q.

- R, S, T, U. Holy cow, we're close.

Jenn: We're close.

We better be close!

- We are headed down Academy right now.

Man: It's pretty, pretty easy from here on out.

- Okay, good.

Nicole: So all we know is we gotta go out, make a left, and find somebody else.

All of those people in the café and not one person knows where to go?

Paul: This is so frustrating.

Even the mail carrier doesn't know where this place is.

[clears throat] - So gas station is next.

Nicole: Oh, let me ask this guy.

Excuse me, sir.

Do you know where Hargett is?

Hargett Street?

Okay, no problem.

Paul: Let's just check out this gas station.

Let's go see if we can find somebody.

Nicole: Do you know where Hargrett Street is?

- Hargett.

Hargett Street?

- Okay, no problem, thank you.

Ray: No one knows where this is.

All right, now I'm starting to get nervous.

Man: Yeah, you're gonna go .8 miles and it'll be on the left.

And once you get here, you're gonna turn left and come down the driveway, and I'm gonna be standing out here waiting for you.

DeShae: Awesome.

I almost feel like I have my smartphone back and you're just my, uh, Siri or GPS, you know?

It's kinda nice.

JD: Well that's fun to see Utah.

We've come all this way to get to Utah.

- Come all this way to get to Utah Avenue.

JD: So this is, yeah, keep going.

I'll tell you.

- 540.

JD: All right, we're getting close.

Okay.

DeShae: Okay, okay, we're turning in now.

We'll see you in just a second.

[cheering] Okay, bye!

Man: Awesome!

Bye.

- Bye.

That's so pretty.

Chris: Holy mackerel.

♪ DeShae: Hi!

- No turn right in front of the car here.

- Come on!

♪ I'm so glad you're here.

- I'm DeShae.

- Hey, DeShae.

- Hey, I'm Chris.

- Chris.

- Who are you related to?

- Who do I look like I'm related to?

- You look like me.

Man: Hey!

DeShae: How are we related?

- I'm your uncle David.

- Ah, hi!

Oh, this is so awesome!

- So good to meet you guys.

- This is crazy.

- Good to meet you too.

- Hi, my name's David Love, and I'm a project manager for World's Premiere Locker Company, and I'm DeShae's uncle.

And it was my DNA that linked us together.

- Oh, wow.

- Isn't that cool?

- That's crazy.

- I'm so glad you're here.

DeShae: It's just meant to be.

All right, let's get to know each other a little more and catch up.

Yes.

♪ JD: Okay.

All right, we're getting close, okay?

11, 1040?

So we're right here.

It's right here.

Jenn: Okay, there's the house, there's the house, there's the house.

- Right here, right here, right here.

- Okay, we made it.

- Okay.

Jenn: Here we go, baby.

JD: Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Jenn: So we get to our relative's house tonight and there is this darling woman standing on the sidewalk and neither one of us... JD: Giant smile.

Jenn: Know for sure who she belongs to.

- Hi!

Jenn: Hi.

- How are you guys?

Jenn: We're good.

JD: We're great!

I'm JD.

- I'm Shawna Snider.

How are you?

- This is Jenn.

- You're Jenn?

Jenn: Yes.

- Well, it is so good to meet you guys, finally.

Jenn: Yes.

- You know, I am your first cousin.

- Oh!

- On your father's side.

- You are?

- I am!

- He said, he's like, I think it's you today!

Shawna.

- You didn't know?

Jenn: You don't know.

- Oh, cool.

- So you know my dad Vern.

- I do!

- Oh, that's so great.

- He is one of my favorites.

- Oh, he's one of my favorites as well!

When I met Shawna, I, my brain I don't think was quite processing fast enough, because I was truly really caught off guard.

I thought she was darling.

She loves my dad.

I love my dad.

And so I instantly loved her.

So happy to meet you.

I'm really, really surprised.

Shawna: Me too as well!

- I'm really surprised.

- Come on in.

- Perfect.

Dan: With two teams safely clocked in and now spending time with famly, Teams Blue and Red are still desperately searching.

Anitra: No luck finding directions inside the gas station, but as soon as we come out, we found somebody that can help us where to go.

- Somebody got you?

Nicole: She said go out here, make a left, and then she said that'll take us to West Gate City Boulevard.

♪ Anitra: It's Moncap!

Paul: Moncap!

- South Moncap!

- Heyo!

All right!

- All right.

- Let's do it.

- So 6375.

Paul: Right here, right here, right here!

Anitra: There it is!

There it is!

- Okay!

Do we pull in right here?

Anitra: Yeah, yes.

Paul: Okay, let's do it.

Whoa.

Anitra: Wow, that's a steep hill.

Paul: Oh my gosh.

Okay.

♪ [laughter] - Hi.

- Hi, I'm Paul.

This is Anitra.

- Hey, Anitra and Paul.

My name is Lashonda.

- Hi, Lashonda, whose relative are you?

- I'm Anitra's relative.

- Okay.

- How are we related?

- I'm your cousin.

- You're my cousin?

- Yes, on your father's side.

[laughter] It's nice to meet you!

- It's so nice to meet you!

- Anitra felt like family as soon as I saw her and we hugged for the first time, I'm like, yeah.

She's definitely a Harvell.

Anitra: Hugging her was like hugging a family member I'd known for years.

- Oh my goodness, you have dreads!

I just cut mine.

- Really?

- A couple months ago, yeah.

- Oh, wow.

- It was like all the way down here.

- Oh wow.

- Yeah.

It's cool.

I love yours.

Y'all ready to come in?

Paul: Sure, absolutely.

Anitra: Yeah, yeah.

- All right.

♪ Nicole: Hargett is right there.

Doesn't that say Hargett?

Ray: Mm-hmm.

Nicole: Yep.

Make a right, and we're looking for 414.

There it is.

Right there, stop.

Ray: All right, let's get it.

Go, go, go.

[piano music] ♪ - Come on.

♪ Hi!

- Hey.

I'm Ray.

- I'm Hunter.

- And this is my wife, Nicole.

- Nicole.

- Hi, hi Hunter.

- Yeah, nice meeting you.

Yes.

- And so who, which one of us are you related to?

- I'm related to you.

You're Ray, I'm Hunter.

I'm your cousin.

- So you're my cousin?

- Yes, man.

Oh.

Nice to meet you.

- This is my wife, Nicole.

- Hi, Nicole.

- Nice to meet you, cousin.

- Yes, yes.

I'm Hunter Haith.

I'm Ray's cousin, and I live in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Meeting Ray, it's kind of hard to describe.

Immediate response where we just embraced each other.

- The good part about this is even through the frustration, you meet somebody who's so welcoming.

Y-you just feel the warmth and the genuine nature of the entire situation.

- Well, this is good to have you here.

You'd like to come in, and... Nicole: Yes, sir.

- Okay, come on in here.

Dan: All teams are now clocked in and meeting new family.

Over in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, DeShae is learning more about her uncle David and the Love family history.

- I had a few more pictures I wanted to share with you guys.

You know, as far back as my third great-grandfather, I have photographs, and that's a very rare treasure to have.

This is our second-great-grandfather.

DeShae: Great-great-grandfather.

David: Shawn Love.

This is Henry T. Love.

And this is my dad when he was a young man.

DeShae: Nice.

David: And this is also my dad.

DeShae: Now I've seen one picture of him similar to that too.

David: Yeah.

DeShae: That's cool.

In just minutes, Uncle David laid out, I mean, generations of photos and I just had a hard time processing it because I'm-I'm looking at great-great-grandfathers and grandmothers and grandfathers that I didn't even know existed three days ago.

- And this is a picture of my family.

- That's awesome.

David: My wife Angela and my son Zeb Charles.

So we kept the family name.

- Love it.

- And then my younger son is Josiah David.

- Love that.

- Here's a couple of special pictures that I wanted you to have.

And it's from my mom's 90th birthday.

- Oh.

- That's the entire family.

- Whoa!

David: Isn't that great?

DeShae: Yes!

David: So you have a lot of family out there.

DeShae: Yes.

Wow.

- And that's from both sides, both of those are from both sides of the family.

- Cool.

That's awesome.

That's a lot of people.

Chris: That's so many.

- Hopefully you'll get a chance to meet them all.

DeShae: Yes.

My goal now is to meet everyone in those pictures that I can.

I just want to know everything that I can.

Thank you.

I'll take them with me.

- I wanted you to have them.

- Thank you.

I really appreciate it.

♪ Dan: In Colby, Kansas, JD and Jenn are sitting down with Jenn's cousin, Shawna.

Shawna: When I first met Jenn, I was so excited to share with her information about our family, information that I'm very passionate about.

It's gonna make you laugh, it's gonna make you cry.

But it's-- - I don't know if we can cry any more.

- We've done a lot of crying.

- You'll do more.

Do you recognize this picture?

- I've seen that picture many times.

- And who is that?

That's your grandpa.

- That's my grandpa.

Shawna: One of the nice things about talking with Jenn is I was able to share stories with her, wartime stories about her grandfather that she never knew.

So if you'd like to read that one.

♪ - I don't know if I can.

"Dear mother, just a line to let you know "that I'm all right and feeling fine "and hope you are all the same.

"I can't think of much to say, but I saw Heiney for a couple-- a couple days ago."

Shawna: Jenn became as passionate as I did about these-these items in these letters.

I think the touching, the feeling, and the stories themselves, um...

I could see how much they meant to her.

- "Well, Mom, I can't think of anything more to say, "but will write you a bit-- big letter tomorrow.

As ever, your loving son, Gene."

I feel so privileged to be holding this.

To hear a little bit more about his early life and the sacrifices he made was an incredible feeling.

Shawna: And this is Heiney.

Jenn: I've heard about Heiney.

Shawna: Okay, Heiney and Gene were brothers.

They were in the military together.

Heiney was killed in action.

He was killed in World War II.

I received a letter that said from the Marine Corps that said that he was awarded the Purple Heart, and then I had to trace and figure out who and where the Purple Heart is.

Well, the Purple Heart is with your dad.

- Really?

- And so now he's gonna get the letter that goes with that.

So all of this is gonna become complete.

- This connection today has made me feel closer to my dad, closer to my grandpa, and closer now to Shawna in a way that I-I didn't know that I needed.

- I don't think I could read another one yet.

♪ ♪ Lashonda: I sat down with Anitra on the couch and it was something special I wanted to share with her.

Going through the process of finding out that I had another cousin, I found out some more interesting information.

I was raised by my grandmother, and so apparently, she wanted to have you stay in the family.

So my grandmother that raised me tried to reach out to adopt you, but somewhere along the lines, that didn't happen.

I'm not sure why, but it was, I just wanted to let you know that you were definitely, like, wanted, and like, they didn't want to like just let you go.

But apparently something happened and we couldn't.

But it's cool, because even though she didn't, we get to have this moment now.

- Yeah.

- And it's crazy because she raised me and you would've technically been my big sister.

[laughter] - Wow.

- It's just awesome.

So I'm gonna let you know that you're definitely loved and wanted and, um, yeah.

I'm glad to share this moment with you and meet you, 'cause that would have been great to have you there too.

Anitra: When you find out you're adopted, those kinds of things go through your head.

I wonder why my parents decided to give me up.

I wonder why my family maybe didn't try and look for me or was there something wrong with me.

And honestly, seeing Lashonda today, talking to her, knowing that information, I feel lifted.

I feel free of that.

I don't have to carry that around with me as a reason to not feel things.

- So I just wanted to show you, this is her.

And I want you to have this too.

Her name is Lily.

She was a teacher.

- Really?

Wow.

- She was a teacher at CMS, Mecklenburg in Charlotte.

And she was there for a long time.

That's where she retired from.

Aren't you a teacher?

- I am.

I am.

[laughter] I teach at a community college where I live.

Lashonda: Really?

Oh, that's awesome.

So it's kind of in your genes.

Anitra: Wow.

Lashonda: Just to let you know that, you know, we was always there and we wanted you.

You know?

And we wanted you to be a part.

What are you thinking?

What's going on through your head?

- So... - It's okay.

It can be hard.

- My mother... My mother adopted me when I was 18 months old, but she told me that the family that I lived with in foster care, uh, neglected me, pretty much.

They wouldn't really let me use my legs.

Whenever she adopted me, they had to do extra work with me so I could use my legs, because I would scream and cry whenever they tried to get me to use my legs.

I don't think I could walk yet.

- Oh, wow.

Anitra: I was 18 months old and, um... My mom told me that they used to have to take food away from me because... - No.

Oh my gosh.

That's-that's sad.

- Um... Just because of the way I would eat.

And I'm thankful that my mom and dad adopted me, because, I mean, they're amazing.

But it's also nice to know that I wasn't completely forgotten about.

- No.

You wasn't.

You was definitely loved.

You was definitely wanted.

But for whatever reason, it didn't happen.

I'm sorry you went through that, but you were definitely loved and wanted.

Oh, wow.

That's a lot.

This moment was supposed to happen.

- Yeah.

- That's what I think.

I think it was just at the right time.

Anitra: I think so too.

I'm gonna go in for another hug.

- Okay!

To share the moment with Anitra was very emotional, but it was touching too.

I really enjoyed it, 'cause I felt the connection and it was just, like, seeing my... 'Cause she would have been like a sister, so it was very touching.

[laughs] ♪ Dan: Back in Tuscaloosa, DeShae is anxious to get more answers from her uncle David about how she fits into the Love family.

DeShae: My Uncle David took me down by the water and we were having just a great conversation and he told me that he actually had something for me.

So he pulls out this book, and immediately I recognize that it has a name on it that is a Love name.

David: It was given to me by a family member and their grandfather wrote the book.

Well, this is the last copy of the book.

- Oh, wow.

- There's no other copies that are out there, and I want to give it to you.

- What?

- Yeah.

- That's awesome.

- But before I do, I want to leave you with the words that I spoke over all of our family members.

And, "Chris, DeShae, and Houston.

"Welcome to our Love Family Legacy.

"May the Lord bless you and keep you.

"May the Lord make His face shine upon you "and be gracious unto you.

"The Lord lift up His countenance upon you "and give you peace, now and forever.

Love and prayers."

- Thank you.

♪ That's awesome.

Thank you so much.

It's something I will cherish forever.

Uncle David has so much family history so I just had to ask if he knew where I fit into the Love family.

Is it from my mother's side, father's side, you know?

Where do I fit in this puzzle?

- Honestly I would love to tell you that I do know, but there was a time for me in my life where I was disconnected from our own family, and so there was, there was just a season where I didn't really know, I didn't connect with the family.

So I don't really know the answer to that.

And I wish I did.

But I'm just so happy that you're a part of us now.

And hopefully we'll know the answer someday.

- I hope so too.

Unfortunately, he didn't know, but he gave me so much information.

I feel like I have a roadmap and I just know that I'm gonna be able to put all of the puzzle pieces together.

That's awesome.

♪ Dan: Back in Greensboro, Raymond's cousin, Hunter has a very special surprise.

Ray: He goes and pulls out a-a pretty thick photo album.

You know, without even knowing who was in that complete photo album, I know in there are pictures of my brother.

- You ready?

- Yeah, I'm ready.

I've been ready for a long time.

Hunter: Okay, okay.

- I was one of two children.

My older brother was 18 months older than me.

They decided to keep him and she made a decision that I was too much, so she gave me up for adoption, and that is the cross I bear daily.

- That's your mom and this is Lamont.

♪ Ray: That hollowness, that emptiness, is that thing that keeps me up at night that keeps me waking up in spells, that wondering.

I spent my whole life looking, and finally, I see a picture of the man that was chosen over me.

It's just really, really, really difficult to process right now.

♪ He had pictures of Lamont, here's my brother, and now, I have a name to put with a face that I've never known or seen before.

- I don't know how old he was, but that's as a young boy, as you can see.

Ray: I definitely, definitely hope I get to meet him.

It's, um, it's something that I've thought about for a very long time, and I know, it just feels like that opportunity is there.

I hope it's coming soon.

- And then here's another one of Lamont.

He was a star football player at Williams in Burlington.

And I think he went ahead and I think he played at Elon University.

- The Elon offered me a scholarship to go there too.

It would have been kind of crazy if I would have gone there during that time.

- Yeah, you would, oh, man.

Ray: That would have been, I ended up going to Oklahoma State, but what if?

Just... Just the butterfly effect.

Just what if.

- Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Ray: When I see the photo of him in the uniform, I'm thinking, I took a picture very similar to that in college.

Almost the exact same pose, almost the exact same number, and I'm like, we don't know each other, we're cut from the same mom, yet our paths at least in that way were extremely similar.

It felt like it was almost divine that we were connected but didn't even know about it.

- That's a more recent picture of Lamont.

♪ Ray: I appreciate you showing me these, though, because prior to this, I had never seen a picture before.

No way to identify with my own brother before this.

I appreciate it.

- Hey.

Ray: I appreciate it.

- It's my pleasure.

- At the end of the day, I got to add another name to my chart, and it's the name right under my mother's name.

Two names that I didn't have there two days ago, and it's like a completely awesome experience.

But more than awesome, it's just, it's like historical.

It's completely beautiful moment.

♪ - Going into the call, I'm really confident, maybe a little overly confident.

You know, we did have that benefit of our relative leading us straight to his house, and I'm pretty much happy with anything that doesn't get me a strike.

- How you feeling?

- I'm nervous, but I'm feeling confidently nervous.

- You do feel confident?

- I do.

- I'm feeling anxious for the first time.

Anitra: This is the hardest part of the day.

I just went through all these emotions with Lashonda, and now I have to deal with the reality of the race.

Lashonda: You'll be fine.

- It'll be okay.

Dan: As day three comes to a close, all of our teams are feeling the pressure as a strike looms ahead.

- [exhales] Okay.

- Day three is rapidly drawing to a close here on Relative Race, teams, and I first want to talk to Team Black because you have narrowly avoided getting two strikes in two days.

How do you think things went for you today?

- I think things went really well for us today, Dan.

- Hmm.

We'll see if it's good enough to keep you from strike three.

- I don't like that hmm.

- Team Green, your cousin's 12-year-old daughter gave you something special this morning before you headed out on the road.

What was it?

- Yeah, she actually drew a picture for us and for DeShae.

It was incredibly touching.

Especially that someone so young could think of something like that.

- That's what family's all about, right there.

Speaking of family, often in family, children are a result of that.

But, you know, when they're toddlers, they don't quite speak as well as you hope for.

Ray and Nicole, how did you do in Goo Goo Blah Blah?

[laughter] Nicole: You know, after we got acclimated to the language that we were introduced to, we-we had a little stumble, but overall, I think we did an excellent job for our first day speaking another language.

- We've talked about how for JD and Jenn, this is a journey for JD.

Searching for his father.

For you, Jenn, did you think this journey had anything to offer to you?

- I really did not think on any level this journey would have anything to offer for me.

Today, I met a cousin on my father's side of the family.

Dan: This is your first cousin.

- This is Shawna everyone.

Dan: And I heard that she was able to share with you more about your family's commitment to the military.

- Yes, which is a big deal for us, seeing as JD was in the Navy, and he takes his time that he served our country very seriously.

And so anybody that has those connections to us is a big deal.

- Oh, that's wonderful.

Well, I want to talk to Raymond and Nicole.

When the door opened up, who was waiting for you?

- I had my cousin waiting for me.

My cousin Hunter.

Say hello to the world.

- Hello, everyone.

- Hi!

- You know, he was able to show me some pictures of my brother.

For the very first time, I was able to identify what he looked like, how he looked as a child, how he looks now.

It-it was very nice.

Almost a complete contrast to yesterday.

Dan: Raymond, one more day, one more answer, one more step in a journey that will continue to unfold.

Team Green, DeShae and Chris.

Yesterday, Chris, I think a surprise, as with Jenn today.

It was your relative.

Who did you meet today?

- Well, today was my turn.

I would like y'all to meet my uncle David.

Dan: Oh, wow!

- We're family, y'all!

Dan: Look at that.

Oh my goodness.

Was your uncle able to offer any other clues about other family members?

- Yes, so he is the family historian.

First of all, I have to share my family name.

The family name that I found out on day one, I forgot to share, is Love.

Is their last name.

- That's perfect.

Dan: Love?

- Love, L-O-V-E. And this is a book.

I just want you to see how thick it is, of the entire family history dating back to the late 1700s from the Love family.

And this is all of the family that I now have faces to match because this is everybody.

- That is a lot of Love.

DeShae: Literally a lot of Love, and I'm like, shaking, 'cause it's just incredible.

Dan: DeShae, that is fantastic.

Anitra, did you receive any answers to help fill in your family story?

- Y'all, I found my first cousin.

Now, mind you, I didn't know anything about my biological family at all, and I found out, A, that I'm a Harvell, and B, I got to meet my cousin, Lashonda.

- Hi.

- See the resemblance?

- Look at the cheeks!

Dan: You guys look so similar.

- Yes.

- Anitra, was your cousin able to help fill in any part of your family story?

- Yes, actually.

She is my first cousin on my father's side.

So she grew up with my, our, shared grandmother.

- Really?

Did Grandma know you?

- No.

She didn't get a chance to meet me before she passed away.

♪ But I know that that side of the family was searching for me and trying to reconnect with me.

So.

I'm so happy that I found Lashonda.

- So today you discovered that you were loved and you were wanted?

- Yes.

I was not abandoned.

Dan: Anitra, that is so amazing.

I can't imagine what this discovery must mean to you.

♪ It is time to find out who finished in first and who picks up a strike.

Now, whoever finishes in first place will receive a next day game benefit, and tomorrow, that benefit is you don't have to take a city selfie.

- Nice.

Dan: So, who did finish in first?

And it's interesting, because this team actually had the longest drive of the day.

Team Black, you finished three minutes over your allotted time.

- Yes!

- Good job, y'all.

- And tomorrow?

No city selfie.

- Perfect.

Dan: We'll see if that helps you, if it ultimately makes the difference.

So who finished in second?

Who's safe from another strike, or from earning their first strike?

Finishing in second place, nine minutes over their allotted time, it's a really good thing your relative was able to guide you in.

- Yes!

Dan: Because even with Atlanta traffic, it only cost you about nine minutes.

- Nine minutes.

- And so we turn our attention to Team Red and Team Blue.

Team Red, you don't have any strikes.

Team Blue, you went from first to worst and you have one strike.

Both of you struggled today.

One of you finished 39 minutes over your allotted time while the other one finished 43 minutes over your allotted time.

A difference of only four minutes.

Picking up the strike for day three, 43 minutes over their allotted time...

Team Red.

Team Blue, you finished in third place, 39 minutes over your allotted time.

Let's hope your directions are more clear tomorrow.

Let's hope that on the other side of the door is another family member that you can throw your arms around and say it was all worth it.

- All of the teams decided that we were in this together.

We all are here to find family, so ultimately, we're supporting each other.

That's why we all wear every color bracelet.

At the end of the call, you know, it's got to be bad to get a strike and feel terrible when you did your best, so I think that we all just lifted our arms and said, you know, you got this.

We're all in this together.

Just to keep them going on this journey.

- Congratulations on everyone getting through day three.

And good luck tomorrow as Relative Race rolls on.

Good night, and get some sleep.

You guys are gonna need it.

- Thanks, Dan.

- Bye, everyone.

- Love you guys!

- Love y'all.

DeShae: Love you!

You got this tomorrow!

Bye!

- Day four.

Let's get them.

It kind of makes you frustrated, but instead of frustrated, I want to say motivated, because we got a strike.

The only thing we can do is go up from here, and that's what we plan to do.

JD: Getting first place was so rejuvenating.

Jenn: We needed this first place win.

Being able to skip our city selfie tomorrow will be awesome.

Chris: End of day three.

DeShae: Process of elimination style here.

David is my uncle.

We're down to Ricky, Gary, Debbie, or Mike, and... - One of those is your dad or your mom.

- That's crazy.

Who's it gonna be?

- I don't know.

I guess we'll hopefully find out.

- Another exciting day tomorrow.

♪