Dan: Previously, on Relative Race Teams Red and Blue went head to head in their challenge.

- It's not that easy, so, corner pieces, again.

Got it!

- I'm Mike, man, your cousin.

Dan: Keith met a cousin with connections to his dad.

- That's him.

Dan: Team Black earned first place while a missed turn cost Team Green their first strike.

- That's not gonna happen agai.

Dan: And Demetrius was brought to his knees.

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

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

- Blue!

Dan: ...to win 50,000 dollars... - Yeah!

Dan: ...and to find their family.

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪ Dan: As the sun begins to rise on Day 3, our four teams continue to push forward with their hopes of meeting new family, and a chance of winning $50,000.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, Team Red, Maria and Elizabeth, are up early to say goodbye to Elizabeth's cousin, Shea.

- Oh man, I had so much fun last night.

- I loved meeting you.

- I know.

- I know this is gonna be the most amazing experience for you, and I'm just so glad that I can be the first person that you see.

- Oh my gosh, you're so-- It has been.

It's only been two days.

I can't believe it.

It's been awesome.

Spending time with Shea has just been really amazing, and I feel so fortunate to get to know her.

Dan: In Fort Pierce, Florida, Team Black is anticipating whee they're headed today while strategizing the quickest routes out of town with their cousin Sandra and her son Caleb.

Kristin: So, they showed us where Orlando was.

They showed us where Gainesville was.

Really, it's a straight shot to Gainesville.

- Just literally, a straight shot.

Kristin: And a straight shot to Orlando.

- Yes.

- Mhm.

- Yep.

- We are staying in Florida today.

We feel pretty confident.

Dan: Also in Knoxville, Tennessee, Team Blue, Demetrius and his wife Chonta, are looking forward to the possibility of helping Dante, Demetrius's cousin, find his father.

- Meeting my cousin Dante yesterday was an overwhelming experience.

I just simply didn't expect it.

And to know that I could possibly help Dante figure out who his dad is, means the world to both of us.

I'm gonna take the information I learned and hopefully along this journey I'll have an opportunity to try to connect some dots, even just one piece of the puzzle, and hopefully I can be that piece for you, all right?

- Yes.

- And I'll make it happen.

I can promise you that.

- I appreciate it.

Man, it means the world to me, because he's gonna be a piece in the puzzle more than just himself, but for me too.

So, I'm excited for him.

Dan: Despite receiving their first strike yesterday, Marcus and his brother, Keith are staying positive knowing that they get to continue to meet new family.

- Good morning, y'all.

It is Day 3.

This is my cousin Mike right here.

It's gonna be a better day.

Me and my brother woke up feeling really confident, feeling really good about today.

I'm more focused on the mistaks I made to get the strike, so hearing that we got a strike... Keith: It doesn't faze us too much.

We're still in the race.

- Exactly.

We're still in the race, we're still gonna meet family, and that's the most important part.

My dad's out here right now, waitin' on me.

What up, dad?

How you doing, man?

Got my dad right there.

It's a beautiful day today.

I'm excited.

Dan: Thanks.

[tense music] ♪ [ding] Demetrius: Grab the phone, grab the phone.

- Wait, okay.

Must be Dan.

Let's see.

- Oh, got a text.

We got a text.

- Dan says, "Good morning teams... - "...and welcome to Day 3 of Relative Race."

Maria: "Team Red will be traveling to 'Rana-oki,' Virginia"?

Shea: Roanoke!

- Roanoke, there we go!

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Jefferson, Indiana"?

- "Team Black will be traveling to Gainesville, Florida."

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

- "Today's first prize is a challenge benefit..." - "...which will be revealed to you tomorrow when you reach the challenge location..." - ...or a Day 10 benefit."

- "Your time starts now."

- Let's go, girls.

Oh, I will definitely-- You gotta text me.

You got my number.

- Bye!

- Bye!

- Bro, we gotta go.

- Our time starts now.

Love you cousin, man.

- So good to meet you guys!

- Good to meet you!

- We're going to Gainesville!

- We got to get all the luggage.

Do you have the luggage?

Do you-- and a book bag!

- And we left the book bag?

- Buckle up for safety.

C'mon, we out.

- Let's get it.

- Have a nice day!

- Bye.

- So good to meet you!

Bye, Maya!

- Bye.

- So good to to meet you!

Demetrius: Wish us luck!

- Say good luck.

- Bye.

- Bye.

♪ [tense music] ♪ - It's Day 3 of Relative Race.

All of our teams are racing along different paths all across the United States.

Each looking for different family.

Each in a different city.

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

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

Now they're headed to a new city.

They must take a selfie to prove that they've made it.

Successfully complete a common challenge and then find their relative.

Each in a different allotted time.

As always, the team that goes over their allotted time the most will receive a strike.

Three strikes, and you're out of the race.

Welcome, and get ready, for Day 3 of Relative Race.

Maria: All right, here we go.

- High five.

- Got this.

Elizabeth: What am I looking for?

Maria: James White Highway.

- Trust me, we're going the right way.

- Okay.

- You have any idea?

- No, but... - No?

Maria: What does it say?

Yes!

Elizabeth: Yes, yes!

Good start, good start.

Dan: Off to a great start and traveling from Knoxville, Tennessee to Roanoke, Virginia, Team Red, Maria and Elizabeth have an allotted time of 4 hours and 15 minutes.

- [whistling] The good thing is Blue gets the same weather as us.

- Yeah, but apparently Blue has some sort of secrets that we don't know about.

- But it didn't help them last night.

- Oh snap!

- Maybe some of them know it, maybe they don't.

I figured out, if I stay right behind the semi's, they will push the water away, and I could stay at the speed limit without hydroplaning.

Chonta: I didn't even know that though.

Demetrius: Oh, baby you really can't drive though.. - I can drive.

- My baby, you really can't drive.

- What are you saying?

- I think you should let me drive and you do the maps.

Like I really do.

- So you admit it that I'm stronger in the maps.

- Absolutely.

Okay, as long as you admit that I'm strong at something.

- No, you're amazing in the maps.

- All right.

Dan: Also in Knoxville and traveling to Jeffersonville, Indiana, Team Blue, Demetrius and Chonta, have a total allotted time of 4 hours and 14 minutes.

Demetrius: ♪ Rain, rain, go away.

♪ ♪ Go and rain on the other teams.

♪ - Right.

- I'm kidding, but I'm not kidding.

I'm not really kidding.

- Not really.

You'd be okay with that.

- [trilling "The Star-Spangled Banner"] - Kristin!

Dan: Starting the day off in high spirits, Team Black, Kristin and Kaley, are travelig from Fort Pierce, Florida, to Gainesville, Florida.

Their total allotted time for the day is 3 hours and 46 minutes.

Kaley: Gainesville, 40 miles.

Kristin: Gainesville, 40 miles.

Forty, forty, forty, forty, Gainesville.

[trilling] - Me too.

- I am so...

This is the happiest week of my life.

Dan: Feeling overwhelmed with joy, Team Green, Marcus, Keith, and Marcus's father, their driver, Bishop, are traveling from Denton, Texas, to Amarillo, Texas.

Their allotted time for the day is 5 hours and 12 minutes.

Bishop: I'm really overwhelmed and I'm feeling blessed, beyond blessed beyond blessed.

Marcus: Being on the road every day with my dad so far has been extremely surreal and to know I'm gonna be with him every day the rest of the race is extremely crazy.

Dan: With all of the teams on the road, Team Black decides to push some buttons.

Kaley: Let's send them all a text message.

- Yes.

- Let's send Team Blue one.

Chonta: Team Black, [reading] - [laughing] - I feel bullied right now.

- I don't feel bullied.

I think they intended that.

- Well, strikes look good on you, because we haven't gotten one yet.

- Exactly.

Chonta: They feelin' froggy, huh?

- Team Red... - Elizabeth: Text message from Team Black.

[reading] It's only up from here?

Uphill?

Are they being funny?

- Yeah, it's only up from here.

Elizabeth: So, meaning like you can only, we can't only go up because we've been on top, Team Black.

What are you talking about?

- Thanks, ladies.

Safe travels.

Dan: After sending to all of the teams something sweet, Team Black is now ready to tell them how they really feel.

Kaley: All right, now let me go finish sending the other one.

Marcus: Team Black said, [reading] - Be nice if he doesn't miss anymore turns.

[laughs] Cost us a strike.

- [reading own text] - Kaley!

[laughing] Elizabeth: Team Black.

They better have something nice to say.

[reading] - All right.

- That was a little shade.

Maria: We got second yesterday, but not because we turned around to get a map.

No.

- Okay, I got something.

- What are we gonna say?

Elizabeth: I got something.

- [reading] - [cat sounds] - The dunk tank from Day 1?

Really?

That's all you got?

Dan: With the texting and competition heating up.

The search is on to find their city signs.

Elizabeth: All right, keep your eyes super peeled.

- So, once we hit the 40, we basically in Amarillo, right, brethren?

- We're in Amarillo now.

Kristin: I just need a sign that says Gainesville.

Something.

- All right, maybe we need jump off and ask somebody.

Chonta: Right now, we're looking for the visitor's center.

Maria: All right, does any of those signs say Roanoke?

Elizabeth: Yes, it does.

Maria: It does?

Where?

- Roanoke, the Hotel Roanoke, right here.

- Okay.

- Is that a sign?

- Gainesville city limit.

Kaley: Okay, 'kay.

Pull over.

- Right here.

You see the sign?

This little white thing right here?

Roanoke.

- Pull in right here, make a right.

Please make a right.

- Go.

- All right, you got the phone?

- Yeah.

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

- C'mon.

- All right, let's set it up.

- All right.

I'll turn the camera on.

- Hurry, what are you doing?

Stay behind me.

What are you doing?

[camera shutter] [camera shutter] Maria: There.

[camera shutter] Marcus: Here we go, ready?

[camera shutter].

Both: Send, send, send, send, send, send, send.

Both: Message sent!

- Yeah, okay.

- [reading] C'mon.

Team Red: [reading] "Your challenge is located at 6461 Merriman Road."

- There we go, there we go, there we go, there we go.

[reading] Oh my gosh, come on.

Marcus: [reading] "Welcome to Amarillo.

"Your challenge is located at Thompson Memorial Park at 2401 Dumas Drive."

Let's get it.

Where is my dad?

- Keith: What the?

We get back to the car, and our driver's gone.

Where did he go?

- I don't know, bro.

I really don't.

Are you serious right now?

Like, we gotta get right back to it.

We're on a roll.

- Hey, hey!

C'mon, we on the clock!

Marcus: And I turn he's not that far from the car.

He's eating a banana.

Dad, we on the clock, yo.

But he should've stayed in the car at least.

Dan: After Team Green struggles to find their driver, Team Blue is still struggling with their selfies.

[camera shutter] Demetrius: All right, that's a good one.

That's a good one, Dan.

[ding] - Chonta: [reading] "Your challenge is located at 414 Perrin Lane."

Demetrius: All right, let's go.

Dan: With their city selfies completed, all of our teams are about to get a whiff of Day 3' s challenge.

♪ - Good, good, good.

Elizabeth: Smell & Tell.

Dan: Day 3's challenge, Smell & Tell, is the same for all four teams.

For this challenge, teammates must work together to correctly identify ten items hanging from a line.

However, both teammates are blindfolded and can only use their sense of smell and their faces to "feel" the items.

Teams must correctly identify ten of the fifteen items to pass the challenge.

The allotted time for Smell & Tell is ten minute.

[sniff] - All right, brother.

Brother, brother, brother, can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Are we close?

Maria: One, two.

Okay, we're here.

- Kristen, you're gonna lift your leg out and we're gonna find each other.

Where are you at?

I can't feel it.

- This is the... post.

- Being blindfolded is super hard and you don't realize it until you are actually blindfolded that every-- it throws you off.

- I found one.

Come.

Right here.

- Some sauce or some sort of beef jerky.

[ding] - Beef jerky.

[ding] Kaley: Uh, sausage, beef jerky.

[ding] - Where're you at?

- The first item didn't take us a long time to figure out, because it's just a scent that you know.

- Yeah.

Chonta: And we're just gonna taste, lick, chew, whatever we have to do and then we strategize to put our heads together... Demetrius: ...so that we do not miss an item.

Chonta: And to move together.

- Where you at?

Hold on.

- Right here.

Follow my voice, follow my voice.

- You feel it?

- Yeah, what is that?

- Hold on, hold on, that's garlic.

[ding] - Garlic.

[ding] Definitely garlic.

Right here, right here.

- Um, baby powder?

- Lotion?

- Linen?

Febreze?

Kristin: Deodorant?

Egh, It stinks.

Elizabeth: We were sniffing, we were biting.

We got-- Maria: We were moving along.

We got a few right.

Elizabeth: And then we were stumped.

- It's cloth or some-- oh.

Elizabeth: I think it's... Maria: 'Cause I couldn't figure out what it was.

Is this a diaper?

- It can't be.

[ding] My gosh!

Yes, Maria, I'm sorry.

I love you.

Correct.

- A diaper!

[ding] - Yes, that is a diaper.

Ugh, in my mouth.

- That's a baby wipe or something.

- Soap?

Diaper?

[ding] - Ooh.

- A diaper.

[ding] - Yes!

Good job, Kaley!

- The first three, we knock'em right out, bam-bam-bam, then it starts getting a little bit harder.

- A smelly shoe?

Both: Rubber.

Tire.

- Can I bite it?

- I might have to bite it, figure out what it is.

- Leather.

A cowboy boot.

- Turf.

- [sniffs] Car freshener.

- How is that not a shoe?

- You wanna skip it?

- Skip it.

- Wallet.

- Steering wheel.

I don't know.

- A baseball glove.

[ding] - Yes, yes.

- Baseball bat, er-- - Glove.

[ding] Yes!

Okay, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.

- Is that the item or you just got a hard head?

- It's right here.

No, that's the item.

- Ew, it's in my mouth, it's all over my face.

Kaley, it's shedding on my face.

- Ew!

- Literally have no idea what this is, but I just know it-- [spits] A dog bone.

[ding] - Woo!

- That's disgusting!

- Do you taste it?

- It's definitely meat.

- Oh, a bone?

- A bone.

[ding] I licked-- ugh, you know what?

I don't even want to think about it.

- You really gave me a dog bone?

I'm over here biting it, licking it.

Trying to figure out what it is.

I'm thinking it's a boot or something it ain't.

Like, I don't know what's going on.

- Um, it's candy.

Um... - That's a pineapple.

[ding] Kristin: Pineapple.

[ding] Yes.

- Sausage?

- Uh-uh.

- Air freshener?

Um, what is it?

[ding] - Ooh, yeah.

- Rubber.

Uh, hold on.

- Tire?

- A binder, book.

- A boot?

[ding] - A boot.

[ding] - A rain boot.

[ding] Yeah!

- We're winning today.

First place.

Told'em.

- Boom!

- Piece of wood?

[ding] - Let's go.

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

- It says, "Your relative lives at 432 East Oak Street."

Both: "Your relative lives at 3502 West Long Avenue."

- What is that?

Pfft.

- Ew.

Turmeric.

Both: Ginger!

[ding] - Yes!

- Kaley, that smells like one of your drinks.

- Oh, I have no idea.

- Ginger, turmeric, [ding] - Yes!

- Told you it was your drink!

- Hello.

Maria, Maria.

- "Your relative lives at 1647 Northwest 19th Circle."

- Your relative lives at 52... - Oh, 5213 Crystal Creek Drive.

- We out.

Let's go.

Oh my gosh, we rocked that.

Dan: With their common challenge behind them, all four teams are now racing to find family.

Kaley: 'Kay, so you're gonna go left on 39th.

- That's up there where we came-- Kaley: Yeah.

Marcus: Where we going right now?

Keith: We're going east.

Marcus: On North 24th?

Keith: Yeah.

- Dude, that don't make any sense.

Demetrius: Did we make a-- Chonta: You're not doing what I asked you.

Demetrius: Okay, listen to me.

But, but-- It wouldn't've made sense to go back.

That was a one way.

- No, it wasn't a one way.

You all see cars comin' this way?

- That was a one way that we came up and made the left on.

- Okay, I lied.

- When we come out, make a left, right?

- Wait, it says right I think.

Look, don't just keep driving, look.

- If we keep going west we gonna get out of here.

- Then go east.

I don't know.

- Go, go, go.

Demetrius: Here.

Ask this Fedex dude.

Here I'm gonna stop, stop, stop.

I asked a Fedex guy, "Where is Oak Street at?"

He said, head to 4th Street and take a left.

- Oh, okay.

You got the route?

Marcus: Got the route.

- You said it was the other way?

- I'm about to figure out right now.

This next street is Stanley.

Or Austin, I mean.

Yeah, we need to turn around.

Maria: Merriman is this way?

Elizabeth: Yep.

Maria: And this is Starkey up and down?

So we're going left?

Elizabeth: We're gonna make a left, I think.

Yes, yes, yes.

- Yeah, turn around.

We're going the wrong way.

We were completely lost and we had to turn around.

- He told me to go to 4th Street and hang a left and it'll run us right into Oak Street.

- Southwest 16, make a left.

Kaley: Park, park, park.

We pulled into this hotel and asked for directions.

- Can you, can you tell us exactly how to get there?

Receptionist: So, Gainesville is organized on the map, so right here.

- She pointed out where we were and where our relative's address is.

Both: Thank you so much.

Demetrius: Aw, the road is closed.

I gotta turn around.

- You got to be kidding me.

Can we go that way?

- This is it.

- Is it?

- Crystal Creek.

Keep going, keep going.

See how the numbers say 5, 16?

Elizabeth: We turn onto these country roads and I just knew it was gonna be hard to find our relative's house.

Dan: All teams are still rushing to find new relatives.

Demetrius: So the next street that we can make a left.

Let's just do that.

Kaley: She said left on 39th to Main.

Kristin: I don't know.

Look at the map.

We just got directions from the hotel.

- And we're still lost.

Elizabeth: Now this is where it's gonna-- No, keep going straight.

Marcus: Hold on.

Bishop: Okay.

Marcus: Right there, 3502.

Keith: Right there.

- We are here.

Keith: Let's go.

Wow, I wonder who this is gonna be, brethren.

Marcus: Right?

Keith: I'm very, very excited.

- I have no idea who I'm about to meet.

Marcus: How you doing?

- What's going on, fellas?

- What's your name?

Relative: I'm Anthony Harris.

I'm your mama's second brother.

- Whoa!

Nice to meet you, man.

- Nice to meet you too, man.

I've never met any of my mama's brothers.

- For real?

How you doing?

My name is Anthony Tano Harris.

I am Keith and Marcus's uncle.

When I found out I was gonna meet my nephews, I was happy.

So how y'all been, man?

Marcus: I'm feeling good .

We gonn-- We gonna catch up man.

- Okay, man, yeah we are, bro.

Keith: When my uncle came to the door, I actually recogized him from when I was younger.

Anthony: So yeah, man.

I ain't seen him in almost 20 years.

And I never met Marcus, man.

It's a blessing.

That's all I could say.

Well, we got a lot to catch up on.

Come on, babies.

- Oh yeah.

Definitely, man.

Wow.

- I can't wait, man, to sit down and holler at'em about how we grew up and a lot of the things that he don't know about his mama that I used to know.

Marcus: That's crazy.

I never met one of mama's brothers.

Demetrius: East?

Chonta: East Oak.

And we're looking at 432.

- That's 323.

- 323, we're looking 432.

Must be here.

Boom.

We did it.

Demetrius: Go, go, go, go, go.

C'mon, c'mon.

Make it fast, make it fast, make it fast.

Go, go, go, go.

Knock on the door, knock on the door, knock on the door.

Hey-hey, how you doing?

I'm Demetrius.

- Sean Booker.

- Sean Booker.

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

- My cousin?

- Yes.

- Really?

- Your great-grandfather and my great-grandfather were brothers.

- What!?

Sean: So, I'm on the young, young family tree.

Chonta: You're young!

I couldn't even believe it and not only is he my cousin, he's my cousin on my dad's side.

And then my cousin on my dad's grandfather's side.

Who-- I don't know anybody.

- Very cool.

- That is crazy!

Oh my goodness!

Oh my goodness, give me hug!

- Nice to meet you!

- Nice to meet you!

Wow!

I did not think that.

- It was awesome meeting my cousin today.

Didn't even know she existed until today.

That's the most exciting part.

- That's crazy, right?

I would love to learn more-- - All right, well, come on in.

Let's do it.

- Oh my goodness.

Dan: With two teams clocked in and with their relatives, Team Red and Black are still searching.

Kristin: Is this the road?

Kaley: Yep.

- 1648.

Can you go-- - Go in there.

Kristin: That's... Kaley: Go in there!

Kristin: Okay.

Kaley: Doing great, we gotta find the house number now.

1647.

Kristin: Literally don't know.

Kaley: No, these are 15's.

- 5213, 5213, 5213.

- Five-- keep going.

Keep going.

Kristin: Where is 1647?

Kaley: We should ask those people.

Hey, ask her.

Nope.

- Okay.

Kaley: Where's 1647?

Kristin: So confused.

1647.

Kaley: Where, right here?

- Yes.

Kaley: This is stressful.

Most stressful ever.

♪ - Hey!

Hi.

C'mon.

- Oh my gosh.

- Oh my gosh.

So good to meet you.

- Me too, what's your name?

- I'm Nicole Upthegrove.

I am your cousin through your dad's side.

- Very cool.

- So and who are you?

- I'm Kristin.

- And I'm Kaley.

- And Kaley.

So awesome to meet you guys.

Did you find the place okay?

- No, not at all.

Your house is a little hard to find.

- Oh man.

You got a tour of the neighborhood then?

- Yes, we did.

Nicole: Well, I'm glad that you finally made it.

So, you must be thirsty.

Both: Yes.

Nicole: Yes, would you like to come inside?

I have a few people you might want to meet.

- Yeah, sure.

- We'd love that.

Thank you.

- Come on in!

- This is so pretty.

- Thank you.

These are my sons.

- Hi!

- Hey there!

- I'm Kristin, nice to meet you.

- Hi, Kristin, I'm Andrew.

- Hey, I'm Zach.

- Hey, Kaley, nice to meet you.

- I'm Kristin, nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

Nicole: It was realy exciting to be able to take a relationship that I didn't even know that I had and to meet Kristin and Kaley and then be able to introduce them to my boys.

What do you guys like to do for fun?

- Um, I like to sing and play guitar and I paint.

So, on my hobbies, I like to do that on the side.

- That's awesome.

- That fits in, because I got my guitar over there, and... Kristin: You sing and play?

Andrew: Yeah, I played for what, like seven years now?

Kristin: This is more music!

- Do you sing too?

- Yeah.

I sing, I sing.

- It was really sweet to meet a cousin on our dad's side of the family, because we don't know a lot of them and so it's cool just to be able to actualy meet them in person instead of just hearing about them.

- So, I've been singing ever since I was a little girl in church and... - Yeah, we-- I lead worship at my church.

- You do?

I did too!

I grew up leading worship at my church!

- So, right now I sing at Disney.

Nicole: No, you don't!

They were very excited and when we found out that we had music in common it was just like an easy fit.

I just wanted to give you guys a little bit of introduction to the boys because musical family and all, we're actually are going to a recording studio, 'cause.. - We're gonna get one of my songs recorded.

So, that's what we're doing today.

Kaley: Very, very cool.

That's so awesome.

- Would you guys like to tag along and come to-- - Yes!

Nicole: All right, guys, so why don't you finish up your tea and we'll get going.

- Cool, all right.

- My mind is blown.

Dan: With music on the agenda for Team Black, Team Red is about to discover their next relative.

- Oh my gosh, who do you think lives here?

Elizabeth: I don't know, but you can go five miles faster, Maria.

It's definitely a road to a palace, I mean... Who could possibly be living out here?

Maria: We're coming up close, that said 5363.

That moment when you're close to your relative's house, but you don't know who it is is...

It's just so intense.

Elizabeth: Okay, we're getting closer.

5213, 5213.

Right there, right there!

[soft music] ♪ - Oh my gosh.

All right, all right.

- Hi.

- Are you our relative?

- I am your relative!

- Who are you?

- Maria, I'm your mother.

- Wow.

- Hi.

- Oh my gosh.

- I prayed for this day.

- Yeah?

Maria's mother: I've been waiting for this moment... for 34 years.

Not ever knowing if it would ever come.

But, just a miracle.

Today was a miracle.

- Well, I'm happy we're here now.

- I'm happy we're here now.

- This is so cool.

I can't express the feeling.

I still don't know what those feelings are except just joy and excitement, because that's all I have right now, you know?

But I just start tearing up and just of happiness, so... - You're so beautiful.

- Wow, thank you.

So are you.

Aw, Lizzie.

- Tears of joy, I hope.

- Yes, absolutely.

Absolutely.

- This is so cool.

- What is your name?

- I'm Sharon.

- Sharon?

Maria, very Irish.

- Very Irish.

Elizabeth: I'm Liz!

- Hi.

- This is my sister, Liz.

Elizabeth: I felt that she finally got what she wanted.

Wow.

- What a day, yeah?

Elizabeth: Yeah!

- You wanna go inside?

- Sure.

- Let's go inside.

♪ Face to face ♪ Dan: Back in Amarillo, Texas, Marcus and Keith are getting to know their Uncle Anthony.

- Holler at you all.

I ain't seen you in ages, man, since you were babies.

- I'm definitely excited to learn all the stories, catch up with my uncle on the lost time that we never got to have.

- Well, what y'all wanna ask me?

Y'all got some questions you have?

- I just want to catch up and connect in general, get to know another, you know?

I never got to meet any of my mom's siblings.

Anthony: Good to meet you.

- I know, you too.

I didn't know my mom had a brother.

- I never thought this day would come.

It feels great.

Well, I got a picture of her.

Check it out.

- Oh, wow.

Anthony: Your mom was beautiful, man.

Marcus: That's the best picture I've ever seen of her.

When I was about five or six, my mom passed away the day before mother's day.

I definitely had a lot of hardships in life from being homeless, abused, over ten foster homes, neglected.

That's crazy.

- Man, yeah, I get mystified looking at it too, man.

Marcus: To be able to connect to my mom through her brother, my Uncle Anthony, that's really big to me, because I can get to a lot of inside questions and just, maybe learn a lot of stuff I didn't even know about my mo.

Anthony: Yeah, lookin' at them photos, man, brought me closer to them.

They're gonna bring them a lot closer to me, because they're going to find out what it is to be a family in whole.

- What was my mom like, growing up?

- She was smart.

She was quick.

Couldn't get nothing past your mama, man.

Her spirit was beautiful, man.

And what I miss so much, your mom used to give our friend's rent parties and everybody would come to the party and pay about two, three dollars to get into the party and they had their rent paid the next day.

Keith: That's crazy.

- That's really smart.

Anthony: That's how everybody learned how to dance in the house.

- That's crazy.

Anthony: 'Cause they get parties every week.

You know?

- That's where I get the hustle ambition and my dance skills from.

Anthony: Yeah, your mom grew up, man.

We all went to the same high school, me, her, Karen, Vanessa.

- I never got to meet none of them.

Anthony: Yeah, it was awesome to tell them the stories about their mama, and to me it was just like carrying a torch, you know?

I love her to death.

- It sounds like family's really important to you.

- It is, man.

Family's good.

You gotta have family, man.

Man, you know what I'm saying?

- It feels really good to have a piece of my mom back in my life.

I look at him, he looks just like my mom.

Anthony: It really brings me a lot of closure knowing that her babies is taking care of and they're strong men toda.

And that's a blessing, I love that.

You all know I'm a cook, right?

Y'all hungry?

- Mhm.

- Yes.

Anthony: Y'all look like you're starving.

- I'm starving.

I do, I need some meat on my bones.

All right, let's get it.

Dan: As Team Green prepares a meal with their Uncle Anthon, Chonta is about to see how she and her cousin, Sean are related.

Chonta: We got in the house and he showed me a whole family tree.

- I'm on the tree right here.

If you go over to the single little dot, and there's your son, there's you two right there.

- There it goes!

Look at this thing.

Sean: Your son is probably the youngest one on the tree.

Chonta: This family tree went down the entire table, like a very long table.

It's so many of us, like I started losing count.

All of these people are my cousins?

Sean: Yeah, this is all your dad's side.

All of these folks.

You learn how things fit together, who was who, and which branch of the family that we're connected to.

And so actually putting it together is the most exciting part of it.

- I'm just, I am so happy to meet you.

Like, I'm so happy to meet you.

What was so cool, was that I had no clue that we would meet anybody that was my family member.

- It makes you feel more connected, like you're not alone.

You know what I mean?

Like, there's more people out there that maybe could, can love and support you and we can learn things from and feed off each other so, that's a really cool thing to learn.

So, what do you do?

What's your profession?

- I am a realtor and a fitness coach.

- Okay.

I do personal training and kickboxing.

- Really?

Sean: Yeah, I'm a kickbox instructor.

So, I do Muay Thai, boxing, kickboxing, so elbows, knees, kicks, all that stuff.

- You're dangerous.

- I've never had to use it.

You know what I mean?

I teach it.

I obviously have a lot of things in common.

We have a little bit of family resemblance.

Fitness, martial arts, so we feel instant connection because of those things.

Chonta: So I cannot wait to meet everybody.

He's just so nice and welcoming.

He's just-- He's been absoutely great.

It's phenomenal.

Dan: While Chonta continues to connect with Sean, Kaley and Kristin are about to listen to their cousin's music.

Kristin: Nicole shared with us that her son actually had some plans so we were all going to o to a recording studio and record his song.

We came inside the studio and we got to hear our relativ, Andrew, perform his song.

- ♪ Yeah, you'll find me out in the mountains.

♪ Kristin: It kind of sums up just, you know, who he is as a person, right off the bat.

Andrew: ♪ ...is not the way I'll go.

♪ [applauding] - This is three out of three relatives that we've met that have a musical background.

- Hey!

- That was so good.

- That was so good.

- Nice.

- Thank you.

Kristin: What is that song about?

Why did you write that?

Andrew: I wrote that song mostly about growing up and finding your own path, and then finally growing up.

Nicole: And you guys are writers too, right?

- We do.

We actually wrote one together.

- Really?

- And it's called "Jesus had Mine," so we would love to share that with you if you want to hear it.

- I'd love it.

- Yes, please.

- We haven't been able to share our song with a lot of people, let alone family.

- Now this was the song that you guys wrote about your dad, right?

Kaley: It is.

So, we actually don't know our dad.

He actually left when we were four, so we barely have any facts about him, and you are a missing piece, so that's pretty cool.

This song is about him, and it's actually saying, like if he knew us, he'd be proud of us, and stuff like that.

- Is it okay if I cry?

Kaley: Yes.

- Okay.

♪ I'm sitting at the table and the words come flowing in ♪ ♪ Overwhelmed by the sadness where do I begin ♪ Nicole: Like it really, really touched me.

It, like, got deep in my heart because this whole show, them being here, it's like that connector piece with their dad, and so it really brought tears to my eyes 'cause it was beautiful.

Kaley: Thank you.

- A good cry.

Kaley: Good.

Kristin: So then we got an opportunity to all sing togethr and so, Nicole, Kaley, and I got to sing Amazing Grace.

- ♪ Amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪ ♪ that saved a wretch like me ♪ - We were awesome singing Amazing Grace together.

It was beautiful.

- We all knew the vibe and it really felt like we are connected and through DNA and maybe otherwise.

Maybe something a little spiritual too.

♪ ...once blind but now I see ♪ - Good job.

- So pretty.

Zach: Wonderful.

- That was so beautiful.

Kaley: This whole experience is not something that you can just say in one word.

It's just an overwhelming feeling that so many dots and questions are finally connecting.

Like, where do I get this passion from that we never thought we could have?

It's just, all of a sudden it's just making sense.

Dan: While Team Black heads back to their cousin's home, Maria is about to hear her mother's story for the very first time.

- Oh my goodness.

This is so cool.

So how did we end up here?

Like, I guess... - So, I met your father when I first moved to Tampa.

He was one of the first people I met and he was just so incredibly sweet and kind and we started dating and he went off to college and we were both then in different relationships.

Today I shared my story for the first time, really.

You were born March 29, 1984, and it was during a blizzard, 20 hours of labor.

Oh dear one.

Maria: Sorry about that.

- It was worth it.

And your father and I had lost contact, so here I am all alone.

And, it was really hard, and the room was cold, and the people felt cold.

They started asking, "How are you gonna take care of this baby?

How are you gonna raise her?"

I felt really trapped.

I never, for a moment, did I not imagine being with you.

I had locked away so many emotions and what it felt like and the shame and not wanting to give her up.

Feeling lost and alone and confused.

And then you were born, 6:20 A.M.

I believe that it was.

And so we had a moment in the hospital where I just held you, and I prayed.

I prayed over you that God would go with you and that you would bring joy to your family.

- Thank you.

What she's had to endure and go through, especially by herself, that's very hard, 'cause we've always had someone that had our back or has shown us support all our lives and to know that she hasn't had that same support.

I don't want you to ever feel that it was ever a bad decision, 'cause I've had the best life ever.

I've had my little sister.

We have a great family.

Mom and dad, like, I want to thank you so much for being selfless.

I wish someone just told her that I was okay, you know?

Sharon: Well, you were never not wanted, and you were never not loved.

- Oh, I know.

Sharon: And you were never not thought about, so... Maria: I know.

It's okay.

I'm here now.

Sharon: To have my daughter reach out and embrace me filled so many holes that were there for such a really long time.

It was a beautiful moment.

Okay.

[soft music] ♪ Okay, so there's your mom.

Elizabeth: My gosh.

The same face.

Maria: Oh my goodness.

Looking through the photos, it's a little bit overwhelming, 'cause at the same time, it's Day 3 and you're just meeting so many other relatives and families that you never met before.

Sharon: And there's your siblings.

Maria: Oh my goodness.

Sharon: I have something special for you.

That's your father.

Maria: For real?

Sharon: Yeah.

Maria: Oh, wow.

The last photo that my mom, Sharon, showed me was my birth father, so being able to see the two of them in the same da, it was pretty awesome to know, like my eyes, my nose, like my face, my chin, like who I got that from.

Anthony: Looking all good now.

Marcus: Yes, it is.

- Y'all ready to get down?

We gotta say a prayer, y'all.

- Oh, all right.

I'm with that.

To be on this journey with my brother, to meet all these family membes that he wasn't in touch with, neither was I, I wouldn't change it for anything.

- The connections that we have gotten are super important to us because that's why we're here.

Demetrius: Being able to meet these relatives is truly surreal.

Being able to walk into their homes and be able to embrace them and them embrace you, it is absolutely life changing.

- Meeting my actual family, you know, me growing up in foster homes my whole life from losing my mom at age five and then I meet my uncle.

I met my dad, cousins, like this is a dream come true.

This is the best thing ever.

- I don't know.

It's just joy.

I-- Complete joy, I can't express that in any other form.

Elizabeth: Do you feel like your prayers were answered?

- Yes, but I also feel like her prayers were answered.

♪ Dan: As Day 3 comes to a close, each team anticipates the results.

Demetrius: We're pretty confident that-- - Our performance today.

- Yeah, we performed really well.

Yeah!

Woo!

Honestly, I'm expecting for us to be first today.

If not, Dan, that's a problem.

Kristin: I'm nervous about the call.

We took a little longer than we wanted to, to get to our relative's house.

Kaley: Go in there!

- Okay.

Ugh, where is 1647?

Kaley: We should ask those people.

Krisitn: I just hope we don't come in last.

Marcus: We might have the records of the day.

We were on point like a needle.

Piece of wood?

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

- We are here.

I hope the other teams got lost, 'cause they underestimated our navigating abilities, texting those funny little text messages, trying to throw us off our game, but it's not gonna happen.

- We met my birth mother today.

Hi.

We could take the loss today if it means anything 'cause this day has been amazing.

Dan: With the results now in, who will be one step closer to 50,000 dollars and who will receive a strike?

Welcome teams, to Day 3 of Relative Race and it has been a day full of difficult weather for Teams Red and Teams Blue and amazing discoveries of family that I can't wait to talk abou.

Team Red, maybe it's an understatement to say that you are incredibly competitive.

And you guys don't mind antagonizing the other teams with texts?

- Actually, they bothered us.

- Team Red told us that our tickets back home were back in the dunk tank.

Team Red: [laughing] - Now that's funny.

- Hey, y'all started it today.

- Yeah, you guys!

- Yeah, we sure did.

That was pretty good.

Elizabeth: We just finished it.

- Yeah.

- Maybe it helped you, Kaley, because Team Black kind of had a diaper disaster on the challenge.

You guys just could not get past that diaper.

- Baby powder?

- Lotion?

And so we were like rubbing it everywhere.

- Like, what is this thing?

- Eh, it stinks.

We were like, baby powder, wait no.

- Well, again, we'll see if that cost you.

Everybody had their own set of roadblocks, but all roads lead to your families.

Team Black, who did you meet tonight, and what do you share in common that was so cool for you guys to find out?

- So, tonight we show up and we meet our cousin, Nicole, and we share a music passion.

Dan: Hi, Nicole.

- Hi, everybody.

Kaley: And so at the end of the day today, we actually all went with her and her two sons to a recording studio and we all got to sing togethe.

- We shared our song that we wrote together.

It's called "Jesus had Mine" and it's our story about not having our dad around, and that we're moving on and that we still have a story to tell regardless that he's been not here.

- I really appreciate you sharing that with us.

Team Blue, the hope has been that this journey would mostly be for Demetrius, and yet tonight, the discovery goes in a different direction.

- I found my cousin, my relative.

I was so surprised.

He's also a personal trainer and he does MMA and so we just were sharing stories about that, nutrition.

And so that's gonna be just amazing keeping in touch with him and just swapping back and forth and doing a little healthy competition to stay in shape.

Dan: One of the things that has been so meaningful is to find so many families tht have never met before, and yet they share common interests, common love, and for Team Green, tonight you discovered a relative that you both share.

Tell us about that.

- So we met my Uncle Anthony from my mom's side.

- Hey, everybody.

Demetrius: What's up, Uncle Anthony?

Marcus: I never knew he existed.

I didn't know my mom had brothers at all.

I lost her at a young age, so I never got to catch up on that.

Dan: I'm happy for you guys as well.

Well, that leaves us with Team Red.

You guys may be fierce competitors, but you came on the show to try to find some answers, especially for you Maria.

- Everybody, this is my mom.

- Wow!

- Wow.

- Congratulations.

- Sharon, this is Sharon.

This is me Irish side.

- Learning about Maria's mom was awesome.

That's what's up, Maria.

That's huge.

Chonta: It's a big deal.

- A major deal, and so super happy and super pumped for Maria for that.

Marcus: Seeing people go through the same experience I'm going through right now, it's really heartwarming, honestly, and it's like, it's the reason why we're here.

The competition doesn't even exist at that point.

Keith: It just makes us happy for the other contestants.

- It makes us really happy for the other teams, like genuinely.

Dan: Maria, I know you hoped, did you think you'd have this moment?

- I was hoping for it, of course.

I didn't think y'all would give it to me on Day 3 and this is a picture of my birth father.

Chonta: Yes, I see it.

Wow.

- I cannot believe how much you share so many obvious physical trait of your mother and your father.

It is amazing when you see it side by side and you see it front and cente.

Unbelievable.

What range of emotions have you had tonight?

- It's raining and pouring out here, so I was pretty much doing the same, but it was all of joy and excitement and just a lot of catching up to do, so... - So, you'd all like to find out where you placed so you can get back to your family.

[tense music] - Once again, whoever finishes in first, today, has the choice of that next day game benefit or the Day 10 benefit.

The game benefit is a challenge benefit.

If you choose the challenge benefit, the benefit will be revealed to you at the challenge location tomorrow, and the team that has that choice to make...

Team Green.

You finished in first place.

You finished 5 minutes over your allotted time.

- Really?

- Do you choose the next day benefit or the Day 10 benefit?

Marcus: We chose the Day 10 benefit since we're better at navigating we got this now.

- We'll be there for Day 10 to see.

- Well, congratulations.

Your relative will give you that Day 10 benefit later on tonight.

Team Red, you finished in second place.

You finished 11 minutes over your allotted time.

And now it comes down to Team Black and Team Blue.

Team Black, you have one strike.

Team Blue, you have yet to receive a strike.

And that continues for you.

Team Black, you finished in last place.

Team Blue, you finished 21 minutes over your allotted time.

Team Black, you finished only 6 minutes behind Team Blue, 27 minutes over your allotted time.

You've received your second strike.

One more strike and you'll be headed home.

Don't give up.

You want to meet those relatives.

We hope that you will meet those relatives, and we'd be thrilled to see you punch your ticket all the way to Day 10, but all of you, remember this, tomorrow, everything can chang, because ultimately, it's always about family.

Relative Race rolls on.

For now, get some rest, good night, and good luck.

- Good night, everybody.

- Good night, y'all.

- Good night, guys.

- Congrats, Maria.

- Congratulations, Maria.

- Thank you, guys.

I love y'all.

- We can't wait to meet your mom.

- All right.

All right, second place.

We got first place right here though.

I love you.

We killed it today.

- We taking it to Day 10.

- Y'all have been first anyway.

- We takin' it to Day 10.

- Y'all gotta get a win.

Demetrius: We know.

We need to figure out what's going on and what it is that we're doing wrong.

Where we're missing time at.

- It's frustrating.

Six minutes.

- What's making me upset is knowing that I may not meet more relatives.

I could care less about the money.

- After we end the call, our uncle hands us this box.

Where do we get the key from?

And it's a locked box to which we don't have the key to.

They gave us a box with a lock?

- [laughing] I guess.

- Gratitude Tour Day 3 as we call it over here was amazing 'cause I just have been waiting just to tell her these words and let her have a comfort, to let her know that I'm just so thankful for her selflessness.

- I usually taste, but I was like, I was so nervous.

I was so excited and so nervous, you know?

- I wouldn't have the life I have if it wasn't for her love and prayers and doing what she had to do.

Today has been one of the most amazing days ever on this trip.

Finally got to meet my birthmother, Sharon.

Not only did I get to meet her and hear our life stories and catch up, but found so many commonalities that we have.

- Things are going magnificent.

We placed first.

We're looking forward to Day 4 tomorrow.

- Comin' up just a little short, but hey, no strikes, but haven't gotten a win yet.

- We just learned that we got a strike, but guess what?

It's a new day tomorrow and we're gonna get first again.

Good night from Team Black.