♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race, like father, like daughter, Team Red's headstrong nature cost them a first strike.

You have received your first strike.

Michael: It was a-- not as good a day.

Dan: Team Black heard their grandfather's voice for the first time.

Jerica: It was really, really cool.

♪ Dan: And Preshious Anderson discovered something difficult while receiving closure.

♪ Preshious: It's my first picture, seeing her.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... [Jerica screaming] Dan: ...to win $50,000... Man: Yeah baby!

Dan: ...and to find their family!

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day 3 of Relative Race.

Our four teams continue to meet meaningful family and push closer to competing in Day 10, with the hopes of winning $50,000.

It's Day 3 of Relative Race.

All of our teams continue to race along different paths all across the United States, each team looking for a new relative, each in a different location.

All of our teams have their eyes set on the finish line, this season in an undisclosed location.

At the start of the race two days ago in North Carolina, all of the teams surrendered their smartphones and all use of technology in exchange for paper maps and flip phones-- 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 challenge, and discover their new relatives, each within a different allotted time.

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

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

Welcome to Day 3 of Relative Race.

All four teams are still searching for family in the eastern part of the United States with the finish line still a mystery.

In Lilburn, Georgia, today is anything but a normal day for Preshious Anderson.

Last night, her Aunt Sheena delivered important but heavy news about Preshious's mother Wanda.

Your mom, my sister, she passed away.

♪ Preshious: In that moment, it kinda crushed my heart.

Uh, it's a lot of questions I've wanted to ask her, and, um-- [crying] 'Cause I'm not gonna get to do that.

I'm not-- Get to sit next to her.

♪ Dan: As Preshious continues her emotional journey discovering family, she also begins Day 3 of the race celebrating her 29th birthday.

Preshious: Walking out of the house today, my Aunt Sheena has some gifts for me for my birthday today.

And then, I just wanted to say happy birthday, since it's the very first one I get to wish you.

And, so, what I did was put a picture of your mom, you, and hopefully throughout your journey, you can find another family member to put inside.

Find that third person.

Preshious: She gives me a picture of me next to my mom's picture, and I can finally see, like, me and her lined up, and the resemblance there.

♪ So, the empty spot on the frame, I'm hoping I can fill that with my dad's picture.

That would just be perfect to see my mom, dad, and me, right in the middle.

♪ Dan: In Lenox, Massachusetts, Team Red, Mike and Austen, wake up with their first strike in pocket after a disastrous Day 2.

Austen: Dad, don't do it!

[groans] Everything about what just happened is the exact opposite about-- of everything we discussed.

It was the worst day.

There are some things that are going to change tomorrow.

Dan: The father-daughter team knows they need to change things up if they're going to stay in the race.

Mike: Austen wants to have a start of a grounded day, so she's out there doing her karate routine.

She's finding peace.

♪ Austen: Woke up this morning and just decided that I wanted a fresh start.

We're trying something new today, and I wanted to be grounded, so I came out here and decided to do some of my karate forms, and so I feel much better today, better than I have on Day 2 or Day 1.

I feel calmer, more at peace, so I'm ready to turn the page and come out of the gate swinging!

♪ So, you need to, when you get on Whitman Road, get-- take the first entrance ramp onto 295...

Okay.

...which will bear you off to the right.

Day 3 is gonna be our day.

We are ready for our challenges, and after struggling the first couple days, I think we finally have a system down, and we're ready for it.

♪ [phone dings] Tiffany!

Tiffany: Yeah?

Josh: Got a text from Dan.

[sighs] Okay!

You ready?

Yeah.

All right.

I'm nervous.

Paris: Good morning, teams, and welcome to Day 3 of Relative Race.

Team Blue will be traveling to Lilburn, Georgia-- We'll be traveling to Waterford, Connecticut.

Staunton, Virginia!

[cheering] And-- Team Green will be traveling to Birmingham, Alabama.

♪ Austen: Today's first-place winner will receive-- Five minutes of GPS-- Or a Day 10 benefit.

Your time starts-- Now.

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Yeah, okay.

All right, see you, man!

Bye family!

My strategy for today is to be as intense as my wife and I were yesterday; we worked well as a team on the challenges, we worked well as a team finding the address, we navigated well together, just gotta keep it up!

Yeah.

We're headed to Birmingham, Alabama.

We have to kill this challenge, you know?

We have to get first place, you know, get back on top where we belong, and we have to leave Team Blue in the dust!

Joe: Day 3 is gonna be our day.

We are ready for our challenges, and after struggling the first couple of days, I think we finally have a system down, and we're ready for it.

Jerica: We're confident we're gonna get first today.

Austen: Daddy has a hard time listening to me, and when I was navigating, that didn't work, but it's all going to change today.

♪ Oh.

In case this is helpful, I had grabbed our telescope.

Here.

Jerica: That's right!

I can look at like a sign, now.

They're not ridiculous.

Like, so, I can see a really-- a sign really well if I need to, like, look at it ahead of time.

I bet no other team thought to bring that!

Dan: Team Black, Joe and Jerica, remain in Virginia today, racing from the town of Glen Allen to Staunton.

With challenges factored in, they have a total allotted time of 1 hour and 49 minutes.

I wonder if there's still people that are, like, doing their selfies like that.

If anyone else is-- Tiffany: Is as smart as us?

Josh: I bet Black, Team Black is good at their selfies.

Tiffany: I bet you they are.

They're so tiny.

Josh: Yeah, they can fit anywhere.

Dan: Team Blue, Josh and Tiffany, are departing from Summerville, South Carolina, and are headed to Lilburn, Georgia.

They have an allotted time of 5 hours and 48 minutes.

♪ Preshious: Five minutes with GPS and be able to just map out your whole day!

So, would you want that, or would you get the Day 10?

Day 10.

Dan: Confident they are going to Day 10, Team Green, Paris and Preshious, are racing from Lilburn, Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama.

Their allotted time is 3 hours and 16 minutes.

Hey!

It's Mike from Team Red in the passenger seat navigating.

Dan: With a new game plan, Team Red, the father-daughter team, make their way from Lenox, Massachusetts to Waterford, Connecticut.

They have a total allotted time of 2 hours and 24 minutes.

This is the posture I'm gonna have for the rest of this trip.

Okay.

Until it's time to tell me something?

Until it's time to tell you something.

It's fine with me.

Watch this.

[chair tilts] See ya!

Good night!

Dan: All four teams are now on the open road.

♪ [phone dings] Joe: Today is Preshious's birthday from Team Green!

You are so right.

We need to text her happy birthday.

Joe: So, today is Preshious's birthday, and we wanted to wish her a happy birthday and celebrate with her.

Jerica: We sent her a text today telling her happy birthday, and we hope they have a great day.

Go Team Green!

We love you, Preshious!

Woo-hoo!

[phone dings] Preshious: Oh!

Team Black.

Team Black?

Oh, they said happy birthday!

Oh, Team Blue!

[imitating Gollum] Preshious.

Preshious!

My Preshious!

You should say that.

Tiffany: Hope you don't mind us taking this win on your birthday!

Happy birthday, Preshious!

Tiffany: Hope you don't mind us taking this win on your birthday!

Happy birthday, Preshious!

[laughs] You doodle a birthday card, and then we can take a picture holding it.

For Preshious's birthday, we thought it would be better to send her a hand-drawn birthday card rather than just a plain old text.

Mike: Now that you're 29, people will start taking you seriously, dot dot dot, not!

Just kidding!

Preshious: I'm getting text messages and pictures from all the teams wishing me a happy birthday.

It's like we're one big family on Relative Race.

It's such a good feeling.

Yeah, this is like-- this is like the best birthday ever, though.

On a show, we're finding our relatives, another year older.

This is definitely one of the best birthdays ever.

♪ Austen: So, we're in the town.

We have to take the picture of something that says the town.

Okay?

If we end up in the country, there won't be-- Shh.

Don't shush me!

Mike: Okay, keep talking.

You're not listening!

Mike: Keep talking.

Austen: Now that we've switched drivers, our navigation is much better, today, but we still hit a few speed bumps.

You have the phone on deck?

The phone is on deck.

You're gonna be taking the pictures.

I'm definitely going to be taking the pictures.

The plan moving forward is that I'm going to be the driver, and I'm also going to be taking the selfies every day, so at least we have that part figured out.

Sometimes, I just have to take charge.

That was a good drive, Daddy-o.

Let's do this.

That was awkward.

Let's make sure we get there, first.

♪ Dan: All of our teams are now on the hunt for their city sign.

Tiffany: Coming into Lilburn was just kind of challenging because it wasn't actually marked that we saw, so we kind of popped in and didn't even realize we were in it.

Josh: Yeah.

Tiffany: [laughs] We had to ask somebody where it was.

Excuse me, sir.

How do I get to Lilburn?

And he was like, you're here!

You're here!

If I take a left, I'll see the Lilburn signs?

Thank you, sir.

Welcome to Staunton.

Let's just go for it.

Jerica: No, let's go straight and turn around.

Let's keep going straight.

Jerica, what if there's not a-- It'll be fine!

We'll find something else.

Keep going straight.

Jerica!

Jerica: No!

Keep going straight!

Just listen to me.

Birmingham, right here.

You see something?

I see it, yeah.

Mike: Right here.

Austen: Okay!

Staunton.

Okay, okay.

We're good.

Pulling over nowsies.

All right, let's go.

Right there.

♪ Come on, Daddy-o!

I can't see-- It's too bright.

Here we go, here we go!

Take it!

[shutter clicks] [phone dings] ♪ [groans] That's not gonna work.

The whole name of the city.

That's okay.

Just-- ♪ [shutter clicks] Snap!

[shutter clicks] [phone dings] ♪ There we go!

We got it!

Okay... Let's go to Arcado Road!

Let's go!

[doors close] That's how you do that.

[high fives] Kneel down.

With the sun, and trying to, like, line up his hand and take it, like, sometimes I thought I had it but I didn't have it, so that one got rejected.

So, we had to hurry up, take another one, and make sure it's all in there this time and then resend that one back.

Okay!

[shutter clicks] [dings] Oh, Birmingham!

Okay.

That's a real city.

All right, let's go!

Dan: All four teams have successfully submitted their city selfies and move on to the challenge of the day.

North Colter Street.

Half a mile, I think.

[sighs] Okay.

This challenge we have to not hold anything back if we want to win first.

Austen: What do you think the challenge is?

Hard!

[sighs] I don't know, man!

That's what I think it is.

I think it's gonna be hard.

They're all hard.

Exactly.

Since they're all hard, we can 100% correct in saying that it will be-- Hard.

Hard.

Are you, like, ready?

Like, I'm ready.

I'm super ready.

'Kay.

We need to-- We get frustrated today, don't dwell on it.

Josh: I think, honey, I'm still happy with our time.

We've still got a challenge to kick butt in.

Oh, man.

What in the world?

Oh, no.

It's gonna be our best challenge.

Hey!

Right here?

Jerica: Let's go, let's go!

♪ How do you open these?

Open it, open it!

Zoom in.

♪ Dan: Day 3's challenge for all teams is Zoom In.

For this challenge, the teams must match a photograph to a corresponding object.

One teammate stands at a table with dozens of objects while the other teammate looks at ten photographs that have been zoomed in.

Teams work together to correctly identify what object has been zoomed in.

Teams pass this challenge once they have correctly matched each photo to the object on the table.

The allotted time for Zoom In is 15 minutes.

Let's rock.

Okay!

♪ Mike: Oh, man oh man!

Preshious: Okay, let me know what you see.

What colors do you see?

Josh: All right, honey, I've got Teddy bear, I've got a lot of stuff.

Sponge, [indistinct].

Okay, this one looks like it has rocks; it has little white dots in it, little white circles; it looks kinda grainy.

Man, 'til you get up to the table, and I mean, you've got everything in front of you, and I have a magnifying glass that I can look at which magnifies maybe two to three times, tops.

Jerica: Could it be a candle?

A purple candle?

Joe: Yeah, it could be.

It's more-- Yeah, bring the candle.

Jerica: Okay, okay.

Joe: I thought it was gonna be easy, but it turns out these pictures are so zoomed in that it was nearly impossible to figure out what it was.

It looks kind of, um, white and pink and, um, maybe creamy or wet, or gelatinous.

The strategy was let's go for, like, weird colors within things, so let's go through everything that's pink, or it could be any shade of pink.

Could it be the inside, like, of a sponge?

A pink sponge?

Austen: Yes, yes.

What's pink over there?

What's kinda like a pink-ish, fuschia color?

I see a pink candle.

Pink candle?

Yes.

Let me see the candle.

So, when I'm standing in front of the panels, and I'm describing to him, I'm thinking that on his side, looking at the table, that he has ten items So, just throwing out different colors, knowing what I don't have, I'm assuming that he's only looking at the same amount that I'm looking at.

Jerica: Could it be a, uh, an ice cream cone?

No.

Jerica: A Twinkie?

Yeah.

Jerica: Twinkie?

So, as soon as we got all ten objects in place, then we had to ask for a score.

Score?

Score?

Score?

Four correct.

Yeah!

Okay.

One panel correct.

Tiffany: From then on, it was okay.

Either we just put one down, do we check it?

Put this one down, check it.

Fortune cookie?

Okay.

Score?

Two correct.

Good job, baby.

You keep it up.

That's what we do.

Man: Two correct.

We only have two right, Jerica!

Oh, my gosh.

Jerica: Only two right?

Looks like-- We-- Mike: Oreo?

Yeah!

Yeah, that's definitely what it is.

Okay.

Score?

Five correct.

Yeah!

Okay.

Yeah, I see a couple of Oreos.

Preshious: Let me see the Oreos.

That's Cheerios!

Paris: What did I say?

Oh, my gosh!

Oreos!

I see Oreos, too.

And Cheerios.

Both.

The Oreo I'm second guessing.

Jerica: Okay.

Do you want to try the brownie?

Joe: Give it to me quick!

Score?

Man: One correct.

[sighs] Give me back the Oreo, quick.

Run it to me!

[intense music begins] Tiffany: Score.

Man: You have three correct.

Hey.

There was a couple of minutes where, you know, we just kinda had to take a timeout.

My wife was a little flustered, as we both were, but we just had to take a little, um, timeout, compose ourselves.

It's nothing!

What, some pictures?

You don't think black team's sitting there going [indistinct]?

That's not the point.

You don't think green team's sitting back thinking this was some easy-breezy challenge?

What's the score?

One correct.

So, I-- I-- I gave something back that was actually right.

Paris: We took some items back that may have fit, you know, which set us back, so at that point, we're just confusing ourselves.

Okay.

Score?

Still one correct.

One is correct out of all of these!

What are we not getting?

What is not working?

Hairy like this?

Daddy, okay.

Let's focus.

Look at me, look at me!

Okay.

Let's go back to one.

I switched on you and I didn't tell you that, All right.

which is why I'm trying to get us to refocus, okay?

Mike: I think everybody struggled on this challenge.

I really do.

It was-- This was a tough one.

Joe: This challenge was so exhausting.

I was just sighing the whole time trying to let out that negative energy and stay positive.

Ugh!

What on earth?

Jerica: Okay, keep going, keep going, keep going!

I probably rolled my eyes 1500 times.

Josh: Don't trip, baby.

I don't like to lose.

You think I like to lose?

We both lost!

We lost together, we win together.

And we don't even know we lose.

We're not going to be presumptive and assume we lost!

[crying] I don't like to lose.

I don't care if I didn't win against anyone; I don't like to lose!

Josh: My wife's more important than any challenge, my wife's more important than any game.

My wife's more important than anything I can think of, so her well-being mentally, physically, all that is more important to me than anything else on earth.

Any time I take a break, take a break.

You wanna go home, we go home.

You wanna say screw this?

Screw this.

I ain't worried about it, baby.

Who cares?

Tiffany: Um, Josh was just encouraging, saying, "It's okay, it's just a game.

"Don't be hard on yourself.

If we lose, we lose together."

It's not all on me.

We share it, so.

Amen.

Yeah.

Okay?

So don't worry about it.

I'm sorry.

Don't be sorry for nothing.

[crying] Don't be sorry for nothing, baby.

Dan: As Josh and Tiffany take a minute to regroup, our other three teams are beginning to see the picture!

Score?

Eight correct.

Austen: Yes!

Then we got-- kinda got in the groove of just, like, working our way down.

It's shiny, like the barrel, like-- like, of a paintbrush.

Paris: All right, I have a jar with a silver top.

Yes!

Yeah, okay.

So, finally, we started getting like a good system working out where we're knowing to switch and ask for the score at a certain time, or we're learning what colors just aren't working out.

We're learning which material's not working out.

Score?

Eight correct.

Austen: We're close, Daddy!

Crystals, I got cookies, I got peppermint patties, I got this swirly thing.

Austen: So, the last one, it looks to me like there's a reflection.

It's clearly like a... multifaceted structure.

This is like-- It looks like actual crystal, so it might be glass.

How about this tin foil?

All right.

Austen: We finally get to tin foil, which we just never even tried.

Score?

Man: Ten correct.

All right, let's go.

Let's go.

Okay, your relative lives at 57 West Ridge Road, Unit B8.

Okay, let's go!

This is definitely gonna hurt my time today.

Started out strong, but Relative Race.

♪ So, it's pink, it's squishy, it has like white right in the middle from what I can see.

A sponge?

A sweet potato?

Preshious: Uh, let me see that.

Let's try that.

Could it be the pencil shavings?

Joe: At this point, just bring it to me.

I have no idea.

Switch.

Score?

Man: Ten correct.

[groans] We got it!

We got it, we got it!

Go!

Come on!

Jerica: We finally completed our challenge, and we are able to get the envelope with the address of our relative.

Your relative lives at 200 Forest Ridge Road.

Come on!

Jerica: Did you grab the paper?

Just go!

Come on!

Hurry!

No!

We need that paper!

Okay.

Okay.

Score?

Man: All ten correct.

Ten!

Ten.

Okay, come on, come on.

Paris: Right now, we're putting the challenge behind us, and now it's time to focus on our navigation.

Park Avenue southwest.

All right, come on!

♪ Dan: Back in Lilburn, Team Blue has found their stride as they near the end of today's challenge.

Nine items are correct.

Josh: Keep going.

Keep the faith.

This challenge was unbelievably hard.

I mean, this challenge was tough.

Tiffany: All right, it looks almost like aluminum.

Silver-- Knife?

Yeah!

♪ Score?

You have all ten items correct.

Yeah!

Let's go!

Tiffany: So, it was a really slow process, it was a very long day, but we did it.

We did.

It took a while, but we did it.

Your relative lives at 1453 Oconee Pass NE.

Let's go!

So, we spent a lot of time on this challenge.

We know that.

We need to get on the road, and we need to find our relative's address quick.

Dan: All of our teams are now on the hunt to find their relative.

What?

How do we get out of here?

We're going to have to go through the whole entire park!

Look at this!

Jerica, we're gonna be in this park all day long.

Jerica: It's okay.

Okay.

[exhales] I'm gonna calm down now.

We're both gonna take a big bottle of chill pills.

This problem with this park is it's a one-way street the whole way, and it's like a giant maze and there was no way we were getting out of this place.

Oh, my word.

We're so close.

We can't afford this.

Preshious: Do you guys know where Park Avenue is?

So, we finish our challenge and we see these guys sitting nearby, and we asked for directions before we get in the car.

All right, thank you guys!

All right, thanks.

And the guys say it's just down the road and we can't miss it.

Mike: Excuse me?

We're looking for West Ridge Road.

Thank you!

Yes!

Give me some.

The power of asking everybody!

Dan: While teams Green and Red are well on their way, Team Blue is stuck in traffic.

This is so ridic!

Tiffany: See?

Everyone's slowing down.

Josh: Yeah.

Tiffany: People could just drive.

[horn honks] Don't!

You don't want the cops to stop us!

[clock ticking] [sing-song voice] Stuck behind a train at 4:30 in the afternoon.

What kind of people do that?

Yeah!

Keep going!

Let's go!

Excuse me, miss?

Is this horrible traffic all the way on down the hills right now?

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Survival of the strongest.

Who's just going to keep going, and who's just gonna say I'm done!

I'm out of here and throw a fit or quit.

Dan: The traffic pileup is costing Team Blue precious time.

These are the unexpected twists of Relative Race.

Our three other teams make a final push to find their relatives.

Oh, hey.

That's not right.

I think we're getting close.

Oh.

One of the oldest synagogues.

Austen: West Ridge?

Wheat something?

West Ridge Road.

Or if you want to just turn right.

Okay.

I want to, yeah.

Preshious: Park Drive.

Park Avenue.

Park Avenue.

Wait.

Whoa, this could be right.

Joe and Jerica: Forest Ridge Road!

[gasps] Okay, 17?

It's gonna be on the right side.

Gonna be on this side.

Go... right.

What on earth-- This is it!

200!

Jerica: Okay.

Jerica, come on!

We've gotta meet our relatives before clock stops.

♪ Hi!

Are you our relative?

How are you?

Yeah.

Good!

I'm Patricia Hardesty.

Hi!

I'm Jerica.

Hi, Jerica.

Nice to meet you.

Hi, Patricia!

Hi!

How are you?

I'm Joe!

Nice to meet you.

I'm your cousin.

Hi, I'm Patricia Hardesty and I'm from Staunton, Virginia and I am Joe and Jerica's cousin!

I might have a hint as to what side you're from.

You-- Can you tell from the way I look?

I feel like I do!

I feel like you remind me a lot of my mom.

Patricia: Yeah, that's right.

[laughing] So, we arrived at our relative's house, and we meet our cousin Patricia, and immediately I knew what side of the family she was on.

Joe: She looked just like our mom.

Yeah, we're on that side.

So nice to meet you!

So, we're related through our great-grandfathers.

My great-grandfather was John Kayata, and their great-grandfather was Kaiser Kayata and they were brothers.

Patricia's so welcoming, and even though we're so far from home, I feel like we're home right here.

Getting to meet Patricia today, it's like having a little piece of our mom with us.

We have some activities first.

Jerica: Okay!

Patricia: Yes, we do.

Joe: Oh, you're gonna keep us hanging?

[laughing] Yeah, I am.

We cannot wait to see what Patricia has in store for us.

Hop in, guys!

Our first adventure.

You want to hop in the back with me?

Okay!

Dan: While Team Black has found their family, Team Green is in Birmingham, Alabama about to meet theirs.

[knocks] Hey!

Hello!

How are you all?

Good!

Good, good, good.

All right!

Preshious: My goodness!

So, who are you related to?

I'm your great aunt!

Oh, my goodness!

Your granddaddy's sister.

My name is Debra Smith.

My name is Tiaunt Lewis.

And we are related to Preshious.

And I'm your uncle.

Preshious: You're my uncle?

Yes.

Oh, you're her-- her-- Tiaunt: Yes.

Sister.

You look just like her!

[laughing] Hi.

Preshious: I see from the nose area, like, he looks like her.

The picture, and then I just give him a hug, and he-- He, uh, that's her brother.

That's my uncle.

How you doing?

Good!

It's good to see you.

[laughing] Debra: To finally get to see Preshious, I knew she had had a long day already, I just wanted to sit down and let her catch up.

Y'all wanna come around and catch up?

♪ Dan: As Preshious is excited to know her great-aunt and uncle, Team Red is about to make a major discovery.

Mike: Oh, man.

Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.

♪ Hi.

How are you?

Hi.

How are you?

I'm okay.

Good.

Hi!

Hi!

How are you?

This is my daughter, Austen.

Can I hug you?

Hi!

[laughing] How are you?

Mike: I'm good.

I'm Michael Brown, Elward's son.

I'm his daughter, Cynthia.

The oldest.

So, you're my older sister.

Yes, I am!

♪ My name is Cynthia Williams.

I'm 61, from Connecticut.

I'm Michael's sister and Austen's aunt.

[laughing] Austen: This is so special!

I have so many feelings.

Mike: I saw my father in her, and I saw Margaret's spirit in her, so the combination of my physical father and spiritual Margaret combined in a wonderful woman standing in front of me, uh, it was pretty special.

This thing has been, you know, just the dream of finding out who your dad is.

All the stories and everything, and the putting faces to things that you just dream about, and you just-- you can't-- I didn't know I had an older sister!

Cynthia: When I saw Michael, it looked like Elward was standing in front of me.

I could see that he was related to us.

Now, let's put new faces with new emotions on top of a journey, on top of having people in your space and a thousand cameras around you and we're gonna share this story with the planet.

My sister's name is Cynthia Williams, and I met her today on Relative Race.

♪ Hello, hello!

Woman: Hi!

I'm Josh.

This is my wife, Tiffany.

Nice to meet you.

Woman: Nice to meet you guys.

How are we related?

I'm your cousin!

Josh: Oh, that's awesome!

Cuzzos.

[laughing] Woman: Yeah.

Is this your fam?

Woman: This is my family.

This is my husband and my son, Michael.

Josh: That's what's up.

That's awesome.

My name is Greg, and I work in the technology industry.

And I'm Desia, I'm a professor at the Art Institute, and I'm Josh's cousin.

How, like, cousins are we?

Um, on your father's side and my father's side.

That's dope.

Yeah!

Exciting, right?

That's-- Yeah, it's shocking.

So, we can talk more about that inside.

I know it's been a long day.

Horrible day.

Desia: So, let's head in.

Thank you.

Desia: Horrible?

Horrible.

Well, hopefully it'll get a little bit better.

I hope so, too.

Thank you.

Tiffany: The best part of our day, after it being so frustrating was driving up to the house and having our relative, Josh's relative walk out, and they are just-- It instantly felt like family.

Josh: Nice people.

Tiffany: And it was so welcoming.

Josh: Very cool people.

Tiffany: You just felt this relief.

Desia: Let's go inside and grab some dinner.

Josh: Yeah!

Desia: We got dinner ready for you guys.

Josh: Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Dan: In Staunton, Virginia, Team Black is about to get creative with their relative, Patricia.

Hi, welcome to Sunspot Studios!

Hi!

Joe: Our cousin Patricia told us about this famous glass-blowing place, so we went to check it out.

Okay, follow me.

Jerica: All right!

We were taken into the shop and introduced to the glass-blowing specialist, and he showed us exactly how to blow our own ornaments.

Man: Guys, you can come on over here.

I'll show you how we apply our color.

Patricia: I love having shared that experience with them, but just knowing that I have these cousins and that I can see them again is more important.

Are you guys ready to give it a whirl?

Joe: I feel like every stop we're collecting little pieces of memories with our family.

And then go ahead and both blow gently.

Joe: Getting to make our own ornament means so much because we get to take that with us, and it's a memory of our time here with Patricia.

♪ Cynthia: So, what have you guys learned about Dad?

Well, I knew-- I know now.

Okay.

The whole story-- about the incident.

Two days ago, I learned that my dad killed his wife and then killed himself.

Now I'm sitting here with my older sister, Cynthia, and I found out that she was there when it happened.

Cynthia: After it happened, and I sat back, as an adult, and looked at it, 'cause I was 17.

Golly.

Cynthia: And I actually saw it happen.

Oh, man.

I actually saw him do it.

I actually was fighting with him to prevent him from doing it, but knowing in my head, at 17, that there was nothing I could do, but I felt like I needed to make an attempt.

It was very comforting for me to share that with Michael, because I don't want him to think that that was our life.

In spite of what he did, he was a good dad.

I wanted him to know the good parts as well as the bad.

We had a good time.

Mike: When my sister told me about the good things about our dad, it was transformative.

The more of the-- the stories from different vantage points started playing out in my mind, and I was-- I was really concerned about how we would-- How I would be received with my brothers and sisters, because having to revisit all this again, and I was-- I didn't know if I was going to be causing anxiety, but I didn't know that you existed!

Meeting Michael, who comes from a result of my father having an affair, I don't blame Michael.

Michael didn't ask to come here.

You know, they created you, Right.

but you didn't ask to be here, so, ultimately, you have no blame on anything.

Mike: Right.

You're just as much a victim as we're a victim.

I'm a half-full type of person, so I felt he deserves to meet his family.

It's very nice to meet you.

It's a pleasure meeting you.

[laughing] ♪ ♪ Face to face.

♪ Dan: In Birmingham, Preshious receives answers to some life-long questions.

So, I have so many questions to ask you.

Do you remember me?

Um, and what happened, and were you ever looking for me?

Debra: I have been looking for you your whole life, I really have.

Preshious: I found out they've been looking for me for a while.

They didn't forget about me.

They really remember us, and they didn't forget.

It was hard for them, and, uh, they tried.

Debra: Your mom went through some issues, and...

I tried to adopt you.

I tried to get in touch with an agency to try to adopt her.

It fell through the cracks because I had personal problems.

I called back, and they told me that someone had already adopted you, and they couldn't give me any more information.

Preshious: It hurts that they didn't-- it didn't get to happen how I wish it would've happened.

But it feels good that they did try.

I wasn't just abandoned.

Someone was still looking; someone cared and, like, remembered.

♪ Debra: I've been anxious to see her because, um, after losing her mother a few years ago, I wanted to see, you know, the resemblance because I knew that they would have to look just alike, and they really do.

I miss Wanda, but then, I do have Preshious to remind me of her mom.

♪ Preshious: Seeing my great-aunt, meeting my uncle, like, meeting her brother, so just meeting someone else that's a part of her, a piece of her, that knew her, those are some good emotions to just get another piece of that puzzle and fit it together.

Just, I'm moving closer and closer, and I'm meeting family.

I'm finally getting answers.

On my birthday, this is just a moment, like, it's just an everlasting memory.

I will never forget this birthday, this whole thing.

♪ Dan: Meanwhile, Team Blue sits down for a nice family dinner.

Josh: After a horrible, terrible-- No-good, very bad day.

No-good, very bad, bad day.

[laughs] Uh, to be with my family, there was some great conversation, she's an artist.

It's pretty cool, because I've been really pursuing my arts over the last year and a half or so.

Everybody's just really cool and welcoming and family-like, and I can definitely feel some good vibes here.

And he was going through such a difficult time after losing my parents, which were my grandparents, really, so they were his great-grandparents.

Desia: Josh's story's similar to mine, and it means a lot to me, because I can totally relate to how it feels to not know.

Not having an understanding of who he looks like, where he gets his eyes from, um, his physical structure, shape, and size, and all those types of things.

You want to know and be able to connect those dots.

That was great that he has met two relatives that could totally relate to the path that he's been on.

She's a cool person that just gets it.

I think that's more important than anything else: she just gets it.

♪ Austen: So, we come in the house, and auntie starts sharing stories about growing up with her father, my grandfather, and showing us pictures of him, pictures that we haven't seen before.

And that's Dad cooking at the 95 House 'cause he was the head chef.

That's my man!

My dad, I knew he was a chef, and seeing the picture of my dad in a chef coat made me kinda go, this genetic thing is going a little too far.

So, Dad was a cook, and oh, by the way, I'm a cook as well.

And you're cooking for us tonight!

[cheering] Right?

This-- This is so-- You just made my day.

Oh, really?

It was nice to have Michael show up and cook dinner.

Mike: There you go.

All right, there it is.

All right, I was doing it wrong.

You just have to turn!

I wanted to see if he is... cultivated as good as our dad.

♪ Mike: I am most under-stressed and at home and at peace in a kitchen.

That was the peak for the day for me.

You can come cook for me any time.

This was a family meal in more ways than one.

Cynthia: To family.

To family.

To family.

Dan: As Team Red toasts to new family discoveries, Team Green is about to have a family discovery of their own.

[phone dings] Excuse me, we have a text.

♪ It's from Dan.

So, as we're having a conversation with Preshious' relatives, you know, I get a text from Dan, you know, and I'm thinking, "Like, right now?

"A text from Dan?

What could this be about?"

Hello, Team Green.

Glad to see you made it to your relative's home.

Please check your backpack.

And he tells us, through the text message, that there's something in our backpack that we should be checking for.

Preshious: So, then Paris pulls out the envelope, and then, I think I glanced at it and looked at it, and it has my uncle's name on it.

Tiaunt Lewis.

Yeah.

Tiaunt: Paris pulls out an envelope and hands it to me.

I look at it, and I'm wondering what this is.

Preshious: So, he opens the envelope, and the letter says while Relative Race has been searching my family tree, they actually found someone that my uncle has been searching for.

What is it on there?

Yeah, it's my mother.

I-- I've never seen her since I was about a year and a half.

Oh.

Tiaunt: I've never seen her.

Never had the chance to meet her my whole life.

Preshious: He finds out this is his mom's contact information.

This is her name, phone number.

The mom who left him when he was really young, which means this is my grandmother, because my mom and him have the same mom, so this is-- Like, this is her information right here that he's holding.

Would you want to meet her?

Yes.

So bad.

Preshious: So now you can probably find her.

I hope so.

I was shocked and surprised, at a loss for words.

Preshious: Seeing him read that and look at that and knowing that he's been wanting to know about his mom for so long, it-- it's like a connection right there that's like-- We-- We were going through the same thing.

We are going through the same thing, and, like, him holding it was just so-- He was shaking like I was shaking.

It was-- It was a lot, like we-- It's like we were the same person, right there.

We're wanting to know, and wanting to find out some answers.

So you found-- You found someone, too!

Tiaunt: Yeah, found someone, too.

Hopefully, you know.

Hopefully, if everything goes right.

I wasn't expecting this today, but because of Relative Race, I found my mom.

Thank you.

[laughing] ♪ Dan: It's the final moments of Day 3, and all four teams gather now to hear the results.

Joe: So, we're getting ready for our video call, and we're not really sure what to expect.

On one hand, today seemed to go really smoothly.

Score?

Man: Ten correct.

We got it!

Jerica: I don't know how well some of the teams did.

I'm pretty sure some of them struggled.

I just don't know which ones.

Tiffany: I think the worst part of the day for, like, for me, personally, was the challenge.

I don't like to lose.

I don't care if I didn't win against anyone; I don't like to lose.

I have a really hard time when I don't know how to do something or I do something and I fall short.

I have a really hard time taking that.

Paris: Today was just rough.

One is correct out of all of these!

What are we not getting?

What is not working?

'Cause at the end of the day, you know, if we don't have a strike today, we'll never get one.

Mike: Tonight, I don't care what place we come in.

After meeting Cynthia and finding about what happened to my dad, it's all about the discoveries.

♪ [clicks] Welcome, teams, and welcome to the end of Day 3, with two teams each having one strike, two other teams yet to feel the sting of a strike.

Let's talk to Tiffany and Josh.

What happened today?

Tiffany: I reached a point where I was like, "This is not okay."

I am, like, not okay with failing.

I'm not okay with getting things wrong.

That's not how I was raised.

I don't make mistakes.

I don't like to fail.

And yet, it was a moment that we saw Josh completely come over and support you, and say, "It's okay, it's okay."

Tiffany: Yeah.

He had to pull me aside, 'cause at one point we were standing there looking at each other, and I just looked at him, and I just-- I needed a moment, and he stopped everything and was like, "We're gonna go take a walk," and that's it.

"My wife needs a break.

She needs a break."

Dan: Tiffany, that is exact-- I can't tell you how great of advice that you received from your husband.

And guess what?

The challenges, if you were all really, really experts at Zoom In, it wouldn't be a challenge!

Please understand that part of it.

This is-- We're gonna have fun on this journey.

That's part of it, and let's not worry about it, because the most important part is the family.

Josh, with a tough day, was your discovery that much more sweet?

Who did you meet?

Josh: I met my cousin on my dad's side, and we had a great, enjoyable conversation as family.

She's an artist, he's a bodybuilder, and I'm sitting here like, just like, "Wow!"

and connecting and connecting, and we just vibed.

Tiffany: We didn't even get into it.

We were so-- Like there was so much-- Like, we just wanted to sit and talk and just decompress that we haven't even gone over anything yet because we're just like, "Talk to us about everything!"

Josh: They're good people, man, and I'm-- I'm really happy I met them.

After the easy, chill day we had today.

[laughs] Dan: Mike, speaking of family, was there a payoff for you at the end of the day?

[crying] Austen: I'm gonna-- I'm gonna talk, Dan.

On Day 1, we learned some information that he was not ready to disclose at that time, and we wanted to share what we learned.

So, this is regarding-- regarding my grandfather, my father's father.

So, we learned that his name was Elward Williams, and that, unfortunately, he took the life of his wife and then took his own life, leaving my father's six siblings to be raised by some family friends, and so, it's very difficult learning great things about your family, and meeting incredible people who you're related to, but in light of great, great tragedy, and so when Dad says, "Turn the other page," it's the choice not to focus on great tragedy, but to focus on incredible relationships that we can have moving forward.

Jerica: It's really hard to see other teams going through the emotions that they're going through, and the best thing we can do is be there with them while they do it.

We're on this journey not just Joe and I, but we're on this journey with the other teams as well.

Thank you for sharing something so difficult and so raw and being so honest.

♪ Dan: Joe and Jerica, who did you meet?

Jerica: So, today, we met our third cousin on our mom's side.

How did you know it was on your mom's side?

She looks just like our mom.

Like, identical.

They almost look like sisters.

I didn't even have to ask what side of the family it was.

It was incredible how much she reminds us of our mom.

Well, now we've met your mom even though we haven't met your mom.

Paris and Preshious, happy birthday.

[laughs] Thank you!

Woo!

Happy birthday!

Dan: Did you feel-- Did you feel the love from everybody today?

Yes, yes.

Definitely.

I love it.

Thank you, guys, so much.

Can you tell us about who you met tonight?

I met my great-aunt Debra and I met my mom's brother as well, my uncle.

Is that perhaps the best birthday present of all?

Best birthday ever.

♪ Then it is that time of the day Finishing in first place, 51 minutes over their allotted time: Joe and Jerica, Team Black.

Jerica: We just got first place on Relative Race!

What?

[laughing] You now have a choice to make.

Do you choose a game day benefit, or a Day 10 benefit, which can only help you if you make it to Day 10?

Now, your game day benefit is five minutes of GPS time tomorrow.

What is your choice?

Joe: Honestly, we never thought we were gonna win first place.

We didn't even talk about it.

We didn't even talk!

Can we have, like, five seconds?

At this point, we have to make a decision fast, and you just weren't very helpful, so I had to pick one.

I think we're ready.

[laughs] We choose the GPS.

Okay.

You'll choose the next day benefit.

Joe: Getting first place is such a confidence booster.

It's not what we expected and it's just what we needed.

♪ Dan: Finishing in second place, 55 minutes over their allotted time... ♪ Team Green.

Woo!

[laughing] Preshious: And when he says that we were second, we were just, like, wow.

We didn't expect to be second today.

Best birthday ever!

Wow!

And so, it comes down to Team Red and Team Blue.

Team Red, I'll remind you that you have one strike.

Team Blue, you do not have a strike.

So far, things have gone quite well for you.

Perhaps you're the team to beat.

Today... ♪ Team Red finished in third with a time of 1 hour and 4 minutes over their allotted time.

Team Blue, you were 1 hour and 10 minutes over your allotted time.

You have received your first strike.

However, Tiffany, remember the words of your husband.

That part of it is just a game.

The most important part is what happened tonight.

It's one strike for Team Blue.

It's one strike for Team Red, and it's one strike for Team Black.

The clock is the clock, your journey's your journey, but most importantly, the relative part of race becomes, we hope, more and more important each day.

Good night!

Mike: Good night, Dan.

Jerica: Good night, guys.

See ya.

♪ Dan: The results are in as Day 3 comes to a close.

Claiming first place is Team Black, Joe and Jerica.

This is their first victory, with a time of 51 minutes over their allotted time.

What?

What on earth?

Why?

That's not even possible.

I feel like today's win really proves that we aren't the underdogs and we really have what it takes to go all the way to the end.

Dan: Team Green, Paris and Preshious, came in a close second at 55 minutes over their allotted time.

I said, "If we don't get a strike tonight, we're not getting one."

That was-- No.

You thought we were getting one for sure.

But that just shows you never know what-- where you're-- You never know how good or bad your day was, actually, so I'm-- I'm definitely happy we didn't get a strike today.

Dan: Taking third place, Team Red, 1 hour and 4 minutes over their allotted time.

So, tonight we take third place, and while I would love to not be in third place again, it's way better than being in fourth place, so I consider this day a win.

Dan: And falling in last place, Team Blue picks up their first strike.

Josh and Tiffany were 1 hour and 10 minutes over their allotted time.

♪ Debra: And we do have one more surprise.

Oh, my goodness.

So, after the call with Dan, my aunt brings us outside, and a bunch of my cousins showed up.

All: Happy Birthday!

[clapping] Preshious: Everyone started singing "Happy Birthday," and it was just the perfect ending to a really long day.

[singing] Happy birthday to you!

[clapping] Preshious: So, it feels-- I'm just-- feel super loved at that moment.

It's just literally best birthday ever.

[laughs] ♪