Episode 3
Season 7 Episode 3 | 55mVideo has Closed Captions
Team Green gives a lofty penalty. Monika discovers her family is bigger than she thought.
The competition heats up as Team Green dishes out a costly penalty to another team. Teams chip and putt their way through a tedious golf challenge. Kacey discovers a brother on her father’s side and goes shopping to help his kids. Monika finds out her family is bigger than she thought and learns who her grandfather is. The twins find a relative that has been searching for them for 20 years.
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Episode 3
Season 7 Episode 3 | 55mVideo has Closed Captions
The competition heats up as Team Green dishes out a costly penalty to another team. Teams chip and putt their way through a tedious golf challenge. Kacey discovers a brother on her father’s side and goes shopping to help his kids. Monika finds out her family is bigger than she thought and learns who her grandfather is. The twins find a relative that has been searching for them for 20 years.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipDan: Previously on Relative Race.
Magen: This five-minute penalty thing is awful.
Dan: Team Blue got a five-minute head start.
Anthony: They just have to sit there while me and Joe hit the road.
- Yeah.
Dan: All teams were puzzled with their challenge.
Kacey: I feel like I have three r's going for some reason.
- I believe it's trying to spell Relative Race.
Narrator: One wrong turn took Team Blue out of the lead.
Anthony: Aw, frick.
You know what, we gon’ be fine, we gon’ be ahead.
Narrator: And into last place.
Team Blue, you went from first to worst.
- I'm very frustrated right now.
Dan: And Elizabeth finally found her father.
- I'm Liz's father.
- [crying] Today is truly one of the most amazing days of my life.
[sniffling] Dan: DNA tells us who we are and where we came from.
Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.
Sean: Come on!
Liz: Let's go, let's go.
- [squeal] Dan: To win $50,000... - Yes!
Dan: ...and to find their family.
[knocking on door] ♪ ♪ Dan: It's day three of Relative Race, and in South Bloomfield, Ohio, Kacey's relationship with her aunt, Angie, and cousin, Lynette, is continuing to grow.
- I know you guys have to get on the road here soon, but I just wanted to share with you some pictures that we had printed for you.
So here's a picture of me and you, our first embrace.
Lynette: That is such a good picture.
Kacey: Oh my goodness.
Angie: All the hugs.
Lynette: That is so awesome.
Kacey: Oh my gosh!
Seeing an actual photograph of us meeting for the first time, it just brought back, like, a flood of emotions of just joy and happiness.
Oh, I love this one.
That's what's really difficult about this show and this game, is that we are so invested in our family, but then you gotta get right back into game mode, you know because we're gonna get that text from Dan at any minute.
♪ - Good morning!
Relative Race day three, uh, excited about everything that's goin' on.
Here in Columbus, Ohio, and here with my beautiful wife and her dad, Jerome.
Say hello to everybody, how you guys doin'?
She's got some breakfast goin' on.
Liz: What I felt was a lot of joy, a lot of gratitude, a lot of love.
It felt very familiar.
I'm excited that we were able to, to connect and carry a relationship moving forward.
Devin: So, Jerome, how was it having your very first meal with your daughter?
- I feel like, um...
I'm still tryin' to take it all in, and seein' the pictures of Liz and my grandchildren, just... are amazing the resemblance, and then I saw a picture of her, her mother, you know, just, it took me all the way back 36 years.
Liz: [laughs] Jerome: And, um... what a gift.
Devin: Fantastic, amen to that.
♪ Dan: While Team Red finishes breakfast with Liz's father, Jerome, Team Blue is in Savannah, Georgia, giving their cousin, Leanna, an official Team Blue hairdo.
- I would love to show you a few pictures.
Anthony: Before the show, Joe and I got our hair done, and we decided to give Leanna a Team Blue braid.
We had a blast hanging out with Leanna, and just to be able to see photos of her when she was young was adorable.
- Also, I got you a little something to take with you as well, and this gift will represent two things.
It'll represent... Savannah, because that we met here, it's gonna be a very important location for us always, but also, um, this is gonna be my favorite animal.
Favorite animal are elephants.
Anthony: Wow, that's awesome!
Leanna: These elephants are actually gonna represent not only that we met in Savannah, because that will always be a special place for us, but, um, elephants never forget, and I just wanna make sure you guys always have something to remember me by, so... Anthony: Thank you so much.
Leanna: You are so welcome.
Joseph: Thank you.
Anthony: I love elephants.
Leanna: I do, too.
Dan: After meeting Monika's sister Katie yesterday... - I'm your sister.
- I knew it when you walked out!
Dan: Team Green is savoring their first place victory and focusing on how to stay ahead of the pack.
Monika: So I'm feeling really good coming off of the win, but I'm also a little cautious, because I don't wanna get too overconfident and then be number four.
- The win also came with a gift.
We get to give another team a five minute penalty, and I'm a little nervous about who we choose to give that to.
♪ Jerome: So this is the route, and... Devin: Okay.
Jerome: ...these are the route numbers.
Devin: Oh!
Joseph: Oh, man.
Anthony: I know what this is.
Leanna: Yep.
Magen: Good morning, teams, and welcome to day three of the relative race.
- Team Red will be traveling to Dunbar, West Virginia.
Jerome: Ahh!
- Team Blue will be travelling to Palm Coast, Florida.
Kacey: Team Black will be travelling to Jackson, Ohio.
Magen: And Team Green will be travelling to Cedar Falls, Iowa!
Monika: Ahh!
Kacey: Today's first place prize is penalizing one of the other teams at tomorrow's challenge.
Your time starts now.
Sean: Oh, okay, we gotta go!
Kacey: All right.
Love you, bye!
Devin: Now?
Oh, oh, wait, wait.
Now?
Leanna: Bye guys.
Joseph: Bye.
Leanna: Go, hurry, hurry, hurry!
Kacey: Bye, bye-bye!
Angie: Bye!
Good luck!
Sean: Let's go, let's go!
Kacey: See ya!
Magen: I've got it.
Totally mapped.
Devin: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!
♪ Sean: ♪ On the road again, we're on the road again!
♪ ♪ - Thank you, sir.
♪ - Thank you so much for your hospitality and for everything, it's been great.
Devin: We gotta go, though.
- Thank you.
Devin: So I'm feelin' a little bit conflicted, 'cause we're on the clock here, and Jerome wants to give us something, but then I realized, family's the reason why we're here in the first place.
- My mother worked at West Virginia State, our family history is around West Virginia State.
Liz: Yeah!
- Here's a little token of West Virginia State.
Devin: Aww.
Jerome: That's your mother.
Liz: Ahh!
Jerome: Your mother works here.
Devin: Wow.
Liz: As we were leaving, he actually presented me with this very special memento, which is actually a pin that was given to him by his mom, my grandmother, for her years of service at West Virginia State University.
Thank you.
Devin: All right, we're on the clock.
Liz: I know, we've gotta go, thank you so much.
Devin: Good to see you, sir.
Liz: Very honored that he would decide to give it to me as a memento, and it's something that I will treasure.
♪ Sean: We are goin' right out of here.
Anthony: 75 and then the 10, right?
- Yep, we've gotta take the 75.
Magen: We're gonna go straight through this light.
Liz: Are you drag racing?
This isn't-- Dev, it's a residential neighborhood.
This is not where we make up... - I'm goin' 25 miles an hour!
Liz: Oh, okay.
- 74 West.
Galesburg, next right.
We weren't super far from the highway, and we'd made the plan the night before, so we got out and on the road pretty quick.
- So you, you got it, you know what you're doin'?
- I know what I'm doing.
- Yeah!
Magen: I just wanna check down-- - Best teammate ever!
Magen: [laughing] Liz: I really think today is gonna be a W day.
- Just every day, we just get a little bit better.
Liz: Jerome definitely hooked us up with these directions.
- I have a good feeling about today, Joe, I really do.
♪ Dan: All four teams are on the road, racing to meet their new family.
With only the use of maps and a wilderness GPS, each team must navigate to their relative's home city.
On the East Coast, in Savannah, Georgia, Team Blue, Joseph and Anthony, are travelling to Palm Coast, Florida.
With their drive, city selfie, and daily challenge combined, their allotted time is 3 hours and 38 minutes.
Joseph: Tell me what you wanted to say again, Anth?
- Hey Team Black, it's great you have no strikes.
Sean: But every opera singer knows that the curtain must fall.
- ♪ How can they say that about us?
♪ [Habanera from Carmen plays] Sean: ♪ Do they not know ♪ ♪ that we are in our home state?
♪ ♪ - ♪ We have the advantage of Ohio.
♪ - ♪ And do they not know that the curtain will not fall ♪ ♪ until the fat lady sings.
♪ - [laughs] Dan: Staying in their home state, Team Black, Kacey and Sean are heading from South Bloomfield to Jackson, Ohio.
Their allotted time is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Team Red is making their way out of Columbus, Ohio.
Liz and Devin are travelling to Dunbar, West Virginia.
Their allotted time today is 2 hours and 46 minutes.
♪ Liz: It's kinda weird being on, like, the other side of this.
Devin: Hmm.
Liz: And having a more complete picture.
Devin: Mm-hmm.
Dan: After Liz met her father, Jerome, yesterday, her anticipation is growing as she wonders what the rest of this race might have in store for her.
- What I appreciate and am now in anticipation of is the possibility of connecting with my paternal siblings.
My, like, you know, Jerome's other children.
Devin: Yeah.
Liz: And there's three of them.
Two girls and a boy.
I really think between all three, between Jennifer, Angelica, and JJ, I think there's resemblances among all of them.
I'm the oldest, which is also cool.
I'm really geeked, actually, I really hope I get to meet my, my... Devin: I'm very, very happy for you, baby.
♪ Monika: Oh my gosh, we didn't even decide!
- My concern is this gets thrown back at us at a really critical time.
Dan: Winning first place yesterday and receiving the benefit of giving another team a five-minute penalty for today, Team Green must decide who will receive it.
- My gut says red.
Magen: The boys got first place Day One... Monika: And black-- Magen: But they got a strike last night, and I don't, yeah.
- And then black-- [phone beeps] [groans] Magen: Ope.
Got a text.
- Does it say?
- Oh.
[laughs] It's from Team Red!
- No!
No.
Magen: Congrats on that W, Team Green.
Well-earned, heart.
My soul, my soul.
- My mind is blown.
Now I feel, like, horrible.
♪ Dan: Leaving Belleville, Illinois, Team Grean, Monika and Magen, are now making their way to Cedar Falls, Iowa, with the longest allotted time of the day, of 4 hours and 14 minutes.
♪ - Why did they just text that.
- 'Cause they knew we were about to drop a bomb on them, and they're tryin' to avoid it.
Sweet talkin' Red Team.
All right, this is what I said.
Sean: Aww, that's so sweet.
Sean: Yeah!
Both: Yes!
- Sorry, Red.
- It is what it is.
I guess we'll pull over.
♪ Dan: As all of the teams make their way to their destination cities, Team Red must pull over and take their five minute penalty.
Devin: Mm, mm, mm.
Magen: We really didn't wanna give any team the penalty.
- It's like you just feel bad doing it, but they're like, graceful, see?
See, they're ready to bomb us.
- Ugh.
- Let's just take a moment, get our heads right.
- All right.
- Getting the five minute penalty was awful, but it did give us some time to regroup spiritually and mentally.
- Not everyone who starts the race finishes it.
- Mmm.
Dan: While Team Red waits for their penalty time to tick away, Magen on Team Green is curious about Monika's past.
Magen: I know you were born here.
- Right.
- And I know you visited once, like, when you were 10, right?
With your parents?
- Yeah, so...
I was born here, of course, in Des Moines, but...
I mean, I haven't really been back since then, but I do know that's where everything kinda started for me.
I found out that I was adopted around age 12.
It didn't even make sense.
When I turned 16, I started to really wonder why do I look the way I look, why do I act the way I act.
I need to know these things, and... then I got a little more interested in that.
From then, I actually did see my mother created a profile on adoption.com, she also added a phone number onto that profile about a year and a half ago.
I just didn't reach out yet, I didn't, it didn't... Maybe it was nervousness, maybe the fear of rejection made me not wanna do it.
Being able to find my biological parents in this way makes it feel a little less scary.
I'm just really excited, and I hope I get to meet them.
It's kinda cool being in this state because it's like, hmm, what's coming next, you know?
♪ - Bright out here.
Liz: All right, hold on.
Dan: Back in West Virginia, Team Red completes their five-minute penalty.
Liz: All right, let's go.
Anthony: Do you see anything, Joe?
- I'm lookin'.
Sean: Let's get our eyes peeled because we should be seeing a sign or something any minute now.
Monika: Look, look, look!
That's city limits!
Joseph: Oh!
Anthony: Oh, nope, it's East Coast.
Joseph: East Coast.
Both: Come on!
- Joe, this sign has got to be here.
Sean: Okay, well there's the Jackson city limits right there.
- 'Sup.
Dunbar, three and half miles, let's go.
- Yeah!
Anthony: Oh!
Palm Coast, right here.
Oh, sweet Joe, we found it, yay!
Take our city selfie!
- I wanna take a selfie with that, 'cause it's so cute.
Magen: 'Kay, I don't care about cute right now.
Sean: Oh, welcome to the city of Jackson.
Let's just pull off right over here then.
Liz: Uh, okay that says w-- now hiring-- - Dunbar, right there!
Liz: Straight ahead?
Devin: Right there, see?
Liz: [screams] Devin: Right there, right there.
Liz: Oh my gosh!
Devin: Right there, right there.
Magen: Keep going.
- No, this is good.
Magen: That's the Cedar Falls sign!
- It's right there!
Magen: No it's not!
- Yes!
There's a big, beautiful one right there.
- No, I don't wanna-- Augh!
Monika just keeps saying cute and beautiful!
Who cares?
I just want a sign!
Liz: Park, please.
♪ - You got it, you got the camera?
Liz: Yep, yep, yep.
Devin: 'Kay, let's go.
Monika: Go, come on, hurry!
Liz: Okay, now hold it up.
Kacey: 'Kay.
Sean: All right.
- Just like that.
[shutter clicking] Anthony: Yep, it worked.
Joseph: All right.
Liz: Send to Dan.
Sean: 'Kay.
Sending... Magen: I think that's right.
Just waiting for a response.
♪ [phone beeps] ♪ - Welcome to Palm Coast, Florida.
Sean: Your challenge location is at... Liz: 2000 West Virginia Street.
- James F. Holland Park.
Sean: 1235 Veteran's Drive.
Kacey: All right, let's go.
Sean: Let's go!
Monika: 915 Grand Boulevard!
Both: Let's go!
Devin: It's gotta be a big deal, West Virginia Street, right?
Sean: That guy's comin', let's go.
- I'm writing down everything we're passing.
- 'Kay.
Liz: I saw, like, 18th Street.
Devin: 18 what?
Joseph: Florida Park Drive.
Sean: I see a park over there, I bet that's... ...that's where we're goin'.
Magen: Just park here, I, I know it's gotta be here.
Monika: Okay.
Magen: Yep, there it is, there it is!
Monika: Okay, okay.
- Oh, I see the flag, I see the flag!
♪ Joseph: Sorry you guys, sorry.
♪ - Hole in one, two, three.
Dan: Day three's challenge is Hole in One... Two... Three.
The teams must get a hole in one on three unique golfing greens.
Teams must work together and individually with coordination and timing to achieve victory.
A hole in one on each of the greens completes this challenge.
The allotted time for Hole in One, Two, Three is 15 minutes.
Monika: Let's do it.
Magen: Ready?
Both: Yeah, let's go.
Devin: We run up to this challenge, and it is a putt-putt golf obstacle course.
Sean: Oh, wow.
It is, in fact, putting.
Kacey: Okay.
Sean: Okay.
Anthony: Okay.
Okay.
- One, two, three.
Monika: Oh!
Okay, go get it.
Hole one starts, and we're not even keeping the ball on the green.
Devin: One, two, three!
It's hard, 'cause it's my left hand, too.
The most difficult part was that we both had to do it at the same time and make it at the same time.
Liz: Exactly.
Devin: There were several times where one of us hit it in, but the other one didn't do it at the same time.
Liz: All right, I'm comin', I got mine.
Devin: Let's go, let's go.
Kacey: Oh my gosh!
Sean: Ah, I got it!
Kacey: No!
[laughs] Joseph: Three... - Oh, I got mine in!
Devin: Three.
Liz: All right.
Dev, to not lose time, we're better off going softer than hard.
Devin: Yeah, I've been going soft.
Liz: Or like, staying within the box.
I know, you're doing a good job.
Devin: Okay, you ready?
- The first time we both get on the green... Monika: Three!
YES!
Magen: Go!
...we sink 'em.
Kacey: Go.
WOO!
Sean: Yeah!
Okay, let's go!
Kacey: All right.
Sean: Okay.
Kacey: Got it.
Devin: Three.
There it is.
That's what I'm talkin' about!
Let's go!
Liz: [sighs] Joseph: There you go.
Anthony: There we go.
Monika: We get to hole two, and... it's a little different.
It's a wiffle ball I'm hitting with a mallet.
Magen: Through a hole, on a spinning wheel.
It's okay.
Monika: [sighs] Magen: It's so close, it's so close, girl.
You're doin' awesome.
- This hole takes a lot of precision.
Anthony: We were a little concerned that it might rain this challenge, and sure enough, it's pouring.
Joseph: All right, you ready, Ant?
- Yes.
♪ - This is nuts.
Anthony: Yeah it is.
The rain is really making this challenge difficult.
♪ Kacey: Agh!
Sean: [sighs] Kacey: Here, you wanna try again?
Sean: Sure.
We've been going back and forth with no luck, and I just don't know what to do.
Devin: Yeah, that was too fast.
Basically, every time you change the momentum of the ring, well then now the person who was gonna be hitting it... Liz: Had to adjust.
Devin: Had to adjust.
Magen: Come get another ball.
Monika: No, I can't.
I'm out of breath.
Please just go.
Magen: You're-- Mmkay.
Monika: Just go.
What we were doing initially wasn't working very well, so we decided to slow it up a little bit.
Oh my gosh, please go in!
Magen: YES!
Monika: The rules said the wheel had to be moving, but it didn't say how fast.
Magen: 'Kay, take your time.
This is gonna take us a minute to figure out, okay?
Monika: Yep.
- Ooh, that was good.
That was good.
♪ Anthony: Yeah!
Joseph: Yes!
All right, cool.
Anthony: I don't know how it happened, but finally, that ball went through, and we are ready for the third challenge.
Kacey: Almost, almost, almost!
Oh, go, go, go, go!
Oh!
Yay!
Sean: Okay, we got, finally!
Finally.
Okay, here, you go, you go handle the pegs.
♪ Devin: There it is!
Liz: AH!
Ah!
Devin: All right, let's go!
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Next one.
♪ Magen: Oh, it's okay.
It's okay.
Chipping that stupid wiffle ball is hard, let alone having it land on the peg board.
Kacey: What if I angle it like this?
Sean: Yeah.
Oh, nope.
Kacey: That's me.
That's my leg.
And I thought hole two was hard.
I just hope we can get this one figured out.
Ooh...
Okay, a little bit more.
Kacey: A little bit harder, a little bit harder.
Sean: A little bit more juice.
Anthony: Oh.
Joseph: Try it again.
♪ Liz: Nope.
- Like Happy Gilmore.
Just go to your home!
♪ Magen: YEAH!
WOOOO!
All we're saying is, the LPGA better watch out.
♪ Magen: [gasps] - Your relative lives at 3619 Pheasant Lane.
Magen: We got this.
Monika: Let's go!
Magen: Let's go.
Singer: ♪ I'll say, "That's great."
♪ ♪ Anthony: Joe.
- Hold it.
Anthony: Yes!
Joe, good job.
Kacey: Oh, oh.
Sean: Okay.
You got this, babe, you got this.
♪ Kacey: WOOO!
Sean: Ah!
Yes, let's go!
Kacey: Woo!
Okay.
Oh, go, go, go, go, go!
- Your relative lives at 26 Pineland Lane.
- Awesome.
Sean: 1764... Kacey: Limerick Road.
Sean: Okay, oh, and coordinates!
Oh, I forgot the GPS, let's go to the car, let's go to the car!
Kacey: Go, go, go!
♪ Devin: All right, roll this.
Roll this, roll this, roll this one.
Liz: Uh, it's a, it's-- Devin: Just try.
Liz: It's still a chip shot club.
Devin: Okay, just try.
I want Liz to try putting the ball with the chipping wedge so it'll roll up onto the board.
Liz: Nope.
Devin: No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on.
Liz: You got it, baby.
Devin: Hold on.
Hold on, hold on.
Liz: Come on.
♪ Devin: OH, ho, ho, that's what I'm talkin' about, baby!
Liz: [sighs] Devin: Let's go!
Liz: Oh my gosh, the table!
Your relative lives at 2102 Charles Avenue.
Devin: Charles Avenue.
Oh, we got coordinates, too!
Great, okay, great.
♪ Dan: Having completed their challenges, all four teams are now rushing to find their family.
Liz: Somehow, we're gonna have to get back that way.
Devin: That way?
Liz: So come out here and go right.
Devin: All right.
Monika: You're still going now?
Magen: I don't understand where we are, but yes.
Monika: I don't either!
Magen: Okay.
Anthony: This is insane!
- Yeah, this is nuts.
Anthony: I'm gonna slow down.
Yeah, I'm startin' to not be able to see.
It's raining so hard that our windshield wipers can't even keep up.
Sean: Now, we're a little ways away, so just go down this, let's, let, give it a sec for it to orient.
This GPS is so slow!
Liz: Uh, this just totally adjusted.
- What, what do you mean it adjusted?
Liz: I mean, like, the direction of our arrow just changed.
Devin: Okay.
Liz: I think... Devin: So let's make the next left we can.
- Yep, it's off.
We're off, stop, turn around.
Come on, GPS!
Work with us!
Monika: Waterloo Road.
- Waterloo Road.
There, that way.
Monika: No, it said Waterloo... Magen: No.
Go, circle, circle, circle, circle.
Monika: 'Kay.
Hold onto stuff.
Magen: Got it.
♪ Joseph: What is, what is back there?
Anthony: Nothing, Joe.
Nothing's back there.
- How do you know?
It's just a, it's a, it's a shopping center.
How do you know?
- So we're gonna waste 10 minutes to look at a dumpster and something that's over there, Joe, there's nothing back here.
The rain is finally dying down, but the GPS is pointing us in a direction we can't even go.
Please don't tell me this is a dead end.
I knew this was gonna be a dead end.
Joseph: What is the point of having that road back there?
Liz: Road closed to through traffic.
Detour.
Magen: Keep looking at this.
This.
What does it say?
Magen: Two point, we're getting, we're getting further away, obviously.
So, we're gonna have to stop somewhere, ask 'em how to get around this detour.
- Hi.
We're looking for 1764 Wenwick Road.
- Okay, thank you so much!
Sean: Okay, thank you.
Kacey: There is no way this is seriously happening.
She's gonna actually take us there.
That was so nice that she's able to help us, though.
Sean: Gosh, we lucked out.
Liz: Yeah, I think my brain's startin' to work.
Okay, go left, go left, go left.
Devin: Okay, all right, all right.
Liz: Man.
We were all over the place.
Devin: Yeah, just gotta get your bearings.
- Finally, our triangle is pointing the right way.
Devin: In the right direction.
- This GPS is really tricky, but...
I think we're getting it figured out.
Anthony: What, what, where do I, where would we get Hudson maps, Joe?
Where do we get 'em?
- I don't know, Anthony, I don't know.
- I'm, I'm an idiot.
We're gonna take some time.
We're goin' to Target.
Joseph: No, we're not going to Target, that's a waste of time.
- No, it's not!
- It is a huge waste of time.
- Okay, we're goin' to Target.
- No, we're not going to Target right now!
- Joe, we need to get the map for this street.
Joseph: No!
It's not going to be at Target, Anthony.
Do not go to Target.
We're headed in the right direction.
- All right, okay, I'll calm down.
I'm sorry.
- Okay.
Yeah, no problem, it's all good.
Dan: While Team Blue is deciding whether or not to go to Target, Team Green is targeting a fire station to help them find their next relative.
Magen: Do you know where this is?
Magen: This GPS isn't working out, but we've spotted a fire station.
Magen: You're amazing, thank you so much!
Thank you!
Monika: Okay, hurry.
Get your map, get your map.
Magen: Okay, I've got it.
♪ Monika: This couldn't have worked out any better.
That was so clutch.
Like, it didn't take too much more time 'cause we had no idea where we were going.
Magen: Yep.
Sean: She's like, actually taking us, like, to the house.
- I think so.
Sean: Holy cow.
Devin: Now what?
Liz: We're within 800 feet, let's ask this guy.
Devin: Within 800 feet?
Liz: Yeah, yeah.
Devin: Oh, okay.
Liz: Okay.
'Scuse me, sir?
Hey, hey, hey.
You know where Charles Avenue is?
Liz: Where's the Dollar Store?
We're not from here, like-- Devin: Perfect, thanks so much.
'Preciate you.
[horn honks] Sean: Thank you so much!
Kacey: Bye, thank you!
I cannot believe she just showed us the way.
Sean: 1764.
Holy cow!
We got four-wheel drive in this thing?
Kacey: Oh, my gosh.
[heavy thud] Kacey: [gasps] Oh!
This is not meant for low-riding vehicles!
Sean: There we are.
- Okay.
Sean: Holy cow.
- We made it.
Holy crap, all right, let's get out.
♪ Kacey: Hi!
- Hello.
Kacey: I'm Kacey.
Sean: I'm Sean.
Kacey: And this is my husband, Sean.
- Kacey, Sean, nice to meet you guys, my name's Shawl.
Both: Hey, Shawl!
Kacey: And, who are you related to?
- I'm actually related to you, Kacey.
- You are?
Shawl: I am.
Kacey: How are we related?
- So we're actually related on our father's side.
I'm your brother.
Kacey: You're one of my brothers?
Shawl: Yep, I sure am.
- I can see with the red hair!
Sean: [laughs] Kacey: Hi!
Shawl: Nice to meet you.
- Hello.
Shawl: Nice to meet you as well.
Sean: Yes, nice to meet you as well.
Shaw: I'm Shawl Hughes, I'm from Jackson, Ohio, and I am Kacey's brother.
-You have red hair.
I love that.
Shawl: Yep, I have the red hair.
It definitely shines in the sun, it really brings it out.
[laughter] - Oh my goodness!
Sean: That's awesome.
Awesome.
Kacey: You are the first sibling I have met.
So... it really means a lot to me.
Shawl: You're, you're the first, actually on my side, too, I've never met anybody from my father's side.
- Really?
Shawl: Only my mother's side, yep.
- Oh, shut up!
Shawl: So you're the very first person I've met on my father's side, too.
Sean: Oh, that is so cool!
Kacey: Well, I can tell you quite a bit that I've learned at least, so maybe while we talk, you know, I can fill you in as well.
- Yeah, most definitely, I would, I'd really like it.
Sean: That's awesome.
- Been a long time, so... Kacey: Yeah!
Sean: Yeah, for sure.
- Meeting a sibling for the very first time was a very joyous moment.
I really didn't know what to expect at first.
Shawl: Meeting with Kacey today meant a lot to me, just because I haven't met that side of the family yet.
You only have one family, so... you gotta keep your roots strong to... branch out and make a good life.
Okay, well, let's get out of the sun and get in some cool air, and... Kacey: Okay.
Shawl: Get out, get out of the heat.
Sean: Sounds good, let's do it.
Kacey: Awesome.
♪ Monika: Okay, what now?
- Pheasant Lane... Monika: This is Pheasant Lane... Magen: ...number two.
Monika: ...correct?
Magen: Double check me under Olympic.
Monika: We're on it.
So right here?
Magen: Yes.
Monika: 'Kay.
Magen: 3619.
It's gonna be on this side, ah, it's right there, right there!
Oh!
Monika: Go.
Eek!
Monika: Hi.
Magen: Hi!
I'm Magen.
Monika: I'm Monika.
Woman 1: Oh, well I'm pleased to meet you, I'm Bonnie.
Magen: Nice to meet you, Bonnie.
So whose relative are you?
Bonnie: I'm Monika's.
Magen: Okay.
Monika: How are we related?
- I'm your great aunt.
Your grandpa was my brother.
- And on what side?
- The Draheim side.
- Okay, okay, Mom's side, right?
Magen: [laughs] Monika: Nice to meet you!
Bonnie: Honey, good to see you.
Monika: You too!
Magen: I'm Magen, I'm her best friend, it's nice to meet you!
Bonnie: I'm glad you came.
Magen: Thank you!
- I'm Bonnie Meighan, from Waterloo, Iowa, and I'm Monika's great aunt.
- I knew instantaneously that she was gonna be so sweet and funny and make us laugh.
It was gonna be so fun.
Who's in there?
Bonnie: This is my oldest, Jeff.
Monika: Okay.
Bonnie: And his wife, Sally.
Monika: Nice to meet you.
Magen: Hi!
- So this would be my, I'm tryin' to put it all together.
Bonnie: This would be your second cousin.
- So can I give you guys a hug?
Magen: [laughs] Monika: Nice to meet you guys!
Sally: It's nice to meet you.
Monika: Nice to meet you, thank you for being here.
Meeting my great aunt Bonnie and my cousin is really helping to put a lot of the pieces together on my mom's side, and it's a great feeling.
- Would you like to come in?
Magen: We would love that.
Monika: Yes, yes, that would be awesome.
Bonnie: 'Kay, come on in.
Monika: Okay.
Bonnie: This is just a little space, but it's good.
Monika: She's so cute, I love it!
♪ Anthony: Pineland is right there.
Right there.
Joseph: Okay.
Yep.
♪ Joseph: Now we gotta look for 26.
Anthony: Yep.
It's right here.
Joseph: Okay.
Anthony: Okay.
Park right here next to the Charger.
♪ [door closes] - Oh, wow.
Eyy.
Anthony: Um, I guess, um... my name's Anthony, and this is Joseph.
- I'm Brittany.
Anthony: How are you related to us?
- Um, I'm your first cousin on my mom's side.
Joseph: Nice, nice to meet you.
Brittany: Nice to meet you.
[laughs] Anthony: Give me a hug.
Joseph: Yeah, hug.
Hugs, hugs.
Brittany: Doing that right.
[laughs] How are you guys?
Have a good trip?
Anthony: Um, awesome.
Joseph: Long.
It was good, though.
- Crazy.
It's good to see y'all, man.
Anthony: Yeah, good to see you, too.
Where you from?
- I'm from, um, Orlando, Florida.
- Orlando, Florida.
Brittany: Yeah, so it's just, probably, like, not too far from here, yeah.
And where you guys at?
Anthony: We're from St. Paul, Minnesota.
- St. Paul?
Anthony: Yeah.
- Dang, that's crazy no wonder I haven't seen anything, 'cause we're all, like, right here in Melbourne and stuff like that, and close by.
Joseph: Meeting Brittany at the door reminded me of what this race is all about, and it really made me feel like all the stuff we'd just been through was worth it.
Brittany: So do you guys wanna come inside, or... Anthony: Sure.
Joseph: Yeah.
♪ Devin: Is this Charles Avenue?
Liz: Yeah, Charles-- Devin: This where it picks up?
Liz: That's what I'm sayin'.
Devin: Too, you said 21, right?
Liz: Right, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... Devin: 21.
Liz: ...slow, slow, we're close.
Devin: 21.
This is 21.
2101, 2102.
Liz: 2102.
Devin: Right here.
All right.
You good, you ready?
[breathy] Okay, oh.
Let's go, let's go.
Whew!
♪ Devin: [breathing heavily] Liz: Hi!
- Hi!
- I'm Liz!
- I'm Devin.
Devin: OH!
- Hi!
Devin: Aww!
That is so special!
Aww.
Mi amores, mi amores.
- Oh.
Oh, you have no idea.
Liz: Ohh!
[women squealing] Devin: Que bonitas!
[laughter and excitement] - The nose!
Liz: I know!
The cheeks!
- And the cheeks!
- And usually my hair is that kinda curled.
Devin: Yeah.
Angelica: I knew she was my sister right away.
It was, it was, it was, nothing to even question.
Liz: To be able to have the opportunity to, to meet my first biological sister on my dad's side is unreal.
I am, like, so excited!
Angelica: I know!
Liz: The eye shape, the hair, the cheeks.
Like, I knew that was me, that we're connected.
- I've never in my life met someone that looks like me, ever.
So, tell me, so you have babies?
- I do have babies.
Angelica: Okay.
Liz: I have two beautiful babies.
Angelica: So do I. Liz: [gasps] Boys, girls?
Angelica: Both girls.
- OH!
Yay!
Angelica: So you have two nieces, so you can spoil 'em.
Liz: These are like, the fir-- actually, we don't, 'cause we don't currently have any niece, nieces, now we do.
Devin: Wow.
- Okay, so what do you guys have?
Devin: How many?
- Two.
Devin: Two nieces.
Liz: And we have, we have two boys.
Devin: How old are they?
- Three months.
Liz: Like, they're babies?
Devin: Three months?
Liz: Twins?
Angelica: She'll be-- No, just one, a girl.
Liz: Okay.
- And then a 10-year-old.
Liz: And a 10-year, oh my goodness.
Angelica: Big gap.
Liz: Yeah.
Angelica: So the big one helps me with the little one, so it's, it's perfect.
Devin: That's good.
Liz: Even when I saw the pictures yesterday with, um, my dad, Jerome, of like, the childhood pictures, it's like, you could just tell the vibe, the energy, the spirit, and I'm like, I know I'm gonna meet them, and we're gonna just be like best friends.
Like that's how I feel right now.
I'm like, we're gonna be just best friends for the rest of life, so...
I'm just so happy, I'm so happy.
Okay.
Devin: Oh, get in here!
All: Oh.
Angelica: It's a pleasure to meet you guys.
♪ Dan: All four teams are clocked in, and are now meeting with their newfound family.
Kacey on Team Black is getting to know her brother, Shawl.
Kacey: I can't believe I have a brother!
[laughing] Oh my gosh!
Shawl: It's cool-- Kacey: We have so much to talk about.
Shawl: Oh yeah!
No, we got a lot of catching up to do.
Kacey: This is such an incredible moment for me.
I never thought that I would have the opportunity to get to meet a brother.
We sit down and start talking, and he tells me about how he's fostering children.
- My sister on my mother's side, um, she's made some bad choices in her life.
Now I'm doing the due diligence of getting her children to take care of them.
Kacey: I learned quickly that Shawl has two children of his own, and he's actually fostering to adopt two additional children that are his sister's from his other side of the family.
Shawl: I went through children's services too, so I kind of understand, you know, what they're, you know, what they're doing, you know, how they feel about the whole thing.
Kacey: Yeah.
- Nobody wants to have to go through that kind of experience.
Sean: Sure.
- I want to take my experience in life and kind of help them along the way and... - Yeah.
Shawl: Teach them new things, you know, accept them as my own as well.
Kacey: Yeah.
Sean: I mean, I was just dumbfounded.
I was just like, "Wow.
"He is an incredibly genuine and just amazingly caring and compassionate person."
- Not everybody is willing to take on kids, and it's my family, you know?
Sean: That's what I mean.
It's family, so.
- Family is the most important thing.
Kacey: Exactly.
- Most definitely.
It was important for me to bring my nephews and niece into the family just because I know that they absolutely need it right now.
I don't want to sit back and watch them go through that same experience I had.
I want to help them get a better life and actually help them make achievements for themselves.
- Well, is there anything we can do to help you?
- I did go out, I did some school shopping and stuff just to try to get some things.
- Yeah.
Shawl: Um, if you guys wanted to help pick an outfit or something like that, I think that would mean a lot to them to be able to get a new outfit, yeah.
Kacey: What Shawl is doing for these kids is truly inspiring.
Well, you are in luck.
I would love to do that because I am an excellent shopper, it's one of the things I love to do.
Sean and I actually want to do what we can to help, so we decided to go shopping with him and buy school clothes for the kids.
♪ You know, we're getting more towards fall, right, so.
Sean: Kacey was 110% in her natural element shopping with Shawl.
- You like 'em?
Shawl: Yeah.
- Yes.
How good am I?
Shawl: I think... Kacey: Pretty good?
- Pretty good.
- I know.
- I think she's gonna like it.
- I'm, like, the best shopper in the universe.
Sean: How 'bout these ones?
Kacey: You're kidding, right?
Sean: Apparently yes.
Sorry.
Silent coatrack.
Kacey: You're not being very silent right now.
- I'm trying.
I'm used to being the coatrack.
[Kacey laughing] - You know, when you had mentioned that you were in foster care, and you really had kind of a rough childhood, I mean, I honestly, I feel kind of guilty that I had a brother out there that, you know, I didn't know about, and we kind of had an opposite upbringing.
I think it's kind of amazing that you came out of that situation, and your compassion is just as big as the ocean.
[laughs] Um, and I know that we just met, but I'm really proud of you.
Shawl: Well, thank you very much.
It's only the right thing, so who am I to hold back from making the right choices, you know what I mean?
- Your heart is just so big.
I just... Let's go this way so I can get distracted and stop crying in public.
That'd be great.
[tearful laughing] I absolutely love Shawl already.
I love Shawl, and I'm so happy to have a brother out in this world, that we are now connected and can enjoy life together from here on out.
♪ Dan: Monika on Team Green is learning more about how she fits into her family.
Magen: Oh, wow!
- Here, I'll get it for you.
Bonnie: Here we go.
And I'm sure you're going to have to explain-- Magen: Monika!
- I printed out a family tree so Monika could see who my children were, and their children, and just know all about the family.
Monika: There I am.
Bonnie: Oh, there you are.
This family tree is a Draheim tree, and I would like to show you who all you have.
So, this is Duane and his first wife, Jeraldine, and they had Kelly and Shelly, and then, um-- Well, I don't know who Russell and Gary are, but.... [laughing] They must be in the family.
I'm sorry!
Magen: Must be, I guess!
Monika: I knew the Draheim name, but I didn't realize how many relatives I actually have.
That thing was huge!
Bonnie: After Duane married Jeraldine and had two children, they were divorced, and he married Louise, who is your grandma.
Monika: Okay, yep, yep, yep.
Magen: That's your grandpa.
- This?
Magen: Yeah.
Bonnie: He was a rascal.
[laughing] But he was a nice guy.
Magen: Duane ended up marrying your grandma, Louise.
Monika: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he was only 40?
Bonnie: Mm-hmm.
My brother was 40 years old when he died.
[somber music] Monika: This is the first time I'm hearing anything about my grandfather, and I didn't know that he died so early on in his life.
Bonnie: We brought him back to Waterloo, and he's buried at the New Hampton Cemetery by my parents.
Monika: Wow.
This is, like, crazy.
Magen: Mm-hmm.
Monika: I'm really thankful that you showed me all this, and this is gonna be cool to look over and just kind of understand more about myself.
Thank you for taking the time to do this, and I really appreciate it!
Bonnie: Oh, you're welcome, honey!
I'm glad to do it.
I like to help people if I can.
Monika: Thank you.
Joseph: We sit down on the couch, and immediately, the conversation had this, uh, connectedness.
Anthony: I heard you say you were in and out of foster care.
Did you get to stay with your siblings?
Brittany: At first, like, it was, like, we was younger, so it was many times we was in and out of foster care.
That's why when it came to, like, siblings and relatives, we were all split apart, which was, you know, devastating because it's like come on, that's the only thing we have-- - Right.
Brittany: --as far as family, so that was pretty tough.
Joseph: It was really cool to hear her story and hear how much it correlated with Anthony and I's story.
- So what about y'all?
Joseph: We were adopted when we were pretty little, um.
Anthony: It was definitely, uh, lonely, 'cause we didn't have anybody, like, that we could call blood relatives.
You know, of course, I had Joe, which is great.
[overlapping agreements] You know, we had each other which helped, and I don't think I could have did that by myself.
- Right, right, right.
They really expressed to me how, like, they really didn't have anything, and how they lost everything, and how they started building back up.
I can't believe that this happened to them, and it was just kind of touching.
- I'm really glad that, like, we now have the opportunity to, like, come together and be a family, and... let all that stuff in the past just kind of fade away, you know.
It makes me love and appreciate you more knowing that you had the strength to just perservere and go through that.
And man, it's awesome, Brittany.
- It's cool to hear that from you guys.
Anthony: Like, you're a straight up trooper!
Brittany: It is cool!
Thank you, I appreciate it, and I just love the fact that with y'all coming into the picture is really opening everything back up, and it's just good, like, appreciation, you know?
Anthony: That really just blew me away.
I never expected that we played that kind of role in, you know, her life.
♪ - Gotta have a hug, right?
[laughing] - My family grew today, and I'm excited for it.
It's a big stepping stone for all of us.
♪ Dan: Back in West Virginia, Elizabeth is learning more about her family's history at West Virginia State University.
Liz: My sister, Angelica wanted to take Devin and I on a tour of West Virginia State University because this is where my family's history is from.
She showed us the library, and some photos of my family, and the contributions they were able to make to the university.
- This is your grandma Carolyn.
Liz: Okay.
Angelica: Um, so she was the phone operator, so like I said, everybody knew her voice.
Liz: Yeah.
Angelica: Even though they didn't see her face, they knew her voice.
Your uncle, we call him Uncle Joe, he was actually the chief of police on campus for, like, 40 years.
Liz: Oh, wow.
Angelica: So, like, he would, everybody knew, like, if there was any problems, call Cool Joe Brown.
Liz: Ah!
- So he has, like, a lot of articles, and if you check the archives, like, they do a lot of stories about him.
Liz: Cool Joe Brown.
Angelica: 'Kay, look how cool he is, though.
Liz: He is cool!
- Like, isn't he cool?
Liz: Yes.
Angelica: Yes.
Liz: There's so much of our family history is connected within the university.
It's not just a place where my roots started, but it's like this institution wouldn't exist if it wasn't for some of the people in our family.
Angelica: I wanted to show you guys some yearbooks.
Liz: The cherry on top was seeing a photo of our father from the '80s.
Angelica: Dad is an Alpha, and, um-- - So we've heard.
[Angelica laughing] - So he's, like, very, like, "No, Alphas were supposed to be, like, the smart ones."
Liz: So you're trying to tell me that he-- was he nerdy?
Is that what you're saying?
Angelica: I'm not gonna say that.
[laughing] All right.
That's Dad.
Liz: I'm not surprised.
- '87.
[Devin laughing] [all laughing] Angelica: Okay, he's gonna kill me.
Okay.
I love you, Dad!
If you're watching, I love you.
Liz: You know, we all have our phases.
We all have our phases.
Devin: I've never had a phase like that.
[all laughing] Angelica: He was like, "Don't ever show anybody this picture."
But, for Liz, she's family.
We get to do whatever we want.
Liz: I'm gonna give him some grace because I, too, had an awkward phase in my life.
I'm sure for that time, his gear was cool.
- [laughter] So that was Dad.
That was '87.
[groovy music] [guitar music] Shawl: All right, Kacey, Sean, I actually have more family for you guys to meet!
Kacey and Sean: Awesome!
Shawl: So this is my family.
Kacey: My brother Shawl finally introduces us to his two children and the two children that he's fostering to adopt, and it was just such a special experience.
Well, we have a surprise for you guys.
Sean: Got some gifts.
[laughing] Kacey: All right.
I know you guys kind of started school back up.
Wow.
Look at that!
Sean: It's for you.
Kacey: Yeah?
- What is it?
[Sean laughing] Kacey: Look at that!
Kacey: Oh my goodness!
When I handed Shawl's son the Pokemon shirt, I was handing out other ones too, but I turned around, and he was sobbing.
He loves Pokemon, which I didn't know yet.
He was just so appreciative of it, and I just felt like I needed to hold him and let him know that I love him.
I'm glad you like it!
Boy: Thank you!
- You're welcome, sweetie!
[laughter] I never thought in a million years that a t-shirt would mean so much to a young child.
I never thought that I would get to meet a sibling, and today I have, so another piece of the puzzle has been filled in.
♪ Joseph: I'm just nervous the rain slowing us down could cost us the race today.
We can't get another strike.
I'm kind of nervous, bro.
- We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
- I think we might get a strike tonight.
I would not be surprised.
The challenge really, I think, kicked us.
Magen: It's hard not knowing where you pace or stack against these other teams, and you just overanalyze every misstep and every mistake we make, not knowing if other teams are running a flawless race.
[intense music] Liz: I was not particularly hopeful after today's challenge.
Um, however, the previous two days we've had near strikes, so who's to say how it's gonna go tonight.
♪ Dan: It's nearly the end of day three, and the results are in.
Who's safe, and who will receive the strike?
[intense music] Welcome, teams.
Another day, day three, is now officially in the books, and I want to talk about one major problem for all four teams.
It's called A Hole in One, Two, Three.
[laughing] [Elizabeth shrieking] [defeated sighs] Kacey: No!
Monika: I'm out of breath!
[Anthony grunting] - Don't remind me.
[laughing] Dan: Uh, yeah.
I think it's fair to say Hole One, Two, Three, the challenge today, that was much more difficult than any miniature golf course you've ever played before.
Sean: Yeah, that was definitely the miniature golf course from a very bad place.
We'll just leave it at that.
[laughing] Dan: Fair enough.
Let's talk about who you met.
Team Red, yesterday, you meet your father and your grandfather.
Was there another wonderful surprise waiting for you on the other side of that door?
Liz: I'm sure you'll be able to guess when you see my relative, but today I got to meet my biological sister on my dad's side of the family.
I am, like, so excited.
My hair is normally this curly, you know.
You see these cheeks and, like, our eye shape.
We have the same eye color.
My husband says we have the same front two teeth.
So, this is my wonderful sister, Angelica, which is very appropriate, 'cause she looks like an angel.
- Oh, thank you!
- Yeah, and-- - She's an angel.
Liz: We have been talking nonstop since we met.
So I'm like-- I'm thrilled because I did not grow up with a sister.
So, it is like, I just knew when I saw her that we would be, like, friends forever.
Dan: Wow.
That's the power of family!
- Yeah.
Dan: Well, we're really happy for you.
Liz: Thank you!
Dan: Let's talk to Team Green.
You approached the door, and who do you meet tonight?
- Today I had the pleasure of meeting-- here you are-- my great aunt Bonnie Lou from Waterloo!
[overlapping awws] She's a sweetie.
She's so warm and kind.
She reminds me of my grandma.
- Oh, that's a nice thing to say, and I believe that.
If she was funny, so am I.
[laughing] Dan: Aw, well, you guys get to build on these relationships for the rest of your lives.
That's the important thing.
Let's talk to Team Black.
You're searching for family.
You've had some answers.
Did those answers continue to come today?
Kacey: They did!
And today I met my brother!
Bonnie: Oh, how nice!
Kacey: My little brother.
He doesn't really know a lot about his father's side, so just with the little bit that I've learned, I was able to fill in a little bit in his life.
And so we've been having a great time connecting, and-- Shawl: It's great!
Kacey: [sigh] I'm trying not to cry on screen.
[laughing] Dan: Team Red got a baby sister, and Team Black got a baby brother.
It's a good day!
Every day on Relative Race is a great day.
So Team Blue, you finally make it to your relative through the pouring rain.
Who was on the other side of that door for you tonight?
- It was our first cousin, Brittany!
Dan: Brittany is beautiful, you guys!
It just runs in the family!
[laughing] - Thank you, thank you.
Anthony: Man, we were saying the same thing.
She's so, so beautiful.
Brittany: Thanks.
Dan: Now we'll see if your good mojo rubs off on your twin cousins, because now is the time, teams.
[suspenseful music] It is time to find out who picked up the strike, and who is safe, and who's gonna pick up that first place prize, that gameday benefit that should help you tomorrow?
The winner gets to pick one team to make their challenge even more challenging, and they'll find out how challenging that is when they arrive at the location tomorrow.
Finishing 27 minutes over their allotted time and picking up first place... [intense, suspensful music] is once again Team Green!
[shocked gasps] Bonnie: There you go!
[laughing] Dan: Congratulations!
The best friends are burning it up!
Way to go, guys!
Maybe you'll play a little more golf after this.
- Yeah, I can't wait for you all to see my reaction, apparently, on hole three.
Yeah!
[slow motion and distorted] Woo!
Yes!
It was a little Tiger Woods, maybe a little WrestleMania.
It was an out-of-body experience.
Dan: Well, Team Green, you're safe for another day.
So, who finished in second place?
Finishing 45 minutes over their allotted time...
Team Black.
[Sean laughing] - We're, like, the masters of, like, second place here.
Shawl: Well, hey, that's still good.
Dan: Congratulations to Team Black.
And so, once again, for the second night in a row, it comes down to Team Red and Team Blue.
Team Blue, you have one strike.
Team Red, you've been safe!
You've been sitting there right in the middle, no strikes.
Finishing 52 minutes over their allotted time and in third place...
Team Blue.
Congratulations.
Team Red, you guys had a challenging day.
You finished 59 minutes over your allotted time.
But hey, you got a baby sister.
Devin: That's right!
Liz: You see the smile's still just as big.
Like, it was a horrible challenge, but I, at this point, I chalk it up, I've got a baby sister.
Devin: Today was worth the strike.
Liz: It was worth the strike.
If I'm gonna get a penalty and we're gonna have a horrible job, then, you know what, we'll take the strike today.
There better not be any more, but, um, we're gonna reset tomorrow, and it'll be better.
Dan: Well, there's only one team now that is blemish free.
That's Team Black.
So, who will do better tomorrow, and who will be one step closer to $50,000 and a family full of love?
So goodnight, everybody.
Good luck tomorrow.
Get some sleep.
You've earned it.
- Bye!
- Night!
- Are you kidding me?
[Monika screaming] Bonnie: What?
Team one, team one!
Anthony: Oh, my gosh.
I figured, I know we didn't do the best, so.
Brittany: Yeah, 'cause of the rain and stuff like that, which it wasn't too bad.
- If there was ever a day to get a strike... Liz: If there was ever a day... - ...today was the day to get a strike.
Liz: We have the rest of the time to redeem ourselves.
Angelica: It's all about the journey, and we're all in the journey together.
We can't, you're not gonna be able to get rid of me, I'm sorry.
Liz: I don't want to!
- I'm sorry.
It's gonna be great, it's gonna be great.
It's gonna be fun!
- I felt that we did not so good today, so I was just shocked that with that bad performance we still managed to eek by with second place!
- We won.
- Again!
[Monika cheering] - What?!
- Two days in a row!
- Did you see that challenge?
Are you kidding me?
I don't know whether we should laugh, cry, go to bed.
I just, I don't know.
We needed this today.
We needed to laugh, and you have provided that, Bonnie Lou from Waterloo.
- That's good.
I'm glad that I could help, and I'm more happy that I got to meet Monika.
Much happier.
And I hope we keep in touch!
- I hope so.
I'm gonna give you my info.
- Yes.
- So we can text.
Bonnie: Text, yeah.
- We can use emojis.
- Oh, what's that?
[laughing] Is that something you eat?
[laughing] Boy, I'll tell you this, too dang much technology around here for me!
Monika: Oh yeah?
Bonnie: Yeah!
Monika: Yeah.
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