Dan: Previously on Relative Race.

- Good morning, Jon and Kentrelle.

- Y'all gettin' a little too comfortable there.

- Yes!

Dan: A remote control challenge had the teams jumping for points.

Thaddeus: 20, 30!

[RC car whirring] Dan: Carolen met a niece.

- Hi.

Amazin: Hi.

Both: Nice to meet you.

Amazin: She's for sure one of us.

Thaddeus: Oh, I wonder who this is.

Dan: Thaddeus heard the words he's been waiting for.

- I'm your brother.

- My brother?!

Isaiah: [laughingly] Yes, I'm your brother.

- [laughingly] Hi!

[muffled] How are you?

- Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

You know I'm good.

- [laughingly] Nice to meet you too.

Dan: And so did Nolin.

- We're your brothers.

- We're your brothers.

Singer: ♪ You found some ♪ Dan: Jon met his first relative on the race.

Aiden: Uh, I'm your first cousin on your dad's side.

- Nice to meet you, man.

- Yeah, you too.

♪ Jon: It felt really good, um, to hug someone that, you know, shares my blood, my DNA.

Dan: And Team Blue earned their first strike.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... Jon: It's gonna be right here.

Kentrelle: Go, go, go!

Dan: ...to win $50,000... Nolin: We made it.

Dan: ...and to find their family.

[knocking] Singer: ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day Three of Relative Race, and Teams Blue and Red both have one strike.

Kentrelle: Gettin' our first strike yesterday did not feel good.

- We were so close to winning yesterday, but today, today's our day.

Dan: Team Green, Leah and Nolin in Florida, and Team Black, Tia and Carolen in Nevada, both remain unscathed without a strike.

- First place is ours today.

I can feel it.

Dan: Team Black picked up a first place prize to penalize the other three teams in today's challenge.

Tia: Getting our second win yesterday felt great.

Being able to penalize the other teams at the challenge hopefully will give us a third win today.

♪ Dan: In Fredericksburg, Virginia, Thaddeus on Team Red is saying goodbye for now to his brother, Isaiah.

Thaddeus: This morning we talked more, got to know each other more.

It's a good feeling to know that more people that look like me that is part of me is out there.

Karen: And thank you so much for agreeing to meet him.

- You're welcome.

[laughingly] You're welcome.

Karen: And, you know, the warmth that I feel from you, so thank you.

- I'm just overall happy that I finally got to meet him.

Before y'all leave, I actually have a gift for you that I wanted to give you.

- Oh, okay.

- Uh, it's a picture of your mom.

- Really?

Isaiah: Yeah.

- [laughingly] Oh, wow.

Isaiah: Yeah.

Thaddeus: Oh, she's beautiful!

Karen: She is.

Thaddeus: [laughingly] With the blond hair too.

Isaiah and Thaddeus: [laughing] Karen: Wow.

Thaddeus: Wow.

Karen: That is amazing.

- Her smile.

Karen: Yeah, yeah.

Thaddeus: It's exciting to know I have a piece of joy out there that looks like me, that is a piece of me.

- I hope you will be able to meet your biological mom at the end of all of this.

And I just want you to know that she do love you very much.

- Thank you so much.

- You're welcome, you're welcome.

Thaddeus: I don't know what lies ahead [laughingly] on this race.

But I'm excited.

I'm nervous.

I'm nerv-scited, [laughingly] but I'm ready.

Dan: In Decatur, Georgia, Jon on Team Blue is thankful he met his cousin, Aiden.

- I just wanted, uh, to say thank you, um, for a good night.

It was, it was a lot of fun meeting you, um, getting to hang out with you, and, uh, it was a great time.

Aiden: For sure, man, yeah.

No, it was really sweet.

- Uh, getting to spend time with my cousin, um, it was really cool.

I've never been able to, uh, quite have a time like that, you know, with someone that, you know, is my family.

I'll never forget it.

It was, it was awesome.

- There's actually one more thing I wanted to show you.

Uh, and it's a picture of... your... grandma.

- Okay.

- And that's her right there.

- Oh, that's awesome.

- Yeah.

Her name is June Woolery, and that's her dog.

Jon: Oh, that's a cute dog.

[laughs] Aiden: [laughingly] Her name's Anga.

Jon: Oh nice.

And it was cool to see someone that, um, kinda resembled me in a way.

Um, so that was really special as well.

I can see where I get my, my goofiness from.

Aiden: She is goofy.

She's a real sweetheart.

- Yeah, no, I can tell.

♪ Dan: In Jacksonville, Florida, Nolin and Leah spend the morning celebrating Nolin's brother, Devon's birthday.

Nolin: Yeah we had a lot of fun, uh, spending time with Devon and Tyrese.

Come to find out it's Devon's birthday today, and Tyrese wanted us to be a part of the celebration which was cool, and he even had us, a present for us which was also super cool.

- We wanted to introduce you to our family as well.

This is our memories that we have had, so... there you go.

Nolin: Wow.

There's a picture of us three on the front, front cover which is super cool.

Tyrese: This is our younger sister Kennidi, which I hope she coulda been here to see you guys.

- Yeah, she's so pretty.

Nolin: I see a younger sister, Kennidi, who I've never met before, and I'd love to meet her someday.

Tyrese: I really do hope she gets to meet you.

Nolin: I'm excited to meet her too.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

They just have showed me in this short time what brotherhood is like.

I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Leah: [emotionally] I'm just proud of 'em already, and we don't even know 'em that well, but I'm just so proud of 'em.

[laughingly] And I love 'em.

And it's just gonna be so hard to leave 'em.

♪ Dan: In Tonopah, Nevada, Team Black, Carolen and Tia, are out for a morning walk with Carolen's niece, Amazin.

Tia: Well, thank you so much for having us here.

Amazin: You're welcome.

I'm glad you guys came.

Carolen: Yes, I couldn't have done this without Tia, so, so glad you guys welcomed her into the family as well.

She's a sweetheart.

Amazin: Of course.

She was on this journey with you.

She's part of the family now.

Carolen: Yes, yes, I appreciate you.

Definitely means a lot, and I can't wait to show you how much I appreciate it.

- I'm glad I was able to come and this opportunity with you.

- Yeah.

[phone dings] Oh, I have a text.

- Let's see.

It's from Dan.

- "Good morning teams, and welcome to Day Three of Relative Race."

- "Team Red will be traveling to Prince George, Virginia."

- Okay.

- "Team Black, you will be traveling to Fallon, Nevada."

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Rome, Georgia."

- Rome.

- "And Team Green will be traveling to" Both: "Melbourne, Florida."

- "Today's first place prize is a benefit at the start of tomorrow's challenge."

- "Your time starts now."

- All right, let's do it.

Thanks, man.

- Oh, yeah, 100%.

- Appreciate it.

- Let's go!

Woo!

[muffled goodbyes] [clap] Tyrese: Love you, Bro.

Until next time.

Good luck.

Carolen: Sorry, we gotta go.

Amazin: I know, it was good.

Carolen: So good meeting you.

See you next time.

Bye, bye.

Karen: [laughing] Isaiah: Good luck.

Thaddeus and Karen: Thank you!

♪ [clapping] - Prince George, Virginia.

♪ Kentrelle: This is our home court advantage.

- Yeah, dude.

Heck yeah.

Kentrelle: Just without the traffic this time.

Come on.

Our tactic is already coming into play.

No wrong turns this time.

Dan: Team Blue, Kentrelle and Jon are navigating through Kentrelle's home state.

They're leaving Decatur, Georgia and heading to Rome, Georgia.

They have an allotted time, including today's challenge of 1 hour and 54 minutes.

Jon: You said a left on [indistinct], right?

Kentrelle: Yep.

Jon: 'Kay.

- You're so hesitant, Jon.

- Just gotta double check.

Nolin: Look's like we're hitting a little traffic.

Everybody's slowing down.

Leah: Yeah.

That was a accident.

- There's, like, there's four cars on the si-- five cars on the side of the road.

Leah: But everybody looks okay.

Dan: With an unexpected accident on Team Green's route, Nolin and Leah are departing Jacksonville, Florida and racing to Melbourne.

They have a total allotted time of 2 hours and 54 minutes.

♪ Thaddeus: Um, navigating, that's fun.

Karen: Yeah.

'Cause you know, uh, your mama doesn't have that skill.

- But hopefully you're learning something through these days.

Karen: Well, let's just say, uh-- - All right.

- no.

[laughs] Dan: Having little confidence with their navigating skills, Team Red, Thaddeus and Karen are headed out from Fredericksburg, Virginia and racing to Prince George, Virginia.

They have an allotted time today of 1 hour and 50 minutes.

Thaddeus: I really want to get in first place to get some revenge on Black Team for giving all of us a penalty.

- [laughs] [phone dings] Carolen: Team Red said they are coming for us.

- [gasps] [laughingly] They did?

Carolen: They said, "We're fierce."

- They called us fierce.

- Tia and Carolen.

Thank you, Thaddeus.

I'll take that, darling.

I will take that 'cause we are fierce.

Dan: Team Fierce, Carolen and Tia, are leaving Tonopah, Nevada, and making their way to Fallon, Nevada.

Their allotted time for the day is 3 hours and 7 minutes.

♪ - Adoption's a very beautiful thing even though there's a lot of heartache that surrounds it.

My youngest son is actually adopted, and we have an open adoption.

I think the open adoption experience has definitely made me think about Nolin's family even more.

[sniffling] And the open adoption part, a lot of people think takes away from us as parents, but really it just adds to all of our lives.

Yeah, we didn't know a lot, but my parents also did a great job about just being very respectful of his birth family, and, you know, we don't know the situation, but yet we love them, and we know there is reasons beyond what we could probably imagine to have to make that decision, but we always told him that she loved him very much.

♪ Kentrelle: This is the turnoff, wow, okay.

- Yeah, this is it.

- That was very— That, that, that was very fast, wow!

So where this challenge at?

We already here.

Leah: All right!

Nolin: Yessir, we made it!

[phone dings] - [gasps] Oh, we got a text from Dan!

- Oh, from Daaaaan!

- "Welcome to Melbourne."

Kentrelle: "Your challenge is located at--" Carolen: "...Lattins Farm Pond" Karen: "...at 6680 Courthouse Road."

- Woop-woop!

- We're here!

We did it!

[smack] - What in the world?

Oh, is this sa-- Li-- Oh-hoo-hoo-hoo.

[intense music] Nolin: [grunts] Let's do it, let's do it.

[whistle blows] ♪ Nolin: Hear what it says.

Carolen: Rip it, rip it, rip it.

Jon: All right, "Today's challenge is Pharaoh's Puzzle."

Dan: The challenge for Day Three is Pharaoh's Puzzle.

In this challenge, teams must work together to arrange spheres made up of multiple configurations to build a four-tier pyramid.

They must make sure every level is locked and in place to correctly complete this challenge.

- We also have a penalty.

Karen: Hm.

- "You have been penalized!"

What?

Ugh, I hate this.

- Yeah.

- "You must begin today's challenge..." "...with one of you standing in the penalty box for 60 seconds."

- Ugh.

- That's great.

- That's a bummer.

[laughs] - All right.

Thanks Team Black.

Carolen: Let's go.

Nolin: For the first minute, one of us had to stand over in the corner on a mat while the other person had to work by themselves.

[whistle blows] ♪ Carolen: [grunts] I knew this was something I was gonna struggle with the minute I saw this challenge.

Tia: [laughs] Carolen: It's colorful, it's fun, but I knew I was gonna struggle.

- What do you think?

What do you think?

Leah: I just wanna scope 'em out right now and see what we're gonna do.

Nolin: We're really just trying to figure out what pieces there were.

Figured we should probably put the bigger ones together first, um, because it does go four, three, two, one.

Karen: This penalty isn't fun.

I feel useless watching him run around.

♪ Jon: Yeah, just, just keep trying.

- I am not a puzzle guy, but, you know, I got navigations.

Hopefully Jon gots the challenge, you know.

[ding] Thaddeus: Um... Karen: Okay.

- 'Kay, you want that side?

Kentrelle: Okay.

Jon: The penalty's finally over, but after watching Kentrelle struggle with the puzzle, um, I can tell this is gonna be a tough one.

- What's your thing?

Jon: Yeah, we can try it.

Nolin: I would say we try to fill the outside first.

- But they're not all gonna be flat is the thing.

Nolin: The shapes and stuff that they're in, there's a lot of different combinations you could lay 'em out.

Yeah, I don't, I don't like how that's looking.

- 'Kay.

Nolin: It is harder than it looks.

Karen: Do you think this could be the center?

- I think that will be the center, so we just gotta get a base.

I absolutely love puzzles.

Puzzles are my thing.

Karen: No, puzzles are not my thing.

- No, they're not.

Both: [laugh] Carolen: What in the world?

Tia: Take a deep breath and let's just...

It's very hard to, like, understand where what piece fits where, so yeah, it was frustrating.

Carolen: I cannot figure this out.

Okay.

Tia: Yes, okay.

- All right, now the second one.

- Got it.

Okay, perfect.

Yes!

- Oh no, you little.

Okay.

Karen: Let's try the smaller blue one.

- I did not know what to do.

We were trying any and everything.

Thaddeus: That's not right.

Karen: No, I don't think so either.

Jon: It means we did it wrong.

There's only one way to solve it.

Kentrelle: All right, come on, come on.

We're gonna run out of time.

Move faster.

The strategy is lean on Jon.

What is that song, Lean on Me?

Me is Jon.

Jon is me.

Or should it go this way?

Nolin: And then this goes...

The two threes go here and here.

Leah: Yeah, but then we will have holes in the bottom, right?

Nolin: The first row was giving us challenges just because there was a lot of awkward pieces and we weren't sure how they all fit in.

Leah: 'Kay, let's take this one back.

- Taking all of them back.

Carolen: This is harder than I thought.

I think we should start over.

And one minute it seems like it fit perfectly, but then when it's time to place another piece, it's just not compatible, and it's almost like you gotta start all over.

Thaddeus: Try that— Put that in the middle.

Huh.

♪ - Oh gosh.

Thaddeus: Oh goodness.

- Okay, um... - We're bombing.

- No.

- It's, it's fine.

- Okay.

When we hit the one minute mark, and I'm looking at this pyramid, which is supposed to be a pyramid, I'm, like, there's no way we're gonna get it.

- I can't even— I don't know.

I hate puzzles.

[laughs] Kentrelle: C'mon.

Jon: I'm pretty sure that this goes here somehow.

Leah: Somehow we gotta make these all fit around.

Nolin: As time was winding down, um, you could kinda sense that man, we're just kinda at this place where we're kinda stuck.

Kentrelle: [gasps] Yes, yes.

And this goes right, like, right in the middle.

Karen: Okay.

Thaddeus: Right there.

- Perfect, yes!

Okay.

Thaddeus: We still got three more.

Karen: Okay.

- No, this one's hanging off.

♪ Leah: Um.

- Take that over there.

Kentrelle: [grunts] [buzzer] - Dang.

Carolen: Huh, we did not build a pyramid.

- All right.

- That was... tough.

That was really tough.

- Even though we timed out, we did our best, and I, I felt pretty confident still.

- I hate puzzles.

We did so bad.

- Yeah, we suck.

It's okay, I get it.

- Unfortunately we weren't able to form Pharaoh's pyramid.

- It's harder than it looks.

- Yeah, it is.

- Um.

- That stinks.

Nolin: That stinks.

- First time.

This challenge was pretty difficult, but, um, I think if we had more time we woulda figured it out, but yeah, we, unfortunately did not.

- That was horrible.

Jon: That was difficult.

Kentrelle: I never wanna do this again.

- I'd be surprised if any team got this, honestly.

It felt bad to time out, but it was also a little breath of relief 'cause I was getting frustrated.

- Yeah.

Thank you, time out.

I needed a time out.

♪ Jon: Let's see where we're going.

Kentrelle: Woo-hoo.

- Wonder where we're going.

- "Your relative lives at--" - "...28 Rosemont Drive" Both: "...Madison Road" - "Fernley, Nevada."

- Lets' go.

- All right.

Thaddeus: Come on.

Nolin: 329 Let's go, let's go!

[doors slamming shut] - Feel like we might be going the right way.

This is town.

I feel like, you know, we kept straight, we were leaving out of town, so... - Oh, right here, right here.

Actually go with me.

Ooh, ooh, ohh, Jon, okay.

- What'd you— I'm just listening, dude.

I'm just listening to you.

Kentrelle: Sorry, sorry, it's okay.

Just park it somewhere.

C'mon, we gotta ask somebody.

- Nowhere we can stop-- Karen: I know.

- to ask.

These are all houses.

- And that is very concerning.

- Oh great, we have a decision.

Left or right?

Karen: [under her breath] Oh jeez, I don't know.

Carolen: We got our own set of rules right now, Tia.

Tia: I get it.

- Focus.

Okay, come on.

First thing first, we are stopping for directions.

Kentrelle: We're not getting another strike, so we gettin' directions as soon as we can.

- So, make a left on Mission right here?

[indistinct conversation] Carolen: No city maps, no directions.

Leah: Go in there and let's try.

[laughingly] 'Cause we have no idea where we're going.

- Yeah, facts.

Just 'cause it's not in here.

We're driving to find our relative's address and we were just lost.

- Sir?

- Excuse me, sir!

Leah: We're definitely struggling.

Nobody seems to know where the street is, and so we just have to keep driving and asking and hoping that somebody knows where it's at.

Jon: She said go to the light and make a left at the light.

Kentrelle: Then what else?

- Uh, and then go all the way down to the underpass.

Kentrelle: And then make a, make that second left, right?

- The, uh, yeah, the street to the left.

♪ Thaddeus: Ma, are you gonna run?

I need you to run run, like, run.

We need a map to find this address and fast.

So we pulled up to a welcome center.

Run, run, run!

Karen: I'm running!

- G-go, go!

Just go!

Yeah, she's old, but she can run.

Oh my gosh, where are you going?

It's-I don't think it's open.

Karen: They're not open.

- Ma, I don't think it's open.

I— [beep beep] I don't think— Jeez.

Karen: Not open.

- I— Yeah.

- Okay.

Whew.

Leah: Okay, so left here.

Nolin: I think he said go left.

- And then look for Babcock.

- All right.

Leah: And right on Babcock.

Kentrelle: Walnut, ugh, southeast.

Okay, yeah.

- Walnut.

Yeah, it's, it's gonna be on this side.

Kentrelle: Mhm.

- We just gotta make a turn.

Trying to find the relative's house, we were getting pretty turned around.

Um, we ended up heading in the opposite direction.

Kentrelle: That kinda really put us behind, but I mean, hey.

Jon: As long as we get there.

- Okay.

- The paper.

Trying to find this relative's house was a struggle.

[car door shuts] No one seems to know where this street is, and it's getting frustrating now.

Karen: Did they know?

Thaddeus: No.

Karen: [exasperated] Oh gosh.

- Madison Street, like, Madison Road— - Is right here, gotcha.

- Yeah, we're close to it.

- We're in a subdivision, and all the streets end in "-son".

So we think that we're in the right area.

- Madison, Madison.

Nolin: We're driving around just hoping for some luck, and we end up... boom, running into the road that we need.

- [laughs] - Somebody else.

'Kay, pull in.

What [indistinct].

[ding] ♪ - [laughingly] Hi.

Nolin: Hey, how you guys doing?

- Good, how are you?

- Not bad.

- Nice to meet you.

My name is Deadra.

My name's Dante.

Nolin: I'm Nolin.

- And I'm Leah.

- Are, are we related?

- Yes, we are.

- And how are we related?

Deadra: We are your first cousins on your mom's side.

Leah: Oh my goodness.

Deadra: [laughingly] Home, right?

It's very nice to meet you.

Nolin: It's nice to meet you too, man.

These were the first relatives that I have met on my mom's side, which is very exciting, and so I can't wait to learn more about my mom's side now.

- How old are you guys?

Deadra: Me, I'm 28.

- I'm 17.

- [laughingly] Wow, cool.

- 17?

- Yeah, Nolin's 20.

Deadra: 20?

- When's your birthday?

- February.

- Dante: Feb-- Nolin: 22nd.

- Feburar— 22nd?!

- Yeah.

- [gasps] - That's my birthday.

Yo!

Nolin: Are you for real?

- That's my birthday.

Nolin: Wait, how old are you, 17?

Dante: Yeah, I'm 17.

- That's crazy.

Nolin: That's crazy.

- I feel like I do, I did, I do have a bond with him even though I'm just meeting them.

I didn't think it was gonna be there, but when it was, I was just taken aback 'cause you never really get that with people you first meet or just family members you first meet.

But this one was totally different.

- You look a lot like some of my relatives.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

Nolin: [laughs] - You do, you really do.

Nolin: That's cool.

I know I looked a lot like my two brothers I just met.

Deadra: Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

Deadra: Mm.

- I can see it, yeah.

Nolin: It was special, and it was exciting.

It was a lot of fun, and they're, they're both a lot of fun, and so, um, I'm excited to learn more.

Kentrelle: Says we're going west right now.

Jon: We're going west?

Kentrelle: 'Kay, I see Silver, Southwest... - You seein' numbers?

Kentrelle: Um, not yet.

Ooh, we gettin' there.

We gettin' there.

We gettin' there.

Jon: We are.

Rosemont!

- 25.

Oh, we made it.

That's, that's it right there!

That's it!

That's it!

- Yup, yup.

28.

♪ [ding] ♪ How's it goin'?

Man 1: Goin' pretty good, how about you?

Jon: Good.

I'm Jon.

- I'm Kentrelle.

- Nice to meet you.

I'm Dustin.

Jon: Nice to meet you.

And, um, I figured you're probably related to me then?

- Yes.

- Yeah, and how are we related?

- I'm your brother.

- Hey, man.

It's nice to meet you.

Dustin: Nice to meet you.

♪ Jon: It's pretty crazy.

Dustin: Can definitely see some family resemblance.

- Oh yeah.

There's something there for sure.

[chuckles] - We both have a love for long hair.

Jon: Long hair, yeah.

I like the long hair.

- [laughs] Jon: When something massive happens, um, I tend not to show um, too much emotion.

I've learned to masterfully guard myself, and if I do feel something on the rare occasion that I usually don't, I shove it way deep down inside.

I don't let it see the light of day because in past experiences when I let that happen, it doesn't go well.

And I got the sense that, uh, that happens a lot for Dustin too.

How old are you?

- 27.

- 27, okay.

I'm only 20, so there's a difference there.

Dustin: Ah, so I'm the eldest.

Jon: Okay.

Cool, there's more of you then?

Dustin: Um, there's one other that I grew up with, and he's older than me, but he's no longer around.

- Gotcha.

Okay, cool.

Good to know.

Do we share the same dad or mom or— - I believe we share the same mother.

Jon: Same mom.

Okay.

Gotcha.

- I don't know too much about her.

Jon: No.

- I'm wondering if you do.

- I know close to nothing to be honest.

Dustin: [laughingly] So we're on the same page.

Jon: Yeah.

I only have, like, a photo of my dad, but that's, that's it.

I have nothing else.

- [laughingly] I have a photo of neither, so... Jon: Yeah.

Dustin: Jon started to feel like family, uh, almost immediately.

Once I started talking to him, found out we had quite a bit in common.

- So after yesterday, I don't think I had any siblings, so it's definitely a shock.

I wasn't expecting it, but no, it's a good surprise.

Jon: I grew up with a brother, but, like, this is different.

Definitely something deeper going on that's, um, you know, hopefully will develop and as time goes forward, you know, maintain a close relationship.

But excitement more than anything.

I was pretty excited.

♪ Thaddeus: We're here.

Karen: Yes, this is it.

Oh man, we found it.

We found it.

And we are here.

Yes.

All right, let's go.

Ready?

Here we go.

♪ Thaddeus: Hi.

- Hello, how you doing?

- Pretty good, how are you guys?

Woman 1: All right.

My name is Thaddeus.

This is my mom, Karen.

Karen: Hi, nice to meet you all.

- How are we related?

- I'm actually related to her.

- To me?

Woman 1: Yes, I'm your cousin.

Both: [laugh] Karen: Didn't expect that.

Oh my gosh.

All: [laughing] Woman 1: And this is Gail.

How you doing?

Karen: Oh, nice to meet you.

Gail: [muffled] God is good.

Karen: Oh, yes He is.

Woman 1: I'm Kathy.

- And I'm her sister, Gail.

- And we are Karen's cousins.

- Mhm.

- So I was very excited.

It's still a joy to see my cousin.

- Yeah.

Karen: Oh my gosh, so.

- How are you doing, cousin?

- [laughingly] Hi!

- This is a plot twist.

Kathy: Yeah, cousin Gail.

- Oh my gosh.

That was just one of the most amazing feelings ever because the two women who were standing out front, I had never met before.

Didn't even know they existed, so talking about a great surprise.

So tell me exactly how we're related.

- Two brothers, Uncle George and my grandfather, Will, was brothers.

Karen: Wow.

- Yes.

- And of course George is my grandfather, so that is so cool.

- Yes.

- Their grandfather and my grandfather were brothers.

So then tell me how you two are related.

- We are sisters.

Karen: Sisters.

- Yeah.

Karen: Wow.

Let me see.

Which one's the oldest.

- Kathy.

All: [laugh] - Don't you know?

All: [laughing] - Do I look younger?

Karen: You do, you know, but your little, like, I'm in charge here, so I should've known.

Gail: That's her, that's her personality.

All: [laughing] - Mine too, don't worry.

All: [laughing] Kathy: So we got a lot in common, huh?

- Oh, it's so great to meet you two.

This was totally unexpected, honestly, I just— Gail: It's a blessing.

It's a blessing.

Karen: It is a blessing.

- And we got a big family.

Big family.

- Really?

Kathy: Yes.

- Wow.

Kathy: Would you like to meet some of 'em?

Karen: I'd love to meet some of them.

Kathy: All right.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

All: [laughing] Karen: [laughing] I'm right there.

[laughing] ♪ Carolen: But I really feel like we're getting close.

Madison.

Just keep lookin'.

We're gonna get to meet a relative.

Tia, this is crazy.

- Madison Road.

- Madison, look!

There's Madison.

- Okay, so 4529.

Carolen: 4529 Madison.

Okay, 4578.

- 29 right there.

Carolen: There it is.

Tia: There it is.

[ding] ♪ Carolen: Hi.

- Hi.

- I'm Tia.

- I'm Carolen.

- I'm Lisa Tarrant.

Both: Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- Who are you related to?

- Tia, I'm your sister on your father's side.

- Oh, hi.

It's nice to meet you.

Oh my gosh.

[emotionally] It's so nice to meet you.

Lisa: Okay.

[laughs] How you doin'?

- [emotionally] I'm good.

How are you?

Lisa: I'm good.

I'm good.

- [emotionally] It made me happy.

'Cause I don't know how that feels, and so for the first time it just was, like, and experience that, you know, to have somebody that is related to you hug you, you know, it was just amazing.

Lisa: I'm still in shock.

Still.

Um, yeah, but it's exciting too.

Um, it's something that I didn't see coming, but I'm excited for what the future holds.

- Where y'all been?

- Everywhere.

[laughs] Lisa: Yeah?

- Yeah.

We just came from Tonopah.

-Tonopah?

- Yeah, so.

- It's nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

Girls, you wanna come inside?

Tia: Yes, please.

- Okay, come on.

- [emotionally] And it means the world.

I mean, I can't convey to you what that means to me.

I mean, I can sit here and I can tell you all the fancy words, but I really cannot just convey what that is.

It's 50 years of just not knowing and now knowing and finding out.

You know, there are not words to describe it.

♪ Karen: When Kathy and Gail invited me inside the house, we came through and out into the back yard.

Kathy: Go ahead.

Karen: Can I go first?

Kathy: Yeah, go first.

Family: [clapping] Karen: [laughingly] Wow.

This is so crazy.

- Come on down.

Karen: And there were, like, so many people that I had never seen before.

Kathy: This is your family.

Karen: Hi, everybody!

I am Karen.

Man 2: Karen.

- Hi, Karen.

Karen: Then I met so many people that I never knew.

Nice to meet everybody.

Thank you, guys, for this.

This is, like, the best gift ever.

[laughs] And they all welcomed me with open arms.

They were just as excited to see me as I was to, to meet them for the very first time.

Thaddeus: To see all this unfold, it's exciting.

It was amazing to, um, see her meet more of her family members and our family.

The road to peace is that I met so many family members on this trip, and I will definitely keep those relationships going as I know they would love to as well.

Wow, surprise, surprise.

♪ Dan: In Melbourne, Florida, Nolin is learning more about his mother's side of the family with his cousins, Deadra and Dante.

- We're related through my mom's side?

- Yes.

- How much do you know about her side?

- So your mom is our mom's sister.

- 'Kay.

Deadra: So and actually, would you like to know her name?

Nolin: Yeah.

- Her name is Angie.

- Wow.

- Full name is Angie Louis.

- Angie Louis.

Deadra: Mhmm.

- That's what they called me at the hospital before I had a name-- Leah: Baby Boy Louis.

- was Baby Boy Louis.

So Angie Louis...

It just doesn't feel real.

Yeah, that is just so special because I never knew anything about her really growing up, and so just to be one step closer to, uh, meeting with her is just, it's just a feeling that, um, is so special.

I just can't wait to just learn more about myself, uh, through my relatives.

- So I have pictures of your mom.

Do you wanna see?

Nolin: Yes, yes I do.

Deadra: All right.

Here's the youngest one.

- Oh— - [laughs] - my goodness.

- No way.

Leah: [laughingly] Oh my word.

Nolin: And that.

Leah: Wait till we show you some baby pictures.

Deadra: Do they look like you?

Nolin: That looks... [laughs] Nolin: That could be me.

Donte: Carbon copy.

Nolin: Is that me?

You sure this— Dante: Carbon copy.

- This is... looks most like me than any pictures we've seen.

Leah: That's crazy, yeah.

Your baby pictures.

Nolin: Yeah.

Deadra: And then we have one where she's a wee bit older.

- Yeah.

That's crazy.

- I can see that too.

Wow.

What's she like?

[laughs] - So, your mom, I think she's very, a positive person.

Like, when things are really tough, she always tries to find, like, the good in everything, tries to bring everybody up.

She's just [indistinct]— Dante: Definitely the most positive out of all of, all of our aunties.

Deadra: Oh yeah, by far.

- [laughingly] Is that not me?

Deadra: My mom included.

[laughingly] My mom included.

Ho-huh-huh-huh.

- Now that, saying that, it's like— Deadra: [laughingly] I wanna hug you.

Come here.

Oh, I wanna hug you.

♪ Nolin: That really got to me because, like, that, I think that's my biggest personality trait, like, and just to hear that that's a trait that she has is just special because that's something that, that we share.

- She's a God-fearing woman.

She go to church every Sunday.

You know what I'm saying?

Stuff like that.

- Yeah?

Donte: Yeah.

- That's... Deadra: I think that's what keeps her positive.

- Yeah.

- To know someone's... - Watching over.

- yeah.

- That's how I was raised too.

- Honestly, I've been preparing myself that, like, she's gone or something.

Just so I could be strong for you when we, like, heard that, and then, like, she's here, and she's okay, and she believes in God like you do.

And so, like, just so much relief today.

- That's awesome.

There's so many connections between my adoptive family and my blood-related family, and yeah, it's just awesome.

To finally be here and see that and find my mom's name and what she looks like, it's, it's something that, um, I'll never forget.

It's something, it's one of the best moments of my life.

- Happy to [indistinct] man.

Nolin: [laughs] Honestly.

I'm the most grateful.

Um, I can't really describe how thankful I am for this opportunity, um.

It's something that not everybody gets to have.

And so I just feel very blessed to be adopted into the family that I had been and to hear about my biological family and to continually learn more about them every day.

I just feel blessed and thankful.

Deadra: It's so nice to meet you.

Leah: Yes, you too.

Thank you.

- Love you too.

♪ Dan: In Fernley, Nevada, Tia is sitting down with her sister, Lisa, as she learns more about her father's side of the family.

- Can you tell me my dad's name?

It's JB.

Tia: JB.

- JB Swoape.

- JB Swoape.

- Yep.

You wanna see a picture of him?

Tia: Yes.

I would like to see a picture.

Lisa: He loved to fish.

Tia: Oh, oh wow.

Lisa: He was always fishing.

Tia: Oh my gosh.

Lisa: Any picture that I've ever gotten, he's been fishing, and... - Oh wow.

Oh my gosh.

Lisa: He used to-- Tia: That's my dad.

Lisa: yeah, slick his hair down with baby oil.

I used to tell him it's not cool, but... Lisa: [laughs] Oh my gosh.

That's awesome.

So what's dad like?

- Well, he's not with us anymore.

Um, he passed away when he was about 47 years old.

He, uh, ended up passing away in his 40s.

Um, he was a truck driver, and he was hit by a car.

- Oh.

Lisa: And so he's, he's not here, but he's buried in Wellington.

He was a rulebreaker.

He never lived by, um, the rules.

Tia: [sniffs] Lisa: This is his headstone.

Tia: Wow.

♪ [emotionally] It makes me sad, but grateful that I get to meet her, but does make me sad, you know, that I'll never get to meet him, but... you know, God has, God has another plan.

[sniffles] And I'm just grateful that I did get to meet her.

Did my dad know about me?

- I don't know.

He never discussed stuff like that with me.

Tia: I'm sorry that I didn't get to meet him, and I'm sorry for your loss.

- We weren't speaking when he passed away, and so I've always carried that with me.

- I understand.

Lisa: I was mad at him for his life choices, and I put my foot down, thinking I was gonna make him change by telling him I wouldn't talk to him until he changed, and then I never got to talk to him again, so... - I understand.

Lisa: I've had to carry that around.

Tia: I understand completely.

Um, my parents left me in September.

[emotionally] And I was so mad when they left.

But I understand what you mean by being mad and not talking to somebody and not telling them that you do love them, and I did love my mom and dad.

It doesn't matter that they, they hurt me and they did the crummy stuff.

I still loved them, and I felt terrible about not telling them and them both passing away without saying that, so I do understand.

Lisa: Well, I'm sorry you went through that.

I mean, I feel like you dodged one horrible childhood for another.

Tia: [sniffs] It's a little hard, but for both of us being through that and what she said, I feel like we both can help each other heal from those traumas.

Like, I can give her some of the wisdom that I've survived, and maybe she can share some of the wisdom that she's gone through that she's survived.

- I'm looking forward to a new chapter with somebody to reach out with and make memories with.

- I would love to have a relationship, you know, hopefully.

Lisa: That would be great.

I would love for us to exchange phone numbers-- Tia: Absolutely.

- and get to know each other a lot better.

Tia: Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Lisa: For sure.

- Good.

Her coming into my life right now is just a gift.

I'm just blessed beyond all measure.

I, I am.

I'm just so thankful.

♪ Jon: Tell me what you can about mom.

- I know little to nothing.

Um, I know that, you know, she was in San Francisco for awhile.

Jon: Mmhm.

- And I know that one day she just vanished.

Jon: Really?

Dustin: After that, there was no trace.

No one can find her, even still no one is able to locate her.

Jon: Mmhm.

- I know she was homeless for a little while, and then vanished.

- Mm.

Dustin: Last time she was seen was in San Francisco.

- San Francisco.

Dustin: Um, don't know her name.

Don't remember and I don't even know what she looks like.

Jon: So, you've mentioned um, that we both have an older biological brother, um, but that he's not around anymore.

What do you mean by that?

- Um, so, he has the same problems we do... Jon: Mmhm.

- tenfold.

- Oh.

- So he went insane.

Jon: Mmhm.

Dustin: So, uh, he is incarcerated for the next 20 years, and then after that he will be spending the rest of his life in a mental facility.

- Okay.

Dustin: He uh, he cannot cope with the real world, so to speak.

- He had it rough in life.

Um, and that he kinda got the brunt of you know, the depression and anxiety that I feel, um, he had it ten times worse.

Um, and that kind of teaches me that yeah, you may have it bad, but there are people out there that have it a lot worse.

And, and to be grateful that, you know, that your struggles aren't as, as bad, and it sucks to hear that, that broke my heart a little bit.

Yeah, I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety.

- Yeah.

Same.

Jon: Yep.

- Yep.

Jon: Did you have any guesses as to why um, we tend to be like that?

- I actually have an answer for that.

- Okay.

- Um, our mother uh, when we were conceived was using, well, using substances of multiple sorts.

- Got it.

Dustin: So.

- Got it, okay.

Dustin: Uh, at least all three of us have some form of issues.

- Yeah.

- My eldest brother being the worst.

- Mmhm.

So, hearing that, it's kind of, the thought crept into my head like why can't I escape that?

Like, and it seems that if I really think about it like I get really down on myself and I'm like, okay, well, I'm the common denominator in all these situations and that sucks to think about, it's like, oh is it my fault?

Can I get a moment [indistinct]?

[door opens] [emotionally] It's okay.

[exhales] ♪ [sniffs] ♪ Kentrelle: You okay?

What's up man?

[friendly slaps] What's wrong?

Jon: Nothing, just getting in my head.

Kentrelle: Get in your head in what way?

Jon: Just everything, man.

Kentrelle: Talk to me, Jon.

Jon: I don't know, bro.

Kentrelle: I kinda heard some of the things you were saying.

Jon: Yeah.

Oh man.

Kentrelle: You needed that.

We both need it.

Jon: I think so.

Kentrelle: You just needed to cry, that was all.

Good?

Jon: Yeah, I think so.

[exhales] It's just a lot to process, I think.

It's like an information overload.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what it is.

Just a lot, and some of the news, it stinks.

Um, so that combined with, you know, just it all flooding my face, yeah, it can be— it's tough.

Yeah.

It's a little heavy, you know.

Definitely grew up in a better situation than from what it seems like I could have.

Dustin: Yeah, yeah.

- Grateful that I got some answers too.

Not gonna lie, some of them were hard to hear.

Um, I was more or less expecting something like that though.

- Uh, definitely will help you later on to, now that you know what the root of the issue is.

- Yeah.

Dustin: I hope he can use that in the future to kind of explain the things that go on within himself and also to help himself when said things happen.

- Pretty grateful for you, man, appreciate it.

- I thank you for coming.

It has been, it's been quite amazin'.

- Yeah.

Dustin: Getting to know someone who's similar to me, you know, has same interests, same humor type, same hairline.

Jon: [chuckles] Let's go.

Dustin: It's been, it's been pretty awesome.

Jon: Mmhm.

No, it has.

It has.

♪ [crickets chirping] Dan: Tensions are high at the end of Day Three, as two of our teams already have one strike.

Karen: How are you feeling about today?

- Um, I think we're getting another strike.

Nolin: Yeah, I don't know, I think the challenge, it was our first time timing out.

Dan: And with all four teams feeling the challenge today, no one is safe.

Jon: Hopefully people did worse than we did today, so.

Kentrelle: No, seriously.

- Don't worry about it.

Today was a struggle for us, but they could have struggled as well.

- You know, we did our best, and we're gonna see what happens.

[mouse click] Dan: Welcome teams to the end of Day Three.

Three days down, seven more to go for those of you who make it to Day Ten.

And I'm sure all of you are very much determined to get all the way to the end.

Fair enough to say?

Kentrelle: Oh, for sure.

Jon: Yes.

Tia: Yes.

Carolen: Absolutely.

- When I found out how everyone did at today's challenge I was very surprised.

Team Red is smiling, but uh, you weren't smiling at the challenge today.

Karen: No, we weren't.

Thaddeus: Whoa.

All: [laughing] Thaddeus: Whoa.

Karen: [laughing] - We like to create thinking challenges as well as physical challenges.

And, uh, today apparently all four teams weren't thinking that well.

All: [laughing] Nolin: Um.

Thaddeus: Oh no, you little... Tia: Yeah, we suck.

It's okay, I get it.

Kentrelle: That was a hard one.

- I'd be surprised if anyone got this, honestly.

- I hope everyone did well except for Team Black.

Um, they've been doing well this whole time, [chuckling] but um, we need to catch up, so, I hope they struggled.

Karen: But, but, but we love you guys, just so you know.

Tia: We love you guys too.

Carolen: [indistinct] All: [laughing] - Having said that, here is the most important thing that we want to talk about each and every day, who you met.

Thaddeus, this journey is a discovery about you, and yet, just when you thought you knew it all, what happened tonight?

- Dan the man, um, tonight was a surprise, because tonight was about my mom.

Dan: Karen, who was waiting for you?

- Eleven family members, beautiful family members and here they are.

- Karen!

I-I-I've gotta know.

What was that like?

I mean, you thought you knew all your family, and these aren't distant relatives, these are cousins.

- This is crazy.

I mean, what a plot twist.

When we arrived, we, of course, assumed that it was going to be Thaddeus's family and so when he says How are we related?

And my two cousins said, We're related to your mother.

I almost got blown away with a feather.

I couldn't believe it.

This has been like, the best surprise, the best day ever.

Dan: Aw, that's awesome.

Today, Tia and Carolen, you switched places driving and navigating, but you also switched places at the end of the day.

Tia, today this was your day.

Who was waiting for you?

- Uh, my sister, Lisa, was waiting for me... And yes.

- Hi.

Tia: Yep, so I got to meet my sister.

Dan: What was that like?

Tia: Amazing.

Um, next to having my children, today was one of the best days I've ever had in my life.

- I love it, I love it.

It's all about family, and your families are growing each and every day.

And that was certainly the case once again for Nolin.

Nolin, who did you meet today and, and what important information did they share with you?

- Yeah, so today I met two cousins, Dede and Donte.

They're amazing, and uh— Donte: [laughs] Nolin: [chuckles] they're so fun and exciting and can't wait to uh, learn more about them.

And they also gave me this, which is a baby photo of my mother.

Dan: Oh, wow.

Wow!

- And her name is Angie Louis and she is— she looks exactly like me at this age.

So she is a couple, a couple years old and baby photos that I have at that age, we're— we look like twins and so that was special for me and for us.

- Wow.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Who knows who's still waiting out there for you throughout the remainder of this race.

So for Kentrelle and Jon, just like Tia and Carolen, you don't know who will be at the door, you know.

You don't know which family is there waiting for you.

Jon, yesterday was your day and today was another good day for you.

Who did you meet?

- Um, Mr. Dan, today was an exceptional day.

Um, I was able to meet, uh— Kentrelle: [drumroll] Jon: my brother.

This is Dustin.

This is my brother.

- Hello.

- Uh, he's amazing.

Um, yeah, today-today was very emotional, it was very awesome.

- I just— to hear that— I, I— [sighs] It's really hard for me— [sighs] [emotionally] to put into words how I feel when I hear one of you say, today I met my father or my brother or my sister.

Um, and I can feel how powerful it is for all of you.

Jon, congratulations.

Congratulations.

[sniffs] I am so excited for each moment.

I'm so excited to see who you meet and how you do and how you react to them because family is what it's all about.

[intense music] Today was a day of a variety of struggles at different points throughout the race for different teams.

Ultimately, we have a clear first place winner and we have someone that will pick up a strike.

Finishing 22 minutes over their allotted time— [intense music] Team Green, you finished in first place.

You picked up first place on this day and the first place benefit which is a benefit at tomorrow's challenge.

Nolin: Wow.

- Wow.

- Five minutes behind you, finishing 27 minutes over their allotted time, Team Red, you are roaring back in a strong way.

Congratulations.

- Yes!

[scattered clapping] - So it comes down to Team Black and Team Blue.

I will tell you that five minutes separated the two of you.

One of you finished 32 minutes over your allotted time, and one of you finished 37 minutes over your allotted time.

Safe on this third day of Relative Race, finishing 32 minutes over their allotted time, congratulations to Jon and Kentrelle.

Jon and Kentrelle: [sighing] - And that means Carolen and Tia, you have picked up your first strike of Relative Race.

And this is how quickly things can turn, but just as quickly as they turn negatively for one of you, just that quickly it can turn back around.

Keep that in mind.

You never know what the other teams are going through.

You do know that you all have family waiting for you, and that's the most important thing.

Congratulations on finishing Day Three, and I hope you look forward to what lies ahead on Day Four of Relative Race.

We'll see you all tomorrow night.

All: [goodnights] Donte: Let's go.

Nolin and Leah: [laughing] Donte: Let's go.

Deadra: That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Donte: That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Deadra: That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Donte: That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

First place.

Deadra: That'swt 'm talkin' 'b.

- That was too close man.

- But the team that we wanted to get a strike got a strike so now we need to focus on Green Team.

- We got our first strike.

- Yes we did.

All: [cheering] Karen: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

All: ♪ It reaches... ♪ Karen: After the call, we were sitting around celebrating our victory and my family broke out in song.

Man: ♪ Well, let it flow!

♪ All: ♪ Let it flow to the lowest valley.

♪ - It was amazing to be in the same room with family who have beautiful voices and we enjoyed singing and learning more about that from each other.

All: ♪ It will never lose ♪ Man: ♪ Will never lose.

♪ Thaddeus: It felt amazing joining in, um, the family while everyone was singing.

It was just a fun moment to see everyone come together and celebrate.

Man: ♪ its power.

♪ All: ♪ its power ♪ Man: All right!

[clapping] [chatting and laughing]