Dan: Previously on Relative Race.

Both: Woo woo!

Dan: The competition heated up!

[text notification] - [laughs] Dan: As Team Green continued to sweep every first place prize.

- Well, you're gonna have to win first first.

- [laughs] Dan: Teams rolled into a bowling challenge.

Christine: Go, go, go, go!

Dan: That promised an additional benefit to the best bowler.

Who knocked down the most pins?

Well, you're gonna find out.

Christine: It's gonna be really interesting to find out what these pins mean in the race tomorrow.

Dan: And Team Red got dangerously close to elimination.

You have picked up your second strike on Relative Race.

Jarrell met a cousin who grew up with his mother.

Is my mom still alive?

- Yes.

Amauni: [happy vocalization] Jarrell: The fact that she's still alive, that means that I still have a chance of meeting my biological mother, and to me that is a huge deal.

Dan: Stephen was treated to an emotional slideshow of his biological family.

Steve: Getting to see people that I look like is, it's blowing my mind.

I'm hoping that at some point in this journey, I get to meet my sister.

Dan: And the twins finally found their sister.

- I'm Brenda.

Both: Brenda!!

- Oh my gosh!

Hi!

There will hopefully be a lot of healing from this, and a lot of great things to come.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.

- Love you!

- Pedal to the metal.

Dan: To win $50,000.

- Go, go!

Dan: And to find their family.

[knocking] Singers: ♪ Oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ Oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ Oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ Dan: The dawn lights up a new day of competition, as teams anxiously prepare for today's race.

Steve: So it's Day 4.

We got three wins under our belt, and the pressure's on for another.

Amauni: Jarrell and I talked about, you know, the second strike.

It is what it is.

- You know, I put the past in the past, and, 'cause you can't change it, so... you just, you have to think about today.

Kaleigh: Today is going to go great, we're going to navigate flawlessly and we're, we're comin' in number one tonight.

Dan: After three days of travel, our four teams are spread out all across the United States.

Team Red is starting in Dayton, Ohio, but with two strikes, there is no room for error.

With only one strike, Team Black prepares in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Down south, Team Blue begins the day strike-free in Northport, Alabama, and in Clayton, New Mexico, Team Green is already mapping their way to Santa Fe after receiving their destination last night with their third first place prize in a row.

Steve: Knowin' where we're goin' last night for today really helped us out; we were able to map out everything.

Amauni: Green Team, they're doin' really, really well, but c'mon, y'all, like, give somebody else a chance to be first!

- Right, give somebody else a chance to be first.

[bright music] Brenda: I am so blessed to have finally been able to meet you.

I feel like this is an amazing, amazing gift that we've received, and I couldn't be more grateful for that.

- Us too.

- Us too.

This has been so exciting.

Being here in Grand Junction with our sister Brenda, she's awesome.

She is so sweet, and I can't wait to get to know her further.

Have you guys seen a picture of your biological father yet?

Both: No.

Pam: Never.

- Well, here's... Pam: Oh my goodness!

Brenda: A picture of our mother and... Christine: Our biological father!

Christine: Okay.

Pam: Wow!

- Wow, that's amazing.

Pam: She was so pretty.

Poor baby, she was so young.

- Looking at Arnold, our biological father, that was amazing, 'cause we have never seen a picture of him at all.

Pam: You look exactly like him.

[laughter] That's 100 percent you.

You look ex--, you're, that's your nose.

When Brenda gave us the photo of our biological father, I, I saw Christine, she is a spitting image of our biological father, so she looks just like him.

Christine: What do you know about our biological father, Arnold?

- I don't know a whole lot about Arnold, but I hope that you can meet him along, on your journey.

Pam: I'm kinda nervous to meet our biological father, Arnold, uh, but excited.

♪ Dan: In Clayton, New Mexico... - We need to continue the streak, of, of Philbrooks win.

Dan: Stephen's cousins sit down with Team Green to say their good-byes.

- And make it like a domino theory, [tongue trilling] right down the road.

- Absolutely, all the way, undefeated!

- Amen to that!

[laughter] Steve: The morning always goes pretty fast.

It's gonna be hard to say good-bye to Bobby, Justine, and Danette this morning.

- Yeah.

- We just met 'em, and we'd love to spend more time with 'em.

- Before you guys get going, um, we had this made for you.

It's just a collection of all the pictures that we saw last night on the slideshow.

Bobby: Well hopefully, through these pictures that we're showing you today, uh, you'll get some comfort knowing that, you know, we love you.

We love you with all our heart.

Steve: That's Grandpa, Great-Grandpa Charles right there on the cover there.

Danette: It is, yes.

Steve: This is, uh, this is so amazing.

This is such a wonderful, put-together photo album.

Definitely gonna be lookin' at Great-Grandpa Charles a lot, I... it just blows me away when I see somebody who I look like, I... [tearfully] and that I have, like, blood family out there, and I look like people.

[gentle music] I mean, I didn't expect meeting new relatives to be this easy, and for them to be so welcoming.

I mean, it's a blessing.

♪ - They might send us to another city in Ohio.

- This morning, we did a lot of, uh, preparation.

- The main thing is you need to find 35 East, or West, whichever way you goin'.

Jarrell: We mapped out how to get to different places as far us uh, main highways go.

- It's Red Team today.

All the way.

[text notification] - Ope!

Amauni: Oh, we got a text.

- Got a text message.

[clock ticking, dramatic music] [text notification] Steve: Oh!

We got a text.

Christine: Come on, technical difficulties.

- I know, I'm sorry!

[laughter] - Text from Dan, it says, "Good morning, teams."

- "And welcome to Day 4 of Relative Race."

- "Team Red will be traveling to Cincinnati, Ohio," that's our hometown!

We gon' get this.

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Byram, Mississippi."

- "Team Black will be traveling to..." - Oo-ray?

- I don't-- - Ooie- ray?

Colorado.

- Colorado!

- Still in Colorado.

- "And Team Green will be traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico!"

- "Today's first place prize is one minute of GPS--" - "And you may not write down the directions or take a photo."

- "Good luck, your time starts now!"

Steve: We gotta go!

Come on!

No way!

- Nice meetin' you, cuz.

- Good luck, good luck, good luck.

Christine: Okay, guys!

I love you!

Jarrell: Team Red, Cincinnati!

Steve: Bye, y'all!

Pam: Love you!

[intense music] ♪ All right, uh, we're gonna get to 12th and... wait.

- We need to get back out to 50.

Pam: I know, I, I'm thinking, I think we're goin' in the wrong-- we're going in the wrong direction, I-- Hold on.

I think we're going in the wrong direction.

Christine: Okay.

Pam: We left the house in Grand Junction this morning, and we got out a block away, and I just became completely disoriented to the map!

So, yeah, we went in the wrong direction, turn around.

Christine: Okay.

Dan: As Team Black is lost at the starting line... - Why?

Dan: Their competition flawlessly navigates their way to the freeways.

- She said this is 56?

- Is it?

- I don't know.

- Oh, yes!

It is!

Susan: It is?

Okay.

Steve: It is!

- [singsong] Straight to the highway, we on a roll.

- We are supposed to cross North Avenue.

- Okay, turn around again?

- I don't know, now I'm messed up!

I don't know, I mean, now, I'm like totally disoriented.

- Calm down, I can turn right here.

Do you want me to turn around?

- I don't know!

I don't know.

I don't know what direction we're supposed to be going in right now, I mean, I don't know.

- That's fine.

That's fine.

We'll just, we'll figure this out, it's fine.

We've literally been driving in circles all morning.

Pam: Oh my gosh.

Great.

- It's okay.

- No, it's not okay.

♪ You're like, no help reading a map, and I totally freakin'-- - I'm trying to drive, Pam.

- I know that, but I know how to read a map and drive.

- You wanted to, though, I showed you-- - I had to, because you weren't doing it.

Christine: No, that's not true!

I felt very confident with reading the map yesterday.

- I don't know.

This is really bad.

If we don't find the freeway quickly, this could be a disaster for us.

Great.

[frustrated grunt] [adventurous music] Dan: Day 4 of Relative Race is underway.

- Green means go, go, go, go!

Dan: And while three teams are on the highway... Pam: [frustrated grunt] - [exasperated scoff] Dan: Team Black is still stuck back in town.

Pam: I was really starting to think that we were done for, and then suddenly... Unbelievable.

- There's 50, 50 South.

Right there.

- Oh.

[intense music] ♪ Oh.

I'm an idiot.

[frustrated grunt] ♪ I'm sorry.

- It's all right.

Dan: Now that Team Black has found the freeway, they can begin making their way to Ouray, Colorado.

Once they arrive, they'll have to take a city selfie, complete a challenge, and find their relative, all in an allotted time of two hours.

Christine: You just panicked and spiraled, and it just... it happened.

- It's called "Pam-icking," by the way.

- Panicking?

- Pam-icking.

- Oh, Pam-icking!

[laughs] - Well, I Pam-icked.

[wheezing] - That's good, come on.

- No, I'm not giving you a high five.

- Come on, come on!

- I'm not feeling like a high five.

- Come on, don't leave me hanging.

- Do not force me, no.

[plodding music] - [through yawn] I should not be tired.

- [yawning] - You cover yours!

[yawns] - That was a heck of a yawn.

- [yawns] Dan: Team Blue is sleeping their way towards Byram, Mississippi, with a... [yawns] allotted time of three hours.

Steve: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[record scratch] Those are mountains!

Susan: [laughs] Steve: Oh, is there snow on that?

Do you see it?

Susan: Yes, I see it.

Steve: They're so tall, the climate is different!

- [chuckles] - You seem less amazed than me.

- Well, I've seen mountains before, and I've seen bigger than this.

- So this wears off?

- It is cool.

[laughs] Dan: Team Green is trekking through the snowcapped mountains of New Mexico towards Santa Fe.

They have an allotted time of 3 hours and 20 minutes.

[laid-back music] - [singing] ♪ Doo doo, doo doo doo-- ♪ ♪ She's a maniac, ma-- ♪ ♪ Cruisin' for a bruisin'-- ♪ ♪ I shot the sheriff-- ♪ ♪ Goin' to the 'Nati ♪ - That's not how it goes.

- [laughs] - [laughs] Dan: Team Red is singing their way home to Cincinnati, Ohio, with an allotted time of 54 minutes.

[text notification] - We got a text.

- [singing] ♪ We got a message ♪ Jarrell: [singing] ♪ We got a message ♪ [text notification] - [computerized voice] You've got mail.

[normal voice] All right, let's see what it is.

- Text from Dan, right?

- Yeah.

- Mm-kay.

Is it about the pins, do we get to know?

Pam: It is, okay!

- Why we worked so hard?

- Yes, yes!

- Yes we are, Dan.

Pam: We get a message from Dan, and he's letting us know about the bowling pin challenge from the day before.

Dan: Who knocked down the most pins?

Well, you're gonna find out... tomorrow.

- So whatever the pins mean, I hope we get it.

Kaleigh: If it's good.

If it's bad, we don't want it.

Team Green can have it.

- [laughs] "Team Red," I would rather not say, but I guess I have to, "You knocked down tw--" [laughing] "Twenty-eight pins!"

- Wow, we did terrible.

- "Team Green and Team Blue--" - "Tied with 51!"

- Oh my gosh!

Pam: "Team Black knocked down 52 pins."

- Yeah!

- Good job, well, that was mostly you!

- Yes!

Pam: Good job, Christine!

- Thank you, I need another one, I need another one, come on.

- Sick 'n' all.

- Thank you.

- [excited squeal] Oh, we need that.

- Yes!

Yep, it is a big relief to have five minutes off, but we went in circles for a lot more than five minutes.

Christine: It felt like a long time.

- So yes, a relief... but still means we have some serious work to do.

[dial tones] - So what are you saying to them?

Congratulations?

- I said, "Good job Team Black on the bowling!"

- Thank you, okay.

Pam: All right.

We gave a little bit of snark, mostly directed at Team Green.

- [laughter] - They're doing a phenomenal job, there's no doubt about that.

- They are, they are, but... - We wanted to let 'em know that we're comin' for 'em.

- We're comin'.

- Yeah.

- But it's okay, 'cause Team Black really needs all the help they can get.

- Little bit.

[laughs] So we're the targets.

- Oh, yeah, we know we're a target.

Like I said, the target's bigger than our back is now.

- Okay, I'm gonna send this to Team Black.

Pam: Team Blue texted us, said: [laughs] - Oh, oh they wanna get in on it, huh?

Well, they haven't gotten first yet, so good luck.

- Okay.

- Whoa.

I was being nice to them.

Pam: [laughs] Christine: What?

- Team Blue says: - Oh, oh, okay.

Mm-hm, mm-hm.

- Shots fired.

- [laughs] - Hard.

Kaleigh: [sighs] [soft music] Susan: I'm just so happy for you, like... you know, you've had these, these holes and questions for so long, and like, it's, we're like, in it.

Like you're, every day you're gettin' answers, and meeting family like, it's just... - Oh, it's crazy amazing.

Being adopted at two and a half kinda... sets a tone for you, you know, you kinda don't remember a whole lot, but then when your parents get a divorce a year and a half later, it kinda sets a pattern in your life that everybody important in your life kinda leaves.

Um, but, I had a picture of my biological mom and me as a baby.

I was probably a couple months old, and then my half-sister was off to the side.

And I mean, uh, it got lost, or destroyed, or somethin'.

So since I had no information about my birth sister, uh, I would love to get that picture replaced.

To actually meet the family members in the pictures would be great.

If we found my sister, I would ask her if she remembered me, um, you know, why my birth mom gave me up and then kept my half-sister, you know, and keeping me till two and a half, if she had a good life...

I dunno, it seems stupid, but... did she miss me?

I love you, baby.

- I love you too.

- Thank you so much for bein' on this with me, I... Susan: I'm just so happy for you.

Steve: Aww, thank you, baby, I love you.

Dan: As teams near their destinations... Christine: Close to city limits.

Dan: They frantically look for a spot... - A Byram sign?

- Yup.

Dan: To snap their city selfie.

- I'm a little nervous about finding that city sign.

Amauni: What says Cincinnati?

Steve: Just gonna be ready.

- Yeah.

- What does that say?

- It says Ouray.

[gasps] It says "Welcome to Ouray!"

JT: Byram, right there.

That white sign.

- Cincinnati works, right here, right here.

- Oh, yeah.

- Santa Fe.

- Exit here, exit to here.

Amauni: Park in here.

Pam: Pull over!

Steve: Oh, let's go, let's go!

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

Amauni: You got the phone?

Jarrell: Yeah, I got it.

Kaleigh: Ready?

No, c'mere, c'mon, right there.

- Oh, it's so high.

- I know.

Amauni: No, get closer.

- What?

- Get a little closer.

Susan: All right, hurry.

[camera shutters] Pam: Went through.

Christine: Okay.

[text notification] [rock music] ♪ - "Welcome to Ouray."

- "Your challenge is located at--" - "Romeo Park at 2100--" - "Cincinnati, Ohio."

C'mon.

- All right, let's go, let's go.

Christine: All right, let's go.

Pam: All right.

Steve: Let's go!

Team Green!

♪ Amauni: Ohh, I see it, I see it, I see it!

- It's at the bottom, [singing] ♪ it's at the bottom!

♪ - There it is, there it is, there's the flag, Relative Race.

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

- Grab it, grab it.

- Got it, got it.

- "Hunch & Punch."

Dan: Day 4's challenge is Hunch & Punch.

Teams must correctly answer food-themed trivia to earn punches on the big board.

Hidden behind the board are puzzle pieces to assemble.

Once all four pieces are found and correctly assembled, the challenge is complete.

Pam: Are you gonna do the-- Christine: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Pam: Oh!

- Okay.

Ready?

- Of course, everyone knows that's yeast!

- A, yeast.

Final answer.

- B, eggs, right?

- No!

A, yeast, final answer.

- A.

Both: Final answer.

Both: A, yeast.

Final answer.

[ding] - We got it right, come on, let's go.

[bam] Jarrell: Aw, man.

[bam] Kaleigh: Punch it out, there's no puzzle piece, but that's okay, we're gonna keep goin'.

- All right, I'm gonna punch.

- Punch, punch, punch.

[bam] Steve: There's a puzzle piece!

- There is!

All right, go, go, go.

Steve: Bam, puzzle piece.

Susan: I guess we knew a thing or two about how to make bread.

- Yes, we did.

- I think B, peanut butter, what do you think?

- I was gonna say peanut butter is my initial reaction too, but that's so weird, how's that-- what about a lima bean?

- I dunno.

Pick one.

- A, chocolate.

JT: A, chocolate.

- A, chocolate.

Both: Final answer.

[buzzer] Amauni: Ouch.

Both: B, peanut butter, final answer!

[ding] Yes!

Pam: Punch!

[bam] - The puzzle pieces were in a big, uh, cabinet, hidden in various spaces and spots that we didn't, we didn't know about, obviously.

Pam: It was a random guess, and we thought we had it, and we were sure, and it was completely wrong.

Is there anything in-- okay, nope.

Okay.

Amauni: This challenge was fun, 'cause even if I don't get it right, I love trivia.

- Vanilla cream, C, final answer.

- C, vanilla cream, final answer.

[buzzer] - Banana cream?!

Yuck.

- That's nasty.

- Mincemeat, what's mincemeat?

What's mincemeat?

Steve: Luck is completely involved in this, I mean, 'cause we were guessing on some of 'em for sure.

Susan: What is it?

- Beef, final answer.

- C, final answer.

[buzzer] None of the above!

Kaleigh: I don't know what the word is!

Chiffonade?

JT: It's a trivia challenge, so I'm worried.

It's always a guess.

Both: C, final answer.

[ding] Kaleigh: We get the question right.

And... [bam] Nothin'.

We punched the wrong one.

[bam] ♪ [bam] ♪ [bam] ♪ - C, Suzy Q's.

- No, Swiss Rolls, Swiss Rolls is the little... fat woman.

- What?

- Debbie.

[laughter] Pam: Little Debbie!

- I'll go with you!

Both: Swiss Rolls, final answer!

[ding] Pam: I know my snacks.

[bam] Yes!

Christine: I mean, over all, I felt great.

I mean, I felt confident in the challenge.

Kaleigh: Now all of a sudden, we can't find the answers to any of these questions.

A, final answer.

[buzzer] We're getting every single one wrong.

JT: B, final answer.

[buzzer] Both: A, final answer.

[buzzer] JT: Nope.

Both: A, final answer.

[buzzer] Kaleigh: Ugh!

Both: A, lowers cholestrol, final answer.

[ding] - Yes, good job, punch.

- Punch it, punch it, punch it!

[bam] That's it!!

I got a piece!

[bam] Steve: There it is!

Jarrell: Middle one.

[bam] Amauni: Ah, nothin'.

- Where are these puzzle pieces at?

Christine: Uh... Pam: Did you get it?

Christine: No, this one, this one, this one!

- Aaand one more to go!

- Whenever we do get one right-- Kaleigh: A, final answer.

[ding] JT: Go.

Kaleigh: Okay.

- We always punch the wrong hole.

[bam] Kaleigh: Nothin'.

JT: Here.

- Okay, got it!

That one, that one, that one!

Done!

That was awesome, I loved that challenge, it was great.

Uh, we just hope the time was good enough to make the cut.

- Woo hoo, Relative Race!

- Okay, what does it say?

Both: "Your relative lives at 731--" - "3044--" Both: "Cliff Palace."

Pam: C'mon, gotta get in the car!

Kaleigh: What do you-- I think Kentucky.

- Okay, A, final answer.

- A.

[buzzer] Of course not!

Why would it be that easy?

- Snickers is a horse name.

- Snickers?

- Snickers.

- Okay.

Both: D, Snickers, final answer.

[ding] Amauni: Yes!

Jarrell: There it is, punch it.

Amauni: I punch through that last square... Jarrell: There it is, that's four!

Amauni: And we found that last puzzle piece!

Jarrell: Put it in the spot!

Amauni: [high-pitched] Yes!

Jarrell: Let's go.

Amauni: We're feelin' great today.

I'm ready to find this relative.

Jarrell: [singing] ♪ Get in the car ♪ Amauni: Be careful.

Dan: While three teams have knocked out the challenge... Pam: All right, we're goin' back down to town.

- Do y'all know where Cliff Palace is?

Woman 1: Nope.

Amauni: Do you know where Monty Lane is?

Police officer: You're gonna go north on Madison.

Dan: Team Blue is going another round with Hunch & Punch.

- So there's only two spots left.

We get the question right, we have a 50/50 chance.

- Forty, C, final answer.

[ding] Kaleigh: Go.

[bam] JT: Oh!

Well, we know we're it's at.

- Really?!

There is no puzzle piece.

- C'mon, we just gotta get one more right.

Amauni: If the policemen weren't right where they were, it would've taken forever.

Benton, Benton, Benton.

Pam: This is 2nd.

- Which way, left, left?

- I don't know, we have to find 731, let's find an address and see which direction it's goin'.

Steve: Hey, ma'am.

Do you know where Cliff Palace Street is?

Okay, thank you.

Susan: Nobody knows anything around here.

Kaleigh: Oooh... - I'm gonna say A.

Final answer.

Kaleigh: A, final answer.

[ding] JT: Go.

Kaleigh: We punch the hole, we get our last puzzle piece.

JT: Ah, that took too long.

- That was a rough one.

"Your relative lives at 28 A Northtown Road."

Go, go, go, go, go.

I just hope we did enough today with navigation that it's not gonna cost us a strike.

Amauni: Where's the address?

Jarrell: Where the addresses at?

- Oh, 710!

So it's gonna be on this side.

Pam: 322, go!

Back the other way.

- Okay, we're turning around... Kaleigh: Dude, go.

JT: You can go any day, now, buddy.

- Go!

Amauni: 26, right here!

- 28, it's 28.

- It's right here!

- 731, right here, right here!

Christine: Turning right!

Pam: Right here.

- We found it!

Yes!

Pam: All right, all right, all right, all right.

Okay.

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

Christine: I'm comin', I'm comin'!

So we made it to our relative's address.

Pam: C'mon, Christine!

[knocking] Christine: And we knocked on the door, and nobody was there.

Did you knock?

Pam: Yeah.

Knocked.

I'll ring the doorbell, too.

Christine: Okay.

So, we kinda, I kinda panicked, I thought maybe we were at the wrong address, even though we knew we were, what happened, what's going on?

[doorbell] [nervous laughter] Pam: And we, we kinda back up from the door 'cause we don't know what to do, and we see a car pulling up in the driveway out of the corner of our eye, and we both kind of lean over and look.

Uh, somebody just pulled up in the driveway.

So we just kinda come down the stairs and meet 'em to say hello, and they were in fact our relatives.

Both: Hello!

Woman 2: Hi!

Both: Hi!

- I'm Christine.

- I'm Pamela.

Woman 2: Hi, Christine, hi, Pamela!

Christine: How are you related to us?

Or which one of you is related to us?

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

Both: Okay.

Woman 2: My name's Elise, this is my mom Kirsten.

Christine: Hi, Elise, hi, Kirsten, can I give you a hug?

Elise: Yes, of course, hi!

Pam: So nice to meet you!

Christine: And Kirsten!

Elise: My name is Elise Brancheau, and I am Pamela and Christine's cousin.

Meeting them for the first time, it was kind of overwhelming.

[laughs] I mean, they were just so warm, and, you know, gracious, and hugging them was like, you know, it kind of felt like, "Yeah, we're family."

[laughs] - So you said cousin on our mom's side, Diana?

Elise: Yes, so we are connected through the Brancheau line, um, we actually, our family is French Canadian, so you guys are French Canadian!

- Cool, I knew it!

Our cousin Elise's roots, which are now our roots, there's a lot of French Canadian heritage, which we think that's awesome.

Elise: It's so great to meet you.

Do you wanna come inside and just talk some more?

Okay, great.

[serious piano music] ♪ Jarrell: Honestly, every time we pull up to an address, I'm jittery, like, "Who is it?"

Amauni: I'm nervous, I'm excited.

Hi!

Jarrell: How y'all doin'?

- How you doin'?

- I'm Jarrell.

- I'm Amauni.

- I'm Aaron.

- I'm Michel.

- Whose relative are you?

- We're yours, Jarrell.

- And we're your brothers.

- Oh!

Oh!

You got brothers!

[heartwarming music] ♪ Jarrell: Man...

So y'all on, y'all on my mom's side.

- Yeah.

- Well, our mom's side.

Aaron: Mm-hm.

All: [laugh] - I can say that now, wow!

[softly] I have two brothers!

- You do!

Michel: Dang.

Jarrell: That's wild!

- Woo, dang.

I just felt it in my heart, that... wow, I got a big brother, like, finally, like, finally, he's here, like, uh, I couldn't imagine any other time in my lifetime better than this time now.

Jarrell: Woo!

[laughter] - Where you, where you grew up at?

- Cincinnati.

♪ Man, I'm tryin' to tell you!

- Man, this is the best moment of my life!

Jarrell: I have two brothers, and it's like... wow.

Words can't even describe how happy I am.

It's something that I would've never imagined, because I didn't know that I even had siblings out there.

It just blew my mind.

So who, who told y'all about me?

- Uh, actually, it's been a long time, I've been lookin' since I was about 10, 12 years old.

Uh, our mom had your social security card, so that's how I knew that something wasn't right, and I had to go searchin', so... Jarrell: My brother Michel had been searching for me, uh, since he was young, and I feel like all the love from my heart went to theirs, and all their love from their heart came to mine.

- I definitely have love, it's, it's like, big.

- To have 'im right in front of me, it was like, "What else could I ask for?"

[chuckles] It was like a piece to an unsolved puzzle.

- We all got the same mom, so... - When's the, when was the last time you talked to her?

- Uh, what's today, Sunday?

- Dang, it was recent.

- It was recent?

Aaron: No, today's Friday?

- Today is Friday.

- Wednesday.

Both: Wow!

Aaron: So, it, it hasn't been long.

[chuckles] Jarrell: My brothers confirmed to me that... for one, my mother's still alive, and also that they have recently talked to her, and they keep in contact, so... everything seems to fit.

They, we seem to fit already, and we're, we haven't even known each other for 24 hours.

Michel: Aw, man, I got so much to talk about, uh, you wanna come inside?

- Yeah, come on, let's go!

Michel: All right!

♪ Dan: Back on the road... - We don't even know which way we're goin', baby.

- Right, but you want me to turn?

Steve: I want you turn, yes!

Dan: ...Teams Green and Blue are still battling... - What're you doin', what're you doin'?

- What?

- Where are you going?

Dan: ...to find the door of their next relative.

- Uh, getting to the relative's house was not so good.

Susan: If we're headed this direction-- - Do you know where we're going?

- Is this gonna help us?

- Do you know where you're going?

- No, I don't!

Steve: Okay, then let's-- - Don't get upset, okay?

I feel like this is the first time we've struggled so far, like-- Steve: And then we got a little snippy.

- This is Northtown Road!

- No, this is not Northtown Road, this is Northtown Drive!

- Okay.

- We are not on Northtown Road!

I just... can't get the thought of how our day went out the back of my head.

What do you wanna do?

Take a right here, maybe?

- I don't know.

- Okay, ju-- that's fine, you need to calm down, though.

Steve: Over there.

Susan: All right.

You wanna run in and ask?

Do you want me to run in with you?

What's the address?

Take a pencil.

- I got a pen, baby.

- Get out of the car!

- Can you hold on a second?

Thank you!

"Get a pen, here's a pen, get out of the car!"

- Do you want me to ask this person, you go ask the firefighter?

- Yeah.

- Let me see that, 28 Northtown Road?

JT: So I take [indistinct] and take a right?

- All right, 'preciate it.

Kaleigh: Got it?

- Yeah.

- You got his instructions?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- You know, the adrenaline starts pumpin' real fast.

And then your mind just gets flippy-floppy.

But we squashed it real fast.

Keep goin'.

- It's right here.

- Keep goin'!

- It's right here.

- Where is it?

- Right here!

- This is gonna be 29, this is gon' be 28 right here, 28.

[dramatic music] - Right here!

- Oh, here it is!

Here it is!

All right, let's get out!

Kaleigh: Does that bug you, though, that-- JT: Little bit.

I mean, 'cause they've been sittin' here all day waitin'.

Kaleigh: That's okay!

You're gonna, you're gonna have the rest of your life to have a relationship with this person, okay?

[touching music] When we pulled up to the house, it was a big sigh of relief, but at the same time, we were still beatin' ourselves up.

JT: It's been a long day, we had a hard challenge, and...

I don't know what to expect.

- Hi.

- How's it goin'?

- 'Sup?

So I'm Jonathan.

Man 1: Jonathan.

- This is my wife, Kaleigh.

- Kaleigh, I'm Trevor.

JT: Nice to meet you, Trevor.

So, who are you related to?

- I'm related to you.

- How are we related?

- I'm your brother on your dad's side.

♪ - I wager you can feel my heart.

♪ - That's crazy.

I see you in all of us.

[laughs] I'm Trevor Burkett, and I'm JT's brother on his father's side.

The second I saw JT at the doorstep, um, I knew right away he was a Burkett, and I knew right away he was gonna fit in right.

There wasn't no doubt in mind that was my brother.

[laughs] - So how old are you?

- I'm 21, I'm finna be 22.

- Ooo, I got a baby brother.

- Wow, he's a young one!

- Yup!

JT: So what do you do?

- Commercial air conditioning.

- All right, cool.

- Yeah, here, here in Jackson.

- Okay, really?

Ah, man, we're so close!

- Where you at?

- I'm in Brandon.

- Brandon, man!

I used to live in Brandon, that's crazy.

- Did you really?

Trevor: Yeah, Brandon, Pearl... - Man, I grew up in Pearl.

- [laughs] That's so wild.

There the whole time, didn't even know it.

- You've just been right here, too, up under my nose.

Today, I got me a baby brother, and I've always wanted to be a big brother, and that's awesome, it's undescribable.

We just connected immediately, and I can't wait to start that relationship between little brother and big brother.

Trevor: You look like us all!

JT: Mm-hm.

- It's nuts!

[laughter] JT: My baby brother.

♪ [emotional music] Steve: Right here.

Oh!

Susan: Oh my gosh, what?

Steve: When I first saw this lady walk toward me, and I'm noticin', you know, that we look the same in the eyes, and I'm pretty sure that she's gonna be related pretty closely to me.

Hi!

Woman 2: Hi!

- Um, I'm Steve.

This is my wife, Susan.

- Hi.

Steve: Um, who are you and how are you related to us?

- I'm Jennifer Macke, and I'm your sister.

- [tearfully] You're my sister!

♪ We look alike!

- Yes!

[laughter] It's very nice to meet you.

- On my mom's side?

- Yes, Charlie.

♪ - Can I have another hug?

- Yes, of course, of course, of course!

♪ I am Jennifer Macke, I am Steve's sister, and we have the same mother.

- The moment she said that her name was Jennifer, I knew that she was my sister.

I feel like I knew it before that, but hearing her say it made it real, I didn't want to jinx it or somethin'.

- I mean, there's not even words for... - Joy?

- The fulfillment that I see on, on his face.

- You knew about me, right?

- I did.

I did.

- I had a picture of when I was a baby, and you were a little bit older than me.

- Yes, and mom was in the picture as well.

- Yup.

- And she had the nice 'fro?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

[laughs] Steve: I had that picture for a long time, and I lost it.

Jennifer: It's been, um, a lot of years of wondering.

- Yeah.

- For me, you know, I was young.

You were there, and you weren't there, kind of thing.

- Yeah.

- And I didn't know anything until years later, and found the picture that you obviously have as well, so that's when I started asking questions.

Steve: Ah... Jennifer: Pretty much when Stephen was adopted out at the age of two to three, I always struggled with that fact, and then having this realization that he's out there, and... and I get him, you know, I get him today, I get to meet him today.

It kinda completes everything, it kinda makes everything more solid.

- It's almost like there, we weren't apart, like, we don't share the memories of all the past years, but...

I mean, you just know it's home, it's like family.

- We have the same eyes.

- Yeah!

Beautiful green, right, today, it's awesome!

[laughter] Steve: My goodness, I got so many questions.

- Yes, of course, would you like to come in and visit?

- Yeah.

- We'll sit down, get some tissue?

[laughter] ♪ [bright music] Dan: In Cincinnati, Ohio... - Oh, man.

I got so many questions.

- Man, I, I do too.

Dan: Jarrell sits down with his brothers, Aaron and Michel.

- My, my first question, uh... your name's Jarrell?

- Yeah.

Michel: We thought your name was Jereld.

Jarrell: So like-- - Ended in a D. - Ending in a D?

Michel: Ending in a D. - So J-E-R-E-L-D?

- Mm-hm.

- I found out that my brother Michel had been searching for me, but since my adopted mom changed my name, he was lookin' for the wrong name.

- That's why we couldn't find 'im, and I'm glad we got 'im here now.

- What did you guys think his whole name was?

Both: Jereld Thomas Lee.

- Yeah, it got changed completely, then, 'cause now my name is Jarrell Cody Scott.

Michel: Dang.

[laughter] Jarrell: My biological mother, she ever mention me?

Michel: Oh, yeah.

Aaron: Plenty.

Michel: Oh, yeah.

- Really?

Michel: Oh, yeah.

Aaron: Plentiful.

Michel: What she...

I'm telling you, like, she would cry sometimes at night, just because you wasn't there.

- Really.

- This was when we were young, like... - That's, that's wild.

Michel: Yes, she's a, she's a strong woman, I can let you know that.

- My biggest fear comin' onto this show was that my biological mother and my family wouldn't accept me.

So the fact that I know that they actually were looking for me, and thinking about me, and I would come up in conversation, you know, it's, it's pretty heartwarming.

So there's more siblings, like, how many more siblings?

- There's actually one more.

Jarrell: One more?

- And that's the sister.

Her name's Sierra Brown.

Amauni: Oh... Michel: Yeah.

- That's crazy that y'all knew about me, and I was lost.

- Lost.

- In the dark!

Jarrell: In the dark!

More pieces to the puzzle bein' put together.

Michel: It's... it's a lot of pieces to the puzzle.

[laughs] - I meet two brothers today, and now I find out that I have a biological sister, and it's like... these are the siblings that I've always wanted.

Michel: But we, before we get into dinner, uh, we actually got someplace to be.

Ready to head out?

Jarrell: Yeah, let's go.

- All right!

♪ - Mom was not able to care for us the way she needed to.

- Right.

- Um, and she was lucky enough to have a family friend, or a co-worker, who I do believe is your adopted parent.

- Right.

- Um, take on that responsibility, um, and in return, I too couldn't be taken care of by her, so I went to my dad, and, um, I don't believe your father was aware of you.

I don't believe he was, and so she didn't have that option to reach out to him.

- I mean, at the very least, I was hopin' that, you know, if, um, you know, giving me up for adoption, at least it would... would've been able to give you a better life with her, but sounds like you still had to go to your dad.

- Yeah, I went to my dad most of the time, and I didn't have a relationship with mom for a long time.

- Really?

- Yeah, yeah.

It took a long time for me to understand, as a child, what was going on, and how, how to comprehend my mom didn't want me, you know?

As a young child, that's what you're thinking.

Steve: Right.

- I never understand how a mom can give up a child, you know, at the same time she did with me, um, but I found some letters, and what was a note saying that she was sorry that she had to make this decision, and that she loved him.

I have something that I think you'll appreciate.

Um, when she passed, she wrote this letter to you, and I'll let you read it.

♪ - "Stephen, I love you very much and I want you to be happy.

"I hope you understand why I did.

I lost you April 4, 1984."

Just to know that, after all those years, that she still loved me and thought about me, and just... it means the world to me.

- If my mom would've had the opportunity to connect with Stephen, she would've been crying non-stop, um, hugging him, she wouldn't have let him go, but if she would've been able to just say hi, that would've just made her day.

♪ Elise: We're really excited to meet you and learn a little bit more about you, and obviously share some of our family history with you.

Pam: When Christine and I walked in our relative's house, we began to immediately just share some history.

- My dad, uh, Blaise Brancheau put this together.

It's just sort of an introduction to the ancestry of Marian Dorothy Brancheau, so your great-grandmother.

Christine: And that's a labor of love.

Elise: Yes, very much.

Here is your great-great-grandmother on her wedding day, that's her husband, Alton.

I just, like, love the wedding dresses, like, all the black, yeah.

Pam: That's the style, right?

- Uh, yeah, so that's 1920.

- It is really cool to realize that there's so much history and so much depth.

- And this all, you know, stuff from obituaries that we've found.

- Right.

- Where you can kind of see more.

Pam: It just gives it more and more meaning as the days go by about where we came from, 'cause that's something we've never known.

- You guys can obviously look this over in more detail, um, we got one for both of you, so here you go.

- Thank you!

Elise: But um, I just have another question for you, um, are you hungry?

Because I'm really hungry.

- Oh, absolutely!

- We are famished!

- Um, so we actually have a family dessert recipe, um, it's her mint brownie recipe, and I've got it started, but I need some help kinda finishing it up, would you be willing to help me kinda...?

- Absolutely!

- Let's do it!

Elise: Okay, good, and then we can eat.

- They hold food near and dear to their heart, you know, they pass these things down to each other, and she introduced us to it, and it was tasty, and uh, we got to help her make it.

Elise: If you like it, it can be part of your family history.

Christine: I already like it, yes, mint and chocolate, together?

Heaven.

Elise: How can you go wrong?

Christine: Heaven.

Elise: Food and family absolutely go together, and it was so nice to be able to share this recipe with my two relatives today, um, but I mean, I love baking with people in general, um, but having to do it with family, and family that I just met in this way was just extra special.

- Thank you!

- It's fantastic.

♪ Trevor: From the moment I saw JT, right off the bat, I knew, I was like, that's my family.

I haven't known him but a couple hours, but I could, it feels like I've known him my entire life.

- I'm extremely happy, like... like I was havin' the worst day today.

Some stuff happened with the race, and... as soon as you told me you were my baby brother, all that went away.

Like, it didn't even matter.

It doesn't matter, like, it all went away, and like, it's crazy.

Trevor: Yeah, I understand.

I know what you mean.

Man, it...

I, I don't even have words.

So, um, I think I, I think I got somebody I wanna introduce you to.

JT: My brother Trevor tells me he wants to introduce me to somebody, and he pulls out a photo album.

JT: Yeah.

- I'mma, I'mma let you look through, man, see his big self up there.

First and only.

♪ JT: Finally getting to put a face with all the stories, it's just such a relief to see where you come from and to see the person that created you.

It's beautiful, it's... finally see the pieces of the puzzle all connecting.

Trevor: He sure used to be a looker.

What do you think?

JT: It's crazy.

Kaleigh: I see it for sure.

See a lot of Anthony there.

- Yeah.

JT: I see a lotta everybody.

- Mm-hm.

JT: Oh my goodness.

Just, crazy to look at a picture and just see your, yourself there, and it's not you, and know... just that connection.

Well, thank you for showing these to me.

Trevor: Of course.

♪ Jennifer: With the situation of you being so young and not knowing how Mom grew up, I was able to find, in her little red box, a lot of good pictures of her.

I thought it was important for Stephen to see she had a timeline, you know?

She just didn't stop living.

It was just really important for him to see all those moments.

This is her in first grade.

Steve: Oh, 'kay.

♪ To be able to have that history, um, to be able to look at the stages of, you know, how she grew up, that's, um, it was just amazing.

♪ Jennifer: We had, um, Christmas with her in 2014, and that was the last Christmas we were able to have with her.

Literally two weeks after that, she was in the hospital.

- So she went from... - That to that.

- Not feelin' great, and then three weeks later, gone?

Jennifer: Mm-hm.

- At least it was quick, right?

- It was, and, I have... this is her, um, on her last day.

I just wanted to make sure that I had something for myself, but this is for you.

♪ I am thrilled that I did this today.

Um, excited that I took the chance and the challenge, and, um, even with the emotional roller coaster and everything, it was the best thing that I've ever done, you know, to be able to reconnect with family.

Steve: It was amazing getting to sit with my sister and go through all my mother's pictures, and to top it off, she found and framed the exact photo that I had lost all those years ago.

- So, I think this is the one that you remember, and I'm not sure if it's the smiles that you remember, or... - Oh my goodness.

Getting that photo of me and my sister and my mom that I'd lost a long time ago was, um, really important to me.

It's the only picture that my mother and my sister and me are in all together, and, um, in a way, it's almost like we're all together again.

- But this is yours, for you.

- [laughs] Thank you!

- Any of these.

♪ ♪ Dan: In the heart of Cincinatti, Team Red arrives at a recording studio to hear a song by Jarrell's brother, Michel.

Man 2: Hey.

- How we doin', how we doin'?

Man 2: What's goin' on?

Michel: You ready to hear this?

Jarrell: I'm ready.

When Michel told me that he had a surprise for me, he told me that he had a song that he had made about an older brother that he had never met.

- I wrote this song about two years ago.

It's just basically me describing, uh, this brother I never met.

Jarrell: Mm-hm.

- Um... me tellin' myself basically, um, you know, I'm ready to be by your side, and...

I hope you like it, I hope you like it.

♪ ♪ In the moment I shared the song with him, it was like, magic.

It was like fireworks goin' everywhere, 'cause I've been holdin' this in, and now I get to let it out to him.

Jarrell: I don't know if Michel knows how much that song, it meant to me, because he never met me, I never met him, but the fact that he has been lookin' for me for so long and he created a song about it, it really means something to me.

♪ I ain't gonna lie man, ayy, that song was lit.

Michel: Whoa!

[laughs] Hey, I appreciate it, man.

♪ Susan: Goin' into the call, we're really nervous.

Steve: We don't know what to expect.

Don't think it's good.

- I don't feel good about today.

- I don't feel good about it either.

We did great this morning, though.

We navigated perfectly from Austin's house to here, but, if we get an X tonight, that could possibly be one less day that we're gonna get to meet a relative.

Pam: I wanna meet all the family members, you know?

- Right, right.

- So, that's constantly weighing on my mind and on my heart because if we don't, you know, perform well in our challenges and make our time and stuff, that's what's on the line.

♪ Dan: Here we are, almost halfway through the race, and I'm lookin' at four smiling teams, but Team Black, you guys had some challenges today.

Christine: We knew where we were going; we had it.

It didn't happen.

Pam: [sputtered laugh] - [laughs] It's okay.

- No, it's not okay.

I'm not Magellan.

I can't look at the sun and be like, you know?

[laughs] I don't know!

Now I'm messed up.

You're like, no help reading a map, and I totally frickin'-- - I'm trying to drive!

- [laughs] Dan: Pam?

Wha-why didn't it happen?

You guys just drove around in circles to start the day.

- I mean, it's a beautiful city.

We wanted to see it twice.

- Or three times!

- Or three times.

Dan: Team Blue, that brings me to you.

What happened at Hunch & Punch?

- Every single, um, one of the things that we punched out had no puzzle piece in it.

Literally, we punched out every single one by the end of it.

Dan: But you all eventually found a doorstep, and on the other side of that doorstep was family.

I wanna start with Pam and Christine.

Who was waiting for you?

- So we had the honor today to meet our cousin, Elise.

Elise: Hi!

Kaleigh: Hey!

Pam: She's one of our cousins on our biological mother's side.

Dan: And my understanding is that she had some, um, very interesting information to share about your heritage.

Pam: They are big into geneaology, so they've already been tracing roots for quite some time, all the way back into the 1600s, which is very interesting, is, um, a lot of French Canadian connections, which I thought that was awesome.

Dan: Hey, congratulations on more family discoveries.

Jarrell and Amauni.

I think it's been a wonderful trip so far.

Today, was that a surprise for Jarrell, a discovery for you, or for Amauni?

Jarrell: So, today, I got to meet not one, but two biological brothers.

Steve: Whoa!

Jarrell: On my mom's side.

Kaleigh: Oh my gosh!

Both: Hi!

Dan: That is awesome!

Congratulations once again, Jarrell.

This journey is, um, four days in, and what amazing discoveries you've had.

- To know that I have blood siblings is, it's a whole 'nother level, 'cause they, we have the same mom.

Dan: And speaking of that, JT and Kaleigh, more discoveries for you waiting at the door.

- Yes, indeed.

So, guys, I would like to introduce you to my baby brother, Trevor.

- Another brother!

Amauni: Hi!

Dan: Oh, wow.

I mean, minus, minus the hair.

There's a bit of a difference on the hair.

- [laughs] JT: Yeah.

So he also shared with me a picture today of my biological father.

♪ Dan: So we know you have strong resemblances throughout your family.

Both: Yes.

Dan: So, good day no matter what for JT and Kaleigh?

Kaleigh: For sure.

JT: Absolutely.

Dan: Well, I ask that same question for Team Green.

Leaving the challenge and trying to find your relative was almost hopeless, but was it worth it?

- Dan, it was, uh, more than worth it.

So, my relative was able to give me the picture that I had lost.

So this is me as a baby, and this is my sister, and this is my mother, and the person that gave me this photo is my sister, Jennifer.

This is my sister, y'all.

Pam: Hi, sister Jennifer!

Steve: Y'all, I can't tell y'all how much this means to me.

Oh, I love you, darlin'.

- [sniffs] Oh.

So yeah, it was worth it, Dan.

Absolutely.

I think we're gonna stay here for the next three days or somethin'.

- [laughs] - Have fun!

Dan: Aw, guys, what a great culmination to an up-and-down day for some of you, but most importantly, you made it safely, and you made it timely to your relatives.

Having said that, I gotta talk about the race.

♪ Here we are at the end of Day 4, and we're gonna find out who finished in first and who picks up a strike.

I can tell you this, it was incredibly close across the board.

By far, this has been the closest time between all of the teams.

First place finished 11 minutes over their allotted time.

Kaleigh: Immediately, my stomach drops, and I'm just goin' ahead and preparin' for that strike.

Dan: Finishing in first place and picking up the first-place prize of having navigation at some time tomorrow, probably when you need it most, and how appropriate, because Team Red, you went from worst to first!

- Yay!

Dan: What a day!

You guys really had smooth sailing.

Congratulations.

- [laughs] Yes.

Steve: We're glad that Red got first.

They've had a really good attitude about everything so far, so I think, with the challenges that they had, they really deserved it.

Dan: The difference between first place and second place was one minute.

♪ Finishing 12 minutes over their allotted time and safe...

Team Blue.

Congratulations.

JT: Ho!

Kaleigh: Oh, my... Hearin' that we got second, I almost couldn't believe it and thought maybe I misheard him, but... no, we got second, and...

I could not be happier.

Dan: The difference between third place and last was two minutes.

Susan: Oh no.

Christine: When it came down to either us or Team Green taking the strike, I was holding my breath.

I was very anxious.

Dan: One team finished 15 minutes over their allotted time.

The other team finished 17 minutes over their allotted time.

[intense music] Team Black... whatever your time was, five minutes was deducted because you won the bowling challenge yesterday.

And that was the difference.

You finished in third place, 15 minutes over your allotted time.

Pam: Oh thank goodness.

Dan: Team Green, your hiccups and the problems finding your relative cost you dearly.

You picked up your first strike on Relative Race.

But remember, it was worth it.

Steve: Oh yeah.

Susan: It was.

- Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Dan: Enjoy your time with family.

You are on a journey unlike any other, and there are thousands that wish they were on this journey, and you're the lucky ones that are there.

Remember that.

Sleep well.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Pam: Good night, guys.

Christine: Bye.

Steve: Love y'all.

Amauni: Love y'all.

Steve: Bye.

- Hoo!

We got first!

Michel: That's what I'm talkin' about, yo, that's what I'm talkin' about!

Amauni: [laughs] Pam: Whew.

Christine: [sighs] Elise: Yeah!

- Oh, man.

Elise: Didn't get a strike.

- Right, that's it.

Susan: Pbbth!

- Aww.

- It's not fair that we were out in the middle of nowhere.

- [laughs] - That's crazy.

JT: Man.

- Look, look at this.

- That's a, just a big weight lifted off right there.

I didn't expe-- I thought we were gonna get the X today.

Kaleigh: Yeah, we thought we were gettin' it.

Pam: All right.

We still get two more days.

Steve: Hey Relative Race.

Ooo, there we are.

[laughs] - Today I got to meet my baby brother, Trevor.

And, today was a good day.

Today was a really good day.

- We're just so grateful that we have this opportunity.

Everybody, every single person involved has, I mean, a complete heart of gold.

- Family is the main reason that everybody's on this show.

The money's nice, but money doesn't, money can't buy family.

Money can't buy love.

- I'm tryin' to focus on, uh, the journey and the race right now and then the new family down the road, right?

- [laughs] - We even love the squirrel in the background.

He's pretty cool, too.

Amauni: [laughs] Jarrell: Pretty awesome.