♪ Dan: Previously, on Relative Race.

- Go, go, go!

Kacey: Augh!

Dan: A difficult putting challenge... Devin: [groans] Liz: Nope.

Dan: ...left teams in the rough.

Anthony: Oh!

Joseph: Try it again.

- Like Happy Gilmore: go to your home!

Dan: Team Green gave a five-minute penalty.

- My gut says Red.

Devin: I guess we'll pull over.

Dan: In a devastating blow for Team Red.

You guys had a challenging day.

Liz: We'll take the strike today.

Dan: And the best friends won more punishments to dish out.

Pick one team to make their challenge even more challenging.

But when families were found... Kacey: You're one of my brothers?

Shawl: Yep.

Dan: Two teams discovered new siblings.

Devin: [sharp inhale] AH!

- Hi!

- [crying] We're gonna just be best friends.

[tearfully] I'm just, I'm just so happy.

I'm so happy.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.

Sean: C'mon!

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

- [yelp] Dan: To win $50,000... Magen: YES!

Dan: ...and to find their family.

[knocking] ♪ Dan: A golden sunrise welcomes a new day of Relative Race with Kacey's newest brother, Shawl.

Shawl: Oh no, yeah, I would like to meet your kids and stuff, and see what the future holds.

Kacey: Yeah.

This morning, I got to speak with Shawl, and I'm so happy to have a brother out in this world, that we are now connected and can enjoy life together from here on out.

I think that family vacations, and... Shawl: Oh, yeah.

- ...I see lots of things in our future, so... - Get together for Thanksgiving.

- Yes.

- Yeah, Christmas would be great, all the kids gettin' together.

- I am definitely going to be hanging out more with Shawl.

Everyone's so warm and loving, and... yeah, I just can't wait to expand my family and show them, you know, the rest of my family as well.

I promised myself I wouldn't cry.

[laughs] I'm just so happy I met you.

Can I hug you one more time?

Shawl: Give me one more hug, yeah, one more hug, yeah.

Kacey: I don't wanna leave.

There's just so much love here, and I would love to just spend a whole weekend, you know.

He's my little brother!

I'm so glad I have you in my life.

Shawl: Me too, it was wonderful meeting you guys.

Kacey: [laughs] I shouldn't have put mascara on today, oh my gosh.

[laughs] ♪ Angelica: Okay, so, like, do you ever do, like, this, something with your lip, like... [shutter sound] - [stifled laughter] Angelica: I got it!

Liz: Woke up early this morning and got to spend even more quality time with my sister Angelica.

Angelica: I love it.

Liz: Did you catch it?

Okay, let's do like, like cute, oh, cute.

Oh, smiling?

Angelica: Ooh!

[shutter sound] [stifled laugh] Liz: I appreciate how comfortable both of us felt with each other right away.

Like, I knew we were gonna have, like, an instant connection, and, um, that's exactly what it was.

Devin: Good mornin', good mornin'!

Liz: Hi, baby.

Devin: Hey, we should start, uh, loadin' up the car.

Liz: Okay.

I don't wanna go!

Angelica: I know.

Liz: But I know I have to.

- Oh, it was so nice meeting you!

- I know, but we're definitely gonna stay in touch, like, forever and ever and ever and ever.

♪ Dan: As Team Blue awaits the morning text, their cousin, Brittany, has one more photo to share with them.

Brittany: Hey guys, I wanted to show you somethin'.

So here is my brother, Travis, and um, my sister Alicia, there's me, and my younger sister.

- Seeing Brittany's siblings, I'm really excited, because I'm hoping these are more people that I get to meet.

Dan: And back in Iowa, Team Green waits for the race to start again with Monika's great aunt, Bonnie.

Bonnie: Monika, I'm so glad that you was able to come and see me.

You don't know what it means.

It means a lot, maybe that I don't show, but it means a lot.

Magen: Bonnie is so much fun, but the entire time we're sitting there, I know the text from Dan's about to come in.

- I'm excited.

Bonnie: And I have to tell ya to have a safe trip.

- Thank you.

Magen: Thank you.

Bonnie: 'Kay.

[clock ticking] [intense music] [phone buzzes and pings] Monika: [gasps] Magen: We got a text!

- [gasps] Magen: You wanna hear where we're going?

Anthony and Joseph: Good morning, teams, and welcome to day four of Relative Race.

Devin: Team Red will be traveling to Cincinnati, Ohio.

- Team Black will be traveling to Lancaster, Ohio.

Both: Team Blue will be traveling to Melbourne, Florida.

Anthony: Oh, wow.

Magen: And Team Green will be traveling to Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Kacey: Today's first place prize will receive their next destination city... Devin: Oh, during the video call tonight!

Magen: Your time starts now!

Monika: Okay!

Sean: Okay, let's go!

Let's go, let's go!

Anthony: Oh!

Brittany: Hate to see you gotta go so soon, man.

Joseph: Yeah.

Kacey: Bye!

No more chats, we gotta go!

Shawl: See you guys!

Liz: Love you.

[kissing sound] Angelica: Be safe.

Liz: You too.

Angelica: Bye, guys.

Liz: Bye!

Joseph: You ready?

Sean: 'Kay, let's go!

Go, go, go, go!

Magen: Go!

Monika: [laughs] ♪ Anthony: Where we, where we goin', straight?

- Yes.

- Okay.

Joseph: We're headed south.

Joseph: I'm thinking we should go straight and we would get to the freeway, but Anthony's feeling like we should turn left.

Why are you turning?

Anthony: Um, because if we go here-- Joseph: No, we gotta stay on Belletree, bro.

Anthony: Are we still goin' south?

- No, not anymore, we're goin', like, southeast!

Anthony: Joe keeps tellin' me this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong!

Joseph: And we don't agree.

Why would y-- we needed to stay on Belletree, bro.

- Are we still goin' south?

Joseph: No!

We're going east now.

Melbourne is south, so I knew we were goin' the wrong way.

It wasn't right!

Anthony: Hmmmmmm.

Joe, come on, come on.

Joseph: I tried to tell you, bro.

Anthony: Give me some ideas!

- I don't know what to do because what I had a plan to do, you just did the opposite!

♪ Dan: As Team Blue fights to find their freeway entrance, the competition gently rolls along towards their destination cities.

Kacey: ♪ On the road again ♪ Sean: We're driving to the back of Ohio, just... Kacey: ♪ Oh, baby, on the road again.

♪ [laughs] Dan: Team Black is on the road again, towards their destination of Lancaster, Ohio.

Once they arrive, they will have to take a city selfie, complete a challenge, and find their relative, all in an allotted time of 1 hour and 43 minutes.

♪ - Hold on, I wanna make you do something real quick.

Magen: Okay.

- Say "fort" five times.

- Fort, fort, fort, fort, fort.

- What do you eat your cereal with?

- A fork.

- No.

[wheezes] Magen: What?

- Oh my go-ho-hosh!

- [laughs] Everybody does it!

Magen: That is insane!

Dan: Getting punchy and keeping the laughs rolling, Team Green will race today from Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Cedar Falls, with an allotted time of 1 hour and 52 minutes.

Devin: Having our first strike definitely stings a little bit, but the prize that's available for us today?

That's the best prize that they've done so far.

Dan: Team Red is aiming for today's first place prize of knowing tomorrow's destination in advance.

Today, they travel to Cincinnati, Ohio, and have the longest allotted time of 3 hours and 40 minutes.

♪ Anthony: We're gonna waste time turning around.

Joseph: Yeah, 'cause this-- Anthony: No, we're just gonna waste time, so it's fine.

Joseph: Okay, Ant, you can't even admit that you were wrong.

- Well, we don't know if I was wrong.

We'll find out if I was wrong.

Dan: Team Blue is still spinning circles in Florida as they fight to find their destination city of Melbourne.

They have the shortest allotted time of the day at 1 hour and 38 minutes.

Anthony: Oh, yeah, yeah.

Look, look, look, 95 South, right here.

Joseph: Okay.

Anthony: Oh, good, thank you Joe.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I was wrong.

Joseph: This is it.

Anthony: That was not good, what I just did.

We definitely have that twin thing, I would say.

Joseph: We get along 80% of the time.

- But when we fight, we... we really fight.

Yeah.

Joseph: We learned that we were adopted when we were around the age of two, and, um... My brother has been there for me since day one.

I was born with cerebral palsy.

It has no effect on my mind, but it does affect my muscles, and so, despite having challenges that I've faced over the years, he's always been there for me, even when he had the option to leave, and I...

I love him for that.

Yeah, he's the best.

- I got your back.

♪ Anthony: So we're good.

I ain't worried about it.

- Yeah, don't trip, bro, it's all good.

Dan: With all teams now on the road, Team Green has a challenge penalty to dish out, and nobody wants to be their latest victim.

Liz: I'm thinking that Team Green would give the penalty today to Team Black.

Joseph: The thing of it is, Team Black don't have no strikes.

Anthony: Right.

Joseph: They just keep grazing along every single day.

Anthony: Yeah.

- Even though we may be a threat to them, why would they not try to eliminate someone else?

Sean: 'Cause they [indistinct] Both: [laughing] Monika: The penalty we gave to Team Red yesterday cost them the strike, and with that kinda power, we know exactly who to give the penalty to today.

Magen: It's set.

Should we let the others know?

[phone buzzes] Sean: We got one from Team Green.

Liz: Team Green, I see they did send me a text.

Joseph: Oh, wow!

Okay, okay.

- Tell me, tell me.

Liz: Says, "You're off the hook..." Sean: [laughs] Kacey: Oh, no!

I told you they were gonna do that to us.

Joseph: Yes!

Anthony: We love you, Team Green!

Joseph: Thank you!

- Yes!

Sorry, Team Black.

- Wow.

Keep it cordial until we stab our-- [guttural hiss] [phone buzz] Monika: It's Black?

Magen: Uh-huh.

- What'd they say?

Sean: Okay then.

Kacey: So they obviously see us as a threat.

Kacey: [laughs] They've been blacklisted!

♪ Monika: So, Magen.

Magen: Yeah?

- Before I left for this race, my adoptive parents both wrote me letters, so... maybe you could read it to me?

Magen: "Monika, so excited you are making this journey.

"You have been a blessing to us, "and we are so happy you completed our family.

"Now you have the chance to share your light and love with some of your birth relatives."

Magen: "May God bless you on this journey.

I love you, Dad."

♪ Monika: My parents are the only parents I've ever known.

Like, I... that's all I've ever seen them as, is parents, and they've been the best parents ever.

♪ Devin: Finding out we were both adopted really allowed us to build a very unique kinship because not everybody really understands what it means to be raised by someone, and really to be chosen by another family.

♪ Kacey: I had a wonderful life growing up, you know, it's adoption, I was placed in an amazing family, you know, a lot of people don't get this opportunity to, to be so loved.

Anthony: As Joe and I became adults, our relationship with our adoptive family went through some hard times.

Joseph: I was very appreciative of my adoptive family and what they did.

Singer: ♪ It's been a long road.

♪ ♪ It's so amazin' now that we made it home, ♪ ♪ I know I found my way with you.

♪ ♪ It's been a long road, ♪ ♪ the weather was changin', ♪ ♪ still we made it through, ♪ ♪ I know, ♪ ♪ I found my way with you.

♪ ♪ - We absolutely have a gratitude to be alive... [emotional] because we know how special it is just for us to be here.

- From day one, I knew that I was loved and that my family wanted me.

Monika: I feel really blessed, I feel blessed to have grown up with such a great family.

They were there with me through it all.

- There is so many circumstances that had to come together just right for us to be adopted by the people who adopted us.

- And I, I had a beautiful life.

I have a beautiful life.

Monika: The fact that my adoptive parents didn't blink an eye about me going on this journey shows that they are amazing people.

It's awesome.

Magen: "P.S.

Maybe one of the challenges "will be a three-point shootout or a good kick because you rock at both."

♪ Dan: After a trip down memory lane, it's time to stop looking back and start looking up for a city sign.

♪ Kacey: You over on that side, I'll do my side.

Anthony: You look over here, I'll look over here.

Devin: [long hmm] Kacey: Oh, there was a sign right there.

Sean: That was a sign right there!

Shoot.

- It's okay, any one of these.

- Just trust me!

Anthony: Oh!

Melbourne, uh, hand center, right here.

Magen: Wait, stop, stop, Fort Dodge!

Sean: City of Lancaster.

Devin: Right there, Cincinnati Norwood.

- All right, there we go.

Magen: Stop!

Monika: Hurry, just get out.

Magen: Okay, I want you like right here so I can get this whole sign, okay?

Monika: Okay.

Liz: You hit the button.

You're not... you're not hitting it.

♪ - You ready?

Joseph: Yeah.

♪ Liz: I, actually, I got it.

[camera shutter closing] ♪ [phone buzzes] ♪ [notification sound] - Oh, sweet, here it is!

Both: Your challenge is located at two eight-- Kacey: 710 Mar Avenue.

All right, go!

Sean: Let's go!

Monika: Get in quick!

[doors closing] Sean: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

Anthony: Seatbelt, seatbelt, seatbelt, seatbelt!

- Safety first.

[seatbelt noise beeping] Monika: This way?

Magen: Just go straight to Ryker.

Sean: Uh, 33, I'd bet's down this way.

Monika: It was actually-- [horn honks] Ope!

[crunch] Sorry.

Liz: Are you okay, baby?

I got it.

[seatbelt alarm beeping] Joseph: Turn at the light.

Magen: All right, you've heard-- Monika: [squeals] I see it, I see it!

Sean: Just park right here.

♪ Monika: All right, it says... - Faceketball.

Dan: The unique challenge for day four is Faceketball.

Players will take turns taking shots at their teammate from varying distances.

Their teammate wears a backboard face shield and must bounce the ball off of it and into a bin.

Get a ball in each of the four bins to complete this challenge.

The allotted time for Faceketball is 12 minutes.

♪ Liz: Ready?

Devin: Yup.

[thud] Liz: Yes!

Yes, yes, let's switch, let's switch.

Actually, the first attempt went really well.

- We got it on, like, the first throw.

Magen: Ready?

Oh, gosh, okay.

Kacey: Ah, they're too light.

Anthony: I look at Faceketball, and I'm thinking... [thud] Oh!

"Wow, this might be difficult."

♪ Devin: Come a little, come closer, come to the edge, yes, right there.

Looking out a Faceketball shield was actually pretty familiar for me.

It was like looking through a football helmet.

Got it!

Ah, almost.

- It actually, actually, it wasn't familiar for me.

Ugh.

Ugh!

Devin: There it is!

Liz: Higher!

Devin: There it is!

Liz: [groans] Devin: Come on!

Monika: Soft.

Lo-- like a U.

Like, like a fade away.

It's a basketball challenge, which is absolutely crazy because my adoptive dad's letter today just said, I hope there's a three-point challenge for you.

Yes!

Magen: Yes!

Monika: Okay, come on, come on, come on!

Magen: I'm getting your balls!

Sean: Almost there, almost there.

Kacey: Give me, like... Sean: Yeah, yeah, I'm tryin', dear.

Joseph: Come a little bit more... Anthony: Like this?

Joseph: Yeah.

Sean: Almost.

You almost got it that time.

Anthony: Try to go underhanded, Joe.

- I think we got the technique down pretty quick.

Kacey: Woo!

Sean: Yeah, we got it!

Kacey: Switch!

Sean: And then Kacey killed the first one.

Anthony: Gently.

Oh, good!

Joseph: Woo!

Anthony: Joe's throwing was surprisingly on point.

He did a good job.

- Why are you surprised?

Devin: Listen.

You have to squat down lower and bounce up higher.

'Kay?

Liz: Okay.

Basketball wasn't really my primary sport.

Devin: Baby, squat.

Liz: I am squatting!

Devin: No, no, you're not squatting-- Liz: I feel like I'm missing the next step.

Devin: You're not squatting as low as you-- Liz: Like this?

Devin: Yes.

Liz: Okay.

This burns, but do it.

Devin: It's o-, hey.

Liz: Hurry.

Squatting and popping up was definitely, uh, a challenge.

My body won't last.

Yeah.

[balls thudding] ♪ Anthony: Hit it.

Yes!

Joseph: Yes!

Anthony: Good job.

Monika: Yes!

Magen: Yes!

Monika: [squeals] Kacey: Yes!

Sean: There we go, okay.

Switch.

Kacey: Switch.

Sean: We're feeling pretty confident.

I mean, so far, we're chipping away at this, no problem.

Devin: That's it.

[frustrated groan] Close, though.

Liz: Do we...

I need to head butt it.

Please?

After a while, I was starting to get sore, and I realized, that would have been that much more difficult for us.

Devin: Okay.

Do what you want.

You ready?

Liz: Shoot-shoot it at my... Switch!

Devin: Congratulations, you were right.

- So I feel like we're falling into a great rhythm going into basket number three.

Devin: Getting to the third station, I was fairly confident coming into it.

- I was like, ooh, we're just gonna breeze right through this.

Both: Yeah!

Magen: YES!

Joseph: Yes!

[ding] Devin: [groans] There it is.

Kacey: It didn't take us much time at all.

Then comes number four.

Whew!

We're doin' good.

We got this in the bag.

Sean: Here's the penalty.

And then came the penalty.

Kacey: What's it say?

Sean: 'Kay, you have been selected for today's penalty.

You must move this station six feet back, good luck.

Oh boy.

♪ Kacey: That shouldn't be much of an issue.

♪ Kacey: Ugh!

Magen: I don't really know how Team Black would do with this challenge, but I do know that basket number four... Kacey: Agh!

Mnyagh!

Nope.

Nope, nope, nope.

Magen: ...was gonna be a whole lot tougher.

Kacey: Augh!

Dang it!

- Sorry.

Kacey: Do not get in your head.

We've gotten so far today!

Sean: I know!

I'm tired.

The person throwing the ball has to retrieve the balls, which, I just, I can't keep goin' back and forth and back and forth.

Magen: Babe, try one underhand so it lobs down on my face.

Monika: I don't even know how to do it, like.

♪ [thud] [ding] Monika: Oh my gosh!

Kacey: Team Green is on my radar, and, um... No.

They're done.

Cuttin' 'em out of my life.

Man: Break time!

Team Green: [laughing] Monika: A granny shot!

Help me.

Okay.

Your relative lives 1401 8th Avenue North.

Magen: What's this street right here?

Monika: Oh my gosh, okay, let's go!

Anthony: Sorry, my fault.

Liz: Not high enough!

Joseph: You gotta throw it harder, bro.

Liz: Not so fast.

Anthony: I know that.

It's hard aimin' for your face.

♪ Anthony: Finally, yes!

Devin: There it is.

Liz: Yes!

We are so glad to be finally done with this challenge.

We just wanna get to our relative's house, uh... Devin: Today.

Liz: Today.

Your relative lives at 1136-- Anthony: San Juan Circle.

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

Anthony: 'Kay, let's go, let's go.

♪ Sean: Oh!

Kacey: Do not get in your head!

Don't worry about the time, worry about throwing.

Sean: I'm not worried about the time, I'm worried about passing out.

Kacey: I kinda took Team Green's, you know, bubbly, funny attitude for granted, and, um... we see you, Team Green.

Most definitely.

Sean: [deep sigh] I can't do this.

Kacey: If we end up getting first place at any given point during this race, and they're still in it, it's gonna be a tit for tat for sure.

Sean: [groans] Kacey: Is there anything I can do to help?

Sean: I don't know, get closer, or something, I don't know.

Kacey: I can't get any closer.

Sean: I don't know, hun.

I just don't know.

I'm frustrated for sure, 'cause that extra six feet, really, that was the killer.

♪ Kacey: Team Green, I'm comin' after you.

♪ Sean: Oh, come on.

Dan: Team Black is still struggling with their penalty... Kacey: Almost!

...as their competition scrambles to find their relatives.

♪ Magen: I'm gonna put it into the GPS.

Anthony: Are we facing north right now?

Liz: Go right.

- Right.

Magen: Streets are running this way, avenues are running this way.

Monika: Got it.

We're already on the right street right now, we just don't know if we're driving the right way.

Oh.

Magen: Babe, I'm trying.

- We're, we're gonna need to head this way.

Liz: We need to go, that, that direction.

Devin: To the right?

Sean: I got frustrated at hoop number 4.

Kacey: Well, you got it in there!

Sean: [groans] Kacey: [laughs] But, you know.

Sean: Not what we needed.

Kacey: We gotta hit my face first.

Sean: I was just tryin' to kinda keep myself, just doin' it the same way, hopin' eventually we'll get it in.

- [groan] [thud] [ding] Sean: Finally!

Kacey: Finally, geez!

Sean: Okay, let's go!

That challenge is over.

- Oh my gosh, you're so sweaty!

Sean: Yeah.

Yeah.

Monika: Do you have that yet?

Magen: I do not.

- Do it in there.

- We're really close.

It's, it's not far.

Devin: And we're headed in the right direction.

Liz: Uh, so far.

Magen: Just stop for a minute, okay?

Sean: If we see a person, let's ask them.

- It's in .41 miles.

Monika: Oh, we're so close.

Magen: .36, okay?

- So we need to go that way.

Anthony: 281... Joseph: It's comin' up really close.

Liz: [with stick in mouth] Okay, is it reset to north?

Still within two miles.

Devin: Still within two mi-- Liz: Yeah, yeah, I need that though.

- Just bein' clear, are we closer or further away?

Liz: [with stick in mouth] We're still, we're at rank.

- We're still within two miles?

Are we closer?

Liz: Yep, within two miles.

[indistinct mumbling] Devin: Huh?

Liz: I know, sorry.

Anthony: In there's some San Juan Village!

Joseph: Yep, right there.

Anthony: Oh, we found it.

Monika: That's 13... Magen: So this has gotta be 14s, right?

Joseph: This is it.

- So we need to find 281.

290.

Monika: Yep, 1402!

Magen: Park in front of the house, let's go!

Both: 83, 82... Anthony: 281, right here, Joe, we're here, we're here, we're here!

Joseph: Yay!

♪ ♪ Magen: Let's go.

Let's go.

Monika: It was a hectic, pretty crazy day earlier, and to land on the doorstep, it was awesome.

There's two women standing outside the door, and...

I'm not sure exactly who they are, but eager to know.

- [laughing] Monika: Hi!

Woman 1: Hi.

How are you?

Woman 1: I'm great!

Magen: I'm Magen.

Monika: I'm Monika, I'm speechless, is what I am.

- [laughs] - I'm Grandma Marge.

Woman 2: And I'm Michele.

- Marge!

Oh my gosh.

Marge: Oh, I'm so happy to see you!

Monika: As soon as she said that her name was Marge, I knew exactly who she was, and I couldn't wait to wrap my arms around her.

Magen: When I first heard Monika's adoption story, Marge was a prominent figure.

Not only did she foster her for six weeks, she also fostered Monika's biological mother as a teenager, and she handpicked Monika's adoptive parents for her.

Monika: Oh!

Michele: You've heard about Marge.

- Yeah, I've heard about Marge.

Marge: [laughs] - I was wondering if I was gonna meet you today.

- You are!

I'm here!

I am so-- Monika: You're beautiful.

- I'm so excited.

- You are?

Marge: Yeah.

This is Michele, I'm so sorry.

Monika: It's okay, it's okay.

Marge: And she's my oldest daughter.

- Okay, cool.

Marge: Your birth mother, Robin, came here to live when she was 16 as a foster child.

Monika: I heard that story.

Marge: It goes way back.

You came here from the hospital.

Monika: Here?

- Yes, at two or three days old.

- That's crazy.

Michele: And I was the one that went to Des Moines, where you were born, and picked you up from the hospital... - Oh my gosh.

Michele: ...and brought you here.

Marge: That's why she's here.

I'm Marge Flannery.

- And I'm Michele Newman, and we are Monika's mother's foster family.

Marge: I go by Grandma Marge, and that's what they call me because I have fostered many children, so I'm just Grandma Marge to everybody.

Sorry I'm not biological, but you're in my heart.

Monika: I've always called you my foster mom, always.

Marge: Really?

Monika: Yeah, because I knew that you took care of me for a little while in between Robin, and then it was you, and then my parents now.

Marge: Yeah.

I was overwhelmed, I was so excited.

I've been waiting for this for 32 years, and Monika got emotional about seeing me, but I was very emotional to get to see her because I've waited for this time.

- I thought it was cool that she knew who you were, knew of you.

- I, me too.

I didn't know she knew.

It was more than fulfilling.

Monika: I need to hug both of you.

[crying] ♪ ♪ Anthony: Walking up the stairs and seeing our relative, she just was so bright and just full of love and life and joy, and it was beautiful.

- Hi!

- Hey!

- This is insane.

Anthony: My name is Anthony.

Joseph: And I'm Joseph.

- Nice to meet you, my name is Aleya.

Anthony: So, uh, I guess the question is, how are you related to us?

Aleya: Um, so I am your first cousin on your mom's side.

Anthony: Oh wow!

Joseph: Oh my gosh!

Anthony: Can I have another hug?

Aleya: You guys look just like your mom!

Oh my gosh, it's so crazy!

- You're so pretty, oh my gosh!

♪ Aleya: I didn't, I never thought I would meet you guys.

Anthony: Hugging my cousin Aleya for the first time was like hugging a sister that I haven't seen in a very long time.

Joseph: If home had a feeling, that would be it.

Aleya: I've heard about you guys, but I've never, like, I never thought I would be able to see you guys.

Um, your guys's mom, Ruthie, she would tell us a lot about you, but, like, she would never really go into details, so I never thought that this was ever possible, so I'm just excited!

My cousins Joseph and Anthony, them finding us was just a dream come true, like, I never expected this to happen, like, so when it happened, it was just more of, like, it's real!

It's exciting, it's happening, and I'm just, I'm overwhelmed.

I'm actually 25.

Well, I'll be 25, um... Anthony: Oh my gosh.

Aleya: Yeah.

Anthony: We're, like, close to the same age-- Aleya: Oh really?

How old are you guys?

Both: 28.

- Oh my goodness, wow!

Yeah, we're super close, wow.

This is insane.

You look just like Ruthie, like, I can see-- Anthony: Really?

- It's so exciting!

I instantly just, like, I knew they were related to me.

Like, oh, these are, these are, these are definitely my family.

You know, it was amazing.

Amazing feeling.

♪ Dan: Back on the road, Teams Red and Black leave nothing to chance... Sean: Let's just run in real quick.

Dan: As they stop for directions.

Devin: Excuse me sir, excuse me officer.

We're tryin' to get to Paxton Avenue.

Liz: We lucked out to find a police officer, who was able to give us some turn by turn directions.

Kacey: I got it!

I got it!

Okay, it's really-- Sean: Kacey found a UPS driver, and we were like, yes!

Devin: Thank you very much, sir.

Have a good day.

Kacey: Woo!

We're gonna win!

- So what is that tellin' us?

Liz: We're at .3 miles.

Devin: Oh, .3 miles?

So we're closer.

- Boy, that couldn'ta been any easier.

Wow.

Devin: Yes, that's Paxton.

Okay.

- Was it 24781?

- 1213.

Where are we goin'?

- 1136.

Sean: 24671.

Devin: Next block on the left.

Liz: Okay, we're almost there.

Sean: Okay, okay.

Kacey: 781!

Sean: Geez, that happened fast.

Liz: Stop, baby, we're within a hundred feet!

Devin: What, what, what?

Liz: We're within a hundred feet.

Devin: I can't see this, I can't see it yet.

Liz: I know, it's on the left.

Kacey: [laughs] We got it in the bag.

Sean: There it is, there it is.

Right there.

Devin: Right there.

Liz: Good job.

Sean: Fwam!

Kacey: Woo!

♪ Sean: Okay, let's go.

Kacey: Great!

Running up to the cabin, I see this woman who looks a lot like my aunt Lynette that we just met the other day.

- I'm Lynette.

Kacey: Oh!

Lynette: Welcome to the family, darling.

Kacey: Hello!

And I thought immediately, that has to be one of my aunts.

Hello!

Woman 3: Hi!

Kacey: Hi, I'm Kacey, and this is my husband, Sean.

Sean: Hi.

Woman 3: Very nice to meet you!

My name is Jen.

Kacey: Are you my aunt Jen?

- Yes, I am!

Your dad is my brother!

Kacey: Oh my goodness!

[laughs] Jen: Oh, I'm so happy to meet you.

I've heard so much about you.

Kacey: You have?

Jen: Uh, little bits and pieces, is what I've been, yeah.

I'm Jen Miller, and I am Kacey's aunt.

The moment that Kacey walked up to me, it was really amazing how much she resembles the people in our family.

She's this beautiful, vibrant, young woman, and I am so excited that I got to meet her today.

Kacey: Karen.

Jen: Yes.

Kacey: She gave me, like, a family tree on my first day, and it had your name on there.

I was like, oh my gosh!

Jen: We have a very big family, so... Sean: We have been learning this, yes.

Kacey: Yup.

Jen: So, yes.

Kacey: When I saw how excited aunt Jen was to meet me, and how she just threw her hands up in the air and was like, oh my gosh!

I was just so happy, I'm just so excited, like, on cloud nine today!

No tears for once!

[laughing] Jen: I'm so excited to get to know about you, and I understand that you are a musical person.

Kacey: I am.

Sean: We both are, actually.

Jen: Oh, you both are!

Sean: Yeah.

Jen: Awesome, well, we have a little surprise for you.

Sean: Okay.

[record scratch] - ♪ Hello... ♪ ♪ Hello... ♪ Kacey: Ah!

Oh my gosh!

Sean: [laughs] Kacey: I was literally just saying how funny that would be!

I literally just today was like, I wonder if we're gonna meet, like, a musical relative, and like, boom!

There they are.

Jen: This is my barbershop quartet, um, we sing with Sweet Adelines International, it's an all-women, four-part a Capella barbershop group.

I have been singing with barbershop since I was a young girl.

It was exciting to find out that Kacey shared the same passion of music, and I think it really surprised her and caught her off guard.

We would like to teach you a song if you would like to sing with us today.

Sean: That would be so cool.

Kacey: Yes, please, please, please, please, please, yes.

Sean: [laughs] Jen: Let's go right over here, and we can do a little singin'!

Kacey: I'm so excited!

[piano chord] ♪ Devin: I think we're almost here.

Okay.

Yeah, that's it, that's it, that's it.

Okay.

[doors close] Liz: Hi!

How are you?

Woman 4: Hey.

Devin: How you doing?

I'm Devin.

- I'm Liz.

Woman 4: I'm Jennifer, and this is Tamaya, my daughter.

- Hi.

Liz: Hi, nice to meet you.

Devin: So whose relative are you?

Jennifer: Okay, guess.

- Uh, Imma guess you're mine.

Jennifer: Yes.

Devin: Okay, who are you?

- I'm your first cousin.

Devin: Okay.

- My dad is Michael, that's your uncle.

Devin: Cool.

All right, nice to meet you!

Liz: Nice to you meet you, hi, nice to meet you!

Devin: Nice to meet you!

Jennifer: [laughing] Liz: Awesome!

Devin: Uncle Michael, 'cause Michael has a junior, right?

If I remember the chart correctly.

Jennifer: Yes.

Devin: Okay, okay.

- Your twin.

[laughs] Devin: Got it, okay, cool!

Jennifer: My name is Jennifer Thomas.

I'm Devin's first cousin.

My first thought lookin' at Devin today was, like, aw, you look just like us!

Especially my older brother, Michael.

You look so much like my brother.

The eyes.

He's 41, but y'all look like twins!

Devin: Wow!

Jennifer: Only thing is, he has big ears, and you don't.

Devin: [laughs] Okay, he can, he can keep those big ears.

I don't need those big ears.

Jennifer: But y'all look exactly alike.

Devin: That's cool.

- It's nice to meet you!

- Nice to meet you as well.

Michael, I look forward to hopefully meetin' him someday soon, and takin' that side by side picture.

Every time I meet another member of my dad's biological family, each person has a little bit more information, uh, which is good, it's just good to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Yeah.

Jennifer: Y'all be come on in for somethin' to eat?

Devin: 'Cause we hungry, so... Jennifer: Yeah, come on!

Devin: Thank you so much for havin' us.

Jennifer: Yeah, I'm so happy y'all came.

♪ Marge: So now I get to share with you why and how you came to this house 32 years ago.

Monika: I've been waiting my whole life to know these answers and to ask these questions and to come in here and talk to Marge and Michele and answer some of those questions was really, really helpful.

- Throughout this, we were close to Robin, your mom.

We always stayed close because we were teenagers together.

Monika: Okay.

Mhmm.

Michele: She wanted you to stay with mom-- Monika: Mhmm.

Michele: --in the interim.

Monika: Right.

Michele: And so my husband Rich and I drove-- Monika: Mhmm.

- --and we met your mom and dad in the parking lot-- Monika: Like-- Michele: At the hospital.

And I have to say, it was probably one of the hardest things that I ever was part of, to take you from her, or she gave me to you.

- Like, literally handed?

Michele: Handed you over in the car seat.

And of course, she cried, we cried.

It was very difficult.

And then we drove back here with you late at night to Fort Dodge, and brought you here.

Marge: Here to me.

Michele: And she was ready for you.

Marge: I was ready for you.

- Oh.

Marge: I think Robin was very devastated at that time-- - She was.

Marge: --and very hurt, but I was just going to support her 'cause she was part of our family.

But the deal when Robin had you come, she trusted me, and therefore, I was given the task of finding you a mom and a dad.

I totally picked your mom and dad alone.

- How?

Marge: I became friends with Michele, your mom, and then discovering they couldn't have any children.

Monika: Yeah.

- It was just like you-- I didn't even have to think twice.

Monika: Yeah.

- So.

Michele: It all fell together.

Like it was supposed to be.

Marge: It was supposed to be that way.

- Yeah.

- God just told me that they would be good parents, and I just prayed that you had a great home.

- I did.

♪ Art: I'm Art Bergman.

Michelle: And I'm Michelle Bergman, and we are very honored to be Monika's adoptive parents.

The first time we saw Monika at Marge's house, it just was like a peacefulness, um, and we held her, and it was the most beautiful moment, and we just felt so much love.

Art: Yeah, we couldn't wait to take her home.

Michelle: We were hoping that she would someday be able to find her biological family.

Now, for Monika to actually be with Marge, you know, God just put her right back into Marge's care again.

Art: And this journey has been a blessing, and we feel that God has had a hand in it.

Michelle: Totally.

- [sigh] It's just...

It's just shocking, like, how everything went, like, so flawlessly, I guess.

And I just thank you for, like, taking care of me and... And I'm super thankful that you picked them, because they are the best people.

Marge: I'm so happy to hear that.

I felt that always in my heart.

- You were right.

Marge: I just, you know... - It's good to hear you say it, that you had a good life.

Monika: Yeah.

♪ [soft giggling] [kiss] ♪ Aleya: It was a beautiful day today, so I decided to take my cousins Anthony and Joseph out for a talk.

Anthony: How did you handle not knowing where your, you know, family are, like us not being there, and how did you cope with that?

- It was difficult a little bit because it was always something that was, like, missing.

It was, like, this is-- Something's not right.

I had so many big questions in my head, like do they know their family, are they living a good life?

I prayed, you know, you guys have everything that you guys need.

That was always the one thing that I was always worried about.

Joseph: It's incredibly moving to hear that.

I didn't know that y'all knew about us, like.

Aleya: Yeah, we knew.

It was hard because, like, we knew that you guys were out here, and it's, like, we never had the money to, like, find you guys, to even look, to search.

We didn't even know where to start.

It's definitely a miracle.

It's something that never was expected, never thought that this would happen.

I just thought it just would be ever a mystery that would never get solved.

And I always told myself if I ever became a millionaire or anything like that, I would definitely find them.

We said that.

It's a dream come true, I swear it is.

Joseph: Like, towards the beginning of the conversation, it started out, like, you know, like, the more surface-y stuff, but then as we got to the deeper things, it was like whoa, like, my cousin Aleya started talking to me in a way that very few people are able to.

Aleya: I see somebody that, um, wants to be loved equally, somebody who's not looked at as the weaker link, somebody who can do just as much as his brother can do.

I feel like you are stronger than what you, what everybody sees.

This is coming from my heart, it's not a script, I promise you.

It's really how I feel.

- I feel like people don't really want to look me in the eye.

It's really comforting, really, really comforting to hear you say that because I haven't really had anybody that did what you just did, look me in the eye for an extended period of time and to be able to instantly see-- I mean, you read me like a book.

[sigh] I just-- I just want to give you a hug, like.

♪ ♪ Marge: Okay, Monika, I have one more little surprise for you, so you just hang tight.

- Okay.

Marge: This is the baby bed you slept in, and the bed was right here the whole time.

♪ Magen: It was so sweet that Marge had kept the very bassinet that Monika slept in as a baby.

Monika: I'm just, I'm just-- This is just so crazy that this is, like, where I actually was when I was a baby and I slept right here and you were the one that took care of me in this house.

It's just, I don't know, it's a lot.

- It is.

And while we're here, I have a couple things I want to share with you.

Monika: Okay.

- I thi-- Could be your first picture of your mom at 16.

♪ Monika: She's so pretty.

Marge shows me a photo of my mom when she was 16 in this very house.

It's been a really, really good day.

Marge: That's your mom!

- [chuckle] I can tell!

Marge: You can tell!

Okay.

Monika: Her mouth looks like mine.

Marge: Yes, yes.

That's your mom.

Man: ♪ Break down these walls ♪ ♪ and tell me that you're okay.

♪ Monika: That's nice.

- So crazy.

Man: ♪ Turn around and you'll see ♪ ♪ that I'm here to stay.

♪ ♪ To stay.

♪ Marge: I am so delighted with Monika and her smile and sense of humor.

That comes back and it's from her mom.

And I'm so happy to see it, 'cause it just warms my heart, and she's beautiful.

Michele: And she has such a bubbly personality.

- Yeah.

Michele: She's amazing.

- I'm glad I'm here now.

- I'm glad you're here now too!

[laughing] - Can you give me a hug?

Marge: Yeah, I get another hug?

- Yeah.

Thank you!

I love you, too.

♪ Dan: Back in Lancaster, Ohio, Kacey joins her aunt Jennifer's barbershop quartet for some musical fun that runs in the family.

- We're part of an organization called Sweet Adelines International.

It's women's barbershop, so we would love to teach you a song, so-- Kacey: Yeah?

- You were telling me that you've been doing some singing?

- Yeah, um, when I was in high school, we would break into quartets, and we'd perform for people, like they'd pay money and we'd go and sing.

- A Capella?

- Yeah, a Capella!

- So you've done barbershop?

- Oh, yeah!

Oh yeah!

Yeah, this is, like, my jam, you guys.

- Ah, finally someone in my family that gets it!

[laughing] It was great to get to sing a song with Kacey, which was a really cool opportunity.

Kacey: And so it's really cool to have that connection with her, and, I mean, she's really, really good at singing, and so it was just really fun to sing and perform with people that want to perform with you.

Your heart becomes really, like, warm.

I don't know how else to describe it, but I felt very, like, warm and loved at that moment.

Women [harmonizing]: ♪ I'm glad we laughed ♪ ♪ I'm glad we loved ♪ ♪ I'm glad we sang ♪ ♪ Oh, how we sang ♪ ♪ Today ♪ ♪ How we sang ♪ ♪ Today ♪ - Ah!

- That was amazing!

[excited chatter] Jen: That was so awesome!

[laughing] Kacey: They were just so loving and warm and friendly.

I just feel like we all kind of melded together and became best friends instantly.

♪ Devin: I didn't even know until a couple days ago that there could be up to nine people that could potentially be my biological father.

That's a thought that had never crossed my mind before.

Jennifer: All right, Devin.

I know Angie Feature gave you this layout of our family.

- That's a lot of y'all.

Jennifer: Yes.

As we looked at the chart today, I had to rule out who could be his dad.

So, okay, this is my dad here, Michael Thomas.

And here's Johnny.

I know when they tested my DNA, I know for sure my dad is not his dad, so I have some idea who I think it is because he has a resemblance of two of them.

Uncle Terry and Uncle Herbert.

These are the ones that are still around.

So, can I ask you who you think you resemble the most?

Devin: That's a hard question.

I can honestly say that never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I had that much family out there just from my biological father's side of the family.

♪ As I'm thinking more about who my biological father could be, it really made me appreciate my father that raised me and the adoptive family I have.

I just needed an emotional timeout.

♪ My father who raised me basically took us out of the projects, he-he-- [sigh] [sniffle] ♪ He adopted two children then worked two jobs for another 30 years to take care of not just us, but then his own two biological children.

When I was ready to go play football... [sniffle] ♪ We didn't have enough money for it.

[sniffling] We didn't have enough money for an extra car, so my dad got on a bus every day to go to work, gave me his car, so I could go to school, go to practice.

That's how I got my scholarship to go to college.

Without my dad, I'm either dead or in jail.

Period.

I'm eternally indebted to my parents that raised me.

I don't know who I'd be or where I'd be without them.

For him, this journey would really be about having a better understanding of who you are, but he also knows how much I care about family in general, and so he knows how much knowing that information, even if it's just because of the pieces of the puzzle, I'm sure he would understand exactly why we're on this journey.

♪ Dan: After a long day of racing, the results have been tallied, and our teams nervously wait to discover how they have placed.

Anthony: I'm not worried about it.

I just-- I know I'm confident that we won't get a strike today.

Devin: Team Black got the penalty, so hopefully that helps us avoid a strike.

Sean: If we get a strike tonight because we did, you know, struggle in the challenge, I definitely could see being what breaks it for us.

Monika: I want to be the triple threat.

- I don't want three wins in a row.

I don't want the target on our backs.

I would happily settle for second or third.

Monika: That doesn't work for me, okay?

I want first.

♪ Dan: Welcome teams!

Here we are now four days into the race.

For some, it seems to get easier.

For others, mm, the challenges keep on coming.

I want to talk about Team Green, who finished in first.

Who did you penalize and why?

Man: ♪ We do it for the glory!

♪ Magen: We chose Team Black.

It was kind of a no-brainer for us.

They've come in second place every night.

And frankly, they didn't have a strike.

Dan: So, Team Green, um, can you say target on your back?

[laughing] - We're not friends anymore.

[laughing] ♪ Dan: So that brings us to the most important part of each and every day.

Who did you meet today?

- Today I had the opportunity to meet my aunt Jen!

Jen: Hi!

Hi, everybody.

- This is my cousin Jennifer!

- Hi!

- Hi, Jennifer!

- Today we met our cousin on our mother's side Aleya.

- Hi!

Dan: On your mother's side?

Joseph: Yes.

Dan: Well, not to be forgotten, Team Green.

Monika: So this is Marge, and this is her daughter, Michele.

Marge here has actually fostered hundreds of kids, and my biological mother was actually one of them, and I was actually one of them up until I was six weeks old, and she was actually the one that picked out my adoptive parents, so without her, I would've had-- - What?

Monika: -- a total different trajectory on life, so I'm really, really thankful to you.

- Great.

Dan: Wow.

That's the power of Relative Race.

It's the love and power of family.

- Absolutely.

- She's amazing.

♪ Dan: Well, it's time once again.

Who came closest to their allotted time and who earned the strike?

Well, the prize that's on the line today is for the winning team to find out where they are headed tomorrow right here, right now.

And that means you get to do a little extra planning.

So, finishing in first place and winning that advantage, only six minutes over their allotted time.

Man, you guys just rode that rollercoaster ride, you ride that up and down and back and forth.

And congratulations to the twins.

You finished in first place today six minutes over your allotted time.

Would you like to know where you're headed tomorrow?

Both: Yes!

Dan: You're headed to Kissimmee, Florida.

Anthony: Kissimmee, Florida.

Okay.

- So, good luck in strategizing and planning.

All right, finishing in second place 11 minutes over their allotted time, good time to have basketball because you played it in high school and you crushed it, Team Green!

You've finished in second place 11 minutes over your allotted time.

It comes down to Team Red and Team Black.

This is an unfamiliar position for Team Black.

- Yep.

Dan: You've always been in second place.

You've never had to worry!

But today, Team Green penalized you.

- Yep.

Dan: Was it enough to give you your first strike or was Team Red's frustration with all things from the challenge, does that give them their second strike?

Finishing in third place 26 minutes over their allotted time... [suspenseful music] Team Red.

- [sigh of relief] Dan: Team Black, you finished one minute behind Team Red, 27 minutes over your allotted time.

- Ah!

Dan: But, the bottom line is Team Black, you picked up your first strike of Relative Race.

Kacey: I'm mad at Team Green right now.

Magen: Feels good that our strategy paid off and Black Team got the strike.

We couldn't let them roll into day five without one when everybody else has one.

- So, we're coming after them.

They're going down!

Dan: All four teams have one strike four days into the race, which means the competition is still very much up for grabs, and each and every one of you has more opportunities to meet family, and that's what this is all about.

Tomorrow is the halfway point of Relative Race.

Get some rest.

Goodnight, and good luck.

- Goodnight, everybody!

- Bye!

Magen: We're good, we're good!

- Yay!

I'm happy with that!

Magen: I'm happy with that too.

- Team Green is going to be squished like a bug.

[smack] - Get 'em, girl.

- I'm done.

- Yeah.

- It's fightin' time!

- I kinda was getting, like, a little competitive vibe.

[Marge and Michele laughing] I was like I could go-- Marge: I love that part of you!

[laughing] - We're not friends till the show's over.

- That doesn't really make a difference, unfortunately.

- Sure it does.

You know it means?

We're gonna beat them tomorrow.

Marge: See?

- But you know who they're gunnin' for?

- I know who they're coming for.

Kacey: They're not gonna get first, and we're gonna make sure that they get last somehow.

I don't know how, but we're going to figure it out!

- Okay.

[laughing] - They've gotta win first place to give us a disadvantage, so I'll wait for that to happen.

- You better be careful, Green Team.

♪ 'Cause we're coming after you.