Dan: Previously on Relative Race.

- Got this.

- This is the happiest week of my life.

- Run!

- Whew!

- It's definitely meat.

[pfft] Dan: The teams continued their bond in the car.

[cats fighting] Dan: A second strike left the twins dangerously close to elimination.

Team Black, one more strike and you'll be headed home.

Kristen: What's making me upset is knowing that I may not meet more relatives.

Dan: The Day 10 benefit stumped another team.

- They gave us a box with a lock?

[laughing] - I guess.

Dan: And Maria, finally met her mother.

- I'm your mother.

[laughing] - Hi.

- That's your father.

Maria: For real?

Maria's mom: Yeah.

Dan: DNA tells us who we are and where we came from... following their own DNA four teams are racing... - Yes!

- Blue!

Dan: to win $50,000-- Both: Yeah!

Dan: and to find their family.

♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day 4 of Relative Race, and while all of our teams are preparing for another day, Team Green is preparing to look good.

- Day 4, we gotta look good today, you know.

The victory win, you gotta look good.

- Especially after killing it yesterday.

It's the only way I know how.

Both: [laugh] - We woke up feeling pumped this morning.

- And we got first place yesterday.

- Team Green, you finished in first place.

- I hope everybody else ready because we're about to slay the rest of this comp.

Keith: I'm feeling good.

- We nailed it.

Both: [laughing] Dan: Team Green is ready to roll out in style from Amarillo, Texas, but down in Gainesville, Florida, Team Black prepares with a more focused attitude after receiving their second strike last night.

- Thank you so much for having us.

Nicole: Of course.

You had some good breakfast, right?

- Yeah.

Thank you.

Kirstin: We woke up this morning different than all the other mornings.

Kaley: We told ourselves to forget about our strikes and yeah, imagine that they weren't there.

- Yeah.

- If we don't put it in our head, we're not gonna believe it.

- I'm excited for you guys.

- Thank you.

- Thank you very much.

- Thanks for all the help with the maps too.

Dan: Several states north of Team Black is Team Blue.

They will be starting in Jefforsonville, Indiana.

Demetrius: If I seem distracted, it's because we gotta go win today.

- We have to win.

- Oh yes, we have to win.

- It's heavy.

- Oh my goodness.

- Maria!

I got it, I got it.

Dan: And right next door to Team Blue is Team Red.

Their journey begins in Roanoke, Virginia with Maria's mother and a farewell embrace.

- I love you.

Sharon: I was really overcome with a lot of emotion because she is a miracle.

Today was a miracle.

There is no feeling like that.

- Group hug!

Sharon: I loved seeing Maria today with her sister, Elizabeth.

Little does Maria know, that I have a special gift for her.

So before you go, there's something I want you to have.

[gasp] This is a symbol of your journey until now, because you are my brave daughter and the wing of God has protected you, and the star is for hope, because without hope we wouldn't be here today.

- I know.

- I love you so much.

Maria: I just feel like we're so happy and enlightened in just finding this missing piece for Sharon, my mom.

- Thank you for bringing life to me today.

♪ - Maria, I'm sorry, I hate to do this but we just got a text from Dan.

Demetrius: Text from Dan.

- It's Dan?

- Yeah.

- Where're we going this morning?

Marcus: Good morning teams and welcome to Day 4 of Relative Race.

Kirstin: Team Black will be travelling to Savannah, Georgia-- - Arlington, Virginia!

Maria: All right!

Elizabeth: Awesome.

- Charleston, West Virginia?

- Santa Fe, New Mexico?

- Santa Fe, New Mexico?

Kirstin: Today's first place winners will have their relative navigate them tomorrow-- Elizabeth: or a Day 10 benefit.

- Your time starts now.

We gotta go.

- Oh, we gotta go.

- We gotta go.

- Our stuff.

- I'll just eat on the road.

- Okay, okay.

- Let's go, come on.

- Love you!

- Love you!

- New Mexico.

- New Mexico?

- Go, go, go, get in!

- I'm getting in, there's a tree.

- Thank you so much!

- Thank you!

[bang] - You okay?

Chonta: West Virginia.

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

- Hey!

Y'all gonna need this man!

Keith: Oh!

We ran out and we forget our Day 10 benefit.

[laughing] - Love you!

- Love you too man.

- Thank you!

- I can't believe I almost forgot it, dude.

[laughing] Chonta: West Virginia?

- Welcome to Day 4 of Relative Race.

All of our teams are spread out all across the country, still racing to different cities.

Still looking for new family and all of them still have their eyes set on the finish line in an undisclosed location.

At the start of the race three days ago in St. Louis, all of our teams surrendered their smart phones and all use of technology in exchange for flip phones with no GPS or internet access and paper maps.

Now they're racing to a different city.

They must take a selfie to prove that they've made it, successfully complete a common challenge and ultimately find their new relatives, each in a different allotted time.

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

Three strikes and you are out of this race.

Welcome to Day 4 of Relative Race.

♪ ♪ Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river.

♪ Dan: With the long road ahead of them, teams can now groove towards their destination cities.

- ♪ "You're so fine you blow my mind, Hey Mickey!"

♪ - ♪ "Take me away from my guy."

♪ - ♪ "boom, shakalaka, shakalaka, chicka-boom."

♪ Dan: The sisters are singing their way to Arlington, Virginia.

Their total allotted time including their challenge and finding their relative is 3 hours and 51 minutes.

Kristin: ♪ Eat some frog legs and some gator.

♪ ♪ It's okay, we'll see you later.

♪ [laughing] Dan: The twins are also harmonizing as they make their way to Savannah, Georgia.

They have the shortest allotted time of the day at 3 hours and 4 minutes.

- ♪ Mister Sandman, bring me a dream.

♪ - ♪ Bom, bom, bom, bom.

♪ - ♪ Make her the cutest that I've ever seen.

♪ - ♪ She already is.

♪ Dan: Team Blue also on key is looking to find Charleston, West Virginia with a total allotted time of 3 hours and 50 minutes.

- I've never been to New Mexico.

- Oh, me neither, bruh.

I've been saying, I want to go to Mexico.

[record scratch] - Oh, so New Mexico, we aren't gonna have no real, raw Mexican food?

Dan: And singing to a different tune, is Team Green, they'll be traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the United States with an allotted time of 4 hours and 10 minutes.

With the open road on the horizon... Elizabeth: Let's make the other teams think about uh, oh, Team Red.

Dan: It's open season on competitive texts.

Maria: Like we love you guys but it's still a competition, [indistinct].

- All right, Team Green.

Keith: It's from Team Red.

[laughing] - So, what do you have to say, fellas?

- It says... - Oh, that's cute.

Prepare for bloodshed!

[laughing] Keith: She say... - What the heck does that mean?

- What?

- Oooh, okay.

- And they don't know that our navigating is extra A-1, like steak sauce.

Dan: Team Green grills up some sick burns, just in time for lunch.

- Ew.

Kaley: Is it gross?

- Why do you eat so loud?

- I don't know.

- You chew like a cow.

- Ready?

- Ready.

- Go!

Focus on the road.

Eyes on the road.

Slurp.

- I have strong teeth.

- Lick your lip.

- Gone see?

- I tore my food up.

[laughs] - There you go.

Way to go.

Way to go.

Dan: After a long morning drive.

- We just need the first sign.

I don't care where it's at.

Dan: Teams are on the lookout... - Okay, Arlington.

Dan: for their city signs.

- There's a Santa Fe sign right there, brother.

- Where?

Kaley: There's Savannah, right there.

- Perfect.

- Any of them say Arlington?

- Yes.

Stop.

- Yes.

- Where it says Charleston.

- Stop right here, stop right here.

Stop right here.

- Right side.

- Perfect, perfect, right here.

- Come on, come on, come on.

[doors slamming] - Come on, come on.

- Woo!

Honey, you hold it.

- Lower.

[camera shutter] [ding] [camera shutter] [camera shutter] [ camera shutter] ♪ [ding] - Yes!

View, view now.

- Yay!

- Let's go.

- Let's go.

- Let's get a local map.

- Local map.

Let's ask, come on.

- Oh.

- Come on, come on, come on.

- But I might fall and not be able to do the challenge.

- Go, go, go.

- All right, start getting notes out.

- Right after we got the selfie our plan was to look for a local map.

Excuse me ladies, I'm sorry to bother you-- - We run up to these ladies having dinner and asked if we can get a map, or where we can get one.

- Would you happen to have a local map?

- Well, I was actually showing, uh, directions to a friend of mine.

- We really need it, I can give you money for it.

- It's yours.

- Really?

And they just happened to have extra local maps on them, so they provided us with a map.

- Thank you.

Thank you so much!

I appreciate it.

Keith: Who just carries around maps all the time like that?

- I have no idea, but it's handy and I might end up doing the same thing in the future.

- Okay guys, where we going?

Where we going?

Keith: Santa Fe railroad.

Marcus: Santa Fe railroad.

Dan: With selfies now out of the way, it's challenge tim.

- What is today's challenge gonna be?

- They might have us climbing a rope today.

You remember how to do that?

Kaley: Yeah, this is, this is the park.

Kristin: Turn out here.

Turn out here.

Don't hit this girl.

- I'm not.

- Oh my.

Gracious.

- Yep bro, we going the right way.

We just passed it, Allegra street.

- Okay.

- Grab it, grab it, grab it.

- I'll read it.

- Wait, wait, wait.

- A-Maze Ball.

- Navigate a steel ball from one end to the other.

- Your allotted time for the day includes five minutes to complete this challenge.

- Let's go.

- You ready for this?

Dan: Day 4's challenge, A -Maze Ball is the same for all four teams.

For this challenge, teams use a handheld maze board, and must navigate a steel ball from one end of the maze to the other in 20 seconds.

If the ball falls through a hole, or if the 20 seconds elapses, they must start over.

- All right, come on, come on, come on.

- It's like a little arcade game.

I don't play arcade games.

- We're talking about pinball.

- Pinball.

- Yeah.

- I don't play those games, I mean maybe like... - Immediately thinking pinball.

All right, back towards me, back towards me.

Lift.

Lift.

Lift it all the way.

Lift, lift it up.

- We have to navigate this ball through a maze without it falling in the hole.

- Twenty seconds, you gotta kinda-- - Oh.

- Our strategy at first was go slow, communicate, and relax.

- Where we going next?

And then... [buzzer] - That was 20 seconds?

- Lizzy, grab the ball.

- All right, we gotta go fast, you're right.

We gotta go fast.

[clunk] - We keep getting so close to the finish-- - Go down that way.

[buzzer] - Oh!

Pick it up, pick it up!

- And then we run out of our 20 seconds.

- So, we have to be amazingly fast at this game.

- Yeah, right.

- Tilt, we're gonna go back to here.

- Okay.

- Come on.

- Turn.

- Ah.

- Too fast, too fast, too fast.

- Come on, no, no, ah!

- Easy!

No!

Not too hard Kaley!

- No, no, no Kristin!

- So, the ball goes in the hol, we got to start all over.

Maria: Fast, fast towards you, go.

Go!

Fast towards you!

- It can't go past the hole.

Me, me, let me go down.

Yes it can, boom.

- You can?

- Yes.

Yes.

- Oh.

- The ball flies over one of the holes.

- Boom, game changer!

- Uh, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Both: Pop!

- Ahhh.

- We figured we can hop the holes and it will lead us right to the finish.

- Tilt it your way a little bit.

My way, ready?

Pop.

Hold it, hold it, hold it.

- Ready, hold on.

- Yes.

- One, two, three, go.

- Okay.

I see what you're saying.

Okay.

- The difficult thing is communicating effectively to your partner when you're lifting, tilting.

Wait, just listen to what I'm saying.

Drop-- - Stop talking so much.

- Lift your arms up.

- I got my arms up.

- Angle, it needs angle.

- Okay, okay, slow down.

Calm down.

It's okay, calm down.

It's okay.

There's obviously, probably easy way, but we obviously did not talk about it right away, so... Marcus: Pop it, pop it.

Keith: All right, you ready?

Marcus: Yep.

Gotta jump it.

- When it was time to jump, the communication and energy was just there.

Marcus: Yeah.

Pop it.

Yes.

Oh!

We got it, we got it!

Let's go, let's go!

- So, we're coming up, we're trying to hop the holes and all of the sudden-- - You ready?

Go!

- Yeah!

Shut up!

- Literally rolled the wall, like... - Like I'll be honest, there was definitely an element of luck involved.

Maria: Yes.

- Boom, bam.

- Finish line!

[laughing] - You're relative lives at 1109 N. Luna Circle.

- Arlington Mill Drive.

Go.

Grab it.

Maria: We just aced the challenge, time to go to the relative.

- Watch out for the green team.

- Go, go, go, go.

Oh my goodness!

So good, get in, get in.

We gotta go.

We're on our way to our relative, we don't know who it is, but we gotta go.

- Yeah.

Wait, this is a city building.

Maria: Pen and paper.

Elizabeth: They have to know.

Maria: Pen and paper!

Come on, come on, come on.

We actually found a semi-map on our way out which was great from the city bikes.

This could help us.

- Arlington, Arlington.

- Arlington what?

- North Arlington Mill Drive.

Marcus: So, I'm going to get a magnifying glass at the store, real quick to read these maps.

Keith: [indistinct] - Okay son.

- I just think a magnifying glass would be helpful for these maps.

Keith: But the clock was rolling.

Marcus: I knew we were on the clock, but we were really quick about it, so... - So much better on finding something.

Marcus: And the magnification was well worth the stop.

And then we're gonna get on the 285 North.

Boom.

- Boom, found it.

- Great!

Perfect!

We found on the map, Arlington Drive.

It was kind of off the map.

Well, let's head in that direction and then we'll ask more directions when we get there.

- Come on!

- We can ask along the route.

[clock ticking] - Once you hit a certain point- - Which was five minutes.

Kristin: They give you a stoppr to put into a hole.

- Where do you want it?

Hurry!

- Right there.

- You want it here?

- There.

- No, there.

- Why would you?

- Because we can go-- - What about this one?

- Okay.

Chonta: [indistinct] Go in.

- So we put our stopper at the finish, thinking this should be easy now.

- All the way down.

- Wait.

Go.

Oh my gosh.

- Close.

We were close.

- All right baby, all right.

Last time.

The thing was, it had high edges.

Just drop your arm so we can balance it here.

Then we can boom, boom, boom.

Real fast.

- Go, go, go.

- Until we talked about let's use the edges to roll the ball along the edges.

Hold it there, hold it there.

On three-- wait, wait, wait.

Keep it, keep it down.

Keep it.

Keep it.

One, two, three, ready?

Go!

Yeah!

Woo!

- We killt it, but if would start listening to his wife, we would do these things a lot faster.

Your relative lives at 303 Park Drive.

Let's go.

Gimme five.

Good job.

Good job.

[slap] - All right, awesome.

Grab another one.

- It's okay, we gotta do it.

I don't know, let's just go there.

- All right.

- If this affects our end of the day results, then so be it.

[clock ticking] Chonta: It's a one way.

Demetrius: No, it's not, sweet.

- Then why does that say one way?

- I don't know.

Keith: If we need to go westbound, we have to go left bro where them cars just turned.

Marcus: I thought we were supposed to go north.

- Ask the postal guy!

- Oh, yes.

- Post guy!

Maria: Hurry, hurry.

Marcus: Spruce, okay turn back around Daddy.

- I do too.

- Excuse me!

- Excuse me!

Maria: Hi Mr. Post Guy!

Elizabeth: We're on a TV show, maybe you can help us with directions.

- Take that right up there by the stop sign.

- Or maybe this will get us over the bridge.

- Ah!

Ha, ha, ha.

Post Guy: Make a left and a left.

Both: Thank you!

Dan: As three teams wind through a city maze towards their relatives, Team Black's maze winds closer towards completion.

- Keep it going.

Keep it going.

All right.

Stop it!

- Oh my gosh!

Kirstin: We feel good that we accomplished it, probably the hardest way but we did it.

- Your relative lives at 7405 Laroche Avenue.

Come on.

- Larochee?

- I don't know.

Who cares?

Kirstin: I'm nervouse because of course Savannah is large.

- Okay, okay, I'll grab the map.

- Hurry!

Go, go, go.

- Hey!

We're on a TV show right now, do you guys know where this street is?

Not at all?

Okay.

Thank you.

- Hurry up!

- It's okay.

I'm going to ask these people over here.

Do you guys know this address?

Larochee?

Don't know where exactly?

- No, I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

- Laroche, we have to find it with no GPS.

Woman: Good luck.

- Okay, it's okay.

Thank you.

- Did anyone help?

- No.

Kaley: Okay, let's go.

Kristin: Nobody's local.

Don't hit anything.

- I'm not gonna hit anything.

Is this how you get out?

Dan: With their challenge in the rear view mirror, all of our teams are now hunting for their relative's address.

- Oh yeah.

We're going the right way.

We did super well, getting from the challenge to our relative's.

The strategy was paying attention to the map.

[Keith laughs] - The roads that we needed to find were on the map.

- Right.

- This map is helping.

- We deserve it.

You want a french fry?

- No, I'm good.

- We're on our way, well, we thought we were on our way.

- So, we're on the right path, or what?

- No.

Until we got lost.

- Are you kidding me?

- It's fine, what was that?

Five minutes?

- Uh, yeah, five minutes is like, hello.

- I think we should go into the Rent-a-Car.

- You can go to either one.

Demetrius: She runs inside, I get out and go to the car washers.

We're part of a game show... One of the guys says, "That's my street."

I said, "What?"

- You live on Park Drive?

That's nuts.

- It's legit, bro.

Maria: Is North Arlington this way?

Elizabeth: She's not sure.

Kristin: This is Laroche, right there.

Take a right.

- Oh, here, 303.

Marcus: 1109.

- 405?

That's them.

- Right here.

- On the right.

- Pull all the way in, and stop.

Dan: Teams Blue, Black and Gren are ready to stop their clock, but Team Red... - Whoa, whoa, whoa.

- We have to stop.

We have to stop.

Dan: is lost in Arlington.

- Are we back to where we just started?

- Probably, yeah.

We are.

This is not good.

- Whoa, whoa.

- Okay, we are really messing up today.

[quick knock] - Hello.

- Hi, how're you doing?

- Hey, how you doing?

- How are you?

- Good, good.

- Hey.

- I'm Fredrick Davis.

Hey, Demetrius Flowers.

- Fred introduces himself to me and says, "I'm your cousin on your father's side of the family," and uh, I've wanted to know that side of myself for years.

- It goes all the way back up to great-grandfathers.

- On my dad's side of the family?

- Yeah.

- So, you know, I don't know my biological father, so I know nothing.

- Everybody wants to know family because family's everything.

The family just got enlarged today, that's- with a new member in it and it's a joyous occasion.

- Man, you are a good looking man.

- That's why you're so cute!

[laughs] - Yeah, the Heffners are.

[laughing] - Um, I think the best part was he shared some photos with me of my great-great grandfather and grandmother.

Fred: This is August Heffner and this is Millie and they are your great-great grandparents.

- Wow.

And then it just dawned on me how really close that is, you know, like that's real close, like super close.

Such a close connection to a side of me that I have never known.

Fred: I think was just a great experience, today.

I am so glad that I got to participate in this.

- It finally feels like a part of me is coming together because there has been this empty space for a long time that I don't open up and talk about.

And so, my lineage comes from the Heffners.

Fred: Yes.

- Well, we're Heffners.

I'm excited to see what, um, the next few days brings about.

Dan: Back in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Team Green prepares to stop their clock.

- Hi!

- How are you guys doing?

Brenda: Great!

- Who's relative are you?

Brenda: You must be Keith?

Keith: Yes.

- I'm Brenda.

This is my husband, Jerry, and I am your dad's first cousin.

- Really?

- Oh wow.

- It is nice to meet you.

- Oh, thank you.

- My cousin from my dad's side, Brenda greets me at the door.

It feels really good to meet another relative, it just further lets me know that my roots go deep.

It's good to see new family.

Brenda: Yes, yes.

Jerry: Glad you guys made it.

- My name is Brenda Whitlock, and I am related to Keith through his father.

- And who was your dad?

- My father is Clyde Jones.

- Clyde is your dad?

[indistinct] Yeah, we met Clyde.

Marcus: Okay, yeah.

Oh wow.

- We just met Clyde at my uncle's house in Texas, and to meet his daughter today, is crazy.

- And she mentions a surprise for us.

Brenda: Well, we have a lot of catching up to do, but I have something planned.

- Cool, no problem.

Brenda: You guys ready?

- Yes ma'am.

Brenda: All right.

Let's go.

Keith: Okay.

Something tells me, we're gonna have a great time with my new cousin Brenda.

Marcus: Oh, we're getting straight to it.

Brenda: Yes.

Kristin: Perfect.

Kaley: Okay, okay.

- Hi.

- Are you our relative?

- I am.

Hi, how are you?

- I'm Kristin.

I'm good.

- Kaley.

Nice to meet you.

What's your name?

- I'm Catherine.

- So, how are we related?

- I am your cousin through your father's side.

- Very cool.

- I am Catherine Jolly from Savannah, Georgia.

I am Kristin and Kaley's cousin on our father's side.

- Do you know how?

- Uh, yes, I have a lot of information that I'd like to show you inside.

- Okay.

- Let's go.

Kaley: After meeting Catherine, she sits us down and she shows us our entire family tree.

- I'm sure you guys are excited to learn how we're related, so I will show you everything that I know.

- Okay, cool.

Kaley: We started talking about our family tree, and she actually showed us more names that we’ve never heard of before on our side.

Catherine: A.J.

Hewlett, that is our connection right there.

That is both of our third-great-grandparents.

- Third-great-grandparents.

- I felt honored to be able to give them some new information they didn't have before.

I really did.

It was a little bit emotional and overwhelming for me just to know how much it meant to them.

This is your grandfather, Herman.

And that's your father right there, Herman G. Dignen Jr. - (whispering in awe) What.

- (laughing) That's crazy.

- He's still living.

Birth... Tonight we found out that our dad is still living.

- So that's special to us because now it's just a starting place for us to begin.

Dan: While Team Black looks into their family tree, Team Red looks for their relative.

- Hi.

Elizabeth: Excuse me, miss.

Would you be able to help with directions?

- North Arlington Mill Drive?

Dan: As they scramble to catch up.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

Woman on street: Sorry.

- Thank you!

Maria: For us getting lost, we said we'd stay calm and I thought we stayed very calm.

- Yeah, we stayed really calm.

- What did we miss back there?

- Why couldn't we just... - What do we not see?

- We got lost for way too long.

- (laughing) Yeah.

- We're looking for Arlington Mill Drive.

Elizabeth: Would you happen to know where Arlington Mill Drive-- - North, North.

Elizabeth: Do you happen to know-- - Or ask this person right here.

Should we stop at a gas station?

Elizabeth: Can we ask you for directions?

Maria: We asked everybody we thought we could ask, transportation, anybody, and the cab driver was good.

- Thank you so much!

Let's go, come on.

Maria: We start heading in that direction.

- Oh my gosh, let's hope this is right.

- And of course, it was hidden behind a tree.

This is it?

- Oh, this litt-- of course we didn't see it coming down!

- Of course we're not gonna see it!

Ohhh... Elizabeth: Oh my gosh, of course not.

- Wow.

It's in a blind spot!

Elizabeth: Literally a blind spot.

Wow.

We just didn't see-- - The blind-spotted street.

What is this?

- There it is!

- Where?

Where?

- There it is, right here, right here, pull over.

- Where?

- Right here, right here.

So the way that we change our energy after being so frustrated, basically mom always told us, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Ohh, good one.

- I mean, has she not said that?

- Yeah, mom!

- Go mom!

So, that helped.

Maria: Come on, let's go.

- Okay.

Maria: Who do you think it's gonna be?

Elizabeth: You know, this doesn't get easier.

- Oh my goodness, I know.

♪ - Are you our relative?

Man: Yes, I am.

- Whose relative are you?

Man: Maria, I'm your relative.

- How are we related?

- Maria, I'm your father.

- Ah, I knew it.

- For real?

Dennis: Yes.

- Those eyes!

- Hi!

Hello!

How are you?

Oh my goodness.

[muffled crying] - My name is Dennis and I am Maria's biological father.

Maria: I love you, too.

- That was such a blessing to hold my child for the first time.

Didn't wanna let her go.

Maria: Yes, He is.

So hearing the words "I am your father, " I just felt that love and I just felt that instantly, yeah.

Dennis: When I got the news that she was my daughter, I was just asking God through the whole process that I would get to meet her.

To show her that I want to love her and um, she can get to know her father.

- She said I have your eyes.

- They're kinda wet right now.

- Let me see.

No, your teeth.

I have that gap, ahh!

[laughter] - Yeah, she was born with that.

Elizabeth: It was just such an epic day.

Maria: Yeah.

- And I'm so happy that I can be here with you to experience this.

- I know, I wouldn't have it any other way 'cause I need you.

Dennis: Oh Lord, thank you.

- Today is?!

- Yes.

[Elizabeth gasps] - Happy birthday, dad.

- This is a wonderful present.

I felt so happy, it was like wow.

This is my child.

[joyous crying] Dan: As evening approaches, Team Black hits the dock with their newfound family; ready to have a very crabby experience.

Catherine: Welcome to crabbing!

And this is the marsh, we're gonna get you started!

- Cool, yes!

- Cool, I'm so excited, I wanna try!

- Today our cousin Catherine introduced us to one of her hobbies that her and her husband do: crabbing.

- All right girls, this is a crab trap, a bait hook, and bait.

- What is that?

- What is this?

- Chicken hearts and gizzards.

- (disgusted) Oh!

[laughter] So, they give us these chicken livers-- - And hearts.

- And hearts.

And they tell us to put it on a hook.

- Like that?

Kaley: You're so brave.

- That's it!

[laughter] [gagging sound] Kaley: And it was disgusting.

[laughter] Kaley: Don't touch me!

Catherine: I believe the girls had a lot of fun crabbing because they didn't quite know what to expect.

- You just toss this off into the water.

Kaley: Crabbing!

[Kaley and Kristin laugh] - And we pulled it back up and we had a few crabs in there.

We got some!

- Look at all those crabs!

- There's so many.

What?!

Kristin: As we dropped the net, the crabs just immediately escaped.

- Ahh, they got out!

[laughter] Watch out!

Run!

[screams] [laughter] [screams] - But it was a good experience that we won't forget because we got to do it with new family.

Are we gonna eat these?

- We are not gonna eat these, so we are going to put them back into the water.

Kristin: Okay.

Catherine: You ladies ready to go have some real dinner?

- We are.

Catherine: Okay.

Dan: Up in Arlington, Virginia a new relationship awaits as Maria sits down with her father for the very first time.

Elizabeth: You have his ears!

- I have his ears!

- The little ears!

- I always wondered where I got these little ears from!

Sharon said, they're not mine!

- Yep, yep.

Maria: But the first thing she said to me yesterday was "You have your father's eyes."

- Mm.

Yes, and you're just gorgeous.

I noticed her character as a woman.

Just to look at her and to see her, just to see her smile.

You know, I was like wow.

You have her smile too.

You have a beautiful mom.

She's wonderful.

- She's still in love with you.

- I know.

[laughter] Elizabeth: She didn't say that, we just know.

[laughs] - Okay.

- I'm just so thankful for this day because this is something you can never take back, ever.

I'm not sure, like I heard from Sharon yesterday that you knew about me but I guess didn't know about me?

- I didn't even know I had a daughter and once I found out, there were so many things going through my mind.

How she looks, what she likes, will she allow me to be there for her, to love her?

A couple of months ago, she contacted me.

...

I just couldn't believe I said yes.

I have a daughter that I can hope to get to love and be a part of her life.

- And why I wanted to be on this trip was to let everybody know that was in my life or involved in some shape or form to thank them for the life they've given me, 'cause I've had an amazing life and if it wasn't for what she's done and her selflessness and things like that, I wouldn't be who I am and where I am today.

- She's a strong woman.

- She's beyond strong.

There's no words for what we felt today.

Like, in what I've seen and experienced, it's still a blur.

- How many kids do you have?

- With you?

Maria: Yeah.

Dennis: Five.

- Five?

- Yes.

- Okay.

So I have 13... - 14, 15, 16, 17 siblings!

- 17 siblings.

- Wow!

Maria: This is crazy.

- In a matter of two days-- three days!

Dennis: Wow.

The funny part about it was... [laughter] - I will show you baby pictures, like-- - She does.

Maria: You don't understand.

I had a gap just like that.

Literally, probably as big.

[laughter] Elizabeth: Yeah.

- You definitely know I'm yours now.

[laughter] - To be with my daughter, that was really wonderful for me.

Maria: I love you.

[laughing and crying] Elizabeth: So Dennis, do you have an actual birthday cake?

- No, I didn't get it 'cause I didn't know what you guys, what color-- - Maria, you know what I think we should do?

- What?

- I think we should order Dennis a birthday cake.

- Let's do it.

- How do you feel about that?

- I think that's fine.

Dan: Back in Charleston, Team Blue rolls to an activity that's right up their alley.

Demetrius: So, as I'm talking to my cousin, he's tellin' me that he bowls, bowls in a league, and bowls pretty well.

And so, he's says well great, let's go bowl.

- This won't take long.

- It's not gon' take long?

- Nooo.

- Ohh, it's not gon' take long!

He finna get you.

- And I can tell you, he is really good.

- Come on back!

Demetrius and Chonta: Oh!

[bowling pins clatter] Demetrius: There it is!

Chonta: Ohh, there we go!

Fred: I got to take them up to the bowling alley and whip him.

Chonta: Ohhh!

[bowling pins clatter] - Are you kidding me?!

Demetrius: That's a good ball, that's a good ball!

Chonta: Ohhh, yeah!

[bowling pins clatter] - See if I can get this strike.

No!

Chonta: Oh!

Yeah, you-- ohhh!

There you go.

Demetrius: It's just getting to know my cousin.

So, looking forward to spending some quality time with him and again, getting to know that side of my family.

[laughs] - All right, we are here.

- What is this?

- We are going to do a fun pottery class.

- Oooh.

Keith: Pottery, I've never done pottery.

Marcus: I haven't done pottery either, since high school.

- I brought Marcus and Keith to one of my favorite shops, Baca Street Pottery.

Today, we're going to make a bowl from clay.

- Okay I've never done this.

- I haven't done this since high school.

- So this is new to me.

I definitely think it'll be fun.

I mean, I got to meet my beautiful cousin, Brenda.

She's gonna make sure we have fun.

- Ah, thank you.

Mold this down, and once you have that down you have a variety of things that you can use to decorate.

Keith: And it was really great to connect with Brenda.

Spending time with family is really important to me.

- Keith... Keith: Yes.

- So, you have children.

- Yes, I have one little boy.

- A little boy.

My first impressions of Keith...

He's definitely a Jones.

He looks like his father a lot, he looks like his grandmother, my aunt.

So what do you know about your grandmother?

- I know that she was beautiful.

- Yes.

Keith: Um, she loved to make for me and my brother peach cobblers and banana puddings.

Brenda: Yes.

So you remember her?

- Oh yeah, definitely remember her.

Could never forget her.

- Yeah, I remember her, uh, growing up she used to comb my hair.

- Really?

- We have an auntie that has 19 kids, but they are all gone astray, so to be able to connect with my first cousin's son has been phenomenal.

All right, guys.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

Brenda: Hands, everybody look hands, make-- ehh, all right.

- We put in some type of work.

[laughter] ♪ ♪ Dennis: This is the most beautiful, wonderful, exciting birthday I ever had in my life.

[laughs] To have her there with me on my birthday, you know, I couldn't even, imagining this process to happen, you know.

Since it was my birthday the girls decided they wanted to order me a cake.

- The biggest present arrived of all when the cake showed up and the delivery person was... Who's your favorite football team?

Dennis: I looked up and there was Sharon.

- My mother.

- Happy birthdayyyy!

[screaming] [laughing] Elizabeth: I'm like, are you kidding me people?

I can't.

Dennis: My mouth dropped, my eyes got big, I'm like, is that Sharon?

[laughs] And it was really her.

Maria: Oh, wow!

[laughs] - Happy birthday sir!

Dennis: And man, it was like wow, this can't be happening.

- I'm still trying to remember this moment in the sense that I just my jaw dropped and I've just never seen my eyes feel so big or get so big.

Ahh!

- Thank you.

[sighs] Maria: Oh my goodess.

- Hi, girls.

Elizabeth: Woooow.

- All y'all are so crazy!

Oh my goodness.

Elizabeth: Oh my gosh.

I can't, I can't take my heart.

[crying] Dennis: Man, here.

I got enough for both of us, here.

- Is this crazy or what?

- Oh my goodness.

- Come on, Lizzie.

- Oh my goodness.

Dennis: Mother, father, and daughter are together.

I wouldn't give it up for nothing in the world.

I thank God for this truly amazing blessing.

These are joy, these happy tears.

- I know, I know that.

Maria: When was the last time you guys saw each other?

- 1984.

- Ohhh my goodness.

They haven't seen each other in 34 years, so words can't express the joy and happiness that I have for me and for them and for us.

Sharon: This is a miracle.

No seriously, with a closed adoption, I really feel like the chances of me ever finding you.

But I just, I held onto hope because that's what I had.

Just that deep, residing hope that never goes away, and uh, it's a miracle.

- They never stopped praying, and have never stopped loving, and they've never stopped giving up hope.

♪ Happy birthday to you, ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you... ♪ Maria: It's still a blur.

I'm still trying to remember stuff right now.

♪ ...birthday to my daddy, happy birthday to you.

♪ - Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I wanna give time and ask God for our blessings that allowed this to happen.

Maria: My dad took the opportunity to pray over us.

I know He's watching, and I know He has our backs and I just wanted them to feel the love that I felt.

- Amen.

- (in unison) Amen.

- Let's cut the birthday cake!

Dan: As the day draws to a close, all four teams reflect on their journey and on their newfound family.

Brenda: Most gracious Heavenly Father, we thank... Marcus: We sit down with Brenda and Jerry at the dinner table, and it was really cool.

'Cause this is what it's about, it's about family.

Keith: Thank you guys so much for the hospitality, the food is great.

Kristin: It's cool to just feel at home even though I'm not, because being with a new relative, you do, you feel at home.

Dennis: This is so awesome.

- Yes!

You can't bring back this moment, you can't replicate it, you can't script it, you can't do anything else but just be in the moment, the now, and enjoy it, and that's where we are right now.

Demetrius: I cannot stress enough, you know, how important this has been for me.

I wanted to know that side of myself for years.

I've always felt like there was a part of me missing.

Marcus: She actually pulls out a gift for us at the dinner table.

- A picture of my grandmother, Deloris, and her obituary.

- Oh, wow!

- This is her obituary, since you didn't get to go to the funeral, that's her obituary.

- Oh, wow.

I would've definitely gone to her funeral if I was, uh, informed about it.

But I was 16 or 17, didn't really find out 'til two weeks after, so I was really happy that she presented these gifts.

Brenda: Ain't she pretty?

- She's just as beautiful as I remember.

I missed out on a lot of this time, doin' stuff that normal families do.

Marcus: Now we're gonna have memories, like life-changing memories we can go reconnect, and actually you know, have family.

- Any information that anyone can give us is huge.

Elizabeth: And today I feel is the final piece of that puzzle for my sister.

Dennis: Yeah, I'm glad you're here too, baby.

♪ Dan: Day 4 is nearly over, which means the results are about to be delivered.

Thanks.

Marcus: Well, we're waitin' on a call right now.

We feel extremely confident about today and I'm ready to see the results.

- Today was kind of the first day where we felt a little bit challenged.

Kind of irked us a little bit, so we weren't really in the greatest of spirits.

- No.

- And the good note is that we nailed the navigation coming in.

- Nailed it!

- Nailed.

Kristin: I'm nervous, only because we don't know what to expect.

- And we never expect to go home, because we don't wanna think like that.

♪ Dan: Welcome, teams.

Day 4 is rapidly coming to a close, and this is normally the time when I ask you all about the day.

We're not gonna do that tonight.

We're gonna turn the time over to you, to ask questions to each other.

Chonta: And we were both like, what?

- Nobody was expecting that.

[laughs] - And we're gonna start with Team Red.

It's your time to play Dan.

[laughs] - Welcome to Relative Race.

Now, my question is, [clears throat] I'd like you to describe your day using just one word.

- Team Green.

- We killed today's challenges, we think we-- - One word.

- -- set the record.

- Uh-uh!

I said one word.

- Aw!

Lit.

[laughter] - All right, Team Black.

Anything that you'd like to ask your competitors?

- Ummm... - Let's see, what was your biggest struggle of today?

So Team Red.

- Want me to answer this?

No re-- it was super frustrating.

The road and the street sign that we had to turn on was literally completely hidden.

Like, getting to our relative's house was definitely a challenge today.

- Okay, Team Green, it's your opportunity.

- Demetrius, you plan on sharing that secret about how you powered through the rain?

- Absolutely!

Keith: I'm waitin'.

[laughter] - Oh.

Demetrius: I'll tell you when I come out to L.A. to see you guys at the end of this thing.

- You are somethin' else.

- I'll take that.

- You are somethin' else.

- The Q&A with the other teams is my favorite call so far.

Kristin: Yeah.

- It felt like we were just catchin' up with close friends, you know?

[laughter] Dan: Demetrius, do you and Chonta have any questions for the other teams?

- I would just like to have the other teams, just real quickly, sum up how they felt meeting these parts of themselves that they didn't know.

- So tonight we met our cousin on our dad's side.

This is Catherine.

- Hi Catherine!

- Hey.

- How you doin'?

Demetrius and Chonta: (in unison) Hi Catherine.

- And she actually showed us for the first time our family tree on our dad's side, so we got to see names from our dad an all the way up.

Kristin: Yeah, and we've already been blessed by what's been given to us, so it's been awesome.

- Well it sounds like you had a eventful day.

Team Red.

Yesterday you met your mother.

Who did you meet tonight?

- Guys, I want you to meet my dad.

[other teams exclaim] Demetrius: What?!

Chonta: No wayyy!

Keith: How you doin'?

- Congratulations!

- Congratulations.

- And guess who brought him... - Mom!

Maria: It's his fifty-fifth birthday and mom brought him the cake and showed up.

Ohhh.

- Oh my gosh.

- Today is your dad's birthday, Maria?

- I don't know why y'all did this to me back to back, but beyond the blessing I just wanna thank you guys so much.

Marcus: And her mom was right next to her, her dad was right next to her, and it's really a good feeling to see her experience that.

To see all of our lives change at the same time.

- And then all of a sudden, there was just a whole time of crying with every single team.

Kristin: So it's like we're on the race with them.

- Right.

Maria: It's been the most amazing day, and I'm so happy we got to celebrate with him for his birthday!

[crying] It's been crazy.

- You know, this is what it's all about.

And it is nights like this that I truly wish we did not have to talk about times and strikes.

But, it's that time.

Let's remind everybody-- Team Black, you have two strikes.

Another strike, and you'll be headed home.

Team Green, you have one strike.

Team Blue and Team Red, you're unblemished; no strikes.

And the official results are in.

Finishing just four minutes over their allotted time, I can't believe that you found somebody that lived on the street that you were looking for.

Team Blue, you finished in first place.

- Yeah!

Wooo!

Dan: Demetrius and Chonta, you have a decision to make.

Do you choose the next day game benefit of having your relative guide you to their home, or a Day 10 benefit?

- (in unison) Day 10.

- Day 10.

Again, this is a statement by all of the teams.

You all expect to make it to Day 10.

Well, you've made your decisio, and your relative will hand you that Day 10 benefit later tonight.

Finishing in second place, just nine minutes over their allotted time.

And they really did kill the challenge; Team Green, congratulations.

- Let's go brother.

Dan: It's now down to Team Black and Team Red.

Kristin: My immediate thought was, it better not be us, only because Team Red did struggle in the navigation part of their day.

- Team Red, you had difficulty navigating.

Team Black, you had difficulty in the challenge.

If you receive your third strike, you're headed home, but that's not gonna happen.

You finished in third place today, 21 minutes over your allotted time.

Team Red, you receive your first strike and finish 29 minutes over your allotted time, but I got the feeling that the sting of a strike isn't that tough to take today.

- We said if we were gonna get a strike, it better be today.

Elizabeth: Today would be the day, because we're just so filled with joy, it doesn't even matter.

- It's not three strikes, we're good.

[laughing] - Well, that's a perfect way to sum it up.

What a reunion tonight for Team Red.

Tomorrow is the halfway point of Relative Race.

It will bring new challenges, but you'll also have new discoveries.

Good night, and good luck tomorrow.

- Good night everybody!

- Love you guys.

- Bye.

- Text you soon!

Bye!

- Congratulations.

- I'm so happy for you all.

- Bye.

- Good night.

- Hey number one.

- Whew!

- Here's your ten day benefit.

- Thank you.

Let's see.

- Well.

[rattling] - You need a key.

- It's not the tenth day.

- It isn't the tenth day.

[laughing] We spent three days in third place, and today, we come home with the W. The W. Dan: Eking out their first victory, is Team Blue, only five minutes ahead of Team Green.

- I'm really happy for Blue, they won today, so I'm just trying to crush them tomorrow.

That's it.

Brenda: It's okay, just do your best tomorrow and kill it again.

- We will.

We will, most definitely.

Tomorrow, we just gotta go harder.

Catherine: Goodness.

Good job ladies.

- So we're not going home?

- No, you're not going home.

Kaley: Third.

- Yes, third place.

Kristin: I'm for sure gonna sleep well knowing that we have another day ahead.

Dan: And Team Black hangs on for another day with Team Red receiving their first strike.

[heavy sigh] - We got our first strike and.. - And, and what?

Fun.

- We needed that.

- I told ya.

Look, it's good for TV.

Nobody wants us to dominate all the time, so all right, we'll give 'em one, fine.

- I found Dennis, my father and Sharon showed up in all of this.

I'll take a strike any day over that, so I'm not worried about what happened earlier, and we're here right now and all we have is to look forward to what we're going to be doing tomorrow, and the rest of this journey that we're gonna be on, because we're going to Day 10.

Like we said from Day 1.

- Yeah.

- Come on, baby bird.

- We love you guys.

[laughing] - My goodness, you guys, I don't even know where to start.

- We're actually pretty proud of today; we didn't receive a strike.

- We really went all in and went hard so we were super excited to finally get first place.

- I got to meet some interesting family members out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to meet my cousin.

- I finally get to know who I look like.

- Yeah.

- I cried all day again today.

- All day.

Me too.

Oh, we have so much to be grateful for.

- Beyond amazing.

- Yeah.

Maria: Thank you Relative Race.

Elizabeth: Thank you.