Dan: Previously on Relative Race: - Can I get a what what?

- What?

- [laughs] Dan: Team Green wrangled another first-place victory.

Congratulations, Andy and Lizzy.

- Yes.

Dan: You're keeping the ball rolling.

As the first mystery prize became unlocked.

I don't think we should pick mystery.

We're not even on a map right now.

Andy: We're gonna get out of town.

Dan: Team Black struggled throughout the day.

- There's no 64 on this map.

Dan: And already faces elimination.

You've picked up your second strike on Relative Race.

Patrick: That went about as good as planned.

- Not our day.

- Not our day.

Dan: Trinesha met her father.

Trinesha: I've wanted my whole life to know who you are.

Dan: Taquida had an unexpected surprise.

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

- Oh, okay, well, nice to meet you.

Keshanna: Nice to meet you.

Both: [laugh] Callie: [gasps] Dan: Patrick met a sister.

Patrick: I knew who it was immediately.

Callie: [emotionally] I want her to know that she's truly inheriting one of the best people that you possibly could as a brother.

Dan: And Andy discovered how big his family really is.

Andy: Oh my goodness, look at this.

It's amazing to see these names and where I am in connection to it all.

I really feel like I'm part of something big.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.

Taquida: Woo!

[honk honk] - Are you kidding me?

Patrick: [snorts] Dan: to win $50,000... Mitchell: Go!

Go, go, go, go, go.

Dan: and to find their family.

[knocking] Singer: ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day 4, and the sun shines bright on all four teams as they are all connected on a shared mission to discover new family.

Teams Green and Black have left the Southeast region of the country.

Andy and Lizzy begin their day in Bedford, Pennsylvania as Patrick and Callie start in St. Louis, Missouri.

And not too far from home is Team Blue.

Mitchel and Trinesha are waking up in Tucker, Georgia.

And for Team Red, Geselle and Taquida, they start their morning in Biloxi, Mississippi as Taquida sets up a very special video call with her mom, Rosa, and her new Aunt Edith.

Taquida: Hey, how y'all doin'?

- Hey.

- Mom, this is your niece, Keshanna.

- How you doin'?

[laughs] - Meeting you for the first time.

- Yes.

And I'm your niece.

[laughs] - Hey.

- How you doin'?

So that means that-- - Uh-huh.

So my mom and my aunt has the same dad but different mom.

So as they grew up, they were moved away from each other, and they haven't seen each other since.

Rosa: Well we got, I got a sister I ain't never seen.

Renée, never seen her.

- We got a sister named, um, Carrie Beale.

You got a brother named Jevoy.

Rosa: Mm-mm-mm.

Keshanna: It's a lot for both of them to take in, and in watching them, it was a lot for me to take in.

It was exciting to see, especially my mom.

'Cause I really didn't know how much that meant to her until now, to see her get emotional, so... - Yesterday, um, Keshanna gave me a gift, and I wanna show it to you.

Um, 'cause, you know, we've never seen-- I've never seen my grandfather, but I wanted to show you that.

♪ But I would like to gift that to you.

I would like to gift that to you.

- I appreciate that.

Taquida: Bringing our family back together was like I was chosen to do this.

I think the task was put on me for a reason, and I wanna be obedient and do what I'm supposed to do with what I was given.

So whether we gotta take a trip or whatever we need to do, we want everybody to be connected.

Because it means a lot to us for y'all to be connected.

We want that relationship, and we're definitely gonna keep that relationship with each other, and we want y'all to keep that relationship as well.

Because... [emotionally] it's needed.

♪ So whatever we need to do to make it happen, we have to do that.

♪ [phone dings] - Oh, what have we got?

- We got a text from Dan.

- Okay.

- "Good morning teams and..." - "...welcome to Day 4 of Relative Race."

- "Team Red will be traveling to..." Both: "New Orleans" Geselle: "Louisiana."

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Chattanooga, Tennessee."

- "Team Black will be traveling to Peoria, Illinois."

- Oh.

- It's so close.

Andy: "And Team Green will be traveling to Pittsburgh, PA." - Okay.

- "Your time starts..." Both: "...now."

Patrick: But... Callie: We have a video.

- Looks like we better take some time to watch this though 'cause Dan's got a video, so... - Okay.

- Yesterday we decided to pick the Get Outta Town instead of the mystery prize.

Andy: Now we're gonna see if it pays off.

- Hey, good morning, everybody.

It's another good day on Relative Race, another day to find family, and you're probably wondering what Get Outta Town is.

Well, the winning team gets to use their relative's GPS for 60 seconds.

However, they can't write any directions down.

But that should give them an advantage as they get out of town.

For, uh, other three teams-- yeah, all you guys-- what are you waiting for?

[laughingly] You're on the clock!

Go, go.

No really, go!

Patrick: Oh man, we better get going.

Callie: 'Kay, 'kay, 'kay.

- All right.

Callie: We already have two strikes, so we have to be on point today.

- Yeah, and I really wanna win, 'cause I wanna find out what that mystery prize is.

Geselle: So the mystery prize is out there, and if we win today, which, I believe we will, we will not take the mystery prize.

Taquida: We don't want it.

- We don't want it.

- Nope.

- Get somebody else to do it.

Gwen: Uh.

Mitchell: It was nice meeting you.

- You too!

Mitchell: I was none too excited.

Like, I'd give my left foot to use a GPS for 20 seconds much less 60 seconds, but I think the part about it that we didn't think was gonna happen, they couldn't write anything down.

They had to memorize it.

And that would have been a little tough for me.

- Okay, here's my phone.

- Oh, okay.

- Okay.

It's open.

- And we're heading to Pittsburgh.

- Okay, so we're gonna head South on this one.

We're gonna turn left on 26.

We start out the day with 60 seconds on our relative's GPS, and it shows us exactly how to get on the major thoroughfares, but 60 seconds isn't that long to memorize how to get on those thoroughfares.

Andy: Pretty much we were hoping that they were gonna show us at least how to get out of where we were because we were in such a rural place.

Let's do this, baby.

We got this.

Today's our day.

♪ - Game face on.

- Game face on, okay.

All right.

Mitchell: This is our longest drive, so we need to make sure we're being decisive and concise with our decisions.

That's all.

Dan: For the first time this season, Team Blue leaves their home state of Georgia.

Mitchel and Trinesha will be racing from Tucker, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

With navigation and the challenge factored in, they'll have a total allotted time of 2 hours and 34 minutes.

Patrick: East here, right?

Callie: Yep, east.

Woo!

- We made it.

Callie: All right.

Dan: Feeling the pressure of elimination today, Team Black is staying focused as they're racing from St. Louis, Missouri to Peoria, Illinois.

They have an allotted time of 2 hours and 55 minutes.

♪ - And we go on 10 West.

Taquida: All right.

Are you sure?

- I'm sure.

We're not goin' east.

You wanna go back east?

- I'm just tryna see if you sure that you sure.

That you know that you sure that you sure.

- East is goin', east is goin' back to Panama City.

Taquida: Oh, okay, and maybe you want to go back to the mosquitos.

- No, we are definitely not going back.

I'm going back to Cali.

- She wanna go back to all the mosquitoes, I'm just sayin'.

- No, we're not going back that way.

- You don't wanna go by the skeeters?

- Nope.

Dan: A confident Team Red knows that fo sho they'll be avoiding the skeeters as they race from Biloxi, Mississippi to New Orleans, Louisiana.

They'll have an allotted time today of 1 hour and 26 minutes.

♪ - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

- Is this the exit?

- Yeah, it says west.

- Oh boy.

Lizzy: Oh no.

Andy: Well, we are completely stopped getting onto the turnpike.

What's going on here?

Lizzy: It's a dead stop.

There are no signs.

Andy: Saying that there's an accident or anything.

- There's no indications.

We have no idea why.

Dan: As that 60 seconds of GPS time may have led Team Green to a complete stop, they'll have to quickly make a decision to either stay where they are or ditch the navigation and find a new route.

Today, Andy and Lizzy are staying in the state of Pennsylvania.

They're racing, or standing still, from Bedford to Pittsburgh.

Their allotted time of the day is 2 hours and 34 minutes.

Andy: So I say we backtrack and exit south on East, um, 70.

Lizzy: I don't know if we go down an exit if there's a way to get on 326 from 70.

So we have two choices: we can sit and wait, or we can head the wrong direction so that we can turn around and figure out another route.

- Well, let's give it a shot.

♪ Lizzy: Look at this.

The entire interstate is closed.

Like, for hours.

The entire interstate is closed.

♪ - It's okay, baby.

We'll get through this.

- No, it's not okay!

Unfortunately, to get the right direction, it takes us 20 miles out of the way in the wrong direction.

- Which is incredibly frustrating because it puts us so far out of where we wanna be.

- And we literally have no other choice.

This is definitely gonna add some time, but at least we're back on track and good to go.

♪ - I wanna send Andy a text.

- Yeah.

- To just check in on him and see how he's doing.

Should I just call him?

Coming into the race, I had learned that the maternal side of my family was not interested in participating in the show, nor were they interested in meeting me.

Um, that was devastating news to find out.

Um, and something I'm still trying to process.

Andy also found out that his mother's side of the family also does not want to be a part of the show, uh, or meet him.

And I wanted to reach out to him and let him know that we're here for him, and I know exactly how painful that type of news can be.

♪ [phone ringing] - It's the Black Team.

- Black Team, how are you?

- How are you feeling, Andy?

- I'm doing okay.

It's, uh, a rejection is tough.

Callie: Yeah, yeah, it's something I learned through, through therapy, actually.

She started to dig into my adoption, and I had always just considered myself blessed.

I never thought of my adoption in, uh, as anything remotely negative in my life, but then she started to just kind of explain even though we look at it as a positive and as a good choice and as a good thing in our lives, um, in the back of our psyche, we've already supressed that first rejection.

Andy: It really meant the world to me that Callie called me today.

Um, it's going to take a long time, and it's going to be a tough process to really understand and deal with some of the feelings that it brought up, but knowing that Callie's been through this too, uh, for the first time in my life it's felt like there's someone that I can reach out to as a friend that really, truly understands.

I think I've told you this before.

It's, like, as an adoptee...

I mean, maybe you didn't feel it because you had your brother, but I always felt like I was very singular in what I was going through, and you don't realize that there are so many other people going through similar if not even worse things than yourself.

Callie: It's very common for people to find themselves in a position like us.

This type of news is truly hard to deal with.

But having the opportunity to talk through it and support each other helps us both begin to process all of it, and I'm just feeling very lucky and blessed to have the opportunity to do this with my Relative Race family.

- Honestly, thank you for calling, because it really has helped lift my spirits.

I appreciate it.

- All right, love you guys.

- Love you.

Callie: Have a great day.

See you tonight.

♪ Dan: As the day races on, teams quickly approach their destination cities.

- Wait, look, it's New Orleans.

- We done made it.

- Okay.

[phone dings] - And our text is from Dan.

- Oh.

- Ah!

Andy: Okay.

- Whew.

Let's go.

- I'm gonna try to get-- - You go, girl!

- Off we go.

♪ Taquida: Day Four Challenge-- welcome to Braidylocks.

[upbeat music] Dan: The challenge for Day Four is Braidylocks.

In Braidylocks, teammates will work together to unbraid a sequence of large ropes with each move they must attach the rope to an empty clip.

This challenge is only complete once they have successfully maneuvered each of the ropes so that none of them are touching each other.

[upbeat music] ♪ Callie: I think this challenge is gonna be easy.

- Yeah, maybe for you it will be.

[scoffs] Callie: Black.

- Okay.

And then, no-- black... all the way over.

And then we're gonna go...

I'm gonna go green.

Geselle: By bringing green here and then move red.

Taquida: Gettin' a look at the challenge, I'm looking at, lookin' at it as if...

I've had this game on my phone plenty of times and I've played it.

So this should be a piece of cake.

Bring yellow down.

Bring yellow down one and red needs to go over.

Geselle: Okay.

Got it.

- I braid a lot.

And so the first thing I told Mitchell was, well, I mean, we have to start from the bottom and don't look at the whole thing as a big braid or else you're gonna get a big knot.

Yellow?

And this goes... ♪ Andy: Go black over.

Lizzy: Black over?

Andy: Yes.

Lizzy: We just moved black.

Andy: I know, it was a bad move on my part.

Go red over.

- You have to do red.

Andy: Oh, I'm sorry.

Yep.

Then green over.

Lizzy: Oh.

- This definitely felt like a game of strategy to me because we had to really work together to figure out, okay, if I'm gonna do this, what are you going to do so that we didn't end up making the knot even worse than it was.

Lizzy: And we can only move 'em one at a time.

So we really had to think about what we were doing.

♪ Patrick: I'm gonna move...

I'm gonna move red to over there just to get it, get some of these untangled, okay?

Callie: As we start, we're really knotted up.

But we just decided to keep moving.

And slowly but surely... it starts to untangle itself and we're starting to see it's-- our, our, our path to success becomes a little more clear.

Patrick: The tricky part is sometimes you have to move a rope into an off position to clear room for another rope.

Callie: Correct.

- So you're sorta going backwards to go forwards.

But at first you don't wanna do that, you wanna just keep moving forwards, and then you realize pretty quick you gotta do that.

I would move black over.

Callie: Black.

♪ Taquida: 'Kay.

First one free.

After you get one rope clear it just gets easier as you go.

So that way you can able-- you're able to line up each rope.

Trinesha: The blue, over.

Mitchell: Yes.

Trinesha: My turn?

Mitchell: Yes.

Trinesha: Yellow.

Mitchell: As we start unraveling the ropes, we could tell which color we needed to grab next.

After that it was just smooth sailin'.

♪ ♪ Move the black, black all the way over, yup.

I think we definitely did the best.

Our, uh, communication's gotten better, especially since Day One.

Taquida: Take green over.

There we go, we go-- we good.

- Usually I'm like the puzzle solver and Patrick's brain is lickety split today!

- Yep.

That's it.

One time.

One use only.

- One time.

Like, we did it, we did it, we did it, we did it!

Patrick: Woo!

Callie: Okay.

[bell dings] Geselle: We got it.

Taquida: Okay, let's go.

Andy: Yes!

[ding ding ding] Mitchell: Push it in, good, let's go!

[ding ding ding] Patrick: You will find your relative at 1121-- Taquida: Bacchich Street?

Andy: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

- Okay, Bailey Avenue.

Andy: Let's go!

Lizzy: Let's go, come on.

Mitchell: Let's go.

Into the car.

♪ Dan: Our teams unwind from the challenge, and now it's time to kick it into high gear and find their families.

Patrick: I don't know where to go.

Callie: I... Patrick: Ohhh nooo.

Callie: There's no road signs!

Lizzy: All the way up in the corner here.

Andy: Okay, baby, they're not gonna let us park there, though.

Lizzy: We're just gonna ask the valet parking guys.

- Got it.

Callie: Okay, we need to get out.

- Do I need to get out or do you wanna just get out?

- Uh, no, I will get out.

There are no signs, no people.

We don't even see the street on the map.

So we're gonna stop at this gas station and hopefully someone is gonna be able to tell me where we need to go.

♪ Mitchell: Ask her, ask her.

Turn.

♪ Trinesha: Hi, hi!

We're looking for 16 Oliver Street.

How do I get there, do you know how to get there?

♪ Geselle: So we're going to Franklin Avenue.

So, you gonna take a, a left right here.

Andy: Hey, how's it going?

I'm lookin' for Bailey Avenue.

Do you have any idea where that might be?

Callie: You go right out of the gas station, okay.

This stop was perfect.

We got turn by turn directions straight into the neighborhood.

Then we just have to figure it out from there.

Not too shabby.

Perfect, awesome, thank you so much.

Thank you for your patience.

Andy: So this guy gave us a ton of directions, I mean-- Lizzy: Hopefully they're right.

He said it would take us straight there.

Okay.

Did you get that?

Andy: Kind of, did you feel like you got any of that?

Lizzy: Ehh, kind of?

Mitchell: Maybe there'll be some people down.

Trinesha: A left down Fortwood?

Mitchell: Fortwood!

See it says Fortwood Street?

- A left?

- Let's go!

I mean, I don't, I don't-- I'm, I'm just going with what I think.

- Okay.

Taquida: That's 5941.

Geselle: Okay.

It's 5930.

Callie: Yeah, at Sunset, it turns into Sunset.

Patrick: Ah, thank goodness.

Callie: So, 1121.

Andy: Yeah, right there.

Lizzy: Yep.

Take this one.

Geselle: 55... 19... that 55-- Taquida: 5531.

Mitchell: Yes!

604, go!

Go, go, go!

- 1119, 1121, right here, right here, right here.

Patrick: Okay.

Callie: Right here.

Patrick: This one right here?

Callie: Y-y-yeah!

Patrick: Thank goodness.

[sentimental music] ♪ - How you guys doin'?

Callie: Hi!

- I'm Pat.

- I'm Callie.

- My name is Doug.

- And how-- are we related?

- Yes.

Because your grandmother is my godmother and we're cousins.

Come here.

I'm gonna hug you.

I've been lookin' forward to this.

♪ Callie: [joyful sobs] Doug: I could see the resemblance.

Callie: [sobbing] This is so unexpected.

[sobs] ♪ At this point in time, I had, I had given up hope, you know, that I wasn't going to get the answers that I've been looking for, you know, for my entire life.

But someone came!

Someone showed up.

And, um, it's something I'm gonna remember for the rest of my life.

♪ Oh.

[erupting laughter] I'm sorry I'm a mess, don't look at me now!

Doug: Oh, it's all good, it's all good!

Callie: Oh my gosh, wow.

- Yes.

Yes.

Callie: Wow, even the teeth, oh my gosh!

It's so wild.

The smile.

- Oh yeah, I can see it, too.

Callie: Oh my gosh.

Doug: I've been looking forward to meeting Callie for a couple of months now since I first heard about her and, um, I know that at first I was kinda like, I'm like, I could feel, you know, whatever, like, softness in my heart or somethin' like there's, there's another family member out there who I've never met, and uh... but when I saw her today and, and I could see some family resemblance, it was touching, it was very-- it meant a lot to me.

- We both just looked at each other... and just kinda checked each other out [laughing] while we were still embraced, but it was this beautiful moment of... yeah, this one's mine.

This one, this one belon-- this one belongs to me.

Doug: Well, listen, we got a lot to talk about.

Why don't you co-- why don't you guys come on inside and we can get to know each other a little bit and... Callie: Ah, I'm spee-- I'm like, I'm in shock right now, I'm just absolutely in shock.

♪ [tender music] ♪ Trinesha: Hi!

- Hi!

Mitchell: Hey!

- Hello!

Trinesha: How are you?

- Good, how are you?

Mitchell: Doin' all right.

- My name is Trinesha, and this is my husband Mitchell.

- Nice to meet you.

Trinesha: Nice to meet you!

Mitchell: Nice to meet you!

Trinesha: What's your name?

- My name's Jessica.

Trinesha and Mitchell: Jessica!

Mitchell: Hello!

- Which one of us are you related to?

Jessica: I'm related to you!

- What?

Jessica: Mm-hm.

- How are we related?

- I'm your mother's sister.

So I'm your auntie.

[laughs emotionally] - What?

Oh.

[laughs] [laughing emotionally] Trinesha: Your aunt.

Your aunt!

Oh my gosh.

Mitchell: For the past three days we've been meeting Trinesha's family, which we are grateful for.

But I'm starting to lose hope on meeting my own family.

But now I'm meeting my aunt, hopefully I can start getting the answers that I'm looking for.

I think today's gonna be an unforgettable day.

I'm sorry, yo.

Jessica: No, I'm not sorry.

Mitchell: Oh my goodness!

Jessica: Really nice to meet you.

- Yes, it's nice to meet you.

Jessica: I don't know what else to say.

- Oh my... oh, wow.

Jessica: This is overwhelming.

Mitchell: Yes.

You are... the first family member I've seen since I was like eight years old other than my sisters.

Jessica: Aww.

Mitchell: Oh my gosh.

Jessica: Well, it's a pleasure to meet you both.

Trinesha: You're the first one he's met.

- Ugh!

Mm!

Jessica: I think the biggest thing that surprised me that... his willingness to come a-and meet me, and, and the love and affection I got when he just stepped out the car, it was just immediate, it was... awesome, beautiful, overwhelming, amazing, just... to feel that kind of love from a family member I'd never met before.

Mitchell: Yeah, how, uh, have you known about me or...?

- I found out about you recently.

Mitchell: Okay.

Jessica: 'Cause I started searching for family, too.

Mitchell: Did you?

Agh!

Jessica: I was three-and-a-half years old when my mom left my dad, that would be your grandpa.

Mitchell: Okay.

- And I'm his on-- the only child that my mom and my dad had.

Mitchell: Really?

Jessica: So, that's the last time I saw my four sisters as well.

Mitchell: Oh, so we're in the same boat.

Jessica: Yeah!

Mitchell: Oh my goodness!

Jessica: We're all lookin'!

[laughs] Mitchell: Wow.

It's crazy that my Aunt Jessica has been lookin' for family members just like me, and I'm really excited to see what we can discover together.

Jessica: My last name is Gibbs, but it was Solís, and that is also, um, the last-- - I was right, I remembered her name!

Jessica: Yeah, that was, my, um, dad's last name, was Solís.

- Solís - And also, um, yup, that would, um, also be the last name of my sisters as well.

Mitchell: Right.

'Cause the one thing I never forgot, I, I, I mean, I could be wrong, but I remembered her name was, I thought it was Nina Marie Solís.

- Yes.

Yes, she goes by Nina Maria, and Nina Marie Solís.

You were right.

Mitchell: I was right!

Jessica: Uh huh!

Mitchell: I've always remembered my mother's name.

And when I asked Jessica, like, is her name Nina?

And she was like, yes, her name is Nina.

It really just, it just made my heart just, just explode.

♪ ♪ ♪ - Hiii.

Geselle: Hiii.

Taquida: Hi, I'm Taquida.

- Hi.

- Hi, I'm Geselle.

- Hi, I'm Nickeya.

Taquida: Hi, nice, nice to meet you, Nickeya.

Nickeya: Nice to meet you, too.

- And who's your-- whose relative are you?

- I am Geselle.

- And how are we related?

- Um, by my mom.

You're my auntie.

- Whoa.

Nickeya: How ya doin'?

Geselle: Good, nice to meet you.

Nickeya: Nice to meet you, too.

You look just like her.

Geselle: Oh, that's... wow.

♪ Nickeya: My name's Nickeya Royal.

I'm Geselle's niece.

and her and my mother are sisters.

Seein' my auntie face for the first time it really took me back to like my mother, like, seein' her face, like, you know, every day.

It was good.

It felt good.

Geselle, you look like my mother.

Your eyes.

Slant in your eyes.

I don't know why, but it just, I just noticed it ASAP.

You look just like her.

Geselle: It feels good to hear that.

You know, but I-- I'm just trippin' I got a niece.

Nickeya: [laughing] - I got a niece and, and the niece and the nephew?

- Yes.

Mm-hm, yep.

Geselle: So, how old are you?

- I'm 21.

Geselle: 21.

- Yep.

Geselle: Okay.

- How old are you?

- 46.

Nickeya: 46, oh, okay.

You're kinda like, two more, two years, I think, behind my mom.

Think my mom is like 48, I think.

Yeah, 48, mm-hm.

Geselle: Okay.

So, I'm a baby again?

Nickeya: You're a baby again?

Oh, yeah, I'm always a baby, trust me.

But it's okay, I love bein' the baby.

Both: [laugh] Nickeya: I love it!

Geselle: I'm so happy finding out that I'm an auntie.

I can't wait to talk to my niece, Nickeya, and findin' out what she can share about my sister.

Tonight's gonna be a good night.

♪ Lizzy: 348, 348.

Andy: Awesome.

♪ [door squeaks open] ♪ [car doors shut] Andy: Hello!

Girl: Hi!

- My name is Andy and this is Lizzy.

- Hi, I am Robin.

I'm your stepmom.

- Oh!

Hello!

Robin, it's so great to meet you!

Robin: You too, my goodness!

Andy: And this is my wife Lizzy.

Lizzy: Hi.

Robin: Hi, Lizzy, I'm Robin.

Lizzy: Hi.

Another Robin!

Andy: Yes!

Robin: Yes!

Girl: And I'm Angalynne, and I'm your sister!

- You're my sister?

[laughing] How are you?

Angalynne: [giggles] Hi!

Lizzy: Come here.

[laughing emotionally] You're beautiful.

Angalynne: Thank you.

♪ Lizzy: [laughs] Andy: This is a surprise!

Lizzy: Yes, it is, very much.

- I was literally stunned.

Which is pretty insane.

We talked about there possibly being siblings out there but to me, it never occurred to me, oh, it might be a 13-year-old, uh, rather than someone in their 30s or 40s.

So the fact that I've got this cool younger sister, uh, just knocked me backwards.

- I felt like there was already a connection there.

Like, it was like a circuit, but the circuit wasn't put together.

But it was put together now, you got a working light.

You're walking into a whole new family.

- I g-- uh, yes!

A very l-- Robin: We're very excited.

We're very excited.

Andy: [stammering] Robin: Angalynne is very excited, also.

- You're my little sister!

- Mm-hm!

Andy: That's... that's...

I don't-- my, I-- Robin: And how old are you?

- I'm, I'm 48.

Angalynne: Oh!

- Yeah, I'm a little bit older than you!

Angalynne: Just a little!

Wow.

I have a brother.

That I didn't know about!

I'm excited to get to know him better, yes, and I'm excited to hang out with him.

I'm ready to beat him in Uno.

And I'm ready to make more memories with him.

♪ Dan: In Chattanooga, Mitchell sits down with his Aunt Jessica and receives some of the answers that he's been longing for since he was six years old.

Jessica: I don't know if you knew much about me or anything about me growin' up, I'm the youngest of all-- Mitchell: Okay.

Jessica: --um, of my sisters.

So, um, my, my father, or my mother did leave when I was quite young so I'm not sure if you even knew I existed or-- Mitchell: I didn't, um, I have very little, very short memories about my mother, um... we were, I was removed from the home when I was eight.

Jessica: I'm sorry.

Mitchell: So I haven't seen or met anyone from my family since I was eight years old.

Jessica: Oh, wow.

Mitchell: You are the first.

And I am never, ever going to forget this.

This moment means the world to me right now.

But I really have some important questions about my mother that I'm hopin' my Aunt Jessica can help me answer.

Do you know my mother?

- Yes, I do.

Mitchell: [sighs] Jessica: Mm-hm.

- Is she still living?

- Yes, she is.

Mitchell: Oh.

Jessica: I recently came into contact with her not long ago either.

[laughs] So, it hasn't been long I came into contact with her and um... some other family members.

Mitchell: Right.

So has my-- does my mother know about me?

- Yes.

She does.

She knows about you.

Mitchell: [sustained exhale] Jessica: She's... beyond over the moon... to, to meet you.

So yeah.

I'd say she's very excited for the opportunity.

- I needed that.

Like, I needed to hear that because I've been goin' most of my life wondering, does, does she still care for me?

D-does she think about me as much as I think about her, because I thought about her every day.

And for Jessica to reaffirm that, it just made my heart just, just explode.

- To see the look in his eyes as, as just like a whole... this whole thing that he was afraid of just melted away 'cause he wasn't sure how the response was gonna be.

So to be able to give him the news, that just seemed to change his world and just make it a brighter place was a blessing to do.

Mitchell: [emotionally] Since we've been in foster care I've always wondered if, you know, if she just didn't... if she, either, I don't know, gave up or someone stopped her or what it was, 'cause I've always wondered-- Jessica: No, I don't think she ever stopped loving you.

Mitchell: --if she uh... you know, just didn't care anymore?

Jessica: She did what she thought was best because she wasn't in a place to do what she could.

Mitchell: Okay.

- But she loves you.

and when I told her, she was beyond over the moon.

Like hysterically crying and excited and screaming, "My baby!"

[laughs] "They found my baby."

So... so that's nothing you have to worry about, nothing you have to fear.

- Yeah, 'cause it's, it's been a long time.

Like for years especially, you know, in terrible foster home after terrible foster home Jessica: I can't even imagine.

- like...

I always wondered like... did we do something wrong?

I think it was a cir-- a situation of circumstances.

You know, and she, she did what she thought was best by letting someone else take over what she didn't think she could at the time.

Mitchell: Right, okay.

Jessica: You deserved better.

- As a father now to hear that, it just... [exhales] it just makes me so happy.

Because a massive weight was lifted off of my shoulders then.

I, I've been carrying it for years.

[exhales] And to... really, really know for a fact that my mother never stopped loving me and she never gave up hope.

♪ Dan: In Pittsburgh, Andy sits down with his new little sister, Angalynne, and finds out just how similar they really are.

Lizzy: Are you in seventh grade?

Angalynne: Um, yes, I am.

- What do you like to do?

Do you have a favorite subject or hobby?

- Um, uh, I would ha-- I'm a very ELA person.

Engl-- it basically stands for English Language Arts.

So like reading, writing.

I'm very into like writing, like, little short stories and stuff.

- Do you know what I have in my backpack right now?

Angalynne: What?

- I have a novel that Andy wrote.

- [laughs] I gotta read it!

Andy: Okay!

- I have to read it, I have to!

- So, yes, uh... and I actually used to teach, uh, English Lit, so.

Angalynne: Ohh!

You look like an English teacher.

Lizzy: Doesn't he?!

That's what my daughter says, too!

- So I definitely, uh, can see where we have a lot in common, lot of similar interests.

- Yeah.

- Yes, Angalynne is a remarkable kid.

Uh, she has a lot of really fascinating interests including writing.

Uh, I've done quite a bit of writing in my life.

Uh, so, yes, she and I have a lot to talk about.

Is our dad still in your life?

- Oh, yeah, he's still good.

He's been through some stuff but he's still, he's still surviving.

- Okay!

That's definitely good to hear.

[laughs] Robin: When I met your dad, um, he told me that he had a son.

And... when I had, when I had, um, Angalynne he told me, you know, he was, he was happy we were having a girl but there was a lot of emotions about him and he knew that he had a son.

- Oh wow.

- Um, this is, well, your dad and me.

Lizzy: Ah!

Look at how tiny you are!

Robin: Four pounds, five ounces.

Lizzy: Ohhh.

Angalynne: He would come back every day from work and feed me because I was in a incubator, so... Andy: What a great shot.

Lizzy: Mm-hm.

Andy: Seeing pictures of my dad as an adult was really kind of blowing my mind because, uh, everything we've seen up to this point has been him as a kid.

And I can kind of see some of the similarities.

Robin: I could see it in his eyes, he just lit up knowing.

And then he just, he just kept staring at the pictures.

And I knew that this was, this was really a good thing.

You can't fake those feelings.

You can't fake those looks.

- Are you guys still married?

Robin: Yes, yes.

Um, your dad has a lot of medical, a lot of health problems.

Do you wanna say what has gone on with Dad?

- Um, yeah, um... around when I was two he had a liver and kidney transplant and he stayed in there for, like, a really long time.

I mean, I had stay in a family home.

He had the heart attack, went into the hospital again.

And then he had a seizure.

Andy: Angalynne told me that, uh, my dad actually has really bad health issues going on in his life right now.

It's interesting, they don't even live here in Pittsburgh, they just traveled here to see me.

It's actually why he couldn't come down to Pittsburgh to be a part a part of this.

- I, I'm not really sure... every time he goes in he comes back out but I just feel like there's gonna be the time that he goes in and and he's not coming back.

Andy: Thank you so much for doing this, I mean...

I'm, it's funny because I'm usually the most talkative person in the room and I am completely dumbstruck right now just looking at you.

My little sister.

A lot of my life has been spent feeling... forgotten and rejected.

Knowing that my dad actually not only knew that I was alive but acknowledged it to other people as being something important to him.

Uh... really means a lot to me.

Robin: I hope we can get together and I hope that maybe he can be a little bit of a mentor for Angalynne and...

I feel Angalynne needs that.

I think this gives her another piece of her dad.

[emotional music] ♪ ♪ Nickeya: How old are you?

Geselle: 46.

Nickeya: You're 46-- when your birthday?

Geselle: December.

Nickeya: December.

Geselle: The ninth.

- What zodiac sign are you?

Geselle: [laughs] A Sagittarius, right?

Nickeya: Ohh, she a Sagittarius, oh okay!

Yeah, me and you gonna get along real good.

I'm a Gemini.

- Ooo.

Nickeya: Yeah.

Me and mom was Geminis.

- Really?

Nickeya: Yes, we're Geminis together.

Mm-hm.

So we always, you know, celebrated, you know, birthdays together, all the time.

Geselle: Okay.

- Yes.

Mm-hm.

Geselle: I heard you say 'was' when you mentioned your mom.

Does that mean that she, she passed?

- Yes, she did.

She did pass.

Geselle: When she used the word 'was' referring to my sister, my heart sunk because it was just like another sibling, you know, uh, not being able to meet them, not being able to connect with them.

But I believe that I have that in her.

Nickeya: This was, you know, my, my mom when she was young.

Geselle: [laughs] Nickeya: This is her.

You can li-- it's like old pictures she had, uh, put on here.

But this is her.

Geselle: Oh my goodness.

Nickeya: This is her.

Geselle: So much personality.

Nickeya: Mm-hm, you see it, yeah?

Geselle: Yeah!

Nickeya: She was the [indistinct].

Geselle and Nickeya: [laugh] Geselle: So lookin' at these pictures of my sister, I'm feelin' her personality.

I could definitely feel the connection and the bond that they had as she began to share about her mom.

And I can also, uh, get a sense, a good sense of, um, the values and, and things that she was raised up in from my sister.

- But, um... [inhales shakily] Geselle: Okay.

Can I give you hug?

Nickeya: Yeah.

I don't know why I cry, I'm crying.

I just get... just thinking about her.

[choked-up stammering] I'm okay.

Imma be all right.

It's just kinda hard.

[sniffling] Well, yeah, she was, um... she was just the most fun person to be around, you know?

And I miss her so much.

I miss her so much.

- She sound like she was amazing.

- She was, she really was.

She really was.

I wish you could've got to meet her.

She really was.

She would've loved you, too.

She would've loved you, too.

Geselle responded to me pretty well.

I feel like she understood, you know.

Like this is a deep situation for me.

I really don't talk about it with, like, nobody at all.

And she know, like, what I went through with my mother in the hospital.

So, I think she was very, like, you know, catering to me, like, you know, my needs, my feelings.

- I'm grateful I met Nickeya today, um, because it feels like I've, I've met my sister.

And, um, she is the representative of my sister standing before me.

♪ [gentle acoustic guitar] Doug: What I know is your, your mom's side of your family.

Callie: Uh huh.

- Okay, so, again your, your mom's mom and my mom were sisters.

- Okay.

Dough: Okay.

And that family, there were a total of 14 kids... born.

Now, two of them died pretty young.

Callie: Okay.

Doug: First year at birth, I'm not sure exactly.

Callie: Sure.

- Um, but, so that leaves 12 of 'em.

Callie: Um, okay, so what is Grandma's name?

- Grandma's name is Phyllis.

- Phyllis.

Doug: Yes, your Grandma's still around.

Callie: Okay.

- Well, I actually have some photos here.

Callie: Okay.

Doug: So, um, so this is from-- they're pretty much all from a long time ago.

- Okay.

Doug: But, um, that is a family picture.

Your Grandpa Virgil, Grandma Phyllis... that's Tina, Lisa, and your mom.

Callie: Oh my gosh.

As we're working our way through a formal portrait of a family and he points out my mother.

My mother has made it very clear that she does not want to be named on this show, she does not want to have her image shown, um, nor does she want to participate.

Um, but I got to see her.

Is she okay?

Doug: Yeah.

She's okay.

♪ - My main concern has always been that... she's okay?

Doug: She's okay.

She's had a rough go of it, but her, her mom and her dad have been with her.

And she's always had family with her.

Through it.

Yes.

Knowing your mom, I don't think there's a, a stronger love out there than a mom for her child.

And at that moment, she knew she couldn't give you the life that you probably really needed and deserved.

Callie: Mm-hm.

Doug: And, out of love, she just... that's why she made the decision she did.

I really do believe that.

That was an act of love that she did.

- If you could take anything back with you, just let her know that... that I say thank you.

And that I have thought of her every single day for 40 years.

And I've prayed for her every day.

I want her to know that...

I've always just wanted the best for her.

And I'm sorry if I caused her any grief.

Because it was-- [sobs] --the life she gave me was, has been... extraordinary.

♪ That's important to me that, that she's all right.

'Cause it sounds like she's had, uh, had a rough go at some things.

She gave me an extraordinary life at the end of the day.

She made sure that I got some place where my dreams could come true.

♪ ♪ Dan: Night falls quickly on Day Four as Relative Race comes to a close and teams anxiously are waiting for today's results.

Patrick: Today was a better day.

Callie: Mm-hm.

Patrick: But not a perfect day.

- Not a perfect day.

Mitchell: I think we did good.

I mean, the drive down here was-- Trinesha: I feel like we did good.

Mitchell: --perfect, it m-- perfect!

Taquida: You know, with time and stuff.

Geselle: Right.

Taquida: Um, it could've helped us and it could've hurt us as well 'cause time is of the essence, so.

Geselle: Yeah.

Andy: There's still chance, I mean, until they say... [clicks tongue] you got the strike, I think, you know, anything can happen.

♪ Mitchell: Let's do it.

[epic music] ♪ Andy, my boy!

- Haha, Mitch-all!

How's it goin', sir?

Team Black!

Hey Callie and Pat.

Trinesha: Hiii!

Andy: Hey Revs.

Geselle: So who had, who had a horrible drive?

All: Uh oh.

Geselle: Green Team, come on.

Mitchell: Y'all got it, I know y'all just blazed through that drive.

Lizzy: We, we had a, we had a rough day today.

Whe-- we-- the entire interstate was closed.

All: Ohh!

Andy: Yeah.

Oh, ope, ope!

I think we got someone.

All: [greetings] Mitchell: Dan the man!

Dan: Hey, teams!

Welcome to the end of your fourth day on Relative Race.

I wanna start with Team Green.

Andy and Lizzy, yesterday you finished in first place and you chose, after some debate back and forth between the two of you, you chose "Get Outta Town."

When, Andy, as I remember, you wanted the mystery prize.

But Lizzy talked you into Get Outta Town.

Was that benefit helpful to you?

Andy: Yes, uh, definitely, it's, uh-- the allure of the mystery's still gnawing at me a little bit but, uh, we were in a very rural part of Pennsylvania and there was no way we were gonna be able to get back to a major road without some assistance.

So Lizzy was definitely correct in doing that.

Dan: Well that means that that mystery prize is available for whomever finishes in first place today.

All right, Team Green, you had a challenging day.

Yet at the end of the day, you did find your relative.

And waiting for you was... who?

Andy: Well... waiting for us in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was... my stepmother Robin and my sister Angalynne!

Dan: This is your sister?!

Andy: This is my sister!

Beautiful thing right here.

Dan: This is your baby sister!!

Andy: Exactly, she's related to me, believe it or not!

Dan: That is awesome!

I can just hear all of our viewers at home right now going, "Aww, I love her, I love her!"

Callie.

You didn't think you were gonna meet anybody on this race, did you?

Callie: No, I didn't.

Dan: And today that all changed.

Who was waiting for you?

- [exhales] Today I got to meet my cousin, Doug on my mother's side.

[laughs] Doug: Hey, everybody!

- Hey, Doug!

What do you think of your cousin?

Doug: She's amazing!

Uh, I mean, I was looking forward to this but I just was overwhelmed, uh, meeting her today and it was like, yeah, a-already I know she's family.

There was personality traits and looks and, uh, yeah this is real.

Dan: Callie, you were incredibly emotional when you met Doug.

Callie: Yes.

- Why so deep of an emotion for you?

Callie: Because I came into this thinking that... this was, this wasn't my journey anymore, um.

And I'm-- [exhales] --I knew as soon as we pulled up and I looked at the man that was sitting on the, on the front porch because I finally got to look-- [sobs] --I finally got to look at someone who looked like me.

It's a feeling like no other.

It's indescribable.

It is such a blessing and I'm so glad that, I'm so glad that he agreed to come on here and do this because this is such a blessing.

Dan: Doug, you can see how by that one act of kindness by you has changed Callie's life.

And I hope, Doug, it's added to your life as well.

Doug: Oh, absolutely.

Yes, absolutely.

- You guys make it hard on me, so...

Okay.

All right.

I'm good.

Um.

Geselle.

What relative did you meet?

Who was waiting for you, Geselle?

Geselle: So waiting for me was my lovely niece on my mother's side.

This is Nickeya.

Callie: Oh, look at that smile.

Dan: Wow.

Man, can you see the family resemblance there, guys?

Nickeya: Do we look alike?

Andy: Yeah, it's amazing!

Nickeya: Yeah, you can see it, I see it!

[laughs] Dan: Thank you so much, guys, and congratulations, Geselle, we're happy for you.

Trinesha and Mitchell, Team Blue.

Trinesha, this has been your journey so far.

But today the tables turned.

Mitchell, who did you meet?

Mitchell: [sighs] Well, today, I met my very first ever family member.

Oops, sorry.

My aunt, Jessica.

Jessica: Hello.

- Was this a good meeting for you?

- It was a great day.

Jessica: Speechless, kind of.

It was a, like a first for us both, kinda.

We've both been kinda lookin' for our other side of the family.

So, seein' him and him seein' me, it was nice to see a face that kinda looked like mine, too.

Dan: I'm so happy.

So happy!

Guys!

It's Day Four!

You've got six more days of meeting family!

Think about that!

Which leads us once again to that time.

[tense music] ♪ On this day, Day Four, who picked up the strike and who finished in first place?

Today's times were the closest they have ever been for our top three teams.

Finishing only one minute over their allotted time... congratulations, Team Black.

Callie: [gasps] Nooo!!!

Dan: It's a good day for ya.

[clapping] Patrick: I didn't think that was gonna happen.

- Get out of here!

Dan: The difference was all in the challenge.

You guys ripped through that challenge way underneath the allotted time that we had given for that challenge.

And that's what put you into first place by 60 seconds.

Callie: Wow.

Dan: Congratulations.

Callie: Thank you!

Dan: Finishing just 60 seconds behind Team Black, two minutes over their allotted time.... You guys like those challenges where you don't have to run, congratulations Team Red!

[clapping] Team Blue, you also like those challenges, you finished in third place.

Mitchell: [sigh of relief] Dan: Three minutes over your allotted time.

Team Green, a freeway that was literally shut down cost you, in spite of the fact that you flawlessly navigated to that freeway, Get Outta Town helped you.

Freeway construction killed you.

You've picked up your second strike on Relative Race.

Team Black, you finished in first place.

And that means for the first time you get to pick your prize.

Which of these next-day benefits would you like to choose?

Breathless, the mystery prize from Day Three which is now unlocked, Fan-Atic, Challenging... and that's it, because the other two are locked mystery prizes as well.

And so Team Black, Team Green almost chose the mystery prize yesterday.

That is now available to you, should you choose it.

But so are those other prizes.

Which one sounds good to you?

Which one do you think may benefit you tomorrow?

- Well, we're... we actually said, hey, if we win-- which, you know, wasn't quite sure that was gonna happen, but anyway, so-- uh, we said we were gonna take the mystery.

Callie: Mystery.

Dan: Really??

Callie: [laughing] Sorry, Andy.

- I wanna make sure that that's the prize that you want because that prize can be anything.

Patrick: Well, we're ready for anything 'cause we've had quite a bit of it.

Callie: Yes.

[laughs] Dan: Okay!

Teams... that Day Three mystery prize... is immunity.

Patrick: Ohhh!

Team Black, tomorrow it doesn't matter where you finish, you cannot earn a strike.

You picked up immunity.

Andy: Congratulations, Team Black, you guys earned it.

Patrick: Thank you.

Callie: Ohhh, we love you guys.

Andy: We love you so much.

Callie: Ohhh.

Dan: And so, Team Black, you have two strikes.

Team Green, you also have two strikes.

Team Red and Team Blue, you are unblemished.

But tomorrow presents a whole new set of challenges but it brings to all of you new family that I can guarantee is anxious to meet you.

Goodnight from Relative Race.

Can't wait to see how you all do tomorrow, guys.

Day Five!

The halfway point of Relative Race.

Goodnight, everybody.

Patrick: Goodnight.

Dan: We love you guys, too.

Mitchell: Callie!

Let's go!

Let's go, good job!

All: Byyye.

- That was close!

Taquida: And I know, I saw Lizzy's face like... went down, like, we shoulda-- Geselle: Took the mystery prize, yeah.

- Today was not a great day but tomorrow has the opportunity to be something special, so... we're just gonna keep on driving forward and, uh, try and avoid the highways as much as we can.

Callie: Ho-ho-ho ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-o, my goodness!

Immunity!

Patrick: Yes!

We are now immune.

- We are immune-uh!

Patrick: Yeah.

♪