♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race.

Angela: Go, go.

Kelly: Green.

Dan: The challenge made a big splash.

Kyle: Oh, beautiful.

Dan: Propelling Team Black into first place.

Picking up the prize of penalizing one of the other teams, Team Black.

Layton: Giving out a penalty to another team is not something that we're looking forward to.

Dan: While the cousins came in last.

You have picked up your first strike on this race.

Kyle was surprised with his own relative.

- Kyle, I am your aunt.

- Hi, come here.

Dan: Rachelle found another uncle.

- Did you know about me?

Tim: Uh, I had no idea that you even existed.

Dan: Narrowing the search for her father.

- Hi, hi sweetheart.

Dan: Angela's cousin told a heart-wrenching story.

- My granddaughter was four months old when she got attacked by a pit bull.

- It was really awesome to see that progression and how she recovered from this, this horrible accident.

Dan: And Tiffani finally received answers about her mother.

Buford: She passed away a few-- quite a while ago.

Tiffani: I've always been looking for somebody that resembles me.

It's definitely her.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing.

- Wooh.

- Here we go.

Dan: To win $50,000.

- We're here, we made it.

Dan: And to find their family.

[knocking] ♪ Dan: As the sun crests over the horizon of day four, Team Black has a difficult decision ahead of them.

Kyle: It's not to penalize us, it's so that everybody else can stick around.

Layton: If we have to give it to someone we'll give it to red.

Karim: Team Black, they're handing out a penalty today, and we hope, they send it to our cousins, red.

Tiffani: We have a definite target on our back, we're the only team that doesn't have a strike.

- I predict they're gonna penalize us today.

- Yeah, we need to do well today.

- That's what I would do.

Dan: With zero strikes, Team Red nervously anticipates a penalty, as they begin the day in Palo Cedro, California.

Team Black will begin today's race in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Down south, Team Blue prepares in Atlanta, Georgia.

And up north, Team Green is ready to go in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with Angie's cousins, Tina, Jasmine, and baby Paisley.

Angela: This morning we came to this beautiful park that's right along the Susquehanna River, and we just wanted to sit and, sit on the park bench and talk a little bit before we had to leave.

Tina: So, I have a photo that you might be interested in, so I'm going to let you see.

- Okay.

Um, I'm thinking that this might be my biological mother.

Tina: Yes.

Angela: Okay, I could tell maybe, just because I did see another photo of her, and I'm wondering if maybe this is, a biological brother?

Tina: Yes.

♪ - I don't have a brother, I have an older sister, um, so, knowing that there is a brother that I have is, really exciting and I can't wait to meet him.

I learned today that I do have a younger brother.

It all came bubbling up pretty quickly as soon as I saw him.

I started crying, um, I hope that he's had a good life.

A lot of the people we've met have had a hard life, have had a lot of struggles.

I haven't.

I've had a good life, I've had a really great life.

- I hope he had the same.

♪ Tina: We're really hoping that you find out all the answers.

[chuckling] Little group hug here.

♪ Tiffani: This morning we wake up early and my Uncle Buford takes us out to the river to go fishing.

- I really enjoy fishing, I used to fish a lot with my dad.

Even your mom used to love to fish.

With Camanche Lake, Big Sandy, we went to Big Sandy a lot.

Tiffani: There's not good fishing in Arizona, so it is nice to get out and go fishing.

Hanging out with my uncle this morning really put it into perspective.

This is why I'm here, this is, this is what I'm searching for, I want that connection with family and it's been so nice and warm and inviting.

It's, it's gonna be really hard to leave today.

Buford: I got a little something for you here, something something.

- Oh.

My Uncle Buford stops me before we leave and has the picture of my mom, the first picture that I saw of her and this beautiful candle.

Buford: I thought of this for you.

- Oh.

Thank you.

It says, "Good things take time."

And I know God works in mysterious ways, and I've always felt that, but the timing wouldn't have been right until now.

♪ Kyle: This morning, we were out packing the car, and my Aunt Rhonda came out to say goodbye to us.

Rhonda: I did bring something for each one of you.

- Oh, did you really?

Rhonda: So, Miss Layton, I used to make these with needle and thread.

Layton: This morning, Kyle's aunt, Rhonda, gave me a handmade bracelet and it was beautiful.

Kyle: That's her favorite colors.

Layton: That's beautiful.

- That's gorgeous.

Rhonda: And Kyle, we always carry one of these on our keyrings.

Kyle: Yeah.

Rhonda: So that's got the Grand Canyon on it.

- Does it really?

Rhonda: Yeah, you can open it.

Kyle: That's one of my bucket lists actually.

My Aunt Rhonda gave me a pocket knife this morning, and it's just really cool to receive gifts from family.

Layton: And it had the Grand Canyon on it.

- Yeah, that was really cool.

Thank you so much, I want a hug.

- You are very welcome.

Kyle: Thank you.

It's been so great to meet you.

- It's been awesome.

♪ Rachelle: This morning we decide to, just take our walk around the neighborhood with my Uncle Tim.

So it's day four, and so far I've had the opportunity to meet you.

Tim: Yes.

- Uncle Anthony, and Aunt Sabrina, and it's honestly been such a blessing to be welcomed into the family.

Karim: With Uncle Tim's warming personality, um, after getting the strike, I really-- Well, we really didn't think much about it.

Just enjoying his presence was big.

- Yes, we enjoy having you in the family.

We want to shower you with love, you know, and have you as a important part of our family.

- Thank you, and I definitely feel that love as well and um, I just can't wait to meet the rest of the family.

Karim: So every morning when we having a great time with our relatives.

They turn into Dan's morning.

Oh ho, we got a text from Dan.

Rachelle: Dan has perfect timing, always interrupting when the stuff gets good.

- Take a nap, Dan.

- Take a nap.

[phone buzzes] - Kyle, I love you, we have to go.

Kyle: We gotta go?

Okay, sounds good.

Dan is a professional at ruining mornings with those texts.

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

- Team Blue will be traveling to Norcross, Georgia.

- Okay, boom.

- Team Black will be traveling to Amarillo, Texas.

- Team Green will be traveling to Richmond, Virginia.

- And Team Red will be traveling to Folsom, California.

Well, we're not going to the prison, we're good.

- Yeah, yeah, right?

[metal door slams] - Today's first place prize is penalizing-- - One team during tomorrow's city selfie.

- Your time starts now.

- Now.

- Now.

- Now.

- We gonna have to turn this walk, into a run.

- All right, let's go.

- See you soon.

Buford: I'll take care of these fishing poles.

Don't worry about it.

- We'll get back together, I promise, I promise.

- Awesome, let's go.

Karim: Norcross, Georgia, here we come.

♪ Jasmine: Where are we at?

Angela: We're here.

Here's Harrisburg.

- Okay, so you need to go through Gettysburg.

- North, east, south, west.

- 'Kay.

Layton: Leaving Oklahoma City did not go very well, because Kyle got a little turned around and then I got frustrated at him, so our communication just stopped.

Angela: Richmond, Virginia was-- where was it?

Right here.

Jasmine: Okay, right there.

- Tina and Jasmine were familiar, they said, 83 south and we used our maps and it worked.

Jasmine: Be safe, love you.

Kelly: See ya.

Jasmine: Love you.

- Yay, we made it to the highway.

Angela: 83, perfect.

♪ Kyle: Why's it saying Wichita?

That's my scary point right now.

Layton: Because you're probably going the wrong way.

Kyle: Because southward makes no sense.

Layton: You don't need to explain it to me, I just need you to understand so we can go.

Kyle: Let's go then.

Layton: Kyle discovered the map was upside down.

So we had been going south the entire time that he thought that we were going north.

Whip around, because Kyle can't read an interstate map.

- Nope.

- So fwustwating.

Dan: Team bwack [clears throat] I mean uh, Team Black has lost some time trying to get to Amarillo, Texas.

They'll have to complete their challenge and find their relative in an allotted time of 3 hours and 47 minutes.

[crunching chips] [Tiffani laughs] - I'm gonna bite your finger off.

[Tiffani laughs] Dan: Tiffani attempts to keep her fingers intact, as Team Red travels to Folsom, California.

They have an allotted time of 2 hours and 56 minutes.

Angela: Feel like we should give this guy some of our snacks, do you wanna give him like the pretzels or something?

Kelly: The race is important but we had a few seconds to stop and help someone else.

Angela: Excuse me, do you want some snacks?

Kelly: Do you want these?

Man: This is all, thank you.

Angela: Have a good one.

Kelly: You're welcome.

Dan: Team Green is looking out for others on their way to Richmond, Virginia.

They have the longest allotted time of the day, at 3 hours and 52 minutes.

♪ Karim: Raining, raining, raining.

- [singing] Crawling down the freeway.

- Doot doot doot, da doot da doot doo doo.

Are we there yet?

Dan: The cousins on Team Blue entertain their way to Norcross, Georgia, with the shortest allotted time of the day at 1 hour and 9 minutes.

Now that all four teams are on the road, Team Black gets the pleasure of giving a challenge penalty.

Kyle: Right.

Layton: Giving out a challenge penalty is not fun to say the least, and we don't know if we're gonna give it to red, or to blue, or... - But we eventually figured it out.

- All right, sending out the group chat text.

[Kyle chuckles] [notification sound] - We got a text.

- I think we got a text.

Jose: Team Black.

Tiffani: All right, Team Black says... - Wow, they said, - What?

- What?

Angela: They decided they're not doing it.

- That's an option?

- That's an option?

- Is that possible?

Rachelle: I have no idea.

Jose: No, we gotta-- you better reread that, I think you read that wrong.

- That is wonderful.

Angela: That is really-- that's awesome that they didn't want to do that.

- Right there that makes me want to cry.

- Yeah.

Jose: And we all feel for them, we all want them to succeed.

But at the end of the day, it's still a race.

They are not penalizing any of the teams, like they were supposed to.

I don't how they did it, but I don't know if I could do that.

Rachelle: That's interesting.

Karim: I'll take it.

- Right, thank you.

Thank you Team Black.

Layton: We don't want to be the reason anybody gets a strike today.

- Yep.

Layton: Honestly, we're not in this for the money.

I mean, $50,000 is a lot, but family is more.

$50,000 you can spend and it's gone.

Family stays with you forever.

Dan: And now, it's selfie time.

Layton: Nope, nope.

- Richmond, pull over, pull over!

Tiffani: Right here, right here, right here, sweetheart, pull in here.

- Bell Textron, Amarillo.

Kyle: Oh, right there, right there.

Layton: Right there.

- All right.

Pull in, pull in.

Angela: Phone!

Rachelle: All right, there we go.

Tiffani: Get in-- stand over there.

Kelly: Okay, give me phone, give me the phone.

Angela: Here you go.

Kyle: Hey.

[camera shutter] [phone notification] ♪ Tiffani: Welcome to Folsom.

Both: Your challenge is located at... Layton: 1056... - Arthur Ash Boulevard.

Both: Let's go.

- Okay, where's, where's... Jose: Just stay on this road, you're good.

Kelly: Looks like rain.

Angela: Of course.

- Dancing in the rain in the park, that's the challenge.

- There's the Relative Race flags.

Layton: Oh, there it is.

Kyle: There we go.

Karim: Get through this challenge.

Rachelle: Yes, we got it, we got it.

Kelly: Go.

Kyle: Go, right behind you.

Tiffani: Go, go, go, go, go, go.

Karim: Get it, get it, get it, get it.

[rubber chicken squawk] Kyle: That little tiny squawk, that was the best part.

[both laughing] Angela: Chucking chicken.

Dan: The challenge for Day 4 is...

Teams must dredge rubber chickens before using a giant slingshot to launch them to their partner who must catch them in a body bucket.

Catch and hang six chickens before ringing the dinner bell to complete this challenge.

Karim: I'll put the bucket on.

- Okay, I'm gonna do a test try.

- Wait, wait, nope, right, this is the right way.

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

Kyle: One chicken at a time.

Layton: Run with the bucket.

Angela: [laughing] [rubber chicken squawk] - Okay, that's, that's-- got it.

I chucked my first chicken and it does not make it over the white line.

- Okay, that don't work.

Angela: Okay, a little further.

Kelly: I make fried chicken at home a lot, you know, the water, the egg wash, the batter.

But I don't fling them with a catapult when I'm done before I fry them, so that part was new.

That won't work either.

- Here she comes.

Layton: No, she don't-- The chickens made a squawking sound like a [squawk noise] [both laughing] [rubber chicken squawk] Layton: The chicken was like, I'm gonna die!

Blaah!

- You ready?

Nope, nope, I'm not ready.

Jose: Go, send it, send it, send it!

Oh, too much.

Tiffani: It was sticky, and messy, and chickens are flying everywhere, flour's everywhere, the flour's making a big soup in my slingshot.

- And, and the wind, the wind didn't help.

- It takes about two to three times for me to figure it out.

- Oh.

- Wooh!

So good, so good.

And then after that... [rubber chicken squawk] Rachelle: Very good, very good.

Karim: Hurry, go again.

- I've got it.

Jose: Again.

Tiffani: Nice.

Kyle: Yeah.

Kelly: You put your head back.

- It's kind of a natural instinct when there's a chicken flying at you to like, duck, okay.

♪ - Here she comes.

[rubber chicken squawk] Kyle: I launched quite a few chickens down.

Layton: But, I mean, eventually I caught my three chickens.

Kyle: That was a nice shot.

Rachelle: All right, I'm coming to switch with you.

Tiffani: Go go, get it off.

Jose: It took a while, but I caught a third one, and then we had to switch.

- All right, we good.

Jose: You good?

- Yeah.

Kyle: All right Layton, just get them out here.

♪ Kelly: Oh.

There's something I'm doing wrong.

- Oh boy.

- I was trying everything I could, all different positions with this chicken.

Facing vertical, horizontal, but my technique itself just did not work.

It was awful, it was awful.

Well, I'm gonna shove his feet in his mouth, and make him a ball.

So then I thought, no, I'll twist the chicken.

So I tied his feet around his neck and I did that in hopes that instead of him being all legs and arms everywhere, put him in a ball and he'll fly faster.

What?

Angela: Oh.

- And that didn't work.

- We'll try this, ready?

Tiffani: No, no.

- I'm gonna try it, I'm gonna try it.

- No, it's gotta go to the side.

Jose: After we switched, and I went to the slingshot, it was slippery, it was wet, it was a mess.

Karim: Man, you got this-- you got some dough over here.

Rachelle: I know, making dough.

Karim: So with the slingshot, the biggest thing is making sure that the chicken's feet are inside the sling as well.

Higher?

- Yes, a little bit more, a little bit farther back.

- I started shooting-- I attempted to place the chicken vertical.

Nope, you're right, that doesn't work.

Didn't work out, so I went to horizontal, and then I got three chickens in a row.

- Got it.

Got it.

Woohoo!

Yeah, she figured it out real fast.

Put that one up, got it, and ring that gong.

[rubber chicken squawk] [triangle ringing] [rubber chicken squawk] - That's our chicken.

[laughs] Your relative lives at 244 South Buoy Street, Amarillo, Texas.

Let's get out of here.

Tiffani: Ah, way too hard.

Rachelle: Okay, too far, but that's good, that's good.

Jose: That was good, that was good.

- Once we figured out the several strategies I used did not work, I think it was all twisted at that point.

- It's all twisted up Kelly, make sure maybe the wire's not all twisted.

Untwist it all.

- Okay, it's untwisted.

Angela: Okay.

- So then I redid it, I straightened out my chicken out horizontally, and it flew.

[rubber chicken squawk] - She didn't catch the first one, but we realized, okay, that's what we need to do to make the slingshot work properly.

- Had another one that just kind of came in and... Jose: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.

- Boop, bounced right out.

Ugh.

Gosh.

- Yeah!

We got it.

Karim lands the first one, he's got the hang of it now.

Karim: Get that, get that, get that.

- Yes!

- Yeah!

- Get that, get that, get that, get that, get that.

Good job!

Come on, come on, come on.

So we finish the challenge and by far this is probably our fastest time on any of the challenges that we've done this year.

Jose: This challenge, it was messy, but it actually was pretty fun.

Both: Your relative lives at... - 300 Figueroa Street.

Both: Let's go.

- Okay.

Rachelle: All right, here we come.

Kelly: Let's do it.

- Yeah, I got it!

Finally I caught that third one.

We ran off and switched.

Okay.

Kelly: Okay, I'll show you what to do.

Angela: Yes.

- And then it's my turn to catch, and I saw Angie do it pretty well once she got the hang of it.

Yep, make sure that he's in between these.

- Okay, go, go, go, go, go.

Kelly: So I thought, I could do it pretty well once I got the hang of it.

Angela: Oh!

- Oh.

But it took me a little longer than it took Angie.

- Do it.

Maybe that's the trick, get it higher, there, okay.

Kelly: You!

Karim: Yeah, I'm gonna go to the Shell, and you come to the Chevron, all right.

- What's the number, uh-- - 300 Figueroa.

Kyle: Take a right.

Layton: I don't think that's the right-- - That's the one, go right.

Kelly: Here, let's go this way, turn-- move over to the left.

Angela: Okay.

I think this might cost us the day, how long it took us to figure out the techniques, both of us.

- I got-- okay.

Angela: All right, we'll just try to do that two more times, then we're done.

- That's where we're supposed to be.

Kyle: I know.

Angela: I realized like, you really have to get low so it goes high in the air.

We finally got the last one, you got the last chicken and we go running off, I ring the bell, rip the envelope open.

Kelly: We got our relative's address and we finished, but, we're filthy.

Dan: With their challenge complete... - Are we going the right way?

- Yeah, we just drove in a circle.

Dan: Teams frantically start the search for their relative's address.

- 3200.

Kyle: Yep, go ahead and take it.

- Do you know where Figueroa Street is?

Jose: Figueroa Street?

No?

Ah, yeah, turn around, turn around.

Tiffani: We ended up by Folsom prison.

Jose: Oh yeah, we took a wrong turn toward Folsom prison, yeah, like, whoops.

Our relative is not in prison is he?

Or her.

- Every store, every stop, nobody knows where this address is.

Jose: We start going to the general direction we think its at 'cause at this point we have no idea.

Do you by chance know where 300 Figueroa Street is?

Jose: Figueroa?

No?

All right, thank you.

- We started heading back the way we came and I remember seeing Porter Street.

Angela: Porter Street, we just have to find some numbers.

- Oh shoot, that switched to Elmwood.

- We're on Elmwood, we need to turn that way.

Kyle: We decided to take a right, and that's what the map was telling me, and we ended up at the right direction.

I'd rather take a backroad and be safe than taking a large road.

- No, we know for sure we're on our way.

- Just ask, ask, ask.

- Hey bud, do you know where Figueroa Street is?

Nope, lets go.

Kyle: So 2032, 44, should be right there.

- Angela: 11.

- One, one, one, one, one, one, three.

Kyle and Layton: Wooh!

Angela: 13B we found it, we found it, we found it.

♪ Kyle: Ah, gosh.

Layton: As we were pulling up, I saw a woman in the doorway and I just was super giddy.

- Hi.

Layton: Hi.

You're beautiful.

- Aw, so are you.

Kyle: Thank you.

Layton: Well I was like, you're related to one of us so.

Kyle: Right on.

Hi sorry, I'm Kyle and this is Layton.

- I'm Layton, what's your name?

- Hi.

My name's Jill.

Layton: Who are you related to?

- Who do you guys think?

Layton: I just-- dark hair, I always think him.

- But you've got her nose and so I'm definitely going to say her.

- You're right.

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

- Hi.

Jill: Hi.

Layton: You're the first person I've met on Shari's side.

- Aw, that's exciting.

Kyle: Right, is it okay if I give you a hug?

Jill: Yeah, of course.

I am Jill Gageby and I am Layton's cousin on her mother's side.

Seeing Layton today, my first impression was I was just super excited, she looked super sweet, and I could definitely see the features.

I could just tell she was family right away.

It's nice to finally meet you, I've heard about you and I actually-- you know, I knew your mom and stuff growing up - Okay.

Jill: so I have lots of stuff I want to talk about with you.

Layton: Jill's very fun, and she's gorgeous, and she looks a lot like me just with dark hair, and it was really fun and I feel like we've connected really well so far.

Jill: You look like, my family.

Kyle: Really?

Jill: Yeah.

- I was like, right here.

- I can see it, for sure.

Kyle: We've seen a couple pictures, and honestly, she does look like her mom a lot and so that's kinda cool.

Jill: Yeah, I actually see your grandma a lot.

Layton: Really?

- Yeah, yeah.

- What is grandma's name?

Jill: Angie.

Layton: Angie?

Okay.

There's just a lot of names that I don't know.

- There's a lot, there's a lot of them.

- I'm gonna say, I know nothing on that side of the family.

- Yeah, well then I have lots to tell you and fill you in.

- Which is great.

Jill: You guys want to come on in?

Kyle: I would love to come on in.

Layton: That'd be great, yes.

- Okay.

Layton: There's pictures inside.

Jill: Yes.

♪ Angela: Okay.

We get out of the car, and we see a man and a woman standing there, and I'm really not sure who's relative this is.

Hi, I'm Angie.

- I'm Kelly.

- I'm Kim and this is my husband, Aaron.

- And who's relative are you?

- I am your relative Angie.

- And how are we related?

- We are cousins on your dad's side.

- It's so nice to meet you, you're the first person I've met on my dad's side, so... - Very nice to meet you too.

Very excited.

- Today I met my cousin, Kim, and she was just really warm, and really welcoming, and we just immediately felt like we were with family.

- So how are you two related?

- Oh, so she's my sister-in-law.

Kimberly: Awesome.

Both: Our husbands are brothers.

- Oh, cool.

Angela: So we're kind of married into the same family.

- Kimberly: I'm Kimberly Prieskorn and I am Angie's cousin on her dad's side.

I was excited to meet her because I am a family person.

She will know, I'm sure, when she starts to meet everybody that we are excited.

Very happy that I met her.

Did you see our green sign we made?

Team Green, and our little green bow?

- Yes, we saw it, it was much appreciated, we need all the help we can get.

Kim seemed so friendly when we came up, her husband is great, super friendly, and everyone was just really, really awesome to hang out with tonight.

Kimberly: You guys want to come in?

I have some things to show you, I've prepared to show you.

Angela: Yeah.

- I've been excited about it.

Dan: Back on the road... Rachelle: Do you guys know where Burnstone Drive is?

Dan: Teams Blue and Red are searching for anyone that can point them in the right direction.

Tiffani: Do you know where Figueroa Street is?

- Figueroa Street?

Rachelle: We went to pizza shops, we went to gas stations, and we went to grocery stores, nobody knows where Burnstone Drive is.

Tiffani: Oh, okay, perfect.

- I'm looking for a address.

Are you familiar with it?

Is it called Burnstone or Burnstone?

Burnstone, okay.

Rachelle: Finally, we find someone who knows where Burnstone Drive is.

Tiffani: We run up to the visitors center and it's locked.

Nobody's there, we're running past a couple windows and this lady yells out to us... Jose: Yeah, we're looking for an address.

Woman: Oh, what's the address?

Jose: Do you know where 300 Figueroa Street is?

And after we told her what it was, like, she was eager to help.

Woman: Go all the way down, and you'll see Figueroa.

- Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

Woman: Bye guys, good luck.

Both: Thank you.

Tiffani: Now that we know where we're going, we need to get there fast.

Okay, right-- Jose: On Riley.

Tiffani: On Riley.

Rachelle: Burnstone.

- Burnstone, Burnstone.

- Yep.

Karim: Burnstone.

Tiffani: There's a four way stop sign.

Oh, shoot.

Karim: It's gonna be on the left side.

Jose: To the left, 298, 300, 300.

Karim: 1552.

4... 52, 52, right here.

- Good job, babe.

- Good job.

♪ Rachelle: Okay.

- Come on, let's go.

Rachelle: All right.

Seeing the relative for the first time, I immediately think it's my relative, because she kind of looks like me.

Karim: Hello.

- Hi.

- My name's Karim and this is my cousin Rachelle.

- How you doing, I'm Kenisha.

- It's nice to meet you.

Kenisha: Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

And who's relative are you.

- I'm your relative.

- And how are we related?

- I'm your sister.

- It's so nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- So pretty.

♪ - My name is Kenisha St. Fleur, and I'm Rachelle's sister on our father's side.

I was so excited and it was like, you can feel the excitement through her hugs.

But she held me so tight, I was so-- I was like, she's definitely one of us.

- I didn't know I had a sister.

- You didn't know you had a sister?

Oh, I'm so happy to be your sister.

- So good to meet you.

Kenisha: Nice to meet you as well.

- I'm so happy right now.

Hugging my sister for the first time, I was just, so happy.

I, I don't know, I was taken away, I had no words because I didn't even know I had a sister.

It feels really unreal to hear, you know, that I have a sister, just because I always thought I was the only child and I always was like, oh, I would love to have a sister, or a sibling, or anything, and just to know that I have one, and she's so close, it makes me feel really, really good.

- Oh wow.

I didn't know I had another sister but, I'm so glad to meet you,.

I can't wait to spend more time with you, just like, you here, the puzzle is finished now, you're here.

Oh my goodness, we got a lot of catching up to do.

- We do, we really do.

- She got really emotional and it was good to see that 'cause it makes me feel like she really wanted to meet her family, and I was happy for her.

Let's go inside so we can talk some more.

- Okay.

- Come on in.

- Perfect.

Thank you.

♪ Jose: We're here, we're here, let's go.

- I was born to very young parents, who gave me up for adoption right after birth.

Growing up I was very much the black sheep, um, of the family, I don't look like anyone else in my family.

I have a different personality than most of my siblings.

That's what I'm searching for is somebody that I can identify with, somebody who looks like me, who has the same features.

I kind of want to know where I'm from, my nationality, my heritage.

♪ Tiffani: We arrived to our relative's house, and I walk up and immediately I see a resemblance.

- Hi, how are you?

- Good, I'm Tiffani.

- I'm Jose.

- Hi Tiffani, hi Jose, it's nice to meet you, I'm Tamela.

- So who's relative are you.

- I'm related to you, Tiffani.

- How?

- Um, I'm your cousin on your dad's side.

- Through my dad?

- Yes.

- Oh my gosh, can I give you a hug?

- Yes.

- Ah!

Tiffani: I have like a hundred questions now.

Tamela: My name is Tamela Holman, and Tiffani is my cousin on my dad's side.

She looks just like my cousins, and she's just beautiful, I just thought she was very beautiful.

Tiffani: This is amazing, I've, I've not met anybody on my dad's side.

I met a couple people on my mom's side, but never on my dad's side.

- You resemble our whole family.

Tiffani: Really?

I was like, I can see, I can-- like as soon as we walked up, I could see I was like, you're related to me, I can tell.

Jose: Yeah, I saw it too.

- My first impressions of Tamela is that she just seems to have this sweet, kind presence about her.

It, it was really like-- this is so cliche, but like I'd known her forever.

- You guys look like you have paint on you.

Tiffani: Oh, yeah.

Jose: We did a, uh, challenge that got us a little dirty.

[rubber chicken squawk] Jose: We changed clothes but we're still... - Yeah, we're still-- we'll definitely need a shower.

- Yeah.

Tamela: I think just laughing all together and experiencing that was a good time.

Would you like to come in and sit down and talk a little bit?

- Absolutely, yes please.

Tamela: Come on in.

Dan: In Richmond, Virginia, Angie sits down with her cousin Kimberly, anxious to learn about her father's side of the family.

- We're related through our grandparents, our grandmothers actually.

Um, my grandmother and your grandmother were sisters.

Your grandmother's name is Tammy, um, my grandmother was Mary Ann.

It's a huge family, but the whole family, everybody in that whole entire family has always kept in contact through the years.

If something's wrong with one of them, I've-- we've had our whole family fly in because everybody sticks together in the family.

- I learned that, the Whitney family is huge.

There are a lot of people that she's spoken to that are really excited about this, and that really want to meet me.

What did you know about me, if anything?

- I didn't know of you, um, and I have talked to family members, and I don't feel like anybody really knew.

- Oh.

- Angie, um, she did ask me if I knew of her dad.

I didn't know, and it was a little emotional but, I'm very happy that I met her.

Angela: My cousin Kim, I don't believe she knows who my father is, but I was able to see a photo of who my grandmother was.

- So, this is my grandma Mary Ann, and this here is your grandma.

Angela: Oh wow.

Tamela: Watching her face as she's seeing some of those photos, I felt, she was about to get emotional, and she looks exactly like her grandma.

Angela: It was surprising to learn that I resemble my father's side too.

We seem to have a lot of similarities.

Um, did my grandmother pass away?

- Your grandmother, she passed away, it was just this year.

- Oh.

Tamela: Uh, June-ish, it was June.

Angela: June.

So that was probably before she knew about this whole thing then.

She died before she knew about me?

- I don't know.

Angela: Okay.

I would've loved to have met her.

I don't know if she knew about me, I don't know this piece of information.

It's pretty hard to know that I just missed that.

- Your grandma and all of her seven siblings, there was eight of them.

They grew up in a little shack in Oil City, no running water, the outhouse, um, just they were, what you hear, dirt-floor poor.

Very dirt-floor poor.

Angela: My grandmother on this side had a lot of siblings, so that must mean it's a big family.

Going forward I hope that, we can just-- we can meet more.

♪ Rachelle: So we sit down with my sister, Kenisha, and, I'm just ready to hear all about her, I want to know everything.

Thank you for, you know, just agreeing to let me in, you know?

- I wouldn't have it any other way.

I felt, just excited for her to be a part of our family.

It feels wonderful, um, we are a loving family, and just adding to it is a small love to give.

- I guess I just want to know more about you.

- I grew up in Atlanta, and then we came to Decatur area, off Wesley Chapel.

- I used to-- that's crazy because I literally lived off of Wesley Chapel, so I went to Chapel Hill Middle School.

- What?

Rachelle: Yeah.

- Wow.

- Yeah.

So it's just, it's really interesting because it's like wow, we could have passed each other and we wouldn't even have known until now.

- Wow, that's, that's crazy.

Rachelle: Yeah.

The fact that we were so close together this entire time, literally, is unbelievable, like, it blows my mind.

But, you know, I'm just so happy that we're together now.

So, during this journey I've been slowly putting the pieces together.

Um, who my biological father is, um, I know it's two brothers left, Barry and Kerry.

Can you tell me who our father is?

- Yes.

Our father is Barry.

- [indistinct] Kenisha: He's your daddy.

Rachelle: Wow.

You just answered a big question.

Kenisha: Yeah.

That's why I say you look just like him.

[both laughing] Rachelle: My father is Barry Simpson.

My sister Kenisha answered a question I've had my entire life, and now I finally know who my father is.

Can you tell me more about our daddy?

Like who he is as a person.

- Our daddy is, um, he's a very kindhearted person.

He loves his kids, he do, and um, he's a crybaby.

- Is that where I get it from?

'Cause I've been crying this whole journey.

- That guy is so emotional, he's so emotional, he is, he um...

But he's such a joy.

- Mmm, that's good.

That's fun.

Wow.

Kenisha: Yeah, he's cool.

Rachelle: For a long time, I had convinced myself that, you know, I didn't want to know where I came from, and, and didn't need to know, but through this journey I've kind of realized that I, you know, was kind of missing a part of myself.

It does hurt when you don't know where you come from, and, these are questions that I needed answered, and it feels good to get those answers.

- I am, honored to be able to go on this journey with Chelles, letting her know how much her adopted family supports this, and it's been beautiful.

Rachelle: I'm feeling really happy right now because, I got to meet you.

- You got me now.

Okay?

I got you.

- Okay.

Kenisha: I promise.

Dan: Back in Texas, Layton is excited to learn more about her mother's side of the family with her cousin, Jill.

- I'm super glad I'm here because I know nothing about my biological mom's side of the family and I know nothing about, really, Shari, and I guess you guys, so, I mean, you can help me out a lot.

- Yes, for sure.

So I have these pictures.

- Okay.

- That your grandma, Angie, had given me of Shari.

Layton: Really?

Jill: Mm-hm, yep.

Layton: Okay.

Jill: I created a photo book for Layton of her biological mother, Shari.

It was cool to just go through those memories and explain things to her about our family.

Yeah, so this is Sabrina and Shari.

Sabrina is your mom's twin sister.

Layton: Okay.

So Shari is a twin.

- Shari is a twin, they kind of run in the family.

- They're identical or fraternal?

- Yes, identical.

Layton: It's like they look very identical.

Jill: A lot, yes.

Layton: It was really shocking to find out that my biological mom was a twin, and then having the image of her in my head side by side with my Aunt Sabrina, it was something that was really cool.

- This is your grandma, Angie.

Um, she had had the twins, Sabrina and Shari, I believe until they were four, um, and then they had, been taken away from her.

- Okay.

- So they were adopted out.

I don't necessarily know the reasons behind it.

Heard a few different things, but you never know.

I just know that they were taken.

Layton: It hit a chord because I was adopted, and learning that my biological mom was adopted, it was-- I don't know her but it was something that I feel like we could still connect on.

But, it was painful to listen to the stories that my cousin Jill told me, it was just, crazy.

Jill: I know that my-- one of my aunts and uncles, and my mom and dad, they both tried to adopt Sabrina and Shari, 'cause they wanted to keep them in the family.

Layton: In the family.

- Um, it didn't work out that way.

- Okay.

- They weren't allowed to.

- Hearing the circumstances under which Shari was adopted was sad to learn about and the family struggles that she had dealt with.

It's, it's very clear to understand once you hear the story that my biological mom Shari had a very rough life growing up.

- So, Sabrina and Shari, their adopted parents, their adoptive mom really wanted them.

Um, so when she had passed, they were about 18 years old and she had passed away and from what we were told, the adopted father gave them both like 50 bucks or 100 bucks and dropped them off at a hotel and said, okay, like, bye.

- That's horrible.

- Yeah, yeah.

- It sounds very traumatizing, and I can't imagine how that would have happened especially by someone who had welcomed you into their home and after one traumatizing event of losing a parent, um, you basically lose a second, very soon thereafter.

I guess Shari got kicked out.

- Yeah.

- Would be the term when she was 18.

Jill: Yeah.

- She was 18 or 19 when she was pregnant with me?

Jill: Yeah.

When she had um, you know, gotten pregnant with you and, just they-- you know, they were young, and it wasn't any other reason other than, you know, they were just really young.

- Right, and that's, that's the answer I expected.

But really appreciate you going into depth and trying to share with me what you know so that, I'm at least on the same level as you.

Jill: Yes.

Tiffani: We sit down with Tamela to learn more about my father's side of the family.

So you're related to me on my dad's side... - Yes.

- What can you tell me about that side of the family?

- Well why don't we take a look.

- Okay.

- I'll show you.

Tiffani and I share a lot of commonalities in this journey.

I've been searching for answers on my real family, my birth family, and that was a little overwhelming for myself.

Um, so, I didn't really know my family, um, just like you, and um, was looking for them myself.

- Oh wow.

- Um, so I found them doing my genealogy.

- Okay.

- I had a chance to show the family tree to Tiffani, and watching her reaction was very heartfelt.

So, my grandma, Ethel, is related to your grandma, Leona.

- Okay.

- That's her sister.

Tiffani: Okay.

I really loved being able to look at the family tree on my dad's side, just to see where I fit in.

- So our common ancestor, Christopher Miller, right here, it was kind of neat because there was another with that same name, right here.

And I think it's your brother.

- [gasps] And he's living!

Tamela: Yeah.

- I have a brother?

- And he has the same name as Christopher Miller.

All the way down here.

- I have a brother, a full-blood biological brother from both parents.

I got really emotional.

Um, I wasn't sure if I-- if he's an older brother, if he's a younger brother.

Just, a million questions now.

Who is he?

Where does he live?

Does he look like me?

Does he know about me?

Does he want to see me?

So.

Just a lot of mixed emotions.

Oh my gosh, I was not expecting that.

And he's living, oh my goodness.

Tamela: While building out my family tree, I noticed that Tiffani had a lot of relatives, um, her father and her brother.

I don't-- didn't really know, unfortunately, anything about them, but just watching her reaction was very heartfelt and very exciting for me to be able to share that with her.

- So that's my dad.

Tamela: It looks that way, yep.

- And... brother?

- Yes.

Tiffani: My dad's name is Frank Stoner.

My brother's name is Christopher Stoner.

Wow.

I have been searching for my parents' name, just a name, for over forty years.

And to finally have both of them within a span of two days, it-it's almost overwhelming.

I'm almost in shock.

I can't believe that this is, this is really happening.

It's incredible.

Thank you so much for showing this!

♪ Dan: After another long day of racing and relatives, teams anxiously await tonight's results.

Kelly: I don't know what to think about how we did tonight.

Didn't do well in the challenge, but then we made up with it, we found the address very quickly, so-- - But we did our best today.

That's all, that's all that really matters.

Rachelle: We definitely struggled finding our relative.

- Yes, yes.

We were turned around and that, I think that could be the biggest thing.

Rachelle: Yeah.

Karim: From first, coming in last.

- Yeah.

I hope it didn't cost us too much time.

Kyle: We definitely struggled there kind of at the beginning, but honestly, I feel so good with everything else that we've got going.

Tiffani: So, how do you think we did?

- Um, not as great as... Tiffani: We wanted to?

Jose: That we wanted to.

Tiffani: Yeah.

- We'll find out.

[suspenseful music] Dan: We still have four teams at the end of Day 4, and I'm anxious to see how each of you did today.

Team Black, you finished in first yesterday, and as a result, were able to penalize one of the other teams in today's challenge.

And yet you chose not to.

Why?

I just didn't want to be the reason that somebody got a strike today.

I just-- there is a race aspect, but the main purpose of Relative Race is to meet family.

And I don't feel like giving someone a penalty was relevant.

Dan: Wow.

Okay.

That's impressive.

It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out in tonight's final standings, but again, I get the feeling that especially to Team Black, it really doesn't matter.

- Yeah.

- I want to talk with Angie for a second.

You and your sister-in-law wake up, and you have an amazing revelation that takes place to you.

Tell us about that.

Angela: Today I received a photo of my biological brother.

- Wow.

Angela: That was really amazing to see a photo of him for the first time.

Kyle: I am so excited that Angie found out that she has a brother.

I hope that she gets to meet him.

Dan: I gotta ask, what did you think about chucking chicken?

[rubber chicken squawk] All: [laughing] - How did you keep one?

- You have a chicken!

- I love this thing!

- We had so much fun.

Kyle: It's the coolest thing ever!

- Watch out, Layton, it might take your place!

Both: [laughing] Kyle: This is our team mascot from the rest of the trip!

This is our man!

He's gonna go with us forever!

- [laughs] - Don't do what I did, I-I shoved the chicken's head between its legs and then put the feet in the mouth.

Both: [laughing] Kelly: And if I thought if I made him a ball, then he would go further, and he didn't.

Tiffani: Angry birds.

- I, I really hope that we have slow motion replay of that.

[slowed rubber chicken squawk] - I did it, I tried it, I tried it about five times.

- [laughs] - And he was squeaking the whole time, he was squeaking the whole time.

- [laughs] Kelly: Poor thing.

- [laughs] Dan: Well, think about it, that's a little painful.

You put him in a painful position there.

[rubber chicken squawk] Well, chucking chicken was fun.

But we want to know, who did you meet on Day 4?

And I want to start with Team Red.

- We got to meet my cousin, Tamela, from my dad's side.

All: [quietly] Hi!

Kyle: Love her hair.

- Do you see the resemblance?

Dan: Oh, yeah.

Like, I am going, oh my word.

- Right?

Like immediately, when I walked up to the step, and I was like, "Yep.

She's mine.

I'm related to her."

- So, it-it just seems like all in all, Team Red, it just seems like you guys had a great day.

- We had a blast today.

It was-- And we figured, you know what, if we get a strike today, it's the best day to get it, 'cause it was just fun all day.

- We shall see.

Team Black, who was there for you, Layton?

- So I met my cousin, Jill.

- Hello.

- She's the first relative I've met on my biological mom's side, and so, she and her mom put together a photo album of my biological mom growing up.

- That is awesome.

That's so great, Layton, I'm happy for you.

You're continuing to get great answers to questions that you've always had.

So, thanks.

Angie, you start the day by discovering that you have a brother.

How did you end the day?

Angela: Um, I ended the day meeting, today, the first relative on my biological father's side.

Everyone so far's been on my mother's side.

So this is my cousin, Kim!

- Hi, Kim!

- Hi.

Karim: Hey, cousin Kim.

- She's great, we've been having a great day.

So, it's cool to meet somebody on my biological father's side for the first time.

- Aw, that's fantastic.

Karim and Rachelle.

Who was the additional member that you met tonight?

- Okay, cousins.

Today I met my sister!

All: [surprised gasping] Rachelle: Kenisha!

So, I have a sister!

Like, I grew up as an only child, so knowing that I have siblings, [strong sigh] it was such a beautiful feeling.

Introducing my sister to the rest of the team, it was, it was so nice to see how everybody was so excited to meet her too, it really made me feel like everyone was on this journey with me.

Dan: I always enjoy hearing how each of you did throughout the day, but it's time to find out where you all placed.

I will tell you that only sixty seconds separated first from second today.

Whoever finishes in first place picks up that first place prize, and that is penalizing one of the other teams in tomorrow's city selfie.

Who's the team that will have to make that decision?

Finishing fifteen minutes over their allotted time.

You can just add to this overall great day, Team Red, because you finished in first place.

Both: What?

Tiffani: Nice.

Jose: [laughing] Wow.

- That's surprising.

- Very surprising.

Yes.

- Finishing one minute behind Team Red, finishing in second place and safe on this day, is Team Blue.

- Good job, blue.

- Team Black, you decided not to give a penalty to anyone today.

That was something that you gave out of the goodness of your heart, the way that you feel about these other teams.

And yet right now, you have a chance of picking up your second strike.

Do you second guess that decision right now?

- No.

- Not in a million years.

Dan: Well, Team Black, you finished in third place, twenty-six minutes over your allotted time.

Team Green.

You've picked up your second strike.

You finished thirty-eight minutes over your allotted time.

And that is a good time.

It's just that everybody else on this day, was a little bit better.

- I don't think we could have done any better today.

- Yeah.

We had a really great day and, you know, it's sad, but-- Kelly: We hit a little, we hit a little traffic, but overall, we think we did better than we did.

We thought we did better than we did, but we're still happy for the other teams.

Dan: Well tomorrow is Day 5, the halfway point.

And I'm excited to say that each of you are here fighting to find relatives, and to see if you can win the $50,000.

We'll pick up that conversation tomorrow, when Relative Race rolls on.

Good night, everybody.

- Bye guys!

[overlapping goodbyes] - We love y'all, we love you!

- Bye, everyone!

- Good job, guys.

Stay safe!

Kyle: Have a good night.

Tiffani: Oh my goodness, sixty seconds!

Jose: Oh, wow.

- That is great.

- If it would've been-- I was expecting sixty seconds, like second place, 'cause of that stop we made.

- I feel bad for green.

Kyle: That's-that's a situation I didn't think about.

- That hurts.

- Yeah, it did.

Kelly: I'm fine with it.

- Yeah, it's fine.

- We're doing our best.

Angela: Mm-hmm.

- If the other teams' best is better than our best, - Yeah, then.

- It's fine.

Angela: You know?

- There's nothing we could've done differently.

- But I'm so happy I got to meet you!

Today was a good day.

- Yeah, today was.

- Had we had that penalty, we wouldn't have been first.

- I'm surprised, I'm like, I'm still shocked.

Like, I don't know if I can do that.

Like, not penalize someone.

I'm being honest.

- I think we were meant to get first place today, because we're not handing out that penalty tomorrow, and we're paying it forward.

Jose: We want everybody to win, but, like,-- - We're not-- - --it's still a competition, like,-- - Yeah.

It's a competition, but, we'll talk about it.

- Yeah, I don't-- - I don't think we, I don't think we'll do it.

Jose: I'mma have to sleep on that.

[chuckles] ♪ - Hey, y'all!

Team Blue here.

It's Day 4, and I got to meet my beautiful sister Kenisha!

- Long day.

Lot of things happened.

Like we're washing clothes in the sink tonight.

- We're so tired, so exhausted, want to get out of our wet clothes from the challenge today, we're gonna go to bed, and we're gonna do better tomorrow.

- Uh, we were just kinda sitting here thinking about our favorite moments of the day.

- Other than failing, - Yeah.

- Like if we, if we had to take that whole aspect out of it, - Oh yeah.

- Challenge, by far.

- Oh, yeah.

Honestly, the whole reason why we're out here is just to meet with family.

That's our main goal.

- It's been a long day.

- Yeah.

- Pretty tired, ready for bed.

- Okay, bye!

Kelly: Bye.

- Team Blue out!

[laughing] ♪