Dan: Previously on Relative Race, Preshious met family that had been searching for her all her life.

Woman: [through sobs] I had a place for you, and I didn't want you to go into the system.

Dan: A sudden illness threatened Team Black.

Jerica: At this point, we're not sure if we're going to be able to compete today.

Dan: And an unexpected turn of events altered the race.

Josh and Tiffany are no longer able to be a part of the race.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... [Jerica screaming] ...to win $50,000... Yeah, baby!

...and to find their family!

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day 5 of Relative Race, and three of our teams have made it to the halfway point of their journey.

Mike: This whole journey has been a life-changing experience.

And I'm just glad I got to share it with my daughter.

Competing on this show has really pushed me out of my comfort zone.

There was a lot that I wasn't expecting and there's so much good that I wasn't expecting.

So, the good far outweighs the challenging.

Preshious: This journey has already given me much more than I expected, and it's only Day 5.

Dan: After Team Blue's departure on Day 3, the race has taken on a unique twist.

And tomorrow as an additional benefit, you'll also be competing for two round-trip airfare tickets to visit any of the relatives that you've met along the way.

Having only three teams left definitely changes things.

Yeah.

And it makes winning first place even more valuable.

With Dan throwing in the bonus prize of two plane tickets to go see any relative you want, i-it's game on.

Dan: In Sherrill’s Ford, North Carolina, Team Black is waking up after yesterday's sickening day.

[Joe moaning] Joe, come on.

Jerica: Hey, we're done.

We're done.

What do you mean, we're done?

We're done today.

Dan: But today, back on his feet and feeling great, Joe is wanting to start the day off with a little surprise for his relatives.

Joe: Today I'm feeling so much better.

So we decided to hold an impromptu fashion show.

♪ Joe: So we all picked our best outfit and came down the runway.

Next.

[Southern accent] Oh my word.

Woman: We have never had an impromptu fashion show with relatives, I can-- I can say that.

Marti: We've had plays and little things like that but not a fashion show.

Joe: It was fun hosting the fashion show.

Um, I loved commenting on our beautiful relatives' outfits.

All right, come on, guys, I don't have all day.

Get out here.

I need to approve.

Wha-- [laughing] Beautiful.

I loved the tutu.

That was hysterical.

♪ Dan: In Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Preshious is having to say goodbye to her cousins, Angela and Champagne.

Preshious: I had an amazing time with you both.

Ooh.

I'm just so happy to see you both.

It is really hard to wake up this morning and know we have to leave today.

At the same time, we're definitely excited to meet another relative.

Um, it's just so hard to leave.

I'm happy that we were able to get these necklaces.

So we'll just have, like, Yeah.

a small piece of each other until we can see each other again.

Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I was able to go birthday shopping with my real family.

We decided to get matching necklaces so we'd have something to remember each other by.

And I'll be thinking of you guys.

And we will be also thinking about you non-stop.

Yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

To just be able to get our necklaces today, for each of us to put them on, it's just nice that we also have a piece of each other on this journey.

We're leaving today, but, um, I'll look down at this as we continue this journey and constantly think of them.

So this is not the end.

Ahh, all right, I love you guys.

Thank you so much.

Love you!

[laughing] ♪ Austen: I've been keeping track of-- of lots of information about our relatives in my journal.

And every day, I've been writing down details.

I ask 500 million questions all the time, and I do it because I like to know things about people, and I'm able to know them better and commit these small nuggets of random information to memory.

So I'm hoping that my-- my inquisitiveness comes in handy should we make it to Day 10.

♪ Joe: So much fun-- [phone dings] Oh, that was my phone.

Hold on.

[phone dings] Text.

Oh!

Text message.

[phone dings] Oh.

Mike: Here we go.

And so it begins.

Mike: This is how it happens.

All right, where are we going?

Paris: "Good morning, teams, "and welcome to Day 5 of Relative Race.

"Team Red will be traveling to Montville, Connecticut.

"Cayce, South Carolina.

"And Team Green will be traveling to... New Orleans, Louisiana?"

[exclamations of surprise] "Today's first place prize is-- "Up to 12 minutes off tomorrow's clock-- "Or a Day 10 benefit.

Your time-- Starts now."

Okay, we have to go.

Okay, we have to like really, really go.

Okay, bye, you guys.

We love you so much!

Montville, Connecticut.

I know-- Montville, Connecticut.

I got it.

You know where it is?

I got it, Pook.

Sweet!

Jerica: Hurry!

We gotta go!

Come on, guys.

All right, I got it, I got it.

We are not quite ready to leave North Carolina.

We love our new family, and it's kind of sad to leave.

Both: Bye!

So we're heading back to Connecticut.

And we're really kind of excited about it.

Austen: We're feeling winning.

Mike: We're feeling winning.

Austen: We want it really badly.

This will be-- This needs to be a big day.

Preshious: As hard as it is to leave today, we really have to get into game mode because of the added prize of those plane tickets.

It's Day 5 of Relative Race.

All of our teams continue to race along different paths in the eastern half of the United States, each looking for new family, each in a different city, all of them searching for the finish line in an undisclosed location.

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

Now, they're headed to a new city.

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

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

Three strikes and you're out of the race.

Get ready; this is Day 5 of Relative Race.

Preshious: Okay, wait.

We gotta turn around.

I think we're going the wrong way.

Not that way, not that way.

Okay, right?

Yeah.

All right, you sure?

Yeah, let's go right.

All right, let's go.

This is not right.

I'm sorry.

That's Channel.

She took us out the other direction.

What do you mean?

Yeah, Mountain Shore is what we're looking for.

Turn around.

Turn around-- You're kidding me.

I'm not kidding.

No, wait.

Was that Channel?

Jerica, yes.

[screaming] Dan: Teams Green and Black are already starting their day off in the wrong directions.

Today, Paris and Preshious head west, racing from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to New Orleans, Louisiana.

With driving, completing a challenge, and locating their relative, they have an allotted time of 1 hour and 50 minutes.

For Joe and Jerica, they're headed south today.

Their route begins in Sherrill’s Ford, North Carolina and leads them to Cayce, South Carolina.

They have an allotted time today of 2 hours and 25 minutes.

We're already making wrong turns.

Go that direction and see.

Are you sure?

I am not kidding.

Jerica, this doesn't-- I'm confused.

Okay.

♪ Mike: If we won the plane tickets today-- We would not be traveling together.

Mike: How about if you fly to Seattle and I fly to Miami?

I'm not going to Seattle, but it doesn't really matter because I'm not going with you.

That's right, I'm-- We're going opposite directions.

We're going not together.

That's what I thought.

Dan: With their eyes focused on the bonus prize of plane tickets, the father-daughter team, Mike and Austen, are departing Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts and are headed to Montville, Connecticut.

Their allotted time for the day is 2 hours and 54 minutes.

I love you.

I love you so much.

And we'll have the smartphones back then, too.

And we can go, "Hey!

FaceTime!"

With whatever-- You don't even know what FaceTime is.

I found out last night.

[laughs] Ew.

What?

I hate the smell of bananas.

While I was driving along, minding my own business, and suddenly this truck starts to come over into my lane.

But the problem was I was in his way and he wasn't stopping.

[gasp] Jerica!

[Jerica screams] Jerica!

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

It's okay, slow down, slow down.

I'm gonna slow down.

It's fine.

Slow down.

I had nowhere to go.

So I immediately pull off into the median, because he's running me off the road.

That truck just ran us off the road.

Okay.

Okay, you're okay.

Jerica, that was dangerous.

It was all happening so quickly, and kind of scary to figure out what to do in that moment.

In my head, I'm just thinking, "Don't get into an accident.

"We can't get into an accident.

"We just gotta stay calm, and keep this under control."

I cannot believe that just happened.

It's okay, it's all right.

You did awesome.

So we kept driving until it was clear to get back on the road.

He was coming over regardless of whether it was clear.

Even though it is difficult and scary with other drivers around us, we are just gonna stay confident and do our best to stay away from the other drivers.

♪ All right.

So we are Day 5.

Halfway through, five.

Five, five, five, five, five.

Um, and, no strikes today.

But we're still, like, rushing.

Like we want those tickets.

We want the round-trip tickets, get it out of the way, like, we have those.

Me and my brother are gonna be on a plane, add some more if we need to, so.

We're ready.

Growing up, my brother and I were in and out of foster homes.

Sometimes we were together, sometimes we were separated.

Luckily, we were adopted together and grew up with each other.

He knows just as much as I do.

And being on this show, I've already learned so much about our family.

I can't wait to share it all with him.

So if we win those tickets today, I'm definitely bringing him out to meet one of our relatives.

This journey is for me and him now.

All right, Team Green, signing off, got our bracelets on today.

Team Green, all right, we'll see you guys later.

Bye!

[intense music] Okay, so where are we going again?

Jerica: One mile.

But like, what's our city?

I forget.

That's our city today?

Oh, I forgot.

Okay, good to know.

Next two exits, Montville.

Yes, so we'll take the next exit.

All right, so, wherever we see that says Montville, we know that was the town line.

So we know we're in the town.

None of them say New Orleans on them.

They do.

I don't know if that counts.

Are we in there?

Forty-five.

Jerica: Okay, pull over, pull over right now.

Why?

Jerica: There's a Cayce sign.

What is this?

Baptist church.

Right here, pull in.

I need the phone.

Okay.

We're gonna have to get low.

Preshious: Pull up to the right.

When we can.

Can you get right here behind this bus?

Right here, right here, right here.

Wait, where's the picture thing?

Here, here, here.

Got it.

You got it.

Austen: Come on, Daddy-o.

Preshious: Go, go, go, go, go, go.

You got it.

Low?

Lower?

Like right down here?

Yeah, no.

Come here, come here, come here.

[camera shutter] Like this?

Get back.

Back where you were.

Go.

[camera shutter] [phone dings] ♪ Austen: Now...

Awesome.

All right, let's go.

Okay, let's go.

Go, go, go.

Dan: Teams Red and Green have successfully submitted their city selfies.

But for Team Black, they're struggling just a bit.

Jerica: 'Kay.

Do you want to go to the side, or you got it?

This is good, I just gotta get low.

In the real world, I'm a pro selfie taker.

But for some reason, in Relative Race world, I just can't get it right with this old flip phone.

Ugh.

Hold this in place.

Okay.

Like that.

Wait.

Like that.

You ready?

Yeah.

Hold.

Go.

[camera shutter] I hope my head's not blocking it.

Okay.

Yep, your head's blocking it.

Joe: Are you serious?

Jerica: Yes.

Ugh.

This is getting ridiculous.

Okay, go again.

Go.

[camera shutter] Check it.

Okay.

We got it.

[sighs] Is it in?

Yeah, we're in.

Okay.

[phone dings] Joe: What does it say?

Jerica: Dan says... All right, let's go!

Joe: Come on!

Dan: All teams are now headed to the challenge of the day.

I'm just looking at this college and going, "Please let this be a challenge where we get to use our brain."

Being as we're the senior team, we’re hoping that we can use this in today's challenge.

De La Salle.

This is it.

I'm not sure what the challenge could be.

You know, at this point, we're-- We're all out of guesses.

I'm thinking maybe it could be something sports-related, um, and if it's anything of that sort, we're definitely gonna kill it.

I hope it's an indoor challenge.

It's so hot outside.

It's at a school.

I have a feeling it's gonna be on some kind of a court.

Like an outdoor court?

A basketball court, volleyball court-- I hope it's an indoor court.

Baseball.

It's gonna be athletic for sure.

Ugh.

Jerica: You're right.

No.

Jerica: Yeah, we were totally right.

[whining] Jerica.

[intense music] Jerica: Pull it out.

All right.

"Up and Atom."

[intense music] ♪ Dan: Day 5's challenge for all teams is "Up and Atom."

Teams draw cards with science questions.

A correct answer earns them a giant balloon.

That balloon, and all subsequent balloons earned, must all be kept in the air.

If a balloon touches the ground, they must collect all of the balloons and relaunch them.

To pass this challenge, teams collect four balloons and while keeping them in the air, must place them in the completion net.

The allotted time for "Up and Atom" is 20 minutes.

Joe: Ooh.

These lab coats aren't my usual style.

But, I think we can make these work.

Paris: And while completing this challenge, we have to wear goggles and these goofy, baggy, lab coats.

Um-- Preshious: I kind of thought you looked good in a nice white, long, coat.

Like a little doctor, scientist.

[laughs] Austen: I'm thinking we might not be perfect at this, but we're nerds.

We know science.

So we'll be able to do a little somethin'.

Okay.

Okay.

Do heavier objects fall more slowly than lighter objects?

The heavier you are, do they fall more slowly?

Joe: No.

Uh... Joe: No.

B, no, final answer.

Okay.

Final answer, no.

Yes, A, final answer.

Man: Incorrect.

I didn't think so.

Jerica: Okay, that's okay, that's okay, that's okay.

Sorry, I was thinking of skiing.

Okay.

All right.

Austen: Once we got the question right, I had to grab a balloon, and these balloons are bigger than my body.

They are massive.

And so here we are trying to gently maneuver and tap them in such a way where we can control where they go, but just one slight inertia move in the wrong direction and disaster.

[whistle blows] Hit the ground, Daddy.

We have to keep every single balloon in the air the whole entire time, because any balloon hits the ground, and we have to reset.

[whistle blows] Mike: Once we got multiple balloons in the air, it was-- it was-- things grew exponentially.

Austen: Okay, your turn.

[Mike yells] [whistle blows] Austen: Okay, we gotta reset.

Um, which one of these has both magnitude and direction?

A... s-scalar?

scholar?

I don't know-- or a vector?

I have no idea.

Go for A.

Okay, A, final answer.

I knew it was B.

Go, go, go!

We don't know any of these questions, so at this point, we are just guessing and hoping we get one right so we can get a balloon in the air.

Austen: When exposed to lower air pressure, the boiling point of water increases or decreases?

Mike: The air pressure?

We consider ourselves to be nerds, but some of these questions were really hard.

Or maybe we just didn't remember.

I got these.

Answer the question.

Austen: Go get the other one, go get the other one.

Increases, final answer.

Okay, your turn, Daddy.

Which of these is a unit of work?

Watt, meter, joule, or newton?

A unit of what?

Joe: Work.

What?

Work!

Work?

Joe: Yes.

I don't know.

Uh... B, meter.

All right, just come on.

Remember?

we're just gonna try.

Go for it.

Us guessing really isn't working either.

What branch of Einstein's relativity deals with gravity?

Uh... B, general relativity, final answer.

Preshious: So we get to the first question and we get that one right.

Then we go to the second question, we get that one right.

We get to the third one, we get that one right.

So right now we have three balloons, we just need that fourth one so we can get this done as quick as possible.

Austen: Watch the other one.

So, when I see Dad kind of struggling to keep his two balloons in the air, I'm like, "You just take care of your two balloons.

"I'll take care of this balloon, "and if I get this question right, we can start trying to get them in the net."

What property causes a moving object to continue moving?

B, inertia, final answer.

Daddy, we got four!

Mike: Are we on our fourth balloon?

We got four!

Start making your way.

Mike: All right.

All right.

At what temperature Fahrenheit does water boil?

Uh, A, 212 degrees.

Uh, B, 204 degrees.

C, 198 degrees.

D, 235 degrees.

Uh, A, 212 degrees, final answer.

Once we get those four questions right, we then have to juggle four balloons into the net, which is on the opposite side of the starting point.

What is the force that holds back a sliding object?

Friction.

Joe: A, friction, Both: Final answer.

'Kay.

'Kay, 'kay, 'kay.

Get the balloon, get the balloon.

Joe: Oh my word.

That took forever.

All right, go, go, go, go, go.

Mike: Heads up behind me, Aust!

[whistle blows] Behind me.

I lost count of how many times we had to reset.

Mike: It's-- I felt like it was a part of the game.

It was like, da, da, da, da, da, reset.

Da, da, da, da, da, reset.

High or low?

I got it.

Agh!

[whistle blows] We got it, get up on the stand.

Go, good!

I got these.

Paris: We realized that staying closer together was the best strategy, because, you know, if we needed someone to help, then they were right there.

Did we kill this challenge?

We killed this challenge.

♪ Joe: What is the chemical symbol for the element oxygen?

N, O, C, or H-E?

Um... O is too obvious?

It's probably simple.

B, O, final answer.

Oh!

Austen: Once we got four balloons in the air, even though he was managing two, and I was managing two, is that the balloons started hitting.

And as soon as they start hitting, they start ricocheting off of each other.

So they start going in all of these different directions.

Come on!

Ugh, reset, Dad.

[Mike sighs] Okay, let's slow down a little.

All right.

Joe: Jerica.

You look ridiculous.

Jerica: I don't know how else to get them here, and I'm not gonna let them touch the ground because they'll pop.

Okay, you ready?

We gotta get them to that basket-y thing.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Austen: The hardest reset, though, was that time when we had all of them in the basket, and that one just slipped out of the side.

Agh!

[whistle blows] Nooo!

Yeah, that was... Devastation.

Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe.

[high-pitched voice] Ahh!

Jerica, Jerica!

All right.

Get it, get it!

Get it, get it, get it.

Ugh!

Dan: Back on the road, Team Green seems to have a leg up on the competition.

If we can go back down this way and make a right onto Burke, that's even better.

Instead of going all the way around.

We just need to be on this side.

Paris: We're getting so close to the address that-- that we can-- that I can feel it.

And, um, I'm getting so anxious, that I kind of almost turned left down, uh, the wrong way of a one-way street.

Left right here.

Oh, oh, bae, ahh!

We're going-- oh!

Back up, back up, back up.

Why didn't you tell me I-- Uh... just go, ahh, I don't know, bae.

We gotta get to the right.

Paris: It was a very close call, but I was able to back up and get us going in the right direction.

Preshious: Oh my goodness, that's not-- That could've been not good.

You just gotta pay attention to how many lanes-- Dan: As Team Green struggles with one-way streets, Teams Red and Black are close to completing their challenge.

Mike: That's one.

Austen: We're so close.

We have all four balloons right by the net, and all I can think is, "Let's finish it!

Finish it!"

That's three.

Okay, okay.

[panting] BOOM!

YES!

Okay.

Okay.

Good job, dad.

Okay, your relative lives at 75 West Street.

Boom!

Yes!

Okay.

Oh, get it, get it, get it.

[Joe screams] AAHH, go get it!

Jerica!

When we didn't get them the first time and we had to restart back at the nucleus, I'm like thinking, "Oh, how many tries is it gonna take us to get them in the net?"

Okay.

We're done, come on!

"Your relative lives at 211 Grand View Crossing.

Dan: All teams have now completed their challenge.

And with today's first-place bonus of airplane tickets on the line, it's an all-out sprint to find family.

Preshious: I think we need to turn aroun-- Oh, we can't turn around, babe!

Go straight.

It's crunch time.

We gotta win those plane tickets.

We need to get on the other street, Bae.

Can you turn left?

Let's go back.

Yeah, let's go back.

Mike: Let's keep it rolling, Pook.

We're doing a good job, I think.

We saw a train station when we were coming in, I said, "Austen, we saw this train station.

"Let's go there, "where taxi drivers are probably gonna be, and let's just go ask a taxi driver."

There's a taxi right there, you see him?

I'm gonna get out and talk to him, you just let me out.

I pulled up and I said, "Dude, can you tell me how to get to this address?"

And he said, "Sure!

First you go up here."

And I'm writing copious notes.

Second right is center street?

Follow you?

All right, perfect!

AUSTEN!

Austen: I got written directions, but his taxi driver said, "I will drive you there."

You just asked him?

Mike: Yup.

Austen: This is a HUGE score.

YES!

WOO!

We get our address, and we have no idea where we're going.

The first place we see is a pizza shop, so we stop and ask for directions.

You're jumping out, get ready.

Jerica: There's nobody in the parking lot.

Joe: Oh, they might be closed.

Jerica.

Austen: Daddy-o!

This taxi driver is literally driving us to the door.

[honking] Don't stop.

Austen: Thank you!

Mike: Thank you, brother!

I appreciate it!

Turn right here.

Okay.

Okay, hold on.

I gotta park.

Okay.

[under breath] All right, let's go.

Ready?

I'm coming.

Mike: So we pull up to our relative's house, and Austen and I are here, flying up the stairs, and there's this guy, but I'm not sure who he is.

Hi, how are you?

Man: How ya doin'?

I'm good.

Who are you?

I'm Mike Brown.

Guess.

Are you-- I don't know.

This is my daughter Austen.

Yes, I'm Dwayne.

[Austen cheers] Mike: You're Dwayne.

Hi, brother.

How are you?

Dwayne: What's up, man?

You, too, man!

I like the haircut.

[laughing] We could be twins.

Mike: I just shaved mine off this morning.

On Day 1 of this race, I found out I had five brothers and sisters.

One of them's name is Dwayne, and today I got to meet him.

Wow.

Hey.

I'm here.

Here I am, in my brother's house, when I say "my brother"-- I call everybody my brother just out of-- just to be nice, but this time...

He's legitimately...

He's legitimately my brother.

Which is a-- It's amazing.

It's a great, great, great feeling.

We got this.

Yes?

Dwayne: Yes.

Yeah.

This is, uh, Austen, this is your uncle.

Nice to meet you.

Dwayne: Yes, yes, I know.

I know.

When, uh, Michael walked up to me, he looked like my sister, Evelyn, and so it was, uh, easy to see how, uh, he was a member of the family.

Mike: When you can look him in the eyes, and shake his hand, and give him a hug, and say, "Hey, brother, how are you?"

And that's the first time you've ever been able to say that in your life, it's a forever moment.

It's a forever moment.

I'm ready for all the stories you can tell me, brother.

I can say "brother."

And mean it.

Yeah.

That's the first time that's ever happened in my life.

I just thought about that.

Austen: You have a brother.

A real brother.

Yeah.

You got a real brother.

A real brother.

Dwayne: My name is Dwayne Williams, I'm 51 years old, I'm from Connecticut, and I'm Michael Brown's brother.

[woman singing] ♪ Face to face.

♪ [intense music] Jerica: Okay, so left on Meridian, and then go straight.

Perfect.

Thank you!

We are asking the pizza guy for directions, and he tells us that it's not too far from here, and it's just a few blocks down.

We got that.

Oh my word.

That was easy.

Our new Relative Race strategy is pizza guys.

We were so close.

I know, we just had to talk to the right person.

From now on, that's all we're gonna do, is look for pizza people.

Joe: I literally will never speak to anyone but a pizza person the rest of my life.

Preshious: We're just gonna-- We're looking for what, 7454?

Is that it?

Yup.

Okay, what's the address?

What's the number?

Preshious: That's 7454 right there.

Into the driveway.

Right behind that white car.

Jerica: Yup, its 221.

[intense music] [knocking] [knocking] Hi!

Preshious: Hi!

Hello!

Paris: How are you doing?

Woman: Good!

Um, who are you guys related to?

Woman: Paris, I'm your cousin through DNA.

Wow.

[laughing] Woman: My name is Ria Wilson.

And I'm her sister Chi Dates.

Both: And we are Paris's relatives.

Hi, I'm his wife, Preshious.

Ria: How are you?

Paris and Preshious!

Preshious: Paris and Preshious.

Hi, nice to meet you.

It was very out-of-the-blue for it to be, uh, one of my relatives, um, so I was very surprised by it.

And, you know, it feels great to connect with another one of my relatives.

Well, we have a wonderful activity planned.

Are you guys ready to go?

Both: Yeah.

Ria: All right, let's do it!

Okay!

♪ Jerica: Hi!

Joe: Hey, are you our relative?

I am, I'm Adam.

Jerica: Hi, Adam!

Nice to meet you, I'm Joe.

Nice to meet you.

And I'm Jerica.

Nice to meet you, nice to meet you.

You guys want to come inside for a second?

Jerica: Sure!

That'd be great!

Joe: Yeah, it's been a crazy day.

Jerica: Thank you.

Adam: I'm Adam Goz, from Cayce, South Carolina, I'm a radioactive materials inspector, and I'm Joe and Jerica's cousin.

Well, if you guys were curious, I don't know if I mentioned it or not, I'm your cousin.

Okay.

Um, kind of a very distant cousin.

Jerica: Uh-huh.

But it's through your mom's side.

Really?

Okay.

Adam: It's definitely very different to just have someone you've never met before knock on your door and be related to them, and, um, welcome them with open arms, and bring them into your home, and feed them dinner, and hang out with them for an entire day, but, it's a very cool, uh, cool aspect I've never kind of been-- been a part of.

So I didn't ask you guys, how old are you?

Yeah.

I'm 25.

I'm 23.

How old are you?

Adam: Twenty-six, so we're all pretty close.

Joe: Cool.

It's so cool that we are meeting so many relatives similar in age to us.

We came on to this thinking everyone we would meet would be older.

Uh, I have an activity planned for us.

Um, so you guys might want to change into a little bit more comfortable attire.

All right.

Okay, what does that mean?

Just more comfortable attire.

[all laughing] Jerica: Okay, let's go get our luggage.

♪ Mikek: My brother Dwayne raced inside and we sit down and look at pictures and catch up on all the missed years.

This is our father.

That's our father.

Yeah, I remember that car.

I think it was a Pontiac?

A red stripe.

Oh yeah?

That stripe was red.

Red leather interior.

Mike: Couldn't be anything but.

He liked his cars.

Yeah, oh yeah.

He showed a couple pictures of our dad in his favorite car, which was, uh-- It's amazing.

I'm astounded.

I gotta tell you something, man.

Your hands are exactly like your brother El.

Really?

Exactly.

Mike: Really?

The-- they-- they're exactly like your brother El.

Mike: My hands are exactly like my brother El's?

That just blows my mind.

I've been looking for someone that looked like me that I could call family.

And finally, I was able to look at my brother, and he looked at me, and he told me that I looked like I had my brother's hands-- my other brother's hands, which is -- no one's ever been able to say anything like that to me before and mean it.

It was incredible.

I look like my family.

And it's amazing.

Mike: I love you, brother.

Dwayne: I love you, brother.

Mike: Brother.

[laughs] Dwayne: It's been enriching, you know?

To have my brother and my niece, and know that there's more to come, you know, in the future?

It's enriching.

I got a surprise that has particular significance to you, you’ll find out.

But uh, let's go.

All right, cool.

I'm ready for a surprise.

All right.

All right, cool.

Dan: As Michael and his brother Dwayne head out for a surprise activity, Team Black is about to have an experience they've never had before.

Jerica: So we get in the car, and Adam navigates us to a field, and we're wondering exactly what's gonna be happening.

I'm pretty skeptical about what's about to happen at this point.

So you guys excited?

We are.

I'm not sure.

Might be a little hot, but.

Okay.

Woman: Hey.

Hey, guys.

These are my cousins, Joe and Jerica.

[Crowd greeting them] These are all my friends.

Um, we're gonna play flag football today.

Jerica: Okay.

Joe: He says we're going to play...

Both: Flag football.

[rock music] Joe: I've never played football before, so this will be an experience.

Ready, hike.

Stop it!

Go away!

Joe: Yeah, for the first time I touched a football on Day 1 of Relative Race.

The second time I've touched a football is Day 5 of Relative Race.

Jerica: Oh, sorry.

[screaming] Jerica: Catch it!

Go!

Go!

Joe: I just had fun learning stuff that I never knew before.

Um, they were teaching me all kinds of terminology and stuff.

Turns out you say "hike" instead of "hie."

I learned that for the first time.

I definitely wanted to get them involved, so, um, you know, make sure they were running the ball, pass the ball catching the ball.

I feel like I got decent at running with a football.

I was able to weave in and out, and trick some people.

[screaming] Woman: Jerica!

Go, go, go, go, go!

Adam: They weren't the best at the sport, but it was still a fun time, and I think we all enjoyed ourselves.

Joe: I got it!

Despite the fact that we had no clue what we were doing, we had a blast and we-- It was such a great bonding experience with our relative.

Dan: In the Big Easy, Team Green sits down for dinner and discoveries.

Nice to see you.

Welcome to the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.

So we walk in, and they give us a quick tour, and, um, they give us a little history about the place, and surprisingly, Chef Liz tells us that she's going to cook us dinner.

Come on in, we're going to start cooking.

Paris: The fact that I'm here with my relatives, you know, I'm able to sit down and ask questions, and see exactly how we're connected.

Well, we are cousins.

Through DNA.

It's a-- it's quite an interesting story.

During the dinner, we were making the connection of-- of who we were to each other.

So I found out at 42 that I was adopted.

I know who my-- my-- my biological mom is, but I don’t know who my biological father is.

Paris: What I didn't realize is that my cousin Ria is actually looking for her family.

You know, I look at her, and she resembles my mother.

She resembles my aunt, my older aunt that looks just like my mother.

Your mom has her father's last name.

I believe so.

Chi: What is that?

Scott.

I mentioned the fact that, you know, Scott is a last name on my mother's side.

I noticed that she pulls out her phone, and she types in the name Scott.

Ria.

I, um, I put Scott in.

Ria: I don't have my glasses on.

What am I seeing?

Chi: Well, you see how many?

These are your family members that are Scotts.

Are you serious?

You just did that?

Chi: Yes.

Ria: My sister Chi pulls up Scott, and about 40 Scotts come up.

All relatives, so now there are that many more people to connect to, along with Paris, and that was just-- That was the part where I cried.

Chi: Every family member of yours that has Scotts, or is a Scott, came up, and this is how many there are.

♪ Paris: Wow.

This was just a big moment for Ria, because, um, for years she's run into a road block, and the fact that her meeting me was a turn in a-- A different direction, you know, it just makes me feel like, you know, I accomplished something that-- unintentionally-- that I didn't know that I was capable of doing.

Because of you, all of this family has been unlocked.

And a whole side of my life that I just, just kind of didn't even think about, or know about, is now available to me.

And I thank you.

Thank you so much, Paris.

Oh, I'm glad I can help.

Ria: This whole thing, this- this wonderful, not a conclusion, but a beginning.

Thank you so much.

Dwayne: There's special significance to where we're going.

Mike: This is the submarine base new line in Connecticut.

This is where I went to submarine school.

This is a trip.

This is-- you've never seen the inside of a submarine.

My new brother Dwayne, who I just met, says he's got a surprise for me.

And he takes me to the submarine school at the submarine base in Groton, Connecticut.

♪ Mike: When I was 18 years old, I went to submarine school right here.

Right here on this submarine base.

So let me tell you about this.

This is-- my grandfather built this right up here, at Electric Boat.

Right.

Um, first nuclear-powered submarine.

This place has special significance for me because my father and my grandfather are submarine force veterans.

My grandfather actually built the nautilus that's behind me, the first nuclear-powered submarine, right here at Electric Boat in New London and Groton.

Welcome to the inside of the submarine.

So I take Dwayne and Austen down into the boat, and I showed them how we hot-racked the racks that we slept in, I showed them the galley that I cooked in, I showed them the crew's mess where we hung out.

Way back when, before all this fancy stuff that we had, we had movies like that.

Austen: Wow.

But we-- outside the missile tubes we'd have a bank of all the coolest new-- newest releases, and that's what we'd watch on patrol.

It was a trip.

It brought back a lot of memories, and now Austen could see what I was doing when I was gone all those years.

Michael was running off the facts like that.

I, uh, was very excited to share some history with, uh, my brother.

Being on this boat, right now, that my grandfather helped build, and with my brother that I just met, is kind of-- It's kind of trippy.

This is, this is-- This is what it's all about.

♪ Austen: Today, I look at my dad interacting with his brother and it's one of those moments where the world is just perfect.

Where everything is at peace, and everything is good.

I feel like when most people think of genealogy, they just picture old people sitting on their computers.

But, in reality, like, Jerica and I, and Adam, like, we're all really interested in these family connections.

This is our roots and how we're connected, and the reason why we're even here.

[clapping] Yes!

Ria: This kind of challenge, this kind of journey, has to make you closer, and I'm so excited to be part of that discovery for Paris and that discovery for me.

This night has just been incredible.

Even when you're- you're not doing something as critical as finding your own family, you can help others get answers that they've been searching for.

♪ Mike: I've been looking for someone my whole life, that I could just look at and know.

Ria: Family means everything to me.

And to know that you have more family you can connect to, it just makes life that much better.

Adam: And it means a lot.

I think it-- it's great to be able to meet relatives, and I don't think I ever would have been able to meet my relatives without this show, and I'm very grateful for it.

It's just-- it's just amazing.

♪ Dan: Another day of discovery draws to a close as three teams reach the halfway point of their journey.

Joe: On one hand, we know there's no strike, so even if we place last, there's no harm done.

But we do really want to get that first-place benefit.

Preshious: I'm feeling pretty good about going in tonight.

I'm thinking we got another first place.

I'm thinking we got the tickets.

♪ We're halfway through the race, and we still haven't won a day yet, but today is the day.

I can feel it.

♪ Dan: Welcome to Day 5, Teams.

I'm excited to talk about today because things seemed to go really well for most of you.

There were a couple of hiccups, and we're going to talk about that, but first, Austen and Michael, how do you feel things went for you today?

Because a couple of days ago, you seemed to be at maybe the lowest point, and you seem to be on this upward trend ever since.

Do you still feel that way today?

Yeah, we do.

So, it's like we had- had a turnaround, like something just shifted for us, and we are learning from our mistakes and we're communicating more effectively, and we're having more fun now, so I think our paradigm shift is paying off.

Team Black, Joe and Jerica.

You had a really scary moment on the highway today.

What happened?

Joe: So we were driving along, minding our own business, and this truck comes over into our lane, and pushes us off the road.

Jerica: Yeah, he ran us right off the road today, so.

Austen: Are y'all okay?

We are great.

We're doing just fine.

Who was driving?

Joe was driving.

He handled it like a pro, though.

He handled it really well.

He knew exactly what to do.

He got over, and then we got right back on, so.

Dan: Okay.

I'm glad you guys are okay.

How-- uh, Team Green, how do you feel things went with your driving today?

Because you had a little bit of a challenge there at the end.

The biggest thing, you know, that we dealt with when we got to the city was the traffic.

Um, there was a lot of one-way streets, and we battled with that.

You know, um, that was pretty tough.

♪ Dan: Paris and Preshious, who did you meet today, and what is this incredible story?

Today, I met my cousin Ria-- what's ironic is I was able to give her answers.

You know, this whole time, you know, we're here to find answers ourselves, and today just shows that this is bigger than us.

You know, um, there's people everywhere looking just like we are.

That-- that's amazing.

Um, Michael and Austen, who did you meet today?

Because Michael, for you, virtually all of your discoveries you share with your daughter.

Was this another important, valuable discovery for you today?

Today, Dan, I met my brother.

[laugh] Yeah.

Um, his name's Dwayne, uh, he's a little bit younger than me, it was an automatic link.

I said, I said I call most people my brother out of the spirituality and friendship that I feel for them, but this is the first time in my life I was able to say this is my brother, and mean my biological brother.

This is my brother.

Dan: Tha-- that is a moment right there that every single one of us will, uh, treasure forever.

Seeing that hug, discovering a brother, and being able to embrace, and knowing that, you know, the same blood runs through your veins, is, uh... That's remarkable.

Jerica: Joe and I are super close, and we know that sibling connection, so seeing Mike meet his brother for the first time, we know it'll just change his life, and we're excited to see his journey.

Today's been one of the best days of my life.

♪ Dan: Well, I hope it continues, because now it's time to find out who finishes in first, and has the choice of either a game day benefit, or a Day 10 benefit.

But keep in mind, today, since there was no strike on the line, you're also racing for two round-trip airfare tickets to fly back to any of your relatives that you have met on the show.

Austen: We've already been talking about flying back to see the relatives we met on the race.

This would just be icing on the cake.

♪ Dan: Finishing in third place today, but without a strike, 33 minutes over their allotted time...

Team Green.

You finished in third.

Paris: We felt like we did fairly well today, so to hear that we actually came in last place was kind of disappointing.

Dan: And so Team Green, you move forward into day six still without a strike.

Team Red and Team Black, both of you have a strike.

Today, you don't have to worry about another one.

But one of you is about to receive some valuable airline tickets, as well as the choice of that game day benefit or Day 10 benefit.

Finishing 17 minutes over their allotted time, in second place...

Team Black.

Team Red, you killed it today.

Every single process, every single step, you got out of your city amazingly quick, you navigated perfectly, in fact, I have to ask you, you guys had a little secret weapon of persuasion getting to your relative's house.

Do you want to share that?

Or do you want to keep it to yourself?

I love y'all but no.

[laughing] It was a plan that came together, I was hoping it would work good, and it worked great.

[whispering] Taxi cab, it was a taxi cab.

Shh.

Don't tell them.

Dan: Team Red, congratulations.

Not only do you receive the two round-trip airfare tickets but now you have a very important choice to make.

Do you choose the game day benefit, which is up to 12 minutes off of your time tomorrow.

Or, you could choose a Day 10 benefit, which will only benefit you if you make it all the way to Day 10.

What is your choice?

Austen: I tell dad that I think we should choose the game day benefit instead of the Day 10 benefit, because we've already got one strike, we've kind of been underdogs, and I want to make sure that we can get to Day 10.

Make the call.

Okay.

We're gonna do the game day benefit.

Dan: The game day benefit.

You will receive up to 12 minutes off of your time tomorrow.

Tomorrow night, all of you will find out how many minutes they were able to shave off their time.

Tomorrow is another great day, another relative, another key to lost family.

Get some sleep, and good luck tomorrow.

Goodnight, everybody.

Austen: We love you guys, I promise we love you.

Jerica: Congratulations, Team Red!

Austen: Bye.

[screaming] We won!

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Austen: It took five days, but we finally got our lives together.

Hopefully we keep them together.

Um, I don't know that we're bummed about today.

I feel like we did a really good job, and we did come in the closest to our allotted time that we've been coming to so far, so.

Either way we wouldn't have gotten a strike, so.

Yeah.

It's a little concerning to think about Team Red having up to 12 minutes off their clock.

Um, so that just means we're gonna have to be on our A-game.

Ria: It's okay, you guys are still good.

Preshious: Yeah, we are.

We're still the only team with Day 10 benefits.

Ria: And no strikes.

Preshious: No strikes.

And no strikes.

That-- that's huge.

Dan: The results for Day 5 are official-- only four minutes over their allotted time, Team Red snags first place, and some valuable plane tickets.

Plane tickets!

You get a car!

You get a car!

You get a plane ticket!

Here's the dice.

Roll to see how much time you get off your clock.

Okay, you gotta roll it.

All right, so you roll.

Austen: He tells us that we're supposed to roll the dice in order to determine how many minutes we get to take off of our time.

And we decide that maybe uncle D needs to put some magical family juju on the dice and roll it for us.

Minus eight.

It wasn't 12.

It wasn't 12.

Hey, that's all right, we'll take it.

It ain't bad, uncle D. It ain't bad.

Dan: Team Black, Joe and Jerica were second-- 17 minutes over their allotted time.

Honestly, I was just so happy to see red team receive a win.

It's so exciting to see them have a victory like that, and I think it's just what they needed.

Dan: And taking third place-- but not receiving a strike-- Team Green came in 33 minutes over their allotted time.

♪ Wow.

What an interesting day, from crazy road driving, to actually rocking the challenge today, so that was fun.

Hello.

It's us, it's us.

Our first day win.

We won!

We won tonight.

So exciting.

It was an incredible day.

But once again, it's that time to say, "Goodnight."

Goodnight, guys.

We're gonna get some sleep because we're gonna need it tomorrow on Day 6 of Relative Race.

Was that a Dan impersonation?

I'm not gonna answer that question.

[laughing] All right, goodnight!

Bye.