♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race.

A high-flying challenge led to a new team mascot.

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

[laughs] Dan: Rachelle met her sister.

Rachelle: I always thought I was the only child and I would love to have a sister.

Dan: And finally learned her father's identity.

Rachelle: My sister answered a question I've had my entire life.

Tiffani: [surprised gasp] Dan: Tiffani discovered she has a brother.

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

It's incredible.

Dan: Layton learned that her mom has a twin sister, Sabrina.

Layton: It was really shocking to find out that my biological mom was a twin.

Dan: Angela met a cousin on her father's side of the family.

At the end of the night, Team Black's decision to not hand out a penalty, ended with Team Green receiving their second strike of the race.

♪ 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: It's Day 5 of Relative Race, and all four teams are spread hundreds of miles apart.

Team Black, Layton and Kyle, begin their day in Amarillo, Texas, with one strike.

Also with one strike is Team Blue, Rachelle and Karim in Norcross, Georgia.

While on the other side of the country is Team Red, Tiffani and Jose, in Folsom, California.

They have yet to receive a strike.

And starting out in Richmond, Virginia, is Team Green, Angela and Kelly.

They have two strikes.

♪ Dan: This morning, Angela is getting some words of wisdom from her cousin, Kim.

Angela: This morning, Kim and I went for a walk and she just tried to cheer me up a little.

- She's a good cheerleader.

- And give me a little pep talk and-- everybody wants to see us do well.

- In life, we meet people that are good people, they're meant to be there, and people that are meant to teach us a lesson or show us what could've been and it might not have been that great or it might have been wonderful.

But, I feel like, if you keep moving forward and you push hard, just know that there are people out that care and do love you, and are gonna grow to love you.

You're a wonderful person, you are, you're an amazing person.

- The connection that I had with Kim from my dad's side of the family was something that I've been looking for my whole life, and last night I learned that my grandmother had passed away, so, that connection was something that I really needed.

- It's been a bit emotional.

Aaron told me I was gonna cry, and he's right.

'Cause I was so happy to know that you were here and you existed, and I am sad to see you go.

- I'm sad to go too.

I am.

Let's hug.

It's been great.

♪ Dan: In Folsom, California, Tiffani wakes up to a tender morning with her cousin, Tamela.

Tiffani: Thank you so much for letting us stay with you, it's-- and sharing all that information's been so, so nice.

- Aw, I'm really happy that you came, and so glad to meet you, and like I said this morning I just feel so comfortable with you and, um, being around you and your husband has been wonderful.

- Yeah.

- So um, when I was in my twenties, um, I left my daughter's father and um, had a really hard time and a broken heart, and my stepmother came to me and she had this beautiful silver necklace and she said, um, "Wear this heart until yours is back together."

- Aww, that's so cool.

Tamela: So, I thought, "What could I do for you that's special?"

So this isn't the one that my stepmother gave me, but this is one that I want you to have.

I've worn it, and-- Tiffani: Aww, thank you.

Tamela: Want you to wear it, and, and take it on your journey so that you have your heart and you know you're loved.

♪ Tiffani: Tamela gives me this beautiful gift to remind me, that I am loved on this journey.

I got a little emotional because, just the meaning of it, and the fact that I'm on this journey, not alone, but I'm on this journey with my family as well.

And so that just makes it that much more special.

♪ Rachelle: So we wake up this morning with my wonderful sister, Kenisha, and she actually has some photos to share with me of our biological father.

Wow.

Kenisha: That picture y'all look just alike to me.

- Really?

And that smile.

It's so crazy, it's the nose and the smile, and the eyes, we both got the eyes.

- That's what I said, when I look at you, I'm looking at Daddy.

- That's crazy.

- That is crazy.

- He's so handsome.

- Yeah, he's tall.

[laughing] Rachelle: It feels very special that my sister wanted to take time out and then show me these photos of our father, um, it made me feel very welcomed into our family as well, because, you know, she didn't have to show me these photos, but she wanted to and I really appreciated it.

Thank you, Kenisha.

- No problem.

♪ Layton: This morning I-- after I woke up, I was talking to my cousin, Jill and, before I left she pulled me aside so that she could give me a gift.

- I do have something, it is kind of like a wedding gift for you guys, but, here you go.

- This is so pretty.

Jill: [chuckles] It's just like a little magnet frame.

- So we can put our picture in it?

- You can put your picture in there, yeah, for your wedding.

Layton: "And together they built a life they loved."

Well yeah, we did.

Not yet but, we're starting.

- You are.

- I love it.

Every gift that we've received from our relatives thus far has been really sweet.

It's not something that Kyle or I expected, and so it means a lot and it means that they were thinking about us before they met us.

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

José: "Team Red will be traveling to Riverbank, California."

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Athens, Georgia."

- "Team Black will be traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico."

Kelly: "And Team Green will be traveling to Fayetteville, North Carolina."

- "Today's first-place prize is one minute of GPS."

- "You may not write down the directions, or take a photo."

- "Your clock starts now."

- Well we gotta go, thank you so much.

Jose: Yesterday we took first place, and our prize was to penalize one of the other teams on their city selfie.

I kinda want to give that to Team Blue or Team Black, because I feel like they're our biggest challenge.

Tiffani: I think we pay it forward today, and don't give it out, just like Team Black did yesterday.

Layton: What's our plan?

- 'Kay, so I got couple plans heading into New Mexico, we just need to get over.

So Washington, we need to go one more major street over, and there's a junction right there that'll take us right on the 40, and take us right to New Mexico.

Team Red has a penalty to get out today.

Layton: And we're nervous about it, but we're hoping that they follow our lead in the kindness department and they don't give it out to anybody, or at least not to us since we spared them.

Kyle: Yes.

♪ Rachelle: The goal today, is to come in first.

Karim: Definitely, get into Athens, and find that city selfie.

- Buckle up, buckle up, buckle up.

♪ - I don't see an In-N-Out.

- 'Kay, so we're gonna look for...

Here, I gotta find out where Riverbank is, on the map so I can know which way to go, west or east.

- Let's get out onto the 50 first, help me get onto the 50 first.

- But we need to go west or east, we don't know where we're going.

♪ - Wait, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

- Yeah.

Jose: West, west is back to the 5, east is more east of here, I don't know where it's at, babe.

- I bet it's south.

- I don't know, I don't wanna-- I can't guarantee that.

I gotta look at-- Tiffani: Okay, okay, okay go.

Jose: We have no idea where this city is, so it's gonna be an interesting morning.

Dan: Unsure of where they are headed, exactly, is Team Red, Jose and Tiffani, as they make their way from Folsom to Riverbank, California, with an allotted time of 1 hour and 52 minutes.

- Was it North Carolina or South Carolina?

- North.

- North Carolina, okay, North Carolina, all right.

Dan: Also a little unsure of where they are headed, is Team Green, Angela and Kelly.

They're racing from Richmond, Virginia to Fayetteville, North Carolina, not South Carolina.

Their allotted time of the day is 3 hours and 3 minutes.

[groovy music] Rachelle: Green light!

♪ - Red light!

[record scratch] Green light!

♪ Red light!

[record scratch] [laughs] Green light!

♪ Red light!

[record scratch] Ooo, okay!

Ooo, you still frozen.

[laughs] Wooow.

♪ Dan: Getting their traffic light groove on this morning is Team Blue.

Today, Karim and Rachelle are continuing their race in the state of Georgia.

They'll travel from Norcross to Athens.

They have the shortest allotted time of the day at only 1 hour and 18 minutes.

[slow, impatient music] Kyle: Chicken!

Magic chicken, magic chicken, which way are we going?

Shake him hard, make him blow, make him understand where we wanna go.

[exasperated squawk] - That was exciting.

That was excitement.

- That was a, "Yeah!"

Right way to-- where are we going?

- New Mexico!

[chicken squawks simultaneously] - Woo!

- He agrees.

- He agrees!

♪ Dan: Clucking their way to a new destination [laughing] is Team Black.

Today, Layton and Kyle will be racing from Amarillo, Texas to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

They have the longest allotted time of the day at 4 hours and 8 minutes.

[rubber chicken squawk] ♪ [text notification] - We got a text.

- We got a text... from Dan!

So, we pay it forward, cool.

Our good deed for the day.

- Our good deed for the week.

Jose: And if we don't-- - Then we're done.

♪ [text notification] Rachelle: Oh, wow.

Team Red said, - From Team Red.

- What?!

- Yeah, so no penalty.

- You know, that's kinda the last thing I thought I'd see today.

- That's awesome.

- That's really nice.

I've never, I never expected that from everybody.

- Look what we started.

- Team Red took a page out of our kindness book.

- We will not penalize you guys for today.

♪ - Six miles until Fayetteville.

- If we don't find-- - Slow down, slow down, slow down.

Slow down.

Nope, [indistinct].

I wanna see that sign.

- If we don't find something right here that says, "Riverbank," I'm going back to that sign.

[slow, impatient music] - You broke your chicken!

[laughs] [squawking] - Ha hah!

- [discouraged] Where is a sign?

- "Welcome to Riverbank."

Right here.

- We gotta park somewhere.

No, no, no, [indistinct] - We'll park right here, we'll park right here.

[long, sustained cluck] [Kyle laughing] ♪ [Kyle continues laughing] - Police, right here!

- Oh!

We're at the Police Station!

- Right here, right here, right here.

We got it, we got it.

It's right here.

- Riverbank, right here, right here.

I'm pulling into here.

- Yes, right there.

Perfect.

[Kyle laughs] Kyle and Layton: "Santa Fe Beautiful."

Layton: Pull off.

♪ [text notification] - [laughs] - Let's go!

Let's go, let's go!

♪ - You know, yesterday what worked for us was communication and teamwork and support.

So, I feel like, as long as we do that, we'll do great.

- There it is, I see it.

- Right here, right here.

- Relative Race.

- "Welcome to Puzzle Pulling."

Dan: In this challenge, one person must pull their partner in a wagon while wearing a blindfold to retrieve three hanging bags of puzzle pieces.

Without using the words "left" or "right," they will follow their partner's directions to arrive at a spinning puzzle post.

Once they place the puzzle pieces together and give it a successful spin, they will switch places before sprinting back to the starting line.

Both: Let's go!

♪ Tiffani: Got it, got it.

I'm gonna jump in the cart.

- Okay.

Okay, go.

Angela: Put this on me.

Kelly: Yeah.

Angela: Um, hold on.

How does this go?

Karim: I'm thinking blindfold, I'm actually putting a lot of my life into her hands.

- [surprised] Oof.

- Where am I going?

- Uh, not dominant.

Dominant, dominant, dominant!

- To understand which way we were going, we decided real fast, just because I'm left-handed, to go "dominant" and "non-dominant."

I'm dominant left-handed, so when she said, "dominant," that meant go left and when she said, "non," that meant go right.

Layton: Okay, curve not.

Kyle: Curve not.

- Just a little bit.

Go slow.

Kyle: Pretty simple directions.

I mean, when you get a fiancée that's as smart as Layton, she knows how to, how to twist things and make it work.

Rachelle: To the window, to the window.

Uh huh, keep going.

To the wall, to the wall.

There we go.

- Straight, straight, straight, straight!

Just keep going straight.

- Don't say those words, don't say those words, don't say those words.

- Straight, straight, straight.

- Sine couldn't say, "left," or, "right," we just went with, "east," or, "west."

Tiffani: Stop!

West, west, west!

Stop!

Stop!

Kelly: You're facing this way.

Angela: Yes.

Kelly: I'm going to point your arm in the direction that you need to go.

- Okay, okay.

Okay.

So, tell me where to go.

This way.

Okay.

- Go slow, go slow.

Stop.

Angela: Okay, what, what, what?

- Okay.

Jose: You ready?

- Turn, turn, turn, turn.

- Okay.

To the wall.

To the wall.

- Keep going.

Layton: Stop.

Curve dominant.

'Kay, stop.

Rachelle: Stop.

- 'Kay, turn.

Jose: Go?

Go?

- West, west!

Go, go, go, go!

Kelly: Give me this hand.

Okay, it's right in front of you.

- More to the window.

More to the window.

Layton: Okay, careful.

And slowly... Kelly: Okay, I got it.

[overlapping commands] Layton: Go!

And, good!

Rachelle: Wall, go to the wall.

Tiffani: Stop, stop, stop!

Okay, here, open it up.

Layton: Let's get these out.

♪ - Okay, I have some pieces right here.

Karim: A'ight, try to put 'em on.

- All right.

Tiffani: You untie those, I'll start putting these together.

The second part of this challenge is we have to put together a puzzle wheel.

We had a couple struggles with uh, some of the pieces going in correctly.

We thought they were one way and then we realized, oh, we gotta reverse 'em and turn them around.

Jose: --we can reverse 'em and turn 'em.

Kyle: Got it.

♪ Kelly: We finally get our third bag and it takes us to the second part of our challenge, which is something that we can actually do!

Yay!

♪ Kelly: We dump the pieces from the three bags and the first piece I pick up I put right in the right spot.

Layton: The edges of the puzzle pieces were different, but the circle, main head section of the puzzle pieces were all almost identical, except for one little curve here and there, which made them not slide into the puzzle pieces.

So, you almost had to fit into every single puzzle piece to see really where it went.

Yep, that one does go there.

Kyle: Got it.

Tiffani: Babe, just grab, just grab pieces.

Grab pieces.

Jose: No, I'm gonna move it for you.

Karim: So, I realize that some of the pieces need to go forward and some need to come from the back and once that happens, it's easy sailin'.

Kyle: Got it.

Layton: Right there.

It just didn't fit very well.

Jose: We gotta go.

Tiffani: Hold on, wait, wait, wait!

[puzzles pieces clicking] Tiffani: Okay.

[ding, ding, ding] Get in, get in, get in!

Rachelle: There we go.

All right.

Kelly: We gotta spin it.

Spin it.

[ding, ding, ding].

Kyle: Ready?

Spin it.

[ding, ding, ding] Done?

Grab it, grab it, grab it!

Jose: Go, baby, go!

Go, go!

Karim: C'mon, c'mon!

You got it!

You got it!

Kyle: Go!

Keep going, keep going!

Go, go, go, go!

Jose: Go, baby!

Go, go, go!

You got it, mama.

Tiffani: No more tacos for you!

Jose: Go, go, go!

Kyle: Your relative lives at 343 East Pross Ave. Unit A.

Both: 122 Myrtle Street.

- Okay, let's go.

- Let's go!

[music ends] Dan: Day 5 rolls on as all of our teams maneuver to new cities and streets to find their relatives.

Karim: Hey, excuse me.

I'm looking for 475.

Is that that way?

That way?

Karim: And keep-- - Thank you, sir.

- Thank you!

- Have a blessed day.

Jose: Go, go, go, go!

Tiffani: We see these ladies getting into their car at a gas station, so we stop and ask for directions and they tell us it's literally down the street just a couple blocks.

Okay, thank you, thank you!

- Back on Pine-- who is this?

A mailman.

Angela: Hi!

Do you know where Myrtle Street is?

Kyle: We need to be going left 'cause that's west, so west-- - That's east.

East Palace Avenue is over there.

- Oh, it's over there?

Okay.

- We are five days into navigating Relative Race and Kyle still cannot determine his east from west.

So if it were not for me, we would probably be still going the opposite direction.

♪ Woman: [faintly] This way!

- This way?

Woman: Yeah, this way.

- Oh!

Can you, can you take us?

Woman: Yeah, yeah.

- Are you sure you can take us?

314 North 3rd Avenue.

- 314 North 3rd Avenue.

As we're looking for our relative's street, the same ladies from the gas station pull up right next to us and then tell us to follow them.

Whaaat?!

Jose: Black Diamond Services, thank you.

Tiffani: Yeah.

- Those ladies took us right to the street.

We take a right and all we have to do is find the right house number.

- It's 400s.

Three right here.

Jose: Thir-- Okay.

356, so it's gonna be on my side.

♪ Kyle: I got Vargas.

Yep, Vargas right there.

Layton: Okay, keep going straight.

- Got it.

There's-- Layton: East Alameda, turn right.

- Turn right on East Alameda, got it.

Layton: There should be a complex because it's Unit A. Oh, no it is those.

It's the little casitas.

- 475.

[music crescendos] [calm music playing] - What are you feeling?

Like, butterflies...?

Layton: It's the fact that if it is Bryon or Shari, there's a chance that I could be meeting my other three siblings.

I just wanna connect with them the same way that I did with Jill and Kelsey and her kids.

- Yeah?

- I don't know.

- Was that fun?

- It was awesome.

- Yeah.

♪ So we exited the car and all I remember is looking back at Kyle because I felt so nervous for some reason and I didn't wanna quite see my relative that I was meeting yet.

♪ - Oh, look at you.

- Hi!

- Woman 2: Hi!

Kyle: How's it going?

- Good!

Kyle: Look at that smile!

Layton: It's like, I wanna meet you, but what's your name first.

- What's my name?

Layton: Yes.

- My name's Sabrina.

- [holding in excitement] You're my aunt.

- I, I am!

[tender music] - Hi!

♪ - [laughs] ♪ - I wanna see your face.

Layton: Hi!

Sabrina: All I felt from Layton was warmth and love and acceptance.

And, not only closure, but also a beginning, an opening to a new family, to a new relationship that could be possible.

♪ Sabrina: What do you, what do you know about us?

Anything?

- Almost nothing.

I met Jill.

She said she hung out with you guys until you were about 18.

- My sister and I, we lost touch and I'll tell you more about it in a little bit, but when we were 17, our adoptive father threw us out of the house.

And I took care of my sister for about six months until she could get a job.

And at that point, we basically had to go our own ways 'cause, I mean, you're 18 years old, you're working minimum wage, what can you do?

- Right.

Sabrina: And I didn't see her again for about a year and she walked in six months pregnant and I was like, what can I do?

How can I help you?

And the next thing I heard was six months later that she had given you up.

Layton: I was like, that's okay, you guys were so young.

- But, if I had helped her, if I had done whatever I could, then maybe you would've been with us.

[tender music] [sniffling] And I carried that guilt around for... - 23 years.

Sabrina: 23 years.

And being able to meet you is just...

I never thought it would happen.

I'm so... ♪ I never thought it could happen.

I never thought I deserved to meet you.

And to see the beautiful woman you've grown into... ♪ Sabrina: [breathes heavily] Just, God works in mysterious ways.

- Yes, He does.

Sabrina: I've got pictures, I've got stories, I've got everything.

♪ [anticipatory music] [door squeaking] - Hello.

Woman 3: Hi.

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

- I'm Cynthia.

Rachelle: Hi.

And who's relative are you?

- Rachelle, I'm related to Karim.

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

- It's wonderful to meet you.

[Cynthia giggles] [tender music] ♪ - It's good to see you.

- It's good seeing you.

Cynthia: I am Cynthia Olden.

I am Karim's cousin on his father's side.

How much do you know about us?

Do you know anything about us at all?

Karim: I'm not for su--, actually, I don't.

I don't know anything, I don't believe, at all.

So, when my cousin tells me that we're related, I am completely surprised because I literally thought that I knew the majority of my family.

- This is my son, um, Shannon.

- Nice to meet you.

- Karim.

- And this is his wife, Shanika.

Shanika and Karim: Nice to meet you.

Cynthia: I feel in my life that everything happens for a reason.

It opens up opportunities that we have something to share and the interest is our families.

So, if we can bring our families closer together, that means there's gonna be more love and understanding, where we'll be able to help one another out more.

We've come together for a reason.

Karim: Ab-absolutely.

Absolutely.

- It is just great.

It is just good to see you.

Karim: Absolutely, absolutely.

And I definitely will tell you anything that I know.

- Stepping back and getting to watch my cousin, Karim, interact with his cousin was just a beautiful moment I hadn't got to experience yet, and so it was really touching to see that.

- Um, it's, it's been a joy talking with you, let's go on inside and talk a little bit more about our families-- - Absolutely, let's do it.

- -- so we can get reconnected.

[music ends] ♪ - C'mon, people.

[slapping leg impatiently] - Let's go.

Holy!

- Go!

Oh no.

Go!

Go.

Go.

Go.

Go.

Tiffani: What is our address?

314 North?

- 314 North 3rd Avenue.

Angela: Myrtle!

- What number?

Angela: 122!

- 1st Avenue!

1st Avenue!

- All right.

- We're here!

We made it!

We made it!

We're here!

- 318!

318!

318!

Stop, stop, stop!

314, right here, right here.

314.

314, 314.

Angela: 122!

We got it!

[soft music] [birds chirping] [car doors closing] Man 1: Hi!

Angela: Hi!

I'm Angie.

- I'm Kelly.

Angela: This is Kelly.

- I'm Bart.

- Uh, whose relative are you?

- I'm your relative.

- How are we related?

Bart: I am your uncle.

I am your dad's brother.

- It's so nice to meet you.

Bart: It's nice to meet you.

Can I give you a hug?

I'll give you a hug too.

Yeah.

Kelly: Oh, thank you.

- Have you known about me for a long time?

Bart: Um, I knew, I knew-- I remember you when you were born.

Angela: Okay.

- I was about 7 years old.

Um, and it was a lot of questions with my mom and dad of what happened because they put you up for adoption back then.

I remember your mom living with us and stuff like that and asked-- but after she had you, I remember her, them coming home like a day or so later and I was all confused.

And, I asked my mom, like where's she at?

And that's when my mom and dad sat me down with, with, with my brother and explained what happened and why they did it.

I was seven, I didn't-- it didn't make sense to me then, but I mean, it all makes sense now and I'm just so happy to glad, and to get to meet you now, it's exciting.

- I'm so happy that I got to meet my Uncle Bart today.

He grew up really close with my dad, so I'm sure he's gonna have a lot of answers for me and I can't wait to just sit down and talk to him about it.

♪ Tiffani: I don't know what it's like for the other teams, but when I pull up to a new relative's house, I get this wave of emotion and I'm not an emotional person, so it's just, it's really hard to describe.

♪ [car doors closing] [door closing softly] [gate rattling] - Thanks.

Hi!

Whose relative are you?

- I'm yours!

Tiffani: How are we related?

- I'm Christopher Stoner.

- [gasps] Christopher: I'm your brother.

Jose: [softly] Wow.

Christopher: And not only did I know about you, I have searched for you.

I have known about you my whole life.

[Tiffani wailing with joy] Tiffani: 43 years-- Christopher: What took so long?

♪ - I have a million questions.

Christopher: I have answers.

- Okay, so how old are you?

- 41.

- So, you're my younger brother?

- Yep.

- Okay.

Oh my goodness.

- We're like a year and a half, I think?

Are you '78?

November '78?

- Yes.

'78, '78.

Um, so did you grow up with parents?

- I did.

- Okay.

- Our parents.

Um, they split when I was two.

- Okay.

- Um, they, they were kids in California when they got together and so they were kinda part of a tribe basically.

Tiffani: Sure.

- Um, and then when I was six, we moved up to Alaska and I grew up in Alaska.

- So, did you grow up with Mom or Dad?

Christopher: Uhh, Mom and stepdad went up there.

Tiffani: Okay.

- Um, and then we, my dad and I went up there, our dad.

Tiffani: Yeah.

Both: It's weird.

- It's weird to say that.

And then in 2002, my wife and I, uh, moved back down to this part of the country.

- So, um, oh my goodness.

Okay.

Wow.

Christopher: Where do you start?

Do you got a list?

Tiffani: Yeah, yeah I do.

Um, so were you with Mom when she died?

- I was.

Tiffani: You were?

Aw, I'm sorry.

- Yeah, I was there.

- That was probably really tough.

How, okay, how old was she?

- Uh, 41.

Tiffani: She was 41, she was young.

Christopher: Yeah, yeah.

Tiffani: Wow.

- After I moved out of Alaska, um, I started actively searching and it took a long time to pry any information out of either Mom or Dad because it was a sore subject and it was a subject of a lot of grief for the both of them.

- The fact that you have been searching for me, that somebody's been looking for me, that, that just blows my mind.

I can't believe it.

Christopher: Well, someone has.

I'm someone.

[emotional music] Tiffani: I'm so glad that you have.

I'm so glad that we found each other.

- Me too.

- [emotional sigh] Wow.

Christopher: And it's creeping me out looking at your eyes.

- I know!

The same thing!

I'm just like, there's my eyes!

Christopher: Yeah.

- 'Cause nobody in my family has similar-- - I'm sure they don't.

- No, no.

- Well, let's go inside, we can talk more.

- Yeah.

♪ Bart: I'm so excited you're here.

There's so much I wanna share with you.

I mean, I'm so excited for this.

I'm gonna try to answer everything I can.

Angela: I sit down with my Uncle Bart, and I finally get one of the main questions that I have about my biological father answered.

Well, I mean, I guess my first question is is my father still alive?

- He is.

- He is.

Bart: Yes.

His, his name is Jim.

- If you have any photos-- - I do.

- I'd like to see pictures.

- These are all Jimmy when he was in middle school and elementary school.

This is your dad.

Looking at the pictures of Jimmy, you know, you've got his, you've got his face, lower jaw, jawline, and his nose.

Angela: My Uncle Bart showed me a lot of photos of my father and we definitely look alike, um, I look, I look a lot like him, my son looks a lot like him, so it's, it was really cool to see that.

Do you still see him a lot, or...?

- Everything was great, him and I talked every week all the way up till eight years ago, and about a month or so after that he just fell off the grid.

[somber music begins] He changed his number, he left his job, he sold his house, I, I don't understand why.

I can't answer that.

I wish, really wish something would change that you could meet him 'cause I wanna know where he's at too-- - So, I won't be meeting him?

Christopher: No, you will not be meeting him.

- Okay.

Christopher: I mean, I truly apologize.

I'm more-- I guess I'm probably as heartbroken probably as you are, but it's just, we can't find him.

I wanted to share that information with her because I feel that I had the closest relationship with him growing up and I think I wanna find him as much as she does.

I feel that-- I'm glad it came from me and not somebody that didn't really know him.

- That's a little disappointing.

Um, I didn't think I was gonna meet anyone on this side, um, just from the last few days.

Last night was the first one that we met on, on your side.

Bart: Mm-hm.

So then, that kinda made me think like, oh, okay, like, yeah, that will happen.

But you know, it's definitely, you know, it's sad.

It's like, it's, it's, it's um, you know, it's, it's really sad what happened.

Finding out that my father is still alive, but that he's not going to be a part of this journey, it's uh, just really disappointing, um, it's really heartbreaking.

I'm hoping that he changes his mind and that some day he'll want to come and rejoin the family and that someday he'll wanna meet me.

- I wanna find him, I really do, and I feel he, he needs to meet ya, he does.

I will be there for her to be that father role that she needs, somebody she can call, just like my other nieces and nephews, they call me, call Uncle Bart.

♪ Cynthia: Y'all come on in!

Let's continue talkin' about our families.

Karim: The journey was just a little different because we've been answering lots of questions for, for Chelles and today I was able to be a piece in a page in Cynthia's book.

- Do you know any of the Rainers?

- I don't believe so.

Cynthia: Okay, because my grandmother was um, married to a Rainer.

- Okay.

Cynthia: Because she was a Fryer and that's how you really connected to me.

- Yes, yes, my grandmother is Sally Mae Fryer.

- All right.

- Yes.

- This is a picture of my grandmother, which was taken, I'm thinking, maybe in the '60s.

Her name was Cora.

Karim: So, I, I guess I need a little bit more clarification on where exactly we link at.

- My grandmother is the sister of David Fryer, which is your great-grandfather.

- Yes.

It's amazing that we can walk around everyday and pretty much not know how close we are to some of our family members.

And, I've been through Fayetteville and I've lived in Fayetteville and I never even known that she-- I never knew she existed and I never knew that we were cousins.

I'm more than happy to be the link to bring y'all - [quietly] Oh my.

- into the family, you know, to reconnect us because you know like how our family is and family is big on the Bell side and the Fryer side, so it's definitely gonna be beautiful.

My family is right around the corner from you and I definitely will introduce y'all.

- Great.

Can't wait.

- No, you can hold me to it.

- I am grateful for today because I got to meet someone that I didn't know.

We have a family bond, something that I'll cherish the rest of my life and I do believe that this is something, this is the beginning of something great.

I love you.

- I love you, too.

[touching music fades] ♪ Layton: After meeting Sabrina, I was able to learn more about her childhood and she shared more photos of her growing up and the experiences that she and my biological mom had together.

- My sister and I, we uh, we were born, um, November 7, 1978.

- Okay.

- To our mother, Angela.

We were very young-- Layton: Very identical.

Sabrina: Very identical.

Layton: It was really fun to see the similarities of me as a child and them as a child.

Just since they are identical twins, even Shari and I looked very similar.

Obviously, she's my biological mother, but it was very cool to see all the photos that Sabrina had brought.

- So, when we were about three years old, we had a fire in our trailer and because of certain circumstances and stuff that was in that fire, we were taken out of our mom's custody and put into foster care.

Layton: Okay.

Sabrina: And we spent about two and a half years of foster care before we were placed-- - And they did adopt you together?

Sabrina: They did end up adopting us.

When we were 17, we graduated high school at 17, and um, when we got-- we were picked up at the high school and he drove us straight to a Motel 6 and said, "We don't have room for you anymore, I've paid for two nights," and turned, drove away.

- I don't even know how to process that and I'm sure you didn't at the time either.

I-- really my only emotion was, was sadness.

I mean, the upbringing that my, my aunt and my biological mom had from their childhood onward once they were taken out of their, their family was just heartbreaking.

- I actually lost touch with her for about a year actually, until she showed up at my work one day, 6 months pregnant.

[chuckles] I turn around and there's my sister with a big 'ol belly and there's Bryon standing next to her and both of 'em still looked like children and they're like, well, we need help.

And I'm like, what, what do you want me to do?

What can I do?

Again, another six months go by and then Shari shows up and she's like, well, we had her, Layton Rose, and we gave her up.

And I was like, okay, are you okay?

And she's like, I don't know.

She's like, Bryon left.

I'm like, what do you mean he left?

She's like, he left.

He's join the Marines, he's gone.

I don't know what I could've done, but I would've tried to have done something.

When my sister came to me and told me that she was pregnant, I felt powerless.

I, I felt like my hands were tied.

I wanted to do something, but I couldn't and that grew when I found out that they had given her up for adoption.

Um, I mean, obviously I was happy on one side because I knew that my sister and Bryon were not in a place to be able to take care of her and I knew I couldn't help, but I was also scared because of my history and what I knew of being in an adoptive family and the way it could go.

And, it just, it was always there in the back of my mind.

[sniffles] There's so many things that I wish could've gone differently, but life moves forward, life goes forward, [sniffles] and you can only hope for the best [sniffles] and give the best.

Layton: After being able to fill in a lot of the blanks of questions that I had after talking to my cousin, Jill, and then now my aunt, Sabrina, it pieced together a lot of the uncertainties and just situations of why I was given up to adoption and it made sense before, but it's a much more complete feeling of, I understand.

- I feel like I'm complete now.

- [laughs] - I do.

I do.

Pieces of me that were missing are falling into place and I know it's because you're here.

- [sniffles] Thank you for meeting me.

[music fades] ♪ Christopher: After meeting Tiffani, I invited her in to give her all the information I could about our mom and dad's history.

- So, how did our mom die?

- Uh, she didn't have the best immune system to begin with, um, and she just kinda chalked it up to, you know, I got thin blood, or whatever it is.

And uh, she wound up getting pneumonia and um, it got bad enough to where her lungs got infected.

She got medivac-ed to a hospital in Anchorage and it was actually so bad she was put into a medically-induced coma for a week, she lasted seven days.

She had quickly developed acute respiratory dysfunction syndrome and was, she was getting fluid into her lungs a lot and it was-- they were fighting that, um, and her liver and her kidneys shut down, or basically her organs just couldn't take the abuse and uh, we were left with no choice but to let her go.

- Oh, that's awful.

Christopher: And so, it was not a fun time to say the least.

I don't wish it on anybody.

- Learning from Chris that my mother died at such a young age was heartbreaking... but, it did make me feel better knowing the real reason, so I'm not left wondering.

Tell me about Dad.

- Uh, funniest guy I ever met, um, and shy at the same time.

- I can relate to that.

Chris: Our eyes.

[both laugh] Would you like to see a picture of him?

- Yes.

Yes.

- This is him.

- [laughs] You look just like him.

[chuckles] That is awesome.

- It kind of encap-encaspulates a lot of his personality.

He, he was a, he was a shy guy around people that he didn't know, but around friends and family, I mean, that guy was hilarious, um.

- Yesterday I saw my dad's name for the first time and today, Chris showed me a picture of my dad and the similarities between the two of them are uncanny.

They're twins.

- He was a fiercely loyal dad, um, almost overprotective.

Um, but he, he was a good guy.

Unfortunately, he passed away, too.

- He did?

Chris: He did.

And that's uh, some news I hate to break to ya, but-- - I-- Chris: It's, it's reality.

- I would rather have heard that from you than anybody else.

Chris: That's why I'm here.

- Good.

Coming on this journey, my dad was the one person I wanted to meet and I don't get to do that, but I have the next best thing, I have my brother and I couldn't ask for anything more.

♪ When I started this, I was asked who I wanted to meet the most.

And I never had a relationship with my adoptive father.

So I always kinda yearned for that.

But you make up for that in more ways than you will ever know.

- If I don't yet, I will.

Believe it.

Having to tell your sister that you just met that her father is no longer alive carries with it a bit of a burden, but I'm thankful that I'm the one that has the stories to keep.

I'm the story-keeper of our family.

I'm the one that knows them better than anyone, so I'm thankful that I'm the one that gets to tell her these stories, as hard as they are to hear.

At no point did our mom not want to have anything to do with you.

It was the single hardest thing she ever had to do, and it was something she carried with her all the way to the end.

We talked about it as regularly as I could get her to talk about it, but she couldn't even-- I mean, she couldn't make it through a conversation without breaking down.

- Did, did they tell, did they tell you why-- I'm assuming just 'cause they were young.

- I [indistinct] know exactly why.

Um, and, the worst part of it is is that she desperately wanted a daughter.

- [laughs] - Sorry.

You know.

Uh, she did.

She desperately wanted a daughter.

And she got, she-- I mean, they were young.

I think she was 17.

She got hit with some pretty big pressure from family members, and also, unfortunately, from our father.

Um, he was convinced that it was someone else's.

- Oh.

Chris: And that created some problems.

Um.

And he gave her an ultimatum, unfortunately.

- [sigh of sympathy] Chris: And she loved him enough to where she succumbed to the pressure, and, I mean, she went through periods of depression over that for years.

Almost committed suicide over it, just because she was so heartbroken that she did that.

And she spent years hoping and praying that wherever you ended up was much better than where we were at.

I can tell you that he never stopped regretting that decision that he made, the ultimatum that he gave our mom.

Um, you know, people get to a certain point in their life and they start looking back on their decisions and stuff, and he, he did the same thing.

I can't count how many phone calls I got of apologies for, you know, shortcomings.

- Learning that my parents really regretted the decision for giving me up for adoption, um, was really bittersweet.

To know that it, it really affected my mother a lot, was something I wasn't expecting.

Um, I had grew up with the notion that, that she gave me up for adoption because she didn't want me, and didn't want to have a relationship with me.

And it's the complete opposite.

I do wish that I could have met my birth parents to express to them that I did grow up with a great life.

I had a great life growing up, and, and they were in a position where they couldn't give that to me, and I would just thank them for that.

- I just want to let you know that, um, I'm thankful and grateful for, like experiencing this with you guys, 'cause this is for my wife.

Like, I love seeing her happy.

And I know this means a lot to her, because she's been looking for answers for a long time.

And, just, pulling up, and just knowing that she found you and she's happy, like, that means a lot to us.

To me.

I'm happy for you, babe.

- Thank you.

Yeah.

I am eternally grateful for this.

[stammering] Thank you, thank you, thank you.

♪ ♪ Karim: I'm feeling pretty good about today.

Rachelle: Me too, actually.

Like, today I think was one of our best performances like,-- Karim: All around?

Rachelle: performance days.

Yep, all around.

Karim: All around, yes.

- Going into the call tonight, we aren't nervous.

Today has totally been one of the best days of my life.

No matter what the results, that won't affect how happy I am.

[suspenseful music] [mouse clicks] ♪ Dan: We are halfway through what I hope has been the most amazing journeys of your life so far.

This is Day 5.

And, I wonder how all of our teams are feeling.

Team Green, you have really had challenges throughout the race so far.

How are you feeling right now?

- We did awesome today.

- Oh really?

- I don't know what'll happen, but-- - Yeah, we don't know.

But we had a good day, so... Dan: Team Red.

Yesterday you finished in first place, which gave you the opportunity to penalize one of the other teams.

And yet, you followed in the footsteps of Team Black, and decided not to penalize anybody.

- We-- [frustrated sigh] This was a tough decision, Dan.

- Probably ourself.

- Yeah, this was a tough decision.

As much as I wanted to penalize, no offense, I think right now Blue Team is our biggest threat at this point, it would've been them.

But, yeah, sorry Karim.

We paid it forward, and no one got penalized today.

- Thank you.

Dan: All right, guys.

I love talking about this moment.

The most important moment.

I love talking about who you met on the race.

And Team Blue, this journey is all about Rachelle!

Maybe not.

What happened, Karim?

- So today, we get out the car.

I see this lady with two young a-- young people, and I automatically assume, 'cause I'm on this race for Chelles.

So I automatically assume that it's somebody related to her.

But, lo and behold, I meet and connect with my cousin, Cynthia.

Cynthia: Hi there.

- And also, her son, Shannon, and his wife, Shanika.

Dan: Wow.

Rachelle?

How was it for you to now watch Karim experience a new relative when you know that's what he's been doing for you?

- It was a really special moment to kind of step back and observe and let Karim experience it, because, you know, I've been experiencing this touching moment, you know, these past few days.

So, it was just really nice to be there and support him while he met more family that he didn't know he had.

- Well said.

Angie, this journey's really been about you with your sister-in-law, Kelly, supporting you.

Who did you meet today and what did you learn?

- Tonight, I met my Uncle Bart on my dad's side.

He's great.

But I did learn some information tonight about my biological father.

He's sort of just off the grid and doesn't have any communication with anybody in the family anymore.

Um, so, I-- there, there won't be an opportunity for me to meet him.

And I don't, I don't really know how else to explain it.

He's just, he's sort of gone, and nobody can find him or, or have any communication with him.

- We, we know he's out there, he just, he just don't want to be found, for some odd reason.

I don't know why.

Angela: So I did learn an answer tonight that I won't be meeting him at all.

Dan: Angie, I am sorry for that, and yet, it's also the reality for so many that are searching for family.

Every ending to a story isn't always the way that we hope it will be.

We hope that you'll remind yourself that there is family waiting for you each and every day along this journey.

Tiffani, I can see you're emotional.

And I haven't even asked you yet.

This is an important journey, and today was an important step along that journey.

Tell us, who did you meet?

- I started this hoping to meet my biological parents.

And, we all learned that my mom had already passed, and today I learned that my father has already passed, so I won't be able to get to meet either of them.

However, I learned that they had a son.

And this is my brother, Christopher.

And we look so much alike, if I had facial hair, we would be twins.

As hard as this journey has been to learn that I won't get to meet my birth parents, I have the next best thing.

I have my full-blood brother.

Dan: Thank you so much for sharing that with us.

Kyle and Layton.

You've both met relatives!

But tonight, whose turn was it to be surprised, amazed, and to bond with someone new?

Was it Kyle or Layton?

- It was me.

[laughs] Today, I met my aunt.

This is Sabrina, she's my aunt on my mother's side.

Dan: On your mother's side!

In fact, Sabrina and your biological mother are... - They're twins.

- Yes.

- [surprised gasps] Dan: And they're identical twins.

Layton: So I imagine she looks like this, my biological mother.

- Close.

- Yeah, I was gonna say.

Their baby pictures are identical, she said that they look somewhat different now, but... - Layton, it seems like this is a relative that has really affected you.

- Today was the first time I cried on, on Relative Race.

So, it was, it was a big moment.

- Quite emotional.

Dan: Layton, I'm so happy for you.

As I am for all of you.

Some news isn't what we hope for, and then some meetings are everything we could ever dream of.

And that is the journey on Relative Race.

Well, we're halfway through.

And it's time once again to find out who did incredibly well, and who picked up the strike.

[suspenseful music] Team Green.

You have two strikes.

If you pick up a third tonight, your race for the $50,000 will be over.

Team Black, and Team Blue, you each have one strike.

Team Red, you're unblemished.

How does it all unfold today?

Finishing 16 minutes over their allotted time, finishing in first place and picking up the first-place prize, is Team Blue.

Jose: Good job, guys.

Tiffani: Good job, guys.

Both: Thank you.

Dan: Finishing 2 minutes behind Team Blue, 18 minutes over their allotted time, congratulations to Kyle and Layton.

Kyle: Man, if only Team Red would've just thrown that penalty to Team Blue, we would've probably taken first place.

- Too bad they followed our lead in the kindness department.

- Too bad.

Dan: Team Green, you have two strikes.

You feel today was a better day for you.

Team Red.

You struggled a little bit, but you feel confident.

One of you finished 24 minutes over their allotted time, while the other finished 3 minutes behind them, 27 minutes over their allotted time.

You finished in third place today.

Team Red.

You picked up your first strike on Relative Race.

- Good job, girls.

- Good job.

Dan, we wouldn't have it any other way.

We talked about us not having a strike, and if it meant for us to take Team Green's strike to keep them here, we were so happy to do it.

Both: Thank you.

- Thank you.

- It was a good day in so many ways!

And you're halfway through this journey unlike any other.

Tomorrow, you begin the second half.

Day 6 awaits.

Guys, have a great time out there.

Remember what it's all about.

Of course, you can't forget, there's 50 grand waiting for someone at the end of this journey.

All right, everybody, have a great night!

Can't wait to catch up with you tomorrow.

Okay?

Jose: Bye, guys.

- Bye guys, love y'all.

Karim: Love y'all, cousins.

[overlapping goodbyes] Kyle: You guys are the best!

- We saw that coming, though.

Jose: Yeah, we figured.

- I knew, yeah.

I knew it was coming.

- What happened?

Tiffani: Just once.

Chris: What's wrong with you?

- It's our first, our first strike.

Chris: Yeah, I got that.

Nicely done, nicely done.

- So far, I think we're cruising, we're doing all right.

I'm not, I'm not too worried.

- Next, we're gonna definitely make sure you show us how to get out of here.

Rachelle: Whoo!

- I told you today was a good day.

Cynthia: That was good.

- Today was a really good day.

- I'm so happy for you.

Karim: Thank you, thank you.

Rachelle: Yes, thank you!

- It felt like a first-place day today.

- It really did.

- It, it started off beautiful.

Rachelle: Yep, and it ended beautiful.

Karim: The, the sky was beautiful.

Rachelle: It was.

- One minute of GPS.

We're definitely gonna use that wisely.

- Yes.

Yes, we are.

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