Dan: Previously on Relative Race...

Team Black had a morning meltdown.

- I don't know!

Now I'm messed up.

I don't know, I mean now I'm like, totally disoriented.

- Calm down, I can turn right here.

Do you want me to turn around?

- I don't know!

Dan: The results of the bowling pin challenge ratcheted up the competition.

- YES!

Dan: Team Green's winning streak came to a screeching halt.

- You picked up your first strike on Relative Race.

♪ Jarrell met not one, but two brothers.

Mychel: I couldn't imagine any other time in my lifetime better than this time now.

Dan: JT discovered another brother.

- I wish you could feel my heart.

Dan: And Stephen found his long-lost sister, Jen.

Steve: It's almost like there, there-- we weren't apart, like we don't share the memories, but, I mean, you just know it was home, it's like family.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... - Love you!

- Pedal to the metal!

Dan: ...to win $50,000... Catherine: Go, go!

Dan: ...and to find their family.

[knocking] [theme music] ♪ Dan: It's Day 5 of Relative Race.

All four teams are spanned out all across the nation, with Team Red in Cincinnati, Ohio, Team Blue in Byram, Mississippi, Team Green in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Team Black in Ouray, Colorado.

All of our teams are still adding to their family discoveries.

Dan: And competing to take home the grand prize of $50,000.

♪ In Cincinnati, Jarrell is getting ready to say goodbye to his two younger brothers, Aaron and Michel.

Jarrell: Before we leave, I wanted to get some fun polaroids with my two brothers to take with me on the rest of this journey.

♪ These picture's just the first of many, you know, 'cause once we get our phones back, there's gonna be more pictures and more pictures and more pictures.

[laughs] - Oh, definitely, definitely.

- Oh, yeah, for sure.

It was really genuine.

It seemed like it, we just clicked instantly, the how much we, you know, made each other laugh and stuff, how much we had in common.

It's like they are really the brothers that I've always wanted.

Dan: Back in New Mexico, Stephen starts the morning with his long-lost sister, Jen.

Jen: So we've got some photos for you guys to add to your album.

Steve: Oh, yeah.

Jen: Shots of us.

Steve: Of our first hugs and meetings and... - Yes.

- That is really good.

Jen: I'm gonna need a copy of that one.

That one's good.

Steve: So the pictures that we got today of our first embrace is super special to me.

To have that moment captured, I mean, you can see the love, and the happiness, and just the... in the embrace, you can see everything in it.

- You can see how passionate the hugs are.

I mean, it's just like, you can't get any closer, you know?

[laughs] Steve: Oh!

Susan: Those are awesome.

- Oh, it's just been so amazing since we got here.

Jen: Yes.

- Just to finally be able to get to meet you and talk to you and... - Yeah.

Steve: ...and learn more about Mom.

Like, I was afraid I wasn't gonna be able to get those answers that I wanted to talk to her about, and I feel like that, talkin' to you has really closed up some of those holes.

So, having met my sister and all the Philbrooks, I feel like, in knowing the story about my mom, I feel like that side is kinda complete, like I've gotten my answers, and now I need to know the Pruett side.

Like, I need to know who my father was, and what kinda man he was, if he knew about me.

I got a lotta questions.

♪ Dan: In Mississippi, JT starts his morning alongside his brother, Trevor, the third brother that he's met in four days.

JT: Man, can't tell you how grateful I was to meet you.

Trevor: And I can't tell you how grateful it is to meet you and your wife.

JT: You know, my door is always open, so, whatever you need, if you need anything, need a place to stay, a place to sleep, just hang out, come on.

My door is always open.

Trevor: Thank you.

JT: Spendin' time with my brother, Trevor, has been absolutely amazing.

All the stories I've been hearing, all the stories we've been sharin', it's just... it's crazy how big the world is and how small it is at the same time.

Trevor: One of the things that I'm most grateful for through this entire experience is just having another older brother figure in my life.

I'm a very big, when I need somethin', call the big brothers, and now I've got another name to add to the list.

♪ Dan: Team Black, Pam and Christine, take a morning stroll through the mountains of Colorado with their new cousin, Elise, and her mom, Kirsten.

Pam: Well, it's been a great visit.

We thank you so much for hosting us.

Elise: Oh, our absolute pleasure.

I can't wait to see what else you guys learn about your, you know, mom's side of the family and your dad's side of the family, hopefully.

Christine: Yeah, 'cause we haven't really heard too much about our bio-dad's side.

Elise: Yeah, well hopefully that's coming, but I'm so interested to see what else you learn.

[phone notification] Pam: Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Christine: Oh, we got a text, guys.

- Ooo, it's a text from Dan!

JT: Ohh, boy.

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

- "Team Red will be traveling to Rising Sun, Indiana."

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Gulfport, Mississippi."

- "Team Black will be traveling to Durango, Colorado."

- "And Team Green will be traveling to Rio Rancho, New Mexico."

- "Today's first-place prize..." - "...is a five-minute head start tomorrow."

- "Your time starts now!"

♪ Pam: Okay, we gotta go!

Elise: Oh, oh!

Christine: We gotta go!

Jarrell: All right, man.

Aaron: A'ight, bro.

Jarrell: See y'all.

Aaron: Good luck.

Jarrell: We have one minute, GPS time, and we're gonna use it wisely.

♪ Kaleigh: Day 5 with no strikes, we know that there's a target on our back, and that if there's any penalties to be given out, we're most likely gonna get it, but we're gonna go ahead and just prepare for it so we can push through it and hopefully continue on without any strikes.

- [rapid exhales] [blows kiss] Oh, my gosh!

I don't wanna go!

Susan: I know baby.

Steve: You know, this is only goodbye for now.

It's a see you later.

It's not goodbye, right?

- Mm.

Aw, baby, it's okay.

It's okay.

- All right, bro.

Love you.

Pam: Bye, love y'all!

Go, go, go!

♪ Amauni: State route 50 goes through Norrisburg, right?

We need to get on 50 to get to 56.

We aren't quite sure how to get to this place in Indiana, but we are gonna save that one minute of GPS time for when we're finding the relatives since that's the hard part.

Dan: Strategizing on when to use their first-place prize of one minute of GPS time, Team Red departs their hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, for Rising Sun, Indiana.

They have an allotted time today of one hour and three minutes.

Susan: [sighs] Steve: I think that was west, but how come... how come, uh... how come we didn't get on it?

- I don't know, babe.

That's what I was sayin', are you sure?

- I mean... - [sighs] My gosh.

- Look, baby, I mean-- - Okay, yeah.

Steve: I don't know what you want me to do here.

- Well, I just want you to tell me where to go.

He's the navigator.

I rely on him to tell me which way to go.

Left, right, straight.

I need him to stay focused.

Steve: No, no, no, no, don't go to the right.

Susan: What do I do?

Steve: Go straight!

Look, it crosses the freeway.

How am I supposed to know there's not an on ramp?

- Okay, don't start yellin', it's fine.

- No, no, you're upset with me because, like, I-- - Baby, I'm not upset with you, it's okay.

Steve: I need you to turn around.

- Okay.

I will, right here.

Dan: Tensions are rising as Stephen and Susan are in unfamiliar territory, coming off their first strike of the race.

Today, they are racing from Santa Fe to Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

They have the shortest allotted time of the day at 58 minutes.

♪ JT: So everybody's had first but us.

- Yep.

Everybody else has gotten a strike, too, but us.

We haven't gotten a strike for four days now.

At this point, we're just cruisin' in the middle of the pack.

- Yeah, if we keep this up, we could take it all the way to Day 10.

Dan: Confident in their navigation today, Team Blue is racing from Byram, Mississippi, to Gulfport, Mississippi.

Their allotted time is 2 hours and 55 minutes.

[majestic music] ♪ - The scenery is so beautiful.

- I mean, it's majestic, I don't even know what else to call it, this is-- - We are going through a mountain.

Pam: This is God's country, that's what this is.

This is God's country.

I mean, it is, this is totally majestic.

The sun is perfect on the snow, I mean, you just, you can't recreate this.

You can't.

- No.

Dan: Enjoying the epic views in snowy Colorado, Team Black is headed from Ouray to Durango.

They have an allotted time, including today's challenge, of 1 hour and 54 minutes.

♪ [phone notification] Both: We got a message.

- Wonder who it's from?

Pam: So Team, uh, Blue said, [phone notification] - Aww!

- That's so sweet.

- Nice, positive attitude.

- All the time.

- ♪ I got a new attitude ♪ - They're the best.

You know Team Black and Team Green's like, no!

- Ha!

[clears throat] - Like, guys, why would you want them to be first?

You know what I mean?

They don't have a, they're the only ones without a strike.

- We are tryin' so hard to root you on, Team Red, but decisions like that, it, it makes it hard!

Mm, mm, mm.

So let's root for the unstriked team.

That doesn't make sense to me, I guess.

- Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me.

Just because they rooted for them, or... Steve: I guess, yeah.

- But then I get that, but, it's, no.

We were all rootin' for Red.

- Let them play their game.

- We were all happy.

Yeah, yeah.

- You know what I mean?

If they wanna root for the person who's gonna knock 'em out, that's fine.

Let them do that.

- See, we're not doin' the smack talkin', we're makin' it, we're, we're-- - We're makin' the smack talk.

- We're makin' the smack talk so that way we can just sit back and watch it.

[laughs] - Bam.

[phone beeps] Look at that, did it.

"It's a beautiful day for Team Blue to get their first strike."

Love you guys!"

- [laughing] - Exclamation point.

It makes it better.

- Heh, yeah!

- It's like, punch!

And a Band-Aid.

- It's like sayin', "No offense" after you offend somebody.

It makes it okay.

- Right.

Just kidding, I'm just kidding.

- I agree, though.

They need a strike to even the playing field.

It's a, it's a beautiful day for them to get their first strike.

- Yeah, I bet they would like that.

♪ Steve: I got to hug my sister.

I got to spend, talk to my sister.

♪ Yesterday, my sister Jen answered all the questions surrounding who my mom was, and, uh, that gave me closure.

With my mom, Charlene, being gone, I, I didn't, I didn't think I'd be able to get the answers that I needed, and, I got answers that I needed and more.

The focus now's on my dad and the hope that he's alive.

I know I have a one-in-five chance of him still bein' alive.

It's not very good, but I'm hopeful.

- I'm ve-- anticipating who we're gonna meet, and, and it's very exciting that it's so close.

That means we have that much more time with whoever it is.

Like, this is gonna be the longest time that we've had to, got to spend with-- - A family member.

- --your new family member.

- I'm not sure where this journey goes from here, or who we're gonna meet, but I know we're gonna savor every minute of it.

What do you do after, I just met my sister!

- [laughs] - Dah!

Susan: [laughs] ♪ Kaliegh: [indistinct] Gulfport, right there, right there.

- Look for Rio Rancho.

Anything Rio Rancho.

Pam: I'm already seein' this stuff all right through there, so let's be lookin'.

- Welcome to Rising Sun.

- Yes!

- Come on.

Rio Rancho, where are you?

- Right there!

- Where?

- Oh, pull over!

Pam: Durango Outdoor Exchange, pull in.

Christine: Turning.

Steve: Oh.

[door closing] - All righty?

[phone notification] ♪ Both: Let's go!

- Ah.

Let's go!

♪ Kaleigh: I'm feelin' very, very confident about what we've done today so far.

- It's so windy, so I hope it doesn't have anything to do with, like... - Balls, or... - Throwing somethin'.

- ...throwin' somethin', yeah, yeah.

Amauni: We see it.

- We see it, we see it, we see it, we see it.

Amauni: [chanting] Time for a challenge.

Jarrell: [rhythmically] Dun, dun, dun-dun-dun.

- It's right here.

Right here, right here, right here, right here.

Steve: Oh, right there, right there!

There it is!

Christine: All right, there it is.

Kaleigh: Grab it, grab it, grab it.

Christine: Okay.

Steve: Scoop It and Hoop It.

♪ Dan: Day 5's challenge is Scoop It and Hoop It.

Teams must get three balls from one end of the obstacle course to the other.

The first section requires passing the balls through tubes, with the second section requiring teams to toss the ball through hoops.

Once all three balls are deposited on the other side, the challenge is complete.

♪ Susan: Get it get, come on, come on.

Get a ball, get a ball, get a ball.

Pam: Oh wait, hold it still, hold it still, hold it steady.

JT: Oh, there you go, right there.

Amauni: There we go, there we go.

Pam: Yes!

Go!

♪ Susan: Slow, slow, slow.

Perfect!

Amauni: Ooo, ooo, ooo!

Susan: No!

Got it, easy, easy.

Kaleigh: That first part wasn't too bad.

Now on to part two.

♪ Jarrell: Yep.

Aw.

- Dang it!

- Ready?

Christine: Yeah.

[metallic clunk] - Ugh!

JT: The learning curve on this is steep.

You gotta get right angles, you gotta get the right trajectory, it's just, and it's all off because it's so heavy.

Susan: You got this.

YES!

So we get it in, and we thought, we can do this.

- Yeah!

Susan: Catch it!

Steve: Ugh!

Little further!

- And we drop it.

Pam: Grr!

Christine: It was frustrating, 'cause, you know, I played softball when I was younger, so I figured, I got this, like, I can aim, I can throw.

Definitely can catch, but it's different when you're having to do it without moving your feet.

Amauni: Oh, I did it!

Jarrell: Come on, let's go.

Steve: Ready?

Susan: Yes.

Steve: Yes!

[ka-ching] - Yeah!

[buzzer sounds] Ugh!

Oh man, this is gonna be tough.

["In the Hall of the Mountain King" plays] ♪ [buzzer sounds] [buzzer sounds] Kaleigh: Oh, yes!

Oh, no.

Augh!

Ugh!

Oh!

Jarrell: There it is.

[music intensifies] ♪ [buzzer sounds] Steve: Aw, come on.

♪ [buzzer sounds] - Augh!

Steve: This is frustrating!

Get it through!

Susan: Oh!

Steve: Oh, close.

♪ Jarrell: Mmm.

♪ JT: Ah!

Susan: He-- Kaleigh: I never wanna scoop up anything ever again.

[dance beat swells] - Yes!

Stay there!

So after what seemed like an eternity, we did get a ball through that first tube, and it was a boost of confidence, so I'm like, I got this, I got this.

I can do it.

♪ Jarrell: Yes!

Amauni: Oh my gosh, we finally get one, and now I think we know how this works.

Susan: Get it!

Steve: Yeah, come on!

Susan: We finally have momentum.

We see the finish line.

Steve: We're finally figurin' this out.

Kaleigh: Doin' the second hoop actually was a lot easier because you could get more height onto it, and so we get through that, get the ball in, and now it's time to turn around to go get this third one.

Woo!

JT: Go, go, go.

♪ [multiple ka-chings] ♪ [ka-ching] Pam: Gotta find our address.

"Your relative lives at 4-- 144..." Both: "West 17th Street."

Christine: Come on!

♪ [ka-ching] Kaleigh: Let's go!

Go, go, go, go!

JT: Finally.

She gives the perfect throw, I get the perfect catch; it's in there, we're done.

I don't even wanna look at this challenge ever again.

- "1113 32nd Avenue."

All right.

Let's go, go, go, go, go!

Steve: All right, baby, this is our last one!

Susan: All right.

Steve: Catch it!

Jarrell: Yes!

The last one, the last one!

[ka-ching] Steve: Catch it!

WOO!

Susan: Woo hoo!

High five!

High five!

Woo!

Jarrell: "Your relative lives at 2538 Mare Hill Drive."

Let's go!

- "Your relative lives at 6904 Schist Avenue Northeast."

- Northeast.

Both: Let's go!

♪ ♪ Dan: All four teams are frantically navigating to find their next relative.

♪ Pam: 15th.

It should be counting down that way.

Yeah, so 17th-- - So 17's this way, turn right.

- Ah, this is turn only, right turn only.

Christine: Right turn only.

Pam: That's okay.

Christine: All right.

♪ JT: 'Cause none of these people on the beach are gonna know anything, 'cause they're not locals.

- No, they're not.

A lot of these people are vacationin', and if there are locals, then, it's not ha-- it's gonna be hard to get to 'em.

Navigatin' this town shouldn't be too hard.

We have the beach on one side of the street, the homes on the other side.

As long as we find our street, we've got this.

- Wow, wow.

Why is this so hard?

How could it be so easy and then, heh heh, then we kinda struggle a little.

Pam: That says East Park Avenue that way, so that's east, this is west.

Christine: Okay.

- All right, so we're lookin' for 144.

Kaleigh: 33rd.

Okay.

32nd's gonna be the next one.

The next one up there.

You're gonna that way.

There's only one way to go unless you wanna get into the water.

♪ - Let's take our one minute right here in this parking lot.

Amauni: Yeah, we can do that.

Get ourselves together so we're not wastin' time.

Jarrell: Our first-place prize yesterday was GPS for one minute.

We can't write anything down, and we can't take any pictures, so I'm like, all right, boom, we good.

It's four minutes away.

- Four minutes away?

Jarrell: Four minutes, yep.

Right in-- Amauni: So we're gonna turn left outta here?

Jarrell: We're gonna turn left outta here, we're gonna turn left at this light.

Jarrell: We save the GPS for navigation to our relative.

Turns out, they're super close.

This should be a breeze.

Amauni: Why would we turn left at the light?

Jarrell: I-- beca-- this is where we came down, right here, when we turned-- - I know, this is Westwood Northern Boulevard, that's what I'm sayin'.

So we would go up, through the light.

Wouldn't we?

Jarrell: Well, I was gonna, I was gonna come outta here and make a left at the light.

- Be careful.

There's a car parked over there.

- I see, I see her.

Right on Ferncrest.

It looked like it was a little ways down, but maybe not, probably not that far.

♪ Kaleigh: 1106, so keep, 1110.

JT: 1111.

- It's gonna be on this side.

♪ JT: We pull up to the house, and I look and see my relative sitting on the porch, and I know who that is without a shadow of a doubt.

I've seen a buncha pictures of her.

- [exhales] JT: I immediately know, that's my sister Brandy.

♪ [sniff] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ JT: I was giving my sister a big bear hug, and I just didn't wanna let go because I felt at peace when I got that hug, and I felt happy, I felt joy, I felt all these emotions, and it was pure, like...

I felt a connection.

Brandy: Lookin' at my brother's face, I could see myself.

He looks a lot like me.

Whoa, slow down, little heart.

Kaleigh: [laughs] - Well, how you been?

How is... - I'm great now.

Whew.

[exhales] Yeah.

- Oh my gosh.

- I've been lookin' for my brother for over 20 years.

[exhales] I have... went 'round and 'round tryin' to find you.

- Really?

Brandy: Yeah.

Heh.

Yeah.

[exhales] JT: Just knowing that she looked, she tried, just, it just filled a big, big hole in me.

'Cause I didn't know if anybody did or didn't.

Brandy: I held you the day you, the, the day Mom brought you home from the hospital, I held you in my arms, so I knew you had dark-colored hair, and then after that, it's like you were gone, and I never seen you again, and, at 10 years old, I didn't understand the process and everything.

Kaleigh: The realization that she did hold him and she did have that connection with him, and that she did wanna have a relationship with her brother, but that was taken away, and now that th-they can rekindle that, and it was just, it's beautiful to see.

- Can I give you another hug?

Brandy: Yes.

♪ Christine: All right, are you ready?

Pam: Yep, I'm ready.

Christine: Okay, let's do this.

Pam: Okay.

♪ Christine: Coming?

Come on, come on, come on, come on!

Pam: I'm coming, I'm coming!

Christine: Hurry up!

Hi!

Woman 1: Hi!

We've been so excited to meet you!

Christine: How are you, I'm Christine.

Pam: I'm Pamela.

- I'm Toni.

- And I'm her daughter, Tara.

- And how are you guys related to us?

- We are actually your cousins on your mother's side.

Pam: Okay.

Tara: And... - I knew your grandma, Dolores Bilke.

Pam: Okay, all right.

Christine: Okay, cool!

Can we get hugs?

Tara: Of course!

Christine: Okay.

Pam: We've heard about her so much.

Tara: You're family!

Oh my gosh.

I've been so excited to meet you guys, oh!

Toni: Hi.

Tara: Welcome to the family.

Pam: Thank you, thank you so much.

Tara: I'm Tara.

Toni: And I'm Toni, and we are cousins of Christine and Pam.

I'm so glad to meet you though, I've been so anxious ever since I heard I had two little cousins.

- Aww!

Okay, well we're excited to hear any information that you guys might have and family history, and... - Oh, I got lots of stories.

I don't know if we could put 'em all on air, but I got lots of stories.

- Some of 'em are a little juicy.

- It's very interesting that finally after a couple of days the family pieces are coming together with the names and the family tree, and people who have spent time together, like our cousin Toni spent time when she was a child, with our grandmother Dolores, and knew our biological mother Diana.

So it's great to kind of make those connections and have that puzzle piece fit together, it creates a fuller picture.

♪ - Oh, my gosh, there's a UPS guy, are you kidding me?

Gimme this.

Sir, excuse me, do you know where 6904 Schist Avenue is?

Steve: Darn it!

Susan: Oh my gosh.

Jarrell: It's awesome that we have one minute of GPS time, but trying to remember turn-by-turn directions in a unfamiliar city is pretty hard.

- No... - Sherman Oaks.

- I feel like it shouldn't be this far.

Jarrell: I don't either.

Amauni: But it said it was four minutes away.

No, no, I think you went too far.

- Oh yeah, we gotta turn around.

Son of a biscuit eatin' bulldog.

- That one minute of GPS just wasn't enough time.

Go ahead and turn.

Jarrell: We gotta turn around.

Amauni: But we gotta hurry up.

Jarrell: Yeah we do.

- What's goin' on?

- It's a big town, it's not on the map.

We stopped and asked people, nobody knew where our street was.

What wait it's right there!

- What?

- Back up, it's right there!

- You see it?

- We were turnin' around and then I noticed that the street was right there.

Three houses down, we almost missed it.

- 38, 38, 38, 36, 36.

Oh, here it is right here.

♪ Amauni: We finally found our relative's address on Meyer Hill Drive, and we forget about all the other stuff that just went on, and we get to see who's standin' waitin' for us.

Jarrell: Hi, my name's Jarrell.

- I'm Amauni.

- I'm Tina.

- I'm Gene.

- Who's relative are you?

- I'm Victoria's brother, which would make me your uncle.

- What's goin' on uncle Gene!

- All right, how you been?

How you been?

[chuckling] - Real good.

- All right, how you been man?

- All good man.

Amauni: Oh, y'all look alike.

[laughter] - Wow.

- I can see that.

- I'm seein' that too, wow.

Tina: I'm Tina Lee and I'm Jarrell's meemaw.

- I'm Gene Lee, I am Jarrell's uncle.

His mother is my sister.

- And I wanna get in on some of this love right here.

- Oh yeah!

[laughing] - Welcome, welcome.

- Lotta similarities, lotta similarities.

- I see, I see.

Tina: Now you know where you got your height from, and your build from.

[laughter] You got it from-- Yes, oh wow.

- You got that head too, so... [laughter] - Jarrell has an uncle, and he doesn't have any uncles in his adopted family.

They've passed, so he has an uncle.

- You guys are really close.

Gene: Yeah.

- Yeah.

Gene: Close to?

- Us.

- Oh, so you're really that close.

Jarrell: Yeah.

- And y'all still got lost?

[laughing] - That was a good one, all right, shots fired.

Shots fired.

I got some humor, too.

- He drew first, he drew first blood.

- He did, it's on like a chicken bone now.

- Yes, yes, look I'm gonna be the referee, Amauni you wanna join me?

We can just referee it out.

Gene: Should we get outta the rain?

You're more than welcome.

- Oh man, I'm ready, let's go.

♪ Steve: Park, park, park.

Susan: I'm so glad you saw that.

- We found it!

- We found it.

[disbelieving laughter] - You know how we found it?

Luck.

Oh, hey.

- Hey, how's it goin'?

- I'm Steve, this is my wife, Susan.

- I'm Brad.

- I'm Chase Pruett.

- Pruett.

Brad: Yeah.

- Y'all are my relatives on my dad's side?

- Yeah, we're your brothers.

- What?

You're my brothers?

Chase: Yeah.

- Wha... What's up?

Brothers?

- Yeah.

Yep.

- Uh, what's your name?

- Chase.

- Chase?

- Brad.

- Brad.

- To be the very first Pruetts that Steve meets is an honor, I mean, I feel like we're the, you know... - We're the roots.

- We're a good start.

- We're the roots now.

[chuckling] So.

How old are you man?

- I'm forty.

What about y'all?

- 36.

- 34.

Steve: 34, all right.

I got younger brothers, I'm the big-- I'm the older brother!

[laughing] I'm a big brother.

Uh, dude we look alike!

- Yeah, yeah.

- Like all up in here.

- Yeah, the Pruett genes are strong, man.

- They are, man.

- Yeah.

Chase: They follow around, yeah.

Steve: Is there a bunch of Pruetts?

- Uh, there's a few, yeah.

For sure, yep.

- I mean, I just left my sister's on my mom's side, and now I got two brothers on my dad's side.

I'm just so happy, that hit me pretty hard.

I got so much family now!

- Makin' up for the hugs we didn't get, right?

Steve: Right.

I didn't get to pick on y'all!

[laughter] - Don't worry, Ronnie did enough.

- Yeah?

- This journey has been short of amazing, to see Steve get to meet so many family members and siblings has been everything we hoped for.

Steve: I'm beyond happy that I set out on this journey, I feel so blessed, that we're on the show and that Relative Race has put all this together and put all these people, found all these people and put 'em in our lives.

This is so amazing.

You know, you know dad then?

You know... - We do.

- Is he alive?

- Well, let's go inside and we'll talk about it, how about that?

- All right.

Chase: Yeah.

- Yeah.

Chase: Okay, come on.

Come on, buddy.

- [disbelieving] I got two brothers!

Oh!

♪ Tina: Even though I'm married to your uncle, I am actually your mom's foster mom.

She came to live with me when you were a baby.

- Really?

Gene: Mm-hmm.

- I had my three kids and they were small, and we were walking to the store, and your mom was sitting at this bus stop shelter.

You were probably about three or four months old, but you were cryin' and you were cryin' so hard, and I was like, "Are you okay?"

And she was like, "Yeah I'm okay, I'm okay," and she's trying to quiet you down, and I was like, "Is he all right?"

I was like, "It sounds like..." You know I said is he wet, is he hungry?

You know, what's goin' on with him.

And she gave you to me, and I'm gonna tell you what, you had the biggest eyes.

You had some headlights on you, baby.

And I was like, "Just come on and follow me home."

I said I'm not crazy or anything like that, I said I just wanna see if he needs to be changed or fed, and you know, and you can call somebody 'cause she said "I'm waitin' on somebody" to pick me up, and I was like, that's okay, you can give them my address and they can pick you up from my house.

And I took you and your mom home with me that day, and you stayed at my home until they-- until you were adopted.

So you lived with me when you were a baby.

- [sniffs] ♪ [crying] Tina: With him becoming emotional, I felt like that broke that chain that may have been binding him for so long.

[Jarrell crying] [emotional music] Gene: It's gonna be all right, big man.

♪ [crying] You've probably got plenty more of that, so don't hold back.

You got plenty more, we all do.

Amauni: Yeah.

- [chuckling] We all do, don't hold back.

Jarrell: I don't know, to see me sittin' here today in front of her, and for her to tell that story to me, I'm blessed.

The fact that Tina offered to take me and my mother in, knowing that she had her own stuff goin' on at home and she still offered to take in a woman with an infant.

That, that's just remarkable because it takes a lot to take care of an infant, and that right there is a blessing in itself.

- It was uh, a really big blow when they took you from us.

But, I'm glad it sounds like you had a good life.

And it sounds like you got adopted by some really good people, and thank God that now He brought it full circle and you're back in our life.

So, I'm thankful for that blessin'.

But, you still got headlights.

[laughter] Jarrell: You know that story really hit hard, and it hit home.

- So that's how I came into your life and how I knew you, and then I met him, I stayed in your mom's life.

I met your uncle at her wedding, and then we just kind of went from there, so that was 17 years ago.

I pray that in hearing the story of how I um, came into his life and how he came into my life that puzzle piece was put into place for him where he felt the sense of peace.

So just let me know when you're ready to move forward, there's not too much more to that other than like, it took me some days to kind of peel back your mom's story.

- So do you know um, her backstory?

- I know her backstory.

Some of the stuff I really want to leave, that's part of your journey.

You know, so that's some things that you will find out, but first and foremost is that you have to know that you were loved.

You were loved, and I loved on you everyday.

- Wondering if I was wanted or loved isn't even a wonder anymore.

It's turned into a statement that I am wanted, and that I am loved.

[peaceful music] ♪ Steve: I asked you outside when I met you, I mean I got brothers, but that also means that y'all were raised, or know our dad?

- Yeah.

Yep.

Steve: I mean it... - Raised us.

- So I got a picture, and I was shown it was one of these five guys, and they said only one of 'em is still alive.

So, is dad still alive?

- Yeah, he is.

- [boisterous laughter] Oh, oh, my goodness!

I mean, I'm sure y'all are stoked about that.

- Yeah, well yeah.

Course man.

- Oh, my gosh!

- He actually was the youngest out of the... - He was the youngest out of all of 'em, but he's alive and kickin', yeah.

Steve: When my brothers told me that dad was still alive, I was just so relieved.

Like I had, I mean with the odds only one is alive, and you either got an uncle or a dad, you have to prepare yourself.

Especially after day one.

For them to say that he is alive, was just a huge sigh of relief, I think I might've laughed, I'm not sure what I did but I know that in that moment, everything, all this stress and fear and everything I was holdin' in just was gone.

Oh my gosh!

Do you have pictures of him?

Can I see him?

- I do have a picture of him.

This is actually dad, from kinda back in the day, right?

Steve: Okay.

♪ Chase and BJ showed me a couple photos, and I finally got to see my dad, and know that that is my dad.

Um, one was when he was younger, and it had Grandma Ola and everybody in it, and then the other one was I think a more recent photo, um with him bein' a little bit older.

And to see him and know that that's my dad, that really puts a lot of closure and stuff, but it also opens up a lot of questions.

- There's definitely a lot of family out there.

Who he's gonna meet?

Unsure.

Um, but I'm pretty sure he'll be happy with the outcome that he gets out of it.

- What is dad's name?

- Billy.

- Billy!

Billy Pruett?

- Billy Pruett.

Billy Ray Pruett.

Steve: Billy Ray Pruett.

- Billy Ray.

Steve: All right.

- He's keepin' it country.

He's keepin' it country, yep.

[chuckling] - Billy Ray Pruett.

Hearin' my dad's name for the first time, Billy Ray Pruett, I mean it just made it that much more real.

Um, to know that not only is he alive, but I have a name and I know who he is, and they grew up with him, and that makes it all the more real.

I mean, was he a good dad?

- Yeah, yeah, and he always took care of us.

He really did.

- I mean, what kind of personality did he have?

- Dad is uh, he's a little stubborn.

Um, he does say things in a certain way that he means in a different way, but um, but he's-- you know he's-- you know normally like around regular folks he's really comical, he likes to be the life of the party, man honestly, so.

If you could talk over him, it's a miracle.

[Steve laughing] You know, I mean believe that, so.

- I can't wait to see him.

- So in talking with my new brothers, BJ and Chase, and I learned that he was a great dad, and he raised them all.

That he was there for them, you know the whole time.

And, it almost makes me feel like he didn't know.

I got a lotta questions, I gotta meet him.

I just-- I hope that he wants to meet me.

♪ Toni: So we wanted to have a little time with our cousins today with the girls, we wanted to share some family history, which they probably don't have any idea about yet.

Okay, well this is your grandma, should be Dolores.

Grandma Dolores, pretty cool huh?

Christine: I love that picture.

Pam: Yeah.

Toni: She's so young in there.

Christine: I know!

Pam: Yeah.

Tana: So what have you learned about your ethnic background so far?

Pam: Not a whole whole lot, but we've learned about the French Canadian, we've learned that our biological mother had some, well I guess that's the French Canadian part, like Caucasian or whatever you wanna call it, um, and then African American in her as well.

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

Tara: I was extremely touched by their story, I mean to be adopted and go through the foster system at such a young age and go through years of not knowing their biological family, and from what it sounds like, they had an amazing family growing up, and I'm even grateful being their extended family now.

So that French Canadian side, mom, is where we have a lot of as well.

Toni: We could learn a lot of our family history, probably from what you've learned that we have no idea about.

- Right.

Pam: I'm not even sure that using the word grateful quite describes it, 'cause some of the family members that have agreed to come and do this for us and be on the show with us didn't really know about us that long, so that, the fact that they didn't have anything invested in us, and they still took the time to go through old photos and you know, write down history so they would have something to give to us, I mean it's huge.

It means so much to us, and we're so grateful that they agreed to come do this, 'cause without them, we wouldn't be here.

♪ Brandy: I wanted to show you some pictures of our mother.

JT: My sister pulls out a book, and for the first time in my life I get to see my mom's face.

♪ I see me, I see you.

It was a lot to take in, and it was great, seeing a younger mother and just be like, man I see so much of me in that picture.

And I see so much of her in that picture.

What was her name?

- Connie Ann Stubbs.

JT: Ann Stubbs?

Brandy's talkin' about the pictures of our mom, and, you can tell there's some nervousness and some cautiousness, and just the way body language and voice.

- Um... Our mom was murdered ten years ago.

♪ [sniffling] I know you were hopin' to meet her, and I wish she would've been here for this, and that hurts me so much that you didn't have the chance to meet her.

[sniffs] JT: When Brandy told me that my mom was deceased, and what happened, there was a lot.

Everything stopped, I saw red for a minute, I was mad, I was angry, I was sad.

And I didn't know what-- I didn't know how to react, I don't know how to deal with it.

♪ ♪ I've dealt with a lot of death in my past, and it's not easy.

And just to know that this, that's my mom, what happened to her, it's just another-- another stab in the heart.

So I had to step away, it was just, it was a lot, a lot.

And, I just felt like I needed to get out and just sit back for a minute and just let it all come out before moving on.

[shaky breathing] [sniffling] Kaleigh: I've never let him go through anything like that alone, I'm always there for him, and I will always be there for him, and I will be that rock he needs to lean on whenever he needs it, and I'll be that shoulder he needs to cry on when he needs it, or you know, whatever he needs I'm gonna be there.

Hey.

JT: I have such an amazing wife, she has been there through everything with me, and she knows absolutely everything about me and how to bring me back to that calm area where I need to be.

It's amazing.

I'm speechless, I mean, I'm grateful.

- That was the hardest thing I ever had to go through.

- I couldn't imagine it.

- I'm just glad that you're here, we have reconnected, and that you know, this was a big weight on me to have to tell you about this, much less you know, having to live through it myself, but having to explain to her other child that she's no longer here.

It's been that, it's been tough, but I just wish you could've met her.

- I can't thank you enough.

- You don't got to keep thankin' me.

♪ Dan: Deep in the Arizona desert, Stephen's brothers, Brad and Chase, take Team Green out for a little surprise.

Chase: So we wanna bring you guys out to do something that we've never done before, which is paintball.

- Yeah!

We've never done it either.

Chase: No?

Steve: Yeah, let's do it!

Chase: All right, let's do it.

- Let's go.

We just met my brothers Brad and Chase, and what do they do?

They invite us to go do some bro stuff, little paintballin'.

[exciting music] ♪ [guns firing] ♪ [guns firing] [paint splats] - We wanted to bring Steve and Susan to paintball 'cause we have never did it either, and we figured it would be a good, you know, family bonding.

♪ [gun firing] [paint thudding] [guns firing] I think Susan was probably the best shot out of everybody.

[paint thudding] Steve: He's goin' around!

He's behind you!

[Susan screams] - It stings a little when you get shot.

- It does sting a little when you get shot.

You get shot in the butt, or the knuckle or the cheek.

- The cheek.

[gun firing] [resounding thud] Whoo!

- It was definitely a fun bonding experience, I think, what better way to bro out than to start shootin' stuff?

Dan: As the sun begins to fall, our teams begin to prepare for tonight's results.

Amauni: You know, I'm not worried about the other teams.

- Oh yeah, as long-- - I want us to have a place that's not fourth.

- As long as we're not in fourth, we good to-- we good to go, 'cause you know what that means?

We get to see another relative tomorrow.

- Yeah.

Steve: I don't expect to strike, I don't expect first, but I don't expect to strike.

Pam: We wanna do well, we want the other teams to do well, but we wanna go all the way to Day 10.

- Let's go see what they say about tonight.

[mouse clicks] Dan: Good evening to all four teams.

We are halfway through the race, this is the end of Day 5, and what a day it has been.

I want to start with my twin sisters, because you were literally on one of the most scenic routes in America this morning.

Did you have the ability in the midst of the frenzy and the race and the family, to appreciate what you were driving through today?

- We really appreciated what we were driving through today, it was absolutely beautiful.

It wasn't snowing, the sun was out, and there was just an amazing scenic view on either side of us, so we really did enjoy the drive.

- You didn't have one, you had two relatives waiting for you, who did you meet?

- We had the pleasure of meeting Toni and Tara.

[greeting] - Are these cousins?

Pam: Cousins on our biological mother's side.

- Oh, how wonderful you guys!

Jarrell and Amauni, when you arrived at your relative's home, was it worth it?

- Yes.

Dan: Jarrell, who was waiting for you?

- I got the opportunity to meet my mother's brother, which is my uncle, and his beautiful wife, Tina.

- Wow!

Jarrell: The interesting backstory is that his wife actually found my mother at the bus stop with me while I was like three months old, and offered to take my mother and me in.

- She fostered Jarrell and his mother before Jarrell was adopted.

- This is the aunt that is sitting right there next to you right now?

Jarrell: [chuckles] Yes.

- So she knew Jarrell and his mother before she even knew his uncle Gene, so if it weren't for Jarrell and his mother at that bus stop that day, she wouldn't have met his uncle Gene.

- Wow, wow.

It is amazing to find out what we all discover together throughout this journey.

Team Green, you also had not one, but two relatives waiting for you.

Who was on the other side of the door?

- Let me tell you, Dan, so today when I got up here, I met my two brothers.

Chase and BJ.

Not only are they my two brothers, but I found out that my dad is alive.

[clapping] So, I had a heck of a day, Dan.

This show is amazing.

Dan: I can hear it in your voice!

Stephen, this is powerful, this is emotional, this is real.

- Absolutely, Dan, this is beyond amazing, I went from not knowing anybody in my family, I got an uncle, I got a sister, I got cousins, I got brothers and sisters and my dad's alive.

I had a one in five chance that my dad was gonna be alive, and he is.

I mean, it's crazy.

- It's been a day of discovery, for real.

- Absolutely.

Dan: Was that the case for you, JT?

- So I got to meet my sister, who looks identical to me.

- Hey.

All: Hey!

- Also tonight, I got some information about my mom, and unfortunately my mom was murdered in 2010.

- Oh, oh my goodness.

JT: And B gave me something tonight that means a lot to me, she gave me my mom's ashes.

- Oh.

JT: So, it's been a day.

Dan: JT, Kaleigh, and to your sister.

I can't tell you how much we appreciate allowing us to be a part of something so sensitive, so powerful, and sharing it with us.

Well, it's certainly been a day of ups and downs.

Beautiful scenic drives, lots of rain, plenty of struggles, but boy did we have a lot of relatives that we discovered today.

[sighs] It is time to find out who finished in first, and who picked up a strike.

♪ [clock ticking] [intense music] Finishing in first place, and receiving a five-minute head start tomorrow, at 14 minutes over their allotted time... ♪ The twin sisters are on the rise, congratulations!

- Oh my gosh!

Oh my gosh.

We've pretty much been in every position so far, right?

- Yeah, yeah.

- So we kinda know what it feels like to be in every position, of course number one is the best feeling, I like this feeling, I wanna keep shooting for number one.

I mean, that's why we're here.

Dan: Finishing in second place, five minutes behind, 19 minutes over their allotted time... ♪ You guys kinda sit in this place on a regular basis Team Blue, congratulations.

[chuckling] Dan: And that means that it comes down to Team Red and Team Green.

♪ Team Red, you had a lot of rain, and you had your challenges.

You finished 28 minutes over your allotted time.

Team Green, you really struggled.

Both getting out to the freeway, and to your relative's house.

You finished 28 minutes over your allotted time.

The exact same time as Team Red.

And do you know what that means?

We're not giving out a strike.

[all cheering] [clapping] - Whoo!

Good job Team Red!

- Good job Team Green!

- Good job.

Susan: Perfect, you did perfect!

- We safe, y'all, we safe.

[laughter] Dan: Congratulations to all of you, you really pushed through today, you really did.

And you took it all in, and you discovered more family.

That's what this show is all about!

That's what your journey's all about.

Think about that tonight as you spend time with your family.

And I can't wait to see you tomorrow on Day 6 of Relative Race.

Good night everybody, we'll see you tomorrow.

[all say goodbye] - Holy cow!

- Oh my gosh, that was so scary.

[giggling] - Oh, geez.

Tina: Whoo-hoo!

Congratulations!

Jarrell: We live for another day.

- Y'all went there, y'all went there.

- We got another day.

Gene: I told you, you good.

- So, no strike.

- No strike, second place again, and we just... - At least we're guaranteed three more days.

- Yep.

- Well you know what's kinda hittin' me is that, out of the four teams, three of us now will never meet our biological mothers 'cause three of our mothers have passed away.

- So Jarrell's, he's it, he's the one carrying our torch right now.

If he can meet his mother.

I do hope now more than ever that we'll get an opportunity to meet our biological father as well as the family that he's built on his side, because we will never have the opportunity to meet our biological mother.

So in that sense, he's all that's left.

So now it's even more important to me that we will get to cross paths with him.