Dan: Previously on Relative Race, Team Black tumbled their way into another first place victory.

Congratulations to the cowboys.

[claps] - Ha ha!

Dan: Jamie and Jansen.

Jamie: Woo!

Dan: Team Green's photo bumped Team Blue down to last place.

You've picked up your second strike.

Shawn: I can't let this be the end of Relative Race for Team Blue.

Dan: Jamie met another uncle.

Jamie: I got another one!

[laughs] Dan: Scott, Curtis, and Alex each met a sister for the very first time.

- I'm your big sister.

Scott: Hey, Mary.

Mary: Hi.

Curtis: There's no words that would do it justice.

Hugging my sister for the first time.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... Hannah: Oh my gosh!

Dan: ...to win $50,000... Alex: Fingers crossed.

Dan: ...and to find their family.

[knocking] Singer: ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day 6 of Relative Race, and Team Blue, Shawn and Curtis, are the only team with two strikes.

- The competition is not letting up.

We really have to do better today.

Dan: Team Black, Jamie and Jansen, won yesterday and picked up a game benefit to freeze their clock for three minutes.

Jamie: I think this benefit's really gonna help us out today.

Dan: Team Green, Scott and Hannah, are in the middle of the pack along with Team Red, Jaime and Alex.

Alex: We've come in second place behind Team Black for two days in a row now; we're not gonna let that happen again.

♪ Jaime: Alex.

Alex: Yo.

Jaime: You got a message here.

Dan: In Hamilton, New Jersey, Alex on Team Red is waking up to a note from his sister, Maia.

Alex: "Alex, I had to work early this morning, "but I prepared breakfast and left it in the fridge.

"I also have one more surprise for you this morning... Love Maia."

♪ Jaime: Another surprise for you, brother.

- Yeah, I wonder what that means.

[knocking] - There's a knock on the door.

- Somebody's at the door.

I open the door, and I see an older woman.

Hi.

Woman 1: Hello, hi Alex.

Alex: This is Jaime.

Woman 1: Hi, Jaime.

- Hello.

- I'm not sure who she is, but it seems like she's there for me.

Woman 1: I wanted to see you before you took off, and, um, I'm your aunt Jeannie, I'm your mom's sister.

- There are those blue eyes I was looking for.

Hi!

Jeannie: Hi!

My name is Jeannie Weston, and I'm Alex's aunt on his mother's side.

I'm just so overwhelmed to finally get to meet him, and, and him be a part of my life now.

Oh, it's so good to see you!

♪ Alex: Oh, wow.

Are you an older sister, younger sister?

Jeannie: Uh, younger.

- Yeah, so you knew me, huh?

Jeannie: Yeah, I did.

- I've grown a little bit, haven't I?

- Yeah, your eyes look the same.

Alex: Yeah, they do.

Ah, it's so good to meet you.

Jeannie: You, too.

Alex was probably about 18 months old the last time I saw him.

Hopefully you'll be, you know, a big part of my life from, from now on.

Alex: Yes, ma'am.

Jeannie: I hope so.

- I hope so, too.

- [sniffs] It's so good to see you!

♪ Oh, gosh.

It made me feel so good, and it really felt like that Alex felt that way too, and, and I believe that he's looking forward to getting to know this part of his family as much as we are looking forward to getting to know him.

♪ Dan: In Camdenton, Scott and Hannah are enjoying their morning with Scott's sister, Mary.

Scott: Being out here on this porch this morning with Mary, this is, this is the most at home that we have felt since we started this journey.

- This has been such an amazing time.

I am so grateful and thankful that I got to meet both of you, and I'm so sad that we are now having to part, but it's only gonna be for a little while!

Scott: It is.

- Now that we know each other, we can stay in contact, and maybe we can figure out something out so that you can meet all my kids and my grand babies.

- Maybe it's just time that we all have a little family reunion.

Mary: That would be awesome.

As an aunt, I pride myself in making sure that I don't miss birthdays and Christmases and stuff like that, and I've missed a few with you.

I did get something for you.

Hannah: Okay.

Oh!

Mary: That I thought you might like.

Hannah: Thank you, I love it.

Mary: Of course, honey, I love you.

Hannah: I love you.

She pulls out this Care Bear; I just, I-I-I broke apart.

Thank you so much.

- You're welcome.

Hannah: I didn't get to grow up with her, but it's like we're making up for, like, lost time.

This has been really great.

And it's the Togetherness Care Bear and-- You know it's because we're all together now.

Oh, I do, I love it.

Thank you so much.

Mary: You're very welcome.

Okay, big group hug!

Scott: Oh!

♪ Curtis: Today started great.

We went out this morning for a walk with my sister, LaJayda and my cousin, Tian.

LaJayda: I had a good time.

Curtis: It was really fun, right?

LaJayda: Mm-hm.

Curtis: I really enjoyed our time together.

It's been a wonderful experience getting to know them.

Wow, it's just-- Shawn: Hey, do you guys want me to take a picture for you?

Curtis: Of course, yes, let me get in the middle.

With my sister and my cousin.

Shawn: All right, cheese!

[camera shutter clicks] ♪ Dan: In Mt.

Vernon, Jamie and Jansen are saying their goodbyes to their Uncle Kent.

- Jamie, sometimes there's, uh, no way to get the words out you wanna say.

So, I wrote some things down for ya, seems to come out a little clearer than trying to speak 'em.

I'd like to give you this.

Jamie: So Kent gives me a letter.

He felt like he was jumbled up trying to say it with his own words.

"Your father is a rare occurrence "in this world.

"He is equal parts Andy Griffith and Clint Eastwood.

"A true man's man.

A friend to everyone he meets."

I start to read it, and I realize, we may be new to the family, but they truly love us.

"Your father has been big brother, "best friend, surrogate father, "and counselor to me ever since day one.

"I'm absolutely blessed in that regard.

"Welcome, enjoy, and soak it all in.

"Life is much too short not to do otherwise.

Love, Uncle Kent."

Man, I appreciate it.

That means a lot.

It does.

♪ Alex: What do you know about me and my story in the beginning?

- Well, I know your mom tried really hard to do the right things, and... and it just ended up that she just wanted you to have a better life and that's, that's why that-- what happened to you happened.

Um, it wasn't that she didn't love you or that any of us didn't love you, it just, we were just all struggling at the time and just wanted to give you a better chance at life.

It was very hard on my family when Alex was taken away.

He wasn't taken at birth, so we all got to know and love him, and, and him be a big part of our family.

We hope that she made the right decision, but at the same time, I'm so glad that, that you're back in our lives again, 'cause it means a lot to all of us.

- Good, I mean, she-- I'd like to think that she made the right decision.

I don't hold anything against her.

Jeannie: Right.

Alex: I understand, I've struggled in my life quite a few times.

- Yeah.

- I've never needed for anything in my life, you know, I'm incredibly grateful for my adopted family; they gave me a good life.

Jeannie: Right, well that's great.

It warms my heart considerably to know that Alex was taken in by a family that loved him as their own and raised him and made sure he had everything he could possibly have that we could not have provided for him at that time in his life.

Well, she wants to meet you very badly too, and she's excited.

She just doesn't want to do it on the television show, so... - Understood.

Jeannie: You know, once your journey's over, she's, she wants to meet you.

Alex: Okay.

Jeannie: And is looking forward to it as, as, you know, we all are.

Alex: I'm excited to meet her.

♪ Thank you for being a part of it and coming and... being a part of my life again.

- Absolutely.

[chuckles] Mmm.

♪ Alex: Regardless of whether or not I'll meet her on this journey, I look forward to the opportunity to actually getting to meet her at some other point in the future.

♪ [phone dings] Oh, we got a text.

Here we go.

Jaime: Oh, here we go.

Jansen: "Good morning teams, and welcome to Relative Race Day 6..." - "...Team Red will be traveling to Newburgh, New York..." - Easy.

- "...Team Blue will be traveling to Nashville, Tennessee..." - Wow.

Your hometown!

Jansen: "...Team Black will be traveling to Effingham..." Jamie: "...Effingham, Illinois..." Hannah: "...and Team Green will be traveling to Springfield, Missouri."

- "Today's photo subject is Americana..." - "...The first place prize you are competing for "is a five minute video call with anyone of your choice.

Your time starts now."

Curtis: Nice seeing you!

LaJayda: See you soon.

Curtis: Cuz.

Tian: Bye, cousin.

Curtis: Love you, see you soon.

Kent: Gotta go?

Jamie: I guess we gotta go.

Alex: So nice to meet you!

Jeannie: Yes.

Hannah: Okay.

♪ Jamie: Let's go!

- Bye boys.

Jamie: See ya!

Hannah: You got 'em, dad?

- Got it, I got it.

LaJayda: Bye!

Curtis: Bye!

LaJayda: Good luck!

Curtis: Thank you, see you guys later!

Mary: I love you!

I'm so excited for you, have fun!

- We're in Newburgh, New York.

♪ - Time to get the New York map out!

Finally, I'm going home.

♪ Jamie: Go, go, go!

Jansen: I'm goin', this is a bumpy road!

[clank] - OW!

- Ah, that's the-- Bottomin' me out.

- What in the world?

Dan: Off on a rocky start, Team Black is leaving Mt.

Vernon, Illinois and heading to Effingham, Illinois.

They have an allotted time, including today's challenge, of 1 hour and 13 minutes.

Alex: Excuse me, ma'am.

Do you know how to get to 295?

Woman 2: Yes, you're gonna go that way.

Alex and Jaime: Perfect.

Dan: Making a quick stop for directions to the interstate, Team Red is leaving Hamilton, New Jersey, and heading to Newburgh, New York.

They have an allotted time today of 2 hours and 13 minutes.

Scott: Yep, I don't remember this.

- Turn around.

- I do not remember this at all.

Hannah: It's fine.

Scott: That's all right, that's all right.

Hannah: We're good.

Dan: Unsure of the route they are taking, Team Green is leaving Camdenton, Missouri, and heading to Springfield.

They have an allotted time of 1 hour and 47 minutes.

- We're looking for I-24.

- Look, there's, there's a cemetery down there.

Shawn: Oh, man, hey, look you see that flag?

Curtis: Let's go take a look.

Dan: Team Blue has found a promising location to take their photo for the day.

They are leaving Chattanooga, Tennessee, and heading to Nashville.

They have an allotted time of 2 hours and 14 minutes.

- We were going the right way.

- That's okay, that's-- - Okay, yep.

One more U-turn.

Scott: One more U-turn.

Jamie: Right up here's Levy, take a right.

Yep, this is it, this is gonna take us to where we need to be.

♪ Jaime: She gave us the wrong directions, it's okay.

- For real?

- It's okay, no big deal, no big deal, no big deal.

We only spent, look, it's been six minutes.

- Still, that's nonsense.

- I got you, I got you, I got you.

The lovely lady from the dealership sent us in the wrong direction.

- Hey, look, Americana!

Jaime: But luckily, it gave us a chance to take our photo for the day.

Dan: Today's photo challenge theme is Americana.

Having thirty minutes off the clock to take their photo, Teams Red and Blue begin.

- Wow.

- Oh, wow.

So driving out of Chattanooga, uh, as we're trying to get to the highway, we notice there's a veteran memorial.

Curtis: Uh, jump out and just grab a couple of shots of that.

Shawn: All right, yep.

Alex: I like this idea of through the grass.

Jaime: I love the grass, like maybe even this, look.

Alex: We found an actual sign that said Americana on it.

It might be too literal, it might be serendipitous.

We're gonna see how this works out.

Curtis: Shawn, let's go to the top.

I forgot about your leg, I'll do it.

Sorry.

Jaime: There it is, there it is, there it is, there it is!

Come on.

See that flag?

Alex: Yep, absolutely.

Jaime: Come on, it's coming.

- Yeah, that's what I want.

Jaime: There it is!

There it is!

That's it, that's the money shot.

♪ Alex: Boom.

Jaime: That's beautiful.

Alex: That's it.

Jaime: That's it.

[camera shutter clicks] Send that up to Dan.

I'm so proud of this picture, this better win.

Curtis: I like that one.

Shawn: Yeah, let's do that, that's Americana.

[camera shutter clicks] Our photo is sent.

Curtis: Okay.

Shawn: All right, we got it.

Curtis: Cool.

Jaime: Good shot, good picture, good stop, good hustle.

♪ Dan: All four teams are on the road, racing to their next destination.

Jamie: Basically what we can do is they can say "start" and we can say "stop."

Dan: Jamie and Jansen are strategizing about how to best use their three-minute benefit that they won yesterday.

Then we can work on the challenge, try to get it done in three minutes.

Jansen: Mmm.

Jamie: See what I'm sayin'?

- Yeah.

- And then our goal would be do it in three minutes.

Alex: We need to make up three minutes.

We need to put ourselves in a position that no matter what Team Black does, I don't wanna come in second behind them again.

Ooo, I wanna, I wanna dominate today.

Jaime: I wanna come in first, absolutely.

Scott: "Welcome to Springfield."

Hannah: "Welcome to Springfield," we're here!

- Yeah!

[smack] [phone dings] Jamie: Text message from Dan!

"Welcome to Effingham, Illinois."

Jaime: "Welcome to Newburgh.

Your challenge is located at Motorcyclepedia."

Ha ha!

Let's go!

Shawn: "Your challenge is located at Lane Motor Museum."

Hannah: "Your challenge is located at the Route 66 car museum."

That is right up your alley!

Scott: Oh my gosh!

- Oh, this is awesome!

Shawn: Oh.

- There it is.

Shawn: There it is, right there, there it is, right there.

- [laughs] - Look, look at, look at-- - Let's go, let's go, let's go!

♪ Dan: Day 6's challenge is Down the Road.

Using gravity, teams steer a rolling tire down a winding course full of hazards and roadblocks.

Each team must navigate their tire through the railroad guard checkpoint.

Finish that task and then successfully navigate to park the tire in their house at the end of the road.

Get the tire in the garage, and this challenge is done.

Alex: Whoa!

Look at these things!

Jaime: [laughs] Scott: What?

Oh my gosh.

Hannah: Holy moly.

Scott: Oh, wow.

I am absolutely in heaven.

Shawn: You ready?

Curtis: You go first.

Shawn: Go fir-- okay.

Curtis: Yeah.

Jaime: We gotta get it through the first obstacle first, right?

Alex: All right, gotcha.

All right, come on.

Bring it down.

Oh, you got it!

You got it!

Oh!

Jaime: Almost, almost, almost.

Alex: All right, there we go.

All right, you got it.

Shawn: All right, ready?

Curtis: Yeah.

Turn, turn.

Turn, turn, turn.

Hannah: It didn't look like it was gonna be too difficult.

Scott: Oh, this thing's heavy.

Hannah: Come on, come on, come on!

Oo-uh, ooo, that was so, so close.

It was very difficult.

Jamie: We've gotta get our tire from all the way up here all the way down there without it goin' off the edge?

This is gonna be tough.

- Dang, that is difficult.

We start the challenge, and we decided to use our freeze time benefit from yesterday in this challenge.

Jamie: Freeze time.

I'm feelin' really confident about this challenge because this is kind of the games we used to play when I was younger.

[ding ding] Jansen: That went through.

- We didn't have video games, Nintendos, Playstation 5s, and all that stuff.

We didn't have that!

We had games like this.

Alex: All right, here we go.

Ready?

All right.

Jaime: It's not hard, it's not hard, just get it, yeah.

Uh!

Alex: Oh!

Jaime: Almost, I got you, I got you, I got you.

It's easy to steer.

Done.

All right.

Scott: You got it, you got it.

You got this, dude, you got this.

[ding ding] Oh!

- Oh, I did it!

Curtis: Okay, what's wor-- Okay.

Shawn: Yeah.

[ding ding] Curtis: Good job.

Shawn: Ope, I got one, there you go.

Curtis: Okay.

We can switch.

Shawn: Okay.

Alex: All the way to in from the top.

The first part was easy.

The second part was to get that tire all the way down to the bottom, into the house.

All right, come on.

Bring it down.

Oh, darn it.

Jamie: Right here, right here!

Come on!

- Ah, you got, good job, good job.

Good job, good job.

Ah!

Scott: Think of, like, Plinko on The Price is Right.

- I don't know what that means!

♪ Jaime: Might have found the cheat code.

Might have found the cheat code!

Alex: Oh!

Augh.

Curtis: [groaning] Shawn: Almost there, almost there, almost there!

Dang it, so close.

Jaime: All right, here we go.

- All right, come on.

Oh, oh, ugh!

Jamie: Agh!

Hannah: You're almost there, you are almost-- Scott: Oh!

Hannah: Oh, Dad!

Jaime: Ooo!

Alex: Oh, man.

♪ Jaime: So close!

Alex: This is so difficult.

Jaime: Last one.

Hannah: Goodness gracious, goodness gracious.

[gasps] Scott: Oh!

- No, goodness gracious!

I-- Okay.

- It's really frustrating, but there's not much we can do other than just let gravity guide this thing on in.

Alex: Ugh.

Come on!

♪ [tire screeches] Both: Boom!

Jansen: We did it!

Both: [laughing] - We finished our challenge during our three-minute freeze.

That should be a huge advantage.

♪ Alex: There you go.

[tire squeal] Yes!

[ding, ding, ding] ♪ - Yeah, yeah.

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

Yes!

[ding, ding, ding] Jamie: There's the card, there's the card, come on!

Jaime: We gotta run out, now, we didn't even have time to look at all these bikes?

Alex: I know, I wanna look at stuff!

♪ Hannah: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!

- Agh!

Hannah: Sugar, Dad!

- "Your relative lives at 19456 East--" - "345--" - "Clifton Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee."

Shawn: All right, let's go.

Curtis: Let's go.

Jamie: Let's go!

We finished our challenge, but we still gotta go take our photo.

♪ [tire squeal] Hannah: Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good!

Oh, it went in!

It went in, it went in.

Come on, come on, come on!

Go, go, go!

Go, go.

"Your relative lives at 607 East Silsby Street..." Both: "Springfield, Missouri."

Hannah: Let's go.

Scott: Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

We have the photo challenge still.

- Yeah?

Scott: You don't get more Americana than Route 66.

Hannah: Okay.

Scott: We should do it here.

Hannah: Let's go.

Scott: Let's go.

Hannah: Okay.

Scott: There were some really cool iconic cars.

The lighting wasn't the best, and the angles weren't the best 'cause of the way the cars were positioned, and we just couldn't get the shot that we wanted.

- It's aggravatin', 'cause there's nothin' good about this.

I'm runnin' around, tryin' to frame things up and get my angles.

Jamie: What do you think?

Jansen: I don't know, I don't like it.

Jamie: Why, what's wrong?

Jansen: The building in the background, it just ruins the photo.

Personally, I think that we can do better.

Jamie: Well, if you don't like it, we've gotta go somewhere else.

Come on.

Jansen: Well, yeah, let's just go somewhere else and figure this out.

Hannah: Outside of the car museum was the cutest cafe I have ever seen.

It was super '50s themed inside.

Are they closed?

No, it's so cute in there!

I was, like, genuinely mad at myself for not trying to go there first.

I'mma go inside one more time.

You stay here, though!

So I run back into the Route 66 museum.

I pulled out a license plate, and it happened to be a Missouri one.

Put it right in the middle and took a picture.

[shutter clicks] ♪ Shawn: Found it!

Found Clifton.

Curtis: Where?

- Right here.

Hannah: We're on Sunshine.

Scott: Silsby, right?

Hannah: Silsby, yeah.

Think a bank would have a map?

Scott: No, but a flower delivery shop would.

- Yes, they absolutely would.

Yes, they absolutely would.

Jamie: I don't think we go right.

This is national road.

Jansen: This is Highway 40.

Jamie: This is Highway 40.

I don't know...

I mean, I'm lost.

Alex: Which way-- we turned left onto Robinson.

Jaime: Mm-hm.

And we're gonna go right onto... Alex: Wait.

Jaime: Williams.

Curtis: We're goin' straight across Charlotte?

No, we're turnin' right.

- No, we're turn, we're turnin', uh, right.

Aw, dang.

Turn around.

I'm sorry.

♪ - Go fast, Dad.

I mean, fast, fast, fast.

♪ Jansen: These are drives, Dad!

This is a house little thing!

Jamie: Well, if you see a house that's got somebody in it, let's stop at it.

There's not a lot to go off of, so we just decided to stop at the nearest house to ask for directions.

Seen 70th Road?

Scott: [sighs] Delivery shop does not have paper map because they have GPS.

Jamie: Did she find a map?

- Come on!

- Fine, we'll, we'll try to find somethin'.

- Get in the car!

We gotta go!

Alex: Right, this is Lake Street.

- Lake Street, so we gotta make a right-- a left onto Lake Street, sorry, and then a right onto Lake Drive.

Curtis: Clifton is not gonna run into this, so... Shawn: That's, is that not Clifton right there?

That's-- Curtis: Yeah, you're right.

- That is Clifton right there.

- Okay.

- Sweet.

All right, so we should be right around here, then.

- I feel like we're just gettin' further and further away.

Jamie: It's gotta be down here!

There's nothin', nowhere else we could go!

I mean, the town's not that big!

Jaime: 77... Alex: Oh boy.

Jaime: 67, 82, 80, seems to be going down.

Alex: Lake Drive didn't go the other way, did it?

This was it.

Jaime: No, no, yeah.

- Okay.

Curtis: 2803.

So it's gotta be here.

- This is it!

Jansen: Little Creek Ranch.

Alex: 45.

Jaime: 45?

Hannah: Oh, oh!

607!

Shawn: There it is, right there.

Sweet.

- Wow.

♪ - Instead of pullin' up to the house, we pulled up to the barn 'cause we could see somebody in there barrel racin'.

♪ She's doin' her thang, and, and she runs up to us and just gets off her horse, and... - Hi!

Both: Hey.

Jamie: I'm Jamie Cowart.

Jansen: I'm Jansen.

- I'm Danielle Friend.

- And how are we related?

Danielle: We're cousins!

Jamie: [laughingly] All right!

Danielle: Hi!

Come here.

Jamie: This is amazin'.

Danielle: Hi.

And this is Doll.

Jamie: Hey!

Danielle: Yeah.

Jamie: Yeah.

Daniell: And we're so happy to meet you guys.

Jamie: We're, we're very excited.

Danielle: Yeah?

Jamie: We, we are very excited.

Danielle: How was your journey to get here?

Jamie: It has been crazy.

- Yes?

Jamie: It has rained all the way from wherever we started at.

Danielle: Yeah.

[laughs] Jamie: North Carolina, I think's where we started.

- Oh my goodness.

Are y'all-- Jansen: Then to Arkansas, then up here.

Danielle: Are y'all havin' fun?

Jamie: Oh, it's a blast.

Jansen: Yeah.

- Good.

- We're learning' the, we're learnin' a lot that we never knew.

Danielle: Yeah, same here.

I have so much to tell y'all.

- I'm s-- I'm ready.

I mean, we've met uncles, we've met aunts, we've met a few close cousins.

Jansen: And we recently found out that he has brothers.

- Oh my gosh!

Jamie: Just found this out last night.

- More family!

Jamie: Yes.

- Well, yeah!

- We're talkin' to Danielle, and we suddenly realize that we haven't finished our photo challenge, so we're like, we got an idea.

We actually have a photo challenge that we're tryin' to complete today.

I was wondering if you'd be willing to help us with it.

- Yeah, absolutely!

Danielle: All right, well, let's go have some fun!

Jamie: Let's do it.

Danielle: [chuckles] ♪ - The topic is Americana, and what's better than cowgirls, cowboys, and horses.

Yeah, we're just gonna come right down here, and you're gonna have her kinda angled like this.

Jamie: Oh, yeah.

Jansen: And have her look out of the barn door with her horse, and we got a shot from behind.

Jamie: It's beautiful.

Beautiful shot.

What do you think?

Jansen: I think that looks better.

Danielle: I love that one.

Jamie: I like that.

- Yeah.

Think we'll send that to Dan.

Jamie: I'm glad we didn't go ahead and submit what we had ready.

I think we got the perfect photo.

♪ ♪ Scott: Hi, I'm Scott.

- Hi, I'm Hannah.

Woman 3: Hi, pleased to meet you.

- I'm Aaron.

Scott: Aaron, nice to meet ya.

- This is Elene.

Scott: Hi, Elene.

Hannah: Hi.

- This is Connor.

Scott: Hey, Connor.

Woman 3: My name is Hannah.

I'm your niece, and I am your cousin.

- Hey, Hannah.

Hannah B.: Hey, nice to meet you.

Hannah B.: And you're definitely their brother.

[laughs] Uncle Steve, for sure, you look just like him.

It's nice to meet you, Hannah.

Hannah: It's so nice to meet you.

I think you look so much like your mom, though.

Hannah B.: Oh, thank you.

- Oh my goodness!

- Oh, I know, I was just, I was thinkin' the same thing.

It's just, I can see so much of Mary just in your smile and in the eyes.

- Instant, instantly knew.

That's, that's insane.

It was just mind-blowing, really, to meet, you know, an uncle and a cousin I'd never met, didn't even know about until just a few months ago, so, it was really, it was life changing.

[chuckles] Yeah, she's a little, just a little shy.

[laughs] Scott: Aw.

She's a daddy's girl?

Hannah B.: For sure, for sure.

Scott: I got one of those, too.

Hannah: Yeah.

Hannah B.: [laughs] I told myself I wouldn't cry, and I think I'm going to.

Scott: It's, it's okay!

That's what we've been, this is, it's very emotional.

Hannah B.: Yes.

- I mean, we're all being reunited; this is kinda cool.

Hannah B.: Yeah, I just found out a couple months ago.

My mother called me, and she was like, you won't believe what I just found out!

Scott: Wow.

Hannah B.: Yes, and it's just shocking, but it's so exciting.

I'm so happy to meet you guys.

Hannah: Oh, we're so happy to meet you, too.

Scott: Oh, we're so stoked.

- Like, everyone's just so sweet, it's such a sweet family, and they're our family, and I'm so lucky that... ♪ ♪ Shawn: Um, hi.

Man: Hi.

Woman 4: Hi.

Shawn: Uh, my name is Shawn, and this is Curtis.

- I'm Kevin, and this is my wife, Darian.

Shawn: Uh, it's so great to meet you, Kevin and Darian.

Uh, would it be safe to assume that we're related?

Kevin: Yeah.

Shawn: Really?

- Yeah.

- How?

Kevin: I, uh, I would actually be your brother.

Yeah.

- Oh, really?

Curtis: [laughs] Shawn: Oh, dude!

[laughs] - Yeah.

Shawn: Oh, man.

Um.

Kevin: Come here.

- Come here.

Oh.

Shawn: Oh, man.

A brother!

Kevin: Yeah.

Shawn: Whew, man!

[laughs] Nah, ha-ha!

I've always wanted a brother, and... that's what I got today.

That was just such a blessing to meet them.

♪ On my father's side?

- Yeah, yeah.

Shawn: Okay.

Kevin: Um, I mean, I don't know too much about him, but yes.

Shawn: Yeah.

Okay, well, neither do I. Kevin: [laughs] - Piecin' that together.

- Right, right.

Shawn: But wow, uh...

It's, it's so great to meet you, like-- Kevin: Yeah, no, it's, uh, it's unreal, like... Shawn: Right, yeah.

- It's crazy.

Shawn: There's-- - I was noticing' that.

I'm like, okay, yeah, they're brothers.

Kevin: Great.

- Same taste.

Shawn: Okay.

- I got another brother.

Like, that, that was what was goin' through my head that entire time.

It still didn't feel quite real.

I don't have much family left.

- Really?

Kevin: And to hear that I had a brother, it threw me for a loop, man.

- Yeah.

Kevin: I don't, I didn't believe.

I, I really didn't, and now you're here.

I still don't believe it.

All: [laugh] Shawn: I'm real, I'm real.

Kevin: Right, right.

But, it's crazy.

- Wow, man.

Kevin: That's great, like...

This is gonna be forever now.

Like, I, I've actually got another brother that I can talk to and, you know, hang out with, and fe-- like, this is amazing.

- How old are you?

- I'll turn 30 this year.

Shawn: Really?

Kevin: Yeah.

- Wow, so I have a younger brother!

Kevin: Yeah, how old are you?

Shawn: I just turned 33, uh, couple days ago.

Kevin: Oh, wow.

- Yeah.

Kevin: Yeah?

- Yeah.

Darian: Happy belated-- happy late birthday.

- Happy belated birthday.

Shawn: Thank you so much, yeah.

Goodness.

- You guys have the same eyes.

Kevin: Yeah.

- Oh, wow.

- Yeah, I noticed that.

This is crazy, like, I'm, like, lookin' at you, man.

Like... holy crap.

Shawn: Dude, it's been too long.

[laughs] Dang, dude.

We just fell right into place.

We hadn't ever met, and yet, that hug was just so easy, and I felt, I felt that brotherly love.

Kevin: Right.

- Wow.

- Y-you wanna come inside?

Shawn: Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Kevin: We can sit down, and, yeah, most definitely.

♪ Jaime: Ha-hoo, hoo!

Oh, man.

'Cause why this feels like Grandma's house?

You know, it feels like a grandma's house, like, I feel like I'm visiting Grandma.

♪ Woman 5: Oh, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.

Jaime: No!

- Oh, stop it, would you come and hug me?

I can't take it anymore!

- This is my grandma.

Woman 5: I can't take it anymore!

Woman 5: It's been a long, long time.

I needed to know what he looked like, I needed to know who he grew up like, I needed to know something about him, and to think that he was by my door?

The best.

The best.

Beautiful feeling, holding him.

[kiss] Leticia: [laughs] [rapid kissing sounds] Jaime: Oh, tanto amor.

Jaime: Oh, you're so beautiful, you're just like I remember you.

Leticia: I'd better be pretty.

Alex: [laughs] Jaime: This is my beautiful grandma.

Leticia: I'd better be pretty.

Alex: Just so incredibly uplifting and heartwarming.

Watching the two of them hug brought me to tears.

Leticia: Oh.

[sighs] Jaime: It's been so long, Mamá.

- I know.

I never thought this day would ever come.

- We were separated when I was six years old.

I was already, that's a formidable part of your life, and I remember her being there, and I was the little prince.

Um, I remember her giving me all the love and all the attention, and to see her after all that time just brought back all those memories and then a rush of emotion, and it's the thing that I've been looking for and waiting for all through my time in foster care.

Man.

Leticia: I can't believe this.

I gotta meet the rest of the family.

We gotta get together.

Agustus, Jeremy, and Josette are all waiting.

We all have kids.

Leticia: I, I-- [scoffs] Listen, I'm a great-grandmother.

Jaime: Yeah.

- I was at one, and when I woke up, it was five, and today I found out it's eight.

I said whoa!

How many more?

But the more, the merrier.

That's all I say.

- I'm looking forward to introducing my younger siblings, my, my entire extended family, um, I'm looking forward to reconnecting with my siblings through this, through this experience.

- On your birthdays, I was sayin' happy birthday to all of yous in your calendar.

Happy birthday to E, then happy birthday to Josette.

Yes.

I would say happy birthday.

- You're so cute.

I can't even handle you.

Oh my goodness.

Leticia: All the time, all the time.

Mm-hm.

I didn't know how it was gonna turn out.

But guess what?

Blood is thicker than water, and it turned out just fine, and I'm happy that I met him.

Very happy.

We're gonna do it.

Ho-ho.

Papi, you're so beautiful.

Jaime: Thank you so much.

- No, you're not.

You're handsome.

- Thank you so much, I'll take either one.

It's okay.

- You're beauty handsome.

- Thank you, beauty handsome.

[laughs] Leticia: I can't believe it.

Jaime: Ayy, mi abuelita, I can't.

Jaime: The search is over, and the, and the looking and the feelings that I had are over, and I took a new breath.

I feel like I could breathe, breathe anew.

Leticia: Mmm.

♪ Dan: Back at the ranch, Jamie and Jansen are sitting down with their cousin, Danielle, to learn more about their family history.

- I made y'all this really nice family tree.

Jansen: She pulls out a family tree to show us how she's related to us.

Jamie: This is amazing.

- Yeah.

This is our common ancestor, Joseph and Martha Foshee.

Jamie: Ooo, that goes way back to 1850s.

- Yes, way back to Arkansas.

Jamie: Wow.

Danielle: Joseph and Martha Foshee came from Alabama, and they were the first ones to settle on land in Arkansas.

- Oh, really?

- Yes.

Jansen: Oh, okay, that's really neat.

- Awesome.

- Yeah!

They settled the land.

Who had a ton of children.

Jamie: Wow.

Jansen: Oh, dang.

Danielle: I know.

Jansen: That means there's a lot more cousins out there somewhere we don't know about.

- Yeah, our family just got huge, and we did not have a clue.

Danielle: Well, actually, I can show you guys a photo.

Jansen: Okay.

- Of... Jamie: Oh my goodness.

Jansen: Oh my goodness!

Danielle: ...Joseph and Martha.

So, this is Joseph, and this is Martha, and these are all their children.

Jamie: [laughs] This is a photo from a paper.

I wonder if that's their local paper.

- I don't know, but yes, this is them.

This is this tree.

This is how we are connected.

Jamie: It was just amazing to be able to see all of his kids in one photo.

- Joseph and Martha were the first Foshees to settle in Arkansas, and I have that land deed.

Jamie: Oh my goodness.

Danielle: Yes.

This is from when they moved from Alabama to Arkansas, on this piece of land, and I believe, to this day, the Foshees still live and operate on this piece of land in Arkansas.

Jamie: Where's, where's it at?

Let's see.

Um... Jansen: I feel like I'm finding treasure maps, and we're gonna have to go find the treasure.

Danielle: [laughing] Yeah!

Jamie: I would really like to know.

This is just mind-boggling.

- This was amazing that you get to share this with us.

We're totally... Jamie: I'm just... - ...appreciative of it.

Jamie: I'm blown away.

- Yeah, absolutely.

Jamie: This means so much because now, we can, we ca-- we have something to show our, our ancestry, I mean... - Yes.

- That's what's just amazing about it.

- Yeah.

Jamie: I'm overwhelmed.

I didn't think I would ever know all this.

And now, there are still a lot of blanks I want filled in, and I'm hoping that, before long, we're gonna get those filled in.

Thank you so much.

This means so much to us.

♪ Dan: In Springfield, Missouri, Scott and Hannah are learning about how well they fit into the family with Scott's new niece, Hannah.

- I think it's so awesome that you guys are doing this.

And of course, it's amazing to meet you.

Scott: It, it is amazing to meet you.

Hannah B.: It's crazy how much we, you guys are so similar to the family.

[laughs] - Um, Mary and my dad, they have the same laugh, they just, like, get along super well.

- Aw, man.

Hannah: And then, like, Steve, they just share so many of the same, like, interests and hobbies.

- I'm so excited.

I can't wait to see you guys all together.

I just think that would be amazing.

Hannah: They're so cute.

Like it's all the same height, they all, like, walk the same.

It's so funny.

- Yes, yes, that's amazing.

Yeah, I, um, don't know, like, half of my side of the family.

My biological dad, I've never met him.

Um, I just heard about him.

I really don't know a whole lot, so the whole fact that you guys are just goin' through this journey is so amazing to me.

Uh, really is, uh, similarities between both of us.

Wanting to meet their family and to see what they were goin' through.

It was nice to hear their stories and how they reacted to it all.

It was pretty cool.

Scott: So, I was adopted.

On March 14, day I was born, my mom and dad received a phone call.

- Mm-hm.

- They had been waitin' for a baby for a very long time, and, uh, Mom alway told me the story growing up of, on that day, they got the call, they went to the hospital, and of all the kids in all the world they could pick, they chose me.

Hannah B.: Chose you.

That's amazing.

Scott: My mom, uh, even told me she wants to meet my biological mother and thank her for the opportunity that she gave us to be a family.

Hannah B.: Aw, so that is amazing.

So you've known for your whole life.

- My whole life.

Hannah B.: That's awesome.

That is so awesome.

Scott: I'm so grateful for all of the hospitality and just being able to connect so quickly.

It has just been amazing.

♪ Shawn: My brother, Kevin, and I share the same father, Steve Sunter.

Kevin: Uh, yeah.

Shawn: That's our dad.

[laughs] Kevin: That's great.

Shawn: And again, but Kevin hasn't ever really seen a photo of 'im.

I was really excited to be able to share that with him.

But yeah, man, like, ugh.

Just all the things I've been learnin' about.

Kevin: Right.

You know, seeing the similarities, you know, side by side like that was, uh, it was a treat.

That's more of my dad than I've seen in my entire life.

[laughs] Shawn: You, you're not joking.

I didn't even know his name before, before I started on this journey to come to you.

We come inside and sit down and start talking about all the journeys that he and I have both been on.

Kevin: Uh, I was actually adopted by my great-grandparents on, uh, my mom's side.

I think my mom was 76 when she adopted me.

It gave me a different outlook, I guess, on, on, on life.

- So you, you must have been pretty young, then, when they adopted you.

- They adopted me when I was 22 months old.

Shawn: Oh, wow.

Kevin: So, yeah, just before I turned two.

My mom, she passed away back in 2016.

- Sorry, man.

Kevin: So, I haven't had any family, like, what I knew of my family was, you know, gone.

I was the last, the last living member, you know?

And, um, they told me I had a brother, and, listen, when they told me, I shut down.

Like, I, I completely shut down.

I couldn't carry on the rest of the conversation.

It's still baffling.

[laughs] - No, it's, it's, it's, I, I definitely understand that, man.

We have so much more in common than either one of us even knew.

I don't know why I internalized it the way I did, but I, I took it out on myself a lot.

Bein' like, you're the last one, nobody wanted you, you're not worth anyone's time of day, you know?

And... Kevin: Listen, the rage, the rage that came with being adopted, 'cause I felt like I wasn't wanted.

It caused a lot of anger, um... much of which, I didn't come to peace with until I was like, 20, 21.

Shawn: Yeah.

- Unfortunately, it got me in a lotta trouble when I was younger, too.

You know?

[laughs] Um... Shawn: Yeah.

No, I... - I, uh... Shawn: Oh, I know that feeling way too well.

- [laughs] That's really crazy to think that, with all the challenges that we faced, one, we're still here, and two, we finally met each other.

It made me grateful, you know?

Kevin: Well, and I can see it in your eyes, too, that, like, w-we've had some struggles, but, like, I can tell you're not the man that you were then.

Kevin: No.

Definitely grown, um... Life changes you.

Shawn: I didn't start turnin' things around until... hasn't even been three years yet.

- Wow.

'Ey.

Shawn: 'Cause, you know, it-- - It, it's rough sometimes.

It is.

One of the hardest things to do in order to better yourself is to forgive yourself, and that is mainly because people blame themselves for so many things that's not even their fault.

Shawn: Just the fact that he was able to just open himself up so freely to me and just to trust me, to have what felt like such an instant connection between us.

That just means so much to me.

I've never been an older brother, but, like, if I had known, man, like... Dude, just hearing, hearing how strong you've been, I'm just so proud of you, dude, and I cannot wait to, like, get to know you better.

- [chuckles] That was the first time I've ever heard those words in my entire life.

Like, I lived so long, you know, doin', you know, the wrong things, and I would try to make my mom proud and make my dad proud, and, uh, they, uh, they died before I feel like I got the chance to make them proud.

And... him doin' that just... [sighs] It, um, it meant a lot.

It really did.

- Dude, I love you, man.

- I love you, bro.

Shawn: [chuckles] ♪ Jaime: What I remember, um, from the day that, uh, that we were separated, that we went to foster care, was that, um, my mother was running late, and she had all four of us kids.

And then, it was very, very cold outside, it was snowing outside.

Leticia: And yous all was sick with little upset stomach and viruses.

- And she left me with Josette and Jeremy and said, you watch them, don't let them move, and I'll be right back.

Leticia: And she had somebody else watching over you while you was watching over them.

- Well, I know my job-- - And now, what happened was that one of the babies started crying, and they weren't stopping, so the police was there, then when the police came, the guy ran, and he left you there.

Like, nobody, he just ran.

When your mother came down, she had a fight with about four or five police officers.

Jaime: I remember.

Well, she was fighting for her kids, I remember.

Leticia: Yeah.

She was fighting for you guys, and it was so sad for me.

I be blaming myself, and she keeps telling me, it's not your fault.

All right, it's not my fault, but that's how I feel.

That day, I had 24 hours in which to find an apartment.

And I had an appointment to go see an apartment on the same day, and I had no one to stay with you guys!

And she had no one to hold yous down because your father was supposed to have come back, and he never came back.

[sniffs] When it happened, and then she called me, she said, Mami, you have to come over here.

You gotta pick up the kids, and I said, what are you talkin' about?

"They arrested me," and then she ran it down to me what was happening, and I ran, and I took you guys, and I brought you home with me.

Now, that judge, that judge took you guys from us!

I went to court three different times to fight for you guys!

And she turned around and she said, look, I'm tired of all these young girls going out, getting pregnant, having kids, and then dumping them on their mother.

I said, it's not like that!

And she says, well, in my courthouse, it is.

She threw me out of the courtroom three times that I appeared there to fight for you guys.

Three times she threw me out.

Ms. Rivera, you don't belong here.

I said, those are my grandkids!

She said, no, they belong to the court now.

And so, she refused to give me not even a slight chance of trying to prove myself.

They won't let me.

She said, not in my courthouse.

So, it's not like we didn't look for you, it's not like we didn't love you.

It was nothing of that.

It was the system.

The system kept us apart.

Not your mother and not me.

The system.

Jaime: If I had known that as a child, if somebody had told me that as a child, I woulda had a better outlook, probably, on my, on my grandmother and my mother.

And looking at it though, from hindsight, I mean, I had a pretty good life.

My father, Eddy's fantastic, and my mother, Sandra is, is beautiful, and Agustus and Jeremy and Josette, my job, as far as keeping them alive and making sure they were happy, healthy, and safe, I did that for as long as I could.

- That was one thing that your mother always admired you for.

Jaime: I didn't leave them until I was 17 years old.

When I was 17 and I joined the Marine Corps is when I left them.

Leticia: The first thing she told you, take care of 'em.

Jaime: Take care of your brothers.

Leticia: And sister.

Jaime: That's what I always did.

Leticia: Yep, you're the big boy now.

You take care of them and make sure that they're fine, that they're okay.

Jaime: And I, I think I did that.

Leticia: And you always did, yes you did.

- I'm happy to bring them back to her, you know, grown adults, and, uh, happy with their situations in life, to know that we weren't forgotten, um, and that she didn't just give up, and to know that she got clean because of that situation really puts a light of hope into my, into my heart.

I'm so, so happy to be here.

I'm happy to see you.

I'm happy to love on you and get your love.

Learning what I learned from my grandmother, it just seems like this family is full of very, very strong, uh, independent, uh, amazing women, and that includes Leticia and my mother, and I can't wait to hug her.

Leticia: I love you, Papi.

I love you.

I'm so glad that you're here with us.

♪ Dan: Day 6 is quickly coming to a close, and once again, all four teams are anxiously awaiting the final results.

Jaime: Think we get a strike tonight?

- I don't know, man.

I don't know.

I think we did all right.

- Well, I think, I think the challenge is gonna offset anything that we did messin' up gettin' to our relatives.

- For sure.

Shawn: Man, [sighs] That photo challenge, man, I know, I know we got a great photo, but I'm always scared for Green Team's picture, you know?

- This challenge today kicked our butts.

We really struggled.

[click] Dan: Day 6 of Relative Race, and all of our teams are still very much in it!

Team Red, you had a rough start today.

What happened?

- We started goin', and we decided to stop at a car dealership, and we asked a, a lovely young lady if she knew which way to get to the interstate, which sent us in the opposite direction.

Dan: That cost a lotta time, but you righted it, you turned around, you got back out on the road.

Let's remind everybody that with Team Black's first-place finish, their benefit was to have three minutes of time to freeze their clock.

You guys seemed to choose a very important time to do that.

It was at the challenge, and you guys killed it at the challenge.

- I think we set a record on that challenge that may never be broken.

- And then those good times feel even better when you arrive at your relative's house.

Who was there and how did it make you feel?

- We felt like we was at home.

We pull up, we run out there to the barn, and when we do, our cousin, Danielle, she's wo-- who's on the circuit as a barrel racer, she was there waiting to greet us.

Dan: Congratulations.

What a great discovery to meet a cousin that's just like you.

That's a good day.

- Yes, it was an amazing day.

- It was amazing.

- And that takes us to Team Green.

Team Green, you meet your niece, Hannah's cousin, and her name is what?

- Hannah!

Dan: Her name's Hannah.

- Yeah.

- Please, let us say hello to Hannah.

- Well, here is Hannah, my first cousin, and Dad's niece!

- Nice to meet you.

Dan: What a day for Team Green.

Well, speaking of great days, Jaime, tell us.

Who was there waiting for you?

- So, Dan, when I came on this race, I came very, very specifically looking for my mother and my grandmother, and today, my grandmother was waiting on the stoop for me at her apartment, uh, right here in Newburgh, New York.

Leticia: Hi.

Jaime: And, uh, we didn't, uh, make it to standing there and introducing each other.

I saw her come out, and she waved me over, and I ran into her arms, and it was, it was it.

We hugged each other I think for, maybe, maybe 15 minutes, we were just standing there just sobbing and holding each other, and the crew was dealing with us.

[laughs] So... - Congratulations, Jaime.

We're so happy for you and so glad that your grandmother is there with you.

- Thank you so much, Dan.

Appreciate you guys and everything you guys do here at Relative Race.

- Team Blue.

Shawn, you're headed home to Nashville, and this was your day of discovery, a day to grow your family.

Who was on the other side of the door?

- Yes, Dan.

Uh, today was my day, and I would like to introduce to y'all for the first time my younger brother and his wife.

This is Kevin and Darian.

Oh, man, it was, eh, this is on my father's side, so he's my younger brother on my father's side, and he's only... - Twenty-nine.

- Like, yeah, he's only, like, four years younger than I am, so, oh, man, it was just such a treat to, to get to meet him, and, and talk about, uh, a little bit about our father's side, um, get to meet his wife.

I cannot express my gratitude to the show.

And, uh, to the rest of the teams, but, thank you so much, Dan, for allowing this to happen.

- There are moments like this when the race part kind of melts away, and yet, the show is Relative Race.

And so it's that time to see who, once again, finishes in first place and picks up a very important benefit, and the team that picks up yet another strike.

[intense music and clock ticking] Dan: Team Red, you have one strike.

Team Black, you have one strike.

Team Green, you have been spared from a second strike because of your ability to capture key photos at just the right time.

Team Blue, you earned your second strike yesterday.

You're at risk of striking out on this show.

Finishing five minutes over their allotted time... Again, Team Black, you used your freeze at the right time, you navigated the maps and the roads perfectly, congratulations, you finished in first place.

Finishing eight minutes over their allotted time and in second place... ♪ Team Blue, Curtis and Shawn.

It was helpful that you were going back to your city.

Everything worked in your favor, and you did really well at the challenge.

Congratulations to Team Blue.

- Thank you.

- Team Red.

You had a difficult time to start off the day.

Even the challenge was challenging.

Team Green, you seemed to be in that same mode of nothing quite going perfectly, but nothing going horribly wrong.

It's just challenging.

It's the nature of this show.

One of you finished 21 minutes over your allotted time.

The other team finished 23 minutes over their allotted time.

The difference between being safe and picking up a strike was two minutes today.

Team Green... you finished 21 minutes over your allotted time and finished in third place.

Team Red, you finished 23 minutes over your allotted time.

But... there's still a photo contest to be judged.

Today, the subject was Americana.

The votes are in, and I must say that today, it was a clear-cut winner.

♪ Team Blue, they loved your photo.

Congratulations.

By winning the photo contest, you have five minutes deducted from your time, and that moves you from second place into first place.

You pick up a game-day benefit tomorrow, which is five minutes of video conference calling, whenever you want, off the clock.

Team Red, your challenges to start the day cost you to the point that you have picked up your second strike on Relative Race.

I can't wait to see what Day 7 of Relative Race has in store for each of you, and that's where we will be tomorrow when Relative Race rolls on.

Good luck everybody.

Be safe, and I can't wait to catch up with you tomorrow night.

Scott: Night.

Jamie: Be safe, everybody.

Hannah: Good night!

Dan: Good night.

♪ - That's really frustrating.

- It's beyond frustrating.

- So frustrating.

- It's beyond frustrating.

- Well, we did it again.

We turned in the number one time, and... lost by a photo.

Shawn: Well, we were just hopin' for third, man!

[laughs] Darian: Well, you did two better than that.

- Third place loves us, apparently.

I don't, I, that's fine with me.

- I have said all along, I will take nine threes and a W all day long.

- Yeah.

- You know, the race is one thing, but, like, opening the door and you being there today, it like, made my whole heart melt.

Leticia: That's it-- Jaime: Really a dream come true.

Leticia: That's what it's about, right?

♪