♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race... - We outta here.

Elizabeth: Right here!

Get it right, right!

Kaley: Go, girl, go!

Dan: A cheesy challenge rolled over our contestants.

- Yes!

- It's extremely grueling and exhausting.

Dan: Elizabeth discovered a close connection to her father.

- Can you recognize someone in this picture?

Elizabeth: I am slightly nervous about meeting my biological father.

Dan: Team Green, without a driver's license, is chauffeured by Marcus's dad.

Marcus: Being on the road with my dad has been extremely surreal.

Oh, I got a brother?

Bishop: You have a brother.

Dan: And a third strike meant elimination for Team Black.

Your journey on Relative Race has ended.

But the twins turned in their Day 10 benefit for the opportunity to meet one final relative.

While you're not a part of the race, your journey to find family continues tomorrow morning.

- Don't give up, okay?

- Thank you.

- Whatever we get is just a plus to our story.

- We're super okay, because we know this isn't over for us.

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

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

- Blue!

Dan: ...to win $50,000... - Yeah!

Dan: .

..and to find their family.

♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, ♪ ♪ oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh.

♪ With three days left in the race, our three remaining teams wake up to begin Day 7 of Relative Race, all with one strike, each in a new city, each with a new cousin.

And for the first time, without Team Black.

- Seeing Team Black go really encouraged us to stay super focused, keep our eye on the prize, and just do what we know how to do best.

Man: Hey, look who's up.

Hey!

- Good morning, guys.

Whoo!

Now that there's only three teams, it's getting real.

It's getting real.

- Love you guys.

Just want you to know, I'mma have to fly out here, but I will be to see you soon.

I promise.

- Black Team... Chonta: Honestly, we know this is a competition, but we're very sad that they won't be competing still with everyone else.

- So you guys excited to get on to your next step?

- I'm really excited.

Every single day is a crazy journey.

It’s getting serious.

We have to be extra sharp, extra precise.

- It literally put in perspective how real things got, 'cause now there's three teams left, so every second counts.

Elizabeth: Awesome, awesome.

Thank you, thank you.

- Good luck.

Demetrius: So I believe in my partner, my wife.

- We're getting to Day 10.

- And so we're gonna make it to Day 10.

- Without a doubt.

Dan: With a laser-focus of getting to Day 10, Team Blue begins their day in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with Team Red in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and Team Green on the shores of Lake Powell, Arizona.

♪ Elizabeth: Oh, he's giving you a hug.

Aw.

[phone dings] Uh-oh.

Why now?

[phone dings] - Yeah, this is a text from Dan.

- Okay.

- From Dan the man, the man with the plan.

Maria: "Good morning, teams.

- "And welcome to Day 7 of Relative Race."

- Hold on, hold on.

Oh, yeah, this is a double text.

Hold on, time out.

Backspace, delete.

All right.

- "Team Red will be traveling to New City."

New York!

- Oh my goodness.

- Yay!

- "Team Blue will be traveling to Chicago, Illinois."

- "And Team Green will be traveling to St. George, Utah."

Elizabeth: "Today's first-place winner "will receive a five-minute phone call.

- "Or a Day 10 benefit.

Your time starts now."

Let's go.

- All right, let's go, let's go.

- "Your time starts now."

We have to go.

- Get going, guys!

- No, just go!

[kisses] - Buh-bye, see you later.

- All right.

- Love you, thank you so much!

- Oh, love you, love you guys!

Well, we live in New York, so.

- Home court advantage.

- Meeting you guys.

- It's so nice meeting you.

And congratulations.

- I will definitely stay in touch.

I'm excited.

We're going to Utah.

I didn't know I had any family out there, so... See what happens.

- Get that, get that, get that!

- I got it, I got it.

- Get it, get it, get it!

- All right, Chicago!

We kind of felt like at some point all roads would lead us to Chicago.

Because that's where he's from.

Demetrius: And so to find out that we're heading to Chicago today...

I'm excited.

- Love you guys!

- Good morning, guys.

- Good morning, Dad.

Chonta: We love you!

- Bye!

[intense music] Dan: Back in North Carolina, the morning runs a little slower as the twins take a walk with their cousin Conley.

- It's a beautiful morning here in Goldsboro.

- It is.

- It is!

We have the whole day to just focus on who we're gonna meet.

- Right.

- Instead of how we're gonna beat the challenge, how we're gonna find our relative.

All the pieces of the game, we don't have to worry about that.

- What are y'all doing?

- Take a guess, who do you think we're gonna meet?

- We got a text, Kaley, from Dan.

- We're going to-- - Have you ever been to Virginia?

- Uh-uh, I don't think so.

- Oh, I haven't been, have you guys?

- Oh, yeah.

And it's real close.

- Good.

[laughter] Kaley: The family members that we've met each day have continued to encourage us, but not in a sense of just sweet words.

They've been intentional with telling us the things that we haven't heard the previous day.

And so we know that it's real and genuine, which is what we love most.

And then after these days are gone, we're gonna look back and be able to count all these family members and more.

Well, we wish we could stay, but we're gonna come visit you.

- Yes, absolutely.

Have a great time, and be safe.

- Thank you, we will.

♪ - It's Day 7 of Relative Race, and for the first time, we're without one of our teams.

Team Black was eliminated last night.

However, while the twins are no longer racing for $50,000, they are still searching for family.

They traded in their Day 10 benefit to meet one more family member and complete their journey.

As for our other three teams, they're continuing to race to find new relatives, each in a different city, all of them still hoping to find the finish line, this season in an undisclosed location.

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

Now, they're headed to a new city.

They must take a city selfie to prove that they made it, successfully overcome a common challenge, before ultimately finding their family.

Each team has a different allotted time, and once again, the team that goes over their allotted time the most will receive a strike.

And like Team Black, if you earn three strikes, you're out of the race.

Welcome to Day 7 of Relative Race.

♪ Elizabeth: Got some banjos.

- It's like ding-ling- ding-ding-ding-ding.

- Some banjies.

- [continues vocalizing] Elizabeth: Little banjie.

Is it a banjo or a banjie?

- [continues vocalizing] - Banjo.

Is it a banjo or a banjie?

- [continues vocalizing] Banjo.

Dan: While Team Red may not know what a banjo is, they do know where their destination is: New City, New York.

Their allotted time, including the challenge, is today's shortest, coming in at two hours and 53 minutes.

Bishop: I made up a word.

But I call it... - That word been out, Pops.

- Dad, we've been using that word for years.

- Chill-axing?

- Yeah.

- I never heard it from nobody else.

Dan: Team Green is chill-axing through the desert on their way to St. George, Utah.

Their allotted time is two hours and 54 minutes.

Demetrius: I love when people drive by us and look at us like we're strange.

- Because we are driving so slow.

Demetrius: Y'all do realize that the oil tanker is flying by us like we're standing still.

Just FYI.

♪ Dan: And careful not to break the speed limit is Team Blue.

They're making their way to Demetrius's hometown of Chicago, Illinois, with an allotted time of four hours and 10 minutes.

Now that all of our teams have settled in on the road... - Okay, so tell me the results from last night, guys.

Dan: ...the fact that only three teams remain begins to settle in.

- Um, Black Team got struck out.

- Wow.

- And then there were three.

- And then there were three.

I don't know.

It's sad.

I wish Team Black didn't have to go, you know?

Elizabeth: Yeah.

Maria: I love those girls.

- Sorry to hear that.

- They'll still get to meet family, they're just not part of the competition no more.

- Still on a good journey.

Still on a good-- - They is, for real.

'Cause that was the whole point when we came here.

Elizabeth: I mean, if you really got to think about it, is there, like, another team you would have preferred to go home first?

- I don't know.

I mean, obviously Blue, ha-ha.

Dan: Team Red dreams up some trouble for Team Blue.

- Wow.

Dan: And their wish... - Nothing's moving.

Dan: ...seems to have come true.

[mimics tires squealing] - Complete stop.

- Complete stop!

♪ Come on!

What is going on?

We're like, oh, my, are you serious?

- And we were rolling.

Demetrius: And nothing's moving!

I feel-- I would feel better if there was some movement.

- This is when it gets crazy.

[clock ticking] ♪ Dan: While most of our teams reached their destination cities... - We just gonna keep our eyes peeled.

- New City, yes, that's us.

- What is this?

Elizabeth: Exit 10.

Let's get it.

Dan: ...Team Blue's progress has come to a grinding halt.

Demetrius: They gotta know you cannot back traffic up like this.

I don't care what type of construction is happening.

Dan: But now, Team Blue isn't the only team running into trouble.

- Knock this selfie out.

You got the phone?

You ready?

- Let's get this, girl.

I got the phone.

Do I have the phone?

- I think it's up there, brother.

- We lost the phone.

Marcus: And we're freaking out, 'cause there's no telling how much time we'll lose if we don't find this phone quick.

- Seems like every time we're on a roll, it's something.

- Whatever it is, we need to get through this.

Like, completely through this.

- We're not gonna freak out, 'cause freaking out helps no one.

- We can't find the phone.

- Anywhere.

Marcus: And we keep passing city signs while we're trying to look for the phone.

- So now we're losing time.

[clock ticking] - That said New City towards this direction.

- I'm starting to freak out.

- So put North 33.

- Maria, I'm looking for the phone.

We cannot let this phone put us behind.

- Hoo!

All right, and we're back.

Demetrius: We finally get through construction.

Chonta: And now we have to refocus.

- Yep.

- All right.

Why am I freaking out?

We got this.

- Get the phone.

I'm holding onto the phone.

- Please.

Demetrius: Wait, this is Chicago.

Chonta: Yeah, this is Chicago Skyway.

- So we eventually make it to Chicago, and I'm home.

Let's go crush this thing.

There's just gotta be a sign somewhere around here that says Chicago Skyway.

Maria: We got the phone back.

Now we have to look for the city sign.

- New City!

Get in there.

Right now.

Let's get it.

Demetrius: Chicago Skyway.

- Chicago Skyway.

- Yes.

[horn honking] - I'm sorry.

Marcus: We pass another sign and then another sign and then another sign.

- We're definitely not getting first now.

- Whoo.

Elizabeth: We are doing this.

Demetrius: All right, babe, come on, come on, come on.

Chonta: Let's go!

Let's go, we gotta go!

- Sorry, car, you're gonna wait.

You're gonna wait, car.

- Perfect.

- My legs, from sitting here for so long.

- Give me the, give me the-- - Right there.

- No, you get in it.

Get in it, get in it.

Elizabeth: All right, let's get this one.

Maria: Let's get this one.

Chonta: Yep, boom!

Go.

Keith: All right, Pops, get off, get off, get off!

Bishop: All right, guys.

♪ [phone dings] - Uh-oh, our battery's almost dead!

That probably doesn't help.

[phone dings] - All right, there we go.

- All right, you know.

- Go!

- All right, come on, come on, come on!

- But at least we found the phone.

Otherwise, there'd be no selfie and we'd be dead in the water.

- You got the phone, right?

- Yep.

♪ - All right, let's go.

Chonta: Okay, let's go.

♪ [phone dings] - You want to read it?

- It was a little setback, but hopefully, we're gonna make up for it in the challenge today.

♪ Dan: With selfies out of the way, our teams start racing towards today's sketchy challenge.

Elizabeth: Oh, my gosh.

Maria: We see the challenge from the car, and... Elizabeth: It looked almost like... - A police lineup?

- Watch yourself, watch yourself.

Make sure nobody's over there.

♪ - Okay.

- Sketchy Suspects.

- Using various art supplies, recreate a suspect's face from memory.

Chonta: Your allotted time for the day includes 10 minutes to complete this challenge.

- All right, let's go!

Come on, come on!

Dan: The challenge for Day 7 is Sketchy Suspects.

Players must look at a photo of a suspect for five seconds, then sketch the face from memory using a pre-determined medium.

Once complete, the player hands it to their teammate, who must match the sketch to one of the multiple suspect pictures in front of them.

Five correct matches completes this challenge.

- So I'm really thinking that we are going to nail this challenge.

It is suspects, it is identifying, it's remembering, and this is what my husband does for a living.

Demetrius: I work in federal law enforcement as a special agent with the US government.

[clock ticking] Go ahead, go ahead, draw, draw, draw, come on, come on!

Elizabeth: Well they're asking for a lot!

The first picture says that we need to use charcoal.

Messy, dirty charcoal.

Chonta: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Demetrius: So move it.

Chonta: My strategy is just to find a characteristic on the face to pop out.

I'm done with the picture.

Maria: Come on.

Come on, baby.

Elizabeth: Oh, man.

It's a memory game, and this is the one challenge I was not looking forward to.

I'm sorry, I got excited.

[groans] Chonta: You can't see it.

- Ah, sugar.

I missed one important thing.

Chonta: Babe, what was that?

[buzzer] [groans] Elizabeth: That was my fault.

Yeah, no, that was my fault.

- We're feeling... a little anxious.

- Yeah.

- You do this for a living.

If this was a real-time situation, would you be able to identify those people?

- Probably not.

- Yeah.

- I'm sorry, I didn't see it.

I'm sorry.

Dan: As Team Blue fails to identify their suspect... - Make a left right here, Dad.

Dan: ...Team Green finally identifies their challenge location.

- So we're arriving to the challenge and I figure we can make up time, since we nail most of them.

"Sketchy Suspects."

Marcus: To look at it, I'm like, yo, I don't know how we're gonna do this.

We're on time, we're trying to make up our time for it.

Okay.

Charcoal.

Wow.

That was probably the most challenging part.

I can't even do this.

I'm a terrible drawer, just so you guys know.

The fact that you only have 30 seconds to draw a picture that you only looked at for five seconds.

Oh, no.

You're gonna have to deal with that, buddy.

[laughs] Oh!

[ding] You're lit.

You are lit.

I don't know how the heck you did that.

♪ - So next up, we have to use finger paint.

Chonta: Turns out that... yeah.

- I don't draw so well.

Has something to do with drawing.

Chonta: You're gonna have to draw something.

- Which is not my strong suit, by the way.

- Obviously.

Demetrius: Ugh.

Sorry.

- What the?

What is it?

- Uh, it's finger paint.

I don't know what to do.

- [stammering] Elizabeth: My memory is not all that good.

Maria: But... Elizabeth: Luckily hers is.

[laughter] - Oh, wow.

Ooh.

Keith: I have zero background when it comes to painting.

Marcus: And to try to guess was very difficult, doing it in the small time frame and only having 30 seconds to look at a picture.

That is difficult.

[buzzer] - You have to grab a face, girl, you have to grab a face.

- Okay, I'm sorry.

- I love you, let's do this.

[buzzer] Chonta: What is this?

What is this?

[buzzer] - Oh, no.

Sorry, brother.

- What is this?

How am I supposed to get this?

- I don't know!

I'm not an artist.

♪ - You got this, Lizzie, let's go, let's go, let's go.

It took a little bit of time to get into it.

Elizabeth: Eyes were closed.

[buzzer] Maria.

We got to keep-- - No.

You're not getting what I'm saying.

Chonta: I did a great job.

Demetrius: No one can really look at something for five seconds and just get it.

Ha-ha-ha!

[squealing] Demetrius: Come on, come on!

[squealing] - Sorry.

Okay.

- It was hard for me at first to get his.

Shoot.

Uh, Keith.

But then I started slowly but surely getting his.

My man.

Oh, yes.

- And then once we got into it, I think we were flying left and right.

Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull.

Next, go.

Then we finally were on a, like, rapid-fire flow, I feel.

♪ [laughs] ♪ [ding] ♪ [ding] ♪ [ding] - Okay.

I'm so sorry.

[laughs] - I feel very solid in this.

- I think we did, yeah, solid.

Um, yeah.

I don't think we did great, but I think we did a solid job.

- I got you, boom.

Your relative lives at... - 3967 South... - Irene Drive.

Let's go!

♪ Dan: With their challenge complete... Marcus: I don't even know where we are.

Dan: ...and address in hand... Demetrius: Did you look on that map and see any streets?

Chonta: They don't have a subset on this map.

Dan: ...all three teams charge toward their relatives, anxious to stop their clocks.

- Their streets are real confusing out there.

- I need you to help me look out for 9094.

But it's gonna change.

So at one, it's gonna go right, another one's gonna go left.

- Gotcha.

This is Chicago.

This is where you're from.

You did a great job.

Demetrius: It's my city, so I knew, that's 94.

- In the bag.

- And we jump out in traffic at 5:00 p.m.

It should be impossible for there to be this much traffic on the street.

If you know anything about Chicago... - Dun-dun-duh!

Demetrius: Yeah.

Very bad timing.

Maria: We got off at this exit, that's why.

We didn't know.

We finish our challenge, and as God would have it, the woman pulled into the parking lot as soon as we were ready to pull out.

- Which was that way.

- Yep.

- And then we made another right onto-- [car horn honks] - And she gave us directions to the T. - Do you know where Buena Vista Road is, by the way?

I mean, she was spot on.

You're the best, you're awesome.

Elizabeth: Thank you so, so much!

♪ - If I could, I'd jump on the train.

- Make a left over here at the USA gas station.

You see that up there?

- Yeah.

Keith: So we get into St. George and we pull into this gas station.

Pull up by the door, Pop.

And this lady gave us almost turn-by-turn directions.

Thank you!

Come on.

- This is supposed to be the fast lane.

It should be moving a little faster.

Elizabeth: Vista, Buena Vista.

Beautiful.

- Snow Canyon Drive.

Elizabeth: Okay, what is the address?

- 369.

- 369.

- Make a right or a left?

- Snow Canyon Parkway?

Make a right, Dad.

Elizabeth: 77.

So we passed it!

269!

- We didn't, no.

The number's going up.

- Dang, this Castle Rock community looks lit!

Look at this community up here.

- 269!

- 369.

- Oh, okay, sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Bishop: 250.

- It's coming.

Elizabeth: 369, right here!

369.

Dan: Having found their relative's address, Team Red is anxious to stop their clock.

Elizabeth: I don't know.

Maria: Well, it was a very long driveway.

Elizabeth: Yes, it was, so.

Maria: Felt like we were never gonna get there.

- Come on, come on.

Let's go.

- Go, come on, come on.

- Are you our relative?

- Yes, I am.

Elizabeth: Whose relative are you?

- Elizabeth, I'm related to you.

- You're related to me?

- Mm-hmm.

- How are we related?

- Elizabeth, I'm your father.

- I had a feeling.

- Are you okay?

Are you nervous?

Nervous?

- Hi.

- Hello, how are you?

- I'm your other, I'm your distant daughter.

- This is your other daughter.

Another daughter.

- How are you doing?

- Good, how are you?

- I'm fine, I'm fine.

My name is Hap, and I am Elizabeth's father.

Elizabeth: When Hap first walked out, you know, you could tell by his body language that he was definitely nervous.

And I could totally empathize with that.

'Cause I was nervous as well, honestly.

Because I don't know this man.

And yes, he's my biological father, but the little bit that I do know about him is he's had a very troubled past, it seems, and now that I'm here...

It's a little scary.

- How-how was your trip?

Maria: It was good.

- It's been long.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- We've been looking forward to meeting you.

- Well, same here.

Not as much as I've been, but.

- Yeah?

Hap: I had a lot of emotions going in.

Mixed emotions at the time.

And basically I've, I couldn't even control any of them.

It got a little overwhelming, you know, to say the least.

Maria: We are both a bit anxious, but we're gonna sit down and see where this goes.

- You guys want to come in real quick?

Elizabeth: Yes.

- All right, come on.

[soft music] [intense music] Marcus: All right, let's focus these numbers , bro.

- 500 is what we're looking for.

Marcus: We're going up the street and it's a really, really nice neighborhood.

Marcus: And then, totally unexpected, we're right next to some mountains, just in the middle of nowhere.

Is that volcanic rock right there?

Bishop: Yep.

- It looks like we on our way to Mars, bro.

And I'm lost.

I don't see a house, I don't see a tent, I don't see any people.

Like, near here?

Marcus: Make a left over here.

Keith: Where?

Where is it?

- Bro.

- This is 500 Canyon Drive?

- Are you serious?

Who, what?

♪ - Bruh.

And then we pulled up to this empty parking lot, and I'm really confused on what's going on.

♪ I'm thinking, are we going camping again?

Do we gotta set up another tent?

- Or did we go to the wrong location?

That's what I was thinking, 'cause I was lost.

- There's no way I'm sleeping here, buddy.

♪ And then, this guy pulls up in a slingshot.

What?

And we have similar features, and I'm looking at him like, oh dang, what's about to happen?

What?

[laughter] This is crazy.

- Hey, what's up, guys?

- How you doing, man?

How you doing, man?

- How you doing?

- What's your name?

- I'm your big brother, Andre.

- Whoa!

[laughter] Nice to meet you!

How you doing, man?

That's crazy.

That's crazy!

We look alike, bro.

This is my brother Keith right here.

- How's it going, bro?

- How you doing, man?

- I'm good, man, how you doing, man?

- That's crazy!

- Good to meet you, man.

- Oh!

- You too.

- That's crazy, fam.

- Man.

[laughter] Andre: My name is Andre Higgins.

I'm a producer and an artist by the name of Diggy Dre, and I'm Marcus's big brother.

Keith: You look just like Bishop, too.

Mm-hmm.

- [Andre laughs] Blown away?

- Yes, I am, bro.

I have another brother.

- That's crazy.

- Man.

Whoo!

God is good.

I'm just happy.

I can't stop smiling right now.

I just have a lot of reasons to be happy.

I feel like I have a new life.

I'm refreshed.

Like, my life is changed forever through this experience.

So that's what this smile is all about.

- When I was growing up, I would see all these other youngsters that had siblings.

I didn't have it like that.

You know?

So, uh, when I heard that I had a little brother...

I wanted to meet him.

[laughs] - Oh, man.

I got somebody with me in the car too.

- Who?

- Yo, Dad.

- What's up, Diggy?

- What?

Man!

[laughter] - This is crazy.

Marcus: To do it with my dad, too, we just hug it out, just hugs and tears and just appreciation, love.

All of the above.

Ah, man.

Bishop: Stand side by side.

Let me see.

♪ Get over here, close as you can.

♪ ♪ I've been alone in this place ♪ - Man.

♪ I wanna get face to face.

♪ - Crazy, man.

- So that's your big brother.

♪ Face to face.

♪ - You good?

- Yeah.

♪ Give me your hand ♪ - Oh, man.

♪ Fill in this space, I wanna get face to face.

♪ ♪ Face to face.

♪ It's just crazy.

- Come here, brother.

You gonna be all right.

- To see that my brother is happy and overwhelmed, to find out we have more family, it's just like me finding another brother.

It's a life-changer.

Andre: Now we got to get to know each other and hang out and do what brothers do, you know?

[cries] That's crazy, man.

♪ Dan: Back in Chicago, Team Blue is still battling through rush hour.

- I'm telling you, man, we have went... Chonta: Nowhere.

- Absolutely nowhere.

Chonta: It was a slow caterpillar crawl.

- I could've run faster to my relative's house than we drove.

- For sure.

Demetrius: I bet you it's gonna be down one of these streets.

- Fairmont...

But once we passed the traffic, we were able to get to our relative's house pretty quickly.

Demetrius: Come on, come on, come on.

♪ All right.

Come on, babe.

- Okay.

[knocking] - How you doing?

I'm Demetrius.

This is my wife, Chonta.

- Nice to meet you.

- Hi, nice to meet you.

- I'm Daphne Heffner, and I am your first cousin.

[laughter] You got another one over here.

Come on over here, buddy.

Chonta: Oh, hi, handsome!

Demetrius: Hi, big man, how are you doing?

Ah!

That's what I'm talking about!

- Hi!

- I needed this.

- My name is Isaiah.

- Isaiah, how you doing, big man?

I got to meet my first cousin Daphne on my dad's side of the family, and that was amazing.

Daphne: It's like a feeling I've never had before, because I've never met a family member that I didn't know.

I think it's just truly a blessing.

- You know what's funny?

Is that as soon as I found out we have that DNA connection, I just feel really at ease, like I've known them forever.

You are beautiful.

- Thank you.

You guys are beautiful!

Chonta: All these pretty Heffner people!

- Yes.

I told her, I told-- - So let's have a seat.

- Yes.

I'm glad to be a part of this Heffner family.

Everybody is very nice-looking.

Dan: All of our competitors have stopped their clocks and are now ready to spend the evening with newfound family.

But for Team Black, even elimination couldn't keep them from their final relative.

Kaley: As we were running to the front door, we knew that it was gonna be someone special, we just didn't know who it would be.

[acoustic guitar music] - Hi!

I've wanted to meet you guys for so long.

- I'm Kaley.

- I'm Kristin.

- And I'm your aunt Pam.

- You're real!

- I am real, I exist.

I am Pamela Dignen Payne.

I am Kaley and Kristin's aunt, their father's sister.

Kristin: We both knew immediately who she was, because growing up, our mom has shown us photos of our aunt.

And she's not in a photo anymore, she was in front of us.

[crying] - I'm sorry.

You guys are beautiful.

- Thank you.

Once we all looked at each other, we all started crying.

It was just a moment where you didn't really have to say anything.

You just knew that we've been searching for each other.

I know!

You guys are great.

- Thank you.

- Aw, thank you.

Pam: When I looked at them, I saw my brother, who I haven't seen in 25 years.

Being with them today was... everything to me.

You have the Dignen eyes.

- Mm-hmm.

- Oh, I've always been so proud of you.

- Thank you.

- I just wish I could've been a part of your life before now.

- Well, we have time now.

- Yes, we do.

- Oh, thank you.

- They're family.

And I missed out on a really big part of their lives.

- For our aunt Pam to say that she's been waiting for this moment is just a confirmation of what we needed to hear.

- Oh, I'm so glad you guys are here.

- Thank you.

- We are too.

- We have a lot of catching up to do.

- We do.

Please?

- Yes!

You want to go inside?

- Yes.

- All right.

Kristin: I couldn't have imagined it being any better than it was, 'cause it was so real.

- Yeah.

♪ Dan: As the sun sits low on the horizon, all of our teams bond with newfound family.

- Man!

[laughter] This is crazy.

- It's crazy!

[laughter] Dan: And while everyone spends time with their new relatives.. [record scratch] Team Green prepares to roll out in style.

- So what are we doing out here?

What's going on out here?

- Um, well, we got another one of these.

You guys want to roll out through the canyons?

[Keith laughs] - Yes!

I do!

- Come on.

- That would be so cool!

Oh my gosh.

[laughter] So my brother says he has another slingshot, and it's something I've always wanted to do.

I'm ready, let's do this.

Bishop: One on the left, our left, is clutch.

One in the middle is the break.

You want to try it?

- I don't know.

- He won't, I will.

- They gonna let me drive?

Why not?

- Don't have a license.

- Man, we wish we had our licenses for this, 'cause I really wanted to drive that slingshot.

But it's all right, I understand.

I can't drive stick anyway.

- Then it-- - [mimics engine humming] - Do you know how to drive stick at all?

Not at all?

Me neither.

Bishop: Go on an try it with him, Diggy.

You can do it.

Marcus: I would've never imagined doing that at all, especially the first time I meet my brother, we gonna ride slingshots.

♪ ♪ Super dope view, high red mountains.

We're going fast.

It was really fun.

Andre: The scenery alone added to what was going on at the moment.

- Let's go, yes!

- That was crazy.

Nothing--this whole journey is just rare.

It's one in a million.

Keith: Once our licenses are straight, we're definitely coming back.

We we’re gonna ride through the mountains again and get some shots of the views.

Dan: Back in New York, Elizabeth sits down with her father for the very first time.

Liz: So we had the opportunity to sit down, and I was grateful for the few questions that I did have growing up.

One being, "Well, who do I look like?"

- I hope you don't-- I hope you don't take after this side of the family.

This is from my mom's side of the family.

Liz: Well, thank you for good genes.

- She's always looked like this.

Liz: So, with a little bit of time, Hap was able to sort of relax himself, where we both, you know, had questions for one another.

I do want to know.

Talk to me.

- Before, I was like-- Your mom-- Me and your mother went to the same college, right?

So, you know how things go, I don't know, we were together.

But anyway, I end up leaving the school.

About a year later, somebody pointed me out, said, "Yo, that's the guy right there."

He tells me, rumor has it, that I... - And he expressed that when he had first found out that he had a child, you know, that he did his best to connect with my birth mother.

- He had her call me, she called me, then we talked, and then she told me everything, that she had already put you up for adoption.

She said she wrote down the file that it was unknown, so nobody never came looking for me, so, you know.

- Oh, so she did tell you all of that on the phone?

- Yeah, she told me all that.

Yeah, she told me, she told me all that, yeah.

Liz: Of course that's a great feeling, you know, to know that you tried.

But I just felt a need to let him know that I wasn't looking for him to look for me, you know?

I mean, I held no resentment toward him, and it was important for me to, um, express that.

- Well, if this makes you-- if this puts you at ease, I have to let you know that I have had an amazing life.

We have been blessed with the most incredible parents.

So I don't want you to feel any guilt.

I don't want you to feel like you should have done more, because my life turned out the way it was supposed to be.

- But I mean, it still was always going to be on my mind, you know, and that's basically why I sent my DNA.

Man, it was a point, like, when I said, "I gotta find her."

So I was looking for her, if she wasn't looking for me.

- It's times like these that sort of, it allows you... [clears throat] It allows you to reflect on, you know, the life that I've had, and I feel so blessed, and so fortunate, and everything turned out the way that it was supposed to be.

- You could tell she was raised by-- she had good parents, you know, and, uh, I mean, I commend them on that, too, but, uh, I was glad to hear that.

So, you two grew up since... Liz: Yes, since we were a few months old.

- There we go.

- So yeah, there's absolutely a feeling of resolution.

And really experiencing a deep, deep appreciation for our adopted parents.

I think once Hap and I understood that, that our relationship could now begin.

Pam: Let's catch up.

I know you guys have had a long trip.

Kristin: So our aunt Pam took us outside, and we just started talking to her and asking her some questions.

- So when is the last time that you guys saw your dad?

- He left when we were four, and then it just ended there, because he stopped showing up.

- Honestly, the last time I saw your dad was 25... 25 years.

Kaley: Our dad has not been in the picture in her life for a really long time as well.

Which we had no idea.

- The last time I tried to get in touch with your dad was when our parents died.

We had to actually hire somebody to look for him, um, but we did not find him.

Nothing.

Kaley: So he wasn't at the funeral?

- No, we never found him.

No, Mom or Dad.

He wasn't at either one.

- Wow.

- I feel sorry that they don't know him, but I feel sorry for him that he's missing out on, you know, the miracle of having kids, and I can't imagine-- You have to be proud of them.

I mean, they're amazing.

I just-- Like I said, it breaks my heart.

For you guys but also for his-- Kristin: Oh, yeah.

Same with us.

We feel more hurt for him than we do for ourselves.

- It takes a lot to say that.

- We didn't get much, but we got enough to know that what we've been looking for is something that a lot of people are also looking for.

Kaley: It's nice to hear that we're not the only people... - We're not the only ones.

- ...that we're all on the same page.

- Yeah.

Pam: I had just as many questions as they do.

The only thing I can share with them is memories when we were kids.

All right.

Some of these I haven't seen in a long time.

Kaley: Our Aunt Pam showed us a ton of photos that we haven't seen before.

- This is your dad.

Kristin: What?

That looks like us.

Kaley: What is he wearing?

[laughing] - I don't want to forget that.

I don't want to forget what he looks like, and I don't want to forget the happiness that was, you know, portrayed in the photos.

Pam: That, I believe, is the-- That's the last time I saw him, I think.

Kaley: This?

Wow.

Which was really cool to see how our dad grew up, and, you know, what he looked like at this age, and then the next age, and so on.

Kristin, look at this one.

[laughing] Kristin: Purple shirt with camo pants.

Hmm.

Kaley: The more photos, the better for us, just because it gives us a clearer picture of who he was.

♪ ♪ Mmm, mmm, mmm, ♪ ♪ Darlin', I won't let you go.

♪ ♪ - There is a picture that our aunt Pam showed us that was our dad and our mom hugging.

- You can look through these, but I always liked that picture of you and your.. - Aw, that's my mom.

- I don't know if you guys had saw that before.

Kaley: Uh-uh, I've never seen that photo.

- Oh my goodness.

They're so cute together.

Looking at that photo is just a relief that, you know, at that time, we had good parents.

And we're not going to remember anything bad about him.

We're going to remember all the happy things because that's what the picture is portraying, is happy.

♪ Dan: Back in Chicago, Demetrius sits down with his cousin Daphne, anxious for anything she can tell him about his father.

- So, so, Daphne, we're first cousins.

Daphne: Yes, yes.

- So, do you know if your dad and my dad are brothers, sister and brother?

As soon as I find out we're first cousins, I'm thinking, "She must know who my dad is."

- So I don't know all the answers either.

Um, all I know is that we're family.

- But unfortunately, she couldn't tell me who my father was.

Daphne: You know, I am still struggling with the right word to express or describe the answers.

'Cause he's got a lot of questions.

- Did your dad-- He had-- How many brothers did your dad have?

- Um, I'm really not sure.

I mean, obviously, J. W. was the closest one that we knew o.

And unfortunately, I haven't seen J.W.

since we buried Tonin.

- So there are lots of siblings, many of whom have passed away, so that's just where we're at.

Daphne: There's just still unanswered questions.

- Right.

And we won't know for some time.

But then, Daphne shows me a very special picture.

- So this is my grandfather, William James Heffner Sr. - Wow.

Chonta: Handsome, handsome guy.

Demetrius: And this man is potentially my grandfather.

Chonta: How about that?

- So I was able to pull out all the information I've gathered on this journey, lay it all out, and it led to this man.

And that was special.

I'm no, uh, genealogist, and don't know how to put all this together, but we're all connected through this.

- Yeah.

Demetrius: Three times my grandfather.

Chonta: Three times hers.

Demetrius: Yes, three times yours.

Twice my grandfather, you know, my great grandfather, grandfather.

Like, my mind is... [mimics explosion] Daphne: I mean, just the fact that you guys are standing here in my home is-- I'm just so grateful that you're on this journey.

- I am too.

- I don't have a lot of family in my life, so, uh, meeting Demetrius and adding another cousin to my family means so much to me.

Dan: As Demetrius's cousin shares her family photos, Elizabeth's father shares his favorite sport.

Liz: Hap chose golfing for us because he loves to golf.

So he wanted to share one of his passions with us.

Hap: Stay down on it!

[chuckles] - So it was challenging, because I'll admit, I don't like doing things that I'm not going to excel in, so.

- I agree.

- Don't so much swing your arms; use right here, use these muscles.

Your arms have got it coming.

Liz: Your arms are more stiff.

Hap: Yeah, you'll get a little better result.

- I have to keep my eye on it.

- You got it, eyy, oh!

There you go.

Liz: Oh, that was actually pretty good!

Hap: Yeah, it was!

[chuckles] Yeah, see that?

See that?

- Go Lizzy.

- Ayyy.

Hap: I guess it couldn't have been any better than it is now, but, you know, it's gotta end.

That's the bad thing, but like she says, she wasn't going anywhere, so, I can get into contact with he, and that's something that I couldn't do before today, so it don't get any better than that, you know?

Liz: He was very gentle.

I'm glad that that's a characteristic I feel today.

Kristin: Our aunt Pam had told us that our grandparents were both buried together at the veterans' cemetery.

And she told us that it wasn't far from her house, and so she wanted to take us there.

- Herman Dignen.

- So that's his.

Yup.

Oh that's-- They're there together.

Kaley: Standing our grandparents' plaque, it's kind of an unreal feeling.

U.S. Air Force Korea?

- Yeah, he was in the Korean War.

Kaley: Wow.

Pam: That's where they met, actually, when he was in the Air Force.

Kaley: Even though we didn't get to meet them in person, that's the closest we could ever get to being a part of their lives.

- Her refrigerator was covered with all of your twin pictures.

She was very proud of you.

Kristin: Are you okay?

- Yeah.

We don't really have, you know, a stable set of grandparents, um, and they sounded pretty great, so, we definitely wish we could have had a relationship.

Thank you.

This means a lot, thank you.

- It was very special to be able to take them to the gravesite, and I know that they were looking down and just were really, really happy that we were there together, and even though their grandparents were passed, Dan: As teams spend time with family, the setting sun is a weary reminder that the results are about to be delivered.

Marcus: I'm feeling a little anxious and nervous to see how the results are going.

Demetrius: I'm nervous because we crushed it today, except for... - The traffic.

- Yeah, the traffic.

- We could have pushed harder today.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, and with Team Black not in the mix, there's a better chance that we get a strike.

Dan: It's Day 7 of Relative Race, and something feels and looks different.

Keith: It was strange seeing just three different teams up there.

Dan: Did you all notice today when you were out on the road, could you feel that Team Black just wasn't with you anymore?

Marcus: Yeah.

- Yes.

- Yeah.

- What were some of your thoughts?

- It's bittersweet.

And I even said, "I'm not looking forward "to our conference call later, 'cause it's just not gonna feel the same."

- We feel like they're family, and so that's a little rough.

- Interesting observations.

I want to stay with Team Blue, because when you guys started today, it kind of went from bad to worse because you started in fog and then you hit solid construction.

And this didn't slow you down, it actually stopped you.

- Yeah, came to a complete stop.

- Halt.

- And five minutes can feel like a lifetime when you're... Chonta: It felt like hours!

Demetrius: Yes.

Marcus: When I heard about Blue Team's weather issues and traffic problems, I ain't gonna lie, I got a little happy.

Maybe there's a little hope for Green Team to score second today.

Dan: Team Red, who did you meet today?

Liz: So today, I met the man that gave me life.

- Whoo!

- Wow.

- This is my birth father.

- Hey y'all, what's goin' on?

- His name is Joseph, but he goes by "Hap."

- It's Hap!

Liz: Hap, and it's short for "happy hands."

Because he is an incredible football player.

- How y'all doin', all right?

Good luck, everybody.

- Even to be able to potentially have taken any weight that Hap has felt in his heart, you know, to have light in that, and let him know that, you know, again, I hold no resentment, and everything turned out the way that it was supposed to be.

Yeah.

- Oh, congratulations.

To now finally meet your father!

- Yes.

Demetrius: We're on such similar journeys.

To see Elizabeth get to meet her dad, I'm so happy for both of them.

Dan: Team Green, who did you meet, Marcus?

- So I met my brother, Andre, from my dad's side.

This is my brother right here.

- What's up?

Marcus: Come to find out, um, we've seen each other before, performing at the same venue, but we've never spoken to each other.

- No way.

- You're kidding!

Marcus: We were in the same city, performing at the same venue, but never knew who each other were.

Like we've seen-- When we seen each other, we were like, "Yo, I've seen you before."

- He was like, "I've seen you before.

Did you go to this venue?"

"Yeah, I performed there."

So we performed at the same exact place but did not know we were brothers.

Dan: That is incredible.

It's incredible.

Demetrius and Chonta, who did you meet tonight?

- Please, meet my beautiful cousin Daphne.

Don't we look alike?

Maria: Beautiful!

Your whole family's beautiful!

- I know, y'all, I know!

- Congratulations, bro.

- Thank you, man.

Dan: Well, it's time, teams, to find out who finished in first place and who will receive a strike on Day 7.

Each of you approached your challenge in slightly different manners, and some of you did better than others.

Weather continues to bog Team Blue, and Team Green lost time when they lost their cell phon.

But, as you know, everything can even itself out throughout the course of a day.

The team that finishes in first place today will have their choice of a five-minute phone call tomorrow-- Now that's at any time, to anyone you want.

Or you can choose a Day 10 benefit that will only help you if you make it to Day 10.

The team that needs to make that decision, finishing seven minutes over their allotted time... is Team Red.

- We won.

- Whoo!

First place.

Maria: And it definitely wasn't a question what we were gonna choose.

Both: We choose the... [laughs] We choose the Day Ten benefit.

- All right.

Spoken from two sisters who still think they're going o make it all the way to Day 10.

We shall see.

So it comes down to Team Blue and Team Green.

Keith: To hear that you're down to the bottom two can be nerve-wracking.

- Now I know a strike is a real possibility tonight.

- Each of you has one strike, which means neither one of you, regardless of what happens, will be heading home tomorrow.

The team that finished in second place, finishing 37 minutes over their allotted time...

Team Blue, you're safe for another day.

Team Green, you finished a mere two minutes behind Team Blue.

You finished 39 minutes over your allotted time, and have earned your second strike on Relative Race.

Marcus: I ain't gonna lie, um, it was a little upsetting to hear that we got a second strike.

It just means that we have to be extra sharp tomorrow with navigation, extra sharp with our challenge.

We just gotta pick it back up.

- But, I have a feeling the sting of a strike has been lessened by the discovery of a brother.

- One hundred percent, one hundred percent, Dan.

- What an eventful and fulfilling day for all three of our teams.

And you're all still in it.

$50,000 is on the line, but more importantly, more family is out there waiting to meet you.

Good night and good luck.

- Good night, everyone.

- Good night, guys.

- Congratulations, Liz.

- Congrats, Demetrius.

- All right, love you guys.

- We love y'all.

- Love y'all too.

Y'all have a good night.

Hap: So y'all, you won it, you won it, right?

- We won it.

- We won.

- Yeah, but I thought you lost!

I thought you was like... - No, just in shock, like... - To me, seven minutes meant, like, you needed that seven minutes.

- There are two days left.

I have complete faith in us.

- I do.

Maria: Yes.

Dan: Day 7 is in the books, and the results are final, with Team Green narrowly taking a second strike, and Team Red taking a first-place prize.

- So ladies, this is what you get for winning today.

Liz: So we just need to get through tomorrow, not get a strike, and we're going to Day 10.

- And we got three boxes.

- Hey Daph!

Daphne: I got nervous there for a second.

- We are excited about Day 8, because if we don't get a strike, we are a shoo-in for Day 10.

- Yes.

- So our objective tomorrow is to get to Day 10 by-- - Both: Any means necessary.

- So we got our second strike.

- A third one means go home, huh?

- But we're not getting a third strike.

We're not gonna let that happen.

'Cause I'm not going for second place.

We gotta get first the next two days, strike somebody out.

So that means these next two days, me and my brother have to get first in order to even it out with Team Red.

We're gonna be good, though.

We're gonna be straight.

I promise you that.

We got another strike today, but it's all right.

We still got two days left.

We're gonna try to get two more Day 10 benefits.

- Day 7.

Two more days to go.

- We plan on still moving forward to Day 10, so talk to you later.

- Be on the lookout, y'all, we comin'.

Two more days.