♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race... teams stopped, popped, and rolled into an unusual challenge.

Patrick: Agh!

Callie: Ugh!

Patrick: Oof.

Dan: But for Mitchell on Team Blue, an unexpected injury brought their race to a halt.

Dan: Teams Red and Green both met new cousins.

Andy: Ohhh.

June: You're welcome!

Geselle: I was able to meet another matriarch and really glean from the wisdom and the stories that she had.

Dan: Patrick finally met his father Mark.

Mark: I'm Mark.

- Yep!

Patrick: Are you sure?

I can't, I can't quite see it, yeah!

Callie: [emotional laughter] Dan: And when Mitchell met his brother's wife, Corsica, she shared some difficult news.

- Your brother has, um, passed away.

It's been nine years.

Mitchell: I know now that you can't dwell on past losses, you need to dwell on what's happening now and who's here now, and you need to just appreciate what you have.

Dan: Team Blue picked up their first strike of the race.

And Team Green took the first-place prize of immunity.

Callie: Oh, nice!

Andy: So, if we come in last, third place picks up the strike and really all bets are off.

Dan: Putting all the other teams at risk today of receiving a strike.

♪ [cars whirring] Dan: DNA tells us who we are and where we came from.

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... Taquida: Woo!

[honk honk] - Are you kidding me?

Patrick: [snorts] Dan: ...to win $50,000... Mitchell: Go!

Go, go, go, go, go.

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 ♪ ♪ [epic music] Dan: After a full week of meeting new family... Callie: [emotionally] Thank you so much for coming.

Dan: ...all four teams are still in the race to compete for the $50,000.

- Game face, on.

Dan: But after yesterday's unexpected injury, Team Blue has an uphill climb.

Mitchell: The pain really hit and it was pretty bad.

Dan: Today Team Blue will have to fight through the pain, as they start from Indianapolis with one strike.

Mitchell: The doctor cleared me to compete, but it's gon' be a whole lotta limping today.

Dan: Team Red starts off in Mandeville, Louisiana.

They also have one strike.

Taquida: Today is the most important day to do well in the race.

Dan: For Team Black, their day begins with two strikes in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

And Team Green is at Lake City, Pennsylvania with two strikes but immunity.

And this time a strike will be given at the end of the day, which means no one is guaranteed a spot in Day 10.

♪ [gull squawking] [phone dings] Callie: Dapper Dan.

"Good morning, teams-- Geselle: "--and welcome to Day 8 of Relative Race.

"Team Red will be travelin' to-- Both: "Baton Rouge, Louisiana!"

Mitchell: "Team Blue will be traveling to Lafayette, Indiana."

Callie: "Team Black will be traveting-- traveling to Sheboygan."

Lizzy: "And Team Green will be traveling to Olmsted, Ohio!"

Callie: "Your time starts--" Lizzy: "--now."

Geselle: [grunts] Trinesha: All right!

Mitchell: Yes.

Trinesha: Well, we miss ya.

Mitchell: Tell the kids we said bye, and we will definitely stay in touch.

Corsica: Okay!

Andy: Oo.

Olmsted, Ohio.

We are heading to Olmsted, Ohio.

I have no idea what's ahead of us.

Mitchell: This morning my knee's a little sore, little swollen.

But it's manageable.

Patrick: We get the text from Dan and we're going to Sheboygan, which we-- Callie: [sing-songy] Sheboygan!

- I mean, we know of Sheboygan, but I don't-- Callie: Yeah, I've been to Sheboygan Patrick: You've been to Sheboygan.

Taquida: We're just hoping' that we can get through one more day with no strikes so that way we can make it to Day 10.

[upbeat music revs] [cars rumbling] ♪ Taquida: Pullin' out the house this morning, we just wanted to make sure that we weren-- was not goin' the wrong direction.

Geselle: Pull into the Piggly Wiggly to ask some random stranger.

Taquida: Hi, sir!

Um, we're headin' to Baton Rouge, can you tell us the quickest way to the freeway?

Taquida: Okay, thank you!

♪ Dan: After a lucky stop at a Piggly Wiggly, Team Red is leaving Mandeville and headed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Their allotted time today is 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Mitchell: Excuse me.

Trinesha: We're trying to get onto the highway, 65 North-- everything is closed!

We asked so many people how to get to the highway.

Just keep going?

Mitchell: Thank you!

- Thank you!

Mitchell: They just kept saying, keep goin', keep goin', and we really don't know how far down we're supposed to go.

Dan: Rough roads and difficult directions give Team Blue a slow start out of Indianapolis.

They'll hopefully reach Lafayette all in an allotted time of 1 hour and 31 minutes.

- [singing] Sheboygaaaan-uh!

Dan: Staying in Wisconsin today is Team Black.

Their drive will take them from Oshkosh to Sheboygan, with an allotted time of 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Andy: So, we decided, you know what?

We've got immunity today.

Let's go ahead and just slow down a little bit, enjoy the moment.

Dan: With immunity on their side today, Team Green is leaving Lake City, Pennsylvania and headed to Olmsted.

They have an allotted time of 1 hour and 58 minutes.

[soft music] Callie: [singing] It's vlog tiiiimmmmee!

Patrick: All right.

Callie: What have you learned about your partner during this journey?

- Uh, the big thing is I've learned, like, why we have some of our differences.

That's 'cause Callie's family is different than my family.

They're not-- not in a bad way, just they're different.

- My brother is one of the best human beings I've ever met in my life.

He would give you the shirt off of his back, he is a hard worker, he loves his family.

Always.

There were a lot of times as a kid and growing up that I felt less than.

Um, because I couldn't be Pat.

And...

I was never, now I know that I was never meant to be Pat.

Um.

Because I am who I am and he is who he is.

- Having Callie as a sister has always been an adventure.

She's the type of person that comes into the room and she brightens the mood.

Uh, she knows what to say, she's one of those people where you're havin' a bad day, she, she knows how to, to help and she knows what to say.

And again, I have had a lot of bad days with all the stuff with Isaac.

Isaac fought neuroblastoma for three years and then died four days after his sixth birthday.

So, she's always been there, um, for me for that.

And so, I'm always very appreciative.

Always been very grateful to have her in my life, uh, and to have her as a sister.

♪ - The first time I met Trinesha she just... she was just everything!

The minute she walked into the room...

I lost sight of everything else!

She just lit up the whole room.

And once I found out through talking to her that we were adopted, it made me feel less alone and it also made me feel like I could tell her more things than I could tell anybody else.

♪ Trinesha: Mitchell's my best friend.

I couldn't think of anybody better to spend my life with.

He is absolutely amazing, we get along so well, and, honestly, he's my rock!

He's on my side and...

I'm absolutely in love with him.

I couldn't imagine anybody else that I want to spend my life with and definitely anybody else I wanna go through this journey with.

♪ Geselle: Journeying on this race with Taquida has been... amazing.

We started off on this journey not really knowin' what was gonna happen.

Um, but as it happened, it seemed like, uh, God allowed it to, to grow us closer.

Even in my lowest moments, she was that person that stepped in to pick me up and say, hey, I gotchu.

And I really, um, I-I'm really grateful.

Taquida: I am grateful for Geselle because you always need that person around you that kind of pulls out the best in you.

She is full of soul.

Even in, uh, some of our hardest moments she has still been upbeat.

We instantly meshed together and we have laughed and cried this entire journey.

♪ Andy: I love you, kitten.

Lizzy: I love you, baby.

- Happy anniversary.

- Happy anniversary.

Lizzy: We met on a dating app, and fell in love really, really quickly.

Andy: When I decided to propose to Lizzy, I took her to the top of the Seattle space needle, went down on one knee and, uh, asked her to marry me and... fortunately for me she said yes!

Today is our first anniversary.

From the first moment that I talked to her, I just knew that she was a unique and completely one-of-a-kind individual who, in many ways, brought a new happiness into my life that I'd never experienced before.

- Some of the things I absolutely love about Andy is his outgoing personality.

And...

I would fall apart without everything that he does for me.

And he helps me... guide me in my life.

Andy: I couldn't imagine experiencing it with anybody else.

I love you.

- I love you, too.

♪ Dan: As Team Blue approaches their destination city, Mitchell reflects on the journey that has brought him here and the relatives that still wait for him.

- How are you gonna feel today if it's somebody from your family?

Mitchell: [sighs] I don't know.

I don't know.

I just hope that whoever we meet, you know... um, they have the same... you know, joyful attitude about meeting us.

- I just don't know what to expect.

♪ Mitchell: I was pretty much raised almost in the foster care system being moved from home to home.

All in all it wasn't a great experience.

When we were moved from our home, my three sisters went into one truck, I went into another truck.

We were immediately separated.

The trucks pulled out, and went completely different directions.

I was taken to a local boys' group home.

I stayed there for about a week until we had our first visitation.

And then that's when we got to see each other again at the CPS office.

But little did I know about a week later, we'd be goin' to court and my sister would be goin' with her biological father.

♪ If I had the chance to only meet one relative, it would be my sister Dykema.

We, um, we got separated from a early age, and I would love to... find out where she went in life and how she fared goin' through the-- straight from the system, straight to her father.

The main thing I want people to know is that no matter where you come from, no matter what situation you're in, you can always overcome.

You can always make your situation better, but never lose sight of the-- what you went through, though.

I don't forget nothing I went through, I remember it vividly.

And it's shaped me into who I am now.

Trinesha: I'm just nervous about what's gonna be there.

I dunno, I'm ex-- I'm a, I'm a nervous, and I'm excited.

♪ Dan: The race is ramping up as all of our teams can see their destination cities.

Geselle: Baton Rouge!

Taquida: [sing-songy] We're here!

[phone dings] Callie: Welcome to Sheboygaaan!

- Your challenge is located at-- Lizzy: 31515-- Geselle: Highland Road.

- All right, let's go.

Geselle: Woop!

Woop, woop.

♪ Trinesha: Go.

Mitchell: Come on.

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

Taquida: Right there, let's go!

♪ Callie: I did it!

Patrick: Good job, good job.

- Your challenge for Day 8 is Knight in Shining Plunger!

[triumphant horn fanfare] Dan: our challenge for Day 8 is Knight in Shining Plunger.

For this challenge, teammates will throw plungers at shields.

There are two rounds.

In round one, they will take turns as they must each stick a plunger onto a standing shield.

For round two, each teammate will have their own shield.

The plungers will be flying, and once they have both stuck a plunger onto their teammate's shield, the pillaging of the plungers is complete.

[whoosh] [thump] Geselle: Okay.

Taquida: All right, let's go.

[William Tell Overture] ♪ [chainmail rattles softly] ♪ [thud] [birds chirping] ♪ Patrick: That didn't work well.

I'm going with the other style.

[thud] Mitchell: Oh, that is harder than I thought!

[thud] Lizzy: Try harder.

Andy: [laughing] Thanks.

Lizzy: No, throw harder.

[thud] Oo.

♪ [suction sticks] Patrick: Oo, good job!

Callie: I throw one... Patrick: Then I just get to keep going, and then I get one to stick as well.

[ding] Patrick: There we go!

Geselle: [laughing] Come on, Hercules, slow it down!

Mitchell: Nice!

[thud] Oh, okay!

[thud] Andy: Oo, nice try.

Patrick: So the second part of the challenge, we now have a shield... Callie: We put on our headgear, our face masks.

And we grab our shields which are very heavy!

Patrick: And instead of just throwing it at a standing target, we're throwing it sort of at each other.

I like to throw stuff at Callie's head so I was just aimin' a little high.

Callie: I grab that plunger out and I haul Excalibur.

[ding] And I land it.

Patrick: Again!

Callie: I'm two for two.

Prr, prr!

Patrick: I did not empty my bucket but I came very close.

Callie: [yelling] Aim with your elbow!

Patrick: Okay.

Oops!

And then was able to get one to stick.

Now we battle the dragon.

[ding] Callie: Bam!

Nailed it!

And we are outta there-- [Old English accent] we are Knights of the Round Table!

[silence] Patrick: That's right.

Callie: [snorts] ♪ You will find your relative at 518 Huron Avenue, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Patrick: All right, let's go!

Callie: [Old English accent] We ride at dawn!

♪ Dan: While Team Black gallops off in their noble steed, [thud] Teams Red, Green, and Blue are still plunging away at the challenge.

Mitchell: That is way harder than I thought!

Geselle: A little bit lighter.

[whack] Lizzy: But we're so good at darts, though.

Andy: I know, this is horrible.

Taquida: We gotta get more rotation.

[thud] [whack] Andy: Not in the least.

Mitchell: One, two... [ding] Mitchell: Nice!

Trinesha: Yes!

Mitchell: Oh!

Trinesha: I got the first plunger and it felt great.

It was really cool.

Mitchell: She was givin' me pointers and I'm the plumber!

[ding] Taquida: Okay, good job, good job.

Lizzy: This is our first anniversary date.

The most romantic first anniversary date ever.

Andy: I take you all the good places, bebes.

Lizzy: Yeah.

To this, uh, indoor soccer complex.

♪ Mitchell: I gotchu, all right, okay.

[thud] Oo!

Little less, put a little less.

Trinesha: Yeah, like a little like... bam!

Mitchell: Let's go!

Trinesha: Yes, let's go!

[thud] Geselle: Almost, come on.

[slow-mo whoosh] [ding] Geselle: Good job!

Taquida: 'Kay, good job.

[high-five] ♪ [ding] Andy: Oh, yes!

Lizzy: Yeeesss!

Andy: This brilliant, lovely woman here came up with a great idea.

Well you know what, why not throw it with the wooden shaft end first?

[thud] Lizzy: It ends up working.

Andy: Brilliant!

♪ [ding] Andy and Lizzy: Yes!

Patrick: You want me to wait for this one to go and go left and go to that Citco and see if we can ask someone?

Callie: Umm... yep, I guess.

That's-- we don't have an option.

- Okay.

That's okay.

We decide instead of trying to really push it and just keep wandering around, we decided stopping at a gas station was the best thing to do.

♪ Callie: Hi there!

Um, are you local to the area?

Woman 1: Yeah.

Callie: Yes, we're looking for Huron.

Woman 1: For Huron?

Callie: Huron Avenue.

Woman 1: It's that way.

Callie: Okay, how far?

I go into the gas station and I ask the attendant if she knows where Huron Avenue is, and she does!

Left and to Huron, perfect, you're awesome, thank you so much!

I fly back into the car, I tell Patrick to take a left out of the gas station, and to go three blocks down.

It is not three blocks down.

Patrick: You know?

That's all we can do.

We can only do what we can do.

I mean we can't just-- Callie: I know!

I just don't wanna go home.

Patrick: It's fine.

♪ [ding] Mitchell: Let's go!

Let's go, all you!

[ding] Mitchell: Let's go!

Trinesha: Wooo!

Mitchell: Uh!

Gimme some!

Trinesha: Yeahhh!

Woooo!

Mitchell: Let's go, Tiny, great job!

Overall, we-- Both: --crushed this challenge.

You will find your relative at 6234 Shale Crescent Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Let's roll.

Trinesha: All right, let's go.

Taquida: After finishin' the first part of the challenge, we was thinkin' that the other part was gonna be a breeze.

We were in for a wide awakenin'.

[Mozart's 'Der Hoelle Rache'] [thud] ♪ [thud] [plungers thud rhythmically] Geselle: I'm sorry!

[plungers thud rhythmically] Taquida: Little harder.

♪ Andy: Ugh!

♪ [ding] Andy and Lizzy: Yes!

Taquida: Are you throwin' with your left hand?!

Geselle: 'Cause I gotta grab the-- hmph.

Taquida: Were you throwin' with your left hand?!?

Geselle: [laughs] Taquida: My partner's throwin' with her left hand instead of her right hand.

[laughing] We have to remind her to throw with her dominant hand.

Geselle: [chuckles] [thud] [thud] [thud] [plungers thud rhythmically] ♪ [thud] [ding] Taquida: Got it!

Okay, one more!

♪ [ding] Andy: Oh, yes!

[ding] Geselle: Got it!

Taquida: Good job!

Lizzy: All I can say is, thank goodness... we have immunity.

Andy: [laughs] ♪ Lizzy: You're supposed to open it.

Andy: Thank you.

Taquida: All right, you will find your relative at-- Andy: 2026-- Taquida: McKinley Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Both: Okay, let's go.

Dan: With relatives' addresses in hand, our remaining teams join the race to find their family.

Geselle: Excuse me, ma'am!

Do you know where West McKinley Street is?

Woman 2: I do not.

Geselle: Okay, thank you.

Callie: We turn onto Huron and we start looking at numbers, and the numbers are getting bigger.

Twelveee... fourteeeen, I think we need to turn it around.

Yep, turn it around.

Other direction.

Mitchell: Go.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

[tense music] Andy: We run into a convenience store and ask the manager if he knows where Baxterly Avenue is.

Hello!

We have to find Baxterly Avenue, do you have any idea where that might be?

Fortunately he knows exactly where it is!

Awesome!

Thank you so much!

Lizzy: Thank you so much!

♪ [gentle music] Callie: 526, 524... 518, right there!

Patrick: Right here?

Callie: Yep, right there!

We finally reach the 500 block of Huron and we pull right up to the front door.

Oh!

Patrick: This is interesting.

Callie: Ohhh!

We get out of the car and we see a couple standing there and-- Patrick: We know they're, don-- they don't look like Reichenbergers.

Callie: We know they're not Richenbergers, but we're not quite sure who they belong to, exactly.

Callie: In the back of my mind, I'm thinking, it could possibly be this woman that I had previously spoken to through AncestryDNA.

I'm Callie!

- I'm Patrick!

Woman 3: Hi!

- I'm Rich.

- I'm Gloria.

Callie: [claps] I knew it.

Rich: And I'm Callie's relation.

- How are we related?

Rich: Cousin!

- We're cousins?!

Rich: Yes!

Callie: It is wonderful to meet you.

Callie: [laughs] Gloria: Here, come hug me.

Patrick: Ahh!

Gloria: We can, we can hug, too!

Callie: [laughing] Ohhh.

[laughing continues] Gloria: You're welcome!

It's good to meet you!

Callie: [laughing] Hello, Miss Gloria.

Gloria: Hi.

Callie: [laughs] Nice to finally meet you.

Gloria: Nice to meet you too, my goodness!

I didn't wanna give anything away-- Callie: [laughs] Rich: I'm Richard Schroeder.

- I'm Gloria Schroeder.

- And I'm Callie's first cousin.

- We've been waiting a long time to meet her.

I had found the DNA match in, in 2017 and I sent a message to Callie and she... didn't find the message until last November.

Callie: I got a message and I sent her a message back and I said, I don't know how to... Patrick: Yeah.

Callie: ...really go about this and explain this because I'm adopted and I have no idea what the relation would be!

Rich: Guess what!

I'm adopted, too.

Callie: Are you?!

Rich: [laughing] Yeah!

- Oh my gosh.

Rich: It's the DNA thing.

Patrick: That's right!

Callie: Wow!

So, it's like a whole mystery!

Rich: Yes.

Patrick: And that's why you were reaching out and looking, too, 'cause you were trying to find his family.

- His family, yes.

Patrick: I gotcha.

Callie: Wowww.

Gloria: Yup.

Rich: That's real interesting, isn't it?

Patrick: That is!

Gloria: [chuckles] Callie: I'm really excited now!

[laughs] Patrick: Yeah, that's crazy!

Callie: Not only are these the first relatives that I've been able to meet on my biological father's side, I also find out that Rich is adopted!

So, I can only imagine that he is just as excited to find blood as I am.

- I'm so glad that we got to meet you!

Patrick: Yes!

Callie: I know!

Well, yeah, because we were, you were my strongest match!

So...

I'm very excited now.

Patrick: I know!

That is crazy, that's awesome.

Gloria: We got lots of stuff to share.

Callie and Patrick: Yes!

Callie: I'm excited!

Rich: Would you like to come in and get out of the-- Callie: Yes, we would love to!

Yes, and get outta this rain.

Gloria: Come in, come in.

Callie: [laughs] Thank you.

I'm very excited, as soon as I found out that this is Miss Gloria because I knew that she had a lot of information.

I knew that she had this extensive family tree that she had done.

So I knew that she was gonna have a lotta answers for me.

♪ Dan: The clock keeps ticking as three of our four teams desperately search for their relatives' address.

Trinesha: We're looking for Shale Crescent Drive.

Mitchell: That's fine.

Both: Thank you!

Mitchell: So much.

Our relative's address is in a newly developed part of town.

So none of the locals had heard of the street name at all.

So our best strategy was just to guess and hope we were makin' the right decision.

Geselle: So we driving past LSU, uh, stadium.

'Scuse me, ma'am!

By chance, would you happen to know where West McKinley Street is?

Woman 4: Oh, I'm not from here.

Geselle: You're not fro-- Woman 4: I'm so sorry!

Geselle: Okay, that's no problem!

Everybody's sayin' they're not from here.

Would you guys happen to know where West McKinley street is?

Woman 5: No, we ain't from here.

Geselle: Ugh!

Andy: Baxterly.

Lizzy: Ah!

[snaps] - This man is a rockstar.

Kudos to you, Mr.

Convenience Store Manager!

- So a lady came from around the car and she was like, yeah, go this way and it's kinda downtown, and you're gonna see the street.

Geselle: Okay, thank you so much.

Taquida: Okay, thank youuu!

Trinesha: Eventually we did find the street, and then it was smooth sailing from there.

- 6234, there it is, right there.

[slap] Mm!

Taquida: That's McKinley, right there, okay.

Geselle: Right on this side.

Taquida: Okay.

Geselle: 594.

♪ [clock twittering] [ding] Geselle: I hope you got some tissue.

♪ Walking up to the porch, I saw a gentleman that was a ball of nerves.

But on top of that I began to see some facial features that kinda look familiar.

My name is Geselle.

- And I'm Taquida.

Man: [emotionally] I'm Kevin, your brother.

♪ [sobbing] ♪ [sniffling] ♪ My name is Kevin Nixon and I am Geselle's brother.

Geselle: When he said that he was my brother, Kevin, it was definitely a shock.

Geselle: Been lookin' for y'all.

♪ I'm just, I'm taken back right now.

Kevin: Me too.

[sobbing] Seeing some'n in her face that's familiar is undescribable for me.

It's really too strong for words.

I just wanna get to know you and get to spend much time as I can wi-- [sobbing] - Kevin held Geselle's hand for a while and just talked to her and just expressed how much he loved her and he was happy to meet her.

[exhales] Geselle: It was a moment for me, I-- because I've never seen a male that in touch with his emotions.

When did you find out that I was-- existed?

Kevin: My little sister, Laticha, she called me and, and asked me that I wanted to meet ya, and I told her, of course.

[sniffling] [sobbing] Of course.

Taquida: It's like he's been waiting for that moment with her since he found out that she was there, so, that was just like unwrapping that present, you know?

You finally see what's on the inside of it because you've been waitin' for so long to open it.

Kevin: Wanna go inside?

Geselle: Yeah.

Let's go.

Kevin: [sniffling] ♪ ♪ Lizzy: Umm... number on this side is 2014, so it's gonna be on this side, 2018, 201-- Andy: 20... 2026!

[clock twitters] We're here!

[ding] Lizzy: This-- oh yeah!

Is that a six?

Andy: It is!

♪ We are here.

Lizzy: We are.

♪ Andy: Hello!

Woman 6: Hi!

[laughs] How are you?

Andy: Doing well.

- Hoo!

♪ - I'm Andy, and this is my wife, Lizzy.

- Hi, Lizzy.

Andy: And who are you?

- I am your sister, Stephanie.

Andy: Whoa, come here!

Stephanie: [laughs] Andy: Ohh, it's so good to meet you!

Stephanie: Nice to meet you, too!

♪ Andy: The moment that she came down the stairs, I was completely taken aback, and...

I think we both just kind of melted into each other's arms.

Yeah, it was just a beautiful moment.

Well, it's amazing to meet you!

Stephanie: Yeah, it's nice to meet you, too!

I-I'm up way above 13.

All: [laugh] - Today I met my brother Andy.

Now I'm actually meeting this person that was a figure in my life that I never met and I never thought I would.

Just shocked that I have an older brother, to be honest with you!

[laughs] I've always been the older sibling everywhere, so having an older sibling's kinda cool.

So yeah, I mean, wow.

This is crazy.

- Come here, give me a hug.

Stephanie: [laughing] Okay.

Andy: We've got 48 years to make up for.

Stephanie: [laughs] ♪ Andy: It's crazy to think about one week ago, I knew nothing about this.

And today, I've got family.

Did you know about me?

- I have.

For a while.

- Okay!

Stephanie: Yeah.

Do you wanna go inside and we can talk about that!

- That sounds like a great idea, thank you!

♪ ♪ [clock twittering] [ding] - All right.

Oh!

Hello!

I seen her standing outside, and I knew we were related, I could tell from the face and everything.

Trinesha: Hi!

- Hi!

Trinesha: How are you!

Woman 7: I'm fine!

- My name is Trinesha.

Mitchell: Hello!

- My name's Dykema.

Trinesha: [quietly] Dykema... ♪ This is Mitchell.

♪ Mitchell: Uh... Trinesha: Which one of us are you related to?

Dykema: [breathes shakily] Mitchell: I already know.

♪ Dykema: [sobbing] [sobbing] I am Dykema and I am Mitchell's long-lost sister.

This is just like a burden lifted off my shoulders, this is the best day of my life.

Mitchell: Ohh.

Dykema: [laughs through sobs] That's my brother.

That's my baby brother.

Mitchell: The last time I saw Dykema, we were all standing in court.

The judge was like, Dykema will be going with her biological father.

I remember we were all just crying and crying and crying and she did not wanna leave.

♪ It was a ve-- it w-- hoo... it was one of the worst, worst days of my life.

I knew once I got older I kept telling myself, once you 'come an adult you have to find her.

And, and, and I did.

Mmmm!

Trinesha: He's probably said your name more th-- more times-- Mitchell: Ohh!

Dykema: [emotionally] Oh-ho-ho!

Trinesha: He talks about you all the time.

Mitchell: Every day of my life.

Dykema: Me too, I never-- I always thought about y'all.

Mitchell: Oh my goodness.

- I never stopped thinking about you guys, I was so s-- hurt for, over everything.

I'm here!

- Oh my gosh.

- And I love you!

- Oh my gosh.

- And I love you to death.

Mitchell: [sobbing] Dykema: Never stopped thinking about you, never.

Every day.

- He has talked about Dykema ever since I've known him.

This is the moment of a lifetime.

This is a moment of his history, a piece of his heart.

There was a void in him that no amount of happiness, other than her could have filled that hole, that's how important she is.

Dykema: [sobbing] Mitchell: When Dykema said her name... [exhales] I immediately scooped her up in my arms, I didn't wanna let her go.

I was so scared that she would just turn into mist and just disappear.

[exhales] I didn't wanna let her go.

I wanted to hold onto her, I'd still be holdin' her now if I wasn't pried from her.

Uhh, Trinesha meet, I mean, uh... this is my wife, Trinesha.

She knows all a-- I've talked about you my entire-- Trinesha: I know all of it.

All of it.

Mitchell: -- life!

Trinesha: I'm so happy.

I'm so happy, Dykema: Thank you, sister-in-law!

[laughs] Trinesha: I'm so-- I'm so happy, I'm so happy to see you.

I know you don't know me, but I'm so happy to see you!

He talks about you all the time.

- I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm ha-happy, I just can't express how happy I am, I can't even talk I'm so happy!

[laughs] ♪ Dan: In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Geselle is visiting with her brother, Kevin, anxious to learn more about her newest sibling.

- So I guess my first curiosity is are you big brother or little brother?

- Big brother.

Geselle: But you can't be one of those bossy big brothers now.

Kevin: Uhh... Geselle: [laughs] Kevin: I get that a lot, too, from my own-- from my own sisters.

I get that a lot.

- You look like one of those big brothers that don't play.

Like bam.

Kevin: That's because growin' up, I made a lotta mistakes.

At the age of 18, I was arrested, uh, for armed robber.

And the judge sentenced me to 25 years of hard labor.

Geselle: Wow.

Kevin: And I got out 2002 in November, and I haven't been back to prison since.

Never been arrested.

None of that.

Geselle: As Kevin began to express, um, where he had been, his journey, I-I was really overjoyed and excited, but also very proud of him, uh, because it takes a strong person, uh, to persevere through the things that he had to persevere through.

I was tellin' my, um, my friend here, I was like... dude, he looks like my dad.

[laughs] Kevin: Yeah, I get that a lot.

Even though I'm 51 years old now, they have been callin' me Little Kevin since day one.

In my mind, I be like, well, I'm not little no more.

Geselle: [laughs] Kevin: But, but okay.

- You said when you found out about me that you became emotional.

Now just-- like, what w-- what was that, what was that piece for you?

- [sniffs] 'Cause, like, I, like, I, uh... if I have known that you existed I'd've been looking for you.

- I believe that.

♪ I see a natural leader.

A man that's determined.

Kevin: I try to be.

- Yeah.

A fighter.

As your little sister I wanna say I'm proud of you.

Kevin: Thank you.

- 'Cause i-it takes a strong, a strong mind to persevere even after bein' in, you know, the fire.

Now I have a big brother.

But not only that, he's also a father figure.

It's something I've been wanting for a long time.

- [choking up] [sniffling] - Hey, you all right?

Kevin: [sniffs] ♪ Geselle: Me too.

Kevin: This is a day that I will most definitely remember the rest of my life.

Geselle: He's sayin' he has a surprise in the backyard?

The door opens up.

My brother takes my hand and leads me forward to introduce me to... Kevin: Our sister, Dana.

Geselle: Hiii!

Dana: [crying] [clapping] Geselle: She started cryin' the moment that we embraced.

Dana: You look like me!

[laughs] You look like me!

[laughing emotionally] My name is Dana Brown, and I am Geselle's sister.

Geselle: It is good to meet you!

Dana: Same here!

[laughs] Seeing Geselle for the first time, it was shockin'.

She looks just like me.

[laughs] It was joyful.

It really was.

I didn't go through it like this, but I had to find him, too.

- You did?

Dana: Yeah.

Kevin: Yeah, I explained it to her.

Dana: It's gonna be all right.

[laughs] I feel like she is the twin that, that I lost.

Geselle: I see Laticha, the first sibling that I met on the second day and I'm ecstatic about it.

So you was keepin' this secret?

Dana: [laughs] - Okay!

Imma get you.

How many siblings do I have?

- That's a surprise for you.

Kevin: If you have any secrets that you wanna keep, do not tell her first.

Geselle and Dana: [laugh] Laticha: Would y'all listen to him with that one.

Geselle: When I turned around, there was more family!

And they were hugging me and telling me how much I was loved.

Dana: Yeah.

Kevin: This our Aunt Jeanie.

Dana: This Aunt Jeanie.

Geselle: Hi, Aunt Jeanie.

Aunt Jeanie: You don't know how anxious I've been [laughing] to meet you.

Geselle: This experience has actually been amazing for me.

I feel like I can actually, uh, rest.

Boy: I was crying in my room 'bout you.

Geselle: You was cryin' 'bout me?

Awww.

Aunt Jeanie: Happy tears, right?

Kevin: I get emotional with stuff like that.

'cause my life has had more downs than ups.

And for once, the downs didn't even matter.

I got three sisters here.

Sisters: [laugh] Kevin: Three!

You know it's reality, but it still feel like a dream.

A good dream.

The kind of dream you never want to end.

♪ Dan: After decades of separation, Mitchell is finally reunited with his sister, Dykema.

Dykema: My last memory of you was when I left and we said our goodbyes and I had to go with my dad.

- Yep.

- Yeah.

- We lost our minds.

Dykema: Yep, I cried so for days of when I, when I left.

I, I felt like so hurt and so like, I fel-- li-like I felt guilty, like I was leaving you guys 'cause I was always the nurturer to you guys and always there for y'all.

- Mhm.

- And it was like I can't be there for them no more.

Mitchell: I kinda had like a mini-breakdown, I had to go to therapy for some years-- Dykema: I did, too.

Mitchell: --when I was in foster care, yeah.

It, like, broke something in me, and it's always been missin'.

Like I've never been whole since that day.

Dykema: Me neither.

Broke me up for a long time.

Mitchell: One of my best memories of you is when w-- I don't know if it was an abandoned house, but I know we used to always sleep on a little twin mattress on the floor.

And I remember me, Keisha, and Courtney would sleep on that bed and you would sleep on a pallet on the floor.

Dykema: Yep, just to make sure y'all was comfortable.

Mitchell: Right next to the bed.

Dykema would make herself a pallet on the floor with a, a fitted sheet and a cover and it was like she was sleepin' on a California king!

It never bothered her.

When we were dirt poor and didn't have nothin', but five toys to our name, Dykema would put on a show just to make us happy.

To be honest, we, we probably owe Dykema our lives.

Because I don't know where we would be if she wasn't there protecting us from the evils of the world.

What did you think when they first called you?

- I couldn't believe it.

'Cause we had just been looking for you guys.

Like we just put in papers to look for you guys.

I would call.

I would send letters.

Just two weeks ago I sent in paperwork and got denied to see them.

And that is the truth.

[laughs] God works in a m-- mysterious ways!

[laughs] As soon as I put in paperwork, I was like, this got to be God!

This has to be God.

And I was so excited, I said, it is meant to be.

This just feels like a thousand bricks lifted off my shoulders!

It's like, I can fly again, like... the heavens opened and just said, here you go, I'm, and, I answered you.

I answered you.

After all these years of prayin' and hopin' and just like, please let me see them again, God, I will cry myself to sleep sometimes worried about y'all.

Worried if you were okay, worried if you was still alive.

Mitchell: When I find out that my sister was looking for me just as hard as I was looking for her, it just felt so good because as a young boy I worried, you know, is she still around?

You know, does she still love me?

Or will she look for us?

Can she find us?

And even if she does, does she still wanna know me?

Dykema: I just thought maybe they forgot about me or forgot about the situation 'cause they were so young at the time.

I'm like, wow, they re-- he remembered!

[laughs] He remembered me.

I'm thrilled that today came.

You're here.

We don't have to worry no more-- Mitchell: Right!

Dykema: --who was still alive!

Mitchell: Oh yeah, you cooked.

You are cooked!

I'm putting an Apple Tag in your purse the minute I get a chance.

I'm involving her in every aspect of my life, my children's lives, our other sisters, I'm definitely telling them.

I don't care if I gotta get a trailer and stick them in boxes, we all getting down there and we are going to be a family again.

It's been too long.

I'm willing to go on a thousand more races just to find her again.

♪ Dan: Excited to learn more about her father's side, Callie sits down with her new cousin, Richard.

Callie: I know that I am related to Richard somehow, but I am not exactly sure how.

Well, I am very, very interested because I have not been able to figure out the connection.

Richard: Your father's father was my uncle.

Patrick: Mkay.

Callie: Okay!

Richard: And that makes my uncle, your grandfather.

- Really!

I know nothing about my father's side of the family because... the man who filled out my paperwork... my adoption paperwork... was not my biological father.

Gloria: Ohhh.

Callie: So I know nothing.

I have spent the last couple weeks really processing that information.

And I had this whole idea of who my father was for 40 years!

And now I have absolutely no idea where I come from and who I am!

Gloria: The last name was Schroeder.

Callie: Schroeder, 'kay.

Patrick: I think you'd said that you thought that might be one.

Gloria: And, um, this is the, the l-- as far back as I could find.

Callie: Okay!

Gloria: Was Michael in 1808.

The genealogy is my hobby and so I've-- have been spending many years at it, and I've been doing Richard's genealogy as well.

So, when Callie came along it was a shoo-in.

The Schroeders were from Pyritz, which is part of Pomerania, which is now Poland.

Callie: Okay.

Gloria: And then from there, here's a picture of-- Callie: [gasps] Wow!

Gloria: --your great-grandfather.

His name is Arnold.

Callie: [laughs] Richard: My grandfather.

Gloria: And his grandfather, yes.

Richard: [chuckles] Callie: This is incredible.

Gloria: And this is his obituary.

Callie: Oh wow.

Gloria: And-- they called him Callie and Gloria: "Pappy".

Gloria: All I know is that he owned a bar at one time called Pappy's Bar.

Patrick: Oh, okay.

- And so I think that's where the nickname came from.

Callie: All right.

Gloria: If I'm not mistaken.

Callie: This is fascinating.

Gloria: Being the first person to tell Callie where she came from is like gold for a genealogist.

That was like the, you know, the best moment of, of the day.

Those are your grandparents.

Patrick: Oo!

Callie: Oh, wow.

Gloria: He married Janet and they had one son, who would've been your father.

Callie: Okay.

I was struggling with both my parents not wanting to be found and not wanting to meet me.

Um, but now I'm...

I'm able...

I'm able to... let that settle a little bit.

They're answers.

Where there were no answers, now there are.

And it's just reassuring.

Gloria: You can see there's no question-- Callie: No, no there's no question!

There's no question.

Yes, that is-- - That is you.

Callie: Yes, I am his, that's for sure.

I have a place now.

Whereas before I was just kind of... floating.

And I have my feet on solid ground again.

What you have put together here is exactly what I've been looking for.

Patrick: Mm-hm.

Callie: [emotionally] I just didn't know where I was from.

And um... Richard: Now you do!

Callie: Now I do!

You know, and, this is fantastic!

And I can't thank you guys enough for this.

Gloria: Well, you're welcome!

Richard: You're welcome!

Callie: Absolutely amazing.

And I can't-- thank you.

Gloria: I think meeting Callie and being on this sp-- Relative Race is probably the highlight of my genealogical career.

[chuckles] And I can't ask for a better experience.

Callie: Before, I was just lost at sea.

And now I'm...

I've reached shore.

♪ Dan: After another long day on the road, Andy catches up with his new sister, Stephanie.

Stephanie: So, I guess I'm gonna tell you a little bit about my relationship with our father, John.

My mom and him separated fairly early in my life and my mom met another man and they remarried when I was about four-ish.

And then, when I was about 13, 14, um, my step-dad adopted me.

- Oh.

Stephanie: So John gave up his rights with me.

When my mom remarried, it hurt.

I think my stepdad made it harder for John to be in my life.

It was just hard to see John with Angalynne, my sister, because he's given her what I've always wanted.

I mean, I, you know, I still love, I love John, I love my dad, it's just... in my head I wish I had a better dad, dad relationship with either one of 'em.

Andy: Sure.

Stephanie: You know, and it's just of-- it's a lot of back stuff, you know?

Andy: Oh trust me, I completely get what it's like not to really have a father figure in your life.

Stephanie: Yeah.

And it's just, I mean, I had a father, but it, I always felt second-rate to him.

Andy: Mmm.

Stephanie: Like, I've always longed for the father thing, but... you know, it is what it is.

Andy: No truer words.

Stephanie: [laughs] Andy: When Stephanie was telling me about her childhood and...

I felt a lot of empathy for her and a lot of connection because I remember as a child feeling really hurt and alone and abandoned in some ways because of the things that adults did that we had very little control over.

Stephanie: We've thought about you in some way or form, you know?

I tell people about my family and I'm like, well, I have a brother that's older but I don't think I'll ever meet him.

He was kind of adopted and, you know.

Andy: Well that's sweet thank you.

Stephanie: And I know John tried to look for you at some point, and-- Andy: Hearing you say... your siblings and-- Stephanie: Mm-hm.

Andy: --actually including me in that list even without having ever met me, that... Stephanie: Mm-hm.

Andy: That's ama-- that, that's huge.

Thank you for doing that.

The fact that Stephanie included me as part of her family, it's just really beautiful, it's just really touching and powerful to me.

- My husband and I have something planned for you so you guys wanna go and do it?

- Let's do it!

- Yep.

Andy: [laughing] Let's do it.

Excellent!

My sister Stephanie takes us outside and says she has a surprise for us.

'Kay.

Stephanie: Are ya ready?

Andy: Yes, ma'am.

- There ya go.

Open your eyes!

- Oh my!

Stephanie: Happy anniversary!

Lizzy: Ohhh cute!

Andy: Thank you so much for doing this!

Stephanie: No problem!

Andy: Stephanie put together a picnic, uh, under this beautiful gazebo.

She and her husband sat with us and we got the opportunity to laugh and to cry and just to learn a little bit more about what it means to have each other as family.

Lizzy: It's, it's lovely.

Andy: Look at that.

Stephanie: Oh good, I'm glad.

- Thank you so much.

- No problem.

Air hugs.

Andy: Air hugs!

Stephanie: [laughs] Lizzy: That's cool.

Andy: Happy anniversary.

Lizzy: Mm, happy anniversary.

♪ Dan: With today's results looming large, Team Black fears elimination, while the other teams dread the possibility of another strike.

Andy: We've got immunity, so-- Lizzy: Right.

Andy: even if somehow we did worst out of everybody, we're gonna be here tomorrow.

Callie: We have to come in first or second.

Patrick: Mm-hm.

- Otherwise we are headed back to Janesville.

Geselle: We gave it everything that we had.

Trinesha: Whatever happens, we can't say we did not try.

Callie: Good day.

Patrick: That's right.

Trinesha: We got this.

- Got this.

♪ Taquida: All right, let's go.

♪ Mitchell: Hey!

Lizzy: Hey.

Callie: Happy anniversary, Green Team.

Geselle: Yeah, that's what I was about to say!

Andy: Thanks, guys.

- Mitchell, how's your knee?

- Uh, it's good today.

It was, uh, swollen, and hurt a little bit, but, I, I, I got them plungers down range, so it's all good.

Callie: Nice!

Geselle: Yeah, we knew that would be right up your alley, Mitch.

- I did too!

Patrick: We did, too!

- Plumbing, plungers?

That was me all day.

- Almost feels like an unfair advantage to me.

I'm serious here.

- Right, we knew that, and we're like, oh, man.

- ...benefit.

Callie: It's Dapper Dan!

Mitchell: Dan-o!

- Look at how upbeat you guys are today.

I feel like you all had great days today.

The day started out for pretty much all of you guys in a really strong manner.

Mitchell, Trinesha, you head out the door, you're doin' really well, but boom, you did hit a closed freeway ramp, but you guys are not shy about asking for directions.

Trinesha: [laughs] - We're at a red light, she rollin' her window down, hey!

Do you know how to get to highway 65?

Trinesha: I'm tryin' to get out of town.

I need you to help me, help me.

And then, like, everything's closed, there's orange cones everywhere, we can't get out of town.

So, it was a little rough start, but we got, we got out.

- All right, guys.

What an interesting challenge we had today.

Geselle, you do understand that you want to throw with your strong hand and not use that as the hand to hold your shield, right?

- Um, see, what happened was, I just got caught up in the moment.

- Yeah, Taquida had to get you on task there.

- She did.

Dan: Hey, Callie, where did you get your mad plunger throwing skills from?

Who practices that?

Because you were like, just, zhwoong, zhwoong, zhwoong!

- My husband and I have been going axe-throwing.

I was two for two.

Wham, wham, done.

Dan: Yeah, that, that was, that was a very impressive performance.

Callie: [laughs] [laughs] Well, in many ways, you all had tremendous days.

Geselle, tell us who you met today.

- So, waiting for me when we pulled up, I met my brother, Kevin, and my sister, Dana.

- Not one sibling, but two new siblings are there for you.

What was that like for you?

- I'm just, I'm super ecstatic, and me and Dana, we look alike, we look like twins, so I got another twin, and then I got a brother/father, 'cause he's already tellin' me what to do.

All: [chuckling] - Aw, I'm so happy for you.

Thus the great big beautiful smiles.

Team Black, today, needless to say, a good day for you.

- An incredible day.

Today I got to meet my first cousin once removed on my father's side.

This is my cousin, Richard and his wife, Gloria.

Dan: And Gloria is a genealogist!

- Yes!

So they were able to give me my entire father's side of the family, the background, back until, like, the 1700s.

- Wow.

- Wow.

- Wow.

Callie: Yes.

And I was able to see a, a photograph of my father today, and y'all...

I know where I come from, and I know who I look like, and the information I was given today was just... pff, mind-blowing.

- You couldn't ask for anything better than that.

- Yes.

They're lovely.

Dan: Andy!

- Yes, sir.

Dan: Who was there waiting to meet you?

- Well, today I had the amazing privilege of meeting... my sister, Stephanie.

Stephanie: Hello!

[laughs] Dan: That is so awesome!

Lizzy, I've asked you this before, as I've asked all the teams.

You're on this race supporting your husband.

What runs through your mind?

- I just, I have no words.

I love every single person on this show.

I love this man most of all, and adding to our family means everything to me.

I'm on this show for love.

- Team Blue.

Oh, look at the smile.

I, I think that says it all.

Who did you meet?

- Well today, I met the person I started this whole race for.

- Today, I met my sister, Dykema.

Callie: Oh, yay!

- [cries] ♪ Andy: From talking with Mitchell, I mean, this has literally been the Holy Grail of his entire life.

Lizzy: I'm sure they missed each other so much.

Andy: Oh, and the fact that she's been looking for him her entire life, too.

But they're back together.

Lizzy: Yeah.

Dan: Decades later.

Did you somehow know that is my big sister.

- When I first pulled up, I knew we were family.

Um, and the minute she said her name... the whole world just disappeared.

Like, this is it.

Like, this, this right here... this is why... this is why I did it, right here.

- And she's been looking for you the entire time, ever since you were separated.

Mitchell: Yes, yes she has.

She never stopped looking, just like I never stopped looking for her.

- Yes.

Dan: Man.

This, this is, uh, this is a good moment right now.

Mitchell: Oh yes.

Very great moment.

Dan: Oh, guys.

Wow.

Eight days down.

And all four teams are still in it.

But does the race end for one of our teams tonight?

Team Green.

You have immunity.

But even if you finished in fourth while you have immunity, the third place team will pick up the strike.

A lot of ways that this could play out.

Here are your times.

You have a team that finished in first place eight minutes under their allotted time, and that's Team Black.

- [gasps] - [laughs] - Oh my goodness.

Dan: I will tell you, the team that finished in second place finished only one minute behind you.

Andy: Wow.

Dan: They finished seven minutes under their allotted time.

Congratulations to Team Red.

[clapping] [sighs] Team Green, you finished 14 minutes over your allotted time.

You finished in last place.

Team Blue, since Team Green has immunity, that means you picked up your second strike.

Tomorrow is Day 9, and how much of a benefit will Team Black have?

Team Black, you only have one prize that you can choose today.

Why don't you make it official.

Patrick: Uh, uh.

Both: Hmm.

- I think we're gonna go with Fan-atic.

Dan: Fan-atic.

The title comes from our fans of the show.

What did the fans think would be a great prize for the winning team on this, Day 8?

That is what you will find out tomorrow.

♪ Eight amazing days.

It's always so enjoyable to find out more about you and your family, and one more day to find out who's headed to Day 10.

Good night, everybody.

Taquida: Congratulations, Team Black.

All: [farewells] Mitchell: Great win, great win.

Callie: Love you guys.

Taquida: Bye.

You were worried.

You over here shakin'.

- I had my nerves rattled just a little bit.

I'm excited for Team Black because they got first.

But I'm like, golly, we were supposed to get first.

- The prize has been determined by the Relative Race fans.

- So it's not our fault.

- Yeah, that's true.

We are not responsible for what happens.

The fans are responsible for what happens.

Remember that, teams.

- Listening to the times, they were all below what their expectation was.

That means that we have to get our game times ten for tomorrow.

- I mean, we tried our best.

Everybody actually did great.

We picked up a strike, it is what is.

We're not out the doors yet.

- We still got each other.

- I mean, it's just such a good day.

- It is, it's a good day.

- Yeah?

- It's more than a good day.

- [laughs] ♪