Dan: Previously, on Relative Race, teams tried not to crack under pressure.

Shawn: This is some sorta egg toss, but, obviously, if this is Relative Race, it's not gonna be that simple.

Dan: Jamie from Team Black met his brother, Josh.

Jamie: I feel like it's the biggest blessing I've ever received in my life.

Dan: Scott found his niece, Alyssa... - Oh my gosh!

Dan: ...as Shawn embraced a new cousin, and Jaime on Team Red had the biggest reconnection of his life with his mother, Chimene.

- Yous don't even know how special you are all to me.

Dan: In the end, Team Red's photo picked them up a first-place prize of immunity.

Alex: Yes!

Oh.

Dan: And Team Green received their second strike of the race.

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

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

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

Dan: ...and to find their family.

[knocking] Singer: ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh-oh ♪ ♪ Dan: It's a new morning, and the journey of a lifetime continues for our four teams.

With hundreds of miles behind them... Jamie: This is it.

This is gonna take us to where we need to be.

Dan: ...tough challenges... Hannah: [gasps] Ouch!

Dan: ...and life-changing discoveries, teams have seen it all.

- All right, I'm ready.

Dan: But in the end, beautiful relationships have been formed.

Male singer: Hey!

♪ When I ran up the sky ♪ ♪ We're breakin' free ♪ Dan: Lost family has been rediscovered.

Jaime: You're my mom.

Chimene: I'm your mom.

Singers: ♪ Eyes are on fire ♪ Dan: And with only a few days left in the race, major discoveries are still yet to be found.

Male singer: Hey!

♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh ♪ - This is my grandma!

Male singer: ♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh... ♪ - Your father's name is Steven Sunter.

♪ - I'm your brother.

Jamie: That's what I thought.

That's my blood.

And I, I just, it just means a lot to me.

- I'm your older brother.

Hannah: Oh my!

- Nice to meet you.

Kevin: Definitely grown.

Life changes ya.

Alex: You're my dad.

Jaime: What!

Alex: No way!

Shawn: All right, I need one more hug.

Sharon: Yeah, no, come here.

Male singer: ♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh ♪ ♪ Dan: In Roanoke, Jamie is getting ready to say goodbye to his brother, Josh.

Dan: Waking up at my brother's this morning, I felt at home.

I felt like it was something that I've been missing for a long time, and, but I was very comfortable.

I mean, it was perfect.

You could feel the love there.

I'll be honest with ya, I just, I mean, we've got 49 years to make up.

Josh: [laughs] - 45, I mean, you're 45.

And, and I, I told, I was tellin' Jansen, I said, when this is all over with, I mean, I'd like to just spend a little time, maybe come back up here, and, and, and spend some time, get to know everybody.

Josh: Yeah.

Yeah, we definitely can do that both ways, you know?

- That's, that's-- - Me and my family come down to Arkansas, and... - I am happy as I could possibly be because waking up at my brother's was one of the most amazing days of my life.

♪ [trap beat with chill piano chords] ♪ Jaime: I had an awesome time meeting and reconnecting with my mother last night.

It's really something that I've dreamt about my whole life.

Unfortunately, she had to leave for work super early this morning, but she left me something super special.

Oh, wow.

"For my son, Jaime.

"I'm so proud of the man you have become "and am blessed beyond words.

"Twenty-two years of longing to welcome you back home.

"I thank God for the gift He has given me "on borrowed time.

"All of my prayers and captured tears, "God has delivered you, "and now, you are here.

Our day number one."

That's beautiful.

Alex: All right.

- From Chimene Gonzalez.

On the card, the last thing my mother wrote was this is our day one.

And, you know, we spoke yesterday about how we reconnected and how, you know, we're both, I'm an adult, now.

Um, and it feels like we're starting from scratch.

Feel like starting, starting from day one, from day zero.

I'm very much looking forward to the day two and three and four and the rest of our lives together.

♪ Dan: In St. Louis, Scott and Hannah are spending the morning with Scott's niece, Alyssa.

Alyssa: I, um, I got to print off some pictures of last, yesterday for us.

Hannah: Oh, wow!

- And, um, I thought we could look at 'em and then, um, you guys could take 'em with you.

That way, you can have something with you on the road.

Scott: That would be awesome.

Hannah: I love that.

Look how cute!

Scott: It was fun to see the photos of the time that we had together, just, to be able to, to spend that time with Steve and Alyssa because, again, I, I can't emphasize how I just wish we could stop time forever and just be able to catch up on the last 40-some-odd years.

♪ [intense music] Alex: Ope, hey, we got a text.

Jaime: Oh, get it out.

Jamie: Already?

Jansen: Here, I'll read it.

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

Team Red will be traveling to King's Point, New York."

Jaime: Uh.

Curtis: "Team Blue will be traveling to..." Both: "...St. Louis, Missouri?"

Curtis: Hmm.

Hannah: "Team Green will be traveling to [Des-lodge], Missouri"?

Scott: Desloge.

Hannah: Desloge?

Jansen: "Team Black will be traveling to Daleville, Indiana."

Alex: "Today's photo subject is something old."

Hannah: "The first-place prize "you are competing for is a Day 10 game benefit.

Your time starts now."

Scott: Oh, oh, we gotta go.

Hannah: Okay, we've gotta get going.

We will say our goodbyes now and at the car.

Jamie: Man, we gotta go.

Josh: Yeah, better get goin'.

Jamie: 'Preciate you.

All right, we'll be back pretty soon.

Shawn: Aw, it's so great to see you.

Sharon: Good luck, guys.

Curtis: Thanks, Phil.

Jaime: We have immunity, but we're still gonna work for the, uh, the prize, for the day's prize, and if we knock a team out, uh, in the process, then that's less competition for us for Day 10.

Jamie: See ya!

Josh: Drive safe.

Alyssa: Bye!

Shawn: Bye, guys!

Alex: [mimics engine revving sounds] ♪ Shawn: Black Team has one strike, right?

- Yep.

- And Red and us have two.

- Yep.

- Green Team only has one.

- And Green, Green has two now.

- Oh, Green has two now, that's right, yeah.

Curtis: So Green, Blue, and Red have two strikes.

Black Team only has one.

Hannah: Why don't y'all take last place so we can all make it to Day 9?

[phone pings] Jamie: Green Team says... - Nah, too bad.

- Oh, I'm just not even gonna respond to that.

Scott: This competition is heating up, and as much as we're wantin' to make it to Day 10, Team Black does have the upper hand right now.

- At this point, man, it's anybody's game.

So, there could be two in the final, there could be three in the final.

Curtis: Yep, that's true.

Dan: Today, Team Blue is racing from Evansville, Indiana, to St. Louis, Missouri.

They have an allotted time of 2 hours and 34 minutes.

For Team Green, Scott and Hannah, they're leaving St. Louis, Missouri, and heading to Desloge, Missouri.

Their allotted time is 1 hour and 19 minutes.

♪ Jamie: Good grief, you stink.

I can smell that.

Oh my gosh, Jansen, I ain't been-- - [laughs] Jamie: Oh my gosh!

Jansen: You just feel relief.

- This is horrible, I can't-- Roll that stupid-- oh my gosh, quit this crap!

- [laughs] Oh, that's great.

- I'm sick and you just, oh my gosh.

- I can't help that I got gas!

When you gotta do it, you gotta do it.

- Are you sure you didn't just go in your britches?

- Positive.

Dan: With the smell of victory in the air, Team Black, Jamie and Jansen, are hitting the gas from Roanoke to Daleville, Indiana.

They have an allotted time of 1 hour and 20 minutes.

♪ Jaime: We should get a long stretch of the subway.

- I like that, uh... Jaime: Like, this is old Brooklyn subway.

Alex: Yeah, this is ol-- you're right.

Dan: Today's photo challenge theme is something old.

Teams have 30 minutes off the clock to shoot, edit, and send in their photo.

Alex: We figured the subway here in New York City's been around for over a hundred years.

We jump out of the car, we start takin' photos of, uh, the pillars underneath the subway tracks as well as people.

Jaime: We also, uh, got a metro card and got on the subway platform and, uh, tried to take some shots of a oncoming train.

Alex: That was a good shot.

Dan: As Team Red captures their photo for the day, Jaime and Alex will be racing from Brooklyn to Kings Point, New York.

Their total allotted time is 1 hour and 14 minutes.

[shutter snaps] Alex: All right, Dan.

Jaime: Send it off.

It's a winner in my book.

We got a great picture, so, we'll how the fans vote.

Hopefully they, uh, they vote for us.

♪ [phone rings] Hannah: From Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Uh, hello?

Hannah: [gasp] Oh my goodness!

Scott: Hey, Mam!

Hannah: Mam!

- [emotionally] I'm good!

- Aw, we miss you guys.

Hannah: We are!

Scott: The phone rings, and Hannah answers it, and it's my mom and dad.

Hannah: I got super emotional when I heard my grandmother's voice 'cause I miss her so much.

Hannah: We have now met s...

Uh, we met two people on Day 1, so we've technically met eight people.

Hannah: Yeah.

Scott: Getting to tell them that I had siblings, and my mom was excited to hear that.

- Thanks, Mom, I love you.

- Hey, Pops!

- Oh, we're just havin' a great time.

Sittin' here with Hannah all these days, we've just been, just chattin' up.

Seein' some of the places that you guys always took, uh, took me as a kid.

Scott: This is so special to me because hearing Mom and Dad encouraging me and cheering us on, that's all they've ever done for me my entire life.

They've always been in my corner, they've always had my back.

I-it's incredible to have that now while I'm here, racing to find new relatives.

Hannah: This trip, I've been having a lot of mixed feelings, feelings that I don't think I was prepared for.

Some, like, guilty, of, oh my goodness, I absolutely adore my family, I absolutely adore my grandparents.

Are they gonna be upset because I feel a connection with these other people?

And just hearing them, I got my, you know, my confirmation that there's no reason to feel bad for being excited to meet other family members.

Hannah: All right, we'll talk to guys soon, we love you.

Both: Bye!

♪ Hannah: Aw.

Was very special.

- Special is an understatement.

I have the world's greatest parents, and...

I just want the world to know that.

♪ Jamie: What is that right there on the side of the road?

Is that somethin' you wanna take a picture of?

Jansen: Yes.

Jamie: This is old.

Jansen: We get lucky.

There's a road grader that looks like it's from the 1800s that used horses to grade the road.

Well, this thing looks pretty old.

Jamie: I like this.

It's perfect.

Scott: The photos challenge is to take a picture of something old.

The St. Joe lead mine is what immediately came to my mind.

This is the mine where both my Grandpa Bradley and my Papaw Wright worked.

♪ Curtis: So, we get into St. Louis, and we still haven't taken our photo yet.

We've passed several great opportunities that we both spotted, but we always wait until the last minute to take it.

So, drivin' along, we see a white building, and this is our last opportunity to, to get something that might work for us in this photo challenge.

[shutter snaps] Jansen: Bet no one else is gonna find somethin' that's this old that looks this unique.

[shutter snaps] Hannah: I do like the photo.

My only fear is that, when voting, do they know the history of this place, or are they gonna look at it and be like, cool, old building.

Next.

Shawn: We tried to get the angel that was at the top of the steeple to be our subject and have the sun just peeking out from behind it.

[shutter snaps] Brighten up that gold.

Both of these things seem to be pretty old, and we hope that it translates well.

Sent.

♪ [phone pings] Jamie: Hey, we got a message from Dan.

It says, "Welcome to Danville."

I mean Daleville, not Danville.

Both: [laugh] Shawn: "Your challenge is located... Jaime: "Your challenge is located - Okay, cool.

Hannah: Okay, do you, do you know where that's at?

- [sighs] Yes, it's downtown.

- Okay, let's go find it.

- All right, let's do it.

- There it is, there it is, there it is!

Go, let's go, let's go, let's go!

Jaime: All right, there it is right there, let's go.

- Right there, all right.

- I can't get out!

I'm stuck!

[door slams] ♪ Curtis: Okay, let's read it.

Jaime: "Welcome to Great Gear Race."

Dan: Today's challenge is Great Gear Race.

Teams must strategically assemble various sizes of interlocking gears on a giant peg board to enable them to rotate the gears.

When assembled correctly, the gears will open a slide compartment revealing their next step.

Jaime: I'm gonna grab one of these small ones and try it, okay?

Alex: Okay.

Nope.

Shawn: All right.

Curtis: Do this one first.

Shawn: Uh... - Do you care which one I get, big or small?

Scott: Get big ones, get big ones.

Fill the big spaces.

Jansen: I don't know, we'll start with this.

Jamie: We, we run up to this challenge, we're lookin' at it, and we're thinkin', we got this.

I mean this is just a quick puzzle.

He works on stuff like this all the time at home building stuff by himself.

So this was perfect for us.

Curtis: Okay, well, we need one right here.

Our strategy going into this challenge is to at least put the, uh, the turn gear on one side, and then... Shawn: And then we decided that we wanted to match up the teeth of another gear to the ending point, that way we knew where we're gonna finish at.

♪ - Do not touch anything else, only touch that one.

One of the rules was that you could only have one gear in your hands at a time.

So rather than Dad running back and forth and being able to hold one gear and then put it down, fix a gear, we were letting him stay at the board, and I was bringing him whatever size he needed.

Alex: Not quite.

Jaime: Nope, not quite, well, it can engage this one.

Alex: We need a, here, throw-- [buzzer goes off] Throw... Jaime: I think the hardest part was, uh, holding one gear at a time, it's just the way your brain works, you kinda wanna grab two and kinda shuffle around, it's just the way the brain works, so.

Uh, Alex and I stood side by side and between he and I, we had two gears.

- And two brain cells, too.

- Maybe.

Hannah: Got a small, medium, and a large.

Scott: Bring me a medium.

[rumbling] ♪ Shawn: Yeah, okay.

Curtis: Okay.

Shawn: All right.

So in no time at all, we're about halfway there, you know, we're not sure if we're gonna have to pick gears up and replace 'em, but we've got everything spinning at this point.

Alex: Look, put that back, 'cause that's not gonna spin.

Jaime: I know, we gotta get this one out so this one's gonna connect here, so this is gonna-- Alex: No, this, this is not gonna spin 'cause there's a peg right here.

- There's a couple of gears that sit in there and don't actually do anything for the mechanism, they just kinda spin, and that threw us off a little.

Jamie: Hey, wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Jansen: Oh, yeah, puzzles are fun.

Jamie: We love 'em.

I mean, we kinda just visualized it and there it was.

Hannah: Can it go here?

- Uh, yeah try it there.

- Yeah, it fits.

Shawn: All right, turn it.

Oh!

Curtis: Okay.

Shawn: There it is.

Jamie: There it is, we got it.

Got it!

Jansen: Open it, open it!

Both: "Your relative lives at 8370 Highway East..." Shawn: "Your relative lives at 1015 Burgundy Lane..." - "570 Harrison Street, Markle, Indiana."

Let's go!

Hannah: Okay, let's go.

Scott: C'mon, let's go.

Curtis: Let's go.

Shawn: Sweet.

♪ [buzzer goes off] ♪ Alex: Well, I wanted to give up, but, 'cause we're just tired, and we're immune from any punishment tonight, so we're just kind of taking it easy.

Not trying to stress today.

- Yeah, I mean it wasn't challenging as uh... in and of itself, it was just the time that it took for us to figure out the gear ratios was a little longer than I would've liked.

That one goes here.

Right there.

Alex: I know.

Jaime: Done.

Alex: All right, every gear engages?

- Yep, go.

Alex: All right.

- It was a challenging challenge.

- It was a challenging challenge, but we got it after a minute.

- Heh.

"Your relative lives at 21407 38th Avenue in Queens, New York."

We're back to Queens, let's go.

♪ Dan: With the challenge now behind them, teams kick it into gear to find their relatives.

Jamie: Go, go, go, go, go!

Run!

We pull into this gas station to see if anybody's heard of Harrison Street or where it's at.

Jansen: Ask him.

Jamie: Are y''all from around here?

You don't-- You know anything about where Harrison Street is?

Man 1: Uh, no I don't, boss.

Jansen: Dad, let's go.

Jamie: They don't know.

All right, let's go.

Jansen: Not a single person knows where it is or has ever even heard of it, and it's a pretty small town.

- This is ridiculous!

Nobody knows where they live!

Shawn: While we're looking for our relative's house, I realized really quickly that I could not find this on any maps.

While I just buried myself in the papers, Curtis saw a cop and he ran over to go ask him.

Curtis: And he pointed and he was like, yeah, just go that way, and off we went.

Okay.

- 1015 Burgundy Lane.

Scott: We're trying to find the house, and stopped, saw a woman out.

Hannah: Highway East.

- Excuse me, miss, how do we get to Highway East?

Asked her directions and she goes, well I don't know about East Highway, but E Highway is right there.

- I hope this is right, I hope this is right, I hope this is right, I hope this is right.

Alex: Traffic is traffic in New York City.

I'm pretty sure that's been taken into account, but... - But don't forget we have immunity.

So I mean, we don't, we don't need to worry about those things today.

- Okay, which way are we gonna go?

Jaime: Uh, we are gonna make a... left.

Jamie: Come on, please say Harrison, please say Harrison!

So we're goin' up and down this road, hoping to find someone that just might know where this street is, or maybe we can just bump into it.

- Yeah, we'll take anything at this point.

- Harrison, Harrison!

Take a right, take a right, take a right!

Jaime: What number is this, what number?

Alex: 13, 213.

Jaime: Yeah we're here.

We did right.

We navigated aggressively through New York City traffic, we cut across three expressways, two avenues, and a, an interstate highway.

Both: 8370!

Hannah: Right there!

- We found it!

Hannah: Was that the right one?

Jamie: We're here, we're here, we're here.

Shawn: 1005... 1010.

What was that, 1015?

♪ [door creaks] You ready?

Curtis: Yeah.

♪ - Hi there, my name is Shawn, and this is Curtis.

- I'm Steve, I'm your dad.

- Really?

- Really.

- [exhales sharply] I've been seeing pictures of you.

[laughs] Hi.

[sighs] [sniffs] Steve: You've been waitin' for me a long time, haven't ya?

Shawn: Yep.

Yeah, I have.

♪ [sighs] Hearing the words, "I'm your dad", um, took me back.

I've been learning a lot about this man, and I've been getting a lot of puzzle pieces, and when he said those words they all just kinda aligned.

I knew that yeah, this is my dad.

[sighs] - I want to ask you if you're okay, but I can see you're not.

Shawn: [sighs] I'm so happy to see you, and to meet you.

- I am too, nice to meet you.

- It's so great to meet you.

Hugging my dad the first time, something that took thirty-three years to happen, it felt right.

It felt like, like we'd already hugged a hundred times before, and this was our first time.

We just, we just fell right into place like all the other relatives I've been meeting.

This is pretty wild, isn't it?

Steve: Yes, it is.

It's really surprising to actually meet you, because I never knew anything of you.

It's hard to say, but what, 34, 35 years?

You know, it's really hard to pinpoint all the way back then.

Shawn: Yeah, and there's no hard feelings about that.

- I was in uh, a health and rehabilitation center because I used to be real bad on drinkin', real bad.

And I got clean, oh, I'd say a little over a year ago.

I figured I'm gonna be 61 in November, I don't need to be killin' myself any sooner.

Shawn: [sniffles] [indistinct] Shawn: Yeah.

- Well, not that easy.

[laughing] Shawn: It sounded like he'd had a really hard life, and I was preparing myself again to have to grieve, but then when I realized that he was right in front of me that I really didn't need to, and even if he's still in his beginning steps it's, that's still just the biggest step, and I, oh, I'm so proud that he's able to even have this opportunity.

I'm just so hopeful for his future.

♪ [door creaks] Jaime: Gonna meet my relatives.

It's Anthony.

[gasps] Anthony: Anthony.

Nice to meet you.

Alex: I'm Alex.

Jaime: I'm Jaime, and you're my brother, Anthony, right?

Anthony: Yeah, I'm your brother.

[joyful music] ♪ Jaime: Hold it, hold it.

♪ Anthony: My name is Anthony Lugo, and I am Jaime's brother.

Nice to meet you, man.

It's been a minute.

I've been hearin' about you.

Jaime: I've heard so much.

I've heard-- You look just like Agustus, bro.

Anthony: I've been hearin' about you my whole life.

- That's, bro.

- We got a lotta catchin' up to do.

Jaime: We sure do, we got a lotta catchin' up to do.

Anthony: Yeah, man.

I've known about my brother, Jaime, since I was like, the age of four.

Yeah, I was happy to meet my brother today.

It was like, uh...

It was one of those things that you, I've been waiting for, for a long time.

I love you, bro.

Jaime: I love you, too, brother, I'm in.

Anthony: Before I even knew you, bro, I loved you.

Jaime: I'm sorry, bro, I'm sorry it took me so long.

- It's no problem, bro, it's not even your fault.

We can't blame you.

Jaime: I had to become a man first.

You know, you gotta become a man before you do this, you know what I'm sayin'?

You can't do this as a kid, man.

Anthony: Made yourself before you come, before you came and expressed how you really felt.

Jaime: The thing is, like, I wanna make my mom proud of me, you know?

And, like, to come back the follow the-- Anthony: She's always been proud of you, bro.

Jaime: I understand that.

I, like, I'm blessed.

- That's the strangest thing that even though, you might not even know that, bro.

Your mother's been always proud of you.

At the end of the day, my mother is your mother, and I know that you made her happy in the time that she had with you.

You understand what I'm sayin'?

- She made me, she made me happy, too, man.

Anthony: So I only ever tried to do, you know what I'm sayin', a little bit better, but it's a'ight, you know what I'm sayin'?

'Cause now you here to fix it.

Jaime: That's right.

- You're here to make up for all of that.

Uh, and, I'm here, I'm, I'm happy, uh, I'm here to see it.

So good to meet you again, bro.

- Bro.

Anthony: You know what I'm sayin'?

Jaime: It's crazy.

It's crazy.

You've got the same mannerisms as your brother, you've got the same, like, look, and you stand the same way.

You got the same, like, like, cheesy grin, bro, as all of us.

Let's go inside and talk, dude.

- Yeah, let's go inside and talk.

Jaime: Come on, Alex.

Go ahead, bro, it's your house.

Anthony: All right, nah.

Jaime: Go.

♪ [tranquil piano music] ♪ Scott: Hi.

Man 2: What's goin' on, how we doin'?

Scott: Hi, I'm Scott.

Man 2: Samuel.

Scott: Samuel, nice to meet you.

Samuel: Pleasure to meet you, and you?

Hannah: Hi, I'm Hannah.

Samuel: Nice to meet you.

Hannah: Nice to meet you.

Samuel: So I'm probably guessing you guys are wonderin' who I am.

- Very much so, yeah.

- How are we related?

Samuel: Well, I'm from your mom's side, and I am your little brother.

Hannah: Oh my goodness.

Samuel: How are you?

Hannah: Oh, you look just like my-- - And I am your uncle.

Hannah: --dad, I know, you look just like my dad!

[laughs] Scott: Oh my gosh.

Samuel: My name is Samuel Sexton, and I am Scott's little brother and Hannah's uncle.

It's freaky, isn't it.

Hannah: Oh my goodness.

Samuel: It's freaky.

Scott: That's crazy.

- Well, how, how old are you?

- Twenty-four.

Scott: Twenty-four.

Samuel: Yeah, I'm 24.

- My mind was blown that I have an uncle who is two years older than I am.

We graduated high school two years apart, like, that's just, that's so weird.

That's crazy.

- That's just, uh, dude.

Samuel: Word's can't even describe.

It's that amazing.

It truly is.

You know, just the short interactions that I've already had, it's, it feels like I've just been talkin' to 'im for my entire life.

It really feels that natural.

- It's... beautiful.

It's incredible.

♪ [anticipatory music] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Billy Jack: Jamie.

[kiss] Jamie: [sobs] [sniffs] [sobbing] ♪ Billy Jack: I've been waitin' to see you guys.

I'm Billy Jack Foshee, and I'm Jamie's dad, and I'm, uh, Jansen's granddad.

Well, have a seat, and, you know, sit over here, Jansen, uh... [breathing heavily] Been a long time comin', huh?

- Well, I've, I... Me and him was talkin' about we wanna make as much...

I mean, we don't know how much time we got left, but I wanna make the best of what I got left.

- That's right.

I done, I done crossed that marker a couple times, here.

Jamie: Well, we was worried about ya a couple weeks ago.

Billy Jack: Yeah.

Good Lord wanted to leave me for some reason.

- That's right.

- And this must've been what it was.

Jamie: I, I'm tellin' you.

Today, I got to meet my dad.

- And I got to meet my grandfather.

- For the first time in my life, seein' him and actually talkin' to him outside of a hospital room, which, I was fortunate enough to get to see him a few, couple weeks ago.

I just, I, I, I just...

I can't really explain it.

I'm speechless.

I mean, for the first time.

Billy Jack: So, nobody ever told you about me, huh?

- [sniffs softly] No.

I had no clue.

[sniffs] - Well...

I know that your grandma and grandpa, as, uh, when they lost your mom, that was hard on 'em.

And you just a little boy.

I wanted you to know... [sighs] I did come looking for you.

When you was little, after your mother died.

But, I, I just told my family, I said, I might have another child, I don't know.

'Cause back then, we didn't have the DNA, or, no way for, you know.

I didn't have money to do all that.

- Well, I've had questions my whole life.

I just... Billy Jack: Yep.

Jamie: ...didn't even know where to start.

- I've wondered about it for 49 years, so...

I couldn't be more happy than it.

Gotta see my son that I've never seen before.

See my grandson that I've never seen before, and, uh, I'm so grateful for that.

And, I think the Guy Upstairs, I'm sure He meant for this to be, or it wouldn't be happenin'.

- He respected my dad, my, my grandpa.

He respected him, and, and my grandma, my mom.

They was always my mom and my dad He respected them enough out of the ki-- out of his heart to know that they'd just lost their daughter, and he didn't wanna come and cause a scene immediately and take me away.

And, that's the kinda man he is.

He showed respect for 'em, and that means a lot to me.

I'm excited.

I'm just happy that it's finally out in the open and, and, and everybody knows it.

- I am, too.

Jamie: I, I am.

- And I don't care what people say.

Jamie: I don't either.

I, I don't either, and, and you know what?

And that's what I told them, I said, you know.

I said, I'm 49 years old.

I have a right to know.

- Yeah, you do, you dan-- you dang sure do.

Jamie: And that's why I'm, that's why I wanted to do this, and, uh, and I found today, I found out, I found what I needed to know.

- And I'm glad you did.

Jamie: And I'm, I'm just as happy as I can be.

Billy Jack: Oh.

Jamie: [laughs] I'll be here to help you any way I can Billy Jack: C'm'ere, son.

Take you in.

I want you to meet my wife.

Jansen: All right.

Jamie: I'm excited about this, too.

[chuckles] Billy Jack: Yeah.

[final piano note] ♪ Jamie, I'd like for you to meet my wife, Cindy.

This is Jamie.

Cindy: Hi, Jamie.

Jamie: Been a long time comin'.

Cindy: Yes, it has.

Long time.

I'm glad to meet ya.

Jamie: This is my boy.

This is Jansen.

Cindy: Nice to meet you.

Jansen: Nice to meet you, too.

Cindy: Been a long time.

Jansen: Mm-hm.

Cindy: I'm Cindy Foshee, and I'm Jamie's step-mom and Jansen's grandma.

Jamie: We didn't, we didn't even know if he wa-- if my dad was alive, and then we found out that you was here.

[laughs] So, we're, I mean, we're learnin' new stuff every day.

When my dad introduced us to, me and Jansen to Cindy, it was kind of... surreal, because...

I've only known, as far as I could ever remember, one mother in my life, and that was my grandma.

It just let me know that I've got somebody else there, now, too.

- Well, I think since you boys came, it really livened him up.

Jamie: Well, that's good.

Cindy: I think that's why he's out of the hospital.

Jamie: That's good.

Billy Jack: Yeah, I do, too.

I believe that.

♪ Cindy: I know that's what got him outta that hospital.

'Cause he just wasn't doin' good at all, and then when he seen them boys.

Uh, he shocked the whole hospital, I'm tellin' ya.

They could not believe he got outta that hospital.

And me or my kids, none of us could believe it.

- D-did you remember us bein' there?

Billy Jack: I remember...

I knew I had talked to, to you guys.

At least, I thought I had.

Jamie: Yeah.

Billy Jack: And I don't know if it was, uh, the drugs they had me on, but, couldn't really... - Well, wh-- Billy Jack: ...get the words to coming out, but.

- Well, when we got there, uh... Billy Jack: Was you guys in the room with me, or was this... Jamie: Oh, yeah, so, so, we come in and we'd talked to ya, and you, you was squeezin' our hand.

And, uh, but you had all those tubes down your throat and everything, and you couldn't talk.

- Oh, that's-- Jamie: We, we tried to keep you from talkin' because we didn't want you to mess somethin' up.

Billy Jack: Yeah, I, I remember bits and parts of th-those things, but... - Well, we said a lotta prayers for you.

Billy Jack: I appreciate 'em, too.

I appreciate the heck out of 'em Jamie: Mmm, and we gon continue praying.

I mean, that's just the way it is, I mean... That's what we do.

I mean, I mean I, I ain't had you around for 50 years, so... Billy Jack: Yeah, I know.

Jamie: I don't want you to overdo it and then we lose you, and we, I don't want that.

Billy Jack: I wanna, I hope, uh, I hope He gives me ample time.

Jamie: That's right.

I'm very worried about his health.

Uh...

I don't know how much longer we'll have him.

I'm just be honest with you.

I mean, Josh told me last night how, how he was strugglin', and I didn't realize it till today.

He's on oxygen constantly.

Uh, he's just got a lotta problems that he's still gotta fight through, and, uh, I'm just prayin' that he makes it through and gets the help that he needs.

- Well, I think we should all be a whole family.

I don't feel like we should be somethin' left out.

We all need to know.

Cindy: That's right.

Jamie: It's time to put the past in the past, and-- Billy Jack: Yep, that's exactly right.

Jamie: And move forward.

Cindy: Yep.

- Yeah, 'cause you're never goin' nowhere by lookin' behind you.

Jamie: Nope.

That's exactly right.

And I, I feel like, I mean, and, and I'm gonna be honest with you.

From the first person I've met all through this journey, I've felt at home from day one.

Cindy: That's good.

Jamie: I have.

- Well, you are.

This is your home.

- This is the best day, best day of my life.

I've got the, I mean, I, I finally know the answers.

Uh!

Billy Jack: I love you, son.

Jamie: Love you, too.

I'm glad this day's finally come.

Billy Jack: I want these boys to know that, uh, they have a family.

And... we're not gonna walk out on 'em or turn our backs on 'em, or...

They need somethin', I'll be right here.

I'm not goin' anywhere.

I think we oughta say a prayer.

Jamie: Let's do it.

- You do that?

Jamie: I sure will.

Kind and gracious Heavenly Father, thank You for this day.

Thank You for all the blessings.

Thank You for allowin' us to be here today, Lord, and for allowin' me to finally meet my dad.

Thank You for the health that You've given him to be able to be out of the hospital and to come and have this meeting with me, and help him, Lord, to be able to share some of the things that I never got to hear and got to do with him.

Lord, I love You, and I thank You for everything You've given us.

In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

Billy Jack and Cindy: Amen Jamie: Yeah.

I'm finally at peace knowing the story.

Because my story was complete today.

Yeah, I've got family members that I haven't met, but, everything that I've been lookin' for, I found out today.

[piano chord] ♪ - I learned from my sister, Madison, a couple days ago that I have another brother named Anthony who was born after I was removed from my mother's care, and getting to reconnect with Anthony and speak with him really fills a void that I, I, I didn't even know I had, and it was awesome and amazing.

- Growin' up, bein' young, bein' naive to the situation, you know, just bein' a kid, you know what I'm sayin'?

Thinkin' that it's only me and my mom until I got to a certain age where she started to see you in me.

And that, to her, made her want to shape me out just like how she shaped you out.

'Cause she knew, even if you weren't with her, that you were still doin' everything and better than what she told you.

Not, not to be, you know, not make you feel any way, but I was raised, me, my feeling towards you, I hated you.

And it wasn't no, it wasn't a personal hate, it was just a, like, anything I do is not good enough for my mother because he already did it better.

You understand what I'm saying?

So it was just a catchin' up game for me.

- While I was out in the foster care system, taking care of my siblings since the age of six years old, my mother was doing her best to project normalcy to my siblings, and in doing that, I feel she told them stories and, and, uh, played us in a very, very positive light, and I feel and I fear that sometimes, it made my other siblings feel as if they were replacing us, or that she was using them as a replacement for us.

- I love you now 'cause I know you, and I wanna do nothin' but prosper on from here.

I wanna meet your children, and next thing, I wanna get to love your family, I'm gonna get to meet my other siblings, I wanna get to love everybody, I wanna be able to call ya up, you know what I'm saying?

Be able to come visit y'all guys and just make memories and just make up for lost time.

- Um... That's powerful, bro.

Um, I, I mean, I'm sorry, like that, that's kinda rough.

I-it's kind of a, it's a projection that our parents do on us, and it makes us be, like, competitive against each other and feel thoughts against each other when, you know, we supposed to rock together, you know what I'm sayin'?

Um, I'm sorry that you felt that way, and I'm glad that you don't anymore.

Nothing but love for you, bro.

You're my brother.

I love you, like, I wanna protect you, I wanna make sure you're good, I wanna, like, all those things that just comes with bein' a brother, older or younger, 'cause we all, we got, those feelings are just sibling feelings, just I wanna make sure that you good.

I wanna make sure that you're loved, that you wake up in the morning feeling loved, that you go to bed feeling loved, that you got everything that you need and that you straight, and whatever you're not getting from anywhere else, like, I would like to be that for you.

I would like to be the, the you, you call me up with any situation, you know what I'm saying?

Anthony: Mm-hm.

- Bro, nothing but love.

I can't wait to take you to Rochester.

You're gonna spend a month with me in Rochester.

♪ Samuel: Truthfully, there are no words that I can really use to describe how excited I am to meet you guys.

- I can completely understand where you're coming from.

It's, just, like, uh, wow.

Samuel: Mm-hm.

Mom sat me down a couple of months ago, and she was just like, hey, listen, you know, there's somethin' I've been meaning to tell you about.

Well, she told me when was 16, she got pregnant, and, you know, she was so afraid to tell me.

She was super afraid 'cause she thought that I would think of her differently.

I thought that I would, she thought that I'd hate her.

I told, I told Mom, Mom.

I, I, I wouldn't look at you in a different light.

I, I love you.

You are my mom.

I applaud you for tellin' me this.

This is the greatest news I have heard in years, to know that I have an older brother, and someone that, that I can talk to about anything and confide in.

Uh, I-I am just... [sighs deeply] Again, words cannot describe how happy I am, how excited I am.

When I learned that I had an older brother, that was the best news that I have ever gotten in a long, long time.

Uh, more family to add to the family tree.

Uh, more or less the greatest gift that God's blessed me with.

- I have absolute unconditional love for my, my brother, and I will absolutely be there for him.

We're going to grow as brothers, and I'm looking forward to that.

Samuel: I have also recently come across this.

This is a photo from the '70s.

Scott: Okay.

- And this is Mom.

Hannah: Oh my goodness!

Samuel: [laughs] That is actually from one of her high school yearbooks.

Scott: [whispered] Oh wow.

Samuel: Mm-hm.

Scott: I think I had those same glasses about that same age.

Hannah: Yeah, you did.

Samuel: Do you see yourself in that photo?

Do you see any resemblance.

Hannah: I do in the eyes.

Scott: Oh, a ton.

Samuel: Yeah, the eyes.

Scott: Mm-hm.

- Oh, yeah.

I do see my mom in Scott.

I really do, and I even see a little bit of her in Hannah, namely for the eyes, and also the smile.

Scott: Uh, I'm, I just, I really hope I get to meet her.

This is just... - I really hope so as well.

It was very important to let them know about my mom a little bit more.

She is the light of my life.

She has been there for me, and I know that if they get to meet her, she will be the light of their lives as well.

Scott: I'm just thinking about, like you said, all the adventures that we're about to have.

Samuel: Oh, yes.

Gimme a hug.

Give me a hug.

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness.

I'm excited, I am so excited.

Scott: Awesome.

Samuel: Right?

Hannah: And thank you for doing this.

Scott: I've gained another brother.

I've gained another ride or die guy.

[laughs] Hannah: As this kinda trip is coming to an end, um, I'm so glad I got to do this.

I'm really glad I got to spend this time with my dad, and, I don't-- get to watch him on this journey 'cause this was really huge for him.

I just feel really blessed to be a part of it, to be there to help him wherever I could.

♪ Shawn: Well, so, uh, Dad.

[chuckles] You said that you, uh, recently, uh, entered into sobriety a year ago, and... - Right.

Shawn: I just wanna tell you that I am proud of you for that because I know exactly how hard it is to come to a place where you can accept that things need to change.

- Correct.

Shawn: And I just wanna say that I am very proud of you for that aspect, and I do wanna get to know you.

Steve: It felt good, uh, when Shawn commended me for doin' what I've done.

That made me feel good, and, uh, proud of myself, actually because I've, I've been on a long road, and it's a shame to say that it took me this long to realize it, but I think I finally realized it.

Shawn: When I was born, I didn't have a father on my birth certificate, and that, that weighed heavy on me, um... Steve: I bet it did.

- I really felt, um, isolated.

And, um, you know, I only knew Wanda Leach's name because she was on the birth certificate, and when I was put into foster care, um, I only had a few baby pictures of myself, and, and two pictures of her, and that was all the information I had, so when I got into my heavy drinking, um... - Was that d-- was that part of due to that?

- Yeah.

Yeah, part of it was that, you know, I, I'm a son that was unwanted, or, and it's, it's not fair to say that now because I didn't know that you didn't know.

- Uh, I didn't.

If I knew, I woulda looked you up a lot sooner.

Myself.

- Well, it's, I'm so grateful to hear that, 'cause, for the longest time, I, I just had resentment towards whoever helped me come into a situation that was so, so broken, and it was hard for me to focus on the good things.

- I feel this moment was one of the best things in my life is to realize I had another son that was out there lookin' for me as well as I didn't even know of him until as of today.

And, uh, to be honest with ya, I'm proud to have met him.

I have somethin' on my mind.

I was wonderin' if I should wait on that or just come right out and ask you.

- Just ask me.

Steve: Uh, I'm wantin' to know whether you would be interested in carryin' Sunter as your last name.

- [gentle crying] - Because I don't have probably a whole lot of years left, and I want to kinda get close to you as I can.

- Yeah.

Steve: So if you'd be interested, uh, if you'd like to, if you would carry Sunter as your last name.

- I'll have to convince my fianceé that it's not gonna be the last name she's been practicing writing, but, yeah, I would definitely take the Sunter name.

Steve: [laughs] Shawn: [sobs softly] This whole journey was a, a Godsend because much like my father, um, I was not in a position not that long ago in which I would even be open to meeting anybody.

[sighs] Sometimes, when you pray, you know, it seems like things aren't being answered, and sometimes it just feels like, you know, things just don't go according to plan, according to our timing, but... what I've, what I've experienced on this trip is that, it's just been so freeing to, to have the understanding that I'm not in this alone and that I'm wanted, which is just, you know, I always felt like I was alone, and I always felt unwanted, so it's just the complete opposite.

♪ [intense music] Hannah: I think this is one of our best days.

Scott: I'm not hopin' that somebody had a bad day, but... - I hope they didn't have a better day than we did.

- Hope they didn't have a better day than we did.

Hannah: But, well, actually, no, it doesn't matter what kinda day Red had.

They have immunity.

Curtis: Team Red always seems to be relaxed.

Whether they did good or bad, they're, you know, that's just Team Red.

Jansen: I think we've got the best odds here.

- And our picture?

Our picture was great.

Sad thing is... Jansen: Somebody's gonna get knocked off today.

- We're not goin' nowhere today.

- No.

- 'Cause we've got one strike.

Curtis: It is what it is.

We just have to hope for the best.

Let's... Shawn: All right, let's do it.

Curtis: Let's find out.

♪ Dan: Amazing!

Day 8, and everone is still very much in it.

For Team Green, you guys have struggled, and yet, you've stayed away from that third strike.

Today, you started off like a shot out of a cannon.

- Yeah.

This is the best day I think we've had with just everything.

- Overall, it sounds like it was a pretty dang good day for everybody.

Team Red has immunity, so they don't need to worry, but ultimately, at the end of every day, what matters most is who's waiting for you, and today, it was a good day for everyone.

I wanna start with Team Green.

Scott, Hannah.

Who was there waiting for you tonight?

Scott: Dan, this is my little brother.

Hannah: And my uncle!

Samuel: How's it goin'?

- From my biological mother.

Dan: [laughs] Look at the grin on all three of your faces.

That says it all.

- Literally a dream come true, and, honest, honest to God, a gift from God.

- Dan, thank you for bringing me and Sam together.

Dan: It is our pleasure.

This is what it's all about.

And for Team Red, Jaime.

Your day only wrapped up in the best of ways.

Jaime: Dan and guys, I'd like to introduce you to Anthony who is my baby brother on my mother's side, like, from my biological mother, and just really happy to connect.

Um, we got to spend some great time today, and looking forward to spending the rest of the night.

Dan: Congratulations on adding to your family.

Jaime: Thank you, Dan, appreciate you.

Dan: Team Blue.

Shawn, who was waiting for you?

- I actually got to meet my father, uh, today, a man that I've learned a lot about in these past few days.

Yeah, this is Steve.

I cannot tell you how grateful I am for this opportunity, especially after losing my adopted father not too long ago, and to now have a father in my life again has, has been such a blessing, and I, I am just so thankful.

Dan: That really hits close to home.

I'm really happy for you, Shawn.

I'm really happy.

Team Black.

Today was a special day.

We discovered at the beginning of this race that your father might not make it through the night, and so we flew you back so that you could meet your biological father, and now, eight days later, who was there waiting for you?

Jamie: Dan.

I got to meet my dad today.

He's got better, and, we've been waitin' on this for 49 years.

We appreciate y'all.

- Tell us all your father's name.

- My dad's name is Billy Jack.

Billy Jack Foshee.

- I-I think you may have the best name I've ever heard on Relative Race.

Billy Jack: Thank you.

I appreciate what you guys have done.

Dan: Billy Jack, our prayers are with you.

- Thank you.

♪ Dan: Teams, we're eight days in, and now, it's time to find out where you all wound up.

♪ Finishing in first place, three minutes under their allotted time... congratulations to Curtis and Shawn.

[applause] Only two minutes behind them... finishing in second place and one minute under their allotted time, congratulations to Team Green.

Hannah: [gasps] [applause] Dan: Team Black, you finished in third place, one minute over your allotted time.

Team Red, you finished 21 minutes over your allotted time.

However, you have immunity, and that means whoever finishes in third place on this day picks up a strike, and we have yet to see about the photo.

The subject matter today was to capture something old.

[click] This is Team Blue's.

This is Team Black.

This is Team Green's photo.

Team Red.

What matters is what the fans think, and today, the fans voted for Team Green.

- [gasps] Ah!

That's awesome.

Dan: With your winning photo, you move from second place into first place, and since Team Red finished in fourth with immunity, Team Black, you have now picked up your second strike on Relative Race.

Jansen: That's awesome.

At the same time, it's sad.

Jamie: [laughs] Dan: Teams, every day has been important because every day, you've met key members of your family.

Tomorrow may be the most important day when it comes to the $50,000 grand prize because tomorrow, one team will be headed home, and three teams will move on to Day 10.

Tomorrow is Day 9, and I can't wait to see what happens.

Good night, everybody.

We'll see you tomorrow night.

Jamie: Good night, guys.

Safe travels.

Jaime: Drive safely.

- [laughs] - WAH!

Hannah: Oh, I told you!

Samuel: That is what I'm talkin' about!

That is what I'm talkin' about!

Hannah: Oh, this was such an important day.

Samuel: [laughs] Hannah: Oh my goodness.

- Not at all what I thought was gonna happen.

- Shoulda just completely taken the day off.

Man, we phoned that one in.

Jaime: Maybe we shoulda just went to Manhattan and got haircuts.

Alex: We should have.

Jaime: [laughs] - We was only one minute over.

I ain't mad.

- One minute over.

But you know what?

We got to meet each other today, didn't we.

- Yeah, we sure did, son.

Jamie: [laughs] Billy Jack: We sure did.

Jamie: That's, that's what matters more than anything else.

Hannah: So.

Scott: Yeah!

Hannah: This has been a very good day.

Samuel: Yes, it has been.

- It's make it or break it tomorrow.

All the cards are on the table.

Jaime: First place or last place, I got family today.

Anthony: Yeah.

Jaime: That's what's important.

Anthony: That's true.

Jaime: My baby brother.

Anthony: Yeah.

Jansen: I find it kinda cool, though, that everybody's gonna be there tomorrow.

Jamie: All four teams.

Jansen: Nobody got knocked out.

Jamie: Let's do it.

Yeah, just keep those fingers crossed and say some prayers tonight.

Billy Jack: Yeah.