♪ Dan: Previously on Relative Race... Callie: Aim with your elbow!

Dan: Team Black took first place.

Callie: [gasps] Andy: [laughs] Callie: Ohhh my goodness.

Dan: And secured the prize Fan-Atic.

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

Callie: So it’s not our fault.

Dan: Team Green came in last.

[thud] But with their immunity, it was Team Blue who picked up the strike.

♪ Mitchell: We picked up a strike, it is what it is.

We’re not out the race yet.

Dykema: We still got each other.

Dan: Both Andy and Geselle met new siblings.

Kevin: I’m Kevin, your brother.

[sniffing] ♪ This is a day that I will most definitely remember the rest of my life.

- I am your sister, Stephanie.

- Whoa, come here!

Stephanie: Yeah!

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

I think we both just kinda melted into each other’s arms.

Dan: And Mitchell was finally reunited with his long-lost sister, Dykema.

Dykema: That’s my brother.

That’s my baby brother!

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

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

- Are you kidding me?

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 ♪ ♪ Mitchell: This journey's been amazing.

Um... we have lived and laughed and loved so much in these past eight days.

I couldn't be more happier.

- I'm your mother's sister.

- What?

Oh!

Jessica: It's nice to meet you.

Mitchell: [laughs in disbelief] - I came into this journey weighted, but I leave lighter.

And, um, with great expectation for the future.

Laticha: I'm your sister on your dad's side.

Taquida: [quietly] Ohh.

Geselle: [stifled grunts] ♪ Taquida: It has been amazing to watch.

Amenta: I been waitin' for this moment a long time.

Taquida: I've learnt so much that I'm able to take home and value.

- Finding out where I'm from, what my biological family is like, it has truly been a blessing and has just been a great experience.

Callie: I feel so honored to be a part of all of this, uh, with my brother.

And being able to find out what we have been able to find out about our families-- it's a blessing.

You're my cousins?!

Caitlyn: Yes.

- [sobs] Carolyn: Oh dear.

- I'm Angalynne and I'm your sister.

[giggles] Andy: [shocked] My sister?!

Finding answers to questions I've had my entire life has just been life-changing.

Trinesha: It's been amazing, it's been such a rollercoaster... of happiness.

I couldn't be happier.

Mitchell: This is just the beginning.

I feel like I completed my mission.

I got what I came here for, I came to find Dykema, and I found her.

♪ Trinesha: We've got today to get to Day 10, we already have two strikes.

Mitchell: Yes.

- We're comin' down to... - Yeah.

- ...the minutes!

Andy: We are absolutely taking zero chances today, we are sticking to the plan and we are going to do it 100% because if we get one more strike on Day 9 we are off.

Dan: It's Day 9 of Relative Race and Team Red is guaranteed a spot on Day 10.

Taquida: And even though we have one strike, we're not tryna get another one.

And we definitely wanna go for that Day 9 prize.

Dan: While the other three teams have two strikes.

Mitchell: No matter what we goin', we're goin' hard.

And we gon' give it everything, we gon' leave it all out on the field.

And I think today is gonna be, gonna be a great day.

Andy: I mean, it's amazing that we get to meet all of our relatives, which is really ultimately what we wanted to do, but... coming all this way just to not be able to finish would be heartbreaking.

Patrick: So the race has been important to make it to Day 9.

But now it's time to get to Day 10 and start thinking about that $50,000.

- Correct.

Dan: Another strike for Blue, Green, or Black will send them home with no chance of winning $50,000.

In Lafayette, Indiana, Mitchell is spending time with his long-lost sister, Dykema.

Mitchell: This morning was a great morning.

We talked about getting all our siblings together as soon as possible because Dykema hasn't seen Rikesha or Quenina since we were taken from our home all those years ago.

Especially when I get home and tell my sisters.

- Yes.

Trinesha: Oh my gosh they're gonna be so-- Mitchell: They gon'-- Dykema: I can't wait to see them.

[phone dings] Mitchell: They gon' be screamin'.

Dykema: Just to hear their voices.

Trinesha: Oh look, we gotta text from Dan.

Mitchell: We got a text from Dan.

Dykema: Okay.

Trinesha: Good morning, Team Blue and welcome to Day 9 of Relative Race.

Before you head out today, we have sent a special visitor to wish you well on this last day of your journey.

Mitchell: We were like, what?

And was like, you know, who could that be?

And we just, we're all just sittin', I'm talkin' to Dykema.

And then the door opens.

Quenina: Hiiii.

Trinesha: [gasps] Mitchell: Heyyyyy, guys!

What are you do--!?

There goes Kesha and Quenina just, just walkin' in.

- I didn't even think it was gonna be... his sisters!

Dykema: [screaming] ♪ Mitchell: Ohhhh.

I was just tellin' Dykema, I was like, the minute I get home the first thing I'm doin' is callin' Kesha and Quenina 'cause they are going to be elated that I met you.

Mmm.

Sisters: [sobbing] Trinesha: I knew that this was gonna be one of the biggest moments of their lives and I almost couldn't contain it.

- It's kinda poetic because the last time we saw Dykema we were on the ground crying, you know, not wanting to let her go.

And they were pretty much dragging her out of the room 'cause she didn't wanna leave us.

Quenina: [sobbing] Mitchell: Come on now.

Boo hoo!

I told her, I told her when I saw her, I was like, boo hoo.

They never got over not having their sister and they needed her in their life.

And I'm so glad that they're back together.

Dykema: I didn't think I was gonna see you guys!

Quenina: [tearfully] I felt lonely in this world.

This just makes me feel a lot better in life.

And...

I'm just so thankful to have 'em all back together, it's been so long.

Dykema: Oh my sisterrrsss.

Thank you, God!

Quenina: Oh this is the best day.

Dykema: I feel grateful and thankful that I got to just see them today.

[laughs] I'm happy.

Mitchell: It is complete-- like that moment is, is, it's so beautiful.

It's just kinda... makes you think about Mom.

I wish she could be here.

♪ [phone dings] Andy: Oh!

Awesome you guys, sorry.

Mitchell: Oh, I'm just so happy y'all are here, ohh!

Mmm!

Oh we got a text from Dan?

Trinesha: We got a text.

Good morning teams and welcome to Day 9 of Relative Race.

Taquida: Team Red will be traveling to LaPlace Louisiana.

- Team Blue will be traveling to Kankakee, Illinois.

Callie: Team Black will be traveling to Oshkosh!

Richard and Gloria: [laugh] Callie: [laughs] We're goin' back to Oshkosh!

Andy: Team Green will be traveling to Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania.

Trinesha: Your time starts now.

Mitchell: [groans] All right, here we go.

Back in the car.

Gloria: Actually, I'd go back this way to Erie.

Patrick: So, you have a better way?

We'll write it down.

Andy: Ken-not Lay-eek.

Kenna-wat?!

- Somethin' like that.

Andy: Yes.

Lizzy: We don't know where that is.

Andy: So fortunately I take the text and show it to Stephanie and she looks at it and says, like, oh, no, that's Conneaut Lake, that's where I was born and raised, I know exactly where that is.

Stephanie: Right there.

Yeah.

Lizzy: It's right in here?

- Yeah.

Taquida: [laughing] I love you.

Geselle: Love ya.

Laticha: See y'all later!

Taquida: All right.

Quenina: Byyye.

Mitchell: I love y'all!

Y'all be good!

♪ Patrick: All right, so we gotta go.

Shove the muffin down.

Callie: We decide that today's for Isaac, we don't wanna go home, we wanna make it to Day 10.

Patrick: That's right.

Callie: So we know he's with us.

Patrick: It's go time.

Callie: I know.

♪ Mitchell: [grunts] Andy: Y'all are amazing, we love you!

Geselle: Let's go, let's go!

[car rumbles] ♪ Andy: I'm feeling really strong about navigation.

I think we just have to hit the road and hope that, uh, no major highways are shut down.

Lizzy: So we are-- Andy: Bunts.

- looking for Bunts, which is right here and we're takin' a right on Bunts.

Andy: That was great information that Stephanie gave us, I think this is gonna get us out of town perfectly.

Dan: With detailed instructions on how to get out of town, Team Green, Andy and Lizzy are leaving Olmsted, Ohio and making their way to Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, with an allotted time of 2 hours and 3 minutes.

Lizzy: All right, that was easy.

Sheee gave us great directions and that was awesome.

Andy: Brilliant!

♪ Patrick: Well we made it to Day 9 for, I mean, for sure!

Callie: We did make it to Day 9!

Patrick: I really didn't think-- Callie: [laughs] - I kept sayin', we can't go-- Day 5 was the one day I'm like, we are not, we are doing this, I am not going home yet.

- [laughs] Dan: Patrick and Callie picked up their second strike of the race clear back on Day 3.

But they haven't let up.

Team Black is departing Sheboygan, Wisconsin and heading back to Oshkosh!

They have an allotted time today of 1 hour and 24 minutes.

[French-sounding accordion] Taquida: [singing lightly] Dun, dun, dunnnn!

Geselle: LaPlace!

Taquida: LaPlace!

[luh-plahs] Geselle: Oh, now you wan' pronounce it right?!

[laughs] Dan: Leaving Baton Rouge, and heading to LaPlace [luh-plahz], Louisiana, Team Red, Geselle and Taquida are en route with an allotted time of 1 hour and 10 minutes.

♪ [epic boom] Mitchell: 57's right here.

Right here, look.

Trinesha: Why would you go way up there?

Mitchell: Because it's a shorter route than going all the way through here!

[map rustles] Goin' all the way up.

'Cause look, we go all the way over here, take 74, then we ride 57 all the way up.

If we take 65 North, 'cause look 65 North is right here.

Take 65 North, then take 80 right here, we'll be closer.

That's way faster than goin' this way.

Dan: Team Blue, Mitchell and Trinesha are taking a gamble on an alternative route from Lafayette, Indiana to Kankakee, Illinois.

Their allotted time is 1 hour and 53 minutes.

Mitchell: I mean, if it's not... oh well.

♪ Dan: All four teams are on the road as they're headed to their destination cities where they will find out what today's challenge has in store for them.

- Now, I say we are the only team that's guaranteed to go into Day 10.

Patrick: We found what we wanted to find, and-- Callie: Right.

Don't go into it with that attitude, though, like... let's go in here and get the job done.

Trinesha: I guess we made it.

Mitchell: The route definitely got us here.

Trinesha: Yeah.

Mitchell: Was it the fastest?

Gotta let the fates decide.

Trinesha: Yep.

- Welcome back to Oshkosh.

[phone dings] Lizzy: Ah, here we are!

Welcome to Conneaut Lake.

Callie: Welcome to Oshkosh!

Geselle: Welcome to LaPlace!

Mitchell: Your challenge is located at-- - 145 McReine Rd.

Callie: 501 E County Road Y. Lizzy: Lake Street, Conneaut Lake.

Mitchell: North 5th Street, Kankakee, Illinois, let's go baby.

- Okay!

Let's go!

♪ Trinesha: Oh, I see it.

Andy: I see a flag!

Lizzy: There's a flag.

Andy: There it is.

♪ Lizzy: Get your jacket, get your jacket.

Andy: Got it, got it, got it, got it.

Go!

♪ 'Kay, let's see what we got.

[envelope rips] Taquida: Welcome, teams!

You're about to be faced with a sticky situation.

♪ Dan: The challenge for Day 9 is Sticky Situation.

Yep, it's a sticky situation when one teammate will be firing tennis balls from a pitching machine 100 feet away, while aimed directly at their teammate, who fortunately will be wearing a padded velcro suit.

The teammate catching has to rotate into a new zone after five attempts, regardless of whether those balls were caught or missed.

Once each teammate has successfully caught and deposited ten balls, this challenge is complete.

♪ Taquida: Okay!

All right-- hold on, I got a text.

Trinesha: Oh!

Andy: And it's Dan!

♪ - Hey guys!

Unfortunately you didn't win and so those guys that did, well they chose Fan-Atic.

And what that means is you've all been penalized as chosen by the fans of Relative Race.

So what's your penalty?

Well, you get to skip the challenge.

[record scratch] Wait what?

No, you do.

What I mean is you literally need to skip through every part of this challenge.

And no running!

Skippity doo da, and good luck!

Geselle: Come on!

Lizzy: Haha!

- Well, I guess that, uh, it's time to go, my love!

Shall we go?

Lizzy: Let's go!

♪ Taquida: Crazy.

Geselle: Gotta skip!

Mitchell: Skip!

Trinesha: Okay.

[epic music] Taquida: I haven't skipped maybe since grade school.

Andy: Fortunately, we kinda love to skip!

♪ Andy: Oo, wedgie!

Nice.

♪ [velcro crackles] Taquida: Ope.

♪ Patrick: Sort of feel like, like a gingerbread man, like I'm, like, stuck like this.

♪ [buckles clips] ♪ [zip] [thud, thud, thud] Callie: Well, getting the suits on actually felt pretty good because it is negative disrespectful outside.

[whistle blows] [slap] Go!

Patrick goes first because he's the bigger target.

- But you can't catch me 'cause I'm the gingerbread man.

Callie: Ye-- [wheezes laughing] Patrick: Isn't that it?

♪ Callie: Okay, here he comes.

Singer: ♪ Those were the voices ♪ ♪ of the people ♪ [thud] ♪ [thwoom] Mitchell: Nope, lil-- give it-- turn it up higher!

Trinesha: It was a challenge to get the speed right.

Lizzy: Here it comes.

Andy: 'Kay.

[thwoom] [thud] Well, when you're standing there watching these balls fly at your face you get a little nervous.

Fortunately, once they start smacking you-- Nice!

--you kinda realize, okay, doesn't hurt as bad as you would think.

Singer: ♪ Those were the voices ♪ ♪ of the people ♪ [shoomp] ♪ [thud] Taquida: So the first round the balls came towards me, they went over my head.

Down just a little bit!

So we just had to s-- kinda strategize to see how we can get them where we needed them to be.

[thud] ♪ Mitchell: [grunts] Let's go, baby.

[thwoom] Callie: Six!

Patrick: Wait, wait, we gotta go to the next one!

Callie: Oh, shoot, sorry!

Patrick: We had to launch five balls in each zone and then switch zones.

Singer: ♪ Those were the voices ♪ ♪ of the people ♪ ♪ Callie: 'Kay, go!

Patrick: Once we had launched all the balls in all the different zones, we had to run back to the tube and fill it up.

Mitchell: No, go, put your gloves on, don't worry about it!

[boom] Pulling them off was actually harder than I thought.

Trinesha: Really hard, they're really stuck.

Mitchell: Yeah, they're really on there.

Go, go, go, go, go.

Trinesha: [giggles] [velcro crackling] Andy: Your turn, baby, you got this!

Lizzy: Okay!

[boom, boom] [pitching machine whirs] [thud] Mitchell: Nice!

Trinesha: Got one!

Mitchell: Three!

Lizzy: [laughing] ♪ [thud] [thud] Mitchell: Nice!

Trinesha: Got it!

Mitchell: Uh, four?

Four, I think!

Come on!

[thud] Mitchell: Nice!

Next one!

[shoomp] [thud] Taquida: So I thought first round ten each seemed a little impossible, until we started catching them and, and found some momentum to slow the ball down just a little bit, then it felt possible, like, we can do this.

Geselle: Good job.

Lizzy: So?

Andy: That's all of 'em.

Good job!

Patrick: How many do we got?

Eight each I think?

Callie: Okay.

Patrick: This next time around we both had to catch two balls to complete our ten balls each.

Callie: So you just gotta catch two and head back.

[thwoom] [thud] Andy: Nice!

[thud] Mitchell: Nice!

Trinesha: Let's go!

Skip!

Skip!

Skip!

♪ Callie: Good job, Pat!

♪ [thwoom] [thud] [shoomp] [thud] Taquida: [grunts] Geselle: Come onnn!

Callie: Oh!

♪ I fell in goose poo!

Patrick: Here it comes!

Callie: 'Kay!

[thud] Trinesha: Got it!

Geselle: Three more.

Let's go!

Lizzy: Two!

♪ Singers: ♪ Oh-oh-oh!

♪ ♪ [thud] ♪ [thud] Taquida: Oh!

One more!

Andy: Yes!

Lizzy: Three, is that it?

Andy: That's it!

Patrick: Get... off!

[velcro crackling] [ding ding ding] Andy: Boom, go!

[ding ding ding] [smack] Callie: Oh!

Lizzy: Do we run or skip?

Andy: I don't know, skip!

Lizzy: [laughs] [envelope rips] Lizzy: Open it.

Callie: You will find your relative at-- - Stillwater Trail.

Callie: 416 West 12th, Oshkosh, let's go!

Andy: Okay, let's get this off and let's get goin'.

♪ Mitchell: Nice!

Let's go, run it out, run it out.

[thud] Taquida: Yess!

Let's go!

[ding ding ding] Mitchell: Let's go!

Taquida: [grunting] [ding ding ding] Woo!

[highfive] Mitchell: You will find your relative at-- Taquida: 239-- Mitchell: --Gatehouse Way.

Mitchell: Come on.

Taquida: All right, let's go.

Geselle: Come on, let's go.

♪ Callie: Here's Main Street.

I would take a left, maybe?

We're driving through an industrial park and then into the downtown area.

And we know that we're headed to a numbered street, but there are no numbered streets where we are.

Patrick: Yeah, we haven't run into any yet.

Mitchell: Run to the pizza place because pizza-- they deliver.

- Right here?

- They deliver, yeah.

- Okay.

Mitchell: But, you can't-- As we're driving through the city I see a pizza place, and I know for sure they know this area better than we do, just by deliveries alone.

Andy: Espyville, okay, we are officially in the village of Espyville.

Lizzy: We're headed into Espyville and it's a really small town so we're hoping that Stillwater Road will just kind of intersect right on the main road that we're driving on.

Andy: Keep an eye out for, uh, Stillwater.

Geselle: We have no idea where we're goin'.

So we stop at the first gas station we see.

All right, 'scuse me?

That worked out because he was able to tell us the street that we were lookin' for.

Geselle: Okay, thank you!

Trinesha: Yeaaaahhhh!

Mitchell: Let's go, baby!

Trinesha: Good ideaaaa!

Mitchell: Nice!

- That worked out so well!

Because we woulda been so lost had we tried to find the address on our own.

♪ Callie: Decided to stop at a gas station and thankfully someone is able to point us in the right direction.

Ninth Avenue is this way?

Okay, perfect!

All right.

Let's go back that way.

Andy: So, it's a-- on one of these backroads that no one's ever heard of.

We cannot find this road anywhere.

Fortunately we saw a dollar store so we run in real quick and ask the, uh, person in there if they know where it is, and fortunately it's such a small town she knew exactly where it was.

Andy: Thanks!

Lizzy: Thank you so much!

Mitchell: Relax.

Trinesha: Go through this light.

Mitchell: One.

This is the one.

Trinesha: Stay green.

Mitchell: Stay green.

Niiiice.

Trinesha: Goin'?

Taquida: No, somethin's not right.

Geselle: Okay.

Taquida: 2389?

Geselle: Yeah, 2389.

- Why is these addresses... no, somethin's not right.

We missed the turn that we were supposed to take, now we have to turn around.

Hopefully that doesn't cost us too much time.

[sighs] Geselle: So we shoulda turned r-- left at the light.

Taquida: [groans] ♪ Dan: With the last stretch of the race in sight, Teams Black and Green are narrowing in on their relatives' address.

Callie: Hi there, 'scuse me.

Quick question, we are looking for Twelfth Avenue.

Andy: Looking forrr... Lizzy: Stillwater Trail.

Andy; Stillwater Trail, here we are!

Callie: Keep goin' that way?

Callie: Over the bridge?

Callie: Perfect, thank you so much!

♪ Lizzy: It's 9731.

Andy: 9731.

♪ Callie: Should be in this next block.

Patrick: Where is it-- 402?

Callie: 402...

Both: 416!

Patrick: [grunts] [laughs] Callie: [sighs] ♪ - As we get out of the car, we see this lovely lady standing there, but, uh, don't quite know who she is yet.

Woman 1: Ohh!

Patrick: [laughs] Woman 1: Ohh.

Callie: [laughs] - I'm Patrick.

Callie: [laughing] I'm Callie.

Aunt Patti: Ohh, ohhh, ohhh, I'm so happy to meet you.

Callie: [laughing] Aunt Patti: I am so happy to meet you, Patrick.

Oh!

Oh.

Patrick: Mmm.

Aunt Patti: Oh, I love you, babe!

Callie: Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!

Aunt Patti: Oh, oh!

Patrick: We had this warm and, like, motherly love just coming at us... Callie: Right.

Patrick: ...full speed.

Callie: You could feel her energy, like, ten feet back!

I mean, it was just, just radiating.

Patrick: Yeah.

Yes.

Callie: [laughing] It's so nice to meet you!

[smooch] Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!

Aunt Patti: You are my niece.

Ohh baby, welcome to the family.

Callie: [laughing emotionally] Thank you.

Patti: When we hugged it was so warm, such a warm hug.

I-I can't explain in words what I felt in my heart when I met them.

Callie: Ohh, you are so lovely!

[laughs] Patrick: I knowww, hugs, I want more!

Aunt Patti: [laughs] Callie: [laughing] Patti: Oh, baby.

Patrick: Oh!

Patti: It's so good to meet you!

Patrick: It's so good to meet you, toooo!

I thought it might be an aunt.

I'm like, I haven't seen much about you guys yet, I wasn't sure!

Patti: Ohhh.

Callie: [laughing] Patti: We're just so happy.

So happy!

Patrick: Thank you.

Patti: So blessed to have you two.

We're so blessed!

Patrick: Thank you so much.

Patti: You're welcome!

Patrick: Ohhh, I want more, I want more!

Patti: Ohh.

Oh, baby.

Callie: [laughs] Patti: Oh, this is a miracle.

I'd say you're my miracle baby but you're not!

Patti and Callie: [laugh] Patti: Oh.

We got more to talk about, let's go in the house.

Patrick: Yes, yes let's go inside, it is cold.

Callie: [laughs] Ohhh.

Patti: Welcome, welcome.

Callie: Oh-ho-ho.

♪ Lizzy: 641, so it's gonna be on this side.

Andy: Yeah, that's 97, so.

Lizzy: It's gonna be on this side.

9... Andy: 669... Lizzy: Looking for 9731.

Andy: Yep.

Lizzy: This one right here.

Andy: There we go.

9731.

[clock ticking] As we're pulling up to the house I'm actually starting to feel a little bit anxious, uh, it's almost overwhelming because I'm feeling like this could possibly be, uh, the one person that I've really wanted to meet throughout this entire journey.

[wheels squeak] ♪ [car doors slamming] ♪ Man 1: How you doin'?

Andy: We are doing well.

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

- I'm John Burger and I am your dad.

Andy: You are in fact?

John: Yes!

[laughs] Andy: Oh, it's so great to meet you.

Ohh, wow.

John: Yeah.

- My dad!

John: Look at you!

Andy: Good to meet you.

John: Good to meet you.

Andy: Today is the culmination of a 48-year journey.

It feels slightly surreal but kinda incredible to be able to say that, uh, I called a man my dad today.

John: You look like a Burger.

- I look like a Burger?

John: Uh, yeah, you do.

Come 'ere!

- [laughing] Hi!

There are a lot of similarities you can see instantly that they look alike and I just stood there looking back and forth between the two of them and just... it was kind of a, a surreal moment to... see him look like somebody else, like, to that extent.

John: Long week, huh?

Andy: It has been, but Johnny Wayne it is amazing to meet you.

John: Heh, Johnny Wayne, I like it.

[laughs] - Or I guess I should just say Dad!

It's great to meet you!

John: Well, you can call me Dad, I don't care.

You can call me Johnny Wayne, call me anything you want to, I'm just glad to see ya.

- It's great to see you, too.

How are you doing?

- I'm doing great!

Andy: Good!

John: Strong as a bull.

Andy: Well, there you go.

John: Yeah.

Andy: And it's funny, too, because all the stories that I've heard about you is that that's the best way to describe you, a man that, uh... might get beaten down a little bit but never gives up.

- No, I don't give up.

There's no reason to.

Well, hey, you guys wanna come in?

Andy: Yes, that'd be awe-- fantastic!

John: Okay, let's go.

Andy: Let's go!

Okay!

John: Just, the doors are wide open.

Andy: Why, thank you, sir.

John: My house is your house.

♪ Geselle: 24... so, slow down.

We finally come to the address and it's this long driveway.

And we're like... okay, what is this?

Elementary?

What?

[clock ticking] ♪ So, I noticed it was a school.

But then there's this young man standing on the fence, and we both kinda look at each other like, what's goin' on?

- Hello, how you doin'?

Taquida: Doing good.

Geselle: Hey, how are you?

Man 2: I'm doin' all right.

I'm Charles.

Taquida: 'Kay.

Geselle: I'm Geselle.

- I'm Taquida.

- Nice to meet you.

- Are you related to one of us?

Charles: Yes, I'm Geselle's nephew, I'm your sister Dana's son.

Taquida: Ohhh!

[laughs] Geselle: Aww, nice to meet you!

♪ Hugging Charles for the first time, uh, it felt pretty good.

It felt like a warm welcome into the family.

Hey, it's okay.

Charles: So, how you doin'?

- I'm good!

- Nice to finally meet you!

Geselle: It's th-- it's nice to meet you, too!

I, I met your mom all yesterday.

Charles: Yeah, h-how was it?

- It was good.

We had a good, good trip here.

Charles: All right.

- No complaints.

- Kevin and Ticha?

Geselle: Kevin and Ticha, we laughed till three in the mornin'!

- Y'all, y'all are lookin' like them.

- Yeah!

[laughs] - 'Specially you and my mom.

- Yeah.

- Seein' Geselle face for the first time remind me of my mom.

It was, it was pretty awesome, it was like lookin' at my mom's twin.

I'm my mom's oldest son.

So, I'm your oldest nephew.

- Okay.

Charles: Uh...

I'm happy that I'm here today to actually meet you and know that I have an aunt that I can care for and love.

Geselle: Okay.

Charles: Yeah.

- I'm excited!

Charles: So you guys are probably wondering why we're here.

Taquida: Yeah.

Geselle: Yeah, kinda sorta.

Charles: So, we could walk over here and have a seat on the bench and I can tell you guys all about it.

Geselle: Okay.

♪ Trinesha: Does that say Gatehouse?

Mitchell: What's that say?

Gatehouse, let's go.

Left!

Left, left, left, left, left.

Trinesha: Wh-what is-- Mitchell: 5530, 5530!

Straight now, go!

5565.

5555.

Both: 5545.

5540.

- Fifty-fiiiiive... Mitchell: What's that say?

25, 5520?

Trinesha: 25.

Mitchell: 30, right there!!

5530, right there!

Right there!

Trinesha: Found it.

Mitchell: [smacks dashboard repeatedly] Mitchell: Let's go!

Trinesha: Yes, yes!

Mitchell: Mmm!

Great job, Tiny, uh!

Trinesha: Ughh.

Ugh, that's so stressful.

- Let's go, baby!

Trinesha: After being really stressed out about the potentially long ride it took to get to the city, I'm really relieved because we found the address so quickly.

And if I think we're gonna meet who I think we are, then it's all gonna be worth it.

Mitchell: [groaning] Uhh.

Oh.

Trinesha: Hiii.

- Hi.

How are you?

Trinesha: Good, how are you?

Woman 2: I'm good.

- I'm Trinesha.

Woman 2: Hi, I-- Trinesha: This is my husband, Mitchell.

Woman 2: Hello, how are you?

Mitchell: Hello.

Woman 2: Hi.

Trinesha: What's your name?

- My name is Maria, I'm your mother.

♪ Mitchell: Mmm.

Mmmmm.

Maria: [sobbing] Mitchell: Mmmm.

Maria: [sobs] ♪ So I just wanted to grab him and hold him and...

I don't wanna let him go again.

It's what I've been waiting for all this time, to see him again.

[sobbing] Ohhh.

Mitchell: Ohh, you still look the sa-a-ame.

[smooching] Maria: You're so beautiful.

You're so handsome!

[laughs] - That's those genes you gave me, that's it, that's it, yeah, that's what you gave me!

Maria: I've missed you so much, you just don't know!

Mitchell: It's been close to 30 years since I've seen you.

Maria: Yess, I knowww!

Mitchell: Ohh!

Maria: [giggling emotionally] How long you been waitin' for this day, baby?

Mitchell: Uh, a whole life.

Maria: Me too!

Mitchell: Since the day, ohh-- since that day in court we've been, uhh... Maria: Yes.

- When we pulled up to the relative's house, I think we both knew and realized who was standing out there.

And she was honestly the final piece of the puzzle.

Mitchell: This is my wife Trinesha.

Maria: Hi, Trinesha!

Mitchell: She been here the whole time.

Trinesha: I'm so happy to see you.

Mitchell: Oh, yes.

Mmm.

Maria: You're so beautiful, ha ha!

Trinesha: Thank you!

Maria: Nice big welcome to the family.

You can't get rid of me.

Tell 'em, huh?

Tell 'em right now we-- Mitchell: No, this is... Maria: [laughing] Trinesha: Oh, you don't even know me yet, I'm so happy.

I'm so happy for everyone.

Mitchell: Ohh, I been tellin' Ti-- oh my goodness.

Trinesha: You're beautiful.

Maria: Thank you, so are you!

You be beautiful, too.

I have grandkids?

Mitchell: My whole li-- yes, you do.

Maria: How many?

- Two.

Maria: Two, boy or girl?

- Six-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy.

Maria: Ohhhh!

Mitchell: Yes.

Maria: [laughs] I'm so excited!

I'm a grandma!

Mitchell: Ohh, oh, oh.

- Do you guys wanna come inside?

Mitchell: Yes, yes.

- It's cold outside.

- Yes, yes, yes.

Trinesha: Can we go now?

[laughs] I love it.

Mitchell: Oh!

♪ Dan: In LaPlace, Louisiana, Team Red is sitting down with Geselle's nephew Charles to learn more about their family's history.

Charles: So, the reason why we here, um, the school is named after our great-grandfather.

Uh, he was the only black physician in this area, in this part of town.

- Wow.

Charles: So the picture here is our great-grandfather and our great-grandmother.

Geselle: Wow.

Charles: John Henry and Elizabeth.

Geselle: Wow.

Charles: So that's our great-grandparents here.

Geselle: He look like he didn't play.

All: [laugh] Charles: Pretty strict, huh?

- They look pretty strict.

Taquida: Or he was determined.

Geselle: Yeah, yeah, he was determined to make sum'n happen.

Taquida: Yeah.

- Our great-grandfather made history, you know, and he accomplished somethin' and have somethin' that holds, uh, your family last name and everything.

- I'm just very appreciative for the, the, um, opportunity to sit, uh, with someone who is like a mini-historian, uh, about the family and begin to, uh, learn more about the family tree and the history of this family.

I think that's amazing, you know, the things that, uh, um, you're telling me right now.

I'm still trying to process it.

- Yeah.

Geselle: But I-I-I still think it's amazing, uh, the accomplishments that, you know, he was able to accomplish.

As soon as I began to think about the strength that John Lowery carried and kinda reflect on my own life, um, I could see the tenacity, uh, that's been actually built into my DNA, um, through some of the things that I've experienced in life.

I wanna say thank you for, um, just the, the wis-- the history!

'Cause I'm a history buff, I love history.

So this is fascinating for me.

But I wanna say thank you for taking time out of your schedule.

And also I'm excited to meet you and can't wait to build with you, you know, and my sister.

- Same here.

♪ John: It's really nice to see.

I'm so glad-- you don't know how many times you were in my thoughts.

And because every once in a while you're gonna think, ah, I wonder what he's doin'?

And then it's another thought you're gonna have is should I try to find 'im?

Or, or am I gonna be in the way?

It means a lot to see you.

And I think your little wife is very lovely.

I think you're a very lucky man, as I am.

Andy: Indeed.

John: So everything turned out to be the way it should be.

- At the end of the day I couldn't agree with you more.

John: Appreciate that.

- What was the history of what went down before I was born or around the time I was born.

What do you know?

- Why you were adopted?

- Uh, just, what was the situation?

Just the story in general.

- I was only 17 when you were born.

- Okay.

- I didn't really have anything to s-- I didn't have any rights.

I didn't have anything to say.

And, uh, so what they-- and her family was very conservative so they did what they felt was right at the time.

And your mother was against it completely.

Andy: Oh really?

John: Yeah.

And, uh, she rebelled some, but there wasn't really much she could do.

The only option I had at that age-- in fact, I actually had to wait till I was 18 and then basically at that time the only thing we could do was give us our names and telephone numbers.

After that, you know, it was just thinkin' and hopin' and...

I, I figured I had very little chance.

- Well, that actually means a lot to me to know that you were wanting to be a part of my life and wanting to know me.

John: Of course, and it's not like-- I mean, we thought about you all the time.

And I was wondering if you-- every one of my relatives knew about you.

- Even though they were both just kids themselves, and that family was not exactly supportive of the idea of them being together, uh, that they still made the attempt to talk about the possibility of... making a life with each other with me.

And that... [emotional] I wasn't just a total mistake.

♪ - Would you like to see a photo of her?

Andy: I would absolutely love to see a photo of her.

John: That's her graduation picture right there, and this is her... things that she did.

- Up until Dad took out the yearbook and showed me pictures of my mother I didn't even know what her name was, much less what she looked like.

This is amazing.

Honestly, thank you for sharing these with me.

I'm glad we finally got to see what my mom looks like, even if we can't show her on camera because my mother's side of the family did not want to have contact with me at this time.

Throughout this process I've kind of steeled myself to the fact that I was probably never going to actually know what my mom looked like.

- I'm sure one day you'll probably meet her.

- It's hard for me to picture the woman that I'm sure she is now and I'm sure she's an amazing person.

But just seeing her at that point in her life, uh... it's, it's... [tearfully] it's very surreal.

This past week I've gotten to know a lot about you as the man that you were and the man that you've become.

And uh...

I'm excited to call you my dad.

John: Well, I appreciate that.

- It's huge to me, thank you very much.

I think that today is the first day of, uh, a brand-new journey for all of us.

Great to see you!

Stephanie: It's nice to see you!

Andy: Oh!

Come 'ere, you!

Hey, sis, how ya doin'?

Angalynne: Good.

♪ Andy: I've gone 48 years without knowing each other and just sitting there, it was, it feels like family.

This is one of the truly most remarkable and amazing moments of my life, sitting here with my two beautiful sisters and my old man.

Stephanie: [laughs] Lizzy: Smile!

♪ Dan: Back in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Patrick is settling in with his aunt, Patti.

Patti: Do you have children?

Patrick: Yes!

I have the, the three.

I have my oldest is 15, my middle is 11, and I always say Isaac is forever 6 when he passed... Patti: He is, oh.

I'm so sorry.

[smooch] ♪ Patrick: Losing Isaac at six years old was the hardest thing I've ever done.

And I put up walls around me and I pushed people out and I sorta shut down.

So I wasn't sure how I was gonna react to people during this journey.

But everyone has been so amazing and so wonderful and just really opened their arms to us.

It's just, it's been amazing.

And I am just so grateful for this opportunity.

And I'm just looking forward to really building on these relationships.

- My heart just goes to you.

Patrick: Thank you.

Patti: It is very hard to lose someone.

Patrick: Mhm, it is.

- And lose a son.

And I, I just... you know, I lost my husband so I can feel, but I can't feel because yours was a son, mine was my husband.

Patrick: Yeah, but still your loss.

Patti: We lost.

And you know what, sweetheart?

It took a little bit, It took a little bit.

Y-your emotions shut down a little.

But you know what, hun?

When you can, let 'em out, 'cause it feels so good.

[laughs] Patrick: It does, it does, it does!

Callie: [laughs] Callie: It's like you're being welcomed home, you know?

And um... they've welcomed me with open arms, you know?

And taken me in as one of their own, and it's, it's just... it's beautiful, it's beautiful.

Callie: Thank you guys for being so warm and welcoming and truly just opening up your homes, your arms, your hearts to us.

It's just-- Patti: Awww, you're very welcome.

Callie: Yeah.

Patrick: Thank you so much for inviting us in and being on the show.

Come 'ere, one more hug.

Standing hug!

Yes!

Awww.

Callie: Awww.

Patti: You're very welcome, you're very welcome.

Callie: [laughing] Patti: I'm just so-- aww.

Aww.

- Pat and I decided to take a little walk around the neighborhood and just kinda take it all in, have a quiet moment together.

Patrick: Mhm.

- And... we come back and there is...

Both: Patti.

Callie: In the driveway again!

Patrick: She's like-- yep, she's like, I got something to show you and I'm thinkin'... what does she have to show us?

♪ Patti: There is other members.

More aunts and uncles.

Patrick: I keep getting more!

Ohhhh!

So, I come around the backyard, I'm meeting even more people.

Callie: Yep, Uncle Danny, his wife.

Aunt Judy.

Uh, Aunt Laurie!

Patrick: I'm glad you're on this!

Patti: And Patrick, there are some people I could not keep away.

They just would not leave me alone!

Patrick: Ohhh!

Patti: There's the rest of your family!

Callie: [laughing] [chattering and laughter] Callie: We turn around and-- Patrick: And then my sisters and my dad and everyone comes in.

Callie: And we hear Katie screaming!

Patrick: And all their kids!

Yep!

So they all came in and we all got to do hugs, we love hugs.

Patti: Patrick, we have something for you from our family.

Patrick: Ohhhh.

Callie: [sobbing] Patrick: Thank you.

Patti: Welcome to the family.

[clapping] Patrick: They give me a jersey, and on the back they've signed the number 1 and it says, "Isaac Strong".

That definitely-- Callie: Mhm.

Patrick: --meant a lot to me.

Callie: Especially because, you know, we said that today was for Isaac.

Patrick: Yep.

- It was a great way to... Patrick: Mhm.

Callie: ...close the day out.

Patrick: Yes, it was.

All: Isaac Strong!

♪ Mitchell: Mom, it's been... 30 long, long, long years.

Maria: [laughs] Mitchell: I'm like...

Mom, you look just the same.

You have not changed.

- [laughing] - Oh, we missed you so much.

Maria: I missed you guys so much too.

- When I started this journey, the main thing, there was two main things I wanted to do.

I wanted to see Dykema and I wanted to find you.

But I was worried, like, I was, like, you know, does she remember us?

Maria: I never forgot you.

Never.

- I know.

Yeah, it was, like, does she still want us?

- [emotionally] I love you.

I wou-- Mitchell: Yeah.

- I prayed for you more than I prayed for myself.

- Mm.

- I was, like, are they okay?

Are they alive?

Mitchell: Mm.

Maria: I was, like, every day I prayed and prayed and... and I says, Lord, am I ever gonna see them again?

And look how God is so good.

- Mm.

Mm.

I don't care about none of that, none of that stuff that was in the past.

Just now.

- Now, right now, right here, right now.

Mitchell: I got babies you need to meet.

Maria: That's fine.

♪ Mitchell: I remember that we had the weekly visits.

- Yeah.

- It was every Wednesday.

- Yep.

- I remember that, in that little, weird room with the glass, the windows on it.

Maria: We used to, remember we used to have contests, singing contests, me and you and Rikesha and Queni.

Mitchell: We took a picture.

I remember we took a picture in there.

Maria: Uh-huh, we did.

- And we did, and I will remember, and we went, and then eventually we just stopped seeing you.

- 'Cause I got back on drugs again.

Mitchell: That's what i-- Oh, okay.

Maria: I tol-- I said, when I see him, I'm telling him the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God.

You know, I mean, so you can understand, and now you know I can't, you know I'm not gonna lie to you.

- When I heard her explanation, it was healing.

I was angry about it for a long, long time, but now that I know what really happened, you know, and I got the truth...

I'm, I'm more than okay.

I can kind of respect her for it, and I'd never stop loving her, and I never will, and I'm not gonna hold nothin' she did in the past against her.

And now we gonna focus on moving forward.

- I didn't want you guys to go through that.

You know, I wanted you guys to have a normal life without that in your life, you know what I mean?

But now I've been sober and clean for a long time now.

And I'm doing awesome.

- I'm about to say you look like you're doing awesome.

- Doing awesome.

So I'm so glad.

I'm so glad that God had brought you back to me, and now my whole life is really gonna change.

- Yeah.

- If you knew about where Rikesha and Quenina was?

- Yes, um, and Rikesha and Quenina were adopted with me, um... Maria: Oh, so you guys stayed together... Mitchell: Yes, we stayed together.

Maria: That is a blessing from God.

Mitchell: Yes, they both, um, live in Columbus, Ohio now.

Maria: Oh, they do?

Mitchell: Yes.

Kesha has two boys.

And Quenina has a boy.

And, um, they can-- I'm pretty sure they can't wait to see you.

'Cause as soon I get 'em on the phone, you're all [suppressed laughter] - That's what I wanted to know.

Do they want to see me too?

Mitchell: Yes, yes, yes.

They do.

And they, they big babies themselves, so.

- I've waited for this day forever, forever.

- They gonn-- Oh my goodness.

You, you look like both of 'em.

You look like Kesha and Quenina.

- [laughs] - I'm telling you, like-- [sighs] [phone dings] From who?

Dan.

- "I couldn't resist one more surprise.

Knock, knock."

- What?

Trinesha: Yeah.

Maria: Nuh-uh.

Please don't.

♪ Oh!

[crying] Baby!

[crying] [muffled crying] - It was like a perfect recreation of the day we got taken away, the day me, Kesha, and Quenina got adopted, and now this.

It was just on the floor, huggin', not lettin' go.

Maria: You guys are so beautiful.

Look at-- You guys are so grown up.

- Being able to hug her and, um, see her and hold her, um, [sniffles] was everything.

All: [crying] [kisses] Maria: [crying] Oh, Quenina.

Both: [crying] Quenina: When I looked into her eyes, I seen it.

I felt the same connection like we never, I've never lost that feeling of just her presence and just wanting to be with her all the time.

Just being there with her is surreal.

Maria: I've been missing her all this time.

It was like a hole in my heart.

I am so, like, complete now.

I have all my children with me.

Trinesha: I'm so happy to have been the one to witness what just happened and how special this was.

Mitchell: Thirty years worth of love just exploded in a room that fast, and it was... Ah, it was beautiful and it was so-- It was so worth it.

I would do this race a thousand more times to bring my family back together like that again.

♪ Dan: It's the end of Day 9, the final day that these teams will race on the road.

With one strike, Team Red is guaranteed a spot on Day 10.

But with two strikes each, Teams Blue, Green, and Black are in danger of striking out.

Callie: We're here.

We made it to Day 9.

Patrick: Mm-hm.

Callie: We did our best.

We know we did our best.

Lizzy: And we know that Red is definitely going to Day 10.

Geselle: So you ready to go find out?

Taquida: I guess so.

Geselle: All right, let's go then.

♪ - Hello.

Patrick: Hello!

Mitchell: Heeeeey.

- I cannot wait any longer.

What did you guys have to do?

No one would tell us.

- We had to skip in the challenge.

Skip!

Skip!

Skip!

Andy: [grunting] - Skip the whole way.

- Oh.

Andy: [laughing] - Did not like it at all.

Team Red: [laughing] Patrick: Oh!

Mitchell: Heeeeey.

Callie: Dapper Dan.

Mitchell: Dan the Man.

- Man, I had no idea it was Mardi Gras.

Look at Team-- look at Team Red.

Well, again, all that matters is that you made it safely to family that was waiting for you.

Geselle, I wanna start with you.

Who did you meet?

- Well, today I met my nephew on my father's side, Charles.

Dan: Charles, how are ya?

Charles: I'm doin' fine.

How y'all doin'?

- Good.

- That's good.

That's great.

- That's a handsome man right there.

Geselle: [laughs] - Patrick and Callie, was this almost bittersweet for you, knowing that your journey was over after tonight to find family?

- It was, but I met my aunt, Patti.

And if we wanna go all the way through my fun journey, in the back yard I had more family and all of my sisters and my father and everyone came back over and it was an amazing time.

- What an awesome family reunion.

- It was.

It was.

And just meeting them all in just these nine days, it's, it was amazing.

Oh, one more hug.

Patti: [laughs] ♪ Dan: Andy and Lizzy.

You arrive at the address, and who is waiting for you?

- Today I have the incalculable happiness to introduce you all to my dad, Johnny Wayne.

- Yes!

- Let's go, Andy!

- But wait, there's more.

With him today are some people y'all probably know already.

Robin, Angalynne, and Stephanie.

It's a family reunion.

Day 1 meeting him, and we're already, we're having reunions.

- Aww.

Well, what a wonderful reunion this must be for you.

Andy, you got the family gathered around.

That's fantastic.

Well on this final day for Team Blue it could've been Trinesha's relative, and it could have been Mitchell's.

When you arrived, whose relative was it?

- Today I got to meet, after almost 30 years, my mother.

Callie: Oh, yay.

♪ - Oh my goodness.

Mitchell, it's almost like you're still wondering if this is true.

- Oh yeah.

Absolutely.

- And for your mother, Mom!

- Yes.

Dan: What was this like for you?

30 years in the making.

- This is so amazing.

It feels so unreal, but it's real, and I'm, like, I thank you so much.

- We thank you for being there for your son.

- Yes, it's beautiful.

Dan: Oh, that's fantastic.

I'm so happy for all of you.

You all made it to Day 9.

That's almost impossible.

Which teams are gonna move on to Day 10?

♪ Team Red's only got one strike.

But Teams Black, Blue, and Green have two strikes.

On this day, one of you finished under your allotted time.

Finishing six minutes under their allotted time...

Team Black.

Callie: Oh!

Dan: Congratulations.

You've dedicated this day to your son.

And I've got a feeling he's looking down on us right now.

♪ Ten minutes behind Team Black and four minutes over their allotted time...

Team Green, you're the second team going to Day 10.

- Great, great.

Way to go, way to go, way to go.

- Team Red, Team Blue, one of you finished five minutes over your allotted time.

The team that picked up the strike today finished 17 minutes over your allotted time.

♪ Team Red, you finished five minutes over your allotted time.

You are headed to Day 10.

Team Blue.

If you had chosen the highway rather than staying on the freeway... That was the difference because you did incredibly well at the challenge.

The entire difference came down to the final day of the race and one minor choice.

- So happy for each and every one of you.

- Every one of y'all.

- All of you.

We talked about it yesterday.

No matter the outcome, we got everything we wanted out of it.

- I mean, we made it here.

- We made it here, and we made it to every relative every day.

- We did.

- It just still hurts because we don't want to see nobody go.

You know, we have such a strong bond and rooting each other on.

It just-- Although I know we know you guys are still good in spirit, it just still hurts us.

Mitchell: Just go forward and know that we love each and every one of y'all.

I got my mom.

I got my sister.

Those were the main things I came on this race for.

[emotionally] At the end of the day nobody better coulda won but y'all three.

Nobody better coulda won.

♪ - Trinesha and Mitchell, it's gonna be sad to see you go, but Teams Red, Black, and Green, it's the final day for the winning team to pick their prize, and guess what, Team Black.

There's only one left on the board.

Your Day 10 mystery prize that is now yours is you're going to have a canvas print custom created of you and all your family that you met on the journey.

Callie: That's amazing.

Thank you so much.

Dan: But for the three teams that are headed to Day 10, you wanna know where you're headed?

- Of course you do.

Chicago, the Windy City.

- Oh-ho-ho.

Dan: And you better gear up because it's going to be the most challenging day yet.

So make sure you have your wits about you, and get ready to battle it out because tomorrow somebody is gonna walk away with the title of Relative Race Champion and a check for $50,000.

Team Blue, we love you.

You're always a part of our family.

For Teams Black, Red, and Green, get packed and roll out tomorrow, and we will see you in Chicago.

Good night, everybody, and good luck.

Trinesha: Y'all get a good night rest.

- Bye, everyone.

- Later.

See y'all later.

- Bye.

- [gasps] Callie: Oh my gosh.

This is just wild.

We are feeling fantastic right now.

But again, it's a little bit of a bittersweet moment because we know we're going through and we know that one team isn't.

- One more day.

[laughs] - I think I'm the only one that's taken notes, so I hope it pays off.

All my notes from all the Zoom calls.

Basically noting everything.

I hope they come in handy.

- Dan has said since Day 1, Remember everything that's being said, and she has it written down.

- Even though we're going to Day 10, it's hard to celebrate.

[laughs] - Team Blue leaving was kind of a blow today, but, uh, we carry them with us as we're marching into Day 10.

- We got you, we got Dykema.

- Right.

- It's all good.

I'm, I'm, I'm not hurting too much.

We learned a lot about ourselves on this race.

So I think as far as I'm concerned, we won.

♪