Dan: Previously on Relative Race... - Thanks so much.

- Black Team is out.

- We're out.

- [laughs] Dan: Team Black was the first team to face elimination.

- When I was in the military, I was a paratrooper.

Dan: Team Blue took a dive with Anitra's Uncle Kevin.

Anitra: I felt great in there.

Dan: Raymond completed his maternal family tree.

Nicole: This was empty.

- And now I've got a full chart.

Completing my mother's tree is amazing.

Now, I just gotta find my dad.

Dan: And DeShae finally found her mother.

- Oh my gosh.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... - It's on.

- Boom.

[thud] [grunt] Dan: ...to win $50,000.

- Let's get 'em!

Dan: And to find their family.

[knocking] ♪ ♪ Dan: It's Day Nine, the last relative and the final chance to make it to the Day Ten competition.

With only one strike, Team Green is safe from elimination.

However, with two strikes each, Teams Blue and Red are dangerously close to being sent home with only one day left.

- How did that feel, comin' down to the end?

How's your mindset?

- Our goal is to get to Day Ten.

- Right.

- You know, we're gonna give it our all, we're gonna, you know, treat it like it's Day One like we always been doin' and we're gonna keep it movin'.

- Day Nine, I mean-- - Here we are.

- Yeah.

We woke up focused, we feel recovered from our punch last night, and we're ready.

We're ready for it.

- Check this out.

So I'm lookin' at the whole state of North Carolina.

So you know we've got all route 10, we got 73, we got 85, we have 40.

So we got up a extra two hours early this mornin' plannin' all the different routes that we could possibly go to.

- This is the last day.

We gotta be ready for anything.

So, if we don't go to Wilmington, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount, Wylie, Durham, Charlotte, Chapel Hill, or Henderson, then we can't go.

- [laughs] - That's all we got.

- And, and, but then-- - That's all we got, so we've plotted a strategy to get to all of those.

- It is the morning of Day... - Nine.

- Ughhh, it's Day Nine!

- How did we even get here?

- 'Cause we're awesome.

- Oh, yeah, sorry.

We took the first place prize for winnin' on Day Eight, and that allows us to force one other team to pull over for five minutes.

DeShae: We are still undecided on who we're gonna give it to, so I think we're just gonna have some more conversations.

- I will say that we already have a guaranteed trip to Day Ten, so if we get a little tripped up today, it's no big worry.

- We are excited, we've had a good night, good day.

- Bye, Green fam.

♪ Dan: In Charlotte, North Carolina, Anitra's Uncle Kevin draws from his experience as a paratrooper to give some final words of advice.

- The way y'all done yesterday.

The way y'all done in the wind tunnel.

The way y'all fell into the wind and y'all rose?

Come on now.

Anitra: My Uncle Kevin told us to rise up.

Having someone like that that I know will be in my corner, that I can learn to bond with, I'm excited.

- So Day Ten?

Paul: Yeah.

- Just rise.

- Yeah.

- Just rise.

Anitra and Paul's spirits was incredible this morning.

What I wanted Paul and Anitra to leave with was some stuff that helped me get through the military.

I got something I wanna give y'all, and hopefully this will help y'all push through it.

2001, when I with 7th Special Forces Group, this was my shirt.

- Oh, wow.

- So, I want you to have it.

- That's so cool.

[laughs] - Whoooa!

- [laughs] - My Uncle Kevin gave us a lot, and I mean, the value in that is immeasurable.

- This old beret has so way too much dirt, so don't wear it but uh, I still want you to have it.

[laughing] - Oh wow, thank you so much.

- Wow.

For me, the coolest thing was the coin that he gave me from his time as a paratrooper.

- Anitra, because you are carrying on the family tradition as being a paratrooper, you earned your coin yesterday.

- [laughs] - So, from a two star general, he gave it to me, I'm givin' it to you.

- Wow.

Paul: Wow, that's so awesome.

Kevin: And-- and just go get it.

Anitra: The coin I think is symbolic, of course, of our flying experience, but also because of where we stand now in the competition.

We have two strikes, so we have to continue to fight.

We have to rise up, we have to try our best.

Paul: You got this.

- Can I get one hoo?

- Hoo.

- Hoo.

[laughs] Dan: Back in Hot Springs, Arkansas, DeShae has one last farewell gift for her mother Debora.

DeShae: I wanted to take this time to welcome you into our family and send you off with some pictures of Houston.

I wanted to give my mom a gift because we do have a son and she did get to find out that she has a grandson.

So I wanted her to be able to have some pictures of her grandson, Houston, to bring with her.

Debora: It was just amazing, going through that photo album, and I can't wait to meet that amazing grandson of mine.

It was just-- I can't explain it.

It's, it's just the most amazing feeling.

♪ With the love that last, so many years that passed.

♪ ♪ And I'm-a stay.

♪ ♪ I'm givin' it right back to you.♪ - So you can have those until you get to meet him one day.

- Thank you, sweetheart.

[intense music] [clock ticking] [phone dings] - Text, text.

- Text from Dan?

- Yep.

- All right, let's see.

Chris: Team Green will be traveling to Memphis, Tennessee.

- Tennessee!

- Team Blue will be traveling to Cornelius, North Carolina.

- Team Red will be traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina.

That's one of the ones we mapped out.

- Yes!

We know how to get there.

- Yes... - Today's first place winner will get to video chat with their family.

- [gasp] - Your time starts now.

- Your time starts now.

- Your time starts now.

- All right.

- All right.

- Let's go.

- Let's get it.

- Look, I'm-a get the luggage, you fold up-- - All right, 'cause we need this, this is like our baby.

- Okay.

Gotta go, gotta go!

- Hey, love you.

- [muffled] Love you.

- Nephew.

- Now what are you runnin' for?

- 'Cause I wanna get them in the car, they gotta get packed up!

- It was so nice to meet you.

Ray: I'm-a give you a double hug 'cause we in a hurry.

Chris: Bye.

DeShae: Love you, too.

Anitra: Cornelius, here we come.

Ray: No mistakes today.

- Ooh!

Well that was aggressive.

- Ready for this?

- Yeah.

♪ ♪ Dan: Our three remaining teams are off, scrambling to find new family without the use of smartphone technology.

Each team will be racing against a different allotted time.

The team that goes over their allotted time the most will receive a strike and today, a strike for Teams Blue or Red would mean three strikes and the elimination from the competition.

Anitra: I.

Am.

Navigator!

That's my superhero name.

Dan: Team Blue's route will take them from Charlotte to Cornelius, North Carolina.

Once they arrive, they'll have to take a selfie with a city sign, complete a challenge and find their relative-- all in an allotted time of 1:19.

♪ Nicole: Now one more relative to meet today.

- Sixty-three miles, that's about an hour.

Dan: Also sticking to North Carolina is Team Red, traveling from Fayetteville to Raleigh.

Their allotted time for the day is 1:48.

DeShae: We did it another time, we told someone they were gettin' a strike and they did.

- It's that Louisiana voodoo.

[both laughing] Ohh-wee.

Dan: And with the longest time of the day, Team Green will be traveling from Hot Springs, Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee.

Their allotted time is 3:06.

With only one strike, Team Green is safe from elimination.

However, that's not going to stop them from taking every advantage they can after yesterday's first place victory.

- So, the more I think about our benefit and givin' five minutes to another team, Team Blue is the only team that did not have to pull over for five minutes.

On Day Two, Team Blue penalized all the other teams and made us pull over for five minutes.

Nicole: All right, so that's just gonna stop.

- [sighs] The longest five minutes ever.

Jenn: Team Blue, they just got to keep truckin' down the road today.

- ♪ You know you make me wanna, ♪ ♪ kick my heels up and, throw my hands up and-- ♪ - It's good for them.

- We feel like it's Team Blue's turn to have to pull over.

- There we go.

Since we joined the three win club, it's time for you to join the five minute penalty club.

- Yes!

- Boom.

[phone dinging] - Got a text-- - From Team Green.

All right, let's pull over for five minutes.

- It's just a game Blue.

We love you guys, just gotta even up the score a little bit.

- They couldn't wait to give us the five minutes.

- Claws come out.

[snarls] - Five minutes to burn, so what are we gonna do?

We channeled Rocky.

[Eye of the Tiger instrumental playing] There you go, get some hands, get some hands.

All right.

- Whoo!

- We are punching meat, we're carrying logs, we're getting ready for Day Ten.

- ...two, three, four, five.

- We didn't even feel it.

We took that time and used it wisely, we got our muscles loose, we're ready to go.

Let's go!

Dan: As our teams approach their cities... - Keep your eyes open for Cornelius signs.

Dan: ...they prepare for their selfies.

- All right, welcome center, exit one.

- Yeah, we're exiting.

There are four people that probably stay here.

- That's rude.

Uh, production, please cut that.

♪ Nicole: Ra-Raleigh!

Ray and Nicole: Raleigh!

- Right there.

Ray: There's the sign right there in blue.

Chris: Uhhh... - Looks like it's down here on the water.

- Well, that's great.

- Really?

- Babe, I was already past the turn when you said that.

- Okay, okay.

- We're gonna go right here.

- We'll do that, we'll do that.

We'll jump a fen-- I'm not jumpin' a fence.

- I'm gonna help you over the fence.

Nicole: You got the phone, right?

Ray: [indistinct] - We're at the sign right now.

- Where?

- Right behind us.

Paul: Do you trust me?

Anitra: I trust you.

- Okay.

I'm throwin' you over the fence.

- [laughing] DeShae: This is like, legitimately the worst spot we've picked.

Nicole: No, no, no, no, no, come right here.

This might be fine.

Paul: Let's go.

[grunts] DeShae: See?

Nicole: Move your face over some.

Right there.

- Can you see my face?

- Yes.

[camera shutter] [camera shutter] [camera shutter] ♪ [phone dings] - All right, what we got?

Ray: Let's go, let's go.

Anitra: 16000?!

[car door slams] [car door slams] DeShae: This is a paid parking lot.

- Ohh.

Anitra: Jettison Road.

- Jetton.

- What?

- Jetton.

- Oh.

- Me too.

- And it's right-- actually right over there so, take a right here at this light.

- It's Day Nine, we're virtually pros at this.

Ray: So we're feelin' good, we feel like we're killin' it already.

Good start for us.

Chris: We go straight to our challenge, rip open the card, the challenge is Fact or Feast.

DeShae: "Don't throw up."

It's called "don't throw up."

- Fact or Feast.

- All right, let's go.

Dan: Day Nine's challenge is Fact or Feast.

Teams start at opposite ends of a row of mystery foods and try to advance to the center by answering trivia questions.

Answer correctly, and you eat something good.

Answer wrong, and it's awful.

Each good answer moves them one step closer to the center.

To complete this challenge, both players must make it to the center.

The allotted time for Fact or Feast is 12 minutes.

♪ - I have lard or donut.

I better get this right, okay.

Ray: Donut, lard.

- Get it right, babe.

- I got a donut and I've got lard.

I'm not interested in uh, eating terrible things so hopefully we'll get every answer right and just breeze right through.

- I feel like it's D. Paul: No expiration date, I do too.

- I kinda feel like it's no expiration date, but we're gonna go-- I'd say go with the longest one?

At least?

- We're gonna go D, no expiration date.

[incorrect buzzer] Aw, A-- 45 days.

Nicole: Okay.

[incorrect buzzer] Ray: 45 days.

- When did they start that?

[incorrect buzzer] - It's not.

Chris: Oh, wow.

- Do I do this, just go for it?

- Lard.

Ray: That tastes like germs.

It was awful.

It's like you're eatin' the flu.

It's horrible.

[gags] Chris: Go for it, do it.

I would just swallow it.

There you go.

Ughh.

- [gags] Oh my goodness, it looks so easy when you watch people do stuff like this on TV.

- Hey, if you get rid of it, do it in the flowers.

- [coughs] It is not easy, like my body was rejecting the lard.

Oh, that was delicious.

- That was delicious?

- Mm-hm.

- If you get it wrong, you stay there up to three times.

- But even if you get the question wrong, you still have to alternate, so now it's Chris' turn.

- All right, so I've got [clears throat] chocolate pudding and cocoa powder.

- I'm-a go with Michelin.

- Not Goodyear?

- I don't know, I kinda like one of the toys.

- Hot wheels don't have toy tires.

- Hmm?

[re-reading question] I feel like that's kind of a trick question.

- What do you think?

- Goodyear.

- B, Goodyear.

- I'm gonna say Michelin.

Paul: All right.

[incorrect buzzer] - It was D, Lego.

[incorrect buzzer] - Lego?

[incorrect buzzer] - D is Lego.

[groans] All right, gotta eat.

♪ And I go for the chocolate cocoa powder.

That's how it went.

That's pretty bad.

[both laugh] - That's terrible.

That's awful.

- [coughs] Cocoa powder.

Okay, no milk to it, just the raw cocoa powder.

And it's like I'm being suffocated from the inside.

My mouth is betraying me.

- This is hard with no water.

DeShae: Just go quick.

[laughs] - Okay.

Paul: You gotta swallow.

- Oh.

- [clears throat] Ray: Terrible.

- Literally can't swallow it.

- [laughs] Ray: You done?

♪ - [coughs] - Your teeth look black.

- Okay.

Paul: All right.

- We got it baby, we got it.

Ray: Let's get this.

- [clears throat] Okay.

Whoo.

- So two questions down, and we've made zero progress.

Which means back to the lard.

- True.

- I would say true.

Paul: Yeah, I'm goin' with A, true.

Nicole: True, babies always have to wear a hat.

[incorrect buzzer] - It's false.

[incorrect buzzer] - False.

[incorrect buzzer] - False.

What?

- That's okay.

- All right.

I gotta eat some lard.

- Oh crap.

♪ - [groans] At this point, I'm wonderin' if we'll ever even get any questions right.

- I know you're not even gonna help me guess on this one, are you?

- No.

- I'm-a say true.

- True.

[ding] So we finally got one correct, so I'm eating my pudding and movin' to the next table.

Chris: I'm-a say true.

[ding] Ah, it's true!

I am so happy to be moving on.

Sorry 'bout the lard, babe.

- B, false.

[incorrect buzzer] It's true.

I'm starting to get a little concerned about the challenge, but I'm also realizing that there's a trick to these questions.

They seem to be antithesis to myths that we have already.

- I'm-a go with true.

[incorrect buzzer] False.

- False.

[ding] - False, good.

True, I don't know.

[incorrect buzzer] It's false.

Ray: Lard.

Nicole: Don't let it sit in your mouth.

Anitra: Candy.

Paul: All right.

- I love you.

- I love you as well.

DeShae: Wasabi, just what I wanted.

Nicole: Red chilies or candy.

Anitra: Orange slice and pickled lime, okay.

Chris: Pretzel and fermented soy curd.

DeShae: Whoa, delicious.

- [laughs] - I'm really hopin' that all of this comes with a side of Tums.

Holy... Whoo-wee.

Ray: Brined plum.

- Wait, wait, wait.

Paul: All right, uh.

- That's not bad.

- What is that you have to eat?

Chris: Pickled lime, which just seems ridiculous.

- [exhaling] Hah.

Nicole: Red chilies.

Come on, babe.

Swallow it.

- It's gone.

- Nine days of challenges, this one-- the worst.

♪ [coughs] Anitra: Don't choke.

- True.

[ding] Correct.

- True, A.

Trust me.

- I'm gonna go with B.

- No, it's A.

- It is B.

[ding] - Darn!

Good.

That is true.

[incorrect buzzer] - False!

What?

Oh my goodness.

I'm kind of frustrated.

Not because I'm just eatin' this nasty food, I just feel like I look crazy.

[gagging] Nicole: Don't throw it up, come on.

Take your time.

DeShae: At this point, I don't even know how many we've gotten right.

I'm just really trying to focus on not throwing up.

It is so bad.

Well that worked, because now I can't feel my tongue, so it's cool.

- Can't taste anything if you can't feel anything.

- Phew, I've got salt dried radish and a carrot.

- Which one is supposed to be the good one?

I'd throw 'em both away.

- I don't even know what a salt dried radish is.

Chris: It's a radish that's been salted.

- One table left, I'm hopin' we get this question right on the first try.

No more wrong answers.

- So, where is Rome on the boot?

Chris: Prague.

DeShae: D, Prague.

[incorrect buzzer] - Amsterdam.

[incorrect buzzer] - Wanna go New York City?

- Yeah.

- Yes, New York City.

[ding] Anitra: We get to the last table and we pick it up slowly because I'm thinkin', "What's in there?"

- Oh.

- Oh, dope!

- Ahh!

We don't have to eat anything else!

- Don't have to eat something!

- Oh my gosh, I thought this was cockroaches in here.

But-- - It was just our relative's address.

So thankful.

- Your relative lives at 1201 Welsh Drive.

- Achoo!

- Let's go!

- Let's go.

- Man, I have no clue.

- [laughs] - I have no idea.

We couldn't focus on the questions at that point, it was just like okay, 50-50 shot.

Okay, whatever, let's get it over with, let's move on.

- Maybe it's Cookie?

- So I'm gonna say D, none of the above.

[incorrect buzzer] Nope, A, Sid.

Okay.

- I'm going with Cookie.

[incorrect buzzer] C. - Who ever said that?

- I don't know, but I'm eatin' it.

Salt dried radish.

I get one wrong, I get the second one wrong, and these things are salty.

I mean, have you ever seen a slug dissolve in salt?

Because that's what eatin' the salty radish tastes like.

It's awful.

- [gags] I feel so bad.

Chris: I feel like that's true for some reason.

- I'm-a say true.

Ray: I'm-a say true, too.

[incorrect buzzer] - It's false.

[incorrect buzzer] - False.

Of course it's false.

- It's the last one you have to eat.

Don't choke on it.

- [coughs] - We were able to get through them trivia questions no problem.

- Yes, 'cause I'm thinkin' we were two or three minutes over our allotted time.

- On the trivia?

- Yeah.

- So we in the middle.

I get the last piece of salt dried radish down, and I am happy.

DeShae: I'm glad to be movin' on because right now, my stomach feels like a really bad science experiment.

Chris: Didn't wanna go down, did it?

- [coughs] - Done?

Come here.

Ray: Your relative lives at 8150-- - Park Town Place.

♪ [car door slams] DeShae: That was brutal, guys.

Ughh.

Dan: All three teams are racing to find their final relative.

- Well, we've gotta turn around.

- Turn, turn, turn!

- We're goin' the right direction, yes?

- Yes.

[dramatic music] Dan: But, for Anitra, this last connection is also filled with anticipation.

♪ ♪ Anitra: My biological mother gave birth to me when she was 16 years old, and she already had a child, and she put me up for adoption.

On Day Five of this journey, I met my sister for the first time.

Anitra: My sister held me and embraced me, but then had to let me know that my birth mother had passed on.

[crying] She did tell me that my dad is still alive.

I really, really hope he wants to meet me.

Paul: How would you feel if we didn't meet your dad this--this time?

Anitra: I don't know, but I feel like if I don't meet him now, I probably wouldn't ever meet him.

- Really?

- Because when--other opportunity would we get?

♪ Dan: While Team Blue nervously approaches today's relative, the rest of the pack is not far behind.

DeShae: So, we leave the challenge, and really, I'm kinda nervous, because Memphis is huge.

- Hey, I wonder if that guy knows.

DeShae: Pull over.

- Yep.

DeShae: We actually see an ambulance parked on the side.

Who knows the streets better than the ambulance?

Chris: Do you know where Park Town Place is?

DeShae and Chris: To the right?

- He knew exactly where we were going, gave us turn-by-turn directions just like that.

DeShae and Chris: Thank you.

DeShae: Team Green!

[closes door] - We go to find our relative's address.

No problemo.

- We got this, babe.

We were lookin' for a town hall.

We had the map out, how to get there, we get on 40, we get off.

- After that, we should see the arboretum.

- Okay, we got to crush this.

We have no choice but to crush it.

- All right.

- None.

- It begins to feel like the perfect day at this point.

Anitra: It looks like City Boulevard really runs directly into where we need to go.

Paul has a really cool way to find street names--Look-- [map rustling] --on maps.

- Who knew?

University, City Boulevard... Anitra: So, he found the street name pretty quickly, and then we just decided the most effective way we could think of to take to get here quicker.

- 1220, so it'll be on this side.

Anitra: 1201, 1201!

Oh!

That felt good!

[high five] That felt good!

We didn't even have to ask anyone anything, which I liked.

- Go right up here, it's right up here.

Chris: There it is, I see it.

- Go right here, park over here.

- Man, that was awesome.

- Goodbye, maps.

[Chris chuckling] [DeShae laughing] [Anitra laughing] - We did it.

[ding] Chris: Stopping.

Ooh.

[car door closing] DeShae: So, this is it, our final relative.

It's like all of the anticipation and excitement over the last nine days are just leading up to this moment, and I can't wait to see who's gonna come out of that door.

[doorbell] Hi!

- Hi!

- I'm DeShae.

- Hi, DeShae, I'm Nancy.

Chris: Hi, I'm Chris.

Nancy: Hi, Chris, nice to meet you.

This is my husband, Kent.

- How are we related?

- My mother is your Grand Mary's sister.

- Oh!

Nancy: So we are second cousins.

- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you too, sweetie.

We've been lookin' so forward to it.

DeShae: Yes.

- My name is Nancy Wisecarver, and I am DeShae's second cousin on her father's side.

DeShae: It's so good to meet you.

Nancy: Chris, good to meet you.

Chris: Good to meet you.

DeShae: This is awesome.

So exciting.

Nancy: Yeah, it is exciting.

DeShae: Yes.

Well, it was really awesome to meet Nancy and her husband, Kent.

And it's a good day.

The day's not over yet, but today's a good day.

Nancy: My mother was amazing.

You come from some good genes, honey, let me tell you.

- I've learned that.

I know that much, so.

- Yes, ma'am.

Kent and I were really honored that Mike, DeShae's father, asked us to be a part of this journey, because we knew how much it meant to Mike.

He was just so excited to meet her, and so were we.

We couldn't wait to meet her.

Have you been to Memphis before?

- I have been to Memphis before, but Chris hasn't.

- My first time.

Nancy: Have you seen the ducks at the Peabody?

- Um, I have not.

- I think we're gonna go see that.

- So, apparently they have ducks inside in the fountain at this hotel.

And people get super excited about them.

- So, we thought we would take them downtown to see the Peabody ducks.

- I don't even know what's goin' on.

[DeShae laughing] [quacking] [map rustling] Nicole: What is the street name?

Ray: 8150 Town Hall Drive.

- Okay.

We find the street, but we get out our map, because the house numbers, they're just not matching up.

Town Hall... - So, it might be... Town Center at the bottom there... Nicole: No, Town Hall Drive.

Ray: I hope we're not going the wrong way.

- So, we look at the challenge envelope and it's the wrong road.

- 8150 Town Drive.

Yeah, we're goin' the wrong way.

Nicole: We are?

Ray: Yep.

We got the address wrong.

We got Town Hall, but it's really Town Drive, and it throws our route completely off.

Well, hopefully... [exhales] Team Green gave their five minutes to Team Blue.

That'd help us out a little bit.

I'm feeling like we're-- we're losing all the positive momentum that we had from this morning.

Nicole: Every time we try to go up a little bit, it's just like, bringing us back down to earth.

Ray: We're this far in the race, so we can't let this hiccup send us home with a strike.

♪ [car doors opening] Paul: All right, my love.

- All right.

Pulling up, I see a man standing outside.

He seems very, very nervous, um, but I understand that nervousness.

Paul: How are you?

- Hi.

- My name is Paul Lewis, this is my wife, Anitra.

- Hi, my name is Michael.

- Whose relative are you?

- Uh, Anitra.

- How are we related?

- Ah.

[crying] I'm your dad.

♪ - You're so beautiful.

You look just like your mom.

[laughing] - It's so good to see you.

- It is.

Anitra: When I hugged my dad, I could feel that he was happy to find out how I was after 30 years.

I felt good.

I felt at peace.

- I'm glad this day finally came.

I thank God, I thank God so much, that I get to meet you.

I've thought about you and thought about you.

I'm glad you looked for me.

- Yeah.

Michael: Yeah, I'm glad.

I thought I'd never get to see you or meet you.

What a blessing.

Thank you.

My name is Michael Harvell.

Anitra is my daughter.

- It's been a long time comin'.

- A long time comin'.

I've been thinkin' about you.

I'm just so happy to finally meet each other for the first time.

It was amazing.

I'll never forget it.

- I didn't get a chance to tell my mom, but y'all-- y'all did a good thing.

- Yeah.

Anitra: Y'all did a good thing.

- We were so young.

Anitra: I've had a really good life.

I've had a good life.

- Have you?

Anitra: Yeah.

I wanted-- I wanted to thank you.

Michael: Oh.

- For doing that.

[Michael crying] Anitra: I am eternally grateful for the decision that he and my mother made.

I told him that I loved him, because I do.

- Look at that pretty smile.

[Anitra laughing] Ooh.

Dan: Back in Raleigh, Team Red corrects course after navigating to the wrong address.

Nicole: I feel like one word blew us right out of the water.

Ray: Yeah.

Nicole: One four-letter word.

But, we're on the right track now.

It is a ways up, but we're on the right track.

Shake it off.

Don't lose your perspective.

Ray: We're down right now.

But we're not out.

I mean, nine days ago, all I knew is that I was adopted.

Now I've met everybody on my mom's side of the family.

But, I still don't know who my dad is, so this isn't over.

Not by a long shot.

- Oh, she is tall.

Ray: So, we pull up to our relative's address, and we notice there was five people out there waiting, pretty much just like Day One.

Five people out there waiting when we pulled up.

Nicole: Hello.

Ray: Hi, I'm Ray.

Woman: Hi, I'm Robin.

Ray: Hi, Miss Robin.

This is my wife, Nicole.

- Hi, nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- And so, you-- - I'm Judy.

Ray: Hi, Miss Judy.

- Good to meet you.

It's good to meet you, Nicole.

Oh!

- And you are related to...?

Robin: I'm your cousin.

Ray: Cousin?

- We're related to you on your father's side of the family, yes.

I'm Judy Dixon, I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I'm Ray's cousin.

Meeting Ray today was just absolutely wonderful, because he reminds me so much of Ray's father, Lesilee, when Lesilee was younger.

Your cousin looks like his dad when he was a young man.

[squeals with excitement] Ray: So, tell... - Can I get a hug?

Ray: Yes, [indistinct].

[Judy crying] Ray: She gave me a hug, she cried on my shoulder, it made me feel like, clearly she knew my dad personally, and I reminded her of him.

I wanted to know more about... - Come in, and we'll tell you.

Come here, Ray, and we'll tell you a bunch of stuff.

Ray: Okay, please do.

♪ Dan: As the afternoon drifts into evening, Anitra finally gets the opportunity to sit down with her father for the very first time.

Michael: I'm so glad I get to hug and hold my baby.

[Anitra laughing] Good little baby.

Good little baby.

[Anitra laughing] Anitra: I'm grateful I met my dad today, because it just offers closure.

It allows more opportunity for us to create a relationship.

- I teach at a community college in Wilmington.

Anitra: English.

[laughing] Michael: I've thought about you so much.

And there is a God, I know that, there is a God.

I say God is good, because I have been wanting and thinking one day I will see her.

When she found me, I was so happy.

- I wanna start off asking questions about my mom.

- Okay.

- Who she was, and-- anything you remember.

- Yeah.

We-- she grew up like a block, two blocks away.

She was 15, I was 16.

And your mom was a sweet lady.

Anitra: Really?

Michael: Very sweet lady.

Anitra: That's what I've heard.

- Very sweet lady.

She would do anything for you, and she-- she just cried when she-- when that day.

She really didn't want to, and at her age.

- Yeah.

- She was just 16.

- Yeah.

- Oh, wow.

- I never knew nothin' else.

- Seeing the way my father was being so open and vulnerable with me and sharing himself with me is a beautiful lesson, because I came here ready to ask my father all kinds of hard questions.

Well, why weren't you here?

Why didn't you do this?

But this isn't the time for judgment, this isn't the time for condemnation.

This is the time for letting go, for starting over.

- So, who raised you?

- Their names are Lola and Waddel Canty.

- When did they adopt you?

As a baby?

- I was 18 months old.

- Oh, okay, 18.

- Mm-hmm.

- Wow.

I'd like to meet them, shake their hands.

- Yeah.

- Buy 'em dinner.

For a great job, they did a great job.

They did a great job.

[Anitra laughing] - Yeah, they did a great job.

I thank Anitra so much for looking for me, 'cause I wanted to get that void out of my heart.

I hope we'll spend more and more time with her, just get to know her more and more.

- It's been-- it's been an incredible journey, and I'm glad that I've had the chance to meet you.

- I'm so glad, I'm so glad.

And I thank God He brought us together.

- Me too.

- I love you.

Anitra: I love you, too.

[birds chirping] ♪ Ray: So, I got to meet my cousin, Judy, today.

This is my first time meeting someone on my dad's side, and I'm thinking, well, where is he?

So, who is my dad?

So, whatever you can tell me about him, I appreciate it.

Judy: Your dad is Lesilee Bigelow, and Lesilee was my first cousin.

There are many, many stories to be told, many questions to be asked of the person who's responsible for him being here today, and I hope this is a moment that's etched in his heart, that he won't forget.

He was my favorite.

- Mm.

- Uh, I just loved the way that he treated us and he talked to us.

I've got a lot of good memories about him.

- It's really special to hear about my dad.

But I'm noticing something in Judy's voice that's making my heart drop.

Since I've been here, I-- I've just been hearing was, was, was.

So, um, did he pass away?

Judy: Um, yes, he did.

Ray: So, my father's already passed, and all my hopes of meeting him, they just turn to sorrow.

But Judy was so kind about it.

She just had so much more to tell me about him.

What about-- like, do you have pictures of him?

What-- like, of my dad and all?

Judy: This is a picture of your dad.

♪ That's Lesilee.

That's your dad.

Ray: For the first time, I've been able to see a picture of my dad.

An identifiable face, to now, a name, Lesilee Bigelow.

So, I have a picture of my mom and now a picture of my dad.

And what about, like, siblings for me and all?

Like, am I--do I have brothers and sisters?

- You certainly do.

You do, you do, you do!

Yeah, uh, Katina, Anthony, uh, Leonard, and, uh, Chester.

They're Bigelows.

- And do they know that I exist?

Judy: Well, if I have anything to do with it, they gonna know it.

You know, yeah.

- So, I hear that I have brothers and a sister out there, and they're in the D.C. area.

I'm thinking, like, the journey is gonna continue way on past this, on Day Ten or Day Eleven, or whatever.

It's exciting to know that now I can kinda go about my own way and reach out to them.

Ten days ago, I had nothing.

And now I've got everything, and I appreciate you taking the time to put this together.

Judy: To show Ray his whole family was-- it was just incredible for me, and-- and I think it was for him too.

- Thank you so much.

Judy: You're so welcome.

♪ Dan: Back in Memphis, Team Green waddles to a spe-quack-ular sneak beak of the Peabody ducks.

- Hey!

Nancy: Here we are at the Peabody fountain, the famous Peabody fountain.

- Yeah, they're just ducks.

- They're not just ducks.

- But my wife loved it.

♪ - Everyone says if you come to Memphis, you must see the duck march.

Isn't that gonna be fun?

DeShae: Yes!

I'm so excited.

[Nancy laughing] ♪ Nancy: The Peabody Hotel is a famous hotel, internationally famous, actually, and the Peabody ducks spend their day lounging in the beautiful fountain that's in the middle of the lobby, and then, at 5:00 p.m., the duck master marches them back up to their duck palace.

[drumroll] - Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the world-famous march of the Peabody ducks.

Chris: Then they walk on a carpet.

A red carpet, of course.

'Cause why wouldn't you, for ducks?

DeShae: Oh my gosh.

Stop it.

[Nancy laughs] - Get out.

Oh my gosh, this is the best thing I've ever seen in my whole life!

[quacking] [Chris laughing] Cameraman: You tried so hard.

- Y'all do not listen to Chris.

If you come to Memphis, you have to check out the Peabody ducks.

It was really exciting for me.

I know Chris just thinks they're walking ducks, and they really kinda were just walking ducks, but I was like, clapping and squealing, and it was like, it was amazing.

I wanna go back.

Ray: This right here is what you call good eating, right here.

Judy prepares the last supper.

[laughing] I mean, everybody, my wife and I, their family, the disciples, this is just like everybody was there; it was a family.

Anitra: I had a chance to walk with my dad today, and there's no ill will, there's only love.

I mean, I haven't walked away with any negative feelings about anyone in this experience.

Nancy: What an incredible journey you've been on.

DeShae: I know, it's been really exciting.

Nancy: Wonderful.

DeShae: It's amazing to just be able to sit down and catch everyone up on what we've been doing the last nine days.

Ray: I'm thinking that we're coming to the end of meeting relatives and meeting people, but actually, this is Day One.

It's the day to begin the building of new relationships.

It's just great to know that I get to start over, even after this is all over.

♪ Put your hand in, Put your hand in mine, ♪ ♪ Let me say how much I love you, ♪ ♪ You're the best thing in my world.

♪ Anitra: The past nine days have been really an emotional roller coaster, but the family that I did meet have made everything before okay, and it's a stillness within me that I haven't felt before.

Ray: I used to look at my life and say, why me?

But now, I'm a complete person.

That means everything to me.

- Mm, Uncle David.

DeShae: This journey has been more than I could have ever imagined.

I didn't really know what to expect in the beginning, and maybe that's why I feel light today, because I've gotten all the answers I was looking for and I'm just really ready to start relationships with everyone that I've met.

♪ Put your hand in, Put your hand in mine, ♪ ♪ Let me say how much I love you, ♪ ♪ You're the best thing in my world.

♪ ♪ Dan: The sun sets on our three remaining teams as they all prepare for the final call of the race.

DeShae: Going into the call, we know there's two teams with two strikes, so if we were to get the strike today, honestly, we're kind of in a good spot.

Anitra: I think we're gonna get our strike, because I think that those five minutes that they gave us is going to be a deciding factor.

- Feels like doom as soon as we sat down, and I'm think in the pit of my stomach that we did terribly.

Anitra: But it doesn't change how happy I am about this journey.

- These nine days have kinda changed what fuels me.

I wanna make people proud.

♪ [click] Dan: Here we are, teams.

Day Nine.

It is amazing what you have gone through to get to this point, and it is phenomenal the family that you have found.

But I can't imagine the stress for two of our teams, Team Red and Team Blue, starting the day with two strikes.

Did you feel that pressure?

Ray: Absolutely.

We got prepared, um, today, but the pressure's definitely there.

Paul: I really feel uncomfortable in situations, so, we just needed to be prepared for anything that came, and we were.

Dan: And I know that Team Blue, you started off the day, and everything went really well until you got a text from Team Green.

Dan: DeShae and Chris, why did you choose Team Blue to penalize?

- Team Blue gave all the teams a five-minute penalty on Day Two, so it was their turn to take a little break.

- So, it was payback?

- You could say that.

Dan: Team Blue, that must have been a little frustrating for you.

- Um, I think we used the time pretty wisely, you know did a couple exercises, getting ready for the day, and for, uh, Day Ten.

Chris: Okay, we're ready.

- Team Red, how did things go for you today?

- Wow, that's loaded.

Um, I had to down three spoons of lard.

Ray: And the nausea and holding back the vomit.

It was terrible.

- I think-- I think we got the picture.

Okay.

[Ray laughing] Dan: DeShae, Chris, two days ago, you meet your father.

Yesterday, you meet your mother.

Today, who did you meet?

- Today, I met my second cousin, Nancy.

Hi!

Dan: Hey, Nancy.

- Hi.

DeShae: So, we met Grand Mary the other day.

Her mother was Grand Mary's sister.

Dan: Well, it sounds like you've had a great day overall.

Team Red, who did you meet?

- I wanna introduce you my cousin, Judy, and her entire family.

Dan: Oh-ho-ho!

Judy: Woohoo.

Dan: I love it.

What do you think of Raymond?

- We love him already.

- Here, you meet a whole bunch of family.

Were they able to give you any additional information?

- Yes, they were, actually.

They were able to introduce me to who my father was.

Unfortunately, he, uh, passed away as well.

- [sighs] Ray: But here's the picture of him here.

This is the first time I was able to see and identify who my father was in my entire life, so, for that alone, it was a victory, for myself and for my wife.

- I'm so happy for you, Raymond, I really am.

Anitra, sadly, very early on in this race, you found out about your mother, and that's gotta be so hard.

And yet you continued on.

Who was there waiting for you today?

- Well, I was able to meet my dad.

♪ - That is so good!

- Boy, I see where you get that smile from.

[laughing] What was that moment like?

Anitra: I'm speechless, because he just met me with so much honesty and so much love.

This is incredible.

- Well, [sighs] I think it gets a little harder as the race goes on to let you know who's received a strike and who's received a game benefit.

The team that finished in first place, and will receive a five-minute Skype call, and I would imagine that would be very valuable for all of you at this time, finishing only seven minutes over their allotted time, Team Blue.

Anitra: [laughing in disbelief] - It was a good day for Team Blue.

It's been a good race for all of you.

Team Red, you have two strikes.

Team Green, regardless of whether or not you earn a strike today, you will be in tomorrow's finale.

Finishing 16 minutes over their allotted time... [dramatic music] ...is Team Green.

Team Red, you have earned your third strike.

You finished 55 minutes over your allotted time.

The only solace is that you met every relative that you could along this journey.

♪ This has to be hard.

Raymond, Nicole... Nicole: We have had amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet nine members of our family.

Um, we wanna say best of wishes to our blue cousins and our green cousins, and, uh, go and make us proud for Day Ten.

We'll be there with you in spirit.

- We love you.

Dan: Raymond, you have been such a joy to watch on this journey, and we hope that you will head home feeling that that heart has been fulfilled.

- I appreciate all the work that this show put into helping me find my family, the family I never would have known and people that folks would never see to make this possible.

Thank you.

- Thank you for allowing us into your lives, and thank you for trusting us with presenting family to you, and we will always wish you only the best, and you better stay in touch.

Nicole and Ray: We will.

Dan: For Team Green and Team Blue, Day Ten awaits.

I bet you're probably wondering where that will be.

Teams, remember those race suits that you started with nine days ago in Virginia?

Well, they're waiting for you... in Connecticut.

It is a racing course unlike anything that you saw in Virginia.

Get that rest that's well-deserved, and we'll see you tomorrow.

All: Bye!

Love you.

- So, I told you Team Blue was gonna be the competition, there they are.

Day Ten.

Apparently we're going to be racing in Connecticut, somewhere.

Can I tell you how excited I am to get my race suit back?

[laughing] - We've taken Team Blue down before, we'll do it again, right?

- Yeah.

DeShae: Our strategy is just to keep doing what we're doing.

So, yeah, we're ready to finish this race off in first place.

[FaceTime ringing] Paul: We haven't seen our daughter in like nine days, so we're using our first place prize to call home and see her.

[squealing excitedly] - Hi, baby!

[laughing] - It's Dad!

- Hi, Daddy!

Paul: Hi, baby.

- Hi, Mommy.

Anitra: Hi, baby.

- What are you doin'?

Girl: Nothing.

- Yeah.

- I miss you guys.

Paul and Anitra: We miss you too.

- When I saw Ava's face light up on that screen, it was just a wave of excitement and happiness and love and-- that's what I needed today.

Woman: Did the shampoo today.

Anitra: [laughing] Baby!

[laughing] Paul: We've never been away from Ava this long.

- Ever.

- But seeing her before going into Day Ten was the perfect motivation we needed for the final competition.

We gotta go.

Anitra: We have to go, but-- Woman and Ava: Okay.

Ava: I love you.

Paul and Anitra: I love you too.

♪ Ray: My competitive drive will always make losing hard, but these nine days have been incredible as far as growth, and while both my mom and dad were deceased, I got a mom and dad.

Nicole: It was definitely a grueling ten-day experience with the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, but I think, overall, I've had way, way, way more great experience that will last me longer than the sting of not actually going to Day Ten.

- So, today is the day that we leave the Relative Race, but we're grateful for everything that it brings.

Judy: Yay!

Ray: So-- Nicole: This is what Relative Race is all about.

- Right here.

- Meeting new relatives.

And, although we didn't make it to Day Ten, we met all of our relatives.

Thank you so much for rooting for us.

- Yeah.

[pats chest] I gave everything I had in here, and when that's what you do, that's all you can do.

Team Red, we are out.

♪