Dan: Previously on "Relative Race"... Nicole: Fresno, we're coming for you.

Dan: The stakes had never been higher.

Johnathon: The other teams have two strikes.

Someone's going home.

Somebody's going home today, regardless.

Dan: Michael met his mother for the first time.

Rhonda: I'm thanking God for bringing us together.

Dan: Team Blue picked up their first win of the race, and Team Green received their third and final strike.

That means you're out of the race and headed home tomorrow.

If we have to be the first ones to go home, so that Troy and Michael continue to have experiences with their parents, it's worth it for us.

Narrator (Male): DNA tells us who we are and where we came from.

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing... Come on!

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Narrator: to win $50,000... Whoo!

Narrator: and to find their family.

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh!

♪ ♪ [somber guitar music] Dan: Nine days ago, four teams set out on a journey that would change their lives forever.

But as a foreboding sun rises over North Carolina, Team Green's journey is over.

Morgan: The fact that the race is ending this morning is definitely still sinking in for us.

[indistinct conversation] We're glad we made it this far.

Yeah, I know, yeah.

Morgan: But at the same time, we could not have ended on a higher note.

Michael: We both love those girls.

So this morning, when I went to pick the fedora for the day, green, in honor of Team Green.

And last night was the first time on the show that I cried out of sadness, because I'm going to miss those girls.

Okay guys, be safe!

We love you guys!

Bye!

See you soon for sure.

We'll see you soon.

All right.

Driving to the airport was hard.

It got really quiet when we realized it was all over.

Yeah.

One of the biggest things that we'll take away from this race are definitely the relationships that we've built.

♪ Morgan: I believe that I can say for both of us, we definitley made connections on this show that we did not think would be possible.

You really start to realize it's so much more than a race, and I don't know how we would have met our new cousins and our new family had this race not happened.

Jamie: It's been the most exceptional and incredible experience, and we're so grateful that we've gotten to meet so many incredible relatives.

Dan: Back in Statesville, North Carolina, Team Blue has a quiet moment of reflection before leaving the bed and breakfast where they first met Michael's mother.

Michael: My mother was very nervous about being on TV, so yesterday we only got to meet with her for a few hours before she returned to her home.

But this morning, as Dylan was packing the car, I found a note that my mother left me.

I sat down to read what she wrote, and I feel a lot more complete than I did when I woke up yesterday.

I'm happy.

I am really happy.

♪ Michael's mother: I want you to know that I always have loved you, and you have always been my son.

I'm very happy and proud of you.

I love you, your mother.

♪ Dan: While Team Blue prepares in North Carolina, Teams Red and Black gear up in California.

Troy: Day Nine, three teams left, the pressure's on.

Rebecca: Winning today, we know full well that if we win, someone else will go home.

In a perfect world, Team Black would be the one that actually gets the strike today, and then that way, all three of us go to Day Ten.

Michael: Here we are, this is Day Nine, we're this close.

We are not going to fail.

Troy: So we're really going to have to be on our game today.

No mistakes.

Dan: Now, our three remaining teams anxiously wait for a text that will start this final leg of Relative Race.

[phone dings] Oh, got a message.

Here we go.

Dylan: Here we go.

Here we go.

Look at it, look at it, look at it.

Deep breath.

Johnathon: "Good morning, Teams, and welcome to Day Nine.

"Team Red will be traveling to Fountain Valley, California.

"Team Blue will be traveling to Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Team Black will be traveling to Lindsay, California.

Michael: "Today's first-place winner will receive "airline tickets to visit a relative of their choice.

"or Day Ten benefit.

Your time starts now."

What?

Are you kidding?

"Your time starts now."

Troy: "Your time starts now."

[groans] Got to make good time on our city selfie, and then where we find our relative this evening.

We have to make good time.

I would go up Pacheco Pass, and I would go down the 5.

Johnathon: And then across to Lindsay?

Dru: Yep.

Johnathon: We're hoping that by jumping on I-5 that we'll get there quickly so we can get that first-place prize again.

Here we go!

Home turf!

Raleigh, North Carolina!

Raleigh.

Michael: Not really nervous about where we're going to go today.

Just nervous about the challenges.

Here we go, here we go, here we go!

It's not even daylight!

Bye!

Dylan: All right, I'm going to take a left.

Michael: Take a right.

Dylan: I mean-- Okay.

Troy: You know you're up early when the moon is still up.

[jazzy music ends] [intense music] It's Day Nine of "Relative Race."

All three of our remaining teams continue to race along different paths across the United States.

Each team is still looking for new relatives, each in a different location.

All of them can now almost taste the finish line, this season, in an undisclosed location.

At the start of the race nine days ago in Washington, D.C., all of our teams surrendered their smartphones and all use of technology in exchange for paper maps and flip phones, with no GPS or internet access.

Now they're headed to a new city.

They must take a selfie to prove that they've made it, successfully complete a set of challenges, and discover their new relatives, each within a different allotted time.

The team that goes over their allotted time the most still receives a strike.

Three strikes and you're out of the race.

This is Day Nine of "Relative Race."

Rebecca: It's an intense day.

Everybody knows what's on the line.

One of two teams could go home.

We got to get first, 'cause we got to make sure that we're one up.

Dan: Team Black will be travelling to Lindsay, California.

They must complete their challenges and find their relative in an allotted time of four hours and four minutes.

Time to study Los Angeles.

Remember the exact place I didn't want to go?

That's where we're going.

Dan: Desperate to elude a third strike, Team Red nervously prepares to pass through Los Angeles on their way to Fountain Valley, California.

They have the day's longest allotted time, at 5 hours and 35 minutes.

Michael: So, we just pulled out in front of a police officer.

He's going to be following us all the way now.

Dylan: Yep.

Michael: Yep, we got his attention.

The last thing we want to do is get pulled over by a Statesville police officer.

Especially right after we turn off.

I think that may hurt our time.

Dylan: A little bit, yeah.

[Michael laughs] Dan: Also fighting to avoid elimination, Team Blue will have to race to Raleigh, North Carolina, and complete their challenges in an allotted time of 3 hours and 24 minutes.

Michael: Now here's the coin we won yesterday.

Yeah.

Yeah, break a tooth with it.

Michael: It's real.

[laughs] Michael: We could pawn it.

Yeah, pawn it before we get there.

Dan: After eight days of racing, Team Blue has finally picked up their first Day Ten benefit coin, joining Team Red with one coin each.

Troy: We have no idea what the coins do on Day Ten.

Heck, we don't even know where Day Ten is.

♪ Dan: Meanwhile, Team Black has come in first five different times during the race.

Twice, they've chosen the Day Ten benefit coin.

Johnathon: We're not 100% sure what they're for, but we know they're supposed to help us on Day Ten, so if we can get first place again, we're going for three.

So, make sure I keep that in a safe spot in my wallet where we don't lose it.

Don't lose it.

Michael: It's not going anywhere.

Dan: After nine days of long roads, our teams begin to feel the fatigue.

Rebecca: So I don't know about you, but I'm sleepy.

I think it's just the long, straight, boring roads are getting to me.

Michael: Just keep it the speed limit and enjoy the ride, 'cause we have a decent way to go.

♪ [yawns] Nicole: I'm tired.

I even went to bed early last night, but man, we got up early.

We did get up early.

♪ [yawns] ♪ Dan: Team Red, however, has an abrupt wakeup call on the 405.

Look at what we just got onto a little early.

Oh my gosh.

Are you kidding me?

We had a plan initially to take 405 and it just stopped.

Of course it has traffic.

I did not want to see this today.

Dan: Day Nine heats up...

I know if we head downtown, there will be plenty of Raleigh city-of-Raleigh stuff.

Dan: As teams approach their destination cities.

Rebecca: I don't know who exactly you're going to ask for directions out here.

Mm-hmm.

Dan: And Team Red...

Troy: Look, right here.

Look right here!

Stop, and get over.

Get over right here.

Dan: Looks for a way to escape their traffic jam.

Troy: As far as you could see, the traffic was backed up.

Go, go, go!

Go!

[indistinct] So we zipped over real quick to get on the 101.

Okay, 101 South?

[electric guitar riff] Turn right.

Turn right right now?

Right now?

Ooh, there it is!

Lindsay city limits!

Pull over here!

Pull over here!

Michael: Ah, son.

Oh.

Dylan: What?

Michael: Nothing, you just passed a sign.

Rebecca: Got the phone?

Johnathon: Yep.

Not too close.

Oh, is this good?

Johnathon: Yep.

Okay.

Okay, ready?

[camera shutter clicks] ♪ All right, pull over.

Right, and stop.

[phone dinging] Rebecca: Okay, look.

"Welcome to Lindsay.

"Your first challenge is located at 358 North Sweet Briar Avenue."

Johnathon: Let's go!

Rebecca: All right, let's go!

All right, map.

We got to find this place.

Come on, I-5, show up.

Show up.

Everything seems so much closer on a map.

Michael: Right here.

Dylan: Yeah.

Michael: Here we go.

♪ [camera shutter clicks] ♪ "Welcome to Raleigh.

Your first challenge is located at 1400 Edwards Mill Road."

Dan: Our leading teams race off to their first challenge, while Team Red frantically looks for their exit.

That said North 101?

It's Day Nine.

We have two strikes.

If that sign says north, we're going the wrong way.

It's game over.

Right here, what does this say?

It says North 101.

How are we-- No, we're going north on 101.

Troy: The sign did say north.

We're going the wrong way and I don't even know where we are.

Crap.

Holy crap, holy crap.

There's no way.

Did we turn back on right?

We couldn't simply turn around.

The best solution I could come up with was to keep going in the wrong direction and hope that we catch a freeway going southbound.

So now we're still going north.

You just want to keep kicking me while I'm down?

Is that what you want to do?

No, I want to make sure you understand that we're going north, which is the opposite direction that we're going, which theoretically would put us-- I'm just telling you right now, I know we're going north, I'm trying to get around back to the 5.

If we go back 101, it takes us into all that backup you just saw.

I just don't understand why we're going north.

Okay, turn around, 101 South, let's go.

No.

[scoffs] Forget it.

Forget it.

My mind ended up costing us about an hour.

We were in the car for six hours.

We should have only been in the car for about five.

Dan: A drastic mistake causes a meltdown for Team Red.

Oh, boy.

Dan: As the other teams step up to their first challenge.

Left.

Left.

Oh my.

Dylan: Yep.

Rebecca: Look, there it is!

There it is.

It's a sports facility?

Dylan: Oh, boy.

Michael: Man!

Rebecca: Oh, man.

All right.

"Ring It.

"Move the rings between posts so all stripes and solids "are each on their respective side.

"Your allotted time for the day includes 25 minutes to complete this challenge."

Dylan: All right, I want stripes.

Dan: Today's first challenge for all three teams is "Ring It."

In front of each team are two stacks of tubes containing a mix of solid colors and striped colors.

In order to complete this challenge, teams will have to stack all of the striped tubes on the striped pole, and stack all of the solid tubes on the solid pole.

However, teams may only move one tube at a time, and a larger tube can never sit on top of a smaller tube.

Once the teams complete this puzzle, they'll receive the address to their next challenge.

Michael: Where to?

I got to think about this, man.

The first challenge was...

It was a puzzle again.

Okay.

Stay.

I have to wait?

Move to the center.

Rebecca: This was totally mind and physical.

Johnathon: The hardest part was creating the mental picture of where the pieces need to go while still running back and forth.

Putting this on the far side.

Dylan: I don't know how to-- 'Cause we can't put the blue on top of the pink.

All right, okay, let me think.

Let me think.

It's hard for me, because I could see the patterns, I could see what we're supposed to do, but I just can't do it.

[mumbling]: Okay, we move the two pinks over there, we can get to the green.

Johnathon: All the way over.

Rebecca: Okay.

Johnathon: As I'm starting this, I realize that we have to get the orange pieces on the very bottom in place first, because that's the most important.

I'll take orange, that side, and that's our first one.

And then we have to-- Johnathon: Stack from there.

I don't know how we would do it.

I don't either.

I don't see a way.

Over time, we could probably get it, maybe.

No, I'm not good at puzzles.

I mean, so we basically gave up at one point.

We were just standing there looking at it.

Michael: There's no way I could do it.

I don't do puzzles.

Dan: While Team Blue is puzzled by their stacking challenge, Team Red continues to fall apart on the road.

Nicole: Brilliant.

Now where am I going?

Hey, I know where I'm going, but you don't want to go there.

Okay, you have another opportunity.

Exit.

Turn around, go 101 South.

Please, babe.

Babe, stop and turn.

Babe!

BABE!

What are you doing?

You told me to go.

Oh my gosh, what are you doing?

Nicole: This was the original plan for the third time that you had!

We're not going to turn around now and go sit in traffic because your pride is hurt.

So then why don't you believe it?

This is a team.

Okay, then find us another, better way to get there.

I have got the only way that I know.

All right, let's hope this one works.

Goodness gracious.

Nicole: I'm just beyond ticked off.

We made it this far.

So, now we're out.

We'll fly home tomorrow.

It costs us the game, it costs us the game, babe.

My fault.

Everything leads up to this, cost me the game.

Cost the game.

♪ Johnathon: Bring this, far side.

Rebecca: This one all the way to the end?

Johnathon: Yep.

All the way.

I think after we hit about the yellow tubes, it started to kind of click, and then once we did that, it was easy to stack from there.

Rebecca: Come on, babe.

Official: Congratulations, you passed your challenge.

Rebecca: "Your relative is into fitness and fun.

Go to the Flowrider at the south end of the fieldhouse."

Johnathon: Okay, come on.

Dan: Back with Team Red.

You got four miles... Dan: Attitudes change as they prepare to take a city selfie.

Troy: If we make up ten minutes or even five minutes on each challenge, that's 15 minutes.

That puts us 45 minutes.

We're behind, but I'd rather be behind right now and have the opportunity to make up for it.

Fountain Valley hand car wash.

Turn right there, right there in this parking lot.

I just need us to really work together strong in these next challenges.

Get low.

♪ [camera shutter clicks] ♪ "Your first challenge is located at 16582 Brookhurst."

Let's go!

Dylan: The first challenge was... [groans] All logic-based.

It's all numbers, remembering, putting stuff together.

I'm not good at that.

Maybe we get some of these shirt and tie people.

They look smart.

I was just trying to do what I was told, and I was stumped.

Stumped.

No clue.

These games were made by people that have way too much time on their hands.

Dylan: Yeah.

Nicole: You know, as far as these challenges go, the plan is to get through them as quick as we can.

Pull up, straight in that shade.

Nicole: So that's a plan we're actually going to stick to, and hopefully it will be successful.

♪ "Ring It."

Dan: While Team Red scrambles to make up time at their first challenge, Team Black takes the lead as the first team to begin their second challenge.

"Your relative has strong ties to this facility.

"You must each ride the Flowrider for 20 seconds "on your knees, and ten seconds standing up.

"Your allotted time for the day includes 15 minutes to complete this challenge."

Let's go.

Rebecca: All right.

When I first saw this challenge, I was terrified.

[surf music] [intermittent yelling] ♪ Rebecca: The knees was hard at first, but then I realized that I could put my toes in the water and use them like a rudder, and I could steer and keep from spinning and going off, and once I realized that, it was easy.

Official: Twenty seconds, twenty seconds!

Good job!

Rebecca: So I finished the knee portion first, and then it was up to John to complete his.

Just a little longer!

Johnathon: Honestly, I think it was just luck being able to sit on the board and just get my 20 seconds.

It was luck.

I sat in the right stream, and it was good.

Official: Twenty seconds!

Good job!

Johnathon: I thought, oh this won't be too bad, and then trying to stand up though, it wasn't happening.

Hard.

[intermittent yelling] ♪ ♪ Dan: After a grueling Day Nine... Nicole: I don't see any way that any of the other teams did as badly as we did today.

That's not a good feeling right now.

Dan: Team Black surges ahead.

Johnathon: We breezed through challenge one, and we did great on the boogie boarding.

Official: Twenty seconds!

Dan: Raising the stakes for their competition.

Michael: We make it all the way to Day Nine, and we fall apart on a dumb puzzle.

It's beyond disappointing.

Troy: But we're not giving up.

We're going to push through these challenges, make up some time, and hope for the best.

Yeah.

Troy: Okay?

Nicole: Grab your blue, put it on top of mine!

Troy: Okay, I got it!

Nicole: I don't know if this is making any sense.

Troy: I don't know.

Where do we go from here?

♪ Rebecca: We're halfway done, and all we need to do is surf for ten seconds each.

[intermittent yelling] ♪ No, no, no, no, no!

But standing up was definitely the most difficult part of this challenge.

♪ Nicole: Pink, pink!

Troy: Yep, yep, yep, yep!

We can get to those orange ones.

We definitely work better together and not arguing with each other.

It's easy to see, once we start working together, it starts clicking.

Okay, here we go, here we go!

Pink, pink!

We'll put green, green, and then we'll put pink, pink back, and then go green, green.

And then we finally got into a rhythm there.

We kind of figured out how we could free one up and then back and forth, it was a lot of running back and forth.

Well, we finally got the orange ones where we needed them.

Now let's rock and roll!

To assume that Michael and Dylan are going to do worse on any given part of this is not something to bank on.

We got to do our best.

I'm gone, I don't know.

I have no clue.

Nothing.

I got nothing either, man.

Eventually, as time kept moving, we just started moving pieces for the fun of it, hoping something would spark up.

Splice some of this like we're doing something.

Dylan: Yep, why not?

Hey, different.

Michael: Just grab yours, take it down there.

Johnathon: I was having a real rough time with the standing up.

I'm not surprised that she got it quicker than I did at all.

Because she has great balance that way, but she's always had better balance.

Don't fall, don't fall, don't fall, don't fall!

Official: Ten seconds!

Johnathon: I was pretty excited that she got it.

I think the key for me finally getting that ten seconds standing up was calming down, relaxing, and taking a second to find my balance.

Ten seconds!

[Rebecca cheers] Official: Good job!

And finally, things started coming together.

Yep.

We got one of them.

Michael: That's one!

Dylan: Let it be known that we got one!

Whoo!

♪ All right.

"Your relative lives at 779 North Homosassal Avenue."

Both: Let's go!

[heavy breathing] Troy: That wasn't so bad, babe.

Whoo!

Come on.

Nicole: We rocked this challenge.

It's probably not enough to save us, but it helped our morale, which we really needed right now.

"Your relative teaches high school drama.

"Quickly head to the Boys and Girls Club of Huntington Valley."

Let's go, let's go.

Dan: As Team Red races to their second challenge... Dylan: Now we do the rebuild on this side, so we can get the orange on the left solid side.

Dan: Team Blue waltzes to the finish of challenge number one.

Dylan: So, eventually, we worked long enough and hard enough on it, and somehow got all the pieces where they need to be because of that.

Done!

Card.

Michael: It is what it is.

We did what we could.

Dylan: You got it.

Period.

We can't worry about it, it's done.

Moved on, it's done.

"Your relative is a huge Hurricanes Hockey fan.

Head inside the Hurricane Stadium."

Let's do it!

Dan: While Teams Blue and Red face another challenge, Team Black is ready to find their relatives.

Do you know where this address is at?

Yes.

Take this road.

At the stop sign, make a right.

That will be Tulare Road.

Keep going for five blocks.

Rebecca: That way to the stop sign, he said, and then it's five blocks, he said.

Mm-hmm.

So we pull up to this house here in Lindsay, and there's a bunch of people hanging out out front, waiting to meet us.

Rebecca: Here, here, this is the one.

Okay.

Pull up!

Okay, you ready?

Hello!

All: Hi!

Hi, we're the Hoyts.

Can we get a quick picture with you?

Sure!

Awesome!

We'll have to get real tight because this camera's pretty small, so everybody come on in.

I'll squish down in the front.

Got it?

This is going to be interesting.

[camera shutter clicks] Dan: Team Black clocks in well ahead of the competition, currently placing them in first.

If they are able to hold onto their lead, one of the other teams will receive a strike, and could be faced with elimination this evening.

[twangy country music] But first, they've got to finish their second challenge.

"Your relative is a children's musical theater director.

"You must guess adverbs by acting them out "with scenarios prompted by your teammate.

"Correctly guess ten adverbs to move on.

"Your allotted time for the day includes 20 minutes to complete this challenge."

Adverbs?

Michael: We run into the Hurricane's ice rink, and we're greeted by former NHL great Shane Willis.

Hey, guys.

Hey, how are you?

Good, how are you guys?

Good.

Since your relative is such a big Hurricanes fan, all you have to do is score five goals each, and then you'll get your next clue.

Your allotted time for this event is 23 minutes.

Thank you.

All right.

Troy: All right, you act first.

Nicole: Okay, okay.

One person draws a card with an adverb on it and has to act it out.

Fishing.

Unsure.

Confused.

Dizzy.

Goofy?

Nicole: So you have to be kind of good actors to do that.

Troy: Uh, let's rowboat.

Let's do a boat.

You look, um, uh-- [whistle blows] What was it?

Awkward.

Awkward, you are awkward.

That was awkward, for sure.

Dylan: All right, big old pants.

Michael: So, the first thing we had to do before we could even start hitting the pucks, was put pads on, pants on, jersey on, helmet on, and gloves on.

I think there's a strap I'm missing.

Michael: Oh, this is cute.

That's why you never see fat guys playing hockey.

And trying to get the jerseys on by ourselves, we had to help each other get the jerseys on.

All right, bring it over my shoulders and stuff.

[Dylan mumbling indiistinctly] But we got them on, and then our pants kept falling down.

Dude, I cannot walk in this.

My pants are coming down.

Nicole: Okay.

Proudly.

Assuredly.

Confidently.

That's it.

Nicole: "Confidently" was easy.

He put the hat on.

Troy: And I just confidently, and just pound my chest, and she said "confidently" just like that.

I need you to play hide-and-go-seek.

Hide-and-go-seek.

Frightful.

Frightingly.

Um....

Scary?

Surprisingly.

Nicole: You know, I'm thinking in my head like, go wild, right?

[whistle blows] What was it?

Nicole: "Wildly."

Wildly.

But we missed it.

Yeah.

Your hair looked fantastic, though.

I'm sure.

Yeah.

Let's play some hocks.

Michael: Our challenge was to get five hockey pucks each into the net.

We had to get two from the first line, two from the second line, and one from the furthest line.

There you go.

Dylan: Come on.

Oh, come on!

[Michael laughs] Michael: Our relatives obviously like hockey.

[groans] Nope.

Wow.

I can't get this.

Nice, come on, come on, come on.

Oh, you monster.

But we don't.

No.

That did it.

There you go.

There's two.

This is embarassing.

Dan: While Team Blue aims to complete their final challenge, Team Black aims to discover the identity of their new relative.

So whose relative are you guys?

Who do you think?

Rebecca: So, we're looking at these eight or nine people standing in front of us, and wondering, who are we related to?

Which one do you think?

I bet you.

You bet me, why me?

Rebecca: I guessed the guy with all the muscles because, you know.

We were at a gym!

[laughter] Johnathon, you're my cousin!

[laughing] Very nice to meet you as well.

My name is Patrizia Sanchez, and I'm from Lindsay, California.

My sons run the McDermont Fieldhouse Gym, and I am Johnathon Hoyt's cousin.

These are all my children.

These are all your babies?

Patrizia: Yes, all my babies.

Wow.

Goodness.

Dan: It's family time for Team Black, but for everyone else, the game is still on.

All right, let's sweep the floor real quick.

Uh, fearfully, frightful.

Okay, innocently.

[bell dings] Nicole: But I think we did pretty well.

Troy: I feel like we got on a roll there, so I think we made up a few minutes.

Silently.

Boom.

Oh my gosh, you are playfully-- Nicole: Yes.

Oh!

Phew.

Nicole: Thoughtfully.

Boom, got it.

[bell dings] Is that ten yet?

Dylan: Come on, come on, you beautiful thing, yes!

I got one.

Come on.

Yeah, two!

Michael: Good job, son.

[groans] The first two lines weren't too bad.

Come on, come on, come on, come on!

That one's good, that one's good!

Michael: All right, just one from here.

Dylan: Then I got to the last one.

The last lineup, and I couldn't get it.

♪ [chuckles nervously] I can't get it over.

Michael: And no.

Troy: My word was "painfully," That was our final one.

Oh, angrily.

Fatally.

Troy: And I was just jabbing it in my side, and just pointing at my side, and it was painful.

Nicole: Uh, stab angrily.

Painfully.

Boom, that's it.

Whoo!

So it was real.

That was probably the best one I acted out, because I still feel it.

[chuckles] "Your relative lives at 9664 Carnation Avenue."

Okay, this way, babe.

This way, this way!

Go, go, go, go!

Michael: Oh, nope.

That wasn't fun.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Michael: I'm not going to play any hockey after this.

Dylan: No.

Come on!

I can't even get over there.

[dramatic music] Dan: As evening approaches, Team Black appears to have a commanding lead.

Rebecca: We had to go do the-- Johnathon: Jump on the Flowrider.

How was that?

She killed it.

Man: The standup, too?

Oh yeah, she killed it.

Dan: Team Red scrambles towards their final address.

Troy: Oh yeah, I get nervous on subdivisions like this.

Dan: And Team Blue is stuck on the last shot of their challenge.

♪ [Dylan groans] Oh, I want to die.

Patrizia: Johnathon, you got to check this out.

This is our connection.

My father, John Sanchez.

Johnathon and I are connected through the Trujilio line, which is my dad, John Sanchez, his mother, Desateria Trujilio.

And when he passed, I took all this stuff out that I've accumulated through all these years.

♪ He passed away April the fifth of this year.

It was quite devastating.

But Johnathon, he reminds me of my father, John Sanchez.

I couldn't help but draw similarities, because he had been in the military, he had been in law enforcement, and I started to notice that she was getting a little teary-eyed, and she was super excited about the fact that she got to meet me.

Patrizia: I wish my dad was here, because this is what he always wanted is to meet somebody from the Trujilio side.

What's so mind-blowing is the fact that that missing link is you.

That is so crazy.

Johnathon: They have been looking for the line that we're related through for a long time, and I was that missing person that completed that family tree.

Normally, the families are people who we have been looking for, but in this case, it's somebody who had been looking for me.

Patrizia: My cousin Johnathon Hoyt is the first person on the Trujilio side that we have met, and I met him today on "Relative Race."

Well, welcome to the family!

Yes!

Oh.

Dan: While Johnathon learns about his new relatives, Dylan fights for his final shot on the ice.

Dylan: I couldn't get it.

And our pants kept falling down.

Our pants kept falling down.

I don't like this stuff.

♪ Go, go, go!

Both: Yay!

Dylan: But, we got through it.

Michael: I don't care how we did.

We got through it, so we did it, I'm happy, I just can't believe we did it.

"Your relative lives at 515 Angler Road."

All right.

Let's go!

Let's do it!

But taking everything off was even worse.

Michael: Don't leave me behind, son!

Come on!

Don't leave me behind!

Dylan: He got stuck.

I had to take my shoes off.

Give them up!

You have to give up the shoes!

It's stuck behind my ankle.

Dylan: Well, we got it down.

Michael: And we finally got everything off, and then we had to run up the steps!

Yeah.

[both groaning] Michael: Why couldn't they like baseball?

[both groaning] Michael: So we finally get it, and we're off to our relative's.

Oh yeah, it's coming.

Wow, that's coming down.

Stay right here.

Michael: Hold on.

Uh, left?

Uh, go right.

Can you turn left?

Um, maybe.

It doesn't matter.

Go left or right, it doesn't matter.

Dylan: I'll go right then.

Michael: Well, you know what?

You should turn left.

Dylan: Okay.

Michael: Uh, never mind.

I need something!

Turn right.

Stop messing with me.

Turn left.

No.

I'm going right.

It was your call.

Michael: Oh, shoot.

All right, never mind.

Nicole: We're going to be back in traffic.

Troy: Baby, we're not.

I'm going to get us around that.

That's why I'm saying I got to get our bearings back.

I knew we couldn't risk any more traffic, so we stopped for directions.

Michael: And my initial thought was to go up to a local place where there's lots of people.

Locals will know the area.

Excuse me, sir.

We're looking for an address.

Awesome, thanks.

Man 2: All right, good luck.

Yep.

I got it figured out.

All right, we're going to continue north.

If you go down here and take a left right here.

Through this traffic.

Yep.

And he told us which way to go.

Much appreciated.

Happy to help.

Thank you!

665.

664, right there, right there!

Dylan: There's 515.

515!

Sorry, I just noticed.

Ooh.

[car scrapes on ground] Troy: And that's a curb.

Got it.

Dylan: That was awful.

[music intensifies] [knocking] Woot, woot, woot!

Hello!

Hey, can we take a quick selfie?

Yes!

Come on out here.

Everybody get in tight.

[camera shutter clicks] Dan: Team Blue is the second team to reach their relative, and their clock is stopped, but right on their heels is Team Red.

Troy: We finally found you.

Hello.

How you doing?

Real quick hug.

We gotta selfie real quick.

I know.

We know what the deal is.

Get over here.

All right, let's go, let's go!

I should have my phone ready for this.

All right, selfie.

[camera shutter clicks] Dan: Team Red has found their relative, and their clock is stopped.

Teams Red and Blue performed poorly today, and both are dangerously close to elimination.

But for now, they must wait for the results to be calculated as they spend time with newfound family.

Whose relative are you?

Yours!

All right!

And it's me.

More family!

We are family.

You're so cute, I have to be related.

Well, of course!

Diane: Hi, I'm Diane Christensen.

I'm Troy's cousin, and I am a freelance theater director.

Troy: How are you related to me?

Cousins.

You're a cousin, sweet!

Fantastic!

Day Nine, is that right?

It is, it's been a long race.

And you're probably whooped.

Yes.

Who cares!

We're going to go bowling.

All right, let's do it!

I love bowling.

I love it!

We're going to jump in your car, and we're going to show you how to go.

Right now?

Yep.

Okay.

Nicole: Diane asked if we were tired.

We said yes, and she said she didn't care, we were going bowling.

[laughs] She's like, "Too bad, we're going bowling.

"Get in your car!

Let's go."

Nicole: I just want you all to take any expectations of my bowling game, and lower them drastically.

Dan: As Team Red heads to the bowling lanes with their new family, Team Blue gets to know their hockey-loving relatives.

Michael: So, how are we related?

By your grandfather.

We're cousins through him, Roger Lee Cunningham.

And he was adopted also, just like you.

Yeah, I actually met some cousins in Charlotte.

They were part of the Cunningham clan.

That was easy!

Give you a hug.

Cousins.

My name is Gary Arnold.

And I'm Wendy Arnold.

I work at PSNC Energy.

And I work with Cape Fear Tutoring.

And I'm related to Michael and Dylan.

I'm their cousin.

Do you want to come in the house?

Absolutely!

Yes, yes, yes!

Come on in, I have a huge dinner cooked.

Dylan: Oh, that sounds so awesome!

Wendy: Come on in.

Michael: So while we were at dinner, we quickly found out why we did the hockey challenge.

The whole family's into hockey.

All right, I've never even touched a hockey puck.

Gary: So now you like hockey, don't you?

Michael: No.

Gary: Understand we love hockey, but I don't know if they really care too much for hockey.

Michael: But that was our second challenge.

Base goes, "Our relative likes hockey."

We have not yet met a relative that likes to lay on the couch and watch TV, 'cause we could have nailed that challenge.

I mean, we feel so welcomed here.

Right off the bat, we got similar senses of humor.

It's just like I've known them for years already.

Seriously.

Except for the hockey.

Dan: Meanwhile...

Troy: I might actually have some bowling skills if we had a bowling alley this close, babe.

Dan: Team Red arrives at the lanes, ready to shake off the race and enjoy some down time with new family.

Troy: So an hour ago, we're red-hot mad, but now it's time to meet family, and it just immediately goes to the wayside, and we just enjoy time with family.

We had a great time.

Diane: By the way, you have some more relatives.

Troy: To our surprise, there was more family waiting for us.

Like a mob, like a whole bowling team waiting for us here.

This is my daughter, Emily.

This is Nicole... Hi, you look just like your mom.

Diane: And Troy.

Well, let's get our shoes and get going!

Troy: Okay.

♪ Dan: And Team Black has some family time of their own.

Rebecca: So after we did a little catching up and learning about each other, Patty takes us to this really nice Mexican restaurant for dinner.

Do they have burritos?

Yes!

I want a burrito so bad!

Thank you.

It was wonderful.

I had a burrito.

Really, it's that good.

♪ Thank you so much.

♪ Troy: It was nice to cut up, have fun, and just decompress a little bit.

Maybe let out a little frustration on the pins.

Nicole: It's your magic purple ball.

You can do it!

Yeah!

Diane: Wow!

Nicole: That's a good ball!

[cheering] I'm having a great time bowling.

I'm glad to meet everybody.

They just instantly embrace you and take you in.

It honestly helped us relax a little bit more, I think, probably enjoy the evening a little bit better.

Dan: As teams relax with their families, the results are prepared.

Michael: Nervous?

Yes.

This was not our best day.

It could have went better.

Rebecca: We only have one strike, so if we get a second, we're still going to Day Ten.

Hey Dan, you're going to want to see this.

Nicole: And we made it all the way to Day Nine, and dropped the ball, and could not follow through.

Troy: We might have screwed up, but we have a ten percent shot, I feel like that was it, but it's still a shot.

You never know what's going to happen.

Dan: And for those closest to elimination, it doesn't look good.

And over an hour?

Yep.

Dan: All right, I'll make the call.

[intense music] ♪ ♪ Dan: After a disastrous Day Nine... Nicole: We made it this far, and then the detour set the whole pattern for the day, and there's just-- I don't think there's any recovering from that.

Dan: Two teams dread the possibility of a third strike as they anxiously await the day's results while spending time with family.

Dylan: This being the last relative we meet, it's weird to think we're not going to meet another one tomorrow, but it's amazing to think that we've met all of these already.

Troy: My heart overflows with the amount of generosity and love that all my relatives and her relatives has shown to us.

I guess that's really what "Relative Race" is about, is the journey to get to your relative.

♪ Rebecca: I think the journey on "Relative Race" has been eye-opening and uplifting, and means more to me than I could ever find words to describe it.

♪ I started this journey not knowing anything about anybody, and I have met some of the most wonderful people, and I have gotten so many answers to questions I've had my whole life.

Troy: It's been amazing.

It's been an emotional ride, and emotions I never knew I had.

So much has changed in my life already, but now I know.

I know my family.

I know all my family.

Rebecca: To be complete, to know my history, is something that I think only maybe these other teams can understand at this point.

Dan: In the past nine days, our contestants have met dozens of relatives and traveled thousands of miles, all leading up to this moment.

Dylan: Us having two strikes and being so close to Day Ten already, just frustrating, nervewracking.

Dan: When our three remaining teams find out who will compete for 50,000 dollars.

Nicole: We are basically just waiting to be told what time tomorrow our flight is home, after the way today went.

Troy: I feel like I let her down today.

Dan: And who may be going home one day short of the finish line.

♪ Dan: It's Day Nine of "Relative Race."

I noticed right away that Michael, you're wearing a different colored hat.

Why is that?

Supporting Team Green today.

They're in our thoughts.

Dan: We do miss Team Green.

They're the only ones not here for Day Nine.

But who will be at Day Ten?

Johnathon and Rebecca, well, you can smile a little easy, because even if you have earned the strike, it's only your second strike, and so you know you will be in Day Ten.

Rebecca: Yes, but we went full force and we didn't think about it.

Johnathon: Yeah.

[Dan sighs] Well, for Team Red or Team Blue, one more strike, and even though it's Day Nine, you will fall one strike short of making it to the finale.

[dramatic music] Troy and Nicole, you got up early to beat LA traffic, but that didn't quite go your way, did it?

No.

No, it didn't.

Dan: What happened?

Troy: We had a plan, and at the last minute we changed a different route, a more direct route, and hit traffic immediately, and to try to avoid the traffic backup, took one wrong turn, cost us about an hour.

Michael: We thought for sure we were going to go home today, but after hearing about Team Red, I think we've got a chance now.

Dan: Team Blue, you also struggled tremendously in your first and second challenge.

It was difficult.

Wasn't our worst day, but it wasn't our best, that's for sure.

You hope.

I hope, yes.

[dramatic music] [Dan sighs] Well, before I give you the times, I can tell you this: Never have times been this close between the second and third place teams.

Finishing in first place, 49 minutes over their allotted time, and coming out on top, is Team Black.

No way.

Johnathon: Wow.

Rebecca: Oh, snap.

Michael: As usual, Team Black won.

Troy: As soon as they announced they got first, we're like, 50/50 shot here.

Is it going to stab us in the heart, or stab Blue in the heart?

Whoa.

Dan: And so I ask you, which do you choose?

Airplane tickets to fly back and see your favorite relative, or a Day Ten benefit?

We're going to take that Day Ten benefit, because we're getting that 50,000 and we're going to buy a lot of plane tickets to come find relatives.

So you choose another Day Ten benefit.

Interesting.

We wish you good luck, because we know you will be there.

But now, it comes down to Team Red and Team Blue.

I told you it was close.

I told you we have never been this close.

This has never happened in "Relative Race."

Every day, from the time you get up, and get your first directions, to the time you meet your relative and send me that photo, it's timed.

Never has this time been this close.

Team Red, you finished one hour and eight minutes over your allotted time.

Team Blue, you finished one hour and eight minutes over your allotted time.

Troy: I'm like, that sounds like a tie.

And then I was like, wait, are we both getting strikes?

Michael: Two teams had the exact same time.

And we both had two strikes!

Team Red and Team Blue, neither one of you receive a strike.

[cheering] Dan: You will both be in Day Ten.

♪ [cheering continues] Oh, wow.

Wow.

That answers that question.

Yeah.

♪ Good job, guys.

Rebecca: Good job.

[music swells dramatically] Dan: As stunned as you are right now, that's how equally amazed we are here at "Relative Race" headquarters.

We have never had a tie before.

It didn't even seem within the realm of possibilities.

But you both wound up one hour and eight minutes over your allotted time, which means Day Ten will see three teams battling for 50,000 dollars.

Michael: So Dan tells us we're all still in the race, but we still have no idea where we are going.

Dan: Right now, you're on opposite coasts, but in one day, we'll all be together once again, back in Washington, D.C.

Yes, yes, yes!

I knew it!

Michael: I was thinking it, I was thinking it.

Can't wait to see you there, cuz.

Yes!

We'll see you there.

But what about us?

We're family!

Dan: Get a good night's rest.

Celebrate with your relatives, and we will see you for Day Ten of "Relative Race."

Good night, and good luck to all of you.

See you in D.C., cuz!

See you later, cuz!

Night!

Troy: Way to go, Team Blue!

It was the hat!

Open it up.

Is it the same thing?

Yep!

Johnathon: So, we're not 100% sure what it's for, but we now have three of them.

Dan: The results for the final leg of "Relative Race" are in.

In first place, once again, is Team Black, clocking in 49 minutes over their allotted time.

After their win today, they will travel back to D.C. with three Day Ten benefit coins.

Day Ten, here we come.

Day Ten, here we come!

Michael: Ah, I cannot believe it!

A tie!

That is incredible!

First ever!

Dan: And for the first time in Relative Race history, Teams Blue and Red have tied for last place.

Consequently, no strikes have been awarded.

However, these teams will be at a disadvantage, having only picked up one Day Ten benefit coin each during the past nine days.

Hello boys and girls, it's the end of Day Nine of "Relative Race."

And guess who's going to Day Ten?

Blue Team.

We can't afford any mistakes like we had today.

We got all these first place finishes, but that doesn't mean anything if we don't come out in first on Day Ten.

Dan: All three teams nervously anticipate Day Ten, where new challenges await.

The secret of their coins will finally be revealed, and one team will head home with a victory and $50,000.