For the past nine days, four teams have been racing across the country, searching for and finding their relatives.

Michael: Go, go, go, go, go, go.

Okay, all right.

Karie: We're first cousins.

Dan: Now, we're back in D.C. Today, this "Relative Race" coin will determine who walks away with $50,000 and who heads home empty-handed.

Welcome to Day 10 of "Relative Race."

Ten days ago, here in Washington D.C...

The two of you are cousins.

Johnathon: Wow.

Dan: Four teams began the journey of a lifetime...

Send Team Black transport in.

Johnathon: To start that experience right here, right now, it's amazing.

Dan: ...that would test every skill.

[cheering] Dan: And push them beyond their limits.

Step down.

Oh, hold on now.

Don't look down, don't look down, don't look-- Oh!

Dan: With each day they completed, teams advanced closer to the finish line... Boom!

Come on.

No!

Jamie: No!

...but also, closer to elimination.

Michael: I mean, we're really going the exact opposite way we need to be going right now.

Dan: You have received your first strike.

Nicole: There are people out there that we still have to meet.

We have to finish this.

I gotta have a minute.

Dan: Team Black was the first team to receive the mysterious Day 10 benefit coin.

We will keep this a secret.

Dan: They continue to stay on top, winning six out of nine days, and stacking up three mystery coins.

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

Dan: As the strikes added up... [Dan speaking to the teams] You have received your 2nd strike.

...teams fought to stay in the game-- This is it.

This is it.

Pull over.

--and meet new relatives.

Wayne: Hello, Son.

I'm Wayne.

I'm your daddy.

[muffled sobbing] My name's Chelsea.

I'm your half-sister.

My baby sister.

Troy: You’re my aunt?

I'm your aunt.

Michael: I just found out I've got a sister.

Rhonda: I'm your mother.

[gasps] [crying] Michael: This completes me as a human being.

Troy: He's literally bringing my dad to me right now.

Here he is, right here.

Thanks, Dave.

I appreciate it, man.

Rebecca: We have family, and they've always wanted us.

Knowing that our great- grandfather was born a slave, but he died free?

We have won.

I did not know that.

Dan: But on Day 8, the race came to an end for the sisters.

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

Jamie and Morgan received their third strike, and with it, a plane ticket back home.

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

Dan: With only three teams remaining on Day 9, Teams Red and Blue fought to stay in the race with two strikes each.

We are not gonna fail.

Dan: But dire mistakes threatened to send them home.

Nicole: The detour set the whole pattern for the day.

And there's just-- I don't think there's any recovering from that.

I don't know how we would do it.

I don't either.

Dylan: We basically gave up at one point.

Dan: However, final times came closer than ever before.

You both wound up one hour and eight minutes over your allotted time.

Michael: Two teams had the exact same time.

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

[cheering] Dan: All three teams are still in the game, and will fly back to Washington D.C. to compete in the final day of "Relative Race."

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!

♪ ♪ Dan: The dark of an early morning greets all three remaining teams as they nervously prepare for their flights to the final competition in Washington, D.C. Patrizia: Good luck.

Both: Thank you.

Let me know if you guys win.

We will.

Exactly, you will.

Thank you so much, it was so good to meet you.

So guys, how'd y'all sleep last night?

Michael: We made it to Day 10, I mean, so I had a hard time going to sleep.

All right, fam, we'll see you later.

Diane: Goodbye.

Troy: Buh-bye.

Nicole: Um, Day 10.

I'm feeling a little nervous, yeah.

Troy: Now I'm just more anxious than I've ever been since we've come to the end, but, I want to-I want to come home with the prize.

Michael: This is the day.

Said it all along, we don't have to win any day but this day.

And today, we're gonna win.

Rebecca: We have a target on our back.

We have two coins up on everyone else because we've won six out of nine days.

I think they're gunning for us.

Dan: After racing thousands of miles all across the country, our teams are nervous as they prepare to face off in the same location where it all started ten days ago.

The Washington Mall: over 300 acres dedicated to America's history.

From the Capitol building to the east, the White House to the north, and the Lincoln Memorial on the west, this is considered the bedrock of liberty and democracy, and this is the backdrop for the final day of Relative Race.

[intense music] ♪ ♪ Welcome, Teams, and congratulations on making it to Day 10 of "Relative Race."

[dramatic music] How's the journey been for each of you?

It's been a tidal wave of emotion, but it's been a beautiful journey.

We loved every step of it.

Uh, it's been an emotional ride, um, but great discovery, great family.

I'm so glad we did it.

We started this journey not having any pieces to our puzzle.

Now we have puzzle pieces that date back to the 1630s.

We're thoroughly happy and pleased and can't thank you guys enough.

Dan: Well, it has been a challenging-- yet, it appears rewarding-- journey for each of you.

And I know that every one of you has at least one of these.

How many coins do you have, Team Blue?

We have one.

Dan: Team Red?

One.

Dan: And Team Black, how many do you have?

Three.

Dan: Well, that may be the difference today, because everything you thought you knew about Day 10 is about to change.

Today, it's all about how many coins can you collect?

Oh, we are up.

It's okay.

We got this.

Troy: The coins played out differently than what we had thought, so, turns out we just gotta get as many as we possibly can.

Rebecca: Two up.

Two up already.

Dan: For the past nine days, you've had to use paper maps to help you find your relatives.

Today, you'll use this book of clues.

This book contains a map of the Washington Mall, which highlights three mandatory challenges.

The mandatory challenges have three levels of difficulties, each with a different coin value.

But here's the key: It's first come, first serve.

The first team to arrive at a challenge and make a choice removes that option from your competitors.

Your book of clues also contains 33 riddles.

Solving these riddles is optional; however, their solutions will lead you to coin-stop locations where you'll be able to pick up additional coins.

Rebecca: We're going investigation style.

We're gonna have to find out where we're going, what challenge we're doing, and how best to approach each challenge.

Troy: And hopefully the, uh, the riddles won't be too tough, 'cause we've already proven not really good at riddles in a previous challenge.

Dan: Here are your coin bags, and your maps.

Michael: First thing I'm gonna do is open the book and figure out if we're going to do our challenges first, or are we going after the coins first?

Rebecca: I'm thinking this might be a little hard.

Troy: Yeah, it just takes one more coin than the next team to win.

And, uh, that's what we're hoping for.

Dan: The route you choose is completely up to you.

But keep in mind, you only have three hours to gather as many coins as you can, and bring them back to me.

Oh, and did I mention that every minute you go over three hours, you lose a coin.

Five minutes over, five coins lost.

Rebecca: Oh, man.

I think this is going to be really hard, physically and mentally.

Nicole: For the next three hours, the gloves are off.

Gloves are off.

It's go time.

Dan: How much do you have left in the tank?

Are you ready for what lies ahead?

Because $50,000 is on the line.

And your final day on "Relative Race" begins in three, two, one... [music swells dramatically] Dan: Three, two, one... Go!

Michael: All right, first place.

Rebecca: Okay, pull it out.

Pull it out, babe, pull it out.

Nicole: A direction would be great.

Um, we don't know the Mall well, but we're gonna learn it real quick.

Find the first one.

Slow and steady wins the race, son.

That's right.

Slow and steady.

Dylan: Our strategy is to get through the challenges first, don't worry about any of the side trips so much, and the most difficult challenge looks like the decryption challenge at the Jefferson Memorial, so we're heading there first.

How in the world do you get over there?

I don't know.

Johnathon: Okay, we need to look at this first one.

All right.

We go through each of the extra riddles, trying to figure out if we know them just off the top of our head so we can mark those off real quick and we can get them on the way to our first challenge.

"I have a dream," so the Martin Luther King memorial.

One that stuck out to me was a short quote, it just says, "I have a dream."

Rebecca: And we know that the Martin Luther King monument was on the way out to our first challenge.

We thought, stop there, get it while we can.

Johnathon: So we're gonna go down to the Martin Luther King, over to Jefferson, and then back up.

Okay, got it?

looks good.

Okay, let's go.

"Ten days, ten new family"... German-American Friendship Garden.

That's the first challenge.

Okay.

Our strategy is to find the closest challenge first.

And on the way to our challenges, we'll get extra coins by solving the riddles while we run.

look and see if there's any other clues along the way, babe.

There's gotta be somethin'.

Just keep turning the pages.

Nicole: My goal is to fill this thing up today.

Dan: The final battle is underway, and today's winner only needs to complete one goal: Arrive at the finish line with more coins than their competitors.

Troy: How y'all doin'?

We're on a reality show.

Do you know where German-American Friendship Garden is?

Dan: Team Red decides to tackle the "Remember Me" challenge located at the German-American Friendship Garden.

If they can decipher their clue book along the way, they should be able to find several nearby coin stops.

So we've figured out any of these other trivia questions as we're going.

Rebecca: Which way?

Left?

Right?

We're gonna stay on the right-hand side.

Dan: Teams Blue and Black are both heading to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial to complete their "Declaration Decryption" challenge.

However, Team Black plans to swing by a coin stop along the way.

Yeah, Martin Luther King.

There should be a coin around here.

We immediately see the coin there by the Martin Luther King memorial, "I have a dream."

There it is.

Grab it.

Grab it, put it in our baggie.

Johnathon: We pick it up real quick and start taking off towards the Jefferson Memorial.

Rebecca: Okay, where we going next?

Johnathon: Um, we need to get across the river over there.

Troy: And then what's the next history?

Nicole: "Your family's in U.S.

history."

I'm reading it to you.

As we're solving the clues, we notice that some of the clues relate specifically to our ancestry.

"Joel Hartley served in Arkansas 4th Calvary Regiment during the Civil War."

Troy: Okay.

Nicole: "Honor and reflect upon his memory at the east end of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool."

And these ancestry coin stops are worth more coins.

So we definitely want to get to those as quickly as we can.

East end, okay.

It's right there, it's right there.

Okay, here it is, here it is, let's go, let's go.

It's the east end, babe.

Come on.

Three of them.

Nice.

Okay.

I had no idea that any of my family fought in the Civil War.

So that was pretty cool to learn about, and it was worth three coins.

Dan: As Team Red makes headway with their coin count..

Excuse me, sir?

Can we ask a question?

Dan: ...Team Blue flags down help for one of their clues.

Michael: Trying to solve some of the riddles as we were walking.

We asked one service man for an answer to one of the riddles we didn't have an answer for.

"I have not yet begun to fight."

So he answered it, John Paul Jones, which is correct.

So there's one.

John Paul Jones.

Thank you.

Dylan: Thank you!

Write that down, right now.

John Paul Jones.

John Paul Jones.

Not a clue where we're going for that one.

John Paul Jones.

Yeah, who was also the drummer for Led Zeppelin.

Jones.

Michael: We gotta be getting close to this thing.

Troy: We finally locate the "Remember Me" challenge, and it's obviously a matching game.

So we're picking the easiest level of difficulty.

Here we go, here we go.

Okay, "Remember Me.

"Throughout your genetic journey, "you have made ten new relative connections.

"Reflect upon them by matching the correct facts to each respective panel."

Nice.

We got this.

Dan: Today, teams will have to remember who they met along the race in order to complete the challenge "Remember Me."

Teams will need to arrange the correct pieces to each relative and place them on the correct day.

Categories include pictures, names, house numbers, challenges, and miscellaneous facts.

Once all the pieces are attached to the board, they will be notified how many are correct, and may earn one coin for each correct day.

However, they may also attempt to earn more coins by rearranging their boards a certain amount of times based on the level of difficulty they choose.

Troy: All right, you get faces.

Nicole: Okay.

We only get three tries to match everything correctly, so we've got to take our time and make sure everything is right.

When did we play that-that game, the-the balls, the billiards game?

Was that Diana's day, or Dave's day?

Troy: Uhh, yeah!

That was bocce ball.

Uh-huh, yeah.

Loves archery, that's Roberto.

Nicole: Yup.

The easy part was knowing their names.

That was, uh-- knowing their names, knowing what they did.

The hardest part was the address house number.

Troy: 5165.

Nicole: It was 12-something.

We went up to 1300.

Troy: It was 65.

I know the last number.

Right here.

1265.

You're right.

Good job, babe.

All right, how many panels do we have right?

Troy: We were confident we had nothing wrong but the addresses.

You have four panels correct.

Four?

But those addresses are tough, and now we only have two more attempts.

So these are wrong.

Dan: While Team Red tries to conjure up the past, Team Black edges out Team Blue as the first team to arrive at the Jefferson Memorial.

Johnathon: So we get to the Jefferson Memorial, and there's three little stations set up, and it's easy, moderate, or hard.

Johnathon: Over here.

Rebecca: Go medium, go medium.

Johnathon: Medium?

All right.

Rebecca: Go medium.

Johnathon: We chose moderate, which is only worth seven coins, but the clue book says that this challenge is a puzzle, and we didn't want to risk the higher difficulty level.

"Declaration Decryption: "The Declaration of Independence "holds the key to solving the cipher wheel.

"Plug the code into the cipher wheel and the secret message will be revealed."

Okay.

All right.

Dan: Team Black is now ready to compete at "Declaration Decryption."

This code-breaking challenge will utilize two of Thomas Jefferson's creations: The Declaration of Independence and a cipher wheel.

To solve the cipher and retrieve their coins, teams have been given phrases contained in the Declaration of Independence.

However, each phrase has one missing word, and each missing word contains one letter that will help them unlock their cipher.

First one: "Certain unalienable rights that blank, these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Go, go, go.

Johnathon: The first thing we have to do is fill in the blanks, so I run to the Declaration replica to find the phrase with our missing word, and I immediately found out it was going to be a lot harder than I thought.

I'm just going to need a little more time.

Let me see it again.

[mumbling] I think the word is "among."

Which letter do we need for the cipher?

Johnathon: Well, it says "one," so the first letter in "among," which is "A."

Rebeca: So letters within the words, within the sentences for the keys.

Okay, I wrote it down.

Let's keep moving.

Johnathon: So then, the Blue team shows up.

Mm-hmm.

Michael: We run up to the challenge and Team Black is already there.

Difficult, easy.

Michael: Yup.

Dylan: Get it.

But, they didn't take the easiest level, so we're still feeling pretty good, and ready to go.

All right.

It says, "For imposing blank on us without our Consent..." look for, uh, "imposing blank."

Here.

Stay here.

All right.

Michael: It's tough to find one little phrase in this huge document.

Plus, the-their writing's not the greatest.

I can't read it.

I can't read the word.

I literally cannot read the word.

I cannot read the word.

I found the word, I can't read it.

Next one.

It's already hard enough, but sharing the Declaration makes it even more difficult.

Anything, Rebecca?

No.

I don't know.

I can't read this.

Johnathon: Then come back and I'll read it.

Yeah, I found it, I found it.

Wha-uh...

The word is "invasion."

I got it.

I think- I think it's "V." I-N-V. "V" is the third letter.

Dan: Back at "Remember Me," Team Red works on their second attempt of the challenge.

Troy: Scoot it down one?

Nicole: Mm-hmm.

You have to put your relative's picture, name, challenge that you did, and then a house number, which was an issue.

Put 224, 2442?

We've already done that.

Troy: We were sure on four of them that we had them correct, so we weren't going to shift anything on those four except the addresses, so we just kind of rotated around, and I had told her, I said, "We get seven right, we gotta bail."

Try this.

Okay, how many?

You have seven correct.

Done!

Both: Let's take it.

Troy: We're happy with seven coins, um, and just ready to head on to our next challenge.

You've got seven coins.

Nicole: Yes.

Troy: Good job, babe.

Let's go, let's go.

I can't tell even what the word means.

I got nothin'.

The phrase was "imposing blank."

But whatever is in that blank is nearly impossible to read.

Wait a minute, I got it.

Dylan: You got it?

What was it?

"Taxes."

Michael: The word was "taxes."

Dylan: Ugh.

Michael: So in the time it took Team Black to find all their words, we found one.

All right.

Okay.

Here, hold that.

Just read me the letters.

Now that we filled in the blanks, we just gotta put all the letters into the cipher and figure out the secret message.

V. V. K. F?

F, A, X. X. Uh-huh.

Okay, there it is.

Johnathon: "Find my-- "find my family" is the phrase.

Man: That's correct.

Rebecca: That's good?

That's correct.

Rebecca: One, two, three, four five, six, seven.

Bye, Blue!

Good luck, guys!

Good luck!

Dan: Day 10 is in full effect-- Aw, come on.

Dan: --and our leading teams are stacking up coins at the challenges.

Woman: You got seven coins.

Nicole: Yes.

Troy: Good job, babe.

Dan: But Team Blue gets left behind.

Bye, Blue!

Good luck, guys!

Johnathon: Good luck!

Michael: All we wanted to do today is beat Team Black.

looks like that's not gonna happen.

Dan: In this final day of competition, teams are fighting to complete three mandatory challenges.

Additionally, there are 33 optional coin stops spread out across the Washington Mall.

Teams are free to choose their own paths, and the order in which they complete their challenges.

However, they must act wisely to make the most of their three-hour time limit and reach the final line with as many coins as possible.

We finished our challenge, and noticed there were some nearby coin stops at the World War II memorial, so we're going to stop and grab those.

Nicole: "Fifty stars represent the states, Troy: That's it right there .

Nicole: That's it.

I got it, babe, I got it.

look at that next clue.

The first clue, "at the stars," was easy to find.

But the second one was a little bit more difficult.

Atlantic to the Pacific.

Nicole: Wait, Pacific to the Atlantic.

We need Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania?

Plus what?

Troy: We had to find out which state the next coin was at.

But to find it, we had to solve a math problem that started at Pennsylvania's pillar.

So, plus 22, minus 8, plus 17 is 31.

Thirty-one.

So, we had to count 31 pillars, and that's where our coin will be.

Fourth one, District of Columbia.

Nicole: Yes!

Come on, baby, give me some.

Troy: Let's add 'em up, babe.

Let's head this way.

Let's head this way.

So we're up 13 coins, and we're headed to the decryption challenge to get some more.

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

Dan: As Team Red takes off towards the Jefferson memorial, Team Blue is already there, and struggling.

The history.

History.

The history.

The history.

I'm positive it's history.

We finally found the last word, but now we gotta figure out the cipher wheel.

Dylan: Uh, no clue.

Just line it up, I guess.

Michael: I'd never worked one before, so working the cipher wheel was kinda interesting.

Okay.

Nothing happened.

Michael: The whole time I'm looking at the one line I just created, I'm like, "I can't make a word out of that."

How did that make a phrase?

Dylan: How would that do anything?

I don't know.

Oh, hold on a second.

Dylan: No, wait.

"My family tree."

That's what it is.

Michael: And then we saw "my family tree" being created, and I'm like, "Oh.

That's how it works."

Man: That's correct.

Both: Yay.

Michael: So we pick up the bag, collect our five coins, and we're off.

Dylan: Five.

All right, we got the stuff?

We good.

Dan: Team Blue is heading towards their next stop of the day.

They've chosen to complete the "Remember Me" challenge, located at the German-American Friendship Garden.

"One of three delegates who refused to sign the U.S.

Constitution."

No idea.

Dylan: So we're going through the booklet, looking through riddles, looking at the ones we already know, and looking at the ones we don't know.

"Lives by the motto, 'Be prepared.'"

Michael: Uh, Boy Scouts.

That's not-- The Boy Scouts of America.

"Be prepared."

I was a Boy Scout.

Boy Scout, putting Boy Scouts in.

If we knew the clue, we'd write it down for later.

We're not going to grab it now, because we want to get the challenges done first.

Dan: Also plotting a route to the "Remember Me" challenge is Team Black.

But they're heading there with a different strategy.

Rebecca: It's here.

This is the challenge.

Johnathon: And this is the Boy Scouts of America.

We had to get to the "Remember Me" challenge, and we knew that over in that same area, we had the Boy Scouts of America memorial, which I knew was also one of the riddles.

Boy Scouts of America, be prepared.

Here, there!

Here, here, here.

Grab it.

All right, got it?

Yup.

Let's go.

Nicole: Think it's this building?

Troy: The sign said this way, Jefferson Memorial.

Unless that's it way over there.

That would suck.

Yeah, no, that's not it.

Dan: And Team Red has decided to complete "Declaration Decryption" at the Jefferson Memorial.

Nicole: Okay, so that's not it.

Troy: It is that big building right over there.

It is that big mama-jamma.

Let's go, babe, come on.

Nicole: How do we get there?

Troy: Come on, I got it, let's go!

Nicole: That one, I couldn't believe, when he told me that was the building, and I could see it, I mRan, in the distance.

It looked far.

Troy: Jefferson Memorial was far.

Nicole: It was far.

You see the challenge over there?

See the banner?

Yeah.

Okay, give me a second.

Dan: As teams make headway towards their challenges, Team Black picks up another coin stop along the way.

Rebecca: So the next riddle in the book we wanted to solve was the "flaming sword of Paris."

The flaming sword's right there.

The flaming sword is right here.

So we book it over there, and sure enough, we find another coin.

Johnathon: Paris, from German advance.

There it is.

Found it.

After this, we need to make a direct line to our challenge.

Dan: As coins are stacking up, all of the teams prepare for another challenge.

All right.

Aw, man.

Easy's gone.

Michael: Agh, okay.

Take moderate.

"Remember Me."

The challenge was to match the picture of your relative you met to what day, and the address number, and because we chose the moderate level, we only had two tries to match all of these up.

Okay.

All right, we got the difficult one left.

All right.

"Declaration decryption."

We get here, and not only do we get the most difficult one, you have to use a... A decoder.

A decoder wheel.

"Assent to laws establishing blank powers."

We got this, babe.

Nicole: "Establishing judiciary."

"Judiciary."

J. I don't remember.

I want to say your brother was Day 2, because it was Remembrance Day and then you met him, that's what I'm thinking.

All right, do it.

Nicole: For the most part, I was finding them quick.

I think a lot of that has to do with I do word finds all the time, and so I was doing more of a scan instead of a read.

Got this, babe.

"That among these."

"Among these."

"Among."

Systems that among, among.

It's A, it's A.

Okay, got it.

Dylan: Jeff and Gary.

Gary, Gary, Gary.

Gary was Day 9?

Just making sure?

Michael: Jim.

Dylan: What?

Michael: Jim.

Who's Jim?

I don't know, I'm working on Gary.

Is this Gary?

Ah, crap.

Was he Jim?

I remember him as Gary.

I'm gonna put Gary.

I don't care.

"Unanimous declaration of the blank United States of America."

"Unanimous declaration of."

I'm not as good at this.

And I've got one phrase that's completely stumping me.

Uhh, ugh this is tough.

This is tough.

Michael: Yeah, it is.

I don't care if we got one.

I wanted to finish the challenge so I can move on.

That's all I cared about.

Just put it--just put it there, it doesn’t matter.

"The blank United States of America."

Come on, babe.

You got this.

[mumbling] Agh, I've searched the whole thing, babe, it's not here.

Johnathon: Here we go.

We run up to the challenge, and Team Blue is already there.

Oh, goodness.

Okay.

Which means we are stuck with the hardest difficulty level.

Michael: As Black gets started, we have one more chance, but I just want to get out of here.

You have four correct.

We'll take 'em.

We got four of 'em right, we're out the door.

There are your four coins.

Michael: Take 'em.

Rebecca: Blue is already done with this challenge, and I'm thinking that maybe we're starting to get behind.

We need to pick it up a bit.

Day 1.

Day 1.

Johnathon: Day 9.

As soon as I started reading all the little papers, I was able to immediately recognize those, and I told Rebecca right where they went, and so we got that all done real quick.

Day 8, Rebecca: Day 8.

7, this is Day 3, 6.

Day 1, Eve.

Troy: "Unanimous declaration of the United States of America."

It's gotta be here at the bottom.

As I'm going through it, I go through the whole thing, and then I start over again, and then I look at the title... A-ha.

"The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America."

And apparently, I've never read the title because it's the "declaration of the thirteen United States."

That's the-the-- that's what I needed.

I needed that in my phrase.

But I was looking in the body, never decided to look in the title.

All right, so we got FDR to our left, that's--we know that's a coin, but it takes us further away.

Um, small island, I don't know.

Floral library, I don't know.

Music harvest aspiration for literature, who cares, uh, John Hancock's Hancock.

No.

3165 was right.

Rebecca: You think so?

Okay, so switch-- So switch these two.

Rebecca: I really think hers was a four-digit.

I agree.

Michael: Aw, you gotta be kidding me.

John Paul Jones memorial.

Heck, I didn't even know he had one.

That's buggin' me.

All right, come on, let's cross the street while we can.

Dylan: Okay.

All right, so tell me letters.

I need U, okay, U, then what?

G. Troy: G?

Nicole: A.

Troy: A. I honestly think 779 might go-- We think-- This one I think we're pretty right on.

Okay.

And I think Ron's is right.

So let's switch these two?

We have our whole board filled up, but we only got one shot at this, so we need to make sure it's correct so that we can walk away with those ten coins.

N. N. Nicole: Word should be above it or below it.

Troy: "Roots run deep."

Whoo!

WHOO!

Good job, babe.

Nicole; Coming into the most difficult one, which we probably would not have chosen, I feel pretty great about taking all the coins.

Yeah.

Johnathon: So we know that those are right.

100%.

Without a doubt.

I know that this one is right without a doubt.

Rebecca: Once we knew an address was right, we would check it off so that we wouldn't get confused.

Seven, eight, nine, ten!

Nice.

Let's go, come on!

Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

Get the bag, come on!

Troy: I got it, I got it.

321.

Want to switch those?

Okay.

Johnathon: So by process of elimination, we were able to go down and get closer and closer.

Okay, check them?

Rebecca: Okay.

Ready to be checked.

'Kay.

Your board is worth...

So we know that those are right.

100%.

Without a doubt.

Johnathon: This is our only shot at this, so I hope we have all those addresses in the right place.

okayay, check them?

Rebecca: Okay.

Ready to be checked.

'Kay.

Your board is worth... ten coins.

Yes!

Boom, done.

Rebecca: Yes!

Ten coins.

Nice.

Man: Five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten.

Rebecca: Okay, get them in there, get them in there.

Okay, let's go.

Be off.

Dan: All three teams are now off to their final challenge of the day: "Speech, Speech," located at the Sylvan Theater.

While Team Black takes a direct approach to get there, Teams Blue and Red grab one more relative coin stop along the way.

"Nicole's grandfather, Maurice Warren, served in U.S. Army during World War II."

Nicole: We found another ancestry coin stop, but this time, it was about my grandfather, who served in World War II.

Right there, babe.

Grab 'em!

Troy: All right, we got three, babe.

Here.

Put them in.

All right, let's go.

Nicole: Now, we're off to our last challenge.

Michael: Right there is coins.

Dylan: Yeah, I see 'em.

Michael: So I came to the east end of the reflecting pool, because one of my relatives-- actual photo-- was in the Civil War.

Dylan: Even having a picture.

That's another crazy thing.

Michael: An actual picture.

Dylan: That's him!

That is him.

That is absolutely fascinating to me.

Right here, right behind ya.

All right, here we go.

Let's go this way.

We got three at the reflecting pool.

We didn't have to go far at all.

And we're on the move again.

Johnathon: 'Cause it shows just north-- Rebecca: No, we're facing the memorial?

Johnathon: With the lips, right?

So it should be right there?

We got a little confused, because on the map, we thought that it showed the challenge at a certain location.

The challenge should be right here.

I can't see over the cars.

Yeah, I know.

It should be right here, though.

Dan: As Team Black struggles to find the "Speech, Speech" challenge, Team Red is already there, and ready to compete.

We're gonna go moderate, right?

Yeah, let's do moderate.

Do moderate.

Okay.

All right, let me see.

"Speech, Speech!"

Dan: The final challenge remaining for all teams is "Speech, Speech."

Each team member will need to memorize a famous presidential speech, and recite it in costume on stage.

If any part of the speech is recited incorrectly, they must start over.

Contestants may try as many times as they would like, but if they need to review the speech, their costume will need to be removed, and the speech placed back on the wall.

Nicole: We got the Roosevelt speeches, so I picked Theodore.

Troy: And I picked Franklin.

Nicole: We don't know a lot about speeches.

Obviously we read them and studied them in school just long enough to pass tests, and then probably stored them right out of the memory banks.

Yeah, I mean, I recognized them, but I've never memorized them.

Nicole: Okay, babe.

Troy: "And of the House of Representatives.

And of the House of Representatives."

Got it.

Go ahead.

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, "members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives..." I started pretty well.

As I got toward the last couple sentences, I was missing some "it's" and some "and's."

"Air forces of the empire of Japan, the United States was still at peace--" Nicole: No.

So you can get all the way down to the last word and forget to do "it's" or "it is," and you'd have to start from the top, and it was getting frustrating.

And then the fact that when you don't know a word and you gotta remember what it is, you have to take your costume completely off, go put it on the wall, and then look and see what word you missed, then put your costume back on, and do that whole deal again.

Johnathon: Yeah, I think it's this building right here.

Rebecca: We roll up to the Sylvan Theater and we see Team Red up on the stage.

They look like they're deep in thought and I can't quite figure out yet what they’re doing, and then I see the costumes, and the speeches, and I think, "We better go easy."

So what do you want to do?

Let's do easy.

I want easy.

Okay.

I just don't know.

We're mid -memorization, and Black Team shows up.

Troy: So I was like, "We need to get this done now, before they start."

"Was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan."

It's difficult to recite a speech when you got multiple people reciting speeches.

I mean, especially when you're trying to memorize it.

I'm trying to memorize every little word, and I have another speech going off in my right ear-- it was a little difficult for sure.

Nicole: Hustle, babe, hustle.

Troy: I got it.

Hey, Black Team, what's up?

Johnathon: Hey, how are you?

It's great competing side-by-side with my cousin Troy again, but it's a little challenging memorizing these speeches while they're trying to do the same.

So I told Rebecca, let's just run up real quick and do mine, and then I can help you study yours, so we can get this done quickly.

Rebecca: Go ahead, Ronald.

All right.

"There is one sign the Soviets can make "that would be unmistakable.

"That would advance dramatically the cause of freedom, and peace."

I can memorize really well, so I closed my eyes 'cause it's the easiest way for me to memorize things.

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!

Mr. Gorbechev, tear down this wall!"

Rebecca: Yes.

Okay.

Johnathon: And I say it first time out the gate.

Rebecca: I wasn't shocked that he was right the first time out the gate.

I was impressed, but I was terrified for mine.

"Finally, whether we... No, "whether who."

Rebecca: As I'm working on my lines, Blue Team shows up.

Michael: Oh, ho, ho, ho.

Dylan: Difficult.

Rebecca: But now we've got all three teams trying to memorize lines, and everyone's trying to jabbering at everybody else, and I just, I have to shut it out.

[all speaking] Michael: With Red and Black already here, we're stuck with difficult.

We don't stand a chance on this one.

"Ask not what America will do for you, but what, together, we can do for the freedom of man."

Troy: And, and, at the solicitation... Rebecca: So now I'm struggling big time, and I don't know if I'm going to be able to get these last few lines.

"The United States of America..." "Ask what you can do for your country."

"A date"-- I'm sorry, I got this going on right now.

Nicole: I know.

Rebecca: "My fellow citizens..." Troy: I can't do this.

With Rebecca speaking right next to me, and Dylan rehearsing right behind me, aagh!

So frustrating.

[all speaking] Rebecca: "Citizens of America, or citizens of the world."

Nicole: Babe, go study.

Rebecca: Ask of us, that we ask of you... Nope, I gotta redo it.

Johnathon: All right, let's take a second.

Rebecca: I forget the last line.

I could not remember it.

That's not going to stay.

"The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity..." The most difficult part of this challenge was, I mean, remembering it, remembering stuff, we're not good at remembering long words, sentences.

Michael: No, we take notes.

Dylan: We take notes.

"The name of American, which belongs to you, "in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism."

Oh, great.

Oh, no.

Um.

That's all I know.

Why did you people elect me?

If I had a day to remember it, I'd be able to do it.

We don't have that.

I couldn't do it.

"The same high standards of strength and sacrifice, which we ask of you here."

Johnathon: Done.

Done.

Okay.

Johnathon: It was like the third time you finally got it.

Rebecca: Third time I finally got it.

We, uh, threw off the costumes, and grab our bag of...

Both: Coins.

See you guys later!

Good luck!

Seeing Team Red, they seemed to really be struggling with this challenge, and the Blue Team?

This one may be really hard for them, especially because we chose easy, Red Team chose moderate, and so they got the hard speeches.

So they may have a real difficult time with this challenge.

"I don't know whether you understand..." Troy: No.

Friends, I ask that you be as quiet as possible-- No.

"Friends, I ask--" No.

"Friends, I ask that--" No.

"Friends..." Okay, I'm done.

No.

Done, done with this one.

Troy: Moving on.

Let's go.

We just missed out on seven coins.

Felt like I should have nailed mine a lot sooner and she would have had more time, but we switched mid-stream to let her try hers, and that didn't work.

We're running out of time, so we just gave up.

We're just going to have to make up those seven coins with coin stops.

We just can't take any more zeros.

[sighs] "The world will not long remember what we say here--" Dylan: Nope.

Michael: Because I can't remember any lines whatsoever.

There we go.

I have no clue, son.

I got nothin'.

Dylan: Dude, I don't blame you.

I can't memorize anything.

Dylan: I don't know either, man.

Michael: We're leaving.

We're leaving.

Oh, we're not wasting any more time here, 'cause this isn't gonna happen.

We could have 45 years I still wouldn't get it.

So we decided to leave and take no coins.

It is what it is.

Dylan: It is what it is, we can't do anything about it.

Dan: Teams Blue and Red have both quit the "Speech, Speech" challenge, forfeiting their coins.

And with only 40 minutes left in the day, teams are now on their final dash to the finish line, grabbing as many coins as they can along the way.

'Cause we're gonna catch the light going this way.

It's time to kick it into gear.

We need to grab as many coins as possible on the way back to Dan.

Right here.

Got it.

Troy: It's the end of the longest shadow in D.C. right here.

We have minutes to finish.

We are on the complete opposite end as far as you can be, the boundary.

Nicole: Come on, we gotta make our way back, let's go.

Troy: We gotta make our way back.

Michael: The father of the navy.

Dylan: We came to this strategy, seeing, that looks like something important.

Ddoes it match a riddle?

Do it, great, move on.

Both: John Paul Jones.

John Paul Jones.

Here's another one.

Okay, let's go.

Michael: Bag it.

Bag it, go, go, go.

Tell you what, I think we're going to need a bigger bag here in a minute.

Rebecca: At this point in the game, we lost count of how many coins we had in our bag.

Right here.

Rebecca: Go.

Troy: I actually don't even know how many coins we got.

I lost count.

That's how fast we were getting them, left and right.

Put it in, put it in.

All right.

All right, got another one, babe.

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Get it, get it, get it, get it.

Yes!

Come on.

The lighthouse and the capitol.

Rebecca: And I look up, and there's Team Blue passing by us.

Hey, guys!

With teams running around all over, we have no idea where anybody stands right now.

Johnathon: It's right here, right here, right here.

Got it, got it, got it, let's go.

"This tribute to John Ericsson has three figures."

"He's the only president to go into battle while serving as president."

Washington, Washington Monument.

Dylan: It is.

All right.

Man over radio: We've got a visual on Team Blue, over.

Not gonna make it back.

Come on, babe, let's go!

We're gonna lose coins!

Dan: Team Black stopped for another coin?

I hope they make it.

Dan: The final minutes of the final day are quickly wrapping up.

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

Rebecca: Okay, go run in front, go run in front.

Dan: And with $50,000 on the line-- Dylan: Eeh, come on, old man.

Michael: I can't move my legs.

Dylan: Come on.

Dan: --teams are fighting for every possible coin.

Nicole: We only had minutes left to get back.

Troy: And I look at her and I go, I think we can get one more.

This is on our way back, we're okay.

Where, babe?

It's up here, it's up here.

Come on.

Okay, come on.

Michael: I just wanted to make sure we got back before the time was over with.

Dylan: Where's Dan?

There's Dan.

I see him.

I think we can do one more.

Are you okay with that?

As long as it's close.

Do you got it?

We barely got enough time to get back, but John thinks if we hustle, we can pick up one more coin.

Yup, okay, I think we got enough time.

Troy: Right here, babe, let's go.

Let's go.

All right, the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, let's go.

Home stretch, baby, let's go.

Here comes our first team.

John: It says sacrifice right there.

So here it is, valor.

Let's get back to Dan for real this time.

We're running out of time.

We got the coin, but then I tripped, bad.

Ow, my ankle.

John, wait!

Dan: As injury slows down Team Black, Team Blue is speeding up toward the finish line.

Team Blue's coming in.

Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come on, come on, Dylan, you can do it.

Okay.

Guys, guys, guys.

Aah, I pulled that.

Yeah, that's pulled.

That is pulled, everything.

Oh, my knees.

Dylan: We reached the finish line, and we're exhausted, we're tired-- Hurt.

--hurting.

Pulled my shoulder, pulled my leg.

I can't do that again.

Everything is pulled.

You guys okay?

Yeah.

Okay, I can tell you this: You came in under three hours, so you won't be losing any coins.

You're the first team in.

Congratulations, guys.

You came in under three hours, okay?

Team Blue has crossed the finish line with only minutes to spare.

However, their competition is still fighting the clock.

Let's go.

That's all we got left.

Troy: We can see the finish.

Nicole: But we are right on the edge of three hours.

So we're literally booking it.

I can see it, home stretch, we gotta find Dan.

Rebecca: Ouch, ouch, ooh, ouch.

Johnathon: Are you all right?

If you need to walk, walk.

Don't push yourself so you can't walk.

Rebecca: Good, because walking's starting to get painful.

Johnathon: Yeah, yeah, we're good.

We'll just walk.

I know Rebecca's hurting, but, I'm trying to push her as much as she'll allow, because I know every minute over is a coin lost.

Let's go.

Ready?

Can you run, or are we done?

I'm done.

Okay.

Dan: Standby, guys, for Team Red.

Come on, baby, let's finish togethe.

Let's finish this together, baby.

Come on, come on.

Let's finish together.

Done!

[panting] Johnathon: So I can carry you, but it's gonna-- No.

--be a lot harder.

I can do it.

Okay.

Rebecca: We finally spot Dan, and the other teams are already there.

I'm pretty sure we're over on our time.

John: I see Dan.

You ready?

Rebecca: You see him?

John: Yup, I see him right at the corner there.

You ready?

Rebecca: Yup.

John: Okay.

Rebecca: But I've gotta push it as much as I can, because if pushing it to the finish line saves us from losing even one coin, it's worth it.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, and you guys are in.

Okay, your clock is stopped.

Dan: Hold it, are you okay?

The medic wraps my ankle, and puts ice on it and asks me if I want to go to the hospital, but I'm not quitting.

I'm gonna tough it out.

All right, let's go.

Dan: Welcome back, Teams.

You've made it.

And by the sound of your coin bags, you've had a pretty successful day.

Team Red, how do you think you did?

Troy: We struggled in the middle, but, uh, we caught a second wind, and I think we really made a strong finish there.

I feel really good.

It's gonna be close.

Dan: Team Blue, what was your greatest challenge?

Michael: The speech.

Dylan: Yeah, the speech.

The speech.

Yup.

Dan: Team Black, did you have a strategy?

Do you think it paid off?

Johnathon: Uh, we took the challenge that was the furthest away and hit that first, and then worked our way back.

I think overall, it really helped us.

Dan: Well, I can tell you this, all three of you came under the three-hour limit.

Rebecca: Honestly, all I could think about, is I am so relieved that we came in under time and didn't lose any coins.

Dan: Now all that matters is how many coins do you have in the bag?

Three hours ago, each of you left these steps with a single goal in mind: to return with more coins than your competition.

And after fighting through mental challenges, historical riddles, and an exhausting treasure hunt all along the Washington Mall, we're about to find out which team has earned the most amount of coins.

Troy: It all comes down to what we have in our bag.

As soon as Dan counts it out, we'll know if our effort was good enough.

And now it's time to make the final count.

Please bring your coin bags and place them on the table.

Michael: So we're all back, and Dan asked us to bring our coins forward, and we didn't know what was going to happen.

John: And then I heard Nicole put hers down.

There was a nice little thud, and I got a little stressed out.

Nicole: Then, Dan begins counting our coins.

[dramatic music] [coins clinking] John: So Dan starts counting out the coins, and he's doing a couple at a time, and he's real low in the bucket, so we really can't tell how many there are.

Michael: And, uh, this was it.

I guess you could say we let the coins fell where they may.

[dramatic music] Dan: Well, teams, after counting all of your coins, I now know the results.

And before continuing, we need to reveal our final strike, and dismiss the team who indeed gathered the fewest amount of coins.

Team Blue, you totaled 22 coins, and unfortunately, that wasn't enough.

The end of "Relative Race" has come for you.

We hope you enjoyed the journey, and you know you now have family forever.

Please say your goodbyes.

Well, it was just the end of the journey.

But, uh, we know we tried our best.

And, uh, we didn't win, but, I started this race with no puzzle pieces.

And I've got so many now.

I got so many answers to questions I've had since I was a kid.

Troy: Blue's out.

So that means there's a 50-50 chance.

between us and Team Black.

Dan: Team Red and Team Black, both of you have fought hard on this final day.

In front of us now is a scale that will help us show which team came out on top, and which team will be heading home empty-handed.

[coins rustling] Rebecca: Now Dan starts putting our coins on this old-timey scale.

I was so nervous.

And your heart goes thump, thump, with every clink.

Dan: Team Black, you pushed through injury.

Team Red, you were faced with one mandatory challenge where you were forced into the most difficult challenge.

The scale is swaying back and forth, so I just keep praying that it tips in our favor.

Dan: But despite the trials of the day, you have both endured to the end, and are the final two teams of Relative Race.

Troy: Your coins are heavier.

Troy and Nicole, Team Red, these are your final coins.

Troy: He drops the last of our coins on the scale, and it looks like we're winning, but he still has coins from Team Black.

You have 33 total coins.

John: And he announces that Team Red has 33 coins.

Rebecca: I kept thinking, "This is it.

"He's going for dramatic effect, and we just lost. "

Dan: Rebecca and Johnathon, Team Black, these are your final coins.

You had 36 total coins.

Which means you have found family, you have overcome challenges, and you are the winners of "Relative Race."

Rebecca: Thank you.

Johnathon: We won.

There's not even words to describe the excitement that we're feeling at this point.

Cousin.

Great race, cuz.

Rebecca: You gave us a run for it.

If it wasn't us, Black Team was who I wanted to win anyway.

They deserve it, and I'm happy for them.

My new cousin, uh, got to compete against him, see what he's made of, and he came out on top.

Go get your check.

Rebecca: We came on to "Relative Race" to find my family.

I met everybody that I could have possibly imagined meeting, and that my heart could ever desire.

Well, I think these last 11 days will definitely be something that we carry with us forever.

Definitely life-changing, that's for sure.

Troy: I think it's just the start of the journey.

We really just got introduced to our family, and I think the real memories begin after this now.

Rebecca: To all my family, who's loved me, thank you.

And thank you for being willing to meet us on this journey.

It has been a blessing that I can't even describe.

Thank you.

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♪ ♪ I need you here, give me your hand ♪ ♪ We've got to fill in this space.

♪ ♪ I want to get face to face.

♪ ♪ Face to face.

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