Relative Race

[epic boom] Dan: Nine days ago, four teams set out on the biggest journey of their lives: to find new family.

- Woo-hoo!

Dan: With so much on the line, the tensions ran high.

[thwack] Callie: Exit 211 why is everything closed?

Ugh.

I'm so irritated.

- The entire interstate is closed... like, for hours!

Dan: And by the end of Day 4, both Team Black and Team Green had two strikes each.

Dan: You've picked up your second strike on Relative Race.

With the danger of being sent home early constantly on their minds, Team Black and Green doubled their efforts throughout the race and made it to Day 9.

- Game face on.

Dan: But on Day 7 after a devastating injury... Mitchell: [grunting] We are too close.

Dan: Team Blue got three strikes in a row and lost their chance to compete for the $50,000 grand prize.

Trinesha and Mitchell, it's gonna be sad to see you go.

But Teams Red, Black, and Green, get packed and we will see you in Chicago.

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

Following their own DNA, four teams are racing-- Geselle: Wooo!

[honk honk] Callie: Are you kidding me?

Dan: to win $50,000 Mitchell: Go, go, go, go, go.

Dan: and to find their family.

[knocking] Singer: Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh-oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh-oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh-oh Dan: Hey guys, you good?

Good?

Good to see you, Patrick.

Hey, we're here just outside of Chicago.

This is the final day of Season 12 of Relative Race.

As you can see, crews are arriving.

So are our teams.

It takes about six months from the time we're finished filming the show until everyone starts watching, and that includes the teams themselves.

So instead of waiting six months for the most important scenes for them to see, we decided to round up the teams and give them a special surprise that they won't be expecting.

This is a start to Day 10 unlike any other.

Okay guys, follow me, all right?

I know you're tired and I know we got a big, big day ahead of us, the final day.

But there's somethin' I feel we gotta do.

[teams chatting] Grab some seats.

Callie: Okay.

Geselle: Okay.

Callie: Dan takes us into a ballroom in the hotel and we see that there is a line of chairs for us to sit down in front of a screen.

So we know we're being shown something, but we're not sure what exactly.

Dan: Well...

I bet you you're kinda wondering what, what are we doin' here, now?

- Just a little bit.

Dan: Well we started this journey in a manner that we had never done before and we're gonna end this journey in a manner we have never done before.

You get to see yourselves and perhaps more importantly, the other teams in a few of their moments and yours when you first met family.

Would you like that?

All: Yes.

Andy: Let's do that.

Dan: Except there were four teams that started this journey, right?

Patrick: Mhm.

- All of the teams started this journey as a family and seeing Trinesha and Mitchell's chair not being sat in really felt like a reunion where the people you love the most just didn't show up.

- So it feels incomplete without Mitchell and Trinesha.

- Hey, why don't you go ahead and bring 'em in?

All: [cheering] Mitchell: How y'all been?

All: [greetings and laughter] Trinesha: [crying] Lizzy: We've been on this journey with them kind of, but we've been apart from them this whole time but we've missed them so much.

Taquida: It has been an amazing moment.

We've it's like we've been waiting for it for our whole life since we've been separated from them.

Even though we know it's a race, we know it's a competition, but it was still something missing.

And just seeing them just completed the entire day.

- When I came in, I just started jumping up and down, hugging, hugging all of them, they're all they're hugging us.

Tears, everybody, a-again.

- Right.

Boohooing, boohooing.

- Of course.

We were just a crying crew.

- It was like we were, we were all family, like we were all related and we all were just seeing each other again after years of being away from each other.

- So happy.

Mitchell: Ugh.

[exhales] Dan: Oh, the anticipation.

That was really a beautiful moment.

That was cool.

- I love these people.

- Yes.

Oh, they are just great people, every last one of 'em.

Dan: Normally takes us about six months to edit everything, right?

Lizzy: Right.

Dan: Six months before you get to see yourselves, before you get to see what it's like to knock on those doors and your reactions, to relive that.

Well we've been sending footage back to our offices and our editors have been working overtime, so you're not gonna have to wait six months.

And now that we are all here, let's roll it.

Callie: [exhales] - You ready?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- Hi.

Geselle and Taquida: Hi!

Aura: I'm your first cousin on your father's side.

Geselle: Wow.

Nice to meet you.

Aura: Nice to meet you.

Geselle: This is like me at a younger age.

It just it was joyful uh, to be able to experience that moment with her and just to be able to see that not only is-- um, there's someone standing in front of me that has similarities, but this person has blood that runs through them that, you know, that runs through my veins.

So I was just really just excited for that moment.

Trinesha: Oh my goodness!

I'm so excited to meet you.

Yvonne: I'm excited to meet you all too.

Trinesha: Talking to my aunt, I immediately felt welcomed.

I felt comforted.

I felt like I was wanted and I didn't grow up with that comfort from my biological side and that-that's just one of the things that I had always pushed back and so nothing could've set me up for, [laughing] for the way that I felt.

Pete: I am your uncle Pete.

Patrick: Hey.

Pete: [chuckles] - I'm Angalynne and I'm your sister.

[giggles] - My sister?

Oh my.

Doug: And we're cousins.

Callie: Oh my.

Doug: Come here.

I wanna hug you.

Been lookin' forward to this.

Callie: [crying] Someone came.

Someone showed up and um, it's something I'm gonna remember for the rest of my life.

- When you mentioned your mom.

Does that mean that she, she passed?

- Yes, she did.

She did pass.

Geselle: When she used the word "was" referring to my sister, my heart sunk because it was just like another sibling, you know, uh, not being able to meet them and not being able to connect with them.

But I believe that I have that in her.

- I'm your sister on your dad's side.

Taquida: [whispering] Oh!

Laticha: I love you.

Stephanie: I am your sister Patrick and Stephanie: Stephanie.

Patrick: Yes!

Callie: [sobbing] I was watching my brother find, find his sister, you know?

And find where he always belonged but, you know, it's, it's just I'm so happy for you.

- I am your sister, Stephanie.

- Whoa!

Come here!

- [laughing] Andy: Oh, it's so good to meet you!

Stephanie Wade: Nice to meet you too.

Andy: This has really been one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

I can't think of anything that's been more life-affirming or changing for me.

- I hug you baby girl.

That's my daughter that I don't know, but I'm gonna get to know.

Patrick: They do want me to be a part of their life and I've just gotten another family.

It's amazing, it's overwhelming, it's everything.

Callie: From Day 1 to Day 10, it was like watching my brother go from black and white to color again and I think we all got Pat back and it was an honor and a privilege to be a part of this with him.

- Yes!

- Yeah, we know it, I'm your dad.

- Are you sure?

I can't I can't quite see it.

Yeah.

Callie: [laughing] Patrick: Meeting my dad today, uh, means so much to me.

He didn't even know about me for 45 years and then as soon as he finds out, he just opens his arms and welcomes me in and my sister and it's just been an amazing experience and I am so grateful for it.

Geselle: This journey for me taught me that family is everything.

It taught me to value relationships.

And it also taught me to value my relationship most importantly with God.

Dykema: This is just like a burden lifted off my shoulders.

This is the best day of my life.

That's my brother.

That's my baby brother.

Mitchell: I immediately scooped her up in my arms.

I didn't wanna let her go.

I was so scared that she would just turn into mist and just disappear.

- Hiii.

Mitchell: Hey!

What are you doing?

Dykema: You're my sister.

Both: [screaming] Trinesha: I'm grateful and thankful that I got to just see them today.

I'm happy.

John: I am your dad.

Andy: You are in fact.

John: Yes.

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

Oh, wow.

John: Yeah.

Andy: My dad.

John: Look at you.

Andy: Good to meet you.

- It's good to meet you.

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

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

Hm.

Callie: Mmm.

All: [clapping] Dan: The journey's real.

Trinesha: Yes it is.

Dan: But did you ever think that you were gonna look so good on camera?

All: [laugh] Mitchell: That came out way better than I thought it would.

All: [laughing] - It came out way better.

- I think you all feel that you are family and you are by this unique experience.

So few have been chosen to discover so much.

Taquida: Mhm.

- I am grateful that you trusted us on this journey.

- We're all on the same level of just admiration and just respect for each other and you, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't write that, you can't pay for that.

And I think no matter what, even long after the show is over, we're gonna be visiting them, they're gonna be visiting us and it's just we're family on and offscreen.

Dan: Not a bad surprise.

Callie: No.

All: No.

Dan: But I think the best surprise of all was when you saw Team Blue come through the door.

All: [overlapping agreement] Taquida: Yes, yes, yes.

- Another good day on Relative Race.

Speaking of good days, there's a big one tomorrow and it's gonna take a lot.

So Teams Red, Green, and Black, it's time to get to bed-- Callie: Yes.

Dan: 'cause you gotta rise early and get ready for a day unlike any other day on this race so far.

- It was an amazing start to Day 10, but now we gotta switch gears and get ready for what's to come on tomorrow.

- Yeah.

And if it's like any other Day 10, we know it's gonna be tough, but it's game time.

- Dan doesn't tell us much about what we have in store for tomorrow, but I am excited.

- Yeah, it's time to get some rest though and get ready to kick some butt tomorrow.

Patrick: Mhm.

- Still love my teams though.

Dan: Good mornin' teams and welcome to The Forge Adventure Park just outside of Chicago.

It is here that our next Relative Race champion will be crowned.

And don't forget, with that title comes the check for $50,000.

Teams: [cheering] Andy: Yes!

Dan: This park is loaded with plenty of fun and unique challenges that you'll need to overcome.

This is going to test your physical as well as your mental abilities.

Over the course of the day, you'll be collecting points based on how well you perform in each of these three challenges.

At the end of the day, we'll tally up those points to see who our winner is.

Make sense?

Teams: [overlapping agreement] Dan: Are you ready for this?

Teams: Yes!

Dan: That's really good, because your first challenge is right behind you.

Remember when we started this journey, I told you to appreciate the journeys that you were about to embark on but to also pay close attention to the journeys of the other teams.

One team here is also gonna walk away with $50,000 and here is one final piece of advice, make sure and pay close attention to each of your competitor's journeys each and every day.

It will matter.

Remember that?

Teams: Mhm.

Dan: Good, because in this challenge, we're gonna find out who was paying attention and who wasn't as you get ready to embark on our first challenge of the day, Hexagon Highwire.

For Hexagon Highwire, the teams will tackle a suspended ropes course.

The course has three levels with platforms between each obstacle.

On each platform are questions about the teams and their journeys this season.

To reach their platforms, teams much cross obstacle areas one at a time and only one team can be on a platform at a time.

Questions on level one, the lowest, are easy and worth fewer points.

Levels two and three have increasingly harder questions but are worth more points.

And the first team to auto belay down from the top level receives a five-point bonus.

There are 30 minutes to accumulate all the points and we will let the teams know the value that they scored at the end of the day.

Team Green!

Team Black!

Team Red!

Are you ready?

Callie: We're ready!

- Yes!

Dan: Good!

Because Hexagon Highwire starts... [airhorn blast] Now!

Callie: Fuzzy Dice, final answer.

Correct.

[whistle] These questions are multiple choice and when you get the answer correctly, you have to blow a whistle.

Andy: Final answer Lizzy.

Lizzy: Rip it, rip it, rip it.

[ding] [whistle] Okay, let's go.

Andy: I think we're absolutely gonna crush this one.

Neither of us are afraid of heights and Lizzy has been a rockstar and has been taking notes on everything day and night.

- I think it's gonna pay off.

Taquida: Season 12... Geselle: That's us.

Taquida: Team Green.

Team Green final answer.

[Velcro ripping] Geselle: Yeah!

[whistle] - Way to go!

Nice job Taquida!

Let's go Geselle, you got this!

Geselle: Part of the challenge where we had to memorize the other team's information, uh, we were definitely confident about that.

But, it's just the heights.

Lizzy: We're not scared of heights and we're pretty confident with the trivia but we definitely know we're not as athletic as Black Team.

Callie: [grunts] Dan: Callie you're movin' like a mountain goat!

Callie: Here.

Um.

Patrick: Challeng-ing.

- Challeng-ing, final answer.

Got it.

[ding] [whistle] We knocked that one out right away um, and we have a very clear path to get to the second level.

Patrick: Which was our plan.

- I'm on the platform.

Taquida: All right.

I'm comin'.

I'm afraid of heights, so I'm goin' to have to keep my mind focused and remember slow and steady so that way I can kinda trick my mind a little bit to not think about what's below me.

[tense music] Lizzy: [grunts] Okay, wait, wait.

Andy: How we doing?

Lizzy: Okay I can't get I can't step on the platform.

Andy: I know.

Patrick: You guys gotta wait.

Callie: As I'm trying to get up to that second level, all of the sudden I hear that Green Team's trying to get over to the platform that Pat is standing on and this one over here is like, [sing-song] sorry, can't come over.

Patrick: You shall not pass!

Callie: You shall not pass!

At least we're a roadblock and we could stop 'em dead in their tracks and then again, higher ground.

Lizzy: Are you sure we don't wanna go across over there 'cause it's gonna be awhile 'til they get up and across.

- Okay.

You're right.

Good point.

Lizzy: We originally were planning to try to get up to um, the second level as quickly as possible and we realize that it's gonna take them awhile to get up.

We're thinking we could answer a lotta questions on level one while they go up.

Lizzy: Go, go to Day 5.

Andy: Got it here.

Picture Plank.

Lizzy: Picture Plank.

Final, final answer, Picture Plank.

[ding] Blow it.

Andy: Yep.

Lizzy: Blow it loud.

[whistle] Note-taking for nine days straight just paid off.

Andy: You're almost there.

Dan: You are 20 minutes in teams!

10 more minutes to go!

Taquida: It says... Do you remember that?

What you thinkin'?

What do you wanna go with?

Sheer Slump?

Geselle: Yep.

Whatever one you pick.

Taquida: Sheer Slump, final answer.

Geselle: Okay.

[buzzer] Taquida: Sophomore Slump.

Okay, we gotta go to the next.

It definitely feels frustrating to get the question wrong, um, because for one, we know that we're afraid of heights so we're every question that we get to has to be answered correctly for us to get the points because we don't know how much longer we can go.

Callie: Careful yep.

Patrick: Go.

Callie: 'Kay.

It was a mess, final answer.

[ding] [whistle] Dan: I heard that Team Black!

Nice job!

Callie: We climbed straight up to the third level and the first question is a question about Team Black.

Now this would have been a difficult question for anyone else, but hey, we're Team Black.

Taquida: Okay.

"On Day 2 challenge, what was the word you needed to spell?"

Genetics.

Callie: "Who was Trinesha on Team Blue raised by as a child?"

[whistle] O'Leary, final answer.

[buzzer] Andy: Mystery Prize, final answer.

Lizzy: Final answer Mystery Prize.

[buzzer] Callie: Yep, let's go.

Patrick: Go to the thing.

Callie: Let's go.

We don't know how much time we have left but we decide that we're gonna go for the repel down.

Patrick: Gotta go for the gusto.

Lizzy: Um it's, it's New Orleans.

Andy: 'Kay.

New final answer, New Orleans.

[ding] Lizzy: Blow it.

[whistle] - Team Green picks up more points.

60 seconds!

Patrick: Go, go, go, go, go!

Callie: I'm going.

Patrick: We're almost running out of time.

We've got 60 seconds left and we both need to auto belay down to get the five extra bonus points.

Man 1: Pull up, up, up, up.

Callie: Pull up?

Man 1: Big step out.

Callie: Uh.

Dan: Here comes Callie!

She has jumped off the platform, lowering herself down to the ground!

Callie is on the ground!

I make it down very slowly and now Pat has to make the jump and make it all the way to the ground, otherwise we won't get any of the bonus points.

Dan: 10 seconds remaining teams!

10, 9, 8, 7 Patrick: Woo!

Dan: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!

And just like that, Team Black literally lands on the ground with no time left!

Teams, come back down.

We'll tally up your points as you get ready for your next challenge.

Well done teams, well done!

Congratulations, you finished the first challenge.

Team Green, how do you think you did?

- I think we did pretty well.

We uh, did pretty well on the uh, second level and uh, we'll see how it turns out.

Patrick: I think we did pretty good.

Callie: I think it went well.

- Yeah.

- I think we did good.

We played with heart.

Dan: Well, we have tallied up the points and you'll find out how well you did at the end of the day.

All right?

And in this next challenge, you will need to work together as a team to solve a big puzzle.

Sound good?

- Sounds great.

Dan: Get ready for our second challenge of the day, this is the Keys to the Puzzle.

[climactic music] Keys to the Puzzle is a multistage challenge.

One teammate will zipline to the other from a tower.

The zipliner, while in the air, will drop a tetherball with their key attached to it.

Once the zipliner is unhooked, they must then both change into lifejackets and board paddleboats.

From there, they try to find and retrieve their own key.

The key unlocks a case floating in the lake that contains half of the pieces to a puzzle.

Once they have the case, they must take it to the puzzle board and that's where they'll find a second case which has the rest of the pieces to the puzzle.

This time, the key to that case is one of 25 keys clipped to a giant jungle gym made of netting.

Teams must work together to collect all of the keys.

Once collected, they can try them one at a time to open the case.

First team to complete their puzzle wins the challenge.

First place is worth 20 points, second is 10, and third place picks up 5 points.

Zipliners, off you go.

Taquida: Dan said someone has to zipline so my partner decided to do the zipline even though she's just as scared as I am.

Geselle: As I'm climbing up the tower, I feel a little bit nervous.

I start grabbin' onto the rope and holdin' on as tight as possible.

Andy: Climbing up the tower is not for the faint of heart.

I'm starting to regret having volunteered to do the zipline.

Callie: I did not realize how high this tower actually was.

This is definitely the craziest zipline I've ever been on.

Dan: Your second challenge starts in three, two, one, let 'em rip!

Here comes our first one, here comes the second one, they're comin' down.

Callie: I know that we're headed into a headwind so I kinda tuck my legs and cannonball in to get down as fast as possible.

Taquida: Let's go, Team Red!

Patrick: Let's go!

Come on, Callie!

Dan: Team Green in the early lead, Team Black trying to catch up and Team Red is a little behind right now.

Geselle: Don't look down.

Dan: But they can make up time once they hit their docking area.

- I'd never been on a zipline before and I'm terrified of heights, so jumpin' off the platform, it took me a minute.

[groans] Andy: We're zipping through the air, just uh, hoping that you get your timing right on throwing the buoy.

Dan: Team Green and Team Black have released their tethered balloon.

Here comes Team Red.

Geselle: I actually turned the wrong way.

The wind started knocking me.

And I'm trying to maneuver with one hand and get this buoy into the right position.

Dan: Where will she let go of her balloon?

It's a little further out.

Geselle: I wasn't too happy with the throw.

I think I could've thrown it a little bit more if I wouldn't had the buoy wrapped around my hand.

Andy: Once I get off the zipline, I hurry over to Lizzy as quickly as possible to get my lifejacket on so we can get over to the paddleboats and get started on the next part.

Patrick: All right.

Let's go!

Andy: 'Kay, go.

Dan: That's all right, that's all right.

That's it.

Go, go, go!

Leave the helmet!

Andy: By the time we got to the paddleboat, the balls had already floated all the way to the back, so all the strategy that I put into placing the ball in the perfect spot didn't really matter anyway.

Patrick: Can I get in?

Callie: Okay.

We get into the paddleboat first.

Patrick: And then it takes a little bit for you to gain some momentum.

And then off you go.

Dan: Team Black's the first one in their paddleboat.

They are in reverse.

Callie: Okay, let's go.

Patrick: And then forward march!

Dan: And they're gonna be on the hunt for their black tethered balloon.

Team Green is pushing off the dock.

Lizzy: You have to paddle with your feet and steer with your hand.

It's a little bit confusing.

Dan: Team Red is in place and they are reversing away from the dock.

Geselle: So steering of the paddleboat was very interesting because one of us had strong legs, which caused the boat to veer off.

- Sorry.

Patrick: Can you get me in there or no?

Callie: No, I got it.

Oh, yeah, you got it?

I got it.

All right.

Dan: Team Black is the first one to pull their tethered ball out of the water.

Lizzy: Team Black got their ball first and we're a little disappointed.

- But we're not that far behind them, so if we really hurry, we can pass them.

Andy: I got it.

Lizzy: You got it?

Andy: Yep.

We're good.

Dan: Team Green has their tethered ball with them.

Now they need to go get their case out of the water.

Dan: You've got this, Team Red!

Callie: [grunts] Key.

Patrick: Right here.

Callie: We start using the key to unlock the case but the water is so cold and the lock is not easy to reach from this angle.

Andy: You got it?

Lizzy: Yep.

Andy: So we finally get this case unlocked and we get it into the boat and we're ready to go.

Dan: Team Black is the first one headed back to the dock.

Taquida: We're tryna get our case and we notice that Black Team has already pretty much got out of the water so it just ha kinda made us kinda pick up the speed just a little bit 'cause we were anxious to go ahead and get done and get off the water.

Dan: Team Green, right behind them.

Callie: We get our case, we're the first ones back to the pier, and we hightail it up to ropes course.

Andy: Uh, we got out of the boat and got onto dry land and started uh, making our way to the obstacle course.

I got it.

Let's go!

Go!

Lizzy: Go, go, go.

Patrick: I'll get up there and start grabbin'.

Callie: Go in here, in here.

Geselle: [grunts] Taquida: Our case was all the way pretty much at like, the left side so getting from the ball to the case, um, took a little bit of time, more than what we expected for it to take.

[click] Callie: There's one right there.

Patrick: Where?

- Right there!

Inside the net there are 25 keys but only 1 key can come out at a time so we have the strategy that Pat is going into the course and he is gonna drop them down to me.

Lizzy: Want me to pass it to you?

Andy: Yeah.

Throw it down.

Lizzy: How?

Andy: Through the net.

Lizzy: Here.

Geselle: [panting] Okay.

As we were runnin' up the hill to, to the maze, we were just a little bit out of breath.

Taquida: We had kind of strategized in the beginning that when we got to the maze, one of us was gonna kinda stay down and throw the keys through, but the other teams were doin' the same thing.

[jingle] Callie: Good.

[jingle] Andy: It's rainin' keys!

Let's do this!

Taquida: Don't worry about it, just drop it.

Got it.

- One more!

Finding the first couple of keys was easy but trying to find this last one's become impossible.

I'm really hoping that we find it quickly because I want to get an early start on this puzzle.

Callie: No, I'll go!

Lizzy: I found it!

Andy: You did?

'Kay, I think that's 25.

Let me grab it real quick.

Lizzy: Count 'em.

I'm coming down.

Dan: Team Green has all 25 of their keys, now it's about which key will open up their lockbox.

Callie: 24.

I've got 24 Pat!

Patrick: I can't find the last one!

Geselle: We're at this point where Team Green is getting ready to unlock their case, we're right at about 21 keys, and we're hopin' it takes them awhile so we can get the rest of these keys.

Callie: Come on!

Andy: I got it!

Got it, got it, got it, got it.

'Kay.

Lizzy: Get it off.

Patrick: Oh!

Found it.

Callie: You found it?

Come on.

Patrick: Yep.

Callie: Drop it!

Drop it!

[jingle] Andy: Right here.

Lizzy: Right there.

Andy: Yep.

Dan: You got this, Team Red!

You got this!

Callie: Come on keys, come on keys, come on keys!

Geselle: [grunting] Taquida: You got it.

You got it.

You got this.

Lizzy: Right there, right there.

Um...

This one there.

Uh, race.

Got it, got it, got it!

Andy: And boom!

Dan: Team Green is done!

Lizzy: Yes!

Dan: Team Green is officially done!

[smooch] Lizzy: I love you-- [smooch] so-- [smooch] much.

Dan: Team Red, you got this still.

Taquida: Seein' the Green Team finish their puzzle was a bit disappointing.

Geselle: But we can't stop because we know there's 10 points for the team that finishes second.

- I was frustrated to see Team Green finish first.

I thought we could catch up.

- Yeah.

But second place is still up for grabs and Team Red is not far behind so we have to stay in game mode.

Geselle: How many we got?

Taquida: You got this one right below you.

Geselle: Where?

Taquida: Right here.

Callie: Got it.

Callie: Switching... Dan: Just two more Team Red, just two more!

Callie: Here.

Patrick: I know.

Somethin's wrong, somethin's wrong.

Help me here.

Callie: Key.

Here.

Patrick: Is this maybe this one's wrong?

Let me get... - Race.

Taquida: Just two more!

Dan: Nice job, Taquida, you guys have been pickin' up a lotta ground.

- Just can't seem to find those last two keys.

Callie: Here.

Patrick: That one.

Lizzy: You got this guys, come on.

Callie: Bam, bam.

Callie and Patrick: Done!

- Team Black!

[ding, ding, ding] You finished in second place, nice job.

Callie: Thank you.

Patrick: Woo!

Dan: Nice job, nice job guys, nice job.

Hey Team Red, Team Red, nice job, nice job.

Taquida: Job?

- Team Black and Team Green have finished so that means that you guys did in fact finish in third place on this challenge but we have one more challenge to go and believe me when I say it is still anybody's game.

Good job.

Andy: After watching Team Black take the first challenge, it felt really good to get a win.

I mean, I think we crushed it.

Uh, but there's still one challenge left, so we have to keep on uh, doing our best and hopefully, uh, take the victory at the end.

- So for this third round, uh, because of being third, we're hoping to go in with clear mind, clear communication, and ace this third challenge.

Dan: All right teams, two challenges down, one more to go.

Before we get to this final challenge, I wanna hear a little bit more about Keys to the Puzzle.

When it came to being out on the water, Team Red, that's where you started to drop a little bit behind.

But I couldn't believe how much ground you made up once you got it into that netting area.

You were finding those red-tagged keys everywhere.

Good job.

In the end, 20 points to Team Green, 10 to Black, Team Red, you tallied up 5 more points.

Now remember, we started with Hexagon Highwire and there were a lot of points that came out of that.

You're gonna find out how many your teams earned at the end of the day.

So that means this final challenge, it could mean everything.

It could mean the difference.

Two challenges down, this final challenge to go.

Welcome to The Gauntlet.

For The Gauntlet, teams will take turns trying to launch balls from 4 different areas at a giant 20-foot square Velcro target.

These four launching stations and a reload station are spread out across the field: a pitching machine, a slingshot, a giant tennis racket, and a bow and arrow with Velcro tips.

The team running The Gauntlet will be wearing protective vests that'll have two giant balloons attached to them while they try and hit their target.

The other two teams will be shooting arrows with sandpaper tips, trying to pop the balloons that are in the gauntlet.

If all four of their balloons get popped, then that team is done.

Balls and arrows that stick to the bullseye are worth five points each while those that stick outside the bullseye area are worth three points each.

Once each team has run two rounds of The Gauntlet, their points will be tallied and added to their overall point total for the day.

This challenge is loaded with points and so if you can aim and launch a ball or serve and volley or bend back a bow with abandon, all while keeping your eye on that very large target, this challenge could be yours and this challenge may make you a champion.

So are you ready for The Gauntlet?

Teams: Yeah!

Dan: Good!

Let's get goin'.

But first, who's gonna go in what order?

Well, we decided to look back on the race.

Who finished with the most first place finishes?

- Ah, we're tied.

Dan: Well that was a tie, Team Black and Team Green.

Lizzy: Nice.

Dan: So... You know what happens when you have ties?

Callie: Ugh.

[laughs] Dan: Yep.

We're gonna flip a coin.

So Team Green, you finished first in the Keys to the Puzzle, so you're gonna call this in the air.

Head or tails?

Andy: Go with tails.

Dan: Heads.

Andy: Agh.

Dan: That means Team Black, you get to choose.

Do you wanna be the first one through The Gauntlet?

Or do you wanna wait and watch?

Do you wanna go first, second, or last?

- We'll go last.

Dan: Last.

Team Green, do you wanna go first or second?

- We'll go number two.

Dan: You'll go number two, which means ladies, you've got this!

Geselle: Great, now we get to go first and be guinea pigs.

I'm not looking forward to these arrows.

[intense music] Dan: Teams, are you ready?

Teams: [cheering] Dan: Oh, this is gonna be good.

The Gauntlet starts in three, two, one, go!

Callie: Go!

[shoomp] [thud] Dan: Oh!

Three points right off the bat!

- It's a little bit tougher to steer the ball launcher with the rope than what we thought it was gonna be um, because of course the wind is blowing and then you're actually controlling the bottom of it instead of the top of it, so it's a little bit harder than what we thought.

On this first round, once we run out of balls we have to go to the next station and we can't skip any.

Callie: Ope!

Patrick: That didn't go well.

Callie: We are no archers.

I barely know how to shoot one of these things.

Patrick: Yeah, I'm just pullin' back and aimin' and hopin' for the best.

[arrow whizzing] Geselle: Oop!

Patrick: Oh sorry!

Lizzy: Sorry!

Patrick: That was Lizzy!

Lizzy: That was me!

Sorry!

- Yeah it's, it's very stressful to have the arrows bein' thrown at you 'cause you don't know if it's gonna hit the balloon or hit you, so you just have to try to dodge if you can or you know, try to get out of the way.

[pop] Teams Black and Green: [cheering] - Andy, nice shot.

Taquida has just lost one of her balloons.

Lizzy: Andy just picks up this bow and arrow and he's just flying these arrows off and he's doing an amazing job.

[pop] And I've never seen him [chuckles] shoot a bow and arrow before.

I don't know where this talent came from.

[thwick] [pop] Dan: Oh!

Who shot that?

Patrick: That would be Callie.

Callie: Me!

That was me!

[thwack] Andy: Sorry ladies.

- Seems like the teams are shooting arrows at us with no problem and I can't even figure out how to shoot one arrow out of this bow.

Taquida: Come on, we sittin' ducks.

[pop] Taquida: It's not work... Geselle: No, you do it.

You do it.

[music crescendos] [pop] Dan: Oh!

That's it!

Ladies!

That's it!

Both balloons are popped.

You have three points in the target area.

Nice job.

- It felt a little frustrating, um, that we were unable to shoot the arrow off, let alone finish the course in the first round.

- The goal to try to get as many points as we can, try to win, it was far away than what we expected but we just, like we always said, we just wanna have fun and we gonna just try our best and, and go as hard as we can.

Dan: Teams, are you ready for round two of The Gauntlet?

Teams: [cheering] Pat: Yeah, let's do it!

Dan: Team Red, you could exact some revenge here.

Team Green, are you ready?

Andy: Let's do it!

Dan: Your run at The Gauntlet starts in three, two, one, go!

Andy: Each station has two balls, so our strategy is to get through the balls as quickly as possible so we can get to the bucket and reload.

[shoomp] Dan: Balls away!

Lizzy: Too far, too far.

Here, here, here.

Dan: Off-target.

[thwick] [pop] Callie: Yes!

Dan: Wow!

Callie: Bam!

Dan: That is one balloon down very quickly.

Callie: Picking to go third was a great idea.

Patrick: Mhm.

Callie: Now I'm just slingin' these arrows like nobody's business.

[shoomp] Dan: Balls away!

[thud] Andy: Nice.

Dan: Oh, it bounces into three point territory.

Lizzy: We got a three-pointer on the board, but we're down a balloon and now we're moving onto what I think looks the hardest.

- Yeah, the two-man slingshot thingy.

Lizzy: There.

Ooh, no.

[thwick] [arrow whizzing] [thwick] Andy: Oh wow.

[pop] Dan: Oh!

Callie: Nice!

Good job, Pat!

- We're down another balloon, but we're moving on to the bows and arrows, which we know we can do.

[thwick] [pop] Callie: Nice, ladies!

- Good job, Geselle.

Dan: One balloon down, only one remaining!

[thwick] [thud] [buzzer] Andy: I shoot one arrow that lands smack dab in the middle of the bullseye and it just hits it and pops off.

Turns out that rather than grabbing the Velcro arrow, I had accidentally reached down and grabbed one of the ones with the sandpaper on it, so of course the shot did not count because it was one of the arrows that the other teams had shot at us and I got confused and thought it was one of ours.

[thud] Andy: Nice.

Dan: Wow!

Nice job!

Lizzy has one in the bullseye.

That's five points.

Lizzy: We finally make it to the gigantic tennis racket and I think this one will be the easiest, but we're closest to the teams now.

[buzzer] Dan: Obviously Andy hasn't played a lot of tennis, at least not with a giant tennis racket.

Lizzy: [grunts] [buzzer] Andy: Now we can run to the ammo bucket and grab as many balls as we can to shoot from any of the stations.

But I think we're going to stay with the giant tennis racket.

Only problem is we only have one balloon left.

[thwick] [thunk] Dan: Agh!

[thud] Andy: Nice.

[ding, ding, ding] Great.

[thwick] [music crescendos] [pop] All: Oh!

Geselle: Yes!

Andy: That was definitely harder than we expected.

Uh, we definitely did not get as many points as we had wanted.

And all we have to do is make sure that Black scores less points than we do.

Dan: Are you ready Team Black?

Callie: We're ready!

Patrick: Woo-hoo!

Dan: It's your turn to run The Gauntlet.

- [clapping] Archers, are you ready?

Teams Green and Red: [cheering] Dan: This round starts in three, two, one, go!

Callie: Go, go ahead.

[thwick] Patrick: I think our strategy in going last is gonna help a ton.

We now know how it all works and how to use the different items.

Callie: Yeah.

[thwick] Patrick: Go, go, go.

Callie: Okay.

[shoomp] Dan: That was one ball away.

[buzzer] Just short of the target.

Patrick: Get in there.

Let me know when you're ready.

Whe you ready?

Callie: Okay, go.

[shoomp] [whooshing] [thud] Callie: Nice!

Dan: Oh that's a bullseye!

[thwick] [pop] Callie: Ohhh.

Patrick: Did that double us?

Geselle: Two for one!

Dan: Two balloons with one shot!

- Oddly enough, I have not shot a bow and arrow since I was in middle school gym class.

Lizzy: And it turns out he's Robin Hood.

Andy: [chuckles] [smooch] Patrick: Hurry up, hurry up, we'll go.

- Here we go, aim!

Patrick: Go, go, go, go!

Just go!

[whooshing] All right, here.

Hold it!

Dan: Oh!

They got one in!

That's three points for Team Black!

[thwick] Callie: [grunting] Oh shoot.

[pop] Patrick: Hold it!

- Yes!

[thwick] [thwick] Callie: Patrick go.

[thwick] [thud] Nice!

Patrick: Go, go, go.

Callie: [groans] We only have a few points up on the board right now so we have to use this racket and get as many as we can.

Oh, we are just too... Patrick: Your go!

Callie: It's on, it's on.

Patrick: Go.

[buzzer] Callie: Oh shoot.

[thwick] [pop] Geselle: Yes!

Dan: It is over for Team Black.

Well done, archers.

Well done, Team Black.

Patrick: I'm glad we got three balls and an arrow up there.

Wasn't as much as we were hoping for, but we'll try our best on the final round.

- Yep.

Dan: Teams!

Are you ready for round two?

Teams: [cheering] Andy: Let's do this!

Dan: Geselle, Taquida, are you ready?

Team Red: Yes!

Dan: Good!

Your second round of The Gauntlet starts in three, two, one, go!

[shoomp] [buzzer] Taquida: That wasn't good.

Come on, let's get some balls.

Geselle: So in this round, we can go to any station we want as many times as we want, so we're stickin' to the ones that we're most comfortable at.

[thwick] [thwick] [pop] Callie: Nice, Andy.

Taquida: Reloadin' the balls is a double-edged sword.

You can get a ton of balls so you can launch as many as you want, but you're also closer to the archers which makes it easier for them to hit the balloons.

[thwick] Geselle: Oh!

Patrick: Sorry!

[shoomp] [whooshing] [thud] Dan: Bam!

They've got one in the bullseye.

Way to go, Team Red!

[shoomp] Bam, they got another one.

[ding] [ding] [shoomp] [ding] That one's right in the bullseye.

Team Red is roaring back!

Andy: Go Team Red!

Patrick: You guys are rockin' it!

[thwick] [pop] Taquida: [grunts] Geselle: We're two balloons down.

We need to hit this target as many times as we can if we wanna win this thing.

[shoomp] [ding] [thwick] [pop] [shoomp] [ding] [thwick] [climactic music] [pop] Dan: Oh!

That's it.

Team Red, what a roaring way to come back in this second round of competition.

Geselle: We're happy with this final round.

We got many more points on the board.

Hopefully this puts us in the top spot.

Dan: Archers, are you ready?

Teams Black and Red: Yeah!

Dan: Team Green, are you ready?

Andy: Let's do it!

Dan: Your second and final round in The Gauntlet starts now!

Andy: For the second round, we're going straight to the bows and arrows.

We've had a lot of practice with those now and I'm confident that we can score a lot of points.

[thwick] [ding] [thwick] [pop] Dan: And just like that, there's one balloon down.

Andy: While Lizzy is shooting her arrows, I decide that I'm gonna jump around and dance to try and distract the other teams so that she can focus on shooting her arrows.

[ding] Lizzy: I think it worked.

- Oh yeah, it did!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, woo!

[thwick] [pop] [thwick] [ding] [ding] [ding] [ding] [thwick] [pop] - Now I'm gettin' the hang of this bow.

[thwick] [thud] [ding] [thwick] [ding] [thwick] [pop] Andy: It feels like that round went faster but I feel like we scored way more points this round.

Dan: This is the final round of the final challenge on this final day of Relative Race.

It may very well all come down to this.

Team Black, are you ready?

Patrick: Ready!

Callie: We're ready!

- Your final run at The Gauntlet begins in three, two, one, go!

Callie: Go.

Patrick: All right.

So you want me to aim first?

Callie: Yep.

Go.

[pop] Callie: [groans] Patrick: Oh, you popped one!

Right off the bat, one balloon popped, but not by one of the other teams, it was Callie.

Callie: I accidentally leaned over and popped my balloon on the pitching machine and the wheel popped it.

[shoomp] [ding] [shoomp] [ding] [thwick] [pop] Dan: Oh wow.

[shoomp] [ding] [ding] [ding] [ding] Patrick: Hey, let's go try the archer.

Callie: 'Kay go.

Go, go, go, go.

[thwick] [pop] Callie: Oh.

Lizzy: Great.

[thwick] [ding] Dan: Bam!

[thwick] [ding] [ding] [ding] [ding] Bullseye!

[thwick] [pop] Bam!

Guys, nice job!

That is the second and final round.

That means Day 10 challenges are over.

It's time to count the points.

Callie: And that's it!

Day 10 is over.

We have no idea what the points are, but we got a ton up that round and we still have to calculate the points from our first challenge.

Patrick: Mhm.

So right now it's in anyone's hands and we are about to find out.

Today's over and they're tallying up the points and we're Callie: We're exhausted and... Patrick: we're exhausted and we're nervous.

There was so many points and so much on that board, there's just no way to know.

Taquida: Going into the tally, we were just hoping for the best.

Lizzy: It's been a big day and results are in.

I think we did amazing and we killed that second challenge.

Andy: Yeah, but we had some really tough competition so who knows what's happened.

- I think it's gonna be close.

[intense music] Dan: Teams, you did it.

You have survived nine days on the road with just paper maps and your own wits.

You have found family.

You grew that family.

You grew your relationships.

And now, you've survived Day 10, so let's get to it.

We started the day with Hexagon Highwire.

Lizzy: Okay, let's go.

Callie: Fuzzy Dice, final answer.

[whistle] Lizzy: Help me out baby, help me out.

Taquida: "What was the word you needed to spell?"

Genetics.

Callie: Blow the whistle for me.

[whistle] Yep, let's go, let's go.

- We told you that we would give you the point totals at the end of the day and here we are.

You didn't even know how those point totals graduated as you moved up that high-wire act as it were.

Kinda simple.

The ground floor, one point each.

Second floor, two points each.

Third floor, highest level, three points each.

Team Black, you had an interesting strategy, you started at the bottom level but you moved almost immediately to the top level.

Was that a conscious decision or did you just find your way up there as you tried to keep up with the black ninja Callie: [laughs] Dan: your sister?

- Yeah, no, it was our strategy.

Uh, we knew that only one team could be on a platform so we wanted to make sure that we got a different level right away, uh, to make sure that we didn't run into any, you know, stoppage 'cause there was already a team there.

- You were also the only team that got on and landed safely with that auto belay just as time expired.

And so we have the total points.

Team Black, your strategy paid off.

You picked up 49 total points.

Taquida: Oh wow.

Dan: Team Green, you picked up a lot of points too, but more in that medium level.

You picked up 29 total points.

Team Red, you were slow and steady.

You picked up 6 points.

- We're far behind on points, but we're feelin' optimistic.

Dan: And so we headed into Keys to the Puzzle.

Taquida: Let's go Team Red!

Patrick: Let's go!

All right, let's go.

Geselle: [grunts] Andy: I got it, let's go.

[jingling] Let's do this!

Patrick: I can't find the last one!

Callie: Come on!

Andy: I got it!

Callie: Come on keys!

Lizzy: Yes!

Andy and Lizzy: Done!

Dan: You started with a zipline, you headed out on the water, you wound up with netting and a puzzle.

20 points for first place, 10 for second, 5 for third.

Team Green, you picked up those 20 points.

Team Black, you picked up 10 more.

Team Red, you added 5 points to your total.

- We're only 10 points ahead of Team Green right now, so it's really anyone's game.

- Yeah, and we both scored so many points on that last challenge, there's no way to know who's gonna win.

- And so it came down to that third challenge, The Gauntlet.

Callie: Go!

Andy: Nice.

[ding, ding, ding] Teams Green and Red: [cheering] Lizzy: Yes!

[thwick] [pop] Dan: Oh!

- Here we go, aim!

Patrick: Go, go, go, go!

Just go!

Dan: Team Red is roaring back!

[pop] - Yes!

Dan: Team Black and Team Green, only 10 points separates you heading into the third challenge of the day.

But you saw how many points were available, and it really was anybody's game to catch up on.

Team Red, you did an amazing job, especially in round two.

It was like you were never gonna give up and in the end, you picked up 41 points.

Lizzy: Oh nice.

Dan: Your total for the day?

52 points.

- We know that we didn't win, we know we gave it our all, and we were just happy for whoever was gonna win at that time.

Dan: In the end, 33 points separated first and second place.

Team Green, your total for the day was an impressive 115 points.

It all comes down to this.

Team Black, your total was 148 points.

Callie: [sobbing] Team Red: [clapping] Dan: You not only won the day, you won the race.

You have overcome everything to get to this moment.

And so after 10 days of a journey unlike any other, Team Black, you have found your family and you have finished in first place.

You are the new champions of Relative Race and with that, you pick up the check for $50,000.

Callie: [crying] Geselle: Congrats!

Dan: Congratulations once again.

Patrick and Callie, you are the new champions of Relative Race.

Both: We won!

Callie: [laughs] Patrick: I am in shock right now.

Callie: I am too.

I don't a lot has just happened.

Patrick: I mean, we got so much more besides just winning.

We got this new family.

- So at the end of 10 days, I believe that we feel absolutely amazing.

This was an amazing journey and an amazing opportunity to meet amazing people.

Taquida: These are lifelong memories that we're gonna be able to keep and share and remember and talk about.

- The experiences we have had over the last nine days, we've had an entire lifetime of experiences we would've never had and people we would've never met and family that we now know and love that never would've been there if we had not taken part in this.

Dan: Come in here guys!

- [sobbing] Oh my gosh!

- Let's be together because we are one big Relative Race family.

In fact, for the first time, we actually have all four teams here once again.

Team Blue, come on in here.

Let's go!

Callie: Yes Blue!

- This is what Relative Race is all about guys.

Congratulations!

Relative Race on three.

One, two, three... All: Relative Race!

Dan: Yeah-ha-ha!

Congratulations.

Callie: Thank you so much.

Dan: Congratulations.

- Winning $50,000, that's gonna go a long way.

I'm gonna use that for the Isaac Strong Foundation.

We're gonna be developing a home that the kids can go to and get a actual, like a vacation so they can actually go and spend some time with their family outside of their home.

We're close enough to the hospital, they won't have to worry.

I know just to be able to get out of the house, go someplace, have you know, everyone have some fun.

I know how important that is.

All: [cheering]