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Nici brags that she became fluent in Spanish in six months at the Air Force Academy and luckily, she gets a cabbie in Morocco that speaks Spanish. She negotiates a flat rate with the driver and he will let them keep the bags in his trunk while on the tasks.

In the square, it quickly turns into all kinds of madness with the teams scurrying like rats from a cobra. Oh look... actual cobras in the marketplace. If the culture shock hadn't hit them yet, seeing these venomous beasts chilling in the square likely drove the point home.

No one is particularly standing out in the clue finding department this leg, with the sought after garage eluding everyone until almost everyone is there. As they clump together, here's their task: Take a cart, set it up completely before the busy rush hour. The hangup is that there is no clear set of directions but just guidance from the cart owner and locals.

The carts prove to be particularly unwieldy and nearly flatten most teams except the brawny surfer Adam. As the teams start the task, it's time for Chompers to get their Speed Bump. I hope this is actually challenging unlike some of the Speed Bumps in the past.

For their Speed Bump, Misti & Jim must go to a marked location and retrieve eight large rugs and two sticks. Then they have to carry their items to a local hotel to hang them on a line that’s about eight feet off the ground (thus the need for the sticks to reach). It seems pretty straightforward, but there could be some complications depending upon how manageable the hooks and stick are to use.

Immediately, Jim scoops up five of the rugs and the poles and then questions whether his wife can even carry the three remaining rugs. To her credit, she does and just tells him, “I’ve got it.” If he was a little less abrasive in his delivery, then his questioning could be construed as concern but instead it just comes across as doubting. So, any shaken confidence on her part is just amplified by Jim. This conclusion is just as valid when she starts to struggle on the task and he barks, “You get it, you get it… you don’t, I will!”

It’s time for an awkward local interaction and surprisingly not on the part of the teams (aside from all the over-the-top complaints and histrionics about how bad this food smells and looks). The cart that Keith & Whitney are assembling apparently belongs to a Frenchman who has taken a shine to Whitney and has been very generous in his judging of their work. While the others work through their task, Team Survivor is the first ones with clue in hand. They are now heading to Bab Debbagh Tannery on foot but get the heads-up that a U-Turn is ahead. Whitney notes the impending U-Turn and wants to talk shop while they search for the tannery. I can’t believe I am saying this but Keith rightly tells her that they should just focus on getting to the task and not worry about the U-Turn yet.

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