Amazon — Season 1, Episode 13: The Devil's Army
Drama • 44 min • 1 season, 22 episodes • ★ 7.9/10
Episode synopsis
While searching for a lost pig on the other side of the river, Jimmy and Erra the dungman are attacked by ants and they barely save themselves running back to the river. They tell the Elders about it, but Balaam does not seem to take Erra's warnings serioulsy. Later, Jimmy learns that Erra is Balaam's father. Many years ago he was the village's sentinel, but one night he fell sleep and the savages attacked, killing some of the Chosen. After checking the ants by himself, Andrew, who knows a thing or two about them, tells the elders that the village is in danger. Cole agrees to give him some men to clear the river so the ants can not make it to the other side, but they make it anyway using a dead crocodile as a bridge. The Chosen leave their village and go to live with the excluded. Hekka and Adam go to Prudence's cabin and we learn that the two women are sisters.
About Amazon
Amazon was a syndicated television show created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production companies Alliance Atlantis Communications & WIC Entertainment and German company Beta Film GmbH. The 22 episodes of the series were in first-run syndication between 1999 and 2000. The drama series focused on the six survivors of a crashed airline flight in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. The group soon comes into contact with a Native American tribe, and relations are anything but friendly. The group is taken in by a mysterious tribe, who descended from 16th century British colonists who were lost in Amazon. Relations with the Chosen are tenuous at best. Most of the group escapes the Chosen only to stir up a hornets nest with a tribe of cannibals, led by an insane American woman bent on domination of all the local tribes. The first season ended in a cliff-hanger, and a second season was never produced. The series retained sufficient interest that it was released on DVD in 2011. A novelization of the 2-hour pilot was written by Rob MacGregor, and a mass-market paperback was released by Harper on 8 Aug 2000. The German title was Amazonas - Gefangene des Dschungels.