Amazon — Season 1, Episode 15: Escape
Drama • 44 min • 1 season, 22 episodes • ★ 7.9/10
Episode synopsis
Alex, Andrew and Jimmy go to the caves to check some paintings that feature the way out of the Chosen valley. They notice that someone is watching then, but they can't find who. The elders tell Will that they want to start training him to be an elder some day. Will does not like the idea, but the others decide that, since the Chosen may go as far as necessary to get him back, he must stay in the village. Pia decides to stay and so does Karen to look after Will. Andrew goes to say goodbye to Prudence. She warns him that if he leaves the forest, he will suffer leukemia again and eventually he will die. Andrew changes his mind and stays, so Alex tells him to take care of Adam for him. On the night of the escape, Alex and Jimmy are caught in the forest by Balaam and a few of his men. He was the one watching them in the caves, but he does not want to stop them.
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.