Amazon — Season 1, Episode 20: Babel
Drama • 44 min • 1 season, 22 episodes • ★ 7.9/10
Episode synopsis
The savages get rid of Morag's stuff using fire. Not knowing that the boxes contain live ammunition, they throw them into the fire and bullets start to fly about. One of them hits the savage Shaman. They take Morag to their village and Andrew, who has decided to return to the Chosen, goes with them. Back at the Chosen's village, Rachel dies and Pia is very sad. When she is singing in the forest, she sees a young savage woman who seems to like her singing but quickly rans away. Karen and the guys search the dead geologists for things that might be useful to them. They find a map, a logbook and a compass. Reading the logbook, they learn that the geologists had a partner who was supposed to arrive the day before on a hydroplane. While they are at it, the rest of the cannibals return to find the others dead. Karen and Jimmy hide in the cave and Alex pretends to be dead. The cannibals soon leave to go after the savages.
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.