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  • The team take part in the Day of the Dead.
  • Both Matts get stuck on a rock whilst whitewater rafting a grade 4 rapid.
  • Bruce gets ready to ride a tough rapid, one even the experienced instructors have their reservations about.
  • Bruce and guides Pepe and Eric get ready to ride the 'Last Laugh' rapid.
  • Bruce talks of the pressures of conveying the complex stories of the people who live in the coca growing areas.
  • Bruce has fun filming with the local children near Louisiana.
  • Bruce reflects on a hard day's filming whilst out picking coca leaves.
  • Matt explains the three different cameras being used to film Amazon.
  • Matt describes the dangers of mistaken identity around an illegal coca lab.
  • Bruce observes an illegal coca processing lab.
  • A recce film for Amazon, showing a raid on a suspected illegal coca lab by the Peruvian Military Police.
  • The Peruvian Military Police raid a suspected illegal coca lab, filmed as part of a recce for Amazon.
  • Bruce and the team set off with the Peruvian Military Police to destroy a 'bossa', an illegal coca lab.
  • The team venture out in a heavily armed convoy to destroy bossas, the small coca processing labs that litter the jungle all over the valley.
  • Peruvian Military Police stand guard whilst they burn a bossa.
  • Bruce heads back to the safety of the police fortress after raiding a bossa.
  • Steve and Matt receive plenty of help from the local children whilst filming in an Ashaninka community.

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