Band Of Brothers | Season 1 | Episode 8

The Last Patrol

TV-MA | 59 MIN

Written by Erik Bork and Bruce C. McKenna
Directed by Tony To

Easy Co. arrives in the Alsacian town of Haguenau near the German border, and are ordered to send a patrol across the river to take enemy prisoners. Lt. Jones (Colin Hanks), fresh from West Point and eager for combat experience, volunteers to lead. While successful, the mission costs another paratrooper's life, prompting Winters (Damian Lewis) to ignore the order to send a second patrol the next night.

Also featured in "The Last Patrol" are: Nicholas Aaron (Wynn); Doug Allen (More); Eion Bailey (Webster); Philip Barrantini (Sisk); George Calil (Alley); Michael Cudlitz (Randleman); Michael Fassbender (Christenson); Dexter Fletcher (Martin); Rick Gomez (Luz); Scott Grimes (Malarkey); Craig Heaney (Cobb); Nolan Hemmings (Grant); Robin Laing (Heffron); Ron Livingston (Nixon); Rocky Marshall (McClung); Ross McCall (Liebgott); Rene L. Moreno (Ramirez); Kieran O'Brien (Vest); Matthew Settle (Speirs); Simon Schatzberger (Lesniewski); Douglas Spain (Garcia); Shane Taylor (Roe); Donnie Wahlberg (Lipton); and Peter Youngblood Hills (Powers).

1.Currahee

Two days before the Allied invasion of Normandy, Lts. Winters and Nixon reflect on the events that led Easy Company to D-Day.

2.Day of Days

D-Day. Due to German flak, the tense men of Easy Company are dropped all over the Normandy countryside.

3.Carentan

On D-Day plus two, the scattered men of Easy Company regroup and prepare to take the town of Carentan.

4.Replacements

Back in England, Easy Company's D-Day veterans heal and get acquainted with green replacement members.

5.Crossroads

Lt. Winters leads a contingent on a risky mission over a Dutch dike while the rest of Easy Company undertakes a rescue.

6.Bastogne

The men of Easy Company fend off frostbite, hunger and the enemy while holding the line in a forest outside of Bastogne.

7.The Breaking Point

After the winter, Easy Company must take the town of Foy despite an incompetent new commander.

8.The Last Patrol

Easy Company is ordered to send a patrol to take enemy prisoners in the Alsatian town of Haguenau.

9.Why We Fight

Arriving in Germany to very little resistance, the men discover an abandoned Nazi concentration camp still filled with emaciated prisoners.

10.Points

In the concluding episode, Winters leads Easy Company to take the Eagle's Nest -- Hitler's mountaintop fortress.