Band of Brothers
The Last Patrol
Season 1, Episode 8 · Aired 2001-10-21
Synopsis
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, fresh from West Point and eager for combat experience, volunteers to lead. While successful, the mission costs another paratrooper's life, prompting Winters to ignore the order to send a second patrol the next night.
In the series
This episode is part of Band of Brothers (2001) on HBO.
Easy Company from training grounds to the end of the Reich — war prestige perfected.
Key cast
- Damian Lewis as Richard Winters
- Ron Livingston as Lewis Nixon
- Donnie Wahlberg as C. Carwood Lipton
- Neal McDonough as Lynn 'Buck' Compton
- David Schwimmer as Herbert Sobel
- Kirk Acevedo as Joseph Toye