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Score: 9.4 Superb 159 votes

The Breaking Point

Episode Number: 7    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Sunday October 14, 2001    Prod Code: n/a
Easy Company is entrenched along the outskirts of the German held town of Foy. Before Easy Company and others make their assault on the town, the company must survive the constant shelling.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Graham Yost
Director: David Frankel
Star: Michael Cudlitz (Denver 'Bull' Randleman),  Ron Livingston (Capt. Lewis Nixon),  Scott Grimes (T/Sgt. Donald Malarkey),  Donnie Wahlberg (2nd Lt. C. Carwood Lipton),  Neal McDonough (1st Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton),  Ross McCall (Joseph D Liebgott),  Frank John Hughes (S/Sgt. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere),  Rick Gomez (George Luz),  Kirk Acevedo (SSgt. Joseph Toye),  James Madio (Frank J Perconte),  Richard Speight Jr. (Warren 'Skip' Muck),  Dale Dye (Colonel Robert Sink),  Damian Lewis (Richard D. Winters),  Dexter Fletcher (John),  Shane Taylor (Eugene G 'doc' Roe),  Phil McKee (Major Robert L Strayer),  Tom Hardy (Pfc. John Janovec),  Matthew Settle (Capt. Ronald Spiers),  Philip Barantini (Wayne 'skinny' Sisk),  James McAvoy (Pvt. James Miller),  Rick Warden (II) (1st Lt. Harry Welsh),  Matthew Leitch (Floyd 'Tab' Talbert),  Nolan Hemmings (Charles 'Chuck' Grant),  Nicholas Aaron (Robert E 'popeye' Wynn),  Peter Youngblood Hills (Darrell C 'shifty' Powers),  Robin Laing (Edward J 'babe' Heffron),  Mark Huberman (Pvt. Lester 'Leo' Hashey),  Peter McCabe (IV) (Cpl Donald Hoobler)
Guest Star: Alex Sabga (Francis J. Mellett)

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International Airdates

Greece: 6 December 2007 on SKAI
United Kingdom: 9 November 2001 on BBC 2 (edit)
One-third of a million pounds of recycled paper were used to create the snow for the forest set – the largest ever used in a production. (edit)

Quotes

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Warren "Skip" Muck: (introducing a reinforcement by talking him trough the wounds the Easy Company soldiers had) Even first Sergeant Lipton over there got hit! He got a couple of pieces of a tank shell burst in Carentan. One chunk in the face, another chunk almost took out his nuts.
Bill Guarnere: How are those nuts Serge?
Carwood Lipton: Doing fine, Bill. Nice of you to ask. (edit)
Carwood Lipton: (narrating) The morning after the shelling that killed Muck and Penkala, I saw a soldier trying to dig a foxhole with his bare hands. He didn't even notice that he'd torn off all his fingernails. (edit)
George Luz: (imitating Lt. Dike) Sgt. Lipton, you take care of things here and I'm gonna go for help. I got to go polish my oak leaf clusters. (edit)
(after Compton has a breakdown)
Carwood Lipton: I guess he just couldn't take seeing his friends Toye and Guarnere all torn up like that. And nobody thought any less of him for it. (edit)
Penkala: "Don't do anything stupid"? Who's he talking to? A bunch of morons who volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. (edit)

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Goof: The ground is soft when they are digging foxholes in the winter episodes, though it supposed to be frozen. (edit)

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9.1
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The Breaking Point
"Another great installment"
Another episode filled with tension, energy, emotions and intensity.
Continue » Posted Mar 5, 2008 11:45 pm PST

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The Breaking Point
"Above average"
The episodes seem to be getting better.
Continue » Posted Mar 6, 2007 4:50 am PST
9.6
Superb
The Breaking Point
"Exciting"
A very graphically violent episode with loads of casualties
Continue » Posted Jun 18, 2006 6:33 pm PST
9.5
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The Breaking Point
"Another great installment"
Easy Company tries to hold the line outside of Foy, and it takes a serious mental and physical toll on them.
Continue » Posted Feb 19, 2006 4:39 pm PST

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10.0
Perfect
The Breaking Point
"Fine example"
This is a defining episode in the series.
Continue » Posted Nov 24, 2005 4:34 pm PST
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