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Score: 9.1 Superb 147 votes

The Last Patrol

Episode Number: 8    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Sunday October 21, 2001    Prod Code: n/a
After surviving the horrors of Bastogne, a battered Easy Company is holed up in Haguenue, where Lt. Hank Jones arrives and immediately volunteers for a patrol mission to capture German prisoners. Webster returns to Easy Company after being wounded in "Crossroads", but finds himself as an outsider

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Erik Jendresen
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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: Colin Hanks (2nd Lt. Hank Jones),  Eion Bailey (David Kenyon Webster),  Jamie Bamber (Jack E. Foley),  Andrew Lee Potts (Eugene E. Jackson),  Kieran O'Brien (Allen E. Vest),  Christoph Dostal (Senior German),  Martin Arno (Junior German),  Colin Ridgewell (German Soldier shot),  Brian Ethan Tyler (Curtis Jackson)

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International Airdates

Greece: 6 December 2007 on SKAI
United Kingdom: 16 November 2001 on BBC 2 (edit)
Lt. Jones is played by Colin Hanks, the son of series producer and episode five director Tom Hanks. (edit)

Quotes

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Webster: Sergeant Lipton feeling all right?
Luz: He's got pneumonia.
Webster: Sorry to hear that.
Luz: Ah, what are you sorry about? He's alive, got a couch, a god damn blanket. Snug as a bug (edit)
Webster: (narrating) I wondered if anyone would realize what it cost the soldiers to win this war. Back home, in America, things were already beginning to look like peacetime. The standard of living was on the rise, hotels and nightclubs were booming, you couldn't get a hotel room in Miami Beach, it was so crowded. How could anyone know the price paid by the soldiers in terror, agony, and bloodshed, if they'd never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne or Hagenau? (edit)
Winters: Had to be a full moon. So much for cover of darkness. (edit)
Nixon: Oh, before I forget, Colonel Sink's a little unhappy with the appearance of your uniform. Says it's not befitting your rank.
(Nixon tosses a box to Winters and he opens it)
Winters: Oak leaves.
(Nixon salutes him)
Nixon: Congratulations, Major. (edit)
Webster: (narrating) Eugene Jackson was 20 years old. He lied about his age when he joined the Army at 16. His family, I'm sure, got a telegram saying he died a hero on a mission that would help win the war. In reality, he died on a stretcher in a dank basement in Hagenau, crying out in agony as his friends looked on helplessly. Just another casualty in a war that was supposed to be all but over. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: Don Malarkey has the stripes of a staff sergeant in the morning, but wears the stripes of a sergeant first class as the men prepare for the patrol. (edit)
Goof: As Lt. Jones arrives in Hagenau he carries a carbine. At the debriefing after the patrol he has a Thompson. He carries no ammo for it, but a belt with carbine ammo. When he leaves Easy he has the carbine again. (edit)

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8.5
Great
The Last Patrol
"Well written"
Behind Enemy lines.
Continue » Posted Mar 8, 2008 9:32 am PST

Ting13
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4.7
Poor
The Last Patrol
"Filler episode"
After two strong episodes comes probably the weakest of the series.
Continue » Posted Mar 6, 2007 5:02 am PST

Pinkmyst
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9.5
Superb
The Last Patrol
"A very special episode"
Winters shows that he cares for his men.
Continue » Posted Jun 18, 2006 6:41 pm PST
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