- Easy Company remains in the Ardennes Forest preparing for an inevitable attack on German forces in the town of Foy. However, morale is low due to cold weather, constant shelling, poor leadership, and numerous casualties.
- Easy Company is still in the Ardennes forest but the Germans are in retreat. The men are cold and living in foxholes knowing that they will likely be ordered to try and take the town. The Germans have been pushed back to the town of Foy but they are well positioned and have heavy artillery. Their artillery barrages take a heavy toll and several of the veterans of Easy Company are severely wounded including Bill Guarnere and Joe Toye. Those injuries have a particularly heavy impact on their good friend, Lt. Buck Compton. When the attack does come, Easy Company is led by the ineffectual Lt. Dike who makes several tactical errors leading to unnecessary casualties. Capt. Winters, who is observing the battle would like nothing better than to rush into battle to lead his old Company but cannot. In the end, he orders Lt. Speirs to take command of the attack.—garykmcd
- Having repelled the German forces at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Easy company are now stationed in the Bois Jacques area of the Ardennes. Heavy German forces occupy the nearby village of Foy. Sporadic shelling from German artillery has been taking place and Easy has suffered many casualties.
Early on, Corporal Hoobler (Peter McCabe) sights a German officer on horseback and shoots him dead. He finds that the officer had a Luger, a highly prized pistol among American GIs. After boasting of his marksmanship, the Luger inexplicably fires and cuts the femoral artery in Hoobler's right leg. He bleeds to death as his comrades try to treat him. His death deepens the low morale of the company and Lieutenant Buck Compton (Neal McDonough) lectures the rest of the men, telling them not to do anything stupid. The men reflect that Compton has changed dramatically since his wounding in Nuenen and since Bastogne; his normally positive attitude has hardened considerably.
Lipton reports Hoobler's death to Captains Winters (Damian Lewis) & Nixon (Ron Livingston) himself, prompting Winters to ask why the company's Commanding officer, Lieutenant Norman Dike (Peter O'Meara), did not deliver the report himself. Dike has been a large disappointment as a leader, often shirking his duties and disappearing for hours at a time. Nearly all the men of Easy Company have no confidence in Dike either. Winters has great misgivings about Dike and desperately wants to replace him but cannot because Dike is a West Point graduate and favorite of someone higher up in command. Winters agrees with Nixon that Compton is perhaps the only choice to lead Easy company professionally if he was ever able to get rid of Dike.
Easy Company returns to the front line in the forest just outside of Foy. As they dig new foxholes and strengthen the existing ones, they are bombarded several times. A shell hits very close to Joe Toye (Kirk Acevedo) and he loses half of his right leg. Toye's best friend, Bill Guarnere (Frank John Hughes), rushes out and begins to drag Toye to safety when a shell explodes near both; Guarnere loses his right leg as well. As Compton (Neal McDonough) approaches both men he suddenly has trouble calling for a medic; the shock of the situation has become Compton's "breaking point" and he is taken off the front line. The worst shelling takes place at night and sees the deaths of Corporal Penkala (Tim Matthews) and Sergeant Skip Muck (Richard Speight, Jr.), a moment witnessed by George Luz (Rick Gomez). The two men were good friends of Don Malarkey (Scott Grimes) who becomes saddened by their deaths. To boost his mood a bit, Lipton gives Malarkey Hoobler's Luger for his brother.
Easy Company later joins "D" (Dog) and "I" (Item) companies in assaulting Foy from three directions. Dike is set to lead Easy Company in the battle and Winters informs him that their speed in rushing forward will be the key to victory. During the assault, Dike freezes, unable to deliver commands effectively and orders a premature retreat. Winters orders Lieutenant Spiers to take command. Spiers (Matthew Settle) can muster the troops back into formation and the raid becomes successful. Spiers also rushes through the German positions in town to connect with Item Company on the other side to ensure that the Germans will not be able to retreat. Lipton remarks about how Spiers not only charged through a dangerous zone but also how he returned to Easy Company, rushing back the same way. Foy is taken; however, several men are killed by an unseen sniper, who is taken down by marksmen Shifty Powers (Peter Youngblood Hills).
The episode ends with a scene where Easy Company watches a performance by a young chorus in a church. As the camera moves over Easy Company's members, Lipton's narration tells who has been wounded or killed in recent actions. Spears, promoted to captain, tells Lipton that he's being given a field promotion to Lieutenant.
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