BAND OF BROTHERS: POINTS {EPISODE 10} (TV)

Summary

The conclusion in this ten-part miniseries based on the experiences of Easy Company, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, United States Army 101st Airborne Division, during World War II, and featuring commentary from Easy Company veterans preceding each episode. This episode begins in July of 1945 in Zell Am See, Austria, as Winters narrates that he and Nixon are now three years removed from having first joined the paratroopers. With Winters about to go on a morning swim, Nixon interrupts him with a package containing photographs of Easy Company. Together the men reminisce about their journey together and discuss the future. A meeting with Sink has made Winters consider becoming a career army man. Nixon thinks they should both head back to Nixon, New Jersey, to work for his family's company, Nixon Nitration Works. Winters takes the idea under consideration, then recalls their recent time in Bavaria, high in the Alps at Berchtesgaden.

With the town serving as the Nazi Party's symbolic home, Germans were ordered to make a last stand there, forcing Easy Company to block its roads. Then, Sink orders Winters to outflank the French and be first into Berchtesgaden. There, Easy Company takes over the mostly deserted town and sets up at a luxury Nazi hotel. Winters and Welsh go to work swiping fine silverware and anything else that isn't nailed down. Then, Easy Company goes up the mountaintop to conquer the Eagle's Nest, the summer home and "crown jewel" of Hitler's empire. There, Alton More peruses -- and filches -- Hitler's personal photo album. Winters then announces the latest news: The German army has surrendered. Soon, Winters takes Nixon to Hermann Goring's deserted house, where he presents his friend with the man's massive liquor cellar. Nixon notes that the bottles will make for a happy V-E Day. From there, Easy Company moves out to the beautiful Austrian countryside. Later, Winters refuses to accept a German colonel's sidearm as his show of formal surrender. As the men watch films about Okinawa, Nixon discusses with Winters and Speirs how some men will have earned enough "points" to go home, but the others will have to still be ready to fight. In the Austrian countryside, Perconte, Powers, and Randleman try to hunt deer while discussing their current points situations. Later, the men learn there will be a lottery to send one soldier home from each regiment. Easy Company's winner is Powers.

Afterward, Powers says goodbye to Winters, thanking him for his leadership but scared about how he will explain "all this" once he returns to Virginia. Winters's narration relates that, while shipping out, Powers got hit by a drunken soldier and suffered serious injuries. Later, Welsh tells Nixon that he has enough points to go home, but Nixon thinks he should stay around for their redeployment to the Pacific Theatre. Then, Winters and Nixon reveal that they have applied for a transfer and will soon be headed to the Pacific themselves. Later, during his transfer meeting, Winters is forced to recount his time in Europe and discuss why he wishes to head to the Pacific. Winters's transfer is not immediately granted, and he is forced to stay in Austria for the time being. Meanwhile, Liebgott pursues a suspected concentration camp commandant, against Webster's advice. Finding him, Liebgott interrogates the man and, thinking him guilty, shoots him. With the war nearly over, the American and German soldiers now fraternize, anxious to simply get home. Nevertheless, Janovec dies in a fluke car accident, ten points short of being able to return to America. Winters discusses how men are still dying, due to an overabundance of weapons, alcohol, and free time. One such victim is Charles Grant who gets shot in the head by a drunken trooper from another company. Easy Company searches for the shooter while Grant is escorted to a German hospital in the hopes of finding a brain doctor. They finally locate a German physician in the middle of the night who is able to save Grant. The replacement who shot Grant is finally located, and Speirs and the other men take their anger out on him.

Despite having enough points to go home, Speirs tells Winters that he wishes to stay on as company commander. Winters discusses the various ways some Easy Company men were able to leave Austria. Malarkey gets sent on "official business" to Paris and Lipton gets a job at battalion headquarters. Even Sobel makes his return and Winters forces him to salute. Easy Company members later listen in as a German general addresses his troops, speaking of his pride in them. Ultimately, Winters decides to take Nixon up on his job offer in New Jersey. Finally, as the Japanese surrender and the war comes to its end, Winters and his men takes part in a baseball game on a field in Austria, where he details what became of all of Easy Company's soldiers. Afterward, the real "Band of Brothers" offers closing thoughts.

This selection from the Alan Gerry Cable Collection has been made available by the Gerry Foundation, Inc.

Details

• NETWORK: HBO
• DATE: November 4, 2001 Sunday 9:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 1:02:14
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:67901
• GENRE: Drama, historical
• SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, historical; World War II; United States Army
• SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 2001
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Tom Hanks … Executive Producer
• Steven Spielberg … Executive Producer
• Gary Goetzman … Co-Executive Producer
• Tony To … Co-Executive Producer
• Stephen E. Ambrose … Co-Executive Producer, Based on the book by
• Erik Jendresen … Supervising Producer, Writer
• Erik Bork … Supervising Producer, Writer
• Mary Richards … Producer
• Gene Kelly … Co-Producer
• Billy Fox … Co-Producer
• Ivan Schwarz … Co-Producer
• Bruce Everett … Co-Producer
• Terri DePaolo … Associate Producer
• Claire McGrane … Digital Lab Producer
• James Brett … Music Co-Producer
• Michael Price … Music Co-Producer
• Tim Field … VFX Producer
• Catherine Duncan … VFX Producer
• Mikael Salomon … Director
• Michael Kamen … Music by
• Nicholas Aaron … Cast, Robert E. (Popeye) Wynn
• Doug Allen … Cast, Alton M. Moore
• David Andrews … Cast, General Elbridge G. Chapman
• Eion Bailey … Cast, David Kenyon Webster
• Philip Barrantini … Cast, Wayne A. (Skinny) Sisk
• George Calil … Cast, James H. (Mo) Alley, Jr.
• Michael Cudlitz … Cast, Denver (Bull) Randleman
• Jason Done … Cast, Drunk G.I.
• Dale Dye … Cast, Colonel Robert F. Sink
• Michael Fassbender … Cast, Burton P. (Pat) Christenson
• Dexter Fletcher … Cast, John W. Martin
• Dirk Galuba … Cast, German MP
• Rick Gomez … Cast, George Luz
• Scott Grimes … Cast, Donald G. Malarkey
• Tom Hardy … Cast, John A. Janovec
• Nolan Hemmings … Cast, Charles E. (Chuck) Grant
• Paul Herzberg … Cast, German Doctor at Checkpoint
• Matt Hickey … Cast, Patrick S. O'Keefe
• Maxwell Hutcheon … Cast, German Waiter
• Corey Johnson … Cast, Major Louis Kent
• Wolf Kahler … Cast, German General
• Robin Laing … Cast, Edward J. (Babe) Heffron
• Matthew Leitch … Cast, Floyd M. (Tab) Talbert
• Damian Lewis … Cast, Richard D. Winters
• Ron Livingston … Cast, Lewis Nixon
• James Madio … Cast, Frank J. Perconte
• Ross McCall … Cast, Joseph D. Liebgott
• Neal McDonough … Cast, Lynn D. (Buck) Compton
• Rene L. Moreno … Cast, Joseph Ramirez
• Jonjo O'Neill … Cast, Replacement One
• Philip Rham … Cast, German Colonel
• David Schwimmer … Cast, Herbert M. Sobel
• Matthew Settle … Cast, Ronald C. Speirs
• Douglas Spain … Cast, Antonio C. Garcia
• Shane Taylor … Cast, Eugene G. Roe
• Milo Twomey … Cast, Army Doctor
• Van Husen, Dan … Cast, Alleged Commandant
• Joe Villa … Cast, Second Replacement
• Donnie Wahlberg … Cast, C. Carwood Lipton
• Rick Warden … Cast, Harry F. Welsh
• Rupert Wickham … Cast, Brain Surgeon
• Youngblood Hills, Peter … Cast, Darrell C. (Shifty) Powers