Welcome back to the HBO official band of brothers podcast.

This is Roger Bennett, I say Flash, you say Thunder.

The last patrol, the episode in which Captain Winters tells a lie and a pivotal

instalment in the series in that it marks the beginning of the end as the real

life Dick Winters insinuates himself during the interviews at play at the top of

the show you have a feeling you're going to live through the war you know feeling

is starting to ease off. You can't account for it. It's just a good feeling but

everybody had that feeling. I believe I might be able to live through it so walk

carefully take care of yourself. The episode begins February 9th 1945 in

Hagenau, France and it's narrated by aspiring writer and Harvard educated

private first class David Webster played by Ian Bailey who returns from

four months in hospital after being wounded during Operation Market Garden.

I like that hospital because we left home and four months ago. Well I wasn't there the whole time.

It was rehabilitation then the replacement depot. Well I'm sure you try to bust

out and help us in best own web. I don't know how I would have done that. It was

funny because Bob I found a way. The original men display towards Webster for

his absence in that hellscape baston is matched only by their dismissiveness

towards replacements. Like first Lieutenant Henry Jones played by the baby face

Colin Hanks. Request permission to go on the patrol.

It's that patrol a daring night-time raid in which 15 men are dispatched across the river

with the goal of taking German prisoners for intelligence purposes. The Gibbs

private Webster and Lieutenant Jones the chance to prove themselves. And despite the missions

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