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Band of Brothers :: The Breaking Point (01x07)

Episode Information

Title:

The Breaking Point

Episode #:

01x07

Original Airdate:

Sunday October 14th, 2001

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Episode Crew
Director:	David Frankel
Writer:	Graham Yost

Episode Summary

Lt. Dike has been put in charge of Easy Company, but he is a terrible leader. He is constantly leaving the frontline and going off to random places whenever he is needed. The soldiers begin to wonder if he will be able to lead them when they are told they will have to take the nearby town of Foy.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Alex Sabga	played	Francis J. Mellet	Recurring (third appearance)

Episode Quotes

Carwood Lipton (narrating): Lt. Dike wasn't a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.

Ronald Spiers: You wanna know if they're true or not. The stories about me? Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. Then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new really. I bet if you went back two thousand years, you'd hear a couple centurions standing around yakking about how Tertius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners.
Carwood Lipton: Well, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tertius deny it.
Ronald Spiers: Maybe that's because Tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest son of a bitch in the whole Roman Legion.

Guarnere: Jesus Christ, we gotta do all this with a C.O. who has his head so far up his fuckin' ass that lump in his throat is his goddamn nose.