- As the Allies move into Germany and the war comes closer to an end, disillusionment and anger set in for Easy Company - until they stumble onto a concentration camp abandoned by the German military.
- The men of Easy Company are now in Germany, aware that the Germans are surrendering by the thousands and that the war is winding down. With more time to reflect, some of the men are wondering if it was all worth it and begin to question whether the sacrifices they and their absent colleagues have made were worth it. That question is answered when they come across a concentration camp and they see first hand the atrocities committed by the Nazis. Captain Nixon has returned from a jump behind enemy lines that did not go well and resulted in many deaths. He's drinking heavily and has been demoted from Regimental to Battalion intelligence officer. Soon after Hiltler's death, they are ordered to Bertchesgarden, the Nazi leader's mountain-top retreat.—garykmcd
- The episode opens with Easy Company supervising the clean-up of a German village; local German citizens are removing the rubble of houses and buildings from the street. A string quartet is playing a somber piece by Beethoven.
A flashback shows Easy Company arriving in Germany, near Munich. Captain Lewis Nixon (Ron Livingston) returns from an airborne exercise, obviously upset: the exercise was a failure, and all of the men were killed. While Nixon reflects angrily on the unenviable task of informing the families of the men who were killed, Winters (Damian Lewis) confronts his friend about his excessive drinking.
He also informs Nixon that he will be demoted. Nixon receives a letter from his wife the next day; she is asking him for a divorce. A replacement, O'Keefe, is sent to an outpost with Sergeant Perconte (James Madio). O'Keefe hasn't seen any combat and his positive attitude offends the hardened Perconte who lashes out harshly in a verbal tirade. Nixon also informs Winters and Spiers that President Franklin D. Roosevelt has died back in America.
The company is sent to Landsberg, Germany, where they set up battalion HQ and oversee the surrender of 300,000 German soldiers. Nixon enters a German house uninvited and breaks a picture of a German officer; the man's wife is in the house and is frightened when she spots him. Sergeants Randlemen (Michael Cudlitz), Perconte & Luz (Rick Gomez) are sent out on patrol, taking O'Keefe with them. On the edge of the woods, they discover a German concentration camp. Perconte races back on foot to Landsberg to find Winters.
Winters and Nixon arrive on the scene and see first-hand the horrific conditions the prisoners have been subjected to. Liebgott (Ross McCall) translates the account of one prisoner who tells them that they are all Hebrews and were considered "undesirable" by the Germans: musicians, artists, teachers and many others. All the prisoners are near death or starving, many more are dead, and corpses litter the area, lie dead in shacks where they were quartered or are stuffed into rail cars.
Easy Company rushes back into the village of Landsberg and gathers food and water for the survivors & distribute it to them. However, they are stopped by Colonel Sink (Dale Dye) and the battalion physician, who tell them that the survivors need to be closely monitored during their recovery. The prisoners are forced to remain inside the barbed wire fence of the camp, to prevent them leaving the area and scattering without proper medical treatment, an announcement which Liebgott is ordered to make and does so with great reluctance.
That evening, back at battalion HQ, Winters tells Nixon that camps like the one they found are being uncovered all over Eastern Europe. Winters speaks of a camp ten times larger (most likely Auschwitz) that was liberated a few weeks before by the Russian army. He also says that local Germans will participate in the clean-up operations, which will begin the next morning and will involve the exhumation of Hebrew bodies and the disposal of them. One of the women involved is the same woman whose house Nixon had entered uninvited.
The episode returns to the moment where the German village is being cleaned up. Nixon announces to his fellow Easy members supervising the detail that Hitler has committed suicide, but the war is not over yet. Easy Company has been ordered to the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden.
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