The Breaking Point

When we left them last they were freezing their asses off in Bastogne. Nothing has changed. Dick for some reason is colder than everyone else, but only in this scene where Lipton (a.k.a. Donnie Wahlberg) shows up, Nix tries to be comforting, and Winters looks like shit. (LOL. Well he does!)






Eating soup, trying to figure out who should lead Easy because Dike is made of fail but their hands are tied. I can't tell if snark comes with rank or the two of them have been hanging out with each other for two long because I think Winters has a bit of a 'tude and I love it. I also love the looks their giving each other in this scene...mm mmm. Also worth noting: Nix slurps his soup. You'd think he'd have better table manners. ;)






So Nix is sleeping (passed out?) in his massively massive foxhole (do officers get someone else to dig their holes? because I have a hard time picturing Nix digging that out), and he gets a letter saying he gets to go home for some publicity stuff and they pick someone from each battalion or whatever. He's all, "Dick! I have good news! I can go home!" And Dick's all, "That helps me in no way, shape, or form. Actually, that makes everything worse." And Nix, the schemer he is, is like, "Word, give it to Peacock, then we've gotten rid of one problem. Aren't I smart?" He also tells Winters he has no use to going back to the States because he's already seen them, that's why he's in Europe, but there's this lame war thing going on. Which is Nixspeak for, "Shut up, Dick, I'm not gonna leave you." <3






Sink's telling them about the reporters, I think? The man has this tendency of standing in the middle and ruining my caps - LOL.



Working together. Ready, everyone? "N'AWWWWWWW!" (We'll ignore that they're talking about casualties.)



Watching the action on Foy and Dick's getting reallllllly pissed off because Dike is fucking it all up and they're like fish in a barrel because Dike just won't make a decision. He's trying to get Luz to put Dike on the radio, but Dike is too busy being useless.




So in one of my favorite scenes, Winters gets fed up, grabs his rifle and goes storming off, but then Sink and Nix are like, "WTF? You're too important to go get yourself killed, get your ass back here!" So then Speirs is told to go relieve Dike and Speirs saves the day. I kinda love how Nix is watching Dick at this part, even though it moves so quickly you can barely see it. Long ass GIF for that part - sorry! But I loves it so!





The Last Patrol

Now we're in Haguenau, France, and Winters and Nixon staring across the river would be kinda sweet if it weren't for the fact that they're looking at Germany on the other side.




So then they go for a walk, and yes, I really did need four caps of it. Winters is all like, "Find me some soap - I need to shave." Which I really think is a hint to Nix to shave because Dick is sick of having rug burn.




Walk ends at Easy CP (I believe that's what it's supposed to be), and Nix does a lot of staring while Winters is telling Speirs about what's going down.






Nix decides to go torture Jones. I kinda love the first cap here if it weren't for Jones in it. It's like OT4! This isn't a Speirs/Lipton picspam, though, so I digress... But, so, Nix is harassing Jones and is all like, "I didn't know it's Halloween." (Because, you know, this green kid just showed up and is expecting actual responsibilities.) Dick tells him to stop torturing the n00bs and they go...somewhere.




They don't interact in this scene - hell, you can't even get a cap of them together - but after the patrol, Winters gets the low down and Nix takes the POWs away. (I'm having a hard time finding teh funnies with this episode.)



Oh! I can work with this part! Okay, so, they're all like, "Phew - alone time again, back and the romantic (despite dangerous) view of the river." "So you thinking what I'm thinking?"







But then Speirs shows up all, "Yo, I'm a bad ass AND a hot ass." And Nix is kinda, "Damn it!" And then Sink shows up and Winters is all, "Damn it!" and I wonder if it's a good idea for the four of them to be standing next to the river like that because all it would take is a well-placed mortar and everything would be fucked, but that doesn't happen. Sink gets all Debbie Downer and goes, "So those prisoners were useless and one of the guys died, but we want more, make them do it again!"






So then Winters goes and briefs the guys that they have to go do that damn patrol again, and he's not very happy about it, and Nix looks really bored. Dick's like, "Okay, this is what you're going to do tonight. Now get lots of sleep and remember what I told you because we're going to lie." And Winters and Nix do a secret handshake because I suspect it was Winters's idea but then Nix is the one writing up the fake report.





I don't know how to feel about the first cap below because I can identify the three of them from the back and I don't know if that's impressive or sad. Nix is kinda like, "Wow - we should've been fighting the war like this the whole time!" and I think he's really pleased that Dick is such a schemer now. "I've taught you well, grasshopper." LOL.



Lip gets promoted (huzzah!) and Jones ruins a perfectly good OT5 moment. Speirs has issues with Winters touching his BF, and then we're like, yay, Harry's back! So Harry's all, "You can call me Harry now that you're an officer. I'm clearly the fifth wheel now." Speirs touches Lip and takes off with him, and Nix is quite pleased to have Harry, his drinking buddy, back. And because everyone gets promoted at the end of this episode (well not everyone, but we see 3), Dick gives Jones a new assignment and is like, "Get the hell out of here." And there was much rejoicing.





Then we get the first time Nix proposes to Winters. He has to be all non-chalant about it because Webster is watching (with his mouth half hanging open, I'm sure), and he tosses Winters this little black box with a ring in it. He also snuck in some gold oak leaves, but that's besides the point. Although I find it kinda cute when Nix salutes him. (Sparkly GIF action to show.) He's so proud, his BF being a major now. ♥