Bastogne is the defense of the fron line in the Ardennes forest, Belgium. Hitler had just launched his last counter-offensive, which he planned to trap the men in the forest during the coldest part of the year. The weather conditions, needless to say, were horrible. It was the worst winter the Ardennes had seen for 200 years. The 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions were sent in to plug the gap in the lines.

    The episode starts with Doc Roe trying to find his way to 3rd battalion to get medical supplies. He lost his way and came across many dead American soldiers. When he is comin gback to easys positions, he sees Winters and is going to ask if he has anything to spare from his aid kit, but Winters tells him to crouch down because he heard something coming from a little behind his foxhole. Winters and Roe carefully go towards the noise, and see that it is a German soldier that has wandered past American lins to go to the bathroom. They take him as a prisoner. General McAuliff comes to check on how things are going. Winters and Strayer tell him that the line is spread to thin, and Germans keep wandering unnoticed past our lines. He tells them to hold the line. All they can do, because they are surrounded and no more men or supplies can come in to aid the men already in the Ardennes. Throughout the episode, they show Doc Roe scrounging for morphine and other medical supplies, and fixing up the wounded men to bring them back to the aid station. During his first time at the aid station, he is astonished and cant believe the men in there werent evacuated, because they are badly wounded. He soon learns from another medic that they are surrounded and cant be evacuated. He goes back over to "Skinny" Sisk, the wounded man that he brought in, to tell the nurse what is wrong with him. He then asks her for supplies, which she can give him very little of. As they are going out of the aid station, they tell each other where they are from, speaking in Frech. this is the begining of their friendship, and you get the idea that they have a thing for each other. As he is leaving, Nurse Renee gives hima chocolate bar.

    Coming back to the company, he sees that they are having a religious servive, because there is set to be a patrol. He goes to Seargent Martin, who is leading the patrol, but Martin doesnt want him to come, because it is a combat patrol and doesnt want Doc to get hurt. Doc Roe sits against a tree near where the men were going for their patrol, waiting for news of what is going on, and for the men to come back so if there are wounded men, he can dress their wounds and get them to an aid station.

    Farther into the episode, the Germans try to break through our lines. They had tanks and tons of infantry. Our men on the front lines hold them back. Walter Gordon gets shot through the shoulder by a sniper in a tree (( doesnt say that in movie just the book )). Doc Roe bandages him and gets him away from the line to a jeep, with the help of Seargent Lipton. The next, and last time he visits the aid station is when Lieutanant Welsh gets hit with a mortar shell in the leg. When They get to the aid station, it is being bombed, and Doc Roe soon finds out that Nurse Renee is dead. When he comes back from the aid station, he bandages heffrons hand, reluctantly with the head scarf nurse Renee wore before she died.