Lewis Nixon quotes from Band of Brothers

Nixon

Sobel's a genius. I had a headmaster in prep school who was just like him. I know the type.

Winters

Lew, Michelangelo's a genius. Beethoven's a genius.

Nixon

You know a man in this company who wouldn't double-time Currahee with a full pack just to piss in that man's morning coffee?

Nixon

Harry, what exactly are you doing with your reserve chute? You've been hauling that thing around ever since we jumped?

Welsh

Gonna send it to Kitty when we get back to England. Silk. Figure it'll make a good wedding dress, you know, what with rationing and all.

Nixon

Geez, Harry, I never would have guessed.

Welsh

What, that I'm so sentimental?

Nixon

No, that you think we're going to make it back to England.

Winters

What did they do?

They slept with the Germans. They are lucky; all the men who collaborated are being shot.

Nixon

Mr. van Kooijk here is with the Dutch resistance.

[shakes Winters' hand] We have been waiting and hoping for this day, for almost five years.

Nixon

He says he can help us secure the bridges here.

Yes, together we can push the remaining Germans out of Eindhoven, and that's just the beginning.

Winters

[to Nixon] Any idea where they might be?

Nixon

Uh, well, we're still working on that right now.

[sends a teenage boy from the resistance over to them] Piers and his friends here are getting information as we speak.

Nixon

His contacts a couple towns down said they saw the British 2nd Guard's armor move through half an hour ago.

Winters

They're kids.

These are reliable reports. Anything we can do to help you, we will do.

Winters

Nix!

Nixon

I'm all right! I'm all right... am I all right?

Winters

Yeah, yeah, you are. [smiles a bit]

Nixon

Yeah? Quit lookin' at me like that!

Winters

I don't like retreating.

Nixon

First time for everything.

Winters

How'd the other divisions fare up north?

Nixon

[Pauses] I think we're gonna have to find another way into Germany.

Winters

[trying to wake up Nixon] All right...[dumps a full pitcher on Nixon]

Nixon

[groans and slowly wakes, then notices what Winters has done] Oh... CHRIST! That's my own piss, for God sakes!

Nixon

I mean, we're the only unit that's keeping the Germans on the German side of the Rhine. Now, if we had taken Antwerp–and I'm not saying that would have been easy–we would be across the river, well-supplied, with the Krauts on their heels. Now I just got to get Ike on the phone. Are you listening to me?

Winters

Hanging on every word.

Nixon

I don't know why I'm still doing this.

Winters

Drinking?

Nixon

No, hiding it in your foot locker. I'm a captain, for Christ sake.

Winters

Why don't you just give it up?

Nixon

Drinking?

Winters

No, hiding it in my foot locker. You're a captain, for Pete's sake.

Nixon

Maybe you're right. Maybe this is the perfect place to stop drinking. Right here on the business end of the Allied advance... Cheers! [continues drinking out of his bottle of VAT 69]

Winters

What is that? A piece of paper? I don't want to see another piece of paper!

Nixon

You are going to Paris, my friend, City of Light.

Make a hole! Hey, make a hole! I got ammo, grab what you can!

Nixon

Lieutenant, you're a godsend. What's the situation?

I heard you guys were coming in. There was an ammo dump so, here...[hands a crate of ammo to Toye] Is it just you guys in the 101st?

Toye

Looks like it. What hit you fellas?

Everything. The Krauts had Tigers, Panthers, SP's, Stukas, arty, and infantry. They just kept coming.

Winters

What's your name, Lieutenant?

George Rice, 10th Armored.

Winters

Good work, son.

Muck

[to Rice] Got any more mortar rounds, sir? We're real short.

I'll try to make another ammo run if I can, but don't count on anything.

Muck

Thank you, sir.

Panzer division is about to cut the road south. Looks like you guys are going to be surrounded.

Winters

We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded.

Good luck.

Nixon

Thanks.

Winters

Harry. Fire's not a good idea.

Welsh

Just a couple of minutes. We're in a dell.

Winters

A dell? Like where fairies and gnomes live?

Nixon

I swear I thought I could smell a fire. I did smell a fire. Are you out of your mind? [starts warming his hands at the fire]

Winters

Well, we're in a dell.

Nixon

Huh?

Nixon

I think I got something that'll help with your leadership problem.

Winters

Dike's being transferred?

Nixon

No, I can't help you with that. But Division has decided to pluck one officer from each regiment that served in the heroic defense of Bastogne, send him back to the States on a 30-day furlough. Get him out banging the drum for the war bond drive, that kind of thing. [Shows paper to Winters] Turns out I've been plucked.

Winters

How in the world does your leaving help me?

Nixon

It doesn't, I'm not going. I've already seen the States, I grew up there, that's why I came to Europe. Just wish they told me there was a war on.

Nixon

Who are you?

Lieutenant Jones, sir.

Nixon

Right, our West Pointer.

Yes, sir.

Nixon

When did you graduate?

June 6th, sir.

Nixon

June 6th? Of last year?

D-Day, yes, sir.

Nixon

[laughing sarcastically] All right, don't get hurt.

Luz

I'll tell you one thing about the Krauts; they sure clean up good.

Liebgott

Yup, all you need is a little Mozart.

Nixon

[Joins them] Beethoven.

Liebgott

Sorry, sir?

Nixon

That's not Mozart. That's Beethoven.

Winters

Got a visit from Colonel Sink this morning.

Nixon

And how is the good colonel?

Winters

Concerned. Still drinking nothing but the VAT 69, huh?

Nixon

Only the finest for Mrs. Nixon's baby boy.

Winters

That a problem up at regiment?

Nixon

What? This? Is that what he said? No, I just don't like it up there.

Winters

Good. You'll be happy to hear that Sink is transferring you back down to Battalion S-3.

Nixon

What do you think I should write to these parents, Dick?

Winters

Hear what I said, Nix? You've been demoted.

Nixon

Yeah, demoted. Got ya. 'Cause I don't know how to tell them their kids never made it out of the goddamn plane.

Winters

You tell them what you always tell them. Their sons died as heroes.

Nixon

You really still believe that?

Winters

Yeah. Yeah, I do. Don't you?