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Inside the Depot, Gordon finally reunites with Alyx and the two set out to find where Eli is being held. Upon tapping into the Combine's systems Alyx manages to find his prisoner pod and docks it nearby, allowing the two of them to talk with each other. Eli urges Alyx and Gordon to leave and save themselves, but Alyx insists that she can get all of them out using a Combine teleporter located further into the prison and keep an eye out for Mossman in the meantime. With that, she sends Eli's pod to the teleporter and she and Gordon go to meet up with him.

Alyx sends Gordon ahead so he can clear the way, hanging back herself to provide hacking support and guide him via radio. As Gordon clears out a security station she notices some Combine reinforcements heading his way, so she hacks some nearby turrets and advises him to set them up as a defensive line, then makes her way over to him. Once reunited with him she taps into a nearby terminal to look for Mossman; to her shock, she finds her candidly conversing with Breen instead of locked up in a prisoner pod like Eli. All the more determined to get to the teleporter before Mossman interferes, Alyx sends Gordon ahead to clear out the next cell block.

Following another holdout against more Combine troops, Gordon accompanies Alyx as she confronts Mossman just outside the teleporter room and upbraids her for being a Combine spy. Mossman defends her actions, insisting that it was all in the name of proving to the Combine that Eli and his research were indispensible to any research efforts on teleportation. Alyx, not buying into a word of what she's saying, orders her to configure the teleporter to take them back to Kleiner's lab.

Eli's pod is brought into the teleporter room and placed inside the device as it warms up, while Kleiner gets into contact with the group and confirms his teleporter is ready to receive them. At the last moment, however, Mossman gets inside the portal with him and leaves Alyx and Gordon behind. Confounded, Alyx checks the coordinates Mossman entered and discovers that they're definitely not for Kleiner's lab. Alyx sets up the teleporter to take her and Gordon to the lab (for real this time), and Gordon sets up more turret defenses to protect her while the device warms up once again. The duo pile into the teleporter once it's ready and manage to portal out just as the device overloads and causes the room to start collapsing.


This chapter contains examples of:

  • Disc-One Final Dungeon: After the treacherous Dr. Mossman slips into the teleporter and teleports herself and Eli away, Gordon has to defend Alyx from several waves of Combine soldiers using several reprogrammed Combine turrets, while she tries to reroute the teleporter(which takes forever). After they teleport out, they find out that the teleport destroyed Nova Prospekt in the process and sparked the Uprising. Not only that, but they were teleported one week into the future.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Overwatch Elite soldiers make a brief appearance as Gordon and Alyx are teleporting out of Nova Prospekt, though they won't be fought proper for another chapter.
  • Hack Your Enemy: Alyx hacks the Combine's floor turrets to make them friendly to her and Gordon, which helps out a great deal during the chapter's holdout segments.
  • Hold the Line: Gordon has to hold out against Combine reinforcements in a few areas since Alyx is unable to deactivate the security measures blocking the way ahead quickly enough. There's also the holdout at the end of the chapter as Alyx and Gordon wait for the Combine teleport to recharge.
  • Lord British Postulate: Prior to being patched out, it was possible to kill Eli Vance at the end of the chapter "Entanglement". Your weapons don't hurt him at all, but if you grabbed a sentry gun from earlier in the level, carried it all the way to Eli, and set it down facing him, it would quickly blow him away.
  • Mission Control: Alyx becomes this to Gordon for much of the chapter, hanging back to disable security measures for him and keep an eye out for Combine forces via the surveillance system.
  • The Reveal: That Mossman has been working with Dr. Breen and the Combine the whole time.

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