G-Man: [Alyx has just released the G-Man from an apparant Combine prison at the end of the game. She thought she was rescuing Gordon Freeman, whom she has not met yet at this point in the timeline. The G-Man immediately transports both of them to a featureless area of nothing] Impressive work, Miss Vance.
Alyx Vance: Gordon... Freeman?
G-Man: Gordon Freeman?
[chuckles]
G-Man: Miss Vance... You wouldn't need all that to imprison Gordon Freeman.
Alyx Vance: So, who are you?
G-Man: Perhaps what I *am* is not as important as what I can offer you in exchange for coming all this way.
[the environment changes to the appearance of being in outer space near a planet]
G-Man: Some believe the fate of our worlds is... inflexible.
[many copies of him walk in all different directions]
G-Man: My employers disagree. They authorize me to... nudge... things, hm? In a particular direction from time to time.
[back to just one of him]
G-Man: What would *you* want nudged, Miss Vance?
Alyx Vance: [unsure at first, then more confident] The Combine off Earth. I want the Combine off Earth.
G-Man: Ah. That would be a considerably large nudge. Too large, given the interests of my employers.
Alyx Vance: Well, you asked.
G-Man: What if... I could offer you something you don't *know* you want?
[He holds up and releases his briefcase, and it floats toward Alyx. As soon as she catches it, everything turns white. Suddenly, Alyx is transported to the location at the end of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, where she sees herself cradling her father's dead body, blood pooling out on the ground]
Alyx Vance: Dad? Dad? What... is... Is that me? What is this? What's happening?
G-Man: We are in the future. This is the moment where you watch your father die.
[time freezes and Alyx's vision goes sepia-toned]
G-Man: Unless...
Alyx Vance: What? Unless what?
G-Man: Unless you were to take matters into your own hands.
[the G-Man reverses time and the events at the end of Episode Two rewind themselves to just before the Combine Advisor is about to kill Eli. A green electrical power that Alyx's gravity gloves acquired earlier activates itself]
G-Man: Release your father, Miss Vance.
[using the electrical power of the gravity gloves, Alyx fires a blast of electricity at the Combine Advisor holding her father. It dies and falls off to the side, while Eli stumbles on the ground and looks around, confused]
G-Man: Good. As a consequence of your action, this entity will continue
[he gestures to her father]
G-Man: and this entity will not.
[gesturing to the Advisor]
Alyx Vance: Right. So, he's okay. Right? He lives. My dad lives!
G-Man: You *are* aware that you've proven yourself to be of extraordinary value.
[he materializes a crowbar in his hands]
G-Man: A previous hire has been unable - or unwilling
[he tosses the crowbar behind him and it floats away]
G-Man: - to perform the tasks laid before him.
[behind the G-Man, a vision of Gordon Freeman in the HEV suit bends down to pick up his glasses and put them on]
G-Man: We have... struggled to find a suitable replacement. Until now.
Alyx Vance: No! I- I just want to go home. Send me home!
G-Man: I'm afraid you misunderstand the situation, Miss Vance.
Alyx Vance: Wait. Hey wait! Wait! Wait!
[Alyx's vision fades out. A title appears: SUBJECT: Alyx Vance / STATUS: Hired / AWAITING ASSIGNMENT]
