Half-Life: Alyx Ending Explained 

2038 - Gordon to Alyx : ...!

*2004

Alyx: I can’t lip read I am sorry!

Gordon it would be really cool if you didn’t keep falling asleep during important world changing events

2004 Alyx: Doctor Freeman i presume.

it's more like half life alyx episode 1

@@BluntMatcheteAstartes345fghew Won't be a problem since the "Important guy" is saved

@@manofvalvecorp2350 yep the next one will be interesting might gonna wait another 12 years i'll be 27 years old when the next one happens.

@@BluntMatcheteAstartes345fghew well,at least gotta get a job, might end up with a damn vr set with strong setups they recommended Btw, the credit soundtrack was cool tho!

Yeah in 17 years.

lmfao this comment is amazing.

kill the advisors while t -posing

Underrated

And they change it for the last time in Half Life: Gaben where you play as Gaben and save Eli by deleting the advisor from the program but you also delete him and the whole game and cancel Half Life

The secret ending is where Magnusson beats the crap out of Freeman before he destroys his casserole.

I am not, I hate it

YoucanCallmeNeck we’re not talking about you

@@nickelodeonstuff1572 No but you are making a statement on a plattform where everyone can comment. Don't hate the comment if the system allows it 😏

I wouldnt be too surprised if that was the same kind of logic Nomura used when releasing KH3.

solve your cliffhanger ending by adding another cliffhanger ending

Big F for the players who couldn't see this.

G

Why would you say that

This is sad but true. 13 years? Really Valve?

F

Theheroneeded Willette that’s exactly what I think. He set that up as a way to have leverage over Alyx, and because he exists outside of time, used Alyx freeing him in the past to show his employers that Alyx is useful even without Gordon.

The G-Man is like Dr. Manhattan, he sees time and all possible outcomes, so he knew he had to get Alyx to White Forest, and when she was a child he saw the future and how helpful she could be.

d c he’s talking about in universe. Nobody honestly thinks this was always their intention, but through retcons it seems like this was always the G-mans plan

d c well it’s a very seamless band aid considering the g man’s interest in alyx in episode 2

Yes! G-Man asked Gordon to escort Alyx to white forest inepisode 2,this was the reason why 😎

Yay!

I have a feeling if we get another, we won’t hear what he has to say, because Valve keeps that careful balancing act of secrecy

@@TheAlienGangster That's just a fancy way of saying they don't know even have a plan for what the answers are.

@@HOTD108_ If anything what makes the story interesting at all is the very fact that it stays mysterious and unanswered.

​@@TheAlienGangsterGordon will hear it off screen (and we won't)

i chuckled

Nice speeling leeel This is intentional, don't tell me "it's ironic your grammar is also-"

Teehee

Also one advisor.

what it cost

Half life 2.9

Half life π ?

HALF-LIFE: SQRT(8)

Half life 2

chop 3? Impossible.

i see what you did there... mee too m8, mee too... lol

Whatever, commie

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*PLOT TWIST* THERE IS NO HALFLIFE 3 HALFLIFE ALYX TIMELINE WAS IN BETWEEN OF HL AND HL2. Proof? The alyx in "halflife alyx" doesnt know Gordon. Half life 2 on the other hand shows alyx and Gordon known each other. So basically half life alyx is just filler for hl 2 or it is not canon at all.

@@arg7380 You are mistaken. When you first meet Alyx in HL2 when she beats up the CP guards, she says: "Gordon Freeman I presume". This means she never knew Gordon in the first place. This is still stands, since she saw Gordon right now, in shadow, she didn't see his face.

Or they could be hired by Valve

Schrodinger's Eli

Yeah, that would be cool, and I hope the "Project Borealis" gets canon by Valve.

There's also Boreal Alyph, sharing the same goal as Project Borealis, so, technically 3 versions, Eli dies (PB), Eli dies (BA), Eli survives (HL3)

great way of thinking

@@jamesbryan287 A game made for both PC and VR possibly?

Hell yeah!

Not that simple. Assembling many people for a project like that is hard, especially with Valve’s corporate structure and many various priorities. In Final Hours, they echoed the same thoughts of hesitation.

@@jamesbryan287 There is no confirmation on that wtf lol? Closest thing to that is some valve employees saying they're a little skeptical on vr but still very happy to be working on it.

@@Pred. that's true!

Basically like a genie

Genie Man? No?

my god.....g man.......genie man...

Genie-Man!

G-Man... Genie Man ... that took us like 22 Years to figure out ... i thought we where smarter then this XD

As usual eh

Amazing eye

thank you for that xD make this comment #1

I missed this in my play through. Too distracted by Gordon and the Crowbar!

Also 4:13

Half-Life: Headcrab where you infest and control one organism, before jumping to a superior species and eventually controlling the G-Man

@@CornyBum I now wanna just delete somebody from existence as Gman.

*Sustenance!*

Half-Life: Barnacle

YES

Yeah, more VR games!

that is how sequels work, yes

@@Lon1an No more VR games, nonono.

Nihilanth yes they are the best

@@dudeboymanguy7742 Valve confirmed that HL:A will be the only VR game to be a new experience, Half Life 3 will not be VR.

they played it before the release duh

Ik they played it before im just joking.

@@SterzoSi ahh ok

@@someguy4512 r/wooosh

@@trxshprsxn8371 tbh I don't know about that and really thought they finished it so fast lol

time to wait another 13 years until Gabe has developed the Steam Matrix

Didnt the end of half life 2 also confirm half life 3? Yeah... I would wait on saying half life 3 confirmed

wat ? I know Gabe is already working on Brain to Computer stuff but does already have a ... "Brand" name?

@@yoreichenherz6847 It will be called the "Newell".

@@whiteout0111 the thing is development was paused cause they were working on source 2...now source 2 is done

Looool gman watched them

WOW Didn't notice that.

He disappears after Eli threatens him

@@piperplimmyplymouth Nah, he just do the same on the previous games... if you look at him, he'll go away and disappear

I just finished the game and didn't saw G-Man up there, thanks for the heads up

At least one has the option of watching a full playthrough first before watching spoiler videos like this.

the only half life game i didnt play was the half life 1 remake black mesa. else i played all half life games (except alyx)

PC version comeing for sure. MOD 100%

@@zenonpindolski2782 If that ever happens people will be very disappointed unless they remake the game from scratch. Its made for VR with specific vr mechanics. I would strongly advise anyone to not play it that way. It is better to just watch a walkthrough.

@@zenonpindolski2782 everyone who is working something like it seem to agree it's worse :P It changes from being a new experience and arguably a big revolutionary step in gaming to just being a HL2 mod with pretty graphics. I was thinking about a way to describe the downgrade in control scheme between VR and K+M, but there is nothing like it out there, other than maybe trying to play cs:go with a gameboy colour

Doom Slayer The doom slayer is pleased to see Gordan freeman return

Big day today, Freeman.

*Half Life 2 Episode 2 part 2

Gordon’s first words: I WAITED FOR 13 YEARS, 13 YEARS YOU HEAR ME? 13 YEARS. I AM GOING TO CARVE YOU LIKE A PUMPKIN WITH MY CROWBAR!

@@atwat6157 And you might only have to wait another 5... 7... Maybe 13 years.

Myne1001 I really believe that G-Man wasn’t captured by the combine. With the power that he has it wouldn’t seem likely that he would of been caught unless under his own will. It was mostly likely a ruse to bait Alyx into meeting him. It seems that the events of HL:A was to just show to his employers that she is more valuable of an asset than Gordon is. (If you recall Gman’s speech from EP2 his employers had doubts about Alyx but he learned to quell such “naysayers”) Gordon isn’t reliable due to Vortigants being able to intercept his stasis, which pisses Gman off. So he wants to cash in on Eli’s debt by claiming Alyx as his new pawn. Eli’s debt to the Gman was keeping her Alive during the events of Half-Life 1. Gman can’t have full control of someone unless they are consenting to it. So that’s why in EP2 he instructs Gordon one final time to see that he brings Alyx safely to white forest so the event of Eli’s death can transpire. (Eli’s death may have been some in part nudged by Gman) Gman wants to use this moment to convince Alyx to work for him. Hence why he has her kill the advisor to therefore trick her into employment. The post credit scene is basically the effects to Alyx being put in stasis, she basically disappeares from that moment so all the events can come full circle. A subtle but not so subtle retcon.

@@pipp972 that was the end of HL2, but yes you are right. He may have been captured, or let himself be captured. If he really does have the ability to see in to the future, I could see him letting the Combine capture him because he knows Alyx will free him. I personally think its the former.

@@Myne1001 he was waiting to prove that Alyx is greater than Gordon

I think epistle 3 is the continuation of episode 2 if alyx did not accept the deal gman offered

I have a feeling the real opponent here, despite all, is actually the GMan's employers. Hear me out: Half-Life 1 started off with surviving onslaughts of alien armies until we learn that they are being controlled, and it wants Earth. As we come to find out, it turns out the vortigaunts were pretty damn inoffensive and vulnerable despite being incredibly powerful. In HL2, we start off with rebelling vs the Combine and, again, it is discovered that there is a supreme intelligence behind it all who wants to control our Earth's localised Universe despite having taken over countless dimensions, and again these local forces where nothing but modified humans and what appeared to be the Combine's atom-sized tip of the spear. It's almost as if the Combine themselves were busy elsewhere, even running away or perhaps mounting up not an offensive but a defensive against a coming storm and they will do everything in order to hold it back. This including of course, and not limited to, anhiliating entire species and universes in order to gain as much available ressources and tech to fulfill this goal. Perhaps, despite themselves being despicable in every way and sense, are a force of "Order" to an upcoming tidal wave of horror. It also appears that Xen was an important key to these...Employers' end goal, as it is essentially the hallway to the many broom closets that we call universes. Since it appears that the GMan CAN be halted by Vortigaunts' powers, Nihilianth was the only force capable of forcing them away, but since his death they now control Xen thus having access to everything! What I am suggesting is that the ACTUAL threat has got to do something with the titular name of the series: Half-Life (I am not gonna go in detail of what this means), and that the Combine are now powerless to fight back the Employers so it is now up to Humanity and the Vortigaunts to figure out something. Really sorry if this is convoluted... tl;dr: you thought the Combine were bad, but the REAL baddies are these Employers of the GMan, who himself is their harbinger of what's to come, and Humanity and Vorties are currently their greatest threat to their end goals. Also, the Combine were super dimensional fascists, but they were preparing of what's to come.

I saw him

who wouldnt

4:49

zarrowthehorse Eli apparently

@@kevinandbowser hehe

i did too mr cristobal maldonado from a tornado

Lol

Me too😂😂😂😂

@@aircraftmen_ chill out

@@AverseKO his name just sounds like on of those people who say repent or something

WTF?!!

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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@@jancinefranceroque5483 4:48

Yeah in another 5 yrs.

Only twenty more years to go!

@@jamesjames7601 Have faith brother, that Will Come sooner than you think.

@@TheGuywith1Mustache I think so. Considering this game does well critically

I like how the plot moved 10 seconds forward from the cliffhanger of HL2 Episode 2 there is hope.

Dude I died reading this

Best comment ever

that is the single best comment ive ever seen on any video

Glad you enjoyed it as much as I do. That's always nice :D

Nah. Pretty boring. Here goes-- Half Life: Son of a b**** where Eli gets the crowbar and attacks Gordon so much that he is at the point of death and is again at G-man's disposal, Eli tears open thru space and time with the help of Borealis and shoves the crowbar down G-man's throat... Just kidding I died laughing at your comment😂😂

Well ... there was a time where valve released games every 2 years , portal,portal 2, Left for dead , Left for dead 2 and csgo came in pretty close succession ... mabye they start doing it like that again

@@yoreichenherz6847 yeah, only now you have a segregated group of people who dont own vr headsets

@@Andrewoval When HL2 released you had people who didn't own a gaming PC too.

@@Andrewoval dude after beating this game I hope they dont make half life 3 for pc only. VR is the future and I hope they actually release hl3 this time.

@@Andrewoval If you can't save up £200 for a vr headset, then i dont know what to tell ya.

Ding ding ding This is the take that makes the most sense to me having beat the game

If Gman is omnipresent (as it's pretty damn clear) that's not really possible You can see it as you want it since he can be in any point in time and space but I think it happened in its sequence 1, 1.5, 2 Gman knew that he had to do something to get Alyx hired so he (as he said) showed her the future and saved her dad and so two timelines merged, we're now in episode 2 but Gman is here and Alyx is gone Everything happened in two separate timelines, one in which 1.5 didn't happen and one in which it did, they just merged because Gman wanted it to be Or it can be your way and Gman foresaw that he'd likely need Eli to die in order to hire Alyx and then went back to the past (but as I said I don't like this option since it downgrades Gmans omnipresence abilities)

@@jeffreyandia5179 I like that G-man isn't fully omnipresent - and it's implied even in the game that removing the combine, for example, are too large a "nudge". Similarly in EP1/2 the Vorts free Gordon from his contract and G-man has to work around them

You're probably right, but that's just so dumb from a writing standpoint. Why needlessly retcon the cliffhanger we've been waiting over a decade to see resolved through some hand-wavey, convoluted time travel shenanigans?

Occam's razor: if it sound complicated and unbelieveable, it most likely is.

I see what you did there, Jill..

Adrian is my favourite Half Life character. I like him more than Gordon. You can't know how much I wanted a Opposing Force sequel.

Valve will do their best to make you forget he is even a thing after HDTFM!

hes not canon tho

@@arnis71 yes he is

Well he is detained

Adrian Shephard hasn't been hired though. He was detained so that Gordon can fulfil the mission.

the gear box expansions aren't canon

@@C.M_ Who said that?

@@whiskey419 Marc Laidlaw said that the expansion packs (OpFor,Blue Shift) were nothing canon, nor non-canon. In effect, they can pick and choose what elements they want to be canon in the future.

Nobody wants to hire Barney...

I think it's a main theme of Half-Life. Every major event in this universe has unforeseen consequences

Big brain time

well spotted

yep! i sure did...It's half life 3 time

You seem familiar, did you comment on one of Marphys videos?

Robert Ordonez I don’t have feelings sorry bro

Absolutely!

As a grown man I cried a plenty, and the tears were pure joy. It just hit me so bad when I realized: "Half-Life 3 is on it's way." It feels like some emotional locks opened up inside me after these 13 years. I've never felt such a strong feeling from a game.

And a VR test bed

And a needless half life 2:e2 retcon

I just hope the sequel isnt in vr I'd like to play it instead of just watching it. Because vr is very expensive not only that but having to have a beast of a pc too

@@nicholasbunnell4067 No not really. In 4 years VR will be affordable

@@nicholasbunnell4067 I always just lower the resolution and close all my other aps and i have like what. 16 gb RAM and stock parts for a 2014 PC. VR isnt that bad.

As far as I remember, one of these was farther than the other and it escaped as soon as Dog arrived. It must have escaped after Alyx fried the one with her father

You also cant see Freeman or any broken wood, maybe it was a simulation gman made but really reality but close enough.

Hachu Eli also wasn't wearing the Harvard shirt under his jacket in EP2, he wore a checkered one instead, I think you might be onto something with the simulation theory

@@giberr6628 That's an interesting point. Maybe just an oversight, but then, maybe not.

@@giberr6628 also alyx doesn't have those stab wounds on her back

Finally a simple comment that explains it well

@@user-ml7gl4qs1n now all we need to know is what the hell he wants

@TIBdOBiNSON MCgLOBiNSON from what we can tell his employers are not the combine but do occasionally do business with them

then we get another caveat with the fact that he occasionally disagrees with his employers such as when he decided to save Alex and her father from black Mesa

Freaking Doctor G

Well technically the truth

Yeah but they didn't explain what happened to Alyx in pre HL2 timeline? Did Gman wipe her memory?

IGN videos... :-\

Well, it's for the people who wants to see, and won't get a VR Headset. Simple as that

ACTUALLY TRUE

i recommend 2kliksphilip’s vr guide that was made for half life alyx its a great video

To be fair, at least they didn't full-on spoil it in the title and thumbnail.

You didn’t have to click on the video

I'm so glad to have you back, old friend.

Imposter! Throw him into the antlion cave.

or rather in the hazard suit

Wait a minute, Gordon freeman would never say something like that He would say: [silent noises]

Awww you cut the ponytail, sellout.

We already have that ending bro. It is called HL2:Ep2

They removed it last minute. The files for the animations are still there. Valve news network and some talented people are working on reconstructing them. Soooo much was cut from this game.

@@walkingtalkingstephenhawki5171 I hope houndeyes, bullsquids, cremators, mentions of black mesa east and ravenholm are also somewhere in there.

there was a second ending in HLA Beta

@@arystanzhainar I wish I could experience it I loved the entire game and played through it the day of release

I think Eli actually said "unforeseen consequences."

This made me laugh, thank you, humerous sir

Its like rocket team motto "Prepare for unforeseen consequences AND MAKE IT DOUBLE!"

Borsalino Kizaru Yes sir! Exactly.

I think it’s pretty clear that G-Man exists outside of time, and perceives it differently from humans, just like the Vortigant. G-Man has always had an interest in Alyx, and the original Ep 3 actually ended in a similar way to this, with Alyx being hired by the G-man and Gordon being “fired”. I think he set up Eli’s death so he could have leverage over Alyx, and then used her freeing him from the prison as an example to his employers that she’s useful, even without Gordon. (Remember, G-man hints in HL2 that his employers have doubts about Alyx).

I think the coolest outcome would be if this hints at G Man as a villain. I want to know more about the G Man and the inter dimensional dealings of the multiverse.

Actually (as they mention in this video), Eli knows about Gman because he was the one who delivered the Xen crystal to Black Mesa, and the one who saved Alyx from Black Mesa when she was a child.

g man is gordan freeman as a old man

wtf

@Akshat its g man. watch other gameplays that point it out

wtf!

4:49

Oh wtf?! I did not see that coming! Wow you have great spotting skills.

Wow

yeah, that's why I think he didn't meant the G man when he said "he took her". Cause in the scene the G man was just casually standing there, and walked off. I think IGN is wrong again.

White Rabbit no they aren‘t wrong, IGN and/or eli are not saying that he physically kidnapped her or anything. He just teleported her away or something like that. You know, something gman would do

@@1lucia yes they are wrong, Eli even looked in G mans direction while he was shouting about "he took her", and said he is going to kill him. If he saw G man, then he wouldn't rant at Grodon but rather try to kill G man. Also Eli doesn't even know that the G man exists.

It's definitely something else. I think The Alyx you play with in HL: Alyx will be in stasis for some time like Shepherd is now. Which means in HL3, You as Gordon will go save the same in Alyx in HL2/HLEP1/HLEP2. The characters in HL3 are the same in HL2. They have no idea about the events in HLA: Alyx which means Alyx in Hl3 will have no idea she fought in another parallel universe to save her dad in her other universe.

@@NassimSYD Then HL2 through E2 couldn't have happened as it did. Unless you implement multiple timelines and I tell you: you do not want to do that if you can explain it otherwise. If the Zelda franchise is something to go by.

Adrien Shepard is not hired but detained. Probably G-Man knows he will interfere with Gordon Freeman's mission.

Ameer khan noncznon

@@keradiel_8968 he is somewhat semi canon.But for now he is imprisoned by GMAN

@@kalo2222 Makes sense. To Adrain, it feels like Gordon killed all of his military friends just yesterday, so... maybe Adrain boss?

I got used oculus rift for $125. I enjoyed the game immensely with it.

nah, half life 3 has to be in VR or something even more advanced, you can't put it on some pancake media

Flatscreen will never be outdated, nothing speaks against doing it in the classic way imo Or it's going to be on the next big thing

After all that years and time shenigans, its impossible to get the answer

Bunker down and be ready for martial law

@3D Modeller No one cares. Half-Life Alyx cancels out ALL that.

@3D Modeller oh, ok. hard to tell.

Half Life 2 Episode 2.1.

@@Revo2Evo 2+1=3

Half Life The Number After Number 2 Before Number 4

Half life: Gordon

Woah, pretty far fetched but interesting!

@@grimsdottir2467 ok bud

@@grimsdottir2467 nah you just wish you could play the game

@@grimsdottir2467 Don't have a VR headset, do you? lmao

I KNOW RIGHT!!!

and its gonna be VR exclusive ...

Imagine if they don't end up making it yet again. If you thought the last cliffhanger was bad enough...

Not confirmed, hinted.

Don't believe it so quickly, we need to make sure that it will be release, It maybe possible, but, i'm not sure if it's really confirmed

OMG

Ohh the you're vortigaunt theory makes sense

Or the entire plot of Half Life Alyx is just a simulation made by G-Man so he can trick Alyx in falling in his trap

@@roger5555ful maybe yes maybe no We all have to wait until the next installment of the series .

@@rickbhattacharya2334 Hopefully not another 12 years

@@roger5555ful Mr Gabe is really interested in Brain computer interface so it will not be a surprise to see a half-life installment on that technology . If that's the case mabe another 12 to 15 years . Half-life is a series to showcase the technology for next generation gaming .

I dont think valve mentioned we would have a half life 3 but a half life 2 episode 3?

@@Hero.S they don't want more episodics, so the plot should conclude in half-life 3

The creative director on the game said that this is a return to the series, not an ending. They want to make another one

@@soul9517 Oh thanks

@@brettbaumler754 Awesome!

Depending on if you put Lamar in the rocket, I don’t think we’ll be seeing Lamar anytime soon..

Lul, me too, my estimes is to i get this game and index in 5 years

Yes you will, lol. Maybe take a few years but VR is quickly becoming cheaper.

@@QuestGamerable yeah It'll be about 6 months for me, but this looks like a must play. I'm sure valve knows that sales for this game will trickle in more over time.

And the Valve and VR dickriders will insist VR is the future despite how kicked off this is for many

Wait for 5 years and it will cost 9.99$

I hated it when I died in episode 2. It left me in utter shock. To know he lives warms my stone cold heart!

But in reality eli dies

shephardın hikayeyle bir bağı kalmadı ki, her şey gordon alyx ve eli üzerinden ilerliyor

@@SourEater1 ilk oyun çıktığında ne vardı ki shephard a bağlı? Adamların geri getirmesi dahi gerekmiyo. Sadece shephard a bie gönderme yapsalar eski bir shephard fotoğrafıyla yada biri dese eskiden burda shephard adında bir asker yaşardı diye. Bir confirmation yeterdi. Resmen oyunun gordon kadar badass tek karakteri silindi gitti.

Nice catch man!

I'm sorry, where is it again?

Hay it's me a year later still love the game played it 3 times now

I mean most of us would probably have kids by the time it is out so we shouldn't think too hard

VR offers a lot more options in Gameplay, and a lot more immersion. HL3 will probably be in VR, since all HL games are innovations in their own rights. Alyx is very innovative, and I have no doubts HL3 will be, too! I understand the lowest price of a VR headset + Controllers is around $230, but the release of this game is sure to lower it.

The G-Man created a genius trap.

Could you elaborate a bit? How does this event explain why he saved her

@@thetimelords911 Because he said in another monologue that he always believed in her usefullness, it's why he saved her and would later test her abilities.

@EA -Sports But the events leading up to Eli's death would have already shown that Alyx had potential to Gman, making the time travel pointless, no? Or am I missing something?

@EA -Sports I did some digging, and I found an explanation that makes a bit of sense as a grand-unifying lore explanation: "Gman just happens to be a master manipulator of time. Gordon failed him by breaking the stasis in EP1 when he was to abide by certain restrictions. So, he decides to cash in on Eli’s debt by claiming Alyx as his new pawn. Baiting her to the vault in the events of this game to show his employers her worth (if you recall his speech from EP2 his employers had doubts about her), he was able to trick her into his control by having him give her the ability to save her father when he shows her Eli’s death. That’s why Gman gives Gordon a final instruction to bring her to White Forest in EP2, so he can use that moment to bait alyx. Explains why she just disappears in the post credit scene because in the end of HL:A she is put in stasis. Unforeseen Consequences of Eli bargaining with the Gman during HL1 to keep Alyx alive." Its basically just some common time travel voodoo lol

That's not a paradox.

@@CST1992 How sure are you about that?

@@SuperBoyboys What's paradoxical about it? Suppose the Alyx in HL:Alyx were 5 years into the future instead of the past and the action that she did led to her not being in that situation at all(thereby preventing her from changing it), then that would be a paradox. A paradox is when A happening leads to B happening that leads to the prevention of A from happening. Then, if A never happened, neither did B, which means A wasn't prevented from happening. It's like A and ~A at the same time. If you're still not sure, try playing Chronotron.

@@CST1992 HL:Alyx takes place in the past. Alyx chooses to take the G-man's deal, and is locked in stasis. This means she cannot be present for the events of HL2, HL2:E1, or HL2:E2, which she clearly is, as evidenced by Eli saying "he took her" in the moments following the deaths of the advisors.