User:Sceptre/Half-Life

Half-Life (1998)

 * Barney Calhoun: [at the start of the game] Hey, catch me later, I'll buy you a beer!


 * HECU Captain: Come in, Cooper. Do you copy? Forget about Freeman! We're abandoning the base. If you have any last bomb targets mark them on the tactical map! Otherwise get the hell out of there! Repeat, we are pulling out and commencing airstrikes. Give us targets or get below!


 * G-Man: [upon completion of the game] Gordon Freeman, in the flesh - or, rather, in the hazard suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Most of them were government property. As for the suit, I think you've earned it. The borderworld, Xen, is in our control, for the time being... thanks to you. Quite a nasty piece of work you managed over there. I am impressed. That's why I'm here, Mr. Freeman. I have recommended your services to my employers, and they have authorized me to offer you a job. They agree with me that you have limitless potential. You've proved yourself a decisive man so I don't expect you'll have any trouble deciding what to do. If you're interested, just step into the portal and I will take that as a yes. Otherwise, well... I can offer you a battle you have no chance of winning; rather an anticlimax after what you've just survived. It's time to choose...

Half-Life 2 (2004)

 * G-Man: [at the start of the game]: Rise and shine, Mister Freeman, rise and... shine. Not that I wish... to imply that you have been sleeping on... the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well... let's just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So wake up, Mister Freeman...wake up and... smell the ashes.


 * Barney Calhoun: Now... about that beer I owed you! It's me, Barney, from Black Mesa?


 * Issac Kleiner: [after his pet headcrab, "Hedy Lamarr", takes refuge behind some crates] Oh, fie! It'll be another week before I can coax her out again!
 * Barney Calhoun: Yeah, longer if we're lucky.
 * Alyx Vance: Barney, you're not an animal person? [Barney replies in a disgusted tone]
 * Doctor Kleiner: Right you are. This is a red letter day, we'll inaugurate the new teleport with a double transmission.
 * Barney Calhoun: You mean it's working? For real this time? Because... I still have nightmares about that cat.
 * Alyx Vance: What cat?
 * Doctor Kleiner: Now, now, there is nothing to be worried about, we have made major strides since then, major strides.
 * Alyx Vance: [more exasperated] What cat?


 * Wallace Breen: [addressing the Combine Overwatch, who have failed to apprehend Gordon throughout the game] This brings me to the one note of disappointment I must echo from our Benefactors. Obviously I am not on the ground to closely command or second-guess the dedicated forces of the Overwatch, but this does not mean I can shirk responsibility for recent lapses and even outright failures on their part. I have been severely questioned about these shortcomings, and now must put the question to you: How could one man have slipped through your force's fingers time and time again? How is it possible? This is not some agent provocateur or highly trained assassin we are discussing. Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist who had hardly earned the distinction of his Ph.D. at the time of the Black Mesa Incident. I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded further development of covert skills. The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that--an ordinary man.


 * Wallace Breen: [addressing Gordon Freeman while preparing to teleport to the Combine homeworld] "Dr. Freeman, you really shouldn't be out there. At the moment of synapse as I teleport, this chamber will be bathed in deadly particles that have yet to be named by human science. Perhaps when I'll have the leisure to do the work myself, I'll name one of them after you. That way you won't be completely forgotten! When the singularity collapses, I'll be far away from here; in another universe, as a matter of fact. You, on the other hand, will be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed and even in some which are essentially impossible!


 * [When the teleport system is destroyed]
 * Alyx: Yes, you did it! Come on, Gordon! We have to get out of here! Maybe we still have...
 * [Gordon's perception of events suddenly stops]
 * G-Man: Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. [G-Man walks out from the explosion] You've done a great deal in a small time...span. You've done so well, in fact, that I've received some interesting offers for your services. Ordinarily I wouldn't contemplate them, but these are extraordinary times. Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you... if and when your time comes round again. [extracts Gordon from the Citadel] I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Dr. Freeman. I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of.. [pauses and smiles] well, I'm really not at liberty to say. In the meantime... this is where I get off. [the G-Man leaves Gordon in pitch black conditions]

Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006)

 * [Alyx's pet "Dog" suggests throwing a car containing Alyx and Gordon into the Citadel]
 * Alyx: Well, Gordon, unless you've got a better suggestion... he is a robot, he's done the math. [&shy;sotto voce&shy;] You did do the math, right? [Dog shakes its head]


 * Alyx: [entering a Combine control point] I think we just broke about 50 Combine regulations! No eye contact with Combine soldiers; don't damage Combine property; don't kill the Combine representatives; have your papers out and available; no loud noises after 6 o'clock;...

Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)

 * Griggs: [parting ways with Gordon] Okay Freeman, be adequate!
 * Sheckley: What the hell does that mean anyway?
 * Griggs: Dunno, seems like something the Vorts would say.


 * G-Man: [while the Vortigaunts are healing Alyx, who was impaled by a Combine Hunter] Dr. Freeman... [pauses time, and begins to speak with his image imposed over several scenes] I realize this moment may not be the most convenient for a heart-to-heart, but I had to wait until your...friends were otherwise occupied. There was a time they cared nothing for Miss Vance; when their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor. When I plucked her from Black Mesa, I acted in the face of objections that she was a mere child and of no practical use to anyone. I have learned to ignore such nay-sayers when quelling them... was out of the question. Still, I am not one to squander my investments and I remain confident she was worth far more than the initial appraisal. That's why I must now... extract from you some small repayment owed for your own survival. See her safely to White Forest, Dr. Freeman. I wish I could do more than keep an eye on you, but I have agreed to abide by certain restrictions. [to Alyx] Now listen carefully my dear. When you see your... father, relay these words: "Prepare for unforeseen consequences".


 * Rebel: [teaching a class about combat] So, ever used an AR-2 [Standard Combine Pulse Rifle] before?
 * Citizen: AR-2... no, but an AR-3, sure, plenty of times.
 * Rebel: There's no such thing as an AR-3.
 * Citizen: Well, you see, the city was lousy with AR-3s.
 * Rebel: No it wasn't, do you know what the secondary fire on the AR-2 does? It kills Hunters. How did you city folk kill Hunters?
 * Citizen: Well we sure as heck didn't use guns, we would wrestle Hunters to the ground with our bare hands! I would get ten, twenty a day, just using my fists.
 * Rebel: [incredulous] So when you're out in the field you're going to be punching Hunters?
 * Citizen: Out in the field? I'm not going out in the field, I'm a radio operator!
 * Rebel: [snapping] Leave, you don't need to be here, and I'm not going to continue the lesson until you leave.
 * Citizen: I'm stayin' right here!
 * Rebel: I am serious, leave!


 * Eli Vance: "Unforseen consequences". The last time I heard those words was back at Black Mesa. You had just stepped into the test chamber when he whispered them in my ear. You know who I'm talking about...: our mutual friend. When he brought in that crystal I knew I should have aborted that damn test, but I didn't. The whole world went to hell that day. And now.. .now he's using my little girl. Putting words in her mouth. Goddamn it. I should have known when he rescued her, it was for his own damn reasons. Gordon, there's so much I need to tell you. Between us, we may finally have a chance... [suddenly stops when he notices Alyx is back]