Half Life Alyx - Woman Speaking to Advisor Scene (1080p 60fps)

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TRANSCRIPT (One-Sided Conversation)

I'm not kidding around, you need to move it now.
Why can't you do it?
Well, then who is authorized?
...
Okay. Well, go get them.
You took over the entire planet in seven hours. How is this taking so long?
Oh, no, it's fine. I can wait.
That was sarcasm.
Uh huh. Well, I'm thrilled you caught that.
Yes. That was sarcasm as well. And just to remind you, the thing I need to talk to your boss about is how we're running out of time.
Well, what about if I went and got MY supervisor. Would that move the needle on this thing?
No, that's the point. I *am* my supervisor. You're killing me.
Ah, what am I even doing here? I should go.
...
[Higher Level Advisor Arrives]
Hi, okay, great, finally. Hi.
We need to move the box or this thing is going to be Black Mesa all over again.
Well, now I'm telling you it IS ready.
Look, if it's still here when she gets there, he's gone.
What in the history of today makes you think you're gonna stop her?
Look, this guy we've got in there survived Black Mesa. He raised holy hell and then just disappeared. We finally caught him and you're going to let him go again? MOVE THE BOX.

[angeld]

This is not Mossman by the way.
Tyler McVicker from Valve News Network found the textures and applied it to the model.

[philltheotherguy]

This woman talks to an alien tyrant like it is an annoying coworker.

[kulkidz]

"You took over the entire planet in seven hours, how is this taking so long"

She has guts i'll tell you that

[Housywousy]

She's the person who would ask to see gman's employers

[HighStreet-mg]

People take over earth an Karen’s still asking to see the manager

[UnkleDunklee]

“Gordon Freeman? You wouldn’t need all that to imprison. Gordon Freeman.”

[jamesoloughlin]

Haha now that I can read the dialogue it seems the entirety of Half-Life lore is layers of bureaucracy. G-Man has employers he answers to. The advisors have supervisors.

[HellbirdIV]

It's not explicit that the first individual she's talking to is an actual Combine Advisor, but I still really enjoy the mental image of a Combine Advisor saying "Ma'm. Ma'm? Let me get my supervisor."

[robertsmalls]

This proves what I’ve always suspected, the Advisors are not at all the Masters of the Combine, and the Combine is in fact a huge universal bureaucracy. If anything the Advisors are in charge of interplanetary relations. Like Ambassadors of sorts. I love how she’s being sarcastic, and snippy with it. It just goes to show how they’re much more lenient than we originally thought.

[OldWorldFool]

I can't believe how casual this conversation is compared to the more serious ones Breen had.

[mzov_]

That's not judith, that's clearly female01.mdl

[bronze-hawk]

--Can I speak to the manager of the Universal Union? And be quick please I don't have all day

[the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

Guys, I don't think she's talking to the Advisor before the player looks into the room. The female scientist acts like she finally got in contact with someone who can give the go ahead to "move the box" ("Ah-h-hi, okay, great, finally. Hi.") at the same time the player looks inside. It's like when you're talking to a business on the phone over something important, and they put you on hold while they transfer you to their supervisor. She wasn't being snippy with the Advisor, she was being snippy to an unseen person who *answers* to the Advisor. She's being given the run around so she's asking to be put into contact with someone who will move the box. ("Why can't you do it?", "Well then who is authorized?", "Okay. Well, go get them.", "... How is this taking so long?", "... the thing I need to talk to your boss about...", "Well, what if I went and got *MY* supervisor?")

[YZYE]

Let’s go save that one guy in a suit from Black Mesa!

[AmicusVA]

I got chills when Eli said "God damn it Russ they got Gordon Freeman" the first time I played.

[yayvideogames]

i feel bd for the advisor, like "woah chill, this is managements department, it's my first day take a chill pill"

[drpolarbeer]

Proof that Karens are the most powerful creatures in the HL universe.

[Average_K]

I’ve always liked the theory that combine advisors, like literally every other biological aspect of the combine military is just a slave. Unlike striders and hunters, however, the combine took advantage of their psychic capabilities. This scene kinda supports the idea that they are just another harnessed tool of an unseen power.

[maew]

Breen's comfy position and whoever this lady is along with her flippant attitude leads me to believe that those who demonstrate particular value to the Combine (IE perhaps in scientific research) as well as willingly join might get considerable obvious benefits to the point that so long as they get results, the combine are happy to leave them be. Part of me wonders how things would be if the combine decided to use humans as a race of collaborative/co-opted scientists instead of slaves considering the rebels are able to make better and more efficient teleporter tech out of basically scrap. To say nothing of how damn interested they were in whatever the borealis has.

[Nevermore]

I am actually believing that this female scientist is the one seen in Kleiner's Lab? Look near Eli and the Einstein-looking guy in the picture. Interesting note is that she's standing to the right of the guy in the middle with an 'X' mark which I presume is Dr. Breen.