As the blast engulfs Alyx and Gordon, the G-Man, his mysterious goals apparently satisfied, reappears to once again toss his pawn into timeless cold storage.
Consciousness returns. Gordon and Alyx discover they´ve somehow escaped both the reactor explosion and the G-Man´s malevolent grasp. Before they can ponder their miraculous survival, the crippled Citadel lurches back to life just long enough to initiate a self-destruct sequence. With Alyx at his side, Gordon must flee a city in chaos before the Citadel´s final detonation turns City 17 into a toxic, mutant-infested crater.
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