Barn Advisor

"That thing was hurt. Did you see it? I can only imagine what it would have done if... Uh oh. Sounds like it called its friends."

- Alyx Vance

The Barn Advisor is an Advisor seen in Episode Two that crashed with its pod in a barn and is living off of its life support system. It is first seen in the chapter Riding Shotgun, accompanied by a crashed Advisor Pod labeled '314 URB-LOC 0017 Advisor'. This label indicates that this Advisor may be the same individual encountered by Gordon and Alyx within the Citadel, or that all of the pods bear the same label.

Half-Life 2: Episode One
A pod identical to the crashed one is encountered by Alyx and Gordon as they make their way out of the Citadel.

Half-Life 2: Episode Two
When Alyx and Gordon are driving to White Forest with their newly found Muscle Car, they spot smoke on the ridge next to a barn, where they discover a crashed Advisor Pod. They come to the conclusion that an Advisor is in the area. They travel to a barn where they are blasted with psychic attacks and discover an Advisor in the barn. Inside they find dead rebels with no visible external wounds, hinting that they were killed by the Advisor. When Gordon and Alyx find it, they decide to kill it by shutting off its life support under the Victory Mine Vortigaunt's advice. They do so by opening the generator so Gordon can punt the Energy Ball from its field with his gravity gun, but Alyx, Gordon and a rebel corpse are pinned to the wall by the telekinetic force of the surviving, but wounded Advisor. The Advisor picks up a barrel and crushes it; then examines a rebel corpse and stabs it with its tongue-like appendage. After it seemingly realizes the rebel is dead, it crushes his body and throws him across the room. It then moves onto Gordon, but after the failing life support system explodes, the Advisor, so close to stabbing Gordon, is stopped and flees, visibly in pain, most likely caused by the piece of rebar stuck in the side of its "head". It also makes it so that the player can't shoot it by spinning pieces of wood from the barn around itself like a small tornado as it flies away from the area. Combine forces are alerted and attack the barn.

List of appearances

 * Half-Life 2: Episode One


 * Half-Life 2: Episode Two