Samuel

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"Mister, you can't ride around like that! Where's your mask? Take one step without it, you'll be coughing up bloody foam."

- Samuel

Samuel, full name Samuel G-11789RF, is a Citizen who was cut very early from Half-Life 2. He was to be the first character in the game Gordon Freeman meets after the G-Man's opening monologue, on the train.

Appearances


Samuel appears in the story fragment Now Arriving: City 17 Vignette featured in Raising the Bar. After Gordon is dismissed by the G-Man, he wakes up in a decaying train cruising through a desolated landscape, the car walls covered by identical posters of the Consul. Samuel notices him and quickly gives him a spare gas mask, needed to survive in Earth's atmosphere, due to the Combine's Air Exchange replacing it with a gas poisonous to humans. Samuel then explains him the train is going to arrive soon to a so-called City 17 and wonders why the train was stopped in the middle of nowhere, which is apparently when Gordon was "put" inside the train by the G-Man.

He further explains that the authorities hand "Notices" to people, telling them they have to move from their city to another. He states that this population shuffle is to keep people confused. He also says that he spent the last trimester in City 49, which, according to Samuel, is very similar to City 17 and City 40, and has never been in the same zone more than six months. The Consul is said to be stationed in City 17, like Breen in the final version. He seems to be grateful to the Consul's attitude for humanity towards the Combine (suggesting the same background story as Breen's). At the end of the ride, the train passes through a tunnel, a portal of sharpened steel and razor edged doors retract, and they arrive in City 17.

Behind the scenes
His original model was to be the gas mask Citizen model, with a custom face, like the retail Citizens (in this case an early version of the male Citizen 05). His later model (as seen on the right) is very similar to the current Citizens, and dates from after the Air Exchange was cut.

List of appearances

 * Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar