Consoling Couple

The Consoling Couple is a couple seen through the Half-Life 2 games story arc. In the first chapter of Half-Life 2, Point Insertion, a man sitting on a couch can be seen embracing a woman while she weeps over their grim situation. They have appeared at least once in every game so far since their first appearance. As their models are always to same, it is likely they are each time the same characters.

Half-Life 2

 * The player passes by them while going through the apartments in Point Insertion, just before the Civil Protection raid (map " ").


 * At the very start of the Canals after leaving Kleiner's Lab, the player finds a Citizen couple being beaten by Metrocops. Since the same models are used, it is possible the couple is the same, as long as the man was not beaten to death.


 * They later appear in a different apartment in Anticitizen One, near the drawbridges, in Resistance attire. The man now sports a goatee (map " ").

Episode One
They can be seen, again in Resistance attire, on the ground floor of the building where Barney is met. However, this time the woman is not as upset and can be heard making sarcastic remarks about Doctor Kleiner, the Resistance, and their current plight in general (map " ").

Episode Two

 * Two skeletons can be found slumped in a similar pose on a couch in the Outlands, near the Autogun outpost. This sighting is merely only an Easter egg as they are seen alive later in the game (map " ").


 * When first going to visit Uriah at White Forest, the couple appears to have managed to leave City 17 alive, as it is seen through Eli's / Kleiner's office window (map " ").

Behind the scenes
The name "Consoling Couple" appears as the name of the "logic_choreographed_scene" script used by the NPCs, "cits_consoling_couple".

List of appearances

 * Half-Life 2
 * Half-Life 2: Episode One
 * Half-Life 2: Episode Two