Something eli DOESN'T say

[MoD]

from source engine.gcf/hl2/resources/closecaption_english.txt:

"eli_lab.eli_finesci" "<clr:255,208,172>Fine scientist, Judith. She was up for your job at Black Mesa but you edged her out with your Innsbruck experience. "

I don't recall hearing Eli say this, so maybe this was scrapped down...

So! What on earth is Innsbruck?

Is it This place?

If so, does that mean Gordon has european backgroud?

Breen says:

"breencast.br_overwatch07" "<clr:188,188,188><I>How could one man have slipped through your force's fingers time and time again? How is it possible? This is not some agent provocateur or highly trained assassin we are discussing. Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist who had hardly earned the distinction of his Ph.D. at the time of the Black Mesa Incident. I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded further development of covert skills. The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that--an ordinary man. How can you have failed to apprehend him? "

So maybe he worked in europe before his Ph.D?

Your ideas please...


--edit:

anotehr find:

"eli_lab.eli_photo01" "<clr:255,208,172>You remember my wife Azian, don't you? "
"eli_lab.eli_photo02" "<clr:255,208,172>That picture, and Alyx, were all I managed to carry out of Black Mesa. "
"eli_lab.eli_portal01" " "

 

[bilbov]

last bit u do get if u interact with the photo when u 1st enter eli's lab...u can do the same with the weird ball thingy in a tub. Something about alyx brings in the weirdest things.

 

[Analogy]

The last two are in the game. I haven't heard the first, but I wouldn't be suprised if it was still in there. You should probably explore a bit more instead of blasting through everywhere.

 

[Feath]

In the Half-Life manual you can see a letter written by the Administer to Gordon Freeman offering a job. It's addressed to the Univerisity of Innbruck, which is where Freeman was a vistiting Fellow, apparently.

 

[MoD]

too bad i lost that one :<

maybe there's a pdf of it on the web somewhere?

 

[Cabb]

He said it to me last night.

After he says "feel free to look around" go into the room where Mossman went, she'll act all suprised, kind like she was doing something she didn't want you to see, ask you to go back to Eli, then he says the first bit of text.