"We'll be hitting actual Combine troops pretty soon," says Gordon. Much as he'd like to pursue his usual course of withholding information from people he intensely dislikes and does not respect, he's aware that this would be counterproductive in the extreme right now. "They may not know if we're the real thing or not. We've dressed one of our people in a mockup HEV suit a number of times before to use as a decoy- he's got a squad of his own that he's leading from another direction. I doubt they'll be able to tell who Anticitizen One is today, so they'll probably just try to kill us all equally hard."

They'd mentioned the Floyd gambit earlier, before deploying, but Gordon doesn't know how much this guy was paying attention at the time.