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Part 1: First Time for a Long, Long Time

Chief doesn’t take his sleeping pill and hallucinates about the Combine and its horrors through the night until he’s awakened by Turkle, an elderly African American who works the night shift. One of the subjects of Chief’s hallucination is the patient Blastic, who coincidentally dies during the night.

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