He rallies people to prepare for the Combine's retaliation, stating that several new technologies developed during their occupation would be deployed as soon as possible to help fight the Combine. Breen's propaganda and instructs survivors to evacuate City 17, also encouraging them to procreate. In Episode One, Kleiner appears on the video screens previously reserved for Dr. Kleiner keeps a debeaked headcrab he calls 'Lamarr' (after the 1930s actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr). A teleportation system, developed jointly by Kleiner and Eli Vance, connects to Vance's facility, several miles away. In Half-Life 2, he operates an underground lab in an abandoned Northern Petrol building. He managed to survive the Resonance Cascade disaster of the first game with the aid of Eli Vance. Kleiner was one of Gordon Freeman's professors at MIT, recommending him for employment at the Black Mesa to the Civilian Recruitment Division and working with him as part of the facility's Anomalous Materials team.
His character design is based on the generic 'bald, glasses (Walter, as its model name suggests)' scientist model from the original Half-Life.ĭr. Robins), a Black Mesa survivor, is one of the leading scientists in the human resistance to the Combine.
