 Frohman , accompanied by several bugbait @-@ controlled Antlions , eventually reaches Nova Prospekt , only to be turned away as he does not have an appointment . He gives up and returns to City 17 in the following strip , as Gordon Freeman finally arrives in the city , linking the comic 's time frame with the start of Half @-@ Life 2 . He is then drafted into the resistance after failing to disrupt its operations , and unintentionally signals the start of the resistance 's uprising after one of his Antlions accidentally kills a Combine police officer . During the fighting , he accompanies Freeman himself and mingles with resistance members , aids the Combine in the capture of Alyx Vance , one of Freeman 's allies , and reunites with Norman Frohman , his long @-@ lost assassin twin brother , only to promptly witness his death at the hands of a Strider , a large tripodal assault synth . 
