As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
The Game:
- While riding the subway in the prologue, you have the option to answer a call from Simon's friend and co-worker Jesse. It ends with the following exchange...Jesse: Well, good luck. Hope they find a way to fix the whole... you know... dying thing.
Simon: (sarcastically) "Dying thing"? You're the worst support ever.
Jesse: (laughs) Well what should I say? - Even in his sorry state, "Carl Semken" has a couple gems:"What's wrong with your...everything?"
"Did you go diving in raw sewage or something?"
"You're really hung up on appearances, you know that?" - The fact that one of the antagonists you have to avoid is a surly asshole of a man trapped in an underwater surveillance drone. He's not connected to the WAU. He's just a jerk. He's probably the only non-scary enemy in any Frictional game.
- This exchange from the very end of the game swerves from Heartwarming to this.Catherine: I always wanted a friend - like a real one. Someone you'd never hold back with.
Simon: I'll be your friend.
Catherine: Oh, pity friendship? Now I feel even worse. - Neil Tsiolkovsky's death comes off as slightly more comical than the others. He ended up crushed by part of the tunnel between Tau and Phi collapsing on top of him, and datamining his blackbox leads to this conversation.Ian Pedersen: Careful with the ARK.
Tsiolkovsky: Take it easy, it's not going to-
(sounds of creaking metal and crumbling rock)
Tsiolkovsky: Whoa, for a moment I thought it was going to collapse.
(tunnel collapses) - This gem:Simon: Why put a Canadian under the sea?
Transmission and the other related short films:
- From Transmission #1, Adam Golaski and Imogen Reed are dealing with an increasingly panicked Harry (who is becoming aware that he is a robot). Adam tries to administer a Mercy Kill by bludgeoning Harry with a wrench.Reed: Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit-shit-shit. Gimme a patch. Fucking engineers. A wrench? A fucking wrench?
- Shortly later, after they get Harry back online:Reed: How long have you been here?
Harry: Fuck you, lady! - In Transmission #3, Golaski sees one of the Structural Gel scabs that he mentioned in the first episode, and does exactly what you aren't supposed to do with scabs: He pulls a piece of one off the wall. When the wall predictably begins leaking fresh gel, he starts cussing and trying to plug the hole again.
- The whole series makes excellent use of drawn out, relatively silent or otherwise cheerful scenes to amp up the suspense due to the audience being more aware of how bad things are about to get than most of the crew are. Later on in #3, Golaski finds another gel scab, and pulls a piece off, using his coffee mug to catch the slowly leaking gel. While he is doing this, Reed walks in and sits at a table to observe this for a few moments while she sips her coffee.
- In the Vivarium trailer, Reed spends a very long time fiddling around with the mysterious device trying to determine its function and purpose, and at one point physically man-handles it to drag it to a more convenient place on the table.
