"What? Where??" "What's she talking about?" "...Oh god... you mean that thing IS Gordon?!" "And yet he's somehow retained the mental capacity to communicate with us! Amazing!" "...Hm, what's the Lab's policy on dissecting fellow employees again?"

[Oh thank god... He retracts from the nearby vent and there are the faraway beeps of a door lock. A door to a service elevator opens, leading downward to the basement.]

[Also another door is slammed open by a second tentacle, leading to the machine shop and motor pool. A quick way out for the other scientists... he hopes.]