It makes sense if you played the games, not gonna lie, especially when you consider laidlaws "ending" of episode 3 that he put out after having retired. Gman takes away alyx into statis and leaves gorden to die, In episode 2 Gman chases the pussy over Gorden, in Episode 1 the vorts try to save alyx from dying and Gman from reaching her and Gorden. In ep2 when he gives the speech he also mentioned her being a lot more important to his plan, than his "coworkers" thought before, after he specifically plucked her from BLack MEsa before the events of hl1. (Im a nerd about this im so excited sorry xd)