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How can I get those doors open?
1 of 12: Have you tried opening them with the "Use item" key or several gravity gun blasts?
2 of 12: They shake and rattle around a little bit, but refuse to open at all.
3 of 12: They must be barred on the other side like that second barred door was earlier.
4 of 12: However, you can't see or reach through any part of these doors in order to grab the bar and toss it aside.
5 of 12: Maybe if you found a nearby window you could see the other side of the doors through....
6 of 12: Look to the right of the metal double doors to find a small door that you can open.
7 of 12: Go through it and quickly crowbar the poison headcrab in the corner just past the door.
8 of 12: Check near the dead body for supplies, then look around to find that there is indeed a large window in this side room.
9 of 12: And you can see the other side of the large double doors through it!
10 of 12: Sure 'nuff, there is a bar holding those doors shut.
11 of 12: Remove that bar the same way you did the one on the barred door earlier. (Unless you used the "Use item" key then -- that won't work now since the bar is too far away.)
12 of 12: Looking through the window at the doors, use the gravity gun to grab hold of the bar and lift it out of the way.
