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Butcher Shop Notes
1 of 9: As you approach the shop's door, two zombies will break the boards covering the door and come after you.
2 of 9: Since the crazy shotgun fanatic has undoubtedly run off by now, you're going to have to take these zombies down yourself using standard tactics.
3 of 9: There's another zombie in the shop, but it's trapped in a cage that's attached to a large white gas canister.
4 of 9: Have fun making some zombie BBQ by turning the little red wheel on the gas canister and then hitting the round red switch on the cage door. (Or stand back and shoot the inside of the cage with a pistol bullet to make sure you don't get burned.)
5 of 9: There's a secret stash in the shop that includes a box of .357 ammo and a health pack, but it's on the high-up boards you can see over to the left from the shop's doorway.
6 of 9: The easiest way to get up to where you can suck in the items with the gravity gun is to clear the stuff off the table that's over there, then carefully set the nearby chair or the engine block from the shop's opposite corner in the center of the table.
7 of 9: You can then jump onto the table and then onto the chair or engine block to get to where you can jump up and down to see the ammo box and health pack. Unfortunately, there's also a headcrab up there.
8 of 9: To take the headcrab out early, stand at the other end of the shop and use the gravity gun to toss the small gas canisters from the table at the underside of the boards the headcrab's on. Hopefully, he'll catch fire and burn to death.
9 of 9: Or you can toss a frag grenade up onto the boards so that it blows up the headcrab. (It might knock down the supplies for you, too.) Be sure to save before you try this, since it's hard to throw the grenade so that it doesn't roll off of the boards before it explodes.
