Marc Laidlaw just released his synopsis for Half-life 2 Episode 3

Marc Laidlaw, if you’re not aware, was the lead writer for the Half-Life series and left Valve last year. It’s written in a form of a letter where Gordon Freeman describes what happened after the death Eli Vance. I think we can all agree that Episode 3 is dead in the water at this point and this is the only conclusion to the story we’re likely to get.

The post on his blog(Down at the creation of this thread)
Alternative link on GitHub

Link 1 changes names probably for copyright reasons. Link 2 corrects that.