The Combine

The Combine is a name given by the Chief, referring to the great source of power and authorities over everyone. Chief thinks that everyone and everything, including himself, is just a gadget of a giant machine, which is to serve the will of the Combine. "The ward is a factory for the Combine." In the Chief's idea the asylum is one of the countless factories where people who didn't obey get fixed up. The big nurse is just a personnel to ensure the correction takes place. The patients are controlled by drugs and their minds are diminishing during the group therapy and rules that restrict their freedom. Nobody is willing to fight against the rules that the big nurse makes. Because there is no point For the patients that suffer in the asylum to do such thing. Everyone in the world is living the systems. Even if they run out of the asylum, there is no escape from the systems of the Combine. Therefore, he refuses to talk or express any emotions. So that he can be a silent observer to witness the process.