Henry Glassman

"When you take engines built by aliens a hundred thousand years ago and hire a war criminal to bolt them onto the ship, you can't expect predictable behavior!"

- Glassman to Captain Thomas Lasky.

Henry Glassman is a doctor in the UNSC and the chief engineer of the UNSC Infinity. When a Forerunner artifact was discovered by Fireteam Crimson, Glassman examined it after it sent an EMP throughout the ship. Upon making contact twice with the artifact, he was seemingly dissolved by it in a manner similar to a Forerunner weapon's incineration. However, instead of dying, he was teleported to the surface of Requiem and found at the mercy of Jul 'Mdama. Glassman offered to help Jul in exchange for not killing him. While discussing plans with a subordinate, Jul implied that he would eventually kill Glassman when he was done using him to release The Librarian.

After a small amount of noting how frugal his equipment was, Glassman managed to activate a shield around the Shrine.

Trivia

 * Henry Glassman does not speak Sangheilli, however few humans did as they relied on translation devices or linguists like Professor Phillips.
 * It is possible Henry will be killed soon, because he wears a vest with Covenant explosives. In the trailer for January's set of Spartan Ops, we see 'Mdama's companion, Gek, pressing a button on a trigger, possibly connected to the vest.