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 '''Case 3 - The Sorceress of Smailholm'''
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+Ben's third case sees him going to Smailholm, Scotland, to investigate the murder of two little girls.  The people in the town suspect that it was the work of local witches, and have imprisoned a young woman named Mary Blaine, who is accused of consorting with a local suspected witch and was found at the scene of the crime.
+*This game marks a turning point in the series, as it introduces a rival investigator, Percival Quentin Jones, who challenges Ben every step of the way, as well as Mary Blaine, Ben's love interest.  It is considered by many fans to be their favorite game of the series so far.  The game is also different in that it features a branch in the story.  Depending on whether or not the player performs a key action, the game will end differently.
+In the not-so-good ending, Ben is captured by the local constable, but manages to escape.  Mary reveals that she and the whole town are actually all witches, and their leader is a vampire-witch named Zortherus.  In the end, Percival Jones rescues Ben from being sacrificed, and Ben kills Zortherus, causing the rest of the witch cult to age rapidly and die.  In this ending, many plot points are left unanswered.
+In the good ending, Ben releases Mary from jail and the two fall in love.  Ben discovers that the girls who were murdered never really existed, and the whole story of the murders was just a hoax to lure him to Smailholm and be sacrificed.  This time, it is Mary who comes to Ben's rescue, but she is killed by Zortherus in front of Ben.  Ben, in a rage, manages to escape and kill Zortherus.  Percy Jones finds him and Ben shows him the bodies of the witch cult.
 '''Case 4 - Horror at Number 50'''
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+Back in London, Ben is at Percy Jones's office, when a man named Randolph Miggs comes in and tells Ben he is looking for him.  He tells Ben the story of Number 50, Berkeley Square, a building with a haunted past which Miggs now owns and has converted into a rare bookshop.  He says that there is a ghost known only as "The Horror" which has been dormant for as long as he can remember, but has recently begun making its presence known again.  Ben agrees to investigate.
+Upon arriving at the house, Ben discovers that he will not be investigating alone, as Miggs has called on four other paranormal investigators, including Simon Booth, an English ghost-hunter, Alice Wilkins, an American major in parapsychology, Otto Schneider, a mysterious German, and Madame Tilly Rosenquist, an over-the-top English medium.
+The five investigators collaborate and finally hold a seance to make contact with the spirits.  This causes Madame Tilly to go into a comatose state.  Simon discovers a door that leads to a series of rooms that are inexplicably larger than the entire house, and ends up vanishing without a trace.  Finally, Ben is able to get into a locked room at the top of the stairs, and he, Otto, and Alice are able to banish The Horror, which has possessed Madame Tilly, back into the Dimension of Death.  In the end, it is revealed that Simon survived and is alive and well.
+*This game is also important to the series as it introduced the characters of Alice Wilkins and Simon Booth, both of which play large supporting roles in the rest of the series.