Only minutes have passed since the hideous creature that Dr Willard had become gasped the last breath of it's violently short life cycle. The experiment had failed, the gleam of immortality returned to the stars from which it came.
Lara looks on silently, oblivious to the press of the bitter Antarctic wind. Suddenly a ragged figure emerges from the dark, gaping hole of the meteor cavern - it is Willard, a human reborn, but inthe throes of death. A hand gestures wildly, a final gutteral laugh tears through the silence, the figure slumps forward and is still.
With the snow already forming a ghastly shroud over the body, Lara quickly tears an object from the dead man's grasp. A wallet, it's monogrammed 'W' now standing sadly against Willard's last earthly remains. Inside, the usual collection of tattered mementoes, a hodge-podge of foreign currency and... but this cannot be! A familiar expression glides across Lara's face - an eyebrow raised by a wry and knowing smile. Before her, a telegram urging an immediate return to take possession of another artefact now secure beneath the Scottish mist at Willard's Lock Ness Estate.
WThe adventure contiues," says Lara, to nothing but Willard's dark laughter still ringing in her ears. "So there was a fifth...".
Travel with Lara as she heads for Scotland on the trail of the Lost Artefact...