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Home Sweet Home
Items: 35
Kills: 16
Back in Surrey, England, night has fallen and within the Croft estate, Lara undresses and dons a blue bathrobe. Before headed to the bath, she pauses and sits on her bed to examine her latest acquisition.

Before she can examine it more fully, a crash can be heard from the estate's front gates and the security alarm begins to sound. Lara tucks the dagger into the belt of her robe and prepares to deal with the intruders.
The Gun Closet
Upon starting this level, Lara will have only two items in her possession. One is the Dagger of Xian, and the other is the Gun Cupboard Key. Lara will not be in possession of any weapons, ammunition, or Medi Packs. Immediately run around the bed and use the key to open the closet next to the bed.

Run inside and vault up onto the counter. Immediately pick up the shotgun (1) along with the eight boxes of shotgun shells (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) that are with it in the back left corner. Turn around and face the door. Two thugs (1, 2) will enter the bed room from the door on the left and charge into this closet. Draw the shotgun, but allow them to approach the closet door before opening fire. Two shotgun blasts apiece will take them down. Eventually a doberman (3) will enter the room as well, but it will not climb up onto the counter that Lara is standing on. Fire on it as it runs past. If Lara is unable to kill it now, she will scare it away with the shotgun blast.

Only when both thugs are dead should Lara collect the rest of the items in the closet, which include two large Medi Packs (10, 11), two boxes of flares (12, 13), a small Medi Pack (14), one pile of ten boxes of shotgun shells (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24) and another pile of nine shotgun shells (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33). Start with the large Medi Packs on the right and work clockwise around the room.

From the left side of the room Lara should be able to see the windows that lead to her balcony. Either charge out of the closet and turn right and open fire on a cultist (4) that is on the balcony outside, or lock onto the cultist from inside the closet. If Lara attempts to fire on him from inside the closet, make sure to run out after the first shotgun blast to prevent him from escaping out the door. After killing him, collect a box of shotgun shells (34) from his body.

Exit the gun closet and turn left to exit the bed room. Two cultists (5, 6) will have arrived and will have either entered Lara's bed room or are waiting in the foyer outside. Open fire on them and keep moving until they are dead.

Exit the foyer through the front door and immediately back flip back into the mansion and side flip to get clear of the front door. Two dobermans (7, 8), three cultists (9, 10, 11), and a thug (12) will enter the mansion. To kill the dogs and the thugs, Lara can stand just to the left of the doorway and pick them off with one or two shotgun blasts, respectively. To kill the cultists, Lara should charge at them, so that she is too close for them to fire on her. Pick up a small Medi Pack (35) from one of the dead cultists. Outside, Lara will find one more thug (13).
Colt
After killing that thug, turn left and head toward the side of the house near the garden maze. Light a flare to help improve visibility as Lara heads into the darkness. Turn left and follow the walkway to the left along the side of Lara's house towards the beginning of the assault course. Along the way, Lara will meet up with a doberman (14) and a cultist (15). Kill them and follow the walkway as it turns to the right. The walkway will end at the beginning of the assault course. There, Lara will find Colt (16) once again. It looks like Lara didn't finish him off in their last encounter. Open fire while jumping side to side until he falls, making sure that this will be the last time Lara will meet up with him.

Once Colt is dead, the mansion will have been secured. Time to head back inside for a shower.

Immediately after the end credits, start a new game and save to play again with all the weapons and unlimited ammunition, flares, and Medi Packs.

Summary
In order of appearance:
Pickups
1 Shotgun
8 Shotgun Shells
2 Large Medi Pack
1 Flares
1 Small Medi Pack
9 Shotgun Shells
10 Shotgun Shells
1 Flares
9 Shotgun Shells
1 Shotgun Shells
1 Small Medi Pack

35 Total
Kills
1 cultist
2 thugs
2 cultist
1 doberman
2 doberman
3 cultists
2 thug
1 doberman
1 cultist
1 Colt

16 Total