At the very beginning of the game, he ambushes the Courier outside of the town of Goodsprings, shoots them in the head, and buries them in a shallow grave. However, the Courier survives because they are rescued by a scavenger Securitron robot named Victor and then nursed back to health by Doc Mitchell of Goodsprings, and then sets out to find the assailants and take revenge. After following the trail through several locations, the Courier tracks down the members of the Great Khans gang who were with Benny during the shooting, and learns that he is the leader of the Chairmen, one of the gangs controlling the Casinos of the New Vegas Strip, and is at the Chairmens' casino "The Tops" right now. Alternatively, the player can skip all this storyline and go directly to New Vegas to confront Benn