After grabbing cardinal Truncquillius the good Sheriff Smith (from Glatzburg) dissapeared from his office and all the soldiers in the dungeon are dead. Not possible to jail/interogate the sneaky cardinal. :(

Whoever went through Act 2, is this normal behaviour ? I looked for the Sheriff around but he's just vanished from the building.

Also tried console command \addbeing_afriend Sheriff Smith -1 -1, it's saying that's running the script but nothing happens.

I fear that's a game stopper bug, if it's indeed a bug and not a scripted event. If so, I'll ask for my 15 dollars back from GOG. :)

dead? who killed them all?

Don't know, probably the minions of the Grand Duchess.

probably? you didn't noticed ti when you fought them?

as i recall the minions should be bound to torture room - anyway it's not normal and you will have to reload

Yeah, I believe the same. I checked the previous savegames and I'll have to redo the cathedral underground. A lot of hours of gameplay wasted.

By reading more of this forum, I come to think the game has more bugs than a hostel bed in Mexic. :)

you should make real save games at key points in the game, like before you want to arrest somebody, or torture, and especially before and after a dungeon, autosave and quicksave get overwritten too often

I got stuck with the exact same problem and managed to solve it.

@rosiorug had it right, Sheriff Smith can be spawned with a console command \addbeing_afriend Smith -1 -1. Note that it's just "Smith" and not "Sheriff Smith"

P.S. Sorry to revive an old thread, but just in case someone else gets stuck I think it's helpful to have a solution here.