Case 5 - Rise From the Ashes
Trial (Day 4) - Part 4
: (The Blue Badger hadn’t even been dreamed up when Ema drew this picture.)
: (Yet she’s certain she saw its “shadow”!)
: Ladies and gentlemen… It is the defense’s belief that on that fateful day two years ago…
: there indeed was something that looked similar to the Blue Badger…
: Something that is now sitting in this very room!
: Mr. Wright…!
: In this room? Very well, Mr. Wright.
: What is it that the witness saw in that instant?
: But that’s…
: Er, what exactly is that?
: I believe
: it’s some sort of jar.
: But Mr. Wright!
: That doesn’t look anything like the Blue Badger!
: Indeed it doesn’t. As it stands now, it’s just a plain jar. However…
: What if we were to change our viewpoint?
: Our viewpoint…?
We now get to rotate the thing until we reach the Blue Badger. The game’s kind of picky about it, but getting it wrong has no penalty - just some uninteresting ‘maybe I need to rotate this more’ stuff..
This’ll work, though.
: No…
: It can’t be!!!
: Order! Order!
: The defense has proven its claim.
: The mysterious “Blue Badger” witnessed on the day of the crime was actually this…
: Although we all enjoyed Mr. Wright’s dramatic performance, one question remains…
: What’s your point!?
: What do you mean?
: So that Badger thing was actually just a jar.
: That doesn’t change anything!
: I’m afraid that’s where you’re wrong, Mr. Edgeworth.
: You see…
: this changes everything!
: Indeed? Very well, then. Please tell us…
This is a false choice - all of the responses get the exact same result.
: Allow me to take these in turn.
: Not only that, but she saw it at a very specific angle.
: Knowing this, where could she have seen this jar?
: Where…?
: The location of the jar is shown in a picture taken on the day of the crime.
: But the body was found lying near Lana Skye’s desk!
: The witness testified so herself!
: Yes! And it is these two facts that reveal what actually transpired! You see… The struggle between Darke and Marshall did not take place in Lana Skye’s office!
: It happened on the other side of the room, in Chief Gant’s office!
: Are you implying the murderer moved the victim’s body?
: Yes.
: Why would he do that!?
: There’s no reason!
: Exactly.
: !
: If there wasn’t a “reason”…
: he wouldn’t have gone through the trouble. The only logical conclusion…
: is that there was a “reason.”
: Do you know
: what that reason was, Mr. Wright?
: (So this is why Lana tried to stop the trial!)
: Please recall the witness’s testimony.
: She said she knocked away the man who was holding up the knife. In the next instant, the jar was hit and flew threw the air.
…“threw?”
: Now tell me…
: What could have sent the jar flying?
: That would have to have been…
: the impact the man made when
: he was knocked into the wall?
: Ladies and gentlemen…
: if I may draw your attention to this picture once more.
: what would he have hit?
: A-AHHHHHH…
: The suit of armor!
: Holding… a very sharp and dangerous-looking sword…
: Yes.
: he would have to have been Neil Marshall, wielding the Prosecutor’s Award.
: No…
: Mr. Wright… You can’t be thinking…
: Yes.
: There is another possibility of what actually transpired in that room.
: Another possibility?
: Of course the perpetrator would have had no idea, but nevertheless! … i[/i]
: (I don’t know if I can go through with this…)
: Mr. Wright? What’s the matter?
: If events took place as the defense theorizes…
: Then the outcome is obvious. In that moment…
: assuming the man Ema Skye knocked away was actually Prosecutor Neil Marshall…
: Mr. Marshall died… because of… me…?
Ema has fainted again.
: I never imagined her testimony would lead to this…
: So it was the witness who took the victim’s life…
: and then proved so with her own testimony!
: This is unprecedented!
: What… What are you saying?
: I’m sorry, Ms. Skye, but given the circumstances…
: Joe Darke murdered Prosecutor Marshall!
: Imagine that, coming from you.
: !
: As I recall, it was you who admitted to forging evidence two years ago.
: The reason you moved Prosecutor Marshall’s body… was to keep anyone else from finding out about what Ema did, wasn’t it?
: I assure you, Mr. Edgeworth, I have no idea what you’re talking about. If you hope to have anyone believe your insane allegations,
: I’m afraid you’re going to have to have proof. Tell me…
: Do you have any conclusive evidence that proves my sister killed Neil Marshall?
: E-evidence?
: I’m willing to bet you don’t.
: Yes…
: it certainly would be difficult to prove this with evidence.
: If we don’t have evidence,
: then we’ll have to rely on testimony.
: I’m afraid that won’t work in this case. Both parties involved in the incident are dead.
: …! (We certainly can’t get dead people to testify.)
: Hmph. Touche, Ms. Skye.
: Of course…
: That only leaves us with one possibility.
: …!
: (You mean, there’s still another possibility?)
: What do you mean, Mr. Edgeworth?
: I mean, the possibility that
: the victim has left us a message.
: He may have left behind the name of the person who took his life…
: somehow.
: That’s…
: That’s impossible!
: Well, Mr. Wright? This is the only possibility left to you. A message from the deceased…
: Does such a message exist?
: (I’ve got to think back to the Court Record!)
: i[/i]
: (There’s no way a dead person could tell the murderer’s name!)
: Well.
: It looks like this is as far as we can go with this.
: Mr. Wright. You disappoint me.
: I never thought you the type to let feelings cloud your judgment.
: My feelings…?
: If we overlook the victim’s message… one he would have written with literally his last breath,
: then everything will be lost in darkness!
: (This is it.)
: (I can’t afford any more mistakes.)
This leaves us where the right path starts.
: This “message” from the deceased…
: is already in our possession.
: Mr. Wright! Will you stop at nothing to prove my sister a murderer?
: Do not be mistaken, Ms. Skye.
: …!
: Our purpose is not to accuse Ema of any crime. There is only one thing we seek:
: the truth.
: No matter how painful it may be.
: Now then, Mr. Wright.
: This is the message left by the deceased.
: Oh, is he going to just speak the killer’s name?
: If that thing could, I’m sure it would.
: A message was left here…
: on the surface of this jar.
: What do you mean?
: It looks like someone wiped the blood away.
: …
: Yes, but notice: for some reason… the blood on some of the fragments was not wiped away.
: Yes… there is a line here… drawn in blood!
: So what you’re saying, is that these “dots”…
: were once lines!
: Prosecutor Marshall did not die instantly.
: He used the few precious moments left to him to leave behind a message!
: One that someone apparently wiped away…
: But blood must have seeped into the jar where the lines change directions.
: Precisely so! All we need to do is connect these points…
: and the victim’s message will become apparent!
: N-no…!
: Mr. Wright!
: What kind of message did the victim leave for us!?
: (I’ve got to connect these dots to make letters. There’s only one thing the victim would have written, given the circumstances:)
Now, we have to connect the dots. We can draw lines between any of the dots to any of the other dots, and can cancel them out with the B button…but only in the order they were entered. No selective line deletions.
: (That’s why all I’ve been thinking about is saving Lana.)
: So this is the final message Prosecutor Marshall left behind.
: She may not have meant it… but in the end, the one who took the victim’s life…
: was Ema Skye.
: Chief Gant…
: Do you understand the implications of what you’ve done?
: What…? What are you talking about?
: Two years ago,
: Joe Darke was sentenced to death. He was convicted because of his final murder.
: I believe you were the prosecutor in the case, were you not?
: Ack!
: Yes, Worthy. Because of you…
: an innocent man was sentenced to death.
: Not only that…
: but you used forged evidence to ensure his conviction!
: But Joe Darke really was a serial murderer!
: That’s undeniable!
: I’m afraid that’s not important.
: Didn’t you know? We aren’t defenders of justice.
: What?
: We’re merely keepers of the law. Sentencing a man to death…
: is no light matter. Even if there wasn’t any cover-up or evidence forgery…
: ultimately the responsibility falls on the prosecutor in charge.
: !
:: Despite what anyone may say,
: this fact cannot be denied.
: Unable to settle the crowd, the judge declared a recess. Where this trial is headed, no one knows…
Next time: Maybe we can salvage this.