Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Part #127 - Episode 5, Day 2, Trial: Blood

Part 127: Episode 5, Day 2, Trial: Blood

Part 127: Episode 5, Day 2, Trial: Blood

Now there's an interesting result.

You'd think the angle would be the most important, given the different perspectives between the security room and B Block, but remember that Angel Starr did take a photo from B Block, so she was there at some point. The distance is therefore more important here.

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

I don't see how that would change what she could see.

We've got him hooked.

What she saw is not in question here.

^{Sound: Realization}

...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Ms. Starr! You witnessed the crime from the security guard station!

Now, how long did it take you to go from there...

^{Sound: Objection}

quote:

The different angles, I think, is a better option than the right answer here. I still don't really see how Ms. Starr could have seen the murder clearly from behind Lana, up in the security room. But the game doesn't agree:

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Why, the angle at which she saw the crime occur would change!

The angle...?

What do you mean!?

Uh, um, well...

The security guard station is on the second floor... and um...

She would have sort of a more 3-D view of the crime.
^{Sound: Realization}

And this is important... why?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Um...

...

...

Perhaps you'd like to reconsider, Mr. Wright?
^{Sound: Damage 2}

The penalties are coming hard and fast early in this case.

Mr. Wright! Let's review what we know!

We get the same speech on the map and the same prompt so that we can try again.

quote:

Saying that the lighting is important is the joke option here.

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

It's a difference in lighting!

Lighting...?

What does that mean!?

Well, it means, uh...

See, the security guard station is on the second level...

So, uh, she would have seen the crime in better lighting conditions.
^{Sound: Realization}

And this is important... why?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

The rest plays out the same as the "angles" option from there, including the penalty and the retry loop.

Music: Suspense

...

Well, witness?

You...

Y-yes...?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

You ordered the Squid Wheels, right?
^{Sound: Realization}

(The quality of my lunches has gone from low to inedible.)
^{Sound: Whack}

Are those rubber bands on there? Or is that really supposed to be food? That dish doesn't really look like squid. I really don't get Ms. Starr's business model. Why does she have such horrible lunches? Why is she apparently giving all her lunches away?

Hmm...

Boysenberry for the boyfriend!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

He wasn't in the station, so I waited.

and before I knew what I was doing, I found myself running towards the scene.

But... the door was locked. I couldn't open it.

It is a long distance from the security room back to B Block, and then from there over the fence into A Block.

That's why I had to go through the visitor's parking in B Block.

That's quite a detour.
^{Sound: Realization}

F-f-f-five minutes!?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Gallery}

That's a long time for anything to have happened in that parking garage. And why would Lana have stuck around that whole time? How sure are we even that it was still the same person in the parking garage and not someone else that did the stabbing and left?

Hmm...

This changes things considerably!

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Objection}

Nothing you say is believable at this point.

Evidence of someone finding the body five minutes after whatever you supposedly witnessed.

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

You have a point. And the spork is a wonderful invention.

Would you like another Caviar Lunch...?
^{Sound: Realization}

Absolutely!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

(Uh oh...)

Music: Suspense

Mr. Wright! You have to do something!

I'm honestly not sure what exactly we'd be objecting to at this point, but there's no penalty here so let's wait and see what happens.

(I think I need more evidence before I go sticking my spork in this mess...)

^{Sound: Stab}

Mr. Wright!

The only thing that's left...

Is your strong presence and deft powers of deduction!
^{Sound: Whack}

...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

quote:

Choosing to object right away just skips the prior scene and moves on straight ahead below.

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

Uh, good attempt on the food reference, I guess?

^{Sound: Realization}

A five minute "blank"...

Isn't that strange!?

Strange...?

If you were a criminal...

What would you do with five minutes, Your Honor?

^{Sound: Realization}
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

An interesting triple-sprite panel.

D-don't get the wrong idea! I didn't kill anyone...
^{Sound: Stab 2}
^{Sound: Stab}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

But you have the instincts of a killer! You would run!

But this time was different!

^{Sound: Objection}

Y-

^{Sound: Damage 2}
^{Sound: Stab 2}

^{Sound: Gallery}
^{Sound: Gavel}

Music: Trial

Really? We just have to take everything else Ms. Starr said at face value at this point? Lana stabbed Goodman and who cares about the rest?

The witness has a grudge against the defendant, and a blank in her testimony.

quote:

Rerelease note! The original line here was: "She has a grudge against the defendant, and there is a blank in her testimony." I guess a later release corrected a vague pronoun reference? The new line does seem better.

...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Another witness? And we're just learning about this person now? It seemed like this trial day was about over.

Unfortunately...

Edgeworth, not prepared for every eventuality? He's slipping.

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Okay, I guess the trial day is over. I think we're still missing something, though. Ms. Starr being up in the security room doesn't really change anything we thought we knew about the crime itself.

(Th-that was too close!)

^{Sound: Gavel}

Music: Silence

And with that, court is adjourned!

^{Sound: Objection}

Okay, I should have expected an interruption there. What now?

^{Sound: Shock 2 x 5}

Mr. Edgeworth, you ordered the Squid Wheels, right?
^{Sound: Realization}

(That's the one she tried to foist off on me!)
^{Sound: Whack}

I... might be able to save you.

I have decisive evidence.
^{Sound: Realization}

Wh-what was that!?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

(Is this another one of her trick lunchboxes!?)

Didn't we just play this game with the photo? She was hiding multiple pieces of evidence?

Even the judge is done with this lady, if he doesn't even care what other evidence she's going to pull out of that bottomless bag of hers.

Ah...

Is this your jumbo lunchbox?
^{Sound: Redd Bling}

...I did not expect that sound effect to make a comeback.

^{Sound: Objection}

^{Sound: Gavel}

Out of deference to the lunch bribes you keep taking, you mean.

Let's hear about this decisive evidence.

Like the Lunchland motto says, you won't be disappointed!

^{Sound: Testimony 2}

Music: Questioning - Allegro

^{Sound: Realization}

Two types of blood were found on this shoe!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

One was of course the victim's.

^{Sound: Objection}

quote:

Another changed line! The original: "And the other was...! The defendant, Ms. Lana Skye's blood!" That one's a bit awkward, I can see why they changed it.

This shoe proves it! It's flawless, decisive evidence!

Music: Silence

I don't know about that. We already knew that Lana had injured her hand, though I don't think it has come up in court yet. By itself this shoe doesn't prove any more than the photo did, that Lana was there after the murder.

Wh-what!? There was blood found on that shoe!?
^{Sound: Stab 2}

^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Gallery}

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^{Sound: Objection}

Witness, what's the meaning of this?

Because she hates prosecutors and you in particular, didn't we go over this already?

Simple. As I've already said...

That's why I took the liberty of investigating this myself.

And... you had blood tests performed?

Didn't I mention?

I have three boyfriends in forensics.
^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

^{Sound: Objection}

Music: Suspense

What...?
^{Sound: Realization}

You must know the two rules of evidence law!

quote:

Original line: "You should know the two rules of evidence law, Ms. Starr!" Kind of a wash on this one.

These are some convenient made-up rules that certainly never applied to any evidence we introduced in the game thus far. I haven't really seen any kind of rules holding back prosecutors, either.

I-is that right, Mr. Wright!?

How would Phoenix know, anyway? He's never read any of those books of his. I'm more interested in that second rule of evidence; they wouldn't be bringing up this topic for no reason.

Not so fast, Mr. Edgeworth.
^{Sound: Realization}

...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

As I mentioned previously...

Even the general public can produce official evidence, Mr. Edgeworth.

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Haven't seen this face in awhile. Edgeworth's reaction and the suspensful music is kind of odd here. Shouldn't Edgeworth be a little happier or more accepting about new evidence? Is his conflict with Ms. Starr just worth more to him than his passion for winning cases? Is he sensing there is something not right about this new evidence? I don't really get it yet.

I-is that right, Mr. Wright!?

I do love the parallel and contrast between this line from Phoenix and his previous one. Those are the only two lines from Phoenix since this latest testimony started.

You could at least study some evidence law! Really!
^{Sound: Whack}

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Gavel}

The prosecution's complaints notwithstanding...

However...

quote:

Original line: "Well..."

It seems you have yet another count against you, witness.

Anything to ensure that the guilty are properly judged.

^{Sound: Select Jingle}

Well I can already see where this cross is going to go. We're going to have to deep-examine this new evidence and somehow doing so will reveal a contradiction in the testimony.

^{Sound: Testimony 2}

Music: Questioning - Allegro

(That's pretty sly, hiding evidence like that!)

^{Sound: Whack}

In any case, science is always on our side!

Don't forget!

Scientific investigation is the wave of the future!

^{Sound: Realization}

Just in case you needed a really obvious hint to go look at that shoe in more detail...

Before we start pressing, let's check out that shoe.

Some blood spatter here...

This blood... It's my sister's, right?

It appears so.

(She must have cut herself at the time of the crime...)

Poor Sis...

Not a lot there. But where is the victim's blood supposed to be?

On the bottom? :crossarms:

AAAH! There's blood here too!
^{Sound: Stab 2}

He must have stepped in a puddle of his own blood.

All this blood... It's horrible!

(Hmm...)

I'll assume the forensics report explicitly says which blood on the shoe goes with which individual. Otherwise Phoenix and Ema guessing at it doesn't make a lot of sense. More importantly, there was no pool of blood found at the crime scene. Probably there was one in the trunk, but I don't think the it would have gotten onto the victim's shoe in this pattern in that case. The autopsy report already hinted at this theory with a vague time of death, but we now have some direct evidence that the victim was killed elsewhere and then transported to the parking garage... in Edgeworth's car...

I should have mentioned those five minutes when I wasn't looking at the crime scene.

We already have what we need, but let's press on everything anyway.

Why did you lie about those five minutes?

^{Sound: Realization}

The... results?

How many times do I have to say this?

Compared to that...

A five minute "blank" means nothing!
^{Sound: Whack}

Then why didn't you just tell the truth?

Don't make me laugh!
^{Sound: Realization}

Falsified evidence, arranged testimonies, erasing and manipulating evidence...

(This when the suspect is admitting she did it?)

Let's just get this one over with.

quote:

The original script did not preface the word "But" two lines ago, and did not include "one" in the previous line. Not all differences are meaningful I suppose.

And now, to the matter of the victim's shoe... Did I not bring this up...?

And you found this shoe at the scene of the crime?

I wanted to make myself useful while I was waiting for the police to arrive.

I was afraid someone would erase the chief prosecutor's crime.

See this fashionable basket I have here...?

It carries more than lunchboxes, gentlemen!
^{Sound: Objection}

(I'm happy for you and your lunchbox bag, really.)

Now, tell us what you did next.

Two types of blood were found on this shoe! One was of course the victim's.

So, you brought it to the forensics department?

To do that, evidence must be analyzed...

by a forensics expert.

(And she got away with her little coup because she used to be a detective...)

Well, the man WAS stabbed, after all.

quote:

Original line in the DS release: "Makes sense. After all, a man was stabbed here." The revised line does sound more Angel-like.

And the other blood type... matched that of the defendant, Ms. Lana Skye!

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

quote:

The original release mistakenly said "victim" instead of "defendant" here.

You claim to know something about blood tests, Rookie?

Huh...
^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Silence

Well, speak up!
^{Sound: Objection}

However!

^{Sound: Objection}

quote:

Original line used "performed" instead of "committed". I'm going to omit these minor differences now; safe to say, the original translation or script was not as tight as in the version I'm playing.

...

That's just a figure of speech, Mr. Wright.
^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Whack}

Which means that we can more or less narrow any sample of blood down to just one person!
^{Sound: Whack}

quote:

Previous two lines were originally worded somewhat differently: "Actually, if you combine all the various blood tests, there are millions of types! It's practically impossible to narrow a blood sample down to one person!" Which... is the exact opposite of the revised (and seemingly more correct) line.

Or so I hear.

Th-that's pretty specific...
^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Questioning - Allegro

But they said there's very little doubt it could be anyone's but Ms. Lana Skye's.

Oh good, I was worried the game was mixing up blood tests with DNA tests for a minute there.

That ties her directly to the death of Detective Goodman!

(I was afraid he was going to say that...)

Edgeworth is suddenly all on-board with this evidence now...

This shoe proves it! It's flawless, decisive evidence!

(I can't let this evidence go through without a fight!)

You ordered the Peppered Fish Guts, right?
^{Sound: Realization}

...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Some like it hot, Mr. Wright.

A problem...?
^{Sound: Realization}

Uh, yeah?

If I'm not imagining things...

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Objection}

quote:

Backing off on a press rarely works, but let's see...

(No... there's nothing there. And if I just stab blindly at it, I'll hurt my case.)

C'mon, Mr. Wright, I know you can find something!

Some kind of off-the-cuff contradiction!

I'm trying to avoid saying things off-the-cuff today.

We're brought back out to the cross. Presenting the shoe doesn't actually work, though...

That gleam in your eyes...

You're still young, Rookie.

^{Sound: Gavel}

Music: Logic and Trick

Let's hear what Mr. Wright has to say!

What is contradictory about the victim's shoe?

I was expecting a prompt with another multiple-choice question, but instead...

We have to pick out something on the shoe itself. While you don't have to have already examined the shoe to get this one right, it does help to have that context, especially with a penalty on this choice.

Either of the blood marks on the bottom of the shoe will work here.

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

^{Sound: Realization}

Don't mess with me, Rookie...

^{Sound: Objection}

quote:

No interesting failures here, just a generic few lines if we select anywhere else on the shoe (including Lana's blood spatter).

The problem with this evidence...

is here!

Where?
^{Sound: Realization}

Uh...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Take that finger and point it at your own head, Mr. Wright.
^{Sound: Damage 2}

Penalty!

Music: Silence

(Hmm... guess that wasn't it.)

Mr. Wright, let's be scientific about this!

Examine the evidence!

^{Sound: Gavel}

Music: Questioning - Allegro

As I thought, a waste of time.

Well, that was a nice break.

Let's return to the testimony, shall we?

We get sent all the way back to the cross, and have to press again to get back. Presenting the shoe still does nothing.