Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Part #133 - Episode 5, Day 2, Investigation: Luminol Everywhere

Part 133: Episode 5, Day 2, Investigation: Luminol Everywhere

Part 133: Episode 5, Day 2, Investigation: Luminol Everywhere

Let's see if Lana Skye is available. I have some questions about that five-minute gap in Angel's testimony.

Music: Silence

Looks like Ms. Skye is in questioning...

I hope the detectives aren't yelling at her...

^{Sound: Whack}

That's basically exactly what I assumed was happening.

Can you imagine?

How's she supposed to answer that!

(Wait a second...)

^{Sound: Realization}

Let's come back later!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

One quick peek at the security guard before we go...

This guard monitors the visitor's room.

He must be frozen with fear thinking that he might be next...

Don't scare the poor guy!

Police Department was second place in the vote, but it's not reachable from here. However, Gumshoe's office is now available.

Wow, everyone looks deadly serious here...

Ugh... It makes my head hurt.

Well, first things first. Let's go check out the Police Department crime scene.

Yes, you sound "dead"-set on investigating!

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

...I think something got lost in translation there. Or it was just a horrible pun?

I doubt anyone wants more mysteries or dead bodies around here right now.

(But... it doesn't look like anyone's going to help us much, either.)

How is the chief slacking off today?

That must be the Chief of Detectives.

He's glued to his computer screen.

"Tell no one outside the Police Department"!?

(Someone's getting a demotion...)

So this is the police mascot, is it?

The design's a little changed from the one outside...

You have it trademarked?

Absolutely! It's cutting edge stuff. Very "now."

(Don't show her the moving mock-up outside then, you'll give her nightmares.)

That music continues to haunt me...

I maintain it's more time-efficient to do all your training at once at the end of the year. Let's see what this guy is up to a couple months later.

That must be one of the detectives.

He's mumbling something to himself.

"I know! The killer used dry ice!"

This is good! I'll win a writer's award for sure.

...

He's not writing a report... he's writing a novel.

I think he's setting up a locked-room mystery? I guess we know now how he gets behind on his training...

Anyway, we're now free to head over to the Police Department, to see where else our victim was murdered.

Music: Silence

It's even busier here today than it was yesterday.

(I suppose it makes sense -- a detective did get killed here, after all.)

So... the evidence room. The scene of the crime!

Here it is!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

(She's like a kid at an amusement park.)

Nobody out here to talk to us, so I guess we're supposed to head straight on through.

But first, let's check in on the newest running background examine gag.

Look, that patrolman is saluting that other guy. He must be a detective!

You idiot! What were you thinking!? Where's your head?

...

^{Sound: Realization}

They make a good pair.

Let's mess with this creepy thing with no Gumshoe around to stop us.

Music: The Blue Badger ~ I Want to Protect You

Oh no the music is back. Abort abort!

(Speaking of "dancing"...)

^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Silence

Can I take out his batteries?

Or already has! I never noticed before, but the Blue Badger has a bandage on his upper-left...thingy.

Well, let's move on.

Looks like we've found Officer Marshall's official posting.

What's with the decor in this place? It's very... eccentric.
^{Sound: Realization}

So, beyond that door is the evidence room... the scene of the crime?

It sure seems that way...

Oh. Ohhh...

What's wrong?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Stab}

(If you can't handle the cacti, stay out of the desert...)

^{Sound: Whack}

I have a feeling I know who he is already...

Still no one around; we don't even get any investigation music to liven things up. Instead... did Marshall really set a trap with a lasso here?

Look, on the floor, a lasso!

Hmm... looks like it's set up to trap something.

A trap, here?

Wait, I know!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Scientific investigation at its finest.

You sure have an active imagination.

I don't suppose the door was left unlocked...

The evidence room is beyond that door.

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

It won't open.
^{Sound: Realization}

You thought it'd be open?

(I think we'd need someone's permission to go in there first...)

We have what we need to bribe Marshall to let us in. Now to figure out what random triggers will make him appear.

It looks like there's a video feed from the evidence room here.

There's a light blinking below the monitor.

It says "Recording"!

I hope it works better than Oldbag's computer at the film studio.

Apparently we're going to have to wait for permission to access the computers, too. In the meantime, let's poke at a cactus.

I would think just one big one would be sufficient.

These cacti...

are a lot like my sister, actually.
^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Recollection ~ The SL-9 Incident

H-how so?

Just like her.

...

^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Silence

...

It's more an attitude thing than a physical similarity.

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

But look, it's nailed shut. You can't get in that way.

Of course not! If you went in through here...

I'd say it'd be more of a "Yeeeeaargh," myself.

Now I'm imagining Marshall as some kind of rebel taking advantage of the fact that the rules defining police uniforms haven't ever actually removed versions from the 1800's.

It looks more like a costume than a uniform, honestly.

A leather jacket, leather pants, a leather...

What was that called again?
^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Hmm...

Wait, maybe that wasn't it.

(It's a "poncho," but I think I'll keep that information to myself for the time being.)

^{Sound: Spritz x 3}

There wasn't any blood outside the Police Department, but apparently this cactus has had at least one victim.

^{Sound: Photo Snap x 3}

Wow! We got a reaction!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Hm. There's clearly blood around the spines here.

and planted their head right in these spines.
^{Sound: Stab 2}

...

Doesn't sound real fun at least.

I guess we have to go somewhere else first?

Apparently "somewhere else" is just back outside.

(This place is charged with frantic energy, as always.)

Please!!!

Huh? Wasn't that...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Damage 2}
^{Sound: Realization}

Sorry, pal, this lunch is spoken for.

Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal

Detective Gumshoe!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Whack}
^{Sound: Drama Pound}

What I really need is a steak lunch from Lunchland.

^{Sound: Realization}

For a moment there, I thought the game had screwed up which character wanted the lunch. We don't unlock this scene until we've both obtained the steak lunch and visited the guard station outside the evidence room.

...

...

Music: Silence

(I think I just heard the sound of his heart breaking.)

Now's no time for despair!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal

^{Sound: Whack}
^{Sound: Drama Pound}

Police.gif

The criminal... You mean...?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

On the same day that a detective was killed in the Prosecutor's parking lot...

This episode is really big on padding its length with unnecessary flashbacks.

^{Sound: Wipe}

And the perpetrator? Do you have a suspect?

^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Whack}

But, Detective Gumshoe, who was it?

^{Sound: Whack}

Standing around here talking isn't going to fill my belly!

Music: Silence

W-wait! Don't leave!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Whack}

Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal

Wait, he? I figured they were pinning this one on Lana Skye as well.

Later!

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Realization}

Well, this investigation is off to a running start.

Music: Investigation - Core

Let's check out these two again.

Look, that patrolman is saluting that other guy. He must be a detective!

Answer me! How many fingers do you see!?

... I-I'm sorry! I don't know!

Get glasses, officer!

...

^{Sound: Realization}

They make a good pair.

I tried going back to the guard station, but Gumshoe wasn't actually there. He either let himself into the evidence room already, or got distracted along the way. Speaking of getting distracted, we can't reach the detention center from here, so let's detour through our office.

Music: Ema Skye ~ Turnabout Sisters Theme

No introductory scene, but we didn't get to look around or talk to Ema earlier, so let's do that now.

Looks like it's cleaning day again at the hotel across the way.

I hear they're planning a second branch outside the city.

Egad! The bellboy was staring right at me.

That bellboy is going to be someone someday.

(Wish someone would say that about me...)

Most of the differences today are going to revolve around Ema, now that she's been integrated into the team.

Mia's plant, "Charley."

I've been taking care of him in Maya's absence.

Huh? He looks a little yellow today...

Mixed in... what?

I told you, he's turning yellow!
^{Sound: Whack}

Well, I guess we know what at least one of those vials in her bag is for.

Difficult-looking legal books stand in a formidable row. They mock me.

Oh, I tried studying one of those just now.

Oh, right, evidence law. So, did you learn anything?

Well, when I tried reading it made my head hurt.

Oh...

(Oddly enough I find myself identifying with her on this one...)

Maybe Phoenix just needs some better books.

Mia's desk.

I sit here even less now that I've stopped taking cases.

I'm borrowing this desk, okay?

(Sorry, Mia...)

Is she off school this week while she follows us around? I hope her science grades bring up her history one.

Well, where should we begin?

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

The mystery of the victim I guess. How could one man, Detective Goodman...
^{Sound: Realization}

be killed in two places simultaneously?

Oh, well, you see...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Uh...

I'm not being very useful here, am I...

(No, no! You're being very... helpful.)

Phoenix you need to at least let Ema do the normal sidekick things.

Poor Mr. Edgeworth...

^{Sound: Wipe}

You were even in the defendant's chair just this past December...!

...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Ah, about the killing at the Police Department, right.

^{Sound: Clapping x 2}

(But I can't help but think...)
^{Sound: Clapping}

Pictured: Someone

We do get some new reactions to a lot of our evidence, with all the new context from the trial today.

That number was the clincher, wasn't it!

5842189... It's in the record.

But... we found this card in the parking lot at the Prosecutor's Office.

...

(Something to think about later when I'm not so busy.)
^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Whack}

Hmm. The ID card apparently has more to tell us.

We defense attorneys are a scattered, unrecognized bunch.

It is pretty odd, huh?

(I doubt it has anything to do with this case though...)

I don't think we've heard the last of this trophy, either.

Right... or so the witness, Ms. Starr, claims.

She saw your sister stab Mr. Goodman with this knife.

^{Sound: Whack}

She's not the one on trial here.
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Whack}

Her eyesight isn't on trial here, either.
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Ema's "don't care" reaction is the same as before, so I'll skip ahead to just the evidence she does react to.

According to Ms. Starr's testimony...

Ms. Skye used her phone right after the murder... she called you, right?

And it was a bad connection. I couldn't hear anything.

(Because it was an underground parking lot, I suppose...)

That's the most reasonable excuse I've heard yet.

but got cut off...

But see, that information would have been much more useful to have while investigating yesterday rather than today.

^{Sound: Whack}

And photographing things?

(She is connected to this crime somehow... but how?)

Why would this have been in the car's exhaust pipe?

Right... the SL-9 incident. It was already solved, apparently.

(This knife was stolen on the day of the evidence transferal...)

Just in case we hadn't shown the knife to Angel yet, I guess.

This stuff is pretty expensive.

You don't say. How much does it cost?

I'd say about $10 per gram!

I hope it's a big bottle. I've been spraying it all over, though with very limited results so far.

Your allowance...? Does your sister give you that?

Yes. We don't have parents...

R-right...

A bottle of luminol testing fluid...?
^{Sound: Realization}

(Man, I'd just take the allowance myself...)

We could go to the detention center next. But there's one other location we haven't seen yet today.

Music: Happy People

We have to go back through the parking garage to get there, but maybe we can go comfort Edgeworth a bit.

Music: Silence

And I'm sure it'll still be just as classy tomorrow, Ema.

Incidentally, Edgeworth's not here.

I hope that's what he's doing.
^{Sound: Realization}

...?

(I guess we'll have to come back.)

I guess we just look around to see if anything has changed here.

Whoa!

I guess you would feel... important.

Incidentally...

...

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

(That's handy to know...)

Similar to before, but last time was talking about time to impact.

Yeah, you'd think he'd want to show this thing off more than that giant Steel Samurai.

Then again, Edgeworth has always been like that.

quote:

There are a lot of fairly minor script differences in this update that I haven't bothered showing. This one is just different enough to be worthwhile. The last two lines were originally: "Better this than that giant Steel Samurai. (Edgeworth has always been like that.)" Note the change from an internal thought to a spoken line there.