Part 147: Episode 5, Day 3, Investigation: Broken Knife
Part 147: Episode 5, Day 3, Investigation: Broken Knife
For breaking into the office of the Chief of Police, we're going to need some inside help.
So back to Criminal Affairs we go!
Sound: Light Bulb
Detective Gumshoe! Aren't you supposed to be in a meeting?
From sitting so long?
Actually...
Sound: Realization
(Sounds like Detective Gumshoe's still out of the loop...)
Sound: Whack
Edgeworth? No. Why do you ask?Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Whack
It's almost like the battles between you two in court!Sound: Objection
That sounds serious...
That's basically what it all boils down to.
That falsified evidence two years ago.
Yikes...Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
So can Gumshoe help us break into the Chief's office? Will he help us?
But first, our background characters have something new to say again.
That man must be the Chief of Detectives. He's staring at the screen so hard it might shatter.
What do I do!? Quick! Someone bring me the classifieds! Help Wanted section!!!Sound: Whack
(So much for "duty"...)The idea of finding a job in the newspaper is so quaint now.
That must be one of the detectives. He's mumbling something to himself.
"Very clever indeed... Who would have thought of multiple personalities?"
... I think it's way past time for that.Are these all the same novel...?
Back to Gumshoe. We need some specific help here but we're going to have to work to get it I guess.
But why would Edgeworth be blamed? It's not like he knew the evidence was forged! Lana Skye is the guilty party here, isn't she? ...Great defending your client there, Phoenix.
Not only that,
Sound: Wipe
quote:
Original line: "Those who don't like him haven't been able to do anything because of his amazing talent as a prosecutor." Doesn't flow as well I guess?
Sound: Wipe
I do like the game cycling through all of Edgeworth's arrogant animations during this chat.
Are there really so many people who hate him?
but he's young. There's no better recipe I know of for making enemies.
Sound: Light Bulb
Yes sir!
Sound: Light Bulb
Yes sir!
Sound: Light Bulb
Yes sir! It seems you don't have any problems with enemies.
I loved that scene. Anyway, I'm a bit worried about him.
Sound: Realization
I think that's a hint to go check on Edgeworth next.
(He seems genuinely concerned for Edgeworth...) Well? Did you find out anything?
Sound: Objection
His final attack? You mean...
Sound: Realization
Music: Silence
Sound: Wipe
Me...Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
(It seems Detective Gumshoe never realized Ema was the girl...)
Well? What was it?
Sound: Light Bulb
...
Sound: Realization
(His powers of recollection never fail to impress.)
It might jog his memory!Oh, I'll show him everything we have soon enough.
We did get one more topic to explore first, though.
A businessman? What made him take to serial killing?
With his car?
So... it was an accident?Music: Silence
Sound: Objection
An animal...Sound: Realization
Sound: Wipe
Music: Recollection ~ The SL-9 Incident
The hell? That's not a serial killer, that's a crazy mass-murderer! Did that all happen in one day? How the hell was there no evidence of any of that!? Seems he was a pretty careless animal.
Of course, this is all conjecture.
So, he turned himself in...
Music: Silence
Sound: Guilty
quote:
Original line: "That crime was witnessed by someone too, but fortunately he was arrested on the spot." Makes it sound like the witness was the one arrested.
(That last "witness"...)Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
(AKA Ema...)Sound: Realization
quote:
Here's one where I actually like the original line better: "(He must mean Ema...)" I don't see anything wrong with that line, and forcing in an "AKA" instead is just kind of weird and awkward.
Apparently Darke knew the police are incompetent at actually investigating crimes and overly reliant on witnesses. So he went crazy killing all the witnesses, and the police were unable to pin anything on him!
Let's start the evidence chain. Everything to the left of the Blue Badger here just has the same scene as in earlier days, so we'll start here.
This guy almost made us lose the case today.
What are you talking about?Sound: Whack
That's more than you can say about most officers nowadays!Sound: Objection
Maybe? Would Marshall have wiped it off, like he did his own? Or would it have just been plainly visible in the security video from the beginning? We still would've had to go through all the contortions to prove that Marshall wasn't Goodman.
(I have to admit he's right though...) (Thanks to the Blue Badger, we were able to prove another possibility today:) (The possibility that another murder took place prior to 5:15 PM...)Sound: Realization
Remember this autopsy report? It has said that Goodman could have died as early as 4 PM from the very start of this case. Crazy how long it's taken us to get to this thing being relevant.
Let me share a little advice with you as a detective.
I'll, uh, keep that in mind.
Sheesh!Yeah, it's still not game-relevant just yet. Gumshoe has a theme on his "don't care" reactions in this episode, but they are subtly different each day.
You know, I wonder if this game engine always had the ability to display three pages of evidence, or if this episode had to add that in. I guess we'll see eventually if it happened in the second or third games of the trilogy or not. Anyway, here's the alleged murder weapon we need to show Gumshoe.
Um, about this...
Sound: Light Bulb
It has a tag attached to it, with the label "SL-9 Incident" on it. I believe this would be the broken "murder weapon" you were speaking of? What are you doing with that!?
I am 99% certain we showed Gumshoe this knife yesterday.
On the day Detective Goodman was murdered, this suddenly disappeared from the locker,Sound: Wipe
It seems unlikely that the knife traveled all the way from the Police Department to the Prosecutor's Office in Edgeworth's muffler. More likely it was in Edgeworth's trunk? Perhaps in Goodman's chest?
... That's it!Sound: Whack
Music: Silence
When you showed me that knife, it all came back to me!Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Whack
Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
We did unlock a new topic there. If we present the knife to Gumshoe before talking to him, the scene doesn't change, but it doesn't really make any sense in that order. I guess the game is assuming we always talk before presenting stuff? Anyway, we have more evidence to show Gumshoe!
Hey, I just bought some of that stuff!Sound: Light Bulb
Wow! Is that a new type? I've never seen that bottle before.Sound: Light Bulb
"Base height"? Hey, let me see that!
Sound: Realization
You mean this can't detect any blood traces!?Sound: Light Bulb
Uh, well... It's not quite the same thing as luminol.
Now there's a quality pun. Is Phoenix canonically short? He seemed very interested in improving his height...
That's the ID card record, isn't it?Music: Silence
the victim, Detective Goodman, must have entered the evidence room along with someone else. Someone with an "executive officer" number:Sound: Realization
Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
That's one "seven" too many, Detective.Sound: Light Bulb
(An executive officer. Hmm... I just might have a hunch.)I appreciate the commitment to repeating that joke several times now, too. I think this whole episode really just needs more Gumshoe. The joke works even better in Japanese, I think. I'm not sure if the original script would've used "shichi" or "nana" but both can get confusing when repeated multiple times in text, particularly the latter.
Sound: Light Bulb
Yeah, Mr. Edgeworth gave it to us.
Sound: Whack
... Are you okay, Detective?Sound: Light Bulb
Music: Silence
Sound: Damage 2
... ...So are we taking the lid off the powder when we shove it in everyone's faces?
Sound: Light Bulb
Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
(Why am I not comforted?)
Don't get too restless, we're only halfway done with this list...
Oh, a lost item report, huh?Sound: Light Bulb
Well, I am a master of misplacement, you know. "Master"... That has such a cool ring to it!
Sound: Realization
There's a higher power at work here. Wow, a higher power... (Maybe I shouldn't let Ema hold any evidence...)
No locker can be opened without a fingerprint match. Besides...
Hey, wasn't your locker the one with the blood on it, Detective? (The handprint of the real murderer's gloved hand... without any fingerprints...)
Sound: Whack
If that happens, I think you'll do better pleading with Edgeworth.So cold, Phoenix.
About that jar... I think I've seen it before somewhere. "Somewhere"?Sound: Realization
(This must be the most uninformative detective I've ever met...) Something about it makes me uneasy.
(Chief Gant?) Where could I have seen that before...?Now there's a great hint to have buried in a random evidence presentation scene. It's like a reward for being thorough!
You know Officer Marshall? Of course I do! He was like a mentor to me!Gumshoe is three years younger than Marshall.
Really?
Note to self: Detective Gumshoe talks to a cactus...
Sound: Whack
... What? Why are you looking at me like that?Sound: Realization
presentation. To think people are accusing him of injustice... I for one ain't buyin' it, pal!Sound: Whack
You're looking into the case for Mr. Edgeworth?
After all, a serial killer was on the loose!Sound: Realization
(But Lana was pretty clear in her confession.) (She forged evidence in order to prove Joe Darke guilty.)Sound: Realization
Despite the hint to this photo earlier when we presented the jar, Gumshoe doesn't actually have a reaction to the picture itself.
Let's finally get back to that new topic we unlocked five minutes ago.
This knife... it was Joe Darke's, wasn't it?
The knife still showing in the box over Gumshoe's animation...
That's right.
But no one actually witnessed him using it to murder anyone, right? That's where his luck ran out.Sound: Light Bulb
Music: Silence
you'll see it's broken!Sound: Damage 2
I love how Gumshoe presents that as a shocking revelation...
Sound: Realization
... Yeah, well anyway!Sound: Whack
It'd be too easy if it were in any other victim but Neil Marshall.
That's what did him in! Where was it?
Sound: Realization
!Sound: Light Bulb
It was found deep inside the stab wound. Did it match Darke's knife?
Sound: Realization
Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
That's pretty... conclusive.
Sound: Select Jingle
My current theory still holds, though. Just because Neil was stabbed with that knife, doesn't mean he wasn't already dead when it happened, and really killed by some other weapon earlier. In fact, there's a certain elegant poetry to how the SL-9 Incident and the current case parallel each other with their stabbings. Neil Marshall was killed by someone other than Joe Darke, and then stabbed with Darke's knife to frame Darke for it. Two years later, Goodman is killed (by the same villain?) with Darke's knife, only for Lana to stab Goodman again with Edgeworth's knife to try and cover it up. A pair of double stabbings that once again could be what the double-stabbing in the prologue was all about...
Sound: Select Jingle
Nice, two-for-one. With all of Gumshoe's topics now cleared, we get prodded to move on.
Music: Silence
That's all I know. Can I ask you one more thing?
Now I wonder if Gumshoe successfully got some cash out of Gant yesterday.
It's not money, but it does concern the Chief. His office is a "crime scene," right?Oh, right, the whole reason we're here. Gumshoe was so entertaining I forgot all about it.
It's where Prosecutor Neil Marshall was murdered...Sound: Realization
but we'd like to have a look around if that's okay. ...
Sound: Realization
...Really? Why would that be? Can we just use Goodman's ID? Or the one Gant gave us to get into the evidence room?
What? Really!?Sound: Light Bulb
But if I let a civilian in there,
Breach of trust...? Simply put, I'd be canned. Oh... Sorry, pal.
Gumshoe you are a national treasure, of course we don't want you fired. But you wouldn't happen to be willing to "lose" your ID for a little while...?
Music: Dick Gumshoe - Detective Gumshoe, Pal
How about this ID card? It was Detective Goodman's...Sound: Light Bulb
Yeah, that would be way too easy.
Oh. (So in other words, Gumshoe is our only chance of getting into that office.)Sound: Realization
I don't know, that wannabe-author detective probably wouldn't notice if we lifted his card from him for awhile...
Looks like we're being sent on a hunt for more evidence.
Speaking of evidence, let's look at that new autopsy report we just got.
Unfortunately the full text doesn't really say anything that wasn't already in the summary.
Now, where could we go to find something to get Gumshoe to risk his career for us?