Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Part #164 - Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter 2: Chekhov's Law

Part 164: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter 2: Chekhov's Law

Part 164: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter 2: Chekhov's Law

I was wondering if the only point of us getting this book was to find the picture in it, but I'm glad all the talk about evidence law is finally paying off.

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Music: Silence

What's this?
^{Sound: Realization}

I've done my homework too, Chief.

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

However!

What?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Realization}

quote:

Getting this one wrong:

Music: Silence

It seems...

your very existence is "illegal."

Huh...?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

You've lost it, Wright. All this time I thought you were using the Chief's

knowledge of the law to trap him. It looks like you're the one who got trapped.

I guess

I should just stick to what I'm used to.
^{Sound: Realization}

I never expected to hear that coming from a defense attorney.
^{Sound: Damage 2}

There's the penalty...

Music: Suspense

(Gant's a pro at slipping through loopholes in the law...)

(Still the law's the only weapon)

(I can use to beat him!)

^{Sound: Gavel}

Very well.

Let us settle this once and for all.

Earlier you refused to present evidence.

If you can prove your conduct was not in violation of the law, then do so now!

And we're back at the evidence prompt for another try.

Music: Investigation - Core

...!

I found this piece of evidence myself...

inside your safe.

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

And here is the crux of the matter.

between the cloth and the SL-9 Incident.
^{Sound: Realization}

What!? What kind of nonsense
^{Sound: Damage 2}

is this!?
^{Sound: Whack}

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^{Sound: Realization}

Lana showed the picture when it was first entered into the Court Record, but I guess that doesn't count? After that, we didn't present it until after we'd been asked if we had any conclusive evidence to show.

That was shown

only a few moments ago!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

No...

He's right.

At the beginning of today's trial,

The elegance of this plan hinges on Phoenix's exact wording the first time he refused to show the cloth: "I don't have any evidence I can present at this point in time." Meaning, he does have evidence, but he can't show it! I take back my snark on that flashback last update, it was a good way to foreshadow/hint at this point and I missed it both when the line was originally said and in the flashback.

The person who gave it value as evidence...

^{Sound: Realization}

Gant gave us the timeline we'd only been guessing at, with regard to when exactly the piece of cloth was cut out of the vest. It could have been weeks earlier for all we knew at the time, or from a different vest entirely!

...!

You yourself confessed to a certain "truth."

^{Sound: Wipe}

On the day of the crime,

Oh, yes!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}
^{Sound: Clapping}

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as conclusive evidence.

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The only person who could have cut this from the victim's vest...

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Music: Silence

^{Sound: Drama Pound}
^{Sound: Objection}

N.. N...

Mmph...

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Drama Pound}
^{Sound: Guilty x 2 + Clapping}

Music: Damon Gant ~ Swimming, Anyone?

^{Sound: Drama Pound}
^{Sound: Fast Clapping x 3}

^{Sound: Drama Pound}
^{Sound: Guilty x 2 + Fast Clapping x 3}

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The clapping gets so fast here I can't even capture it properly...

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^{Sound: Guilty x 3 + Fast Clapping x 3}

Now that is an epic breakdown. I didn't even notice that Gant's song had started up until all the noise died down there. What I tried to show there didn't really do that scene any justice, so here's a video in all its glory instead.

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^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Pop + Whack}

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Well, your crime wasn't exactly petty.

He wanted to reinvestigate the case.

Detective Goodman?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Yeah,

that's right.

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Gunshot 4}

Please, you've got to help me!
^{Sound: Gunshot 4}

Still, Jake Marshall didn't know when to quit.

Goodman came to me that day.

I went with him to the evidence room.

Then all of a sudden he decided to speak out!
^{Sound: Whack}
^{Sound: Clapping}

^{Sound: Wipe}

Music: Recollection ~ The SL-9 Incident

Can you please reopen the investigation, Chief?

quote:

Original line: "He... told me to open up the evidence room and take it out." Good edit, the original line doesn't really make sense and distracts from the scene. Kind of like what I'm doing now.

Goodman would still be alive if he'd just agreed to help Jake Marshall in the first place. Gant never would have been in the evidence room if Marshall hadn't stolen his ID.

I had a bad feeling when he came to see me, but I never thought he'd bring up SL-9.

^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Stab 2}

I couldn't just pull it out.

Music: Recollection ~ The SL-9 Incident

quote:

Original line: "You would only increase the amount of blood and you couldn't finish what you started." Also doesn't really make sense. There were more than two lines in this scene that changed like this, but I only showed the two biggest changes. Kind of a rough first translation here I guess?

Even so, the blood was just pouring out.

I was worrying so much about the floor,

I didn't realize my fatal mistake.
^{Sound: Whack + Clapping}

^{Sound: Realization}

That handprint proved that Goodman was stabbed in the evidence room before Meekins put the Blue Badger in there.

I used to be known as the "crime computer"...

^{Sound: Whack + Clapping}

I had no business doing any of it.

Then you put the body in my car?

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

So in the end, Edgeworth was just in the wrong place at the wrong time? The murder was spur-of-the-moment, and the cover-up a panicked improvisation rather than a clever attempted frame-job? I'm almost disappointed.

I broke your trunk, but what's the big deal?

^{Sound: Realization}

Grr...

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

L-leaving the prosecution's car aside...

^{Sound: Damage 2}

Well, she had as much to lose as I did if the truth came out.
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

The blackmail would have been simple, really. Just say that Goodman figured out that Ema killed Neil Marshall, and had to be silenced, and Lana better dispose of the body quietly if she didn't want the "truth" about Ema to come out.

I felt bad for having to do it.

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Realization}

We never found out what the glove meant in relation to SL-9; it just got used to show that the locker was stuck unlocked when Jake Marshall opened it. Those jar fragments, though... Gant really screwed up leaving those behind. We presented that jar like 18 times today.

... Yeah...
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Music: Silence