Part 23: Episode 2, Trial: Pulling Threads
Part 23: Episode 2, Trial: Pulling Threads
There are a few different threads to pull at here. However, only one piece of evidence was directly referenced in the testimony...
Music: Questioning - Moderato
I did see everything! I did!
Of course! I'd remember that spiky hair anywhere!
(Spiky...?)
Is that really an attack? Is spiky hair an insult? Is his hair really all that spiky?
Aww, was I a bad girl? I'm sowwy.
The victim--the woman--dodged the first attack and ran off to the right.
Um... which hand do I hold my knife in again...? Right! It was my right hand! Right?
Then the girl in the hippie clothes ran after her...
That's what you--I mean, that's what she was wearing! Oh, and her hair was all done up like a bun!
(*sigh*...)Now that we've given her all these details, she's happy to slip them into her testimony.
And she hit her with that weapon! I saw it! I did!
She picked it up from the desk!
Points to the judge for asking the key question here.
That... that clock! Um... the kinda statue-y clock? "The Thinker," I think? A... clock?Music: Silence
Indeed. Everyone else has been calling the murder weapon a statue again. So how does Miss May know that it's a clock?
(No... but I have a feeling I'm on to something now!)I do like how the music goes quiet here to get the player's attention. We're brought back to the same line of testimony, another hint that we should present a contradiction here. But first let's grab the "start over" dialogue.
Music: Questioning - Moderato
(So this was the testimony in her own words...?) (Time to press and squeeze the truth out of her! Figuratively, of course.)
So is this piece of evidence a statue, or a clock?
Music: Silence
Miss May.Music: Objection!
But there's no way of knowing that just by looking at it!
Urp! Another person in much the same position as you recently called this a "clock,", too...
I'm surprised that statement didn't get an objection, but it gets the crowd buzzing again.
Order! Order!
Oooh... urp!
Goes to credibility, Your Honor. If the witness is lying about the murder weapon, she could be lying about who she saw commit the murder!
Your face is trivial!
What the shit kind of kangaroo court is this? Come on.
Luckily Phoenix grabs this one on his own.
But questions are all I have, Your Honor!Especially when the prosecutor is fabricating evidence! Don't think I've forgotten that one, Edgeworth!
(Well, only once...)
...
I mean, we came all the way here, put on these fancy suits and robes, we might as well try to carry out some justice.
(Whew, that was close.)
You're doing great, keep it up!
What...! Th-that's...
Are you asking me or telling me?
Yes! I heard it say the time!
I heard it from my hotel room. Hee hee!
She could easily have heard the clock!Were the windows even open? I thought the office windows were closed.
Not likely! This thread is the only one we have to pull on!
No, Your Honor! (I can't give up now!)
It's been awhile since the prologue, though we got a reminder along the way. There's no way she could have heard the clock! It wasn't working!
Triumph pose! Guess we got that one right.
quote:
Technically both options are correct; you can't hear a clock that isn't working, after all. Let's see what the first one gives us.
You were at the hotel!
You have proof that she could not?
The prosecution denies your request!
Interesting scene, but I wasn't interested in letting Edgeworth showboat on us again. Anyway, from there we're brought back up to the head shake and get the original prompt again. No penalty, either!
We get another choice here. There's a way to look up the answer if you don't remember, but I'll get to that later. The clock was hollowed out to hold some evidence - it's empty!
We get an immediate crowd reaction from that revelation.
It takes three gavel strikes to quiet everyone down this time.
Oh! See anything interesting, Your Honor?
quote:
The clock is broken! More than just broken, really, but let's see what this option gives us.
Hmm...
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The batteries are not present at all; that kind of counts as them being dead?
Music: Silence
It's quite empty!
Mr. Wright!
It is as you can see.
I wouldn't normally jam three lines of dialogue into one animation, but this shot was a good oppportunity to show off two things: The facial tick that Miss May has on this sprite, and the varying speed at which dialogue is revealed in the text boxes at times.
Well, Miss May?
Tsk tsk. ?
Just like in the first episode, we have one more thing to prove with this statue/clock.
Music: Objection!
Uh-oh, Edgeworth has the fancy objection music now.
Indeed, the clock is empty. As you say... it can't ring. However, we must ask: when was the clockwork removed?
There's a legitimate objection here. The clock wasn't actually empty; it had some evidence stuffed in it, that the killer removed. So in an alternate universe where Maya is guilty, she could have removed the clockwork after the murder. Of course, no clockwork was found on her or in the office, so even if that scenario were true, where did the clockwork go?
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The clock might have been emptied after she heard it.
Well, Mr. Wright?
Ho hoh! Impossible, of course...
We do?
W-what!?
Technically, that line of dialogue is optional and we didn't see it in this run, but go on.
Well, I was listening.Music: Silence
Phoenix was doing so well on his own, I was wondering when we'd have to provide some input again. There are still several items here we haven't used yet, but only one right answer for this prompt. Which one is it?