Part 128: Episode 5, Day 2, Trial: Washout
Part 128: Episode 5, Day 2, Trial: Washout
Yes, for the third time in this trial day we're using the crime photo. There's a point we're trying to make - where is the blood at the crime scene, for the victim to have stepped in it? And the only evidence making that point for us is this photo that doesn't have any blood on the floor in it.
Music: Silence
Sound: Desk Slam
The... footprint?Sound: Realization
Then... isn't it strange?
Sound: Drama Pound
quote:
Wrong answers not accepted:
...
Music: Silence
I'm guessing your shoe has blood on it too... you just shot yourself in the foot!
Sound: Realization
Would you like a grinder, or a grind from the heel of my boot, Mr. Wright!?
Sound: Objection
Sound: Damage 2
So long two more health sections!
(Man... tough crowd.)
Mr. Wright,
let's be scientific about this! Examine the evidence!
Sound: Gavel
Music: Questioning - Allegro
As I thought, a waste of time.
Let's return to the testimony, shall we?
As you can tell from the music change and the dialogue, we get kicked all the way back to the cross to start over. And no, presenting the shoe still doesn't work....
Music: Objection!
Ah hah!Sound: Light Bulb
As you can see...
Sound: Objection
Sound: Desk Slam
Sound: Objection
Sound: Desk Slam
Then where are they, Mr. Edgeworth? Because...quote:
Original line in the DS release: "If there were bloody prints they would have been found." The new line does seem to fit the confrontation better, but they both lead to the same place.
Sound: Objection
I do very much enjoy the dueling objections and desk slams.
Sound: Gallery
Sound: Gavel x 3
We've finally created enough of a brouhaha to be worthy of the triple gavel strike.
Order! Order! Order! Well, witness!?Sound: Whack
What!? Huh? I, uh...Sound: Light Bulb
Great going, Mr. Wright! But...
But then we have to ask why there wasn't a footprint!Sound: Realization
Oh!Sound: Light Bulb
Think, Mr. Wright, think! ... Hey, I don't know why it's not there.Music: Silence
Sound: Light Bulb
What!?Sound: Whack
Sound: Objection
Not sure why that outburst from Edgeworth wasn't voiced, but buckle up.
I see...Sound: Realization
Now I get it! (Get what!?)
We were hoodwinked to the very end!
Sound: Realization
Music: Suspense
Wh-what are you talking about?Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Wipe
I'll forgive the flashback here because Angel's testimony has been such a dragged-out mess that I don't remember half of it and I have no idea where Edgeworth is going here.
Ah, fuck. Are they going to say the footprint was washed away?
Oh, she's beautiful, but deadly! A predator, this one! A leopard woman! Rowr!
(No kidding!) Now, witness. Allow me to ask a very simple question.
Sound: Realization
Objection, leading the witness! Oh, who am I kidding.
... Oh, that, hmm?Sound: Light Bulb
I'm not sure I like your attitude, Mr. Edgeworth.
Witness! W-well?Sound: Whack
Was the oil drum empty...?
Sound: Realization
Music: Silence
W-water? (What does that mean?)Sound: Light Bulb
Still don't get it, Mr. Wright?
Sound: Drama Pound
Aaaa haaaaah! You don't mean...!Sound: Whack
Yes, the suspect knocked over that oil drum for one reason and one reason alone!Sound: Desk Slam
Sound: Objection
Music: Investigation - Core
Whaaaaaaaaargh!Sound: Stab 2
So? Why did she hang around for five minutes, then decide only when Angel confronted her to go spill the oil drum? It doesn't make sense.
Sound: Gallery
Sound: Gavel
That ties things up quite nicely!
I'm sure there will be some stunning revelation later but so far this trial day isn't really hanging together as neatly as in the other episodes.
Then, after the deed was done, she knocked over the oil drum to erase the telltale signs!
(That reminds me... Ms. Skye's right hand was hurt...)Sound: Wipe
Well... I see no reason to prolong this trial.
W-what!? What can I do?Sound: Stab
B-but...Music: Silence
Sound: Desk Slam
Enough.
Very well...
Sound: Whack
She could have been lying about the water!Sound: Whack
Sound: Gavel
This court, finds the defendant, Ms. Lana Skye...
Sound: Objection
Sure, another random interruption. I feel like this trial day has gone about one testimony too long or one witness too short. We're seeing the same fake-outs over and over.
Sound: Shock 2 x 3
Sound: Wipe
Sound: Drama Pound
Little girl... What did you just say?Sound: Realization
Huh...? M-me?Sound: Light Bulb
Seems self-evident to me, but whatever forestalls that guilty verdict a little longer.
W-well, yeah, you are!
Sound: Desk Slam
Well.
Sound: Realization
Sound: Drama Pound
Oh good, more surprise evidence. We're up to, what, three now? Ms. Starr really would make a good prosecutor.
Music: Suspense
Sound: Desk Slam
The time for deliberations is past.
Your threats don't scare the Cough-up Queen!
Sound: Objection
Sound: Wipe
Sound: Drama Pound
Too bad about that water. At least photographing the crime scene is proper police procedure. Why now is the first time we're seeing a true crime scene photo, on the other hand...
A photograph...?
that the white shoe didn't belong to the victim! Hmm... I see no room for error in this evidence.
Who makes parking garages out of asphalt?
Hey! It's clearly wet!Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Objection
Sound: Gavel
Immediately after the murder, the crime scene was washed with water! I-I'm sorry, Mr. Wright.I'm not. There's no way the water washed away a bloody footprint. The real question in my mind, is what was Lana really trying to wash away when she tipped over that drum?
(It's not your fault... I knew I couldn't win this case from the beginning.) (And... it seems this is what your sister wanted anyway!)
Time for Serious Contemplation.
Sound: Realization
... ... ...Music: Silence
Oh fun, Mia's ghost is haunting us even with Maya nowhere in sight. I guess this scene confirms it's really just Wright's own subconscious all along?
See now there's a quality pun.
Sound: Wipe
...!Sound: Light Bulb
Weird note: Mia's ghost text doesn't come with any of the character blips that accompany most other dialogue. The game is completely silent right now.
Sound: Wipe
Music: Suspense
Music: Silence
Sound: Gavel
Did anyone get a good look at that photo? I was too busy panicking over the water in it.
A lengthy pause on a silent gallery...
Sound: Shock 2 x 4
Sound: Desk Slam
Your Honor, wait!
Whatever it is, can it wait? N-no it can't. Then it will be too late!Sound: Stab
Sound: Objection
Music: Telling the Truth
So, Wright...
Sound: Realization
Maybe, maybe not. Can't I at least look at it for more than a second?
Or that. Might as well bluff, Lana's already about to be declared guilty here.
Yeah, there's a problem! (Right or wrong, I've got to go ahead with this!)Sound: Gavel
Very well, Mr. Wright.
Er, well, that was quicker than I expected. There's a penalty coming up, on this photo that we haven't gotten a good look at until now...
Luckily I'm not on a timer. A quick look around the photo reveals something interesting here...
Sound: Desk Slam
The problem in this photograph... is here!Sound: Objection
Sound: Light Bulb
quote:
No interesting wrong answers on this one I'm afraid...
Sound: Desk Slam
Sound: Objection
Music: Silence
Sound: Realization
Music: Telling the Truth
Sound: Gavel
A simple loop without penalty at least.
Music: Silence
Sound: Objection
Muffler, you say...
Wait just a moment, Mr. Edgeworth!Sound: Whack
Your Honor?
Sound: Realization
I totally called this one when the term first came up. Does the word "muffler" have the same double meaning in Japanese, too? This one seems hard to have localized.
...
I see! And... I see!Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Realization
Hmph! So what if there is something sticking out of the muffler!Sound: Whack
Sorry, Ms. Starr... But it's not going to be that easy!
You said as much in your testimony!!!Sound: Realization
Music: Suspense
Wh-what!?Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Gavel
Let's hear what Mr. Wright has on his mind!
This one's easy if you thought to check the updated evidence description. After Ms. Starr testified about hearing Lana on her cell phone, the phone's description was updated here.
Sound: Desk Slam
Music: Silence
Ms. Starr!
Recall your testimony for the court...quote:
Nothing else will work here, of course.
Music: Silence
Sound: Drama Pound
Sound: Stab
Sound: Whack
Sound: Damage 2
Ouch.
Music: Suspense
Sound: Realization
Sound: Gavel
We repeat from there, headed back to the evidence prompt. Ema provided some rather blatant hints on what to look for, if you got stuck on that one...
Sound: Wipe
That's what had me confused in my earlier testimony!
Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Realization
Music: Suspense
Could it be that the "muffler" you heard mentioned...Sound: Wipe
Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Desk Slam
If so!Music: Silence
Sound: Objection
Sound: Damage 2
Sound: Whack
Sound: Stab 2
These meltdowns were more meaningful when they didn't happen five times in the same trial day.
Music: Trial
Well... It seems we will have to suspend the proceedings. Sus... Suspend!?Sound: Realization
This trial day has been a slog, I'm eager to get back to investigating. I don't really know where to go next though. I think we need to check out that security room still?
I guess we go find the cloth at the crime scene, and it'll lead us somewhere else?
If we leave any question unanswered here we do a disservice to the law!
Maybe we'll have to talk to that cowboy officer to find out about the cloth then.
The verdict will wait until after we've seen all the evidence. Agreed...? ... I suppose so. (Whew... that was close.)
Sound: Gavel
Music: Silence
Wait, just thirty minutes?
It's lunchtime after all! (He's still hungry!?)Sound: Stab
Wait, now I'm confused. Did we finish the trial day or not?
Music: Jingle - It Can't End Here
Apparently we've finished... something?
A peek behind the curtain at my save files reveals the answer. I didn't know what "Trial Former" meant when it started showing up on the save file names with this trial day. However, "Trial Latter" showing up on the current save file makes the meaning a little more clear. These trial days are so long that the game broke them up into multiple segments, and we are only halfway done with this one....