Part 132: Episode 5, Day 2, Investigation: Hidden Evidence

Part 132: Episode 5, Day 2, Investigation: Hidden Evidence

Music: Silence



We appear straight back at the office.

Music: Ema Skye ~ Turnabout Sisters Theme

Uh... um, Mr. Wright! So...


^{Sound: Realization}

Don't think I've forgotten that you got a phone call from your sister where she told you to check the muffler and you never told us about it. You managed to be a lot less annoying during the trial segments but you still haven't been useful yet.

I... I'm a little confused.

Huh!? W-well, um... let's see. (What is going on?)





What's this "and the evidence room" part!?
^{Sound: Whack}

Ema did you not pay attention to that entire last update?



I knew that timing was too specific to not come up again.

...

Well... that's what we're going to find out. (Or try to, at least...)



(Glad she's in good spirits, but I'm not sure she's going to be much help with this...)


^{Sound: Realization}

Phoenix's face really just displays all of his thoughts, doesn't it?

Music: Silence

Huh?

Look, we're in this together, right?




Let's go! Science awaits us!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}





We're taken directly to the... crime scene? Place the body was found? Whatever, here's Edgeworth's car again.

Music: Ema Skye ~ Turnabout Sisters Theme



Bold statement, considering that bringing up that murder was the only thing that kept your sister from being convicted today.



(Yeah! It was only our victim who was killed in their evidence room. No biggie.)


Besides, my sister would never do such a thing! I know it...




<sup>Sound: Realization


Sound: Realization</sup>

I guess we're going to investigate this sequence a little further?





But why did Lana tip over the oil/water drum? Just to distract/cover up the fact that she hid the knife in the muffler?

(Even though she says they don't get along, Ema really likes her sister...)

That's not it at all!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

It's just...



(Big words for a high school student.)

Well, whether there was blood on the floor or not...

The water in that oil drum washed it all away.

He he heh.

Music: Silence


^{Sound: Realization}

Ooh, are we going to get to play with luminol?

Huh? What's that grin for?


^{Sound: Objection}

L-luminol?
^{Sound: Realization}



Even if you can't see it, it's still there...

But wouldn't the police have already done those tests?


^{Sound: Whack}

I'm not sure how thoroughly the police would investigate a crime scene where they caught the murderer red-handed and had a confession, even if they weren't obviously involved in some kind of set-up here.

Just give it a try!

M-me? Why do I have to do it!?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}



(We're testing blood stains with this stuff, not drinking it...)



Huh? You had an extra pair of those things?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Music: Logic and Trick



Luminol reacts with blood to glow in a dark room. I guess I'll accept using special glasses instead as a gameplay convenience, and a fun explanation for Ema's glasses. I'll also ignore the fact that Ema was holding out on us with this spray yesterday, and just go play with it now.


^{Sound: Spritz}

Press "Enter" to spray it on.

Okay! Let's find us some bloodstains!



We're brought to what looks like a specialized examine screen with a red color filter over everything.


^{Sound: Spritz}

The spray has a pretty wide area of effect, as you can see. Apparently there's no blood where the body was actually lying, though...?


^{Sound: Spritz}

Another spray seems to have fully revealed what the game wants us to examine further.


^{Sound: Photo Snap x 3}

Not a lot of blood, is there? And nothing that looks like a footprint, either.

(I can see her eyes shining behind those glasses...)
^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Silence

So, is this a bloodstain?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}



Ema, you're shaking.
^{Sound: Whack}



(Scientific investigation in action...)



But, doesn't something strike you as odd? Scientifically speaking, of course?



I know it's the second option, but the game didn't let me save here so we might as well let Ema lecture us some more.

Why, the bloodstain's location of course! It's elementary!
<sup>Sound: Realization


Sound: Light Bulb</sup>



... I suppose you might think that.


^{Sound: Whack}

(There is something odd about this bloodstain...)

(But if it's not the location of the blood, then maybe...)

Maybe it's the amount of blood that's odd?



^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Music: Ema Skye ~ Turnabout Sisters Theme

I mean...



(It IS pretty strange!)

(If they fought here, there'd have to have been more blood than this.)
^{Sound: Realization}

Uh, h-hey, Mr. Wright!



I guess that's close enough?





...You'll do.

Uh, yeah. And this stuff's pretty handy, too.


I saved up my allowance to buy that!


^{Sound: Select Jingle}

Oddly, a bottle of luminol spray isn't actually that expensive, so a forensics-obsessed teenager saving up for some checks out. Does she have a fingerprint kit hidden away in that bag, too?

We can't be sure that the police will reveal all their evidence in court.

Music: Silence



Then let's drag that "hidden evidence" out into the light of day!

Yeah!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}



(Guess I should give this a spray on anything suspicious.)


Hah!
^{Sound: Realization}



Oh, go away.

Ms. Starr!

Music: Happy People

You only trust your own eyes, hm?

Not bad, you two...


^{Sound: Realization}

Sorry, it's just, that kind of lead in doesn't really get my mouth watering.



After all that, we're finally set free to explore. And to spray everything we see with luminol.



We can use the luminol from the Court Record, with a handy "spray" button.



First, let's take a closer look at the luminol itself.



Something on the bottom?



"Ema Skye"
^{Sound: Realization}

Don't tell me you bring this with you everywhere you go.



(Just what kind of a world do you think we live in...?)

Okay, Ema just crossed over into adorable now.


^{Sound: Spritz}

Several minutes of spritzing later...



Not too surprising we'd find some blood here. Lana's hands were bloody and we heard that the first thing she did was try to use this phone. With her bloody hands.


^{Sound: Photo Snap x 3}

I am a big fan of the triple zoom "enhance!" on the glowing blood marks. I feel like we've entered a CSI game now. I used to love those as a kid.

This blood must be from when Lana...


^{Sound: Whack}

But she did call you, didn't she?

At the time of the crime?
^{Sound: Realization}

...

And her right hand is bandaged.


^{Sound: Damage 2
Sound: Whack}

This has nothing to do with "taking sides."

(So... This means that Lana's hand had blood on it.)

(This just keeps getting worse...)

Eh, not sure we're really any worse off. I'm still not sure which knife Lana cut her hand on, even.



A quick look at the map shows the new blood mark is highlighted there.



Time to look around with our eyes instead of our spray bottle. I still want to get into this security room.



You can probably see quite a lot from up there.

(Hmm...)





Was Goodman begging to be finished off after bleeding out for an hour? Did Lana take out the knife and stab him again to implicate herself? Was she trying to cut him free of some restraints? So many questions still.



Where's the security guard, anyway?



But apparently he went out to buy coffee for Ms. Starr.
^{Sound: Realization}

(That woman is a force to be reckoned with...)





She says this, like we weren't here yesterday looking at the same thing.

It sure helped us knock a hole in that testimony today.

Come to think of it, this divider helped our case more than the actual witness.


^{Sound: Realization}

It's just a wall. (Scientifically speaking...)



Why did Lana tip over the water? I'm not really buying that it was just to wash away her blood spatter, given how she stayed put and confessed.

So, this is the famous oil drum.

Good use of repitition there, Phoenix said that line just like how Ema did about the divider.



Hii-yah!
^{Sound: Tong}

......
^{Sound: Realization}

Th-that's okay. Don't cry. (That Lana Skye must be one strong woman...)
^{Sound: Stab}



I almost forgot to look over here again.

"B Block" is through there. That's where visitors park.



I-it seems so, yeah. (That fence is 9 feet high at least!)



...But why?


^{Sound: Thud 4}

......

I-it's okay, don't cry. (Maybe there's a Lunchland Olympics team?)
^{Sound: Stab}

More nice repetition with the oil drum line.





Yup, it's pretty red alright.

(The body was found in Edgeworth's car trunk...)

(And the lock on the trunk was broken too...)



Hey look, a typo they forget to clean up in the new release.

So, what model car is it?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

...



Those are car types, Mr. Wright. Not models.


^{Sound: Whack}

Sexist!

(Maybe it is about time I got my driver's license...)



That's where we found that note.

"2/21 SL-9"... The SL-9 Incident.



I didn't point it out earlier, but in the Court Record the note has been flipped over (as shown here) so it reads the way it's supposed to now.

(And the detective in charge of the case was the victim.)



It's kind of hard to guess just knowing the case number.

Well, we know it was a stabbing. Given the knife was the murder weapon. I assume the victim didn't choke on it.



I've heard enough from Angel Starr to last a lifetime already, but we might as well get talking to her out of the way and enjoy the rest of the episode from there.

You certainly put me in a tight spot today.

My apologies Ms. Starr, but...



Oh, we know.

Haha I love that burn Ema.

I witnessed everything from that security room right there.



I was wrong to think that. I'm sorry.


^{Sound: Whack}

Pretty sanctimonious from someone still lying to us about the phone call from her sister.

...

Music: Silence



Little girl, don't forget what's important here.
<sup>Sound: Realization




Sound: Objection</sup>

Ah...
<sup>Sound: Realization


Sound: Drama Pound</sup>

...!



...The crime scene photo? The one that we got during trial and then immediately used three times already? There's still more to figure out about it?

Music: Happy People



I immediately forget to go look at the photo again in the name of finishing conversations.

So... you were a detective, weren't you, Ms. Starr?



No matter how hardened the criminal, when they faced me...



They coughed it up.
^{Sound: Realization}

Coughed it... up?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

They confessed.

They babbled like babies.


^{Sound: Realization}

If Damon Gant is the "demon" in this episode, does that make him the opposite of Angel Starr? His trial appearance sure was a lot briefer; he got his job done, in and out with one testimony.

I wouldn't doubt it.

Every day, I dragged the dirt out of the mouths of suspect after suspect...


^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Yeah, I got it the first time.



Never mind, apparently Ema needed it explained several times.

And... you were "let go"? Er... fired?





And if these prim and proper prosecutors hadn't let me go, I'd still be one today.




^{Sound: Realization}

You know, I would appreciate not having to wait until the final day to figure out what we're really investigating for once. I don't suppose you'll actually tell us about it?

Music: Silence

SL-9!? (Wait! She doesn't mean...!)
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Music: Happy People



No such luck.



Maybe there's more locked away behind some of our evidence.



Immediately worth it.

Huh? I-it's not! It's my attorney's badge!
^{Sound: Stab}

...



Look, my badge isn't up for sale. Not yet, at least.

All these newcomers out to make Phoenix sell his badge.





Back when you were the Cough-up Queen, right?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

We found this ID card here in this parking lot...



But...

It's the same ID as the man who was killed at the Police Department.
^{Sound: Realization}

...

That's impossible.

(I wish I could be so sure...)



She still ignores the trophy with the same long spiel about tea, so we'll skip over to the knife. Uh, the first knife.

A body with Edgeworth's knife stuck in it was found in Edgeworth's car.



Gratitude?
^{Sound: Realization}

Why, if I hadn't witnessed the crime...


^{Sound: Light Bulb}

(Hmm... I wonder.)

Still, it's strange.


^{Sound: Realization}

Ms. Starr seems like the kind of detective who hyper-focuses on the first suspect she thinks of and ignores everything else.



Um... What do you think about this?



Yeah, we get the same scene here for presenting either object.

Goodman...


^{Sound: Realization}

Really?



It was due for transferal the very day that Goodman was killed.



As I suspected...


^{Sound: Realization}

Do you think you could tell us more about the SL-9 Incident?

You'd think we'd get a new conversation topic there, but not just yet.



I've got an even crazier idea. What if Lana wasn't telling Ema about the knife in the muffler in the muffler? What if Lana was telling Ema to put it there herself?




^{Sound: Wipe}



That's when you heard her talking about the "muffler," right?



The red car's muffler, and the prosecutor's red muffler!

(What was Ms. Skye really trying to say, I wonder?)





You know, I actually hadn't thought of that.

But... even I get flustered sometimes.

So, you went straight to the scene of the crime?





In other words... five minutes after the crime?

Those five minutes are the whole problem...



Something very sneaky happened during those five minutes, didn't it?

The five minutes weren't the problem, Ms. Starr, you lying was the problem!
^{Sound: Whack}



And I wasn't going to have it disregarded again!
^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Silence

Just like that time...

(That time...?)
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Ah, there's the last trigger we need. I guess needing to present the photo is why the earlier conversation brought up the photo again.

Music: Happy People



Sure enough, new topic. Angel doesn't respond to the shoe or anything else we have, so let's dive right in.

That incident really opened up my eyes to the truth.



Music: Silence

Disposable? To who?

Two years ago... it was the biggest case I'd ever handled.


^{Sound: Wipe}

Music: Recollection ~ The SL-9 Incident



Let's see, we've got Starr, Marshall, Goodman, and... some unknown fourth guy?

So... they didn't solve it?

On the contrary.


^{Sound: Realization}

(E-executed...?)

Yes, the criminal got what was coming to him. It doesn't get any cleaner than that.


^{Sound: Realization}

...Edgeworth you didn't fabricate evidence to get someone killed in your first case did you?

What!? But the criminal was executed, right?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

On the basis of evidence... of a sort. Made up evidence.


^{Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Realization}

...

The best part came several months after the trial.

Every detective involved with the case was dealt with.



Others got shanked in the evidence room two years later...

And... you were one of those?

Myself, and one other person you know well.

(Wait, could it be...?)



Exactly. Detective Jake Marshall.
^{Sound: Realization}



And these two ended up being key figures in the current case somehow...










And then... it was over. And he was demoted.



However...


^{Sound: Realization}

You haven't forgotten SL-9?



And no one up in their fancy offices can stop us.

Wait!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Th-those lunches you sell...




^{Sound: Realization}

(Ms. Starr's old boyfriends... How many does she have, anyway?)

(Just when all the detectives on SL-9 have disappeared, we find new evidence...)

We did?

Music: Silence



So, Rookie...
^{Sound: Realization}

Wh-what!



Yes.



Then you should take this.
^{Sound: Realization}

A... Salisbury Steak Lunch?




^{Sound: Select Jingle}

Now we just have to find him.

Music: Investigation - Core

Um, Ms. Starr...?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}



Are you g-g-g-going out!?
^{Sound: Whack}

Why do you want to know?
^{Sound: Realization}

I was just wondering what happened to him?



Ema were you not paying attention to the last conversation? Your sister basically demoted him to protect one of her prosecutors. Or maybe herself.

He got along so well with my sister, it made me jealous.

And... he was nice to me too, back then.

(This would be when Officer Marshall was a detective.)

But now...

now he's so cold!

...



We're putting the past to rest, as it were.

Nothing more than that.

I... I see.

Thank you.

(Officer Jake Marshall... Hmm...)



One last thing to do here...



Um...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Y-you, and Officer M-Marshall, you... uh...

A-a-a-a-are y-you... Are you going out!?

...



We're just putting the past to rest.

Thank you.

I'm not sure why we had to repeat that conversation there, but whatever.



Let's give this steak lunch a closer look.

Wow, my mouth is watering!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}



No doubt it's all cold and tough by now.

No, I'm sure it's delicious!



So long as she didn't put any other organs in there...



Some kind of label on the bottom?

Let's see...

"Ingredients: Meat"
<sup>Sound: Realization


Sound: Light Bulb</sup>

Uh... yeah. Let's hope so.



Go to town.


^{Sound: Realization}

So that's why the sauce is so salty...

...Yeah, never eating one of these box lunches.



I think we've fully checked out the crime scene at this point. We've acquired our key item and marked up the map with some blood, and otherwise got a little more background on SL-9. No new destinations here, but we have a few options on where to go. So where to next?