Part 152: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Former: Sketchy Sketch
Part 152: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Former: Sketchy Sketch
I kind of miss the mechanic last episode where Phoenix would discard evidence that was no longer needed. There's no way that all of this stuff is still relevant.
Anyway, I initially thought that Ema's last statement had a contradiction in it, but between the pressing and the new line of testimony we got, the game pretty clearly wants us to focus on this list first.
Or rather, what's on the back of it.
Music: Silence
Mr. Edgeworth.
Sound: Desk Slam
Sound: Objection
Phoenix dunking on Edgeworth to score drama points. Kind of mean when he's trying to help us out here, but I think we owe him a couple jabs.Music: Objection!
Huh!?Sound: Stab
Sound: Desk Slam
Hey, I'm not the bad guy!
Sound: Whack
That may well be...
Sound: Realization
This is... the evidence list for the SL-9 Incident?
Please turn it over, Your Honor.
Sound: Objection
Sound: Wipe
Sound: Drama Pound
I like this reveal. It nicely mirrors the end of the second episode, where we solved the final contradiction by turning over the bloody note to reveal the receipt for the lamp. We didn't have control over the evidence in that case, but we do in this one! I wonder if someone got to this point without actually finding the picture on the back?
Yes, what is that?
Sound: Light Bulb
Sound: Gallery
Sound: Realization
Edgeworth already regrets helping us.
What's the meaning of this!?Sound: Whack
Sound: Drama Pound
Me...?
Important note: Pictured is Edgeworth showing his own copy of the list. Or what I earlier thought was a copy...
Huh...?
Sound: Realization
What?Sound: Light Bulb
It would appear, Mr. Edgeworth,
These two lists... fit together to form one.
So you see, Mr. Edgeworth. It's quite obvious what happened. Two years ago...
Sound: Realization
What...Music: Silence
Sound: Stab 2
Sound: Gallery
Sound: Gavel
Order! Order!
When Ema first told us the story about how she tried to talk about what she saw but couldn't, and instead drew a picture, the game showed an image of her on the witness stand in an empty courtroom. I guess it was never explicitly said that she tried to testify at trial and couldn't, but it was certainly implied there. However this interaction happening during questioning makes a lot more sense.
quote:
The previous two panels were pretty different in the original translation. They don't even make any sense:
Judge: "Who'd have thought the picture would have been drawn on the back of the list..."
Ema: "That was handed to Detective Goodman in the questioning room?"
(Wait a minute...)Sound: Wipe
Sound: Desk Slam
Your Honor!
Sound: Light Bulb
If the evidence list was torn in half...
Sound: Objection
Huh. It never remotely occurred to me that the picture was torn in half, too. It seemed pretty complete. I guess earlier I was thinking that Ema drew the picture on the list after it had been torn in half (since I thought it happened at the trial, not during questioning).
Music: Investigation - Core
...!Sound: Light Bulb
Yes, that's quite conceivable.Sound: Stab
Mr. Edgeworth?
Sound: Light Bulb
MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!! Is something wrong?Sound: Realization
(Do you even have to ask?)Sound: Realization
The game pauses on Edgeworth's shocked reaction as the screen shakes for a few moments.
Sorry, Your Honor.Sound: Realization
It's that... that... thing!Sound: Objection
Sound: Wipe
Sound: Drama Pound
What the hell is that doing in Ema's picture!? Wait, so I do vaguely remember the prologue video showing a silhouette of the Blue Badger in a window. But how could Ema have seen the Dancing Blue Badger two years ago? Didn't Gumshoe just create the thing recently? Even the stuffed mascot that the Chief Detective had seemed like it was a recent thing, but looking back I guess the game never explicitly said that. What if, instead, Ema really saw the thing the Blue Badger is named and modeled after - a police badge?
Music: The Blue Badger ~ I Want to Protect You
... That's that... that thing!
Sound: Realization
Could it really be an unrelated doodle from someone else?
quote:
Original line: "Apparently the Head of Criminal Affairs used this for his blueprint." Other than the job title change, the new line seems like it portrays the chief as more... whimsical, with his design?
(I guess he was out of scrap paper...)
...
Sound: Select Jingle
We never actually mentioned where we found our half of the list. Or looked at what evidence was withheld on that half of the list. Maybe later?
Hmm. If I look at this thing sideways, those two marks in the corners look an awful lot like the upper edges of the large window in Gant's office.
Sound: Gavel
Music: Silence
Very well. Witness.
Ema was pretty silent on if that other half of the picture was part of her drawing or not.
...
Huh?Sound: Light Bulb
Oh, Y-yes sir, Your Honor! (What's wrong with Ema?)
Trying to remember if she really saw the Blue Badger that night or not?
Sound: Testimony 2
Music: Questioning - Moderato
I wonder if Ema really saw Darke stabbing Marshall, or if they were reversed? Or if someone else was in there?
After that I must have fainted.
Music: Silence
Not a whole lot there, is there?
Well, I don't see any contradictions here.
... The defense may now begin its cross-examination.
Sound: Testimony 2
Music: Questioning - Moderato
(That's strange...)
(And yet...)
Sound: Realization
Uh, there is?
This is the picture I drew two years ago.
Did you draw this picture right after the incident? Um...
I think I drew it two or three days later.
During that time the investigation team was reorganized. Detective Goodman was placed in charge...
(Two or three days later...) (The memory should still have been fresh in her mind.) Excuse me, witness,
The flash of lightning was so bright all I could see were shadows.
No... I couldn't see him clearly.
Sound: Realization
You were knocked to the floor? Darke had a tight grip on me, but when Mr. Marshall jumped on him,
Sound: Thud 4
Sound: Wipe
(Poor Ema... I'm just glad she wasn't hurt.) What happened after the lightning flashed? After that I must have fainted. You mean, you didn't see the actual murder take place? No. I-I'm sorry...
but the trauma of the situation understandably caused the witness to faint.Sound: Desk Slam
Sound: Objection
What!?Sound: Stab 2
Hey, I'm not the bad guy here! Anyway, this picture...
I don't usually show screenshots for the testimony statements during crosses, but this line is the first one that accompanies a picture instead of just a headshot of the speaker. Probably relevant...
Sound: Desk Slam
Of course! This is the exact scene! It wasn't influenced in any way from your talks with the detectives?Sound: Desk Slam
Sound: Realization
No, no. Of course not.Sound: Stab
(I'd better watch out, or he might find some way to cut MY salary!)
so I don't think anyone's story would have influenced me... Mr. Wright.
Sound: Realization
Apparently?
Huh?Sound: Light Bulb
Oh, well... ...
That's all for the presses. Phoenix clearly thinks there's something wrong with this picture. I'm not sure I'm seeing something definitive, but what do we have that could possibly show something wrong with this picture?