Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Part #158 - Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter: Gant Pressure

Part 158: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter: Gant Pressure

Part 158: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter: Gant Pressure

A little more variety in the answers this time, but most of you got it.

We only really have one hope here.

There is one ID number left unidentified on this record. It better belong to Gant.

This is the ID card list...

There was one ID on the list we couldn't determine the owner of yesterday...

7777777.

quote:

Nothing else we have is tied to Gant, so we just get a generic failure for all of it. Wait, what are we going to do the rest of the trial? Ah, that's future me's problem.

...

Well, Chief?

Music: Silence

So long as Wrighto here is tossing out things regardless of their relevance...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

mind if I toss something too, Udgey?

This shoe should do nicely. I'll chuck it right at you!
^{Sound: Realization}

You always were quite the joker, weren't you?

(Oops... Looks like I got it wrong.)

Don't "oops" me! Maybe this boot to the head will knock some sense into you!
^{Sound: Whack}
^{Sound: Damage 2}

Ouch. That penalty was accompanied by physical violence.

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Original line: "Don't 'oops' me! Or I'll be the one throwing my shoe next!" Not as... openly violent?

I know it's hard with all that's gone on during this trial,

but try to think back to what happened in the evidence room four days ago.

The above line is accompanied by a pan of the evidence room. A hint that we need to cast our memory farther back, to yesterday's trial and the investigation that preceded it.

(Now that he mentions it, we did find something during yesterday's investigation...)

(Something that proves Gant entered that room...)
^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Suspense

Looks like he wants another one of your boots, Udgey.
^{Sound: Whack}

...

I see.

Alright, then.

Let's see what Mr. Wright's got. And it'd better be good!

Show us this evidence that ties Chief Gant to the murder of Detective Goodman.

We get dumped back at the same prompt as before, ready to try again. The hint is pretty nice here, since it's been awhile since we've had to think about that ID card record.

Music: Silence

It's your number.
^{Sound: Realization}

!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

What!? How do you know that!?
^{Sound: Whack}

A seven-digit code...

Seven digits...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

You don't mean...
^{Sound: Whack}

The same as the remaining ID card number on that list!

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

Music: Pressing Pursuit - Cornered

Yes, music and sprite change! Get him!

^{Sound: Gallery}

^{Sound: Gavel}

Order! Order!

^{Sound: Whack}

... Nothing.

^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

about the use of this ID card!
^{Sound: Drama Pound}

...

^{Sound: Gavel}

Chief Gant!
^{Sound: Whack}

So you admit it?

on the day of the crime!?
^{Sound: Whack}

...

^{Sound: Realization}

what's the difference? I can go anywhere I want.

Tell me.

When you entered the room...

were you alone?

^{Sound: Whack}
^{Sound: Clapping}

Detective Goodman wouldn't have happened to be with you that day...

would he?

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

I hadn't seen him in days!

You hadn't seen him... "in days"? Chief Gant...

^{Sound: Realization}

I can't remember if I explicitly heard the solution to this upcoming question earlier, or just guessed at it a long time ago.

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

^{Sound: Objection}

^{Sound: Gavel}

What do you mean?
^{Sound: Whack}

No it isn't, Your Honor.

This trial's purpose is to determine the truth.
^{Sound: Drama Pound}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

then we need to determine one thing:

^{Sound: Objection}

^{Sound: Gavel}

Show us proof that the victim went to meet Chief Gant on the day of the crime!

The connection here is easy to overlook, but see that description? Goodman would have had to talk to Gant about his lost ID, especially with him needing to do the evidence transferal that day.

Detective Goodman lost his ID card on the day of the crime.

Or to be more accurate, Jake Marshall stole it.

So Detective Goodman filled out a lost item report.

^{Sound: Realization}

Yet you are in possession of the report...

which means you can't be sure if he filed it.

He filed it.

How do I know, you ask?

^{Sound: Objection}

He needed to?

Yes.

To transfer the evidence out.
^{Sound: Realization}

Oh...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Then...

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

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Nothing else will work here:

(No, there's got to be something more solid than this!)
^{Sound: Stab}

(On that day...)

(Detective Goodman had to go see Chief Gant!)
^{Sound: Realization}

Sorry to interrupt your mumblings...

but the court is waiting.
^{Sound: Damage 2}

Rather tame penalty that time, but a penalty all the same.

(Oops...)

Why don't you come meet with me tomorrow?

Perhaps we could write up your letter of... termination?

Regardless, you did see Detective Goodman that day!

^{Sound: Gavel}

In that case, Mr. Wright! I'm going to have to ask you for evidence!

Show us proof that the victim went to meet Chief Gant on the day of the crime!

And we're back at the evidence prompt, needing to get this one right to continue.

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Gallery}

I, the Chief of Police,

murdered poor Goodman!
^{Sound: Realization}

...

Exactly.

Music: Suspense

But wait!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

He could have just lent him his ID card.

Yes...
^{Sound: Realization}

Sorry,

but that's not possible.

!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

I'm glad Edgeworth is handling this one for us.

Yet you showed us your ID card earlier.

If you had really "lent" it to Detective Goodman,

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Objection}

Assuming Gant wouldn't have covered that up, too...

^{Sound: Drama Pound}
^{Sound: Damage 2}

Whoa. That meltdown looked more like a JRPG boss fight death scene. Which means we must have at least two more phases to this battle.

Music: Investigation - Core

^{Sound: Gallery}

^{Sound: Gavel x 3}

Chief Gant!
^{Sound: Whack}

Y-you didn't...!

...

would choose the Police Department as a place to commit murder.

^{Sound: Realization}

You're forgetting, Mr. Wright,

How did he manage to move it there?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

I was at the Police Department the entire day, you know.

Does Edgeworth really not know? I thought this one was pretty self-evident after the second investigation day.

Everyone except me, it seems...

Still, you're the Chief of Police.

^{Sound: Realization}

Weak.

Oh, so you think I just ordered an officer to do it?

^{Sound: Whack}

Chief Gant. You left all the evidence we need...

^{Sound: Realization}

(And all this time I thought it was a useless clue just taking up space...)

Oh good, we're using that already.

^{Sound: Gavel}

How could the Chief have moved the body!?

Mr. Wright! Show us this evidence!

This one isn't too tough, thanks to the hint Phoenix gave us.

Oddly, it seems like this trial day is moving too fast. I wasn't expecting to use this item until much later, but here we are.

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

What's that?

A screwdriver?
^{Sound: Realization}

Mr. Edgeworth.

Think back to the day of the crime.

It's here because...

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Wipe}

After the ceremony ended that day,

I didn't plan to return to the Prosecutor's Office.

^{Sound: Realization}

You mean I... I...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

The body was found in the trunk of Mr. Edgeworth's car.

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Objection + Drama Pound}

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While it wasn't brought up directly there, we can also present the parking slip instead, and most of the scene just gets flipped:

Music: Silence

This is how he moved Detective Goodman's body!
^{Sound: Drama Pound}

A parking stub?

"Miles Edgeworth"...
^{Sound: Realization}

You mean...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

The body was found in the trunk of Mr. Edgeworth's car.

^{Sound: Wipe}

I think it's obvious what happened.

The body was moved by that car!
^{Sound: Objection}

Just like at the end of the scene for presenting the screwdriver, the last two lines are shown over the image of Goodman's body in the open trunk, with the final line coming with Phoenix's big-head sprite overlaying it.

Music: Telling the Truth

^{Sound: Gallery}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

You mean I... I... I carried the victim's body!?
^{Sound: Whack}

Precisely so.

But wait!
^{Sound: Whack}

Even you know...

I didn't plan on returning to my office...

after the ceremony finished that day.

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

But you did return!

Tell me, why?
^{Sound: Realization}

...

A-AAAHHHH...!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Wipe}

We now flash back to Edgeworth's office the other day...

I... was asked to go. By Chief Gant no less.

^{Sound: Wipe}

He told me he wanted me to keep it here in the Prosecutor's Office.

The screwdriver is shown here...

^{Sound: Wipe}

In any case, on the day of the stabbings, I brought this back here.

So you see...

what you were really taking to the Prosecutor's Office wasn't the screwdriver...

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

but the victim's body in your trunk!
^{Sound: Objection}

We proceed the same from here as presenting the screwdriver...

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Nothing else will work here:

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Music: Silence

Well!?

I see...

Maybe I'll use this later...

to move your dead body, Mr. Wright.
^{Sound: Realization}

Huh?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

And I'll help you dispose of it!
^{Sound: Damage 2}

Boom! Penalty there.

Music: Investigation - Core

(Chief Gant stayed at the P.D. and Lana stayed at the Prosecutor's Office...)

(That leaves only one possible way he could have moved the body.)

(The only problem is, how did he get him to do it?)

(Maybe that piece of evidence really did have something to do with this case!)

I'll ask you again, Mr. Wright.

^{Sound: Gavel}

How could the Chief have moved the body!?

Mr. Wright! Show us this evidence!

To move the victim's body... Chief Gant used this!

Pretty good hints from Phoenix there, as long as we have enough health sections remaining to take another stab at it.