Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Part #161 - Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter 2: Traps within Traps

Part 161: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter 2: Traps within Traps

Part 161: Episode 5, Final Day, Trial Latter 2: Traps within Traps

Seriously, though, how many times have we presented this damn jar now?

Anyway, despite Lana's statements, it's pretty clear that one piece - the one we found in Gant's safe - wasn't wiped clean. We can actually present the jar on any of Lana's last three statements.

Music: Silence

What?

In the Chief's safe?
^{Sound: Realization}

But how...?

(I knew it! She really didn't know!)

I guess she wasn't paying attention in the last part of the trial.

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Suspense

But the witness just testified...
^{Sound: Whack}

Yes, which leaves us with only one explanation.

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

On the night Prosecutor Marshall was murdered...

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

^{Sound: Objection}

This case has me all tied up in knots. I need to stop believing the serial liars.

Music: Objection!

^{Sound: Gallery}

^{Sound: Gavel x 3}

But couldn't the defendant have simply missed a piece?
^{Sound: Whack}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

I'm afraid that's unlikely.

^{Sound: Objection}

That may well be, but everyone makes mistakes. Even I once wasted an entire day
^{Sound: Whack}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Have you forgotten, Your Honor?

^{Sound: Realization}

Oh, that...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

There's no way a name could have been written on a shattered jar.

^{Sound: Objection}

I hope you're not implying this "person" was Chief Gant. At the time, he was looking

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

...
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Objection}

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

The judge freakout using just his normal head shake sprites... :bravo:

^{Sound: Gallery}

^{Sound: Realization}

Okay, favorite sequence of the game right there.

^{Sound: Realization}

Question:

What is this action called?

Fabrication of evidence.

More like hiding of evidence, but okay.

Music: Investigation - Core

^{Sound: Stab}

In light of what happened afterwards,

isn't it clear?

What happened afterwards...?

The jar was already in pieces when Lana found it; did she still know it said "Ema" on it? Otherwise I'm not sure why she would think Ema had killed Marshall, rather than Darke having shoved him into the armor's sword. Ema and Darke were both unconscious. Maybe Marshall was still alive, and told Lana?

Determined to help her sister,

she sought Gant's aid.

sparing Ema. And therein lies the reason!
^{Sound: Drama Pound}

^{Sound: Objection}

^{Sound: Stab 2}

Hell Lana just bit her thumb so hard she spurted out blood.

N-no... I... I did it on my own...
^{Sound: Desk Slam}

^{Sound: Whack}

I...

I can't watch you suffer any more for my sake...
^{Sound: Desk Slam}

^{Sound: Objection}

Don't believe anything Mr. Wright says!

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

^{Sound: Realization}

Slander! We are paragons of truth!

...

!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

(Wait a minute...)

Music: Silence

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Guilty}

Huh?

Is something wrong, Mr. Wright?

Lana...

may be right after all.
^{Sound: Realization}

! What do you mean, Wright?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Ms. Skye! Please testify once more!

But...

then Ema's accidental killing of Prosecutor Marshall...

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

Oh! Wait a minute, that's right! If Gant got in there ahead of Lana, who knows what he messed with! Hey, maybe the parallel to Mia's killing is even more exact than I thought, and Gant actually faked Ema's name on the jar, too! Maybe Gant even killed Marshall himself, like I originally thought! This episode is so twisty with its fakeouts!

Music: Suspense

B-but,
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

I do remember knocking over Mr. Marshall...

Ms. Skye! If you will...
^{Sound: Whack}

There's nothing to be afraid of anymore.
^{Sound: Realization}

...!

This cross-examination may not change a thing.

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

... Very well.

I'll testify...
^{Sound: Realization}

Music: Silence

about what I really saw.

^{Sound: Gavel}

^{Sound: Testimony 2}

Music: Questioning - Allegro

When I arrived,

I found Mr. Marshall's body impaled on that suit of armor's sword.

That's why I erased all the evidence that linked her to the murder.

But if it all really was a fabrication,

Ema might be innocent!
^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Music: Silence

I don't see anything there, unfortunately. Maybe pressing will reveal something.

Unbelievable!

The body was impaled on the armor's sword?

...

Actually,

I do have proof.
^{Sound: Realization}

!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

Lana you devil.

What?
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

To me!?

I thought it might be needed.

^{Sound: Whack}

Lana must have known...

^{Sound: Gavel}

Music: Logic and Trick

(I don't remember receiving any pictures from Lana...)

I seem to remember getting something from her then...

Let's check that evidence again!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

The game cheats hard here. We're forced into the Court Record, but without the option to present anything. Instead, we have to look at this book Lana gave to us via Gumshoe earlier.

Outside of this special prompt, looking closer at the book just shows the same page of text as when we first got it. Now, though, we can physically examine the book.

Our cursor lights up on the back...

^{Sound: Realization}

Well looky there.

^{Sound: Realization}

One fact immediately jumps out - Neil Marshall's vest is indeed missing part of it, around the same size as the piece of cloth we found earlier with Ema's handprint. Neil also has blood all along his front, likely coughed up from being stabbed in the lung. Now, notice how the blood is present on his shirt, behind the hole in his vest? (There was also no blood on the piece of cloth we found, despite a well-preserved handprint.) Wouldn't that mean he coughed up the blood after Gant had cut out that part of his vest? Meaning, Neil Marshall was still alive when Gant was in the room?

Music: Suspense

Oh... Oh my...
^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Light Bulb}

No other detective saw the crime scene like this...

^{Sound: Select Jingle}

You know, Lana, this day would have been a lot faster if you'd led with this information at the beginning. Ah well.

*gasp* Mr. Wright!
^{Sound: Light Bulb}

(The cloth we found inside Chief Gant's safe!)
^{Sound: Realization}

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Realization}

Whosever fingerprints those are must be

the real murderer!

(What!? But those fingerprints...)

Music: Silence

(They're yours, Ema!)

^{Sound: Desk Slam}

Anyway, let's get on with the cross-examination.

^{Sound: Gavel}

Very well. The defense may now begin its cross-examination.

^{Sound: Testimony 2}

Music: Questioning - Allegro

^{Sound: Objection}

To be clear, that was not an unusually quick press by me.

^{Sound: Shock 2 x 3}

^{Sound: Wipe}

^{Sound: Drama Pound}

quote:

Fun fact - I went back and tried pressing or presenting on that first statement of Lana's cross before the interruption, but the game didn't allow the input. It's a fake cross!

Music: Damon Gant ~ Swimming, Anyone?