Part 18: Investigation: Bad News Maya - We're Your Lawyer
Part 18: Episode 2: Investigation: Bad News Maya - We're Your Lawyer
Back to the Detention Center we go!
Music: Silence
It's almost time for Maya to receive a court-appointed lawyer. And we have completely failed at securing her a better option.
Hiya.
Did you find the lawyer?Yes....
Um... well... (What do I tell her?) Well, see... (Just be honest!)
He... didn't seem healthy. He was all skin and bones!Uh that guy was the opposite of all skin and bones.
...
... You don't mean... He refused to help? Urp. ...
I see.
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If we had visited Grossberg Law Offices while it was empty, and then gone back to see Maya again, we'd get this conversation instead:
Hey!
Music: Detention Center - Jailer's Elegy
Maya doesn't have anything to say about the autopsy report, but we can show her the cell phone.
Oh! Say...
Music: Silence
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(Before long, tears began to roll down her cheeks.) ...
Music: Detention Center - Jailer's Elegy
There's a new conversation topic here for us to explore. Note that this conversation was also available after we visited Grossberg's office the first time.
What about your family? I only had my sister. My father died when I was very young.
(Don't know...? So she could still be alive?)
Yeah let's pull some more on this thread.
They say a lotta spiritual power runs in our blood. About fifteen years ago, our family was involved in an... incident. There was a man, and he... he...
("Ruined"...?) After that, she disappeared. Several years after that, my sister announced that she would "become a lawyer" and she left the mountain. ... So, you live by yourself?
Oh, also... I had to become independent, or I would lose my powers! (I feel bad for her, all by herself up on that mountain...)
Not sure how her "powers" work, but a family enemy seems like a good lead for finding the real killer here.
About 15 years ago... there was an unusual murder case. It made quite a stir, everyone was talking about it, apparently. The police were running out of leads, and they were getting desperate... Wait... they didn't use a spirit medium, did they?
Wow... So, what happened? The case was solved... we thought. You "thought"...?
...! The police's consulatation with a medium had all been carried out in secret, of course. But... A man found out about it and leaked it to the press.
She... my mother... became the laughing stock of the nation. I see. ...Music: Silence
Excuse me? White? That was his name. My sister told me. White? Hmm...Be on the lookout for someone named White, I guess. Is that person the wrongfully-accused or the one who leaked it to the press, though?
Once we've both been rejected by Mr. Grossberg and heard about Mr. White, a new conversation starts up. A smiling Maya doesn't seem quite appropriate here. Are we really just going to let that happen?
... (4:00 PM. Time's up.) (What should I do?)
I've been playing it straight for awhile, but I can't resist seeing what "Go home" looks like.
(She'll be better off with a state-appointed lawyer.) I think I'd better get home now.
Music: Recollection - Heartbroken Maya
Oh, we're really doing this.
The result of the trial was in the newspaper. "Guilty." I'll probably never meet her again. Did I make the right choice? Will I ever know?
...Music: Silence
Psych! We don't get kicked back to the title screen. Instead it was all in our head or something.
I'm not leaving here until she takes me as her lawyer!quote:
There's no alternate dialogue for choosing to "Defend Maya" instead - you just skip that whole previous scene and move straight along to the next one!
Music: Investigation - Core
I'm going to defend you whether you want me to or not!
! Why?
We could go all touchy-feely here, but with what we know about the bloody note and the autopsy report, someone else has to be the killer.
H-how do you know? I, um, I have a hunch...
(But there's something about this whole thing that smells fishy.)
(I know... I've been there. A long, long time ago.)
Quick flashback to...something?
(Because someone has to look out for the people who have no one on their side.)
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Let's tell Maya we just can't abandon her instead.
A bit quicker on that branch, but we end up in the same place.
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What if we don't know why we're going to defend Maya?
This branch is almost exactly the same as the one we picked!
... That's so kind of you...
*sniff*... ...
Let's fight this one and get you out of here!
(Whew, she smiled at last. She looks like an entirely different person!) One last question... You are innocent, right?
And I trust you... So you trust me, too, okay? It's a deal.
(There's something that's been bugging me...)
(It was when I tried to look into the drawer that she got all defensive.) (There has to be something in there!)Have you figured out how to get rid of her so we can look? Because I haven't.
No, really, that's it here? I kind of thought we'd be going straight to trial now. There's nothing new to examine, talk about, or present. So I guess we just start revisiting places to see if anything has changed?
Bonus content: Visiting Fey & Co after talking to Grossberg.
Music: Silence
(Looks like Detective Gumshoe has gone home.) (The police are still keeping themselves busy in the chief's office.) (No one has time to talk to me. Guess I'll head out.)
Despite that dialogue, we can still look around. Almost everything is the same, but this plant has a new line:
I guess I'll have to water it now...
We've exhausted every other option again. Grossberg has nothing new, so I guess we'll take the giant hint the game threw at us and head over to the Gatewater Hotel again!