Part 97: Case 5 - Rise From the Ashes - Trial (Day 4) - Part 4
Case 5 - Rise From the AshesTrial (Day 4) - Part 4

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(The Blue Badger hadn't even been dreamed up when Ema drew this picture.)

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(Yet she's certain she saw its "shadow"!)

: Ladies and gentlemen... It is the defense's belief that on that fateful day two years ago...

: there indeed was something that looked similar to the Blue Badger...

: Something that is now sitting in this very room!

: Mr. Wright...!

: In this room? Very well, Mr. Wright.

: What is it that the witness saw in that instant?

: But that's...

: Er, what exactly is that?

: I believe

: it's some sort of jar.

: But Mr. Wright!

: That doesn't look anything like the Blue Badger!

: Indeed it doesn't. As it stands now, it's just a plain jar. However...

: What if we were to change our viewpoint?

: Our viewpoint...?
We now get to rotate the thing until we reach the Blue Badger. The game's kind of picky about it, but getting it wrong has no penalty - just some uninteresting 'maybe I need to rotate this more' stuff..
This'll work, though.

: No...

: It can't be!!!

: Order! Order!

: The defense has proven its claim.

: The mysterious "Blue Badger" witnessed on the day of the crime was actually this...

: Although we all enjoyed Mr. Wright's dramatic performance, one question remains...

: What's your point!?

: What do you mean?

: So that Badger thing was actually just a jar.

: That doesn't change anything!

: I'm afraid that's where you're wrong, Mr. Edgeworth.

: You see...

: this changes everything!

: Indeed? Very well, then. Please tell us...
This is a false choice - all of the responses get the exact same result.

: Allow me to take these in turn.

: Not only that, but she saw it at a very specific angle.

: Knowing this, where could she have seen this jar?

: Where...?

: The location of the jar is shown in a picture taken on the day of the crime.

: But the body was found lying near Lana Skye's desk!

: The witness testified so herself!

: Yes! And it is these two facts that reveal what actually transpired! You see... The struggle between Darke and Marshall did not take place in Lana Skye's office!

: It happened on the other side of the room, in
Chief Gant's office!

: Are you implying the murderer moved the victim's body?

: Yes.

: Why would he do that!?

: There's no reason!

: Exactly.

: !

: If there wasn't a "reason"...

: he wouldn't have gone through the trouble. The only logical conclusion...

: is that there was a "
reason."

: Do you know

: what that reason was, Mr. Wright?

:
(So this is why Lana tried to stop the trial!)

: Please recall the witness's testimony.

: She said she knocked away the man who was holding up the knife. In the next instant, the jar was hit and flew threw the air.
..."threw?"

: Now tell me...

: What could have sent the jar flying?

: That would have to have been...

: the impact the man made when

: he was knocked into the wall?

: Ladies and gentlemen...

: if I may draw your attention to this picture once more.

: what would he have hit?

: A-AHHHHHH...

: The suit of
armor!

: Holding... a very sharp and dangerous-looking sword...

: Yes.

: he would have to have been
Neil Marshall, wielding the Prosecutor's Award.

: No...

: Mr. Wright... You can't be thinking...

: Yes.

: There is
another possibility of what actually transpired in that room.

: Another possibility?

: Of course the perpetrator would have had no idea, but nevertheless! ...
(I...)

:
(I don't know if I can go through with this...)

: Mr. Wright? What's the matter?

: If events took place as the defense theorizes...

: Then the outcome is obvious. In that moment...

: assuming the man Ema Skye knocked away was actually
Prosecutor Neil Marshall...

: Mr. Marshall died... because of... me...?
Ema has fainted again.

: I never imagined her testimony would lead to this...

: So it was the witness who took the victim's life...

: and then proved so with her own testimony!

: This is unprecedented!

: What... What are you saying?

: I'm sorry, Ms. Skye, but given the circumstances...

: Joe Darke murdered Prosecutor Marshall!

: Imagine that, coming from you.

: !

: As I recall, it was you who admitted to forging evidence two years ago.

: The reason you moved Prosecutor Marshall's body... was to keep anyone else from finding out about what Ema did, wasn't it?

: I assure you, Mr. Edgeworth, I have no idea what you're talking about. If you hope to have anyone believe your insane allegations,

: I'm afraid you're going to have to have proof. Tell me...

: Do you have any conclusive evidence that proves my sister killed Neil Marshall?

: E-evidence?

: I'm willing to bet you don't.

: Yes...

: it certainly would be difficult to prove this with evidence.

: If we don't have evidence,

: then we'll have to rely on testimony.

: I'm afraid that won't work in this case. Both parties involved in the incident are dead.

: ...!
(We certainly can't get dead people to testify.)

: Hmph. Touche, Ms. Skye.

: Of course...

: That only leaves us with one possibility.

: ...!

:
(You mean, there's still another possibility?)

: What do you mean, Mr. Edgeworth?

: I mean, the possibility that

:
the victim has left us a message.

: He may have left behind the name of the person who took his life...

: somehow.

: That's...

: That's impossible!

: Well, Mr. Wright? This is the only possibility left to you. A
message from the deceased...

: Does such a message exist?

:
(I've got to think back to the Court Record!)

:
(No...)

:
(There's no way a dead person could tell the murderer's name!)

: Well.

: It looks like this is as far as we can go with this.

: Mr. Wright. You disappoint me.

: I never thought you the type to let feelings cloud your judgment.

: My feelings...?

: If we overlook the victim's message... one he would have written with literally his last breath,

: then everything will be lost in darkness!

:
(This is it.)

:
(I can't afford any more mistakes.)
This leaves us where the right path starts.

: This "message" from the deceased...

: is already in our possession.

: Mr. Wright! Will you stop at nothing to prove my sister a murderer?

: Do not be mistaken, Ms. Skye.

: ...!

: Our purpose is not to accuse Ema of any crime. There is only one thing we seek:

: the truth.

: No matter how painful it may be.

: Now then, Mr. Wright.

: This is the message left by the deceased.

: Oh, is he going to just speak the killer's name?

: If that thing could, I'm sure it would.

: A message was left here...

: on the surface of this jar.

: What do you mean?

: It looks like someone wiped the blood away.

: ...

: Yes, but notice: for some reason... the blood on some of the fragments was not wiped away.

: Yes... there is a line here... drawn in blood!

: So what you're saying, is that these "
dots"...

: were once
lines!

: Prosecutor Marshall did not die instantly.

: He used the few precious moments left to him to leave behind a message!

: One that someone apparently wiped away...

: But blood must have seeped into the jar where the lines change directions.

: Precisely so! All we need to do is connect these points...

: and the victim's message will become apparent!

: N-no...!

: Mr. Wright!

: What kind of message did the victim leave for us!?

:
(I've got to connect these dots to make letters. There's only one thing the victim would have written, given the circumstances:)
Now, we have to connect the dots. We can draw lines between any of the dots to any of the other dots, and can cancel them out with the B button...but only in the order they were entered. No selective line deletions.

:
(That's why all I've been thinking about is saving Lana.)

: So this is the final message Prosecutor Marshall left behind.

: She may not have meant it... but in the end, the one who took the victim's life...

: was Ema Skye.

: Chief Gant...

: Do you understand the implications of what you've done?

: What...? What are you talking about?

: Two years ago,

: Joe Darke was sentenced to death. He was convicted because of his final murder.

: I believe you were the prosecutor in the case, were you not?

: Ack!

: Yes, Worthy. Because of you...

: an innocent man was sentenced to death.

: Not only that...

: but you used forged evidence to ensure his conviction!

: But Joe Darke really was a serial murderer!

: That's undeniable!

: I'm afraid that's not important.

: Didn't you know? We aren't defenders of justice.

: What?

: We're merely keepers of the law. Sentencing a man to death...

: is no light matter. Even if there wasn't any cover-up or evidence forgery...

: ultimately the responsibility falls on the prosecutor in charge.

: !

:: Despite what anyone may say,

: this fact cannot be denied.

: Unable to settle the crowd, the judge declared a recess. Where this trial is headed, no one knows...
Next time: Maybe we can salvage this.