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** ... What do you mean, "it would have been easy to do after the fact"? Establishing Kristoph's connection to Shadi was the most important part of taking him down, which is why the events of 4-4 were so important. As Phoenix says during the Mason System, all 4-1 did was put Kristoph in jail. They were never able to establish his motive, which is why Phoenix is intent to figure that out now.
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** “Skye” isn’t an unusual last name to have. Even if he remembered the name of the defendant, it would be a stretch to assume she’s related to this grumpy police detective simply because they have the same last name. Note that Apollo isn’t that surprised to hear that Phoenix does know her, but that doesn’t mean he should have expected it.
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** Klavier isn’t the kind of prosecutor who’s going to arrest and try someone for the sake of it. They mention Stickler was arrested and that his story is being corroborated with Wocky’s; if they had found a genuine reason to try him, they would’ve done so.
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** We also know that Lamiroir dropped her brooch as she was passing above the dressing room. Provided LeTouse noticed that, he would’ve known that she had been there to hear what transpired.
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** It would be impossible for her to have survived if she didn’t receive medical attention, so Magnifi had to have arranged for that, just without Zak or Valant knowing. Thalassa’s conservation with Phoenix at the end of the game implies she was conscious of the point when she left the troupe. She says she left her “family” because she’d lost her identity in the wake of the accident, implying that it was her choice to do so. Maybe she talked it over with Magnifi and made the choice to leave, in an exchange which she forgot about later? Something like that seems to be what the game is suggesting.
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* Why is this case played up as Phoenix's decisive victory against Kristoph? Shouldn't the events of Turnabout Trump have already served all of his objectives? He outed "the coolest defense in the west" as a man consumed by spiraling madness who is unable to let little slights of years past go by unanswered and he exposed the critical flaws of the justice system by manipulating a trial -- two critical plot points that are repeated in Turnabout Succession. Turnabout Succession would have happened anyway since it's premised around a ContrivedCoincidence but it seems more like the coda rather than the punchline of Phoenix's grand plan (he gets to humiliate Kristoph one more time but by this point he's just kicking someone he thoroughly defeated already). The only lingering point that he didn't manage to fulfill in 4-1 is publicly reveal that Kristoph and his victim had crossed paths before, wihch would have been easy to do after the fact and also absolve him of the guilt of evidence forgery in the process.
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*** Well in the very least we can now say he had it since he was grade school age since you can see him wearing it in his Khura'in photo from ''Spirt of Justice''.
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** Edgeworth in particular has a big question mark over him. Canonically, less than a month before the Gramarye trial (spoilers for Ace Attorney Investigations 2 follow), Edgeworth: [[spoiler:solves a cold case about the President of a foreign nation right after dismantling a major smuggling ring; takes down the head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, and a prison warden; solves another cold case and brings the killer to justice after over 18 years; and organises the effort to rescue a kidnapped child who was also the star of a movie that was successful at the box office]]. All the prestige he must have got from his accomplishments in Investigations 2 would put him in a position to help Phoenix - but more importantly, on a personal level, he [[spoiler:showed that he was willing to put his position as a prosecutor on the line for Kay Faraday - he was even held in prison at one point for investigating without authority (which he does not seem to regret for a second). If he was willing to do that for Kay, who he only became close with a month earlier,]] it feels like a weird turn for him to stand by idly as Phoenix got disbarred. Hell, even if (for whatever reason) Phoenix didn't want him to investigate - Miles showed in Investigations 2 that he would help a friend even if they didn't believe in themselves.
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** Edgeworth in particular has a big question mark over him. Canonically, less than a month before the Gramarye trial (spoilers for Ace Attorney Investigations 2 follow), Edgeworth: [[spoiler:solves solves a cold case about the President of a foreign nation right after dismantling a major smuggling ring; takes down the head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, and a prison warden; solves another cold case and brings the killer to justice after over 18 years; and organises the effort to rescue a kidnapped child who was also the star of a movie that was successful at the box office]]. office. All the prestige he must have got from his accomplishments in Investigations 2 would put him in a position to help Phoenix - but more importantly, on a personal level, he [[spoiler:showed showed that he was willing to put his position as a prosecutor on the line for Kay Faraday - he was even held in prison at one point for investigating without authority (which he does not seem to regret for a second). If he was willing to do that for Kay, who he only became close with a month earlier,]] earlier, it feels like a weird turn for him to stand by idly as Phoenix got disbarred. Hell, even if (for whatever reason) Phoenix didn't want him to investigate - Miles showed in Investigations 2 that he would help a friend even if they didn't believe in themselves.
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**** The jury wasn't "rigged" per se, but full of people Phoenix trusted to make the right choice, whatever that may be. Guilty or Not Guilty. He didn't stock it with people who would vote Not Guilty, but people who would be fair and rational. People who cared for and valued the truth. People who would make a fair ruling. People he knew were capable of seeing through the veil hiding reality. Though it does beg the question of who besides Lamiroir was on the jury, since it was clearly people Phoenix knew in some capacity.
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*** Honestly what strikes me is that in the original trilogy, we wouldn't even need the fake ace. Proving why it ''had'' to be taken, why it was replaced, who was the only person who could have taken it; that would have been enough in the original trilogy. There was no reason to suggest Kristoph wasn't the killer once he admitted to being there because he was the only person who COULD have done it- Phoenix and Olga could not have done without generating a lot of contradictions. The fake ace exists to show Phoenix has fallen very low.
