History Headscratchers / GhostTrick

* As the way I understand it, Missile prime's soul and Missile the dog's existence at the same time in the second alternate universe is because Missile the dog was not born when Missile prime time travelled. If so; when Missile, Sissile, Yomiel and Jowd time travelled a 2nd time, 10 years later, still, there should be 2 different Missiles one being a soul and the other being a dog. Am I wrong or not? If I'm not it means soul of Missile still wanders around like Ray and this is kind of a sad ending for him.

** Also, Sissel's powers might be entirely different after getting hit directly with the meteor fragment. We don't actually see him use any tricks in the new timeline, and being able to possess his own body might be one of then. Even though Yomiel didn't seem to be able to possess his own body for at least some time afterwards, the allocation of powers seems to be pretty arbitrary; the same principle that lets Missile swap objects while Sissel manipulates them could let new!Sissel manipulate his own body right away.

* The [[BlatantLies most important plot hole in the game]]: How did [[spoiler:Yomiel's substitute mechanical form in the submarine]] get those CoolShades? After all, [[spoiler:his original body who-knows-how-far away]] still seems to be wearing them when you get there.
** RuleOfCool. Say what you want about [[spoiler:Yomiel]], but you can't deny that the guy's got ''style''.

* So much is made about Cabanela having a "spotless" record but [[spoiler: you find out that one of the first things he did as a detective was screw up an interrogation and leave his friggin' gun in the room with a suspected spy/traitor.]] The game makes a big deal out of the perfect record being necessary for him to climb the ladder of the police force so how does he get a pass on that?
** During one of the game's "could he be a villain?" sequences, someone accuses him of trying to silence everyone who knows about that. [[spoiler:The other witness to this, Jowd, was eventually locked up, after all.]]

** It could have been that he managed to hide exactly how he was involved in [[spoiler:Yomiel's escape]]. Jowd apparently knew, bu no one else seemed to. Since Cabanela was new at the time, he might have gotten away with feigning ignorance or not saying exactly what happened.
* When and how does [[spoiler:Yomiel's fiancee]] die? If I recall, she was never shown on screen. Did she die before or after the park incident, and how did she die?
** If I remember correctly the [[spoiler:fiancee dies after hearing the news of Yomiel's "death". Afterwards she writes a note saying, "Yomiel, I'm coming for you". Seeing as she thought he was dead, we can only guess she committed suicide to follow him to death. At least, before the 10 year change.]]
* What exactly did Lynne do with [[spoiler:Missile's corpse]], after picking it up from the park? She never stopped at home afterwards, so we can assume she's still [[{{Squick}} carrying it around with her]] when they are [[spoiler:in the submarine]]. So... why?!

* Okay, so at the end, we discover the circumstances under which [[spoiler:Missile discovers Sissel's Ghosting and Tricking powers for objects]], but when does he [[spoiler:discover that Sissel can possess corpses and rewind to four minutes before someone's death]]? It couldn't have happened in the period shown, since it was so brief, but we're led to believe that that was the only time they encountered one another. [[spoiler:That time around, anyway.]]
** Well, [[spoiler:Missile]] has that power too. That's how he saved Kamila. Perhaps he assumed Sissel had the same thing? He didn't know then that powers change over time and so, the next time they met, perhaps he was just banking on the hope that he would have the power. Not to mention that [[spoiler:Yomiel]] mentions the powers stem from some sort of 'Manipulation' and 'Time.' [[spoiler:Yomiel, with the fragment, is the only one who seems to have regeneration abilities rather than time travel. Maybe having the fragment is the deciding factor. Though that would mean that Sissel might not have the power of time travel anymore.]]
** Isn't it more likely that [[spoiler: original]] Missile watched Sissel that night in the original time line?

* Lynne remembers [[spoiler:being saved by Sissel when he altered the driver's fate not to hit the restaurant, once the clock goes over her own death's time, right? Why doesn't anyone other than Yomiel remember Sissel's doings after the 10 year gap closes, then?]]
** Umm... you weren't paying attention to the ending, were you? Yomiel stated that Sissel, Missle, Jowd and himself would be the only ones to remember after [[spoiler:the future is changed]]. The reason that no one else remembers is that, because of [[spoiler:they prevented Yomiel from getting killed by the Temsik fragment, thus changing the flow of time ten years on, everyone but those four forgot. Even if they previously had a core, they would not remember because the future was changed so radically, the circumstances around the various deaths would never occur and thus no need for a Ghost Trick and a resulting core]].

*** Actually, it's simpler than that. [[spoiler: Only Sissel, Jowd, Missile and Yomiel travelled back for the final Trick, so they're the only ones to remember the pre-"reboot" events.]]
*** Also, it has a [[spoiler: double meaning for Lynne. Her "meeting with Sissel again" can refer to Lynne meeting Sissel again after 10 years both from the park when she was just a girl and the old timeline memory about Sissel only came back to her though it's most likely still Sissel, Jowd, Missile and Yomiel only know about the old timeline]].

** Give that he was in prison for [[spoiler:committing a crime because he was mind controlled, it's possible that the machine was meant to monitor him, in the event that he was mind controlled again. If that's the case, it would explain why he voluntarily put it on (it would only protect him from further MindRape) and it was being tested if the manipulation worked better while he was asleep.]]
** Actually, this troper thinks that the device was simply one of those lights worn by miners and cave explorers. This would make sense, since he was [[spoiler:digging a hole out of the prison the entire time.]]
*** Except that he doesn't [[spoiler:bring it with him when he goes to dig the tunnel.]] He only puts it on while lying in bed.

* In the ending, why don't [[spoiler:the two blue assassins show up with alternate futures]]? Even minor characters like the chef, who had nothing to do with the case at all, get one.
** Well, there was a WMG that [[spoiler: Jeego and Tengo are actually robots, like Sith's assistant. Maybe they were only built for that deal (though I think they mentioned something about former hits, so that might not be it).]] Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine.

*** That's pretty likely, considering when we see [[spoiler:Beauty and Dandy trying to crack the Chicken Kitchen's safe, there's no indication it has any connection to Commander Sith at all. The dialogue doesn't indicate a third party involved, so they may have just been acting on their own.]] So Jeego and Tengo wouldn't necessarily have a reason to be in the city at all.
* Just how did Lynne and Jowd [[spoiler:board the submarine by the end of the game? I mean, did the submarine wait above water level for them to sneak in, or they swam there undetected, and opened the hatch from outside without flooding it or anyone noticing?]]
** Not 100% sure on this, but [[spoiler:because Cabanela gave them the radio tracker watch to trace the bullet he shot Yomiel with, they were able to follow him. And I think either Lynne or Jowd say outright that they stowed away on Yomiel's boat when Yomiel went to rendezvous with the sub.]]
** I don't remember anything being said about [[spoiler:stowing away on Yomiel's boat]], but I think it's mentioned in the dialogue that Lynne and Jowd [[spoiler:boarded the submarine]] when it surfaced.
** Having just played the game again, [[spoiler: it is explicitly said by Lynne that she and Jowd tracked Yomiel to his boat and then stowed away on it, so, yeah.]]

* Is it never explained how Beauty can [[spoiler:sense the presence of ghosts]]? If not, that seems ripe for a sequel. Or maybe [[spoiler:Yomiel]] told her.
** She just says that her [[spoiler:sixth sense is naturally strong]]. Sith apparently tries to cover for any possibility, so he likely hired her to keep an eye on [[spoiler:Yomiel's spirit.]]
** After you save Jowd, he gains the ability to sense you. Maybe Beauty was saved by [[spoiler:Yomiel.]]
*** No, it can't have been [[spoiler:Yomiel]]. Because [[spoiler:he specifically says that he can't rewind time]]. She probably really does just have a Sixth sense.
*** And it's impossible that her sixth sense comes from being rescued, because [[spoiler:she has no core. Everyone's ability to speak with ghosts, and Jowd's ability to sense Sissel, only come when they develop cores after death. If she was ever rescued and kept somethin from the past, she'd have kept her core]].
* In the first chapter of the game, you possess Ray's lamp so that he can lean over so you can reach Lynne the first time. Yet, by the end of the game, [[spoiler:you can play as both yourself and Missile, and the two of you simply cannot possess the same object at the same time]].
** I'd like to think that Sissel just didn't want to [[spoiler:occupy the same core as a dog]] during the gameplay segments at the end, but he had no problem possessing Ray's lamp in the beginning because [[spoiler:he didn't know that Ray was Missile]].

** This is also a problem during [[spoiler:the submarine escape. The torpedo has two cores: one was occupated by Sissel and the other by Missile. How could Yomiel follow them?]]

* The superintendent built a replica of the RubeGoldbergDevice [[spoiler:to figure out how it could have malfunctioned the way it did]]. Did he ''really'' have to load the gun?

** Loading the gun is one thing but why was it still operational at all? It would have been at least [[spoiler: ten years]] since it was built, and Pigeon Man says outright that it's been years since he was there last. Locked door or no, who leaves an active [[spoiler: "murder machine"]] to gather dust? Especially one [[spoiler: triggered by flicking a lightswitch!]]
*** [[spoiler: Actually, it's only been five years at most.]]
*** [[spoiler:A not exactly stable ex-ME, that's who. Who decides to go and run a junkyard just so they'll have more time to investigate an [[Series/TheXFiles X-File]]? And remember, the door to the basement stairs was locked. It was, by conventional wisdom, impossible for someone to get down there without using the stairs, unless someone just happened to be small enough to make it down the dumbwaiter.]]
*** [[spoiler:Yomiel didn't get his body back for quite a while. It's possible he could've loaded the gun again.]]
* On a related note, how can the device be as effective as it is portrayed here, Rube Goldberg elements aside? For one thing, it requires the person to not move even a foot from the moment the light switch is flipped. Which is a bit unlikely, considering how casually most people flip light switches in their own homes, and how most people react as soon as [[spoiler:a statue carrying a bow and arrow starts spinning around]]. And second... it ends with [[spoiler:a wall-mounted, framed gun going off]]. For that to be effective in anything but a flat 2D universe, the person has to be practically leaning against the wall where the light switch is. That makes it hard to flip.
** Seeing a RubeGoldbergDevice go off attracts the eye, watching to see what happens next. Also, [[spoiler:Lynne wasn't supposed be be in the basement, and had no idea what lay on the other side of the door when she entered.]]

* Does Sissel lose all memory of things he learns while repeating his "four minutes before" trips? I can justify repeated dialogue as GameplayAndStorySegregation, but what about in chapter 10? If he follows the immediate phone call, he learns that [[spoiler:Beauty faked the minister's daughter's screams for help to convince him she was kidnapped]]. Yet even if he hears that, once he actually saves the man's life, he still believes it might be true. And if he does forget, how does that work with [[spoiler:Ray remembering his first failed attempt to get Sissel's help]]?
** Missile didn't know what a kidnapping was. I thought that Sissel didn't really understand it either, [[spoiler:being a cat and all.]]

** He might be concerned that [[spoiler:they'd have successfully kidnapped her by that point. And either way, he needed to ''prove'' to the minister that his daughter was safe -- his word wouldn't count for anything.]]
** If this troper recalls correctly, [[spoiler:Sissel actually says something like "I knew she wasn't kidnapped, but it feels good to be certain".]] And as said above, the main point was to convince the minister of it.

** The gameplay reason is because there are cases where Sissel can learn things optionally, which is great as a bonus but not great to rely on for the core gameplay. So to use the [[spoiler:kidnapping of Kamila, there's no guarantee that the player would follow the call to the hide-out, so there's no guarantee that the player (and thus Sissel) would ''know'' that the call was being faked. Thus, it had to be established through mandatory steps in the game as well.]] Probably the people making the game thought this would be easier than having to program the game to constantly make small alterations for scenes the player may or may not have witnessed.
* Um... Why exactly doesn't [[spoiler:Yomiel]] want anyone to know about him? I get that he'd get in trouble for [[spoiler:the hostage situation]] or whatever, but really, a [[spoiler:desperately lonely immortal]] should really just tell someone. He'd get famous.
** The same thing would happen as does in the game: [[spoiler:powerful people would exploit him for the power of the Temsik meteor]]. If he got famous, everyone would be after his secret, which would turn out horribly considering the dangerous powers involved and [[spoiler:how miserable Yomiel's "life" became because of it]].
*** Okay, then how about [[spoiler:Yomiel]] just gets up and acts like it was a medical mistake. Don't a decent number of people get accidentally buried alive each year? It's not a solid story, but it'd be enough to not totally f**k up his life. Probably get the medical inspector sent to a looney bin though.

*** [[spoiler:It's stated by Yomiel and future!Missile that powers change over time. I guess this means Sissel's powers had limits at first, so he could only manipulate certain objects, like Yomiel who couldn't immediately possess people but could later on.]]
* Quick question: When Sissel does his 4 minutes trick, he starts wherever the body had died at. [[spoiler: How do they go from the sub in the middle of the ocean to Temsik Park if Yomiel's body is in the sub? Shouldn't they have started in the middle of the ocean?]]

*** ...wait a minute. While it doesn't make logical sense, those two instances have something in common: [[spoiler:a four-minute trick within a four-minute trick]]. Maybe that changes the rules?
*** The van driver is justified in that he died with his body hanging out of the van. Rewinding time moves the van, thus taking you to that area. The other thing doesn't make sense to me, what with [[spoiler: Yomiel's body being IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN IN A SUB.]] Slightly different than body stuck in windshield.
*** That's because [[spoiler:Yomiel died at the park.]] Even though [[spoiler:his corpse was moving around,]] that doesn't change the location of his death.
*** That doesn't work. Ray specifically says at the beginning that [[spoiler: Wherever the corpse is will be where he starts at, because the corpse was the gateway into the past.]] That logic does work with van dude because [[spoiler: he died IN the van, and his corpse was still lodged in the van.]]
*** No, no, it does work. You see, [[spoiler:Yomiel originally died in the park. His body since then has been nothing but a shell. Even then in the submarine, he didn't die there, his spirit simply wasn't in the body, and the fragment removed, stopping it's endless regeneration cycle. Going back ten years proves this, because Yomiel was frozen between life and death, but four minutes before he actually died placed him in the park. This action shows that his death was considered to be when he was hit with the fragment, not when it was removed from him.]]
*** That also doesn't work. Again, [[spoiler: Ray comes out and says that wherever the CORPSE is when Sissel goes back is where he goes to. See Lynne: She died up on top, but she fell down to the ground. Which is why Sissel started down there. It doesn't matter where the person died at, what matters is where the corpse is in present time.]]
*** But it's possible that [[spoiler: the gunshot didn't immediately kill Lynne. She could've been just barely still alive during the fall]]. In most cases, the corpses wasn't really moved around after death, so maybe Ray got it wrong or simply could've picked a better phrasing.
*** Actually, you go back to where the corpse lies. Jowd's body was moved from the location of death to the table in the next room. You appear in the past at the table. Same thing goes for every other death, except the two involved with a trick within a trick. I'm inclined to believe that the change in location has something to do with the double trick. Though the cop could be explained that his body was touching the van so it acted as a frame of reference, if he landed in the restaurant it may have started there. This doesn't explain the other one though. Maybe because of the nature of the body [[spoiler: constantly be returned to the point just before death and the body was technically in the park at the time of death, maybe the park was still somehow a frame of reference.]] It could also be that these two deaths had crossed particularly long distances since the 4 minutes before death moment. Maybe, its a feature of the powers of the dead that you are close enough to the living body to see the person involved. For example, another common point is you generally find that the dead person has more or less been in the area they die in for the entire duration of the 4 minutes, with the only real oddballs being the cop and [[spoiler: Yomiel]]. In fact, now that I mention it... there are actually a lot of unique things about those two cases that stand out: They were both encountered within a trick, their corpses were both really far away from the location they were at four minutes prior to death, and their deaths were the direct causes of deaths that you were trying to prevent in the context of the first trick in the double tricks. Maybe all these oddities add up somehow...

*** The best explanation would be this. [[spoiler: Lynne's body for the first time was at the bottom because that's where her corpse lies at the longest. For Jowd, it's because his corpse was carried away and placed on the table. For the detective in the van, his corpse was in the van so technically, the van was at the park the longest than at the restaurant. For Yomiel, it's because he technically died at the park but the meteor fragment stopped life, death and time. And when the fragment was removed, that's the gateway to the past. But if you add common sense, there is no way you can save the van detective from the restaurant itself and there is obviously no way you can save Yomiel unless you're in the past in the park]].
*** The thing about the corpses in this game is that if the corpse is on a surface that had moved between the instant of death and the 4 minutes before moment, the corpse will transport to where it would have been located on that surface 4 minutes before death. [[spoiler:In the case of Rindge, his corpse is on the van back at the park. This isn't the only time this happens in the game. When possessing Jowd in the submarine's control room, Sissel is sent back to Jowd's corpse on the floor in a moving room. If this rule didn't apply, Sissel would end up at the Chicken Kitchen 4 minutes before Rindge's death, and in the middle of the ocean in Jowd's case.]]
*** Theory: [[spoiler:Yomiel wore the Temsik Fragment for ten years, keeping his body in a frozen state. Maybe when the fragment was extracted and he died for real, the corpse still "remembered" the park as its location?]] That wouldn't solve Ringe's issue though.
* Wouldn't a [[spoiler: knit cap]] and definitely a [[spoiler: sweet potato]] be just as deadly as a bullet if moving at bullet speed?
** The [[spoiler: knit cap's]] probably big enough and thin enough to not do that much harm. The [[spoiler:sweet potato]] was somewhat addressed though, since it [[spoiler:flung Yomiel back into the lamppost.]]

** For that matter, how the hell did [[spoiler: Yomiel not notice that Cabanela got smacked in the face with a ''hat'' instead of, you know, ''shot''?]]

*** He also says at the end of the game that [[spoiler:he knew all along that Sissel was there and wanted to inconvenience him as little as possible as long as it didn't interfere with his plan. Maybe he noticed the switch-up, but he decided that Cabanela had been rendered harmless by the explosion anyway and that leaving Sissel with the illusion that he didn't know who he was was a better idea than finishing the inspector off]].
* So only [[spoiler: Jowd, Missile, Yomiel, and Sissel]] will remember [[spoiler: the old timeline]] at the end of the game. But Missile was only two years old when Sissel met him. Does this mean [[spoiler: he's actually going to be born with the memories of the old timeline]]? Because that would be weird even for a dog.
** Maybe they will live their lives normally until [[spoiler: the point they went back in time and then get all of their memories back at once?]]
*** [[spoiler: But Jowd still gives Sissel the name "Sissel," right?]] Wouldn't they have to remember at least part of what happened in [[spoiler: the old timeline right away?]]
* [[spoiler: In the new timeline at the end of the game, Yomiel has been in prison for TEN YEARS...]] But for what, exactly? He was proven innocent of the conspiracy in which he was implicated, and even though he [[spoiler: broke out of prison and took a hostage, he then saved her life immediately after.]] Why on earth would this result in such a punishment? And couldn't Jowd have stopped it?
** Escaping interrogation would have shat all over his case for [[spoiler:not being a spy]], so it's possible that he was never able to clear his name [[spoiler:in the new timeline, even though he had been cleared in the game's timeline]]. Even if he ''was'' found not-guilty of that, he still would have been charged with theft ([[spoiler:of a ''weapon'']]), hostage-taking ([[spoiler: a ''child'']]), threatening a police officer, resisting arrest... [[spoiler:saving Lynne]] doesn't change that. All of it could easily add up to 10 years, especially given that he would have been tried in an ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' KangarooCourt.
*** [[Franchise/AceAttorney Turnabout Meteorite]]! Apollo Justice manages to get [[spoiler:Yomiel]] only ten years instead of lifetime!
*** [[spoiler: Maybe he felt he still had to repent for everything he did in the original timeline?]]
** [[spoiler: Escaping custody by means of a weapon and hostage is SeriousBusiness]].
** [[spoiler: How bout this: He fled police interrogation, took a hostage, and --this is the big thing-- they probably think that he shot Jowd in the leg. He was holding a gun and suddenly something flies into his pursuer's leg and he starts bleeding. It's not a stretch to get that much jailtime, especially when one considers he was probably in court a few years.]]

*** Complete isolation. He would go even more insane. Or maybe he could think this was a punishment for all the horrible things he did, including [[spoiler:killing a girl and - accidentally - his own friend.]]
*** It's a fact that [[spoiler:Yomiel]]'s poltergeist tricks are ''far'' more powerful than Sissel's, as shown in that moment when he [[spoiler:telekinetizes a bunch of objects to improvise a crane with which he lifts Lynne and Kamila]]. It shouldn't be hard for him to [[spoiler:blow something up (the torpedo sitting in the sub's wall being a prime candidate) to open a crack in the sub's walls, then possess something that would float up to the surface where sea life is more plentiful]].

*** No. Sith was merely disagreeing with his methods, not his goal. The impression I get is that [[spoiler:Yomiel's main reason for going along with Sith was so that he would give him a new life to live.]] For him, it was worth killing for, and he wouldn't abandon it just because he doesn't get his revenge the way he wants.
** [[spoiler: Cabanela bribed the fake doc and so Yomiel ended up spending most of the night looking for his body. This did not happen in the first timeline, likely because Cabanela was too occupied with Lynne's death.]]
* Why is [[spoiler:Yomiel]] portrayed as sympathetic? [[spoiler:Sure he is given a tragic backstory and has had a pretty shitty life. Sure he expresses regret for taking Lynne hostage and yes he loves his cat, but lest we forget some of the sympathetic things he did: he murders a 5 year old girl's mother in front of her and makes her think she did it, he possesses a 10 year old girl and ''tries to make her kill her own father'', he actually succeeds in cold-bloodedly killing her in her own apartment as we see in the alternate timeline. And this is just what he does to Kamila! What's more, he shows no remorse until he's been stabbed in the back. But because he's not had a nice life, the entire last hour of the game is dedicated to making him a sympathetic character, and even the last image of the game is a TearJerker image of him drawing a picture of his precious cat. The actions I mentioned are MoralEventHorizon by most people's standards, no matter how crap your life has been. I'm getting Deja Vu to a similar glossing-over-of-a-villain's-faults in the last case of Trials and Tribulations.]]
** To avoid waxing philosophical about [[GreyAndGrayMorality how impossible it is to assign merit based on apparent morality]], I'll just say that moral or immoral ''actions'' do not imply a moral or immoral ''character'', and [[spoiler:Yomiel]] is just as (un)deserving of sympathy as the rest of the cast is. By comparison, you could say the reverse for [[spoiler:Cabanela]], who was portrayed pretty unsympathetically for much of the game but was later revealed to have good intentions.
** It's also possible to feel sympathy for a person without condoning their actions, and after [[spoiler: spending ten years as a ghost]] he probably wasn't that mentally stable anyway. [[spoiler: Yomiel's tribute to Sissel wouldn't just have been for saving him from an undead fate, but for saving him from the monster he would later become.]]
** It's pretty much stated that [[spoiler:Yomiel had totally lost it. He'd careened over the DespairEventHorizon essentially from the moment he walked out of the morgue and discovered what had happened to him. Things ''[[FromBadToWorse went downhill from there]]'', and it took five years of steadily growing despair and loneliness before he took action against those he'd decided were responsible for his pain. That doesn't mean anything he did was anywhere ''near'' the realm of okay. Once Lynne snaps him back to sanity and he has a HeelFaceTurn, he himself says this straight out]].
--->[[spoiler:'''Jowd:''' We might not be able to change your fate of dying.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Yomiel:''' ...]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Yomiel:''' I can accept that.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Jowd:''' ...!]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Yomiel:''' What I did is inexcusable. No matter how the future might change, that fact will never go away. If my fate is to die here... [''smiles''] then I accept that.]]
** (continued) [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath is averted when he's thrown back onto a spike, but is merely rendered unconscious. His response to this?]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Sissel:''' [''after seeing Yomiel impaled through the back on a spike''] This fate is too painful to watch -- in every sense...]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Yomiel:''' I don't think so. [''grins''] As long as I'm alive... that's good enough for me.]]
** (continued) He wasn't a DeathSeeker; he had simply accepted that death would be his fate. He was ''relieved'' that it had changed. Except... [[spoiler:Lynne was about to be crushed by the massive Mino, with no conceivable way to save her. Jowd, Sissel, and Missile were panicking, because there was ''nothing'' they could do. By virtue of simply not doing a damn thing, Yomiel could easily have forced Sissel to go with the plan that Yomiel had suggested: Let Lynne die, then just go back and change her past, psychological scars be damned.\\

Personally, while I don't think that any of that ''excuses'' him -- Yomiel himself said it best, that nothing he could do would be enough to excuse him -- I think that what he did after going back to the past, along with willingly spending ten years in jail to pay for the crimes that he still did commit in the changed timeline, ''and'' the fact that they [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned a happy ending]] and no one but the four of them would ever remember all of that suffering, it's conceivably enough to ''forgive'' him. Not forgive his actions, but to forgive Yomiel himself.]] Or at least put the past where it belongs and move on.\\
I'd also like to point out that while he did [[spoiler:take Lynne hostage before he went nuts, he was clearly panicked and desperate at the time, and it's never made clear whether or not he actually would have harmed her. "Tried to point a gun at her", yes, but shot her? Probably not, considering even Yomiel-prime, without any knowledge (yet) of the averted future, says that he was glad that he'd saved her. Again, taking a child hostage is ''not okay''. But there's still a huge difference between "taking hostage" and "killing".]]
* So in [[spoiler: the final timeline, Sissel appears to have been hit by a shard of the Temsik meteorite, but did he survive that, or has he gone into an undead state the same way Yomiel did?]]
** [[spoiler:Pretty much. He hasn't changed at all in ten years.]]
** After all [[spoiler:he is now a walking Schrödinger's Cat.]]
* So why does [[spoiler:Missile-prime look so much older than Missile despite being a ghost for ten years? You'd figure he'd remain looking the age he did when he died, right?]]
** Ghosts can change their appearance at will, as proven when [[spoiler:Lynne takes the form of Cabanela accidentally, and when Sissel abandons Yomiel's appearance to become a flame with glasses and then a cat]]. [[spoiler:Missile-prime probably didn't actually age, he just wanted to look like a CoolOldGuy.]]
*** Ghosts take on whatever appearance they associate with their "self". [[spoiler:Missile is a dog who waited 10 years and probably felt as old as he appeared. So he looked as old as he felt.]]

* Soon after Sissel saves Lynne, they come across a black cat, who meows at them and leaves. [[spoiler:How did they not notice that the cat had been shot?]]

** It was mentioned that the cat [[spoiler:had been shot and killed some time before it had been possessed (there was enough time between it being shot and its possession that Yomiel was shot a second time (with Lynne holding back as long as she could) and Yomiel coordinating himself to possess the cat. It's possible that by the time said possession happened, the bleeding had just stopped because the blood was no longer circulating. If the bullet wound wasn't noticeable and the cat was clearly walking around fine, Sissel and Lynne would probably worry more about the tasks at hand than closely examining a stray cat. Either that, or the possession somehow miraculously healed the body.]]

* Early on, how do you follow telephone lines [[spoiler: into a submarine]]? It looks like you can only follow the physical telephone lines; being able to travel along a telephone broadcast signal would be way beyond anything you're ever shown as capable of.
** It appeared to be [[spoiler:stationed at an underwater dock]] each time, in a manner that could plausibly allow for attaching of actual lines. It's inefficient, but you know what they say about that country's use of technology.
*** If you're paying attention, they mention "disconnecting the communications cable" when they [[spoiler: undock]]. So yes, that is the correct explanation.
* This one pertains to the ending. After [[spoiler: everyone goes back in time and keeps Yomiel from being killed by the fragment]], Mino is still poised to kill Lynee. So [[spoiler: Yomiel possesses his own body to throw Lynne out of the way, getting himself crushed under the rock.]] My question is why he didn't just possess Lynee. It would have saved [[spoiler: himself ]] a lot of pain.

*** He was probably afraid that she would resist his control and he would fail to save her. Remember that the last time he tried to possess Lynne, her consciousness resisted so strongly that he messed up [[spoiler: and accidentally killed his beloved pet Sissel, kicking off the entire plot and eventually leading to the creation of an alternate timeline.]]

** But it's already been established that [[spoiler: Yomiel can Trick nonliving objects. He is shown to Trick multiple heavy objects simultaneously and levitate them in place. There's no way that his core can be in all of those things at once, so he has to be able to move objects without having his core in them. Why couldn't he have done something like a) move someone by their clothes b) force anything that's falling to move to the left or right? Although he could choke Lynne by accident if he shoved her clothes hard enough. Anything huge that falls would be impossible to stop, but it can be pushed to change its trajectory.]]
** My guess is that [[spoiler: Yomiel didn't want the past Jowd to know about Ghost Trick powers and prevent the whole investigation of the meteorite from happening in the first place. If he was to manipulate Lynne's clothing or any other inanimate objects in the vicinity, it would have been a dead giveaway that something supernatural had happened rather than the much more simple explanation of Yomiel jumping in to save her. This is assuming that he wanted to avoid possessing Lynne herself as stated above.]]
* Why didn't Beauty and Dandy notice [[spoiler: that they had kidnapped Kamila instead of Amelie? They had a recording of Amelie's voice, so they should have realized that something wasn't right when Kamila spoke.]]
** Beauty probably figured it wouldn't matter either way. They had a kid held hostage, and the Justice Minister was doing what they wanted him to. Dandy obviously wasn't terribly bright, and probably believed [[spoiler:Kamila was Amelie]] just because Beauty said [[spoiler:she was.]]
* Why is Kamila so calm [[spoiler: when we first learn she was kidnapped? When Dandy approaches her to kidnap her in the park, she is frightened and tries to resist, but by the time they meet up with Beauty, Kamila is calmly reading a book, seemingly oblivious to her situation.]]

** Dandy did make an effort to make sure she was comfortable, and basically told her "Just sit back, relax, and this will be done with before you know it". Probably she calmed down after [[spoiler:he actually kidnapped her because she's a kid, and more inclined to think "This guy isn't too bad" if he treats her nicely (as opposed to something like "He's trying to make me feel secure, and will turn on me").]] And she does worriedly ask what will happen to her, so she does seem to acknowledge [[spoiler:her kidnapping]] to some degree.
* Regarding the ending, [[spoiler:how did Missile-prime manage to get back in time to ten years ago on the first iteration? He's explicitly stated to not have the ability to go through phone lines, and without Sissel going around throwing a wrench into people's plans, things should have gone very differently -- most of the other characters involved in the submarine raid would have been dead. He also couldn't have snuck in with Yomiel -- his only other connection to the sub -- since Yomiel has the ability to detect ghosts. So how did he end up in the submarine where Yomiel's body was discarded?]]
** [[spoiler:Remember that Yomiel can't see a ghost without actually looking for it; you're able to freely manipulate things when he's standing right next to you without him noticing, as long as it's not something big. Also, Missile can jump from core to core even if they're a good distance away, so finding a path isn't as hard for him as it is for Sissel. As long as he's able to get on the sub with Yomiel, he wouldn't have much of a problem getting to his body.]]
** [[spoiler: Also since we don't see it, his path could have been both much more convoluted and also involve many time jumps and manipulations of his own to engineer an opportunity.]]
* In the first chapter, how did Sissel's/[[spoiler: Yomiel's]] corpse get to the bottom floor of the junkyard? The assassin Jeego originally kicked his corpse down there after killing Lynne, but when Sissel changed her fate by killing Jeego, he also prevented the corpse from being knocked down. Yet when you return to the present, it's still been moved, but now without a cause. The game even lampshades this paradox, but it's never explained.
** This is explained as soon as it is lampshaded. Sissel wonders why he still fell after [[spoiler: Jeego]] died, but then Cabanela plays the rest of the tape to show the black cat push him to the ground. [[spoiler: This makes sense when we realize that the cat is possessed, and Yomiel has reason to make his body fall to the ground.]]
*** I may be missing something, but what was the reason for making his corpse fall down? He wanted to [[spoiler:frame Lynne for his death, and it would work better for him to have his corpse in a visible place, where it can be discovered easily and start a investigation immediately. Granted, it ''still'' was discovered, but he couldn't know that...]]
*** It's very simple. [[spoiler: Sissel's real body being possessed by Yomiel accidentally pushed Yomiel's body down. Otherwise, he would have no way to get out. That and Yomiel said that he would bring Sissel along away with him but was horrified to learn that he died]].
* Related to the above: how in the world did the corpse get to that couch? Consider [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ghosttrick/images/4/4a/Junkyard.jpg this map of the junkyard]]. We know that [[spoiler:Lynne]] shot Sissel right at the top of the staircase, and then Jeego/[[spoiler:the posessed cat]] kicked Sissel straight down... So shouldn't he have fallen right next to the phone?

** In-universe, it doesn't make sense, but the recurring theme is obviously theater, so everything in the world revolves around what the audience is able to see, without using closeups. Ever. There are many parts where sissel could accomplish more if he could adjust his view. For example, when [[spoiler:saving Lynne]] in The Chicken Kitchen, Sissel can't see inside a case because it is locked. Yet he sees through walls all the time. If I had a closeup perspective and had the same perspective inside the case, then [[spoiler: he could have found Kamila much sooner.]]

** I would assume that what the player sees is exactly what the ghosts see as well. That would explain why [[spoiler: Yomiel]] looks toward the fourth wall [[spoiler: if he notices you messing around in Chapter 15]], why in Chapter 15, you only find Missile by moving the camera over to where he is, and how the ghosts of people you're saving are able to see what's going on even when they shouldn't be able to based on where their corpse is. So, regardless of what the ghosts are physically possessing, they always have that fourth wall view. That's probably just a feature of the land of the dead.

* [[spoiler: Why is Sissel's name still Sissel after the ten years? The explanation given is that Jowd names him that, but as shown by every other example of time travel in the game, the characters that remember the adventure would immediately go back to the new present. Therefore, Jowd of the "Ten Years Ago" incident would not know that Sissel's name is Sissel, and the only way he could name him after Yomiel's Sissel would be to change his name after having him for ten years.]]
** It doesn't need to be the new present, if only because defining what the "present" is while time travel is involved is [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble hard.]] They probably go back to the point when a major change happens, in much the same way that, as an example, making Kamila drop the headphones into the fish tank counts as a fate change, but making the doughnut cart roll across the room doesn't. The "major change" just has to be something bigger, like averting a death, or [[spoiler:changing who is hit by the Temsik meteor shard.]]

* Why didn't Sissel agree to [[spoiler: let Lynne get crushed so they could retry the final mission? Since this was before her first death, her soul wouldn't be awake, and characters have been shown to not be aware of what happened to them if they were not a part of the Ghost Trick. Plus, she was unconscious at the time, she wouldn't remember betting crushed anyways and would probably chalk it up to being a really bad nightmare. Or they could just redo Yomiel's death and have Yomiel helping the entire time.]]
** Actually, the people who were unconscious ''do'' end up remembering, even if that memory is hazy. Lynne's memory had to be jogged the first time by Sissel, but she does admit to remembering being shot when he asks her, and gives specific details that she couldn't have known without actually having that memory. [[spoiler:Sissel, being present for that, knew that it was possible that little Lynne would remember her own death, and wasn't willing to take that chance]].

* How does Lynne go from [[spoiler: being a young girl involved in a hostage situation that Jowd witnessed]] to [[spoiler: living in an apartment with-and apparently being the caretaker of-his daughter? Obviously Kamila needs someone to look after her while her dad's in jail, but I never understood why Lynne was that person.]] It's about the only thing I never got about this game and I keep wondering if it was explained somewhere and I managed to miss it.
** I wondered that, too. Did they not have any relatives who could take her in? My fanwank is that [[spoiler:maybe Kamila was just staying with Lynne over the weekend, or decided to move in with Lynne rather recently; they bonded over the Jowd case and came to be like sisters, and Kamila ended up spending a lot of time at her place, until Lynne ultimately invited her to stay for good. It seems to fit with Lynne's character and I can see how they'd become so close, considering what links them.]]

** It's possible that in addition to making her hook up the gun to the contraption, [[spoiler:Yomiel]] manipulated Kamila into loading it.
** Jowd states in-game that that gun had not been loaded for years. This was actually one of the strange details about the contraption that pointed Cabanela to [[spoiler:the existence of a Manipulator]].
* Similar to a point made above, I'm not sure why Sissel was worried about [[spoiler: Lynne being traumatized by the memory of being killed as a child.]] That death seems like it'd be instantaneous, and she wasn't even looking at [[spoiler: Mino as it fell]], so would she even really know what happened?

** It could also cause [[spoiler:Lynne to be a part of this final Aversion and she may live the rest of her life with memories of the previous timeline.]]
* At the end of the game, [[spoiler: Yomiel saves Lynne from Mino by throwing her out of the way. He lived, and ten years later, we see him again. But, when he saved Lynne, Mino crushed his legs, so how was he still able to walk? Unless he had prosthetic legs (which someone on WMG suggested), he should be unable to use his legs]]
** It would probably depend on [[spoiler: how he was hit, how his legs were broken, and how quickly he got medical treatment for it all. And given that Jowd knows that Yomiel got so hurt saving Lynne, he might have seen to it that Yomiel got really good care for his injuries.]]
* On the subject of Jowd and Kamila's backstory, this game really must take place in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' universe, because it contains a very similar headscratcher and it should be brought up here as well. Much like how (first Phoenix Wright game major spoiler) [[spoiler:von Karma's ultimate plan against Edgeworth was to get him to confess to the crime of throwing a gun that accidentally went off and killed his father when he was a child]], why was Jowd in this game so worried that [[spoiler:a young Kamila would be arrested for creating a Rube Goldberg machine that malfunctioned in a way that accidentally killed her mother]]? Is it still standard policy to [[spoiler:treat accidental deaths as murder and prosecute minors]]? Worse, he wasn't protecting her from the truth at all, as she knows how it happened. All he did was ensure that [[spoiler:she now has no actual parents in her life, rather than just one]].
** Even if [[spoiler:Kamila wasn't arrested, being connected with the crime could still ruin her life. He did try to convince her she just dreamed her involvement of her mother's death]]. Also, the game does have that the other big reason [[spoiler:he took the blame was because he felt it was fate punishing him for nearly shooting Yomiel. Lynne and Sissel even tell him that by letting himself be executed, he's not helping Kamila. He's only stopping his ''own'' feelings of guilt.]]
* Ever since the events ten years ago, Temsik Park has been protected by law enforcement to ensure that [[spoiler:the other country couldn't get at the meteorite]]. Basically, there are supposed to be cops everywhere. [[spoiler:How did Dandy grab Kamila and get away with it so easily?]]

** It's very likely that security on the meteor was weak that night, because of the meeting at the Chicken Kitchen nearby. Maybe Memry and Detective Rindge were assigned to the park, but duty called them to the Chicken Kitchen? I mean, why else would [[spoiler: Yomiel]] pick ''that place'' to meet, if not to create a distraction for Comm. Sith to get his hands on the meteor fragment? The plan ultimately failed because Beauty inadvertently caused a commotion originally, and because [[spoiler: Yomiel]] never showed up in the timeline when you save Lynne from dying yet again.
* During the ending, [[spoiler:Kamila says Sissel is special because he's ten years old and still a kitten. Why not "never eats" or "never poops"? Those seem more interesting.]]
** Who says that's not the case? [[spoiler: The way I see it, kitten!Sissel didn't die when hit by the fragment, he just got the regenerative powers that prevent him from ageing or getting injured.]]
*** Of course [[spoiler:he died]]. [[spoiler:We can clearly see Sissel's soul]] just before the credits roll. You can't [[spoiler:show a soul if you're not dead, even if you're in the alive-dead state that Yomiel was in, which I consider to be more dead than alive.]]
* What about Sissel [[spoiler:getting hit by the meteorite shard in the final timeline? You only change the trajectory of one shard, and it ended up in Jowd's leg. Your actions don't seem to affect Sissel's position at the impact moment (I think), so it doesn't seem like he was hit by one of the other (unseen) shards that didn't hit him in the two first timelines. Was it ever ''stated'' that Sissel was hit a shard, anyway? If I remember well, it was only said by Kamila that he never aged, and it might be due to being the one who pulled the ghost trick that pushed the ResetButton (and, in a sense, still being halfway in the land of the dead, somehow).]]
** [[spoiler: In the ending you're shown the meteorite radiation coming from Sissel, so yes, he was hit. Most likely the shard went through Jowd's leg and then hit Sissel.]]
*** [[spoiler: In fact, you can clearly see the fragment shoot through Jowd's leg.]]

** The game did mention about that. At the scene [[spoiler: where Jeego tries to kill Lynne, if you release the giant box that could kill Jeego without Jeego beneath it]], then this is discussed between Lynne and Sissel. It seems Sissel just tries not to think about that.

** [[spoiler: Yomiel did say that if his fate was to die, so be it. So much better than living forever was his thinking. That and the goal was to prevent the meteorite from hitting him. And if Yomiel did possess himself, lets Lynne go and dropped the gun and ran away instead to avoid the meteorite fragment, he might get the death penalty instead of 10 years. Or better yet, the writers chose to make Yomiel sympathetic]].
** [[spoiler: Also, if Yomiel let go of Lynne and ran away, it's possible the meteor could have hit Lynne, schroedinger-ing her as a child.]]

** We can't see the words anyway so might as well have Sissel get to it and examine it for us. [[spoiler: Besides, he can't read due to being a cat anyway so might as well just have him hop to it]].

* Minor point: Near the start of the game, Ray mentions that Sissel's power to rewind time will only work on corpses that have not been dead for longer than 24 hours. Why did he point that out? Sissel never encounters any bodies during the game that have been dead for more than a few hours. [[spoiler: Yes, I know that Yomiel has been technically dead for 10 years, but as the Temsik fragment within him kept him trapped in the instant where the fragment pierced his heart, he is not "truly" dead.]]
** It might be in case Sissel got the sporadic idea to try and save a bunch of random dead people. Or better yet, it was likely a subtle hood-wink from the writers to avoid would've have otherwise been a hanging question of "if he can go back to save people's lives, wouldn't that mean he can save literally every single person who's ever been killed by something other then natural causes?". Limiting it to people who've been dead for only 24 hours limits the unfortunate implications that he could end up accidentally saving...say, [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler]]. Just to use an example - My point is that it limits the implications for what Sissel could actually use his powers for (whether it be for good or for evil). Especially since the end of the game reveals [[spoiler:He will actually exist forever. If they didn't have Ray drop that line in it'd have basically meant Sissel was a horrific abomination who had unlimited god like powers.]]
** Though the game makes no hints or mentions to it, this troper believes the rule was put in place to prevent [[spoiler:Sissel from bringing Alma (Jowd's wife) back to life. When Sissel saves Lynne early in the game, she asks why she doesn't have the same powers as him, because according to her, they would help. Considering she is looking into a murder case, she may have been considering trying to save Alma with ghost tricks. Although even if they could, Yomiel was there, and he was determined to kill her.]]
* Two questions regarding the ending: [[spoiler:Who gives kitten Sissel the red neckerchief in the ending timeline (I'm assuming Yomiel gave it to Sissel in the game's timeline), and why do the Noisy and Curry-Loving Jailbirds still have their striped "jailbird" clothing if Yomiel never possessed them and committed their crimes?]]
* Couldn't [[spoiler:Ray have possessed Lynne's corpse in the first timeline to go back before her death and convince Sissel to help, rather than wait ten years?]]

* In the final timeline, [[spoiler:how does Sissel move as a cat? Even with the Temsik fragment inside of his body keeping him healed, Sissel is ''dead''. The dead don't move. Yomiel could move even after being hit because he got the power to control human bodies at the SuperpowerRoulette, but Sissel does remarkedly ''not'' have that power. So he should by all accounts stay an inanimate corpse]].

** Also, Sissel's powers might be entirely different [[spoiler:after getting hit directly with the meteor fragment. We don't actually see him use any tricks in the new timeline, and being able to possess his own body might be one of then. Even though Yomiel didn't seem to be able to possess his own body for at least some time afterwards, the allocation of powers seems to be pretty arbitrary; the same principle that lets Missile swap objects while Sissel manipulates them could let new!Sissel manipulate his own body right away.]]

** I thought that Temsik fragment kept someone suspended in a zombie like state, where they're neither fully dead nor fully alive?

* In the final timeline, [[spoiler:how does Sissel move as a cat? Even with the Temsik fragment inside of his body keeping him healed, Sissel is ''dead''. The dead don't move. Yomiel could move even after being hit because he got the power to control human bodies at the SuperpowerRoulette, but Sissel does remarkedly ''not'' have that power. So he should by all accounts stay an inanimate corpse]].

*** Not an answer so much as a little thing to be considered, but [[spoiler:Yomiel wore the Temsik Fragment for ten years. So after it got extracted, a good part of the Fragment's radiation should have sticked around]]. Maybe that changed the rules somewhat?

** It might be in case Sissel got the sporadic idea to try and save a bunch of random dead people. Or better yet, it was likely a subtle hood-wink from the writers to avoid would've have otherwise been a hanging question of "if he can go back to save people's lives, wouldn't that mean he can save literally every single person who's ever been killed by something other then natural causes?". Limiting it to people who've been dead for only 24 hours limits the unfortunate implications that he could end up accidentally saving...say, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler]]. Just to use an example - My point is that it limits the implications for what Sissel could actually use his powers for (whether it be for good or for evil). Especially since the end of the game reveals [[spoiler:He will actually exist forever. If they didn't have Ray drop that line in it'd have basically meant Sissel was a horrific abomination who had unlimited god like powers.]]

** In fiction in general, animals who are given full blown personalities tend to act like your typical humans when it comes to interpersonal relations, since it would just be rather weird if they didn't. As unrelated an example as it may be, if ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' was accurate to the breeding process of real clown fish, [[{{Squick}} it would've been an ''entirely'' different type of movie.]]

*** It didn't get the fragment until the end of the game. It was merely exposed to radiation, which was never stated to have that quality. At this point, my best theory is that this story takes place in a world where BloodlessCarnage is a fact of life and goes unquestioned, but that contradicts the visible blood in ''Ace Attorney''.

*** No, it doesn't. Yes, I know that this is something that's actually said in-game, but Ray was specifically telling Sissel that as a way to get him to shut up. Plus it was in response to him wondering why he can specifically go back in time four minutes, and Ray's response is meant to be a shoulder shrug and a "that's just how it is" response (this is actually an example of something being LostInTranslation as "seven" in Japanese is pronounced almost the same as "death". The logic is that you go back four minutes, because that's how far "death" allows you to go back). That doesn't mean things can just flat out not make sense or be inconsistent, and be chalked up to "it's dead people powers deal with it".

** In fiction in general, animals who are given full blown personalities tend to act like your typical humans when it comes to interpersonal relations, since it would just be rather weird if they didn't. As unrelated an example as it may be, if ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' was accurate to the breeding process of real clown fish, [[{{Quick}} it would've been an ''entirely'' different type of movie.]]

** In fiction in general, animals who are given full blown personalities tend to act like your typical humans when it comes to interpersonal relations, since it would just be rather weird if they didn't. As unrelated an example as it may be, if ''Film/FindingNemo'' was accurate to the breeding process of real clown fish, [[{{Quick}} it would've been an ''entirely'' different type of movie.]]

* Related to the above, why does Sissel seem to generally process the world akin to a human? I understand why Sissel assumed he was human, and from that, I can get that he might act a bit more human-esque then normal, considering he'd be subconsciously acting like the humans he's witnessed as a cat, but his personality is exactly like a human's. Just to use an example, he thinks about romance in the typical monogamous way that most people do. As a cat, he shouldn't even understand monogamous relationships, let alone consider it the norm. He knows about concepts like a "wife" and "husband" and marriage in general, but a cat wouldn't understand the idea of two humans being together like that. This isn't something he could've just subconsciously begun treating like normal either, he just flat out wouldn't know the concepts exist. When a cat sees a human couple, it isn't thinking "oh, so humans must have monogamous relationships", that isn't how the thought process of an animal works. He also feels the moral weight of concepts like shooting someone, which is something a cat also cannot process. They may be able to feel emotions over things like death (although this is heavily up for the debate), but Sissel should not understand the idea that murdering someone is a "bad thing, no matter the reason". Being put off by murder I get, but the ability to process the actual moral conscious side of it is a strictly human ability. There's a ton of other examples like this too. His personality is just far too close to that of a human, then an animal.

* As clever and great a plot twist as it was, when you think about it, Sissel being a cat doesn't make too much sense. For starters, how does Sissel know what a railway crossing gate is? Or what telephones are used for? More to the point why does Sissel process the world like a human would? I understand why Sissel assumed he was human, and from that, I can get that he might act a bit more human-esque then normal, considering he'd be subconsciously acting like the humans he's witnessed as a cat, but his personality is exactly like a human's. Just to use an example, he thinks about romance in the typical monogamous way that most people do. As a cat, he shouldn't even understand monogamous relationships, let alone consider it the norm. He knows about concepts like a "wife" and "husband" and marriage in general, but a cat wouldn't understand the idea of two humans being together like that. This isn't something he could've just subconsciously begun treating like normal either, he just flat out wouldn't know the concepts exist. When a cat sees a human couple, it isn't thinking "oh, so humans must have monogamous relationships", that isn't how the thought process of an animal works. He also feels the moral weight of concepts like shooting someone, which is something a cat also cannot process. They may be able to feel emotions over things like death (although this is heavily up for the debate), but Sissel should not understand the idea that murdering someone is a "bad thing, no matter the reason". Being put off by murder I get, but the ability to process the actual moral conscious side of it is a strictly human ability. There's a ton of other examples like this too. His personality is just far too close to that of a human, then an animal.

* As clever and great a plot twist as it was, when you think about it, Sissel being a cat doesn't make too much sense. For starters, how does Sissel know what a railway crossing gate is? Or what telephones are used for? More to the point why does Sissel process the world like a human would? I understand why Sissel assumed he was human, and from that, I can get that he might act a bit more human-esque then normal, considering he'd be subconsciously acting like the humans he's witnessed as a cat, but his personality is exactly like a human's. Just to use an example, he thinks about romance in the typical monogamous way that most people do. As a cat, he shouldn't even understand monogamous relationships, let alone consider it the norm. He knows about concepts like a "wife" and "husband" and marriage in general, but a cat wouldn't understand the idea of two humans being together like that. He also feels the moral weight of concepts like shooting someone, which is something a cat also cannot process. They may be able to feel emotions over things like death (although this is heavily up for the debate), but Sissel should not understand the idea that murdering someone is a "bad thing, no matter the reason". There's a ton of other examples like this too. His personality is just far too close to that of a human, then an animal.

* Why doesn't Cabenela let the Pigeon Man help Lynne after she gets shot? He was a medical examiner before becoming a superintendent, he would be ''far'' more likely to be helpful in this sort of situation than the fraud doctor (who Cabenela ''knows'' is a fraud at this point).

* Couldn't [[spoiler:Ray have posessed Lynne's corpse in the first timeline to go back before her death and convince Sissel to help, rather than wait ten years?]]

*** [[spoiler: In fact you can clearly see that shoot through Jowd's leg and lands somewhere behind him.]]

*** Maybe he simply felt queasy about it. He's not exactly an experienced killer, and that's the first time he killed anyone directly, without relying on tricks.