History Recap / AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth

Shih-na snickers... and bursts into a fit of wild laughter that reminds Edgeworth irresistibly of another laughing woman, seven years ago. Yes, Shih-na is Calisto Yew, the murderer of Byrne Faraday and Mack Rell. Lang's unwillingness to believe one of his own could be a criminal stalls the truth, and Shih-na herself insists that Interpol swept the room thoroughly and found no evidence. Edgeworth responds with the hidden length of wire -- a clue that could easily have been found -- and speculates that those rooms were never inspected at all because Shih-na told the other agents she would handle things. Therefore, he dispatches Gumshoe to look for evidence in the room next to the Secretary's Office; in due course Gumshoe returns with a coat, shoes, and some makeup. Shih-na does not deny ownership, but claims the soot marks are simply from the Babahlese fires. Edgeworth puts paid to her claim by setting fire to a sample of the coat and is able to demonstrate the presence of ink on the coat in impressive fashion as it goes up in green flame.

Now Kay plays the trump card she has been holding for seven years: the bottle of Calisto Yew's spilled perfume, carefully preserved to save the fingerprints. Cornered at last, Yew cackles wildly. Lang realizes the awful truth -- his subordinate was a mole for the smuggling ring all along. But she laughs off any name they try to pin on her: Shih-na and Calisto Yew were just her aliases. She is and has always been the Great Thief Yatagarasu. Kay, thoroughly riled, charges her -- a bad move, since Yew seizes her as soon as she gets within reach and puts a gun to her head.

Yew, her escape at hand, decides to taunt them, asking Edgeworth if he knows why the Yatagarasu has three legs. He realizes the truth at last: the Yatagarasu is not one person. Calisto Yew and Byrne Faraday were both the real Yatagarasu. But... three legs... who was the third..? He gets his answer seconds later: Detective Badd appears behind Yew. A shot rings out...

Lang has intervened. Kay is safe on the ground, and Lang is bleeding from an injury on his leg, but Yew is finally in the grip of justice. As everyone boggles that he would save a proven criminal, Lang can only reiterate his philosophy that his men are his family. A search of Yew reveals the missing Babahlese knife blade. She admits to wanting a reason to catch Kay -- to take Little Thief, the Yatagarasu's weapon -- but denies murdering Coachen. The murder of Faraday was so that she could retrieve the Yatagarasu's Key for her boss... her real boss, the head of a smuggling ring. As a parting shot, she leaves behind a few more tidbits -- two slender, pointed hair sticks and a hint to look for Coachen's real murderer. Lang escorts her out of the building but promises to return before the night is over, despite his injury and the order to return to Zheng Fa.

By now it is midnight, and Detective Badd decides that this is the moment to retire the Yatagarasu. Professing himself willing to leave the endgame in Edgeworth's hands, he turns himself in to Gumshoe, who seems moved to tears at the thought of having to place Badd in handcuffs. But he has some parting gifts of his own -- the pages from the KG-8 incident files that had been stolen from Edgeworth's office only the previous night. Yes, ''Badd'' was the one who held Edgeworth at gunpoint. Hidden behind a photograph on one of the pages is a priceless piece of evidence: a 'directives' card, sent from the head of the smuggling ring to one of its agents whenever there was a job to do. It depicts the white three-legged raven on black paper. Coachen was carrying it after the death of Cece Yew, and the bloodstain on its reverse is unmistakable even ten years later. When Yew, Faraday, and Badd decided it was time to go outside the law to bring the smuggling ring down, they adopted the black three-legged raven on white paper as their calling card, wanting the ring to know that its days were numbered. And he also entrusts Gumshoe with a videotape which was to be the definitive piece of evidence to convict Coachen, but it was stolen. It turned up in Ernest Amano's possession, and later was taken by Jacques Portsman -- yes, those two were in on the ring as well, as demonstrated by the directives card ''Portsman'' had in his possession, ordering him to steal the KG-8 case files and retrieve Coachen's card.

Edgeworth's suspicions have fallen on the fake Yatagarasu, who apparently visited both countries that night -- Babahl as a mysterious figure in a black coat, and Allebahst as a shadow in the rose garden. Could the shadow have actually been something else? Working with Franziska, he moves the spotlights around and finds that the crossing beams plus two of the garden statues make a half-decent "Yatagarasu." Perhaps an accomplice was involved to arrange the lights, but the Great Thief himself was probably not there. Just then, Detective Badd greets them with a new piece of evidence -- a photograph taken by a bystander showing a black object flying through the air above the courtyard. It seems to be crossing from Babahl to Allebahst. Neither Franziska nor Edgeworth are pleased to see this after handling cases with other "flying" persons in the past. Badd informs them that it was taken after the fires on the fourth and fifth floor of the Babahlese side were put out.

Back in Babahl, Palaeno informs him that there were ''two'' fires that night; one just at the start of the Jammin' Ninja stage show which involved the top two floors and Palaeno's office, and then a second one toward the end of that show which burned the third floor, including Coachen's office. He can account for Coachen's whereabouts up until the start of the Steel Samurai stage show. Upon seeing a sealed bottle of ink on Coachen's desk, however, Palaeno revises his testimony -- he saw Coachen run into his office during the third fire, but when Palaeno tried to follow, the room filled up with green flames. If they didn't come from the bottle of ink, then where?

Edgeworth and Kay explore the Secretary's Office during the fire with the aid of Little Thief and the collected information on the room (which was the errand that had been occupying Gumshoe). There is a sizable swath of green flames across the doorway, which he can safely assume were a stash of counterfeit bills which Coachen or an accomplice burned to hide the evidence. They also find a long length of wire concealed inside the clock.

The next order of business is to look for the mystery figure in the black coat who disappeared when Kay chased it into the room. They are on the third floor, so going out the window was probably not an option -- and 'flying' is out of the question. But what about the odd fireplace trick he learned in Allebahst? The bilateral symmetry of the embassy suggests that the fireplace back walls should rotate here as well, which they do. Edgeworth sends Gumshoe through to see if a person could use the hearths to go from one room to the next; Gumshoe gets through to the next room with nothing worse than a layer of ashes and soot on his clothing. Further, there is proof that the rotating wall ''was'' used that day, since the ashes and spilled ink Palaeno remembered from a morning housecleaning are not there. And Gumshoe testified that he saw Shih-na come out of the room next door when she moved to apprehend Kay...

Edgeworth and Kay explore the Secretary's Office pre-fire with the aid of Little Thief and the collected information on the room (which was the errand that had been occupying Gumshoe).

, looking for the mystery figure in the black coat who disappeared when Kay chased it into the room. They are on the third floor, so going out the window was probably not an option. But what about the odd fireplace trick he learned in Allebahst? The fireplace back walls rotate here as well, and Edgeworth sends Gumshoe through to see if a person could use the hearths to go from one room to the next; Gumshoe gets through with nothing worse than a layer of ashes and soot on his clothing.

Two men race into the lobby saying that the Yatagarasu has been spotted in Allebahst. Kay springs into action, but is denied entry to the Allehbast side of the embassy: undaunted, she sprints to the Babahl side, intent on going over the courtyard wall. Edgeworth gives chase and looks up to see the third floor of the Babahlese embassy in flames. Cursing the Yatagarasu and yelling Kay's name, he runs into the building.

Edgeworth returns to Babahl to meet up with Kay and Gumshoe, not sure which lead to pursue now except Babahl's (or rather, Allebahst's) Primidux Statue. He finds the two of them, plus Palaeno, near the open-air stage in the courtyard of Babahl's side of the embassy, but they haven't made much progress. He pauses to reorganize his notes, taking care to wad the "Steel Samurai"'s autograph into a nice firm ball before throwing it away.

Palaeno updates him on the meaning of the Primidux Statues and what it will mean for the country found to be holding the genuine statue when Codohpia is reunited. He is already aware that the statue in Coachen's office is actually Allebahst's -- further, he knows that it is the real one and Babahl's is the fake.

The Pink Princess herself joins them -- and under the mask is '''''Wendy Oldbag'''''. Poor Edgeworth. But Larry's surprised to see her too -- Oldbag was a last-minute substitution. She's in possession of an odd note from her 'loving knight,' promising to "descend on her from above;" it doesn't take much to realize that this was a misguided attempt by Larry to court ''Mindy'', the woman he thought was in that costume. She says she was in the next room over at the time of the murder, warming her bad hip by the fire. If the embassy is designed so that two fireplaces share a chimney, that would explain how Larry saw smoke. Police dog Missile sniffs around in the cold fireplace and finds Oldbag's undershirt; assuming Oldbag is correct that her hip was too stiff for her to walk, she couldn't have entered the office itself. But she does admit to leaving her undershirt to dry by the fire, and since the hearths share a chimney... Edgeworth has a look at the fireplace and finds a switch that can rotate the back wall, leaving a space that would easily permit something the size of a shirt to pass through.

After a discussion that runs far longer than it needs to thanks to Larry's own interference, Edgeworth forces his confession that he had planned to go down the chimney to meet "Mindy," not to commit murder. But the issue of the murder weapon remains. It seems unlikely to Edgeworth that the Samurai Sword killed [=DeMasque=] -- after all, the sword and spear are just hollow props -- but then where is the real weapon? Lang reports that his men tested everything for blood and found nothing, but Edgeworth's mind lights on an odd fact: the Primidux Statue is in different position now than it was when the promotional photo with Larry and Alba, as if it had been moved. Lang's men wouldn't have been allowed to test it, since only the ambassador and his staff are allowed to handle such a national treasure. Could the ''statue'' be the weapon? Lang's men are unable to get Alba's consent to examine the statue, but Lang presses on in the interest of knowing the whole truth, with Edgeworth volunteering to take the blame. Sure enough, they find evidence of blood on the head of the statue and fingerprints on the base.

The Pink Princess herself joins them -- and under the mask is '''''Wendy Oldbag'''''. Poor Edgeworth. But Larry's surprised to see her too -- Oldbag was a last-minute substitution. She's in possession of an odd note from her 'loving knight,' promising to "descend on her from above tonight;" it doesn't take much to realize that this was a misguided attempt by Larry to court ''Mindy'', the woman he thought was in that costume. She says she was in the next room over at the time of the murder, warming her bad hip by the fire. If the embassy is designed so that two fireplaces share a chimney, that would explain how Larry saw smoke despite no fire in the Ambassador's fireplace. Then police dog Missile sniffs around in the cold fireplace and finds a Samurai Dog and Oldbag's undershirt; assuming Oldbag is correct that her hip was too stiff for her to walk, she probably didn't actually enter this room. A little inspection shows that the hearths' back walls rotate, connecting the fireplaces and leaving enough space for something to pass between them. The Samurai Dogs were a promotional item Larry and Oldbag were supposed to distribute to the Allebahstian embassy staff, but somehow most of them ended up in Oldbag's possession, and she ate quite a few of them.

After a discussion that runs far longer than it needs to thanks to Larry's own interference, Edgeworth forces his confession that he had planned to go down the chimney to meet "Mindy," not to participate in a murder. But the issue of the murder weapon remains. It seems unlikely to Edgeworth that the Samurai Sword was the real murder weapon -- after all, the sword and spear are just hollow props -- but then where is the real weapon? Lang reports that his men tested everything for blood and found nothing, but Edgeworth's mind lights on an odd fact: the Primidux Statue is in different position now than it was when the promotional photo with Larry and Alba, as if it had been moved. Lang's men wouldn't have been allowed to examine it, since only the ambassador and his staff are allowed to handle such a national treasure. Could the ''statue'' be the weapon? Lang's men are unable to get Alba's consent to examine the statue, but Lang presses on in the interest of knowing the whole truth, with Edgeworth volunteering to take the blame. Sure enough, they find evidence of blood on the head of the statue and fingerprints on the base.

Edgeworth reluctantly takes up the task of clearing Larry's name. Larry has apparently become enamored of the actress who plays the Pink Princess, so he attempted to woo her by descending through a chimney, Santa Claus-style. But the smoke from the chimney put paid to his plan. The fireplace hasn't been used recently, so it's possibly he had the wrong chimney. Unfortunately, there's proof that Larry has indeed been in the room before: there is a photograph of him as the Steel Samurai shaking hands with Alba, and the Samurai Spear (with a bent tip) is leaning against a wall alongside other weapons on display. The ceremonial knives are here too, and one blade is missing. The knife that killed Coachen must have come from this set. Larry admits to bending the spear by swinging it around a bit too enthusiastically; he also admits to forgetting to take the sword with him when he left.

[=DeMasque=] was killed by a blow to the back of his head. His body is holding a handwritten note which appears to direct him to the location of the Primidux Statue in this office; a scribble on the back suggests he was hired by someone else to steal it. Badd knows him as Ka-Shi Nou, one of several copycat thieves using the [=DeMasque=] name.

The Pink Princess herself joins them -- and under the mask is '''''Wendy Oldbag'''''. Poor Edgeworth. But Larry's surprised to see her either -- Oldbag was a last-minute substitution. She's in possession of an odd note from her 'loving knight,' promising to "descend on her from above tonight;" it doesn't take much to realize that this was yet another misguided attempt by Larry to court ''Mindy'', the woman he thought was in that costume. She says she was in the next room over at the time of the murder, warming her bad hip by the fire. If the embassy is designed so that two fireplaces share a chimney, that would explain how Larry saw smoke despite no fire in the Ambassador's fireplace. Then police dog Missile sniffs around in the cold fireplace and finds a Samurai Dog and Oldbag's undershirt; assuming Oldbag is correct that her hip was too stiff for her to walk, she probably didn't actually enter this room. A little inspection shows that the hearths' back walls rotate, leaving enough space for something to pass between them. The Samurai Dogs were a promotional item Larry and Oldbag were supposed to distribute to the Allebahstian embassy staff, but somehow most of them ended up in Oldbag's possession, and she ate quite a few of them.

After a discussion that ran far longer than it needed to thanks to Larry's own interference, Edgeworth forced his confession that he had planned to go down the chimney to meet "Mindy," not to participate in a murder. But the issue of the murder weapon remains. It seems unlikely to Edgeworth that the Samurai Sword was the real murder weapon -- after all, the sword and spear are just hollow props -- but then where is the real weapon? Lang reports that his men tested everything for blood and found nothing, but Edgeworth's mind lights on an odd fact: the Primidux Statue is in different position now than it was when the promotional photo with Larry and Alba. Lang's men wouldn't have been allowed to examine it, since only the ambassador and his staff are allowed to handle such a national treasure. Could the ''statue'' be the weapon? Lang's men are unable to get Alba's consent to examine the statue, but Lang presses on in the interest of knowing the whole truth, with Edgeworth volunteering to take the blame. Sure enough, they find evidence of blood on the head of the statue and fingerprints on the base.

Edgeworth reluctantly takes up the task of clearing Larry's name. Larry has apparently become enamored of the actress who plays the Pink Princess, so he attempted to woo her by descending through a chimney, Santa Claus-style. Unfortunately, the smoke from the chimney put paid to his plan. But the fireplace hasn't been used recently. It seemed that Larry had been in the office previously through another means: there is a photograph of him as the Steel Samurai shaking hands with Alba, and the Samurai Spear (with a bent tip) is leaning against a wall alongside other weapons on display. The ceremonial knives are here too, and one blade is missing. The knife that killed Coachen must have come from this set. Larry admits to have bent the spear by swinging it around a bit too enthusiastically; he also admits to forgetting to take the Samurai Sword when he left the office.

[=DeMasque=] was killed by a blow to the back of his head. His body is holding a handwritten note which appears to direct him to the location of the Primidux Statue in this office; a scribble on the back suggests he was hired by someone else to steal it. Badd knows him as Ka-Shi Nou, one of several copycat thieves using the [=DeMasque=] name. It seems unlikely to Edgeworth that the Samurai Sword was the real murder weapon; after all, the Sword and Spear are just hollow props.

The knife itself rescues Kay: the handle is from Babahl, but the ''blade'' is from Allebahst. She couldn't have brought an Allebahstian artifact across the border -- she wasn't even allowed into Allebahst. Kay's name is cleared, but the questions are beginning to pile up: why swap the handles, who was the person in the black coat, and how was a blade from one country smuggled into another? Franziska and Kay decide to look for their answers in Allebahst, dragging Edgeworth and Gumshoe along with them.

In the Theatrum Neutralis, they meet Agent Lang. It becomes clear almost immediately that Allebahst is not as welcoming as Babahl: Ambassador Alba is a feeble old man walking with a cane, but he is firm about not allowing more people into the investigation, and Agent Lang is no happier to see Edgeworth than he was yesterday. After a direct plea from Palaeno, and with extremely poor grace, Lang allows Edgeworth -- and only Edgeworth -- to join him and Franziska. Edgeworth knows the smuggling ring is Interpol's real target; was someone in Allebahst also involved?

In the Ambassador's Office on the fifth floor, they unexpectedly run into the Steel Samurai -- or rather, ''Larry Butz'' in costume as the Steel Samurai. To no one's surprise, he's managed to become a murder suspect.

The knife itself rescues Kay: the handle is from Babahl, but the ''blade'' is from Allebahst. She couldn't have brought an Allebahstian artifact across the border -- she wasn't even allowed into Allebahst. Kay's name is cleared, but the questions are beginning to pile up: why swap the handles, who was the person in the black coat, and how was a blade from one country smuggled into another? Franziska and Kay decide to look for their answers in Allebahst, dragging Edgeworth along with them.

The Steel Samurai himself passes through the lobby on his way to the Alabahst side of the embassy, pushing the Iron Infant in a wooden cart. Edgeworth can't resist the opportunity to go up and ask for an autograph (which is addressed to him even though he never once mentioned his name. Hm.) Kay insists on watching the Jammin' Ninja stage show as well and drags Edgeworth back to the theater; when they emerge, there is still no sign of the Yatagarasu. Edgeworth is about to call it a night, when suddenly--

He finds Kay in the Secretary's Office, held in custody by Lang's assistant Shih-na. Manny Coachen is lying dead on the floor, but Kay insists the body was already there when she chased the fake Yatagarasu into the room. When Edgeworth demands to know why Kay is being held for questioning, Shih-na reminds him that technically they are in Babahl, meaning he has no authority to investigate here.

Franziska von Karma chooses that moment to make her entrance, accompanied by Ambassador Palaeno. Edgeworth, thinking quickly, asks Palaeno to let him join the investigation as Franziska's assistant. Between Palaeno's agreeable nature and Franziska's glee at having her "little" brother as her subordinate, it works, allowing him the freedom to defend Kay. Detective Gumshoe is also present as part of an arrangement between the police and Babahl to provide extra security if the Yatagarasu appears: Edgeworth is only too quick to sneer at how well ''that's'' worked out, given that the secretary's office is burned out and the secretary himself is dead on the floor.

Palaeno is happy to answer all of his questions. Coachen was his secretary -- such a competent one, in fact, that Palaeno left most of the daily governance to him. He even ran his own printing press, putting out the enormous amount of tourism-related paperwork that Babahl needed to make an income. Palaeno speculates that the key must have belonged to Coachen since his Codohpian days, because it has both a flower and a butterfly design, but he doesn't know much about the details of its theft since he wasn't ambassador at the time.

Edgeworth tries the Yatagarasu's Key in Coachen's safe. It opens easily enough, but the inner space seems unusually shallow. He spies a hexagonal opening on the inner wall which reminds him of the cross section of the knife blade; sure enough, the 'knife' is a second key, allowing them to find a document stored in the safe's second compartment. It appears to be pages 1 and 3 of a 3-page paper, but it doesn't seem to go with anything else they hold. The safe also conceals several pieces of rare, stolen art. Franziska seemed to be hoping to find more, so he asks her why Interpol is interested in this situation. It transpires that she has visited, along with Agent Lang and Shih-na, to seek out more information about the smuggling ring; the clue that tipped them off was page 2 of an accounting document, printed on paper made only in Codohpia. (Hm.) Naturally, the additional page completes the document, confirming Franziska's suspicion that Coachen was the point man for smuggling Babahlese ink: a rare commodity of high value.

Shih-na thinks Kay's guilt is too obvious to warrant further investigation. The Yatagarasu threatened to visit the embassy that night, and Kay herself claims to be the Yatagarasu. In addition, she is the only one who was anywhere near the body when it was found. The obvious conclusion is that she used the distraction of the fire to enter the Secretary's Office and kill Coachen, intending to get the Yatagarasu's Key and steal the incriminating documents from his safe. Edgeworth objects that the key was left on Coachen's body and the documents were still in the safe -- why would Kay have failed to take the items she was supposedly looking for? Shih-na drops her trump card: she entered the room and saw Kay holding the murder weapon. Kay insists that she chased a mysterious figure in a long black coat into the room and somehow lost the person in the darkness; she hadn't known the body was there until she turned on the lights. However, she ''had'' picked up the knife and the mystery person in the coat had vanished into thin air, making her story look incredibly shaky.

The knife itself rescues Kay: the butterfly handle is from Babahl, but the blade is marked with Allebahst's flower. She couldn't have brought an Allebahstian artifact across the border -- she wasn't even allowed into Allebahst. Kay's name is cleared, but the questions are beginning to pile up: why swap the handles, who was the person in the black coat, and how was a blade from one country smuggled into another? Franziska and Kay decide to look for their answers in Allebahst, dragging Edgeworth along with them.

Palaeno is happy to answer all of his questions. Coachen was his secretary -- such a competent one, in fact, that Palaeno left most of the daily governance to him. He even ran his own printing press, putting out the enormous amount of tourism-related paperwork that Babahl needed to make an income. Palaeno speculates that the key must have belonged to Coachen, since it has both a flower and a butterfly design, but he doesn't know much about the details of its theft since he wasn't ambassador at the time.

Edgeworth tries the Yatagarasu's Key in Coachen's safe. It opens easily enough, but the inner space seems unusually shallow. He spies a hexagonal opening on the inner wall which reminds him of the cross section of the knife blade; sure enough, the 'knife' is a second key, allowing them to find a document stored in the safe's second compartment. It appears to be pages 1 and 3 of a 3-page paper, but it doesn't seem to go with anything else they hold. The safe also conceals several pieces of rare, stolen art. Franziska seemed to be hoping to find more, so he asks her why Interpol is interested in this situation. It transpires that she has visited, along with Agent Lang and Shih-na, to seek out more information about the smuggling ring; the clue that tipped them off was page 2 of an accounting document, printed on paper made only in Codohpia. (Hm.) Naturally, the additional page completes the document, confirming Franziska's suspicion that Coachen was the point man for smuggling Babahlese ink: a rare commodity of high value, though Franziska will not tell him exactly why.

They went to the hallway outside the defendant lobbies, seeking evidence to confirm whether Gumshoe had left the hallway and/or met anyone else up there. The Judge was already present, speaking with Detective Badd. His testimony was that he had been able to see into the hallway from the restroom window across the courtyard, and that he had seen Gumshoe buying something from the vending machines in the hall, but shortly afterward, the hall was empty. Detective Badd said that he had asked for someone to guard the hall because Faraday had been accused, and when he and Gumshoe arrived, they went up to the hallway together. They found Yew outside Lobby #1, but Faraday had already dragged Rell into Lobby #2 for some sort of private argument. One of Badd's men confirmed that Gumshoe had never left the hall -- but that just made it seem all the likelier that he had gone into Lobby #2 when he disappeared from sight. Badd and Yew had gone into Lobby #1 and had remained there for about 30 minutes, which is when they heard the gunshot.

Gumshoe refused to relent even when pressured by Edgeworth, Franziska, ''and'' the Judge, but the little girl reappeared, still trying to kick Edgeworth. She gave her name as Kay Faraday, Byrne Faraday's daughter, and claimed to be furious because he was mistreating "Gummy;" he was able to pacify her by giving back the Swiss Roll she'd bought -- for her daddy. As she burst into tears, Edgeworth felt a growing sympathy since her story was so similar to his own. He knelt down to offer her a handkerchief, only for her to blow her nose on his cravat instead. She told them that she'd made promises to her father and was going to keep them: one was "never cry in front of strangers," and another was "never take anything from a stranger." Edgeworth offered her his now-soiled cravat under the legal fiction that she was just 'borrowing' it to wash and return later. Now Gumshoe's motive for hiding her presence in the hallway was clear: technically speaking, she had taken some of his money to buy the Swiss Rolls, and he didn't want anyone to know she'd broken her promise.

Back at Gatewater Land amusement park, Gumshoe and Edgeworth made their formal reacquaintance with Kay, who was pleased they still remembered her. But Edgeworth couldn't understand why she had sought him out, nor why she would take the title of Yatagarasu when it belonged to Calisto Yew, her father's murderer. Key responded that her father was the ''true'' Yatagarasu, according to his own diary and the presence of Little Thief, her father's greatest weapon. Yew was just a pretender to the name. The "Yatagarasu" was active again, sending a calling card ahead to the former Codohpian Embassy, and Kay had hunted down Edgeworth so that he could find out the truth and bring Calisto Yew to justice at last. He protested that he wouldn't get involved in anything criminal, but he did feel indebted to Kay and agreed to do what he could to bring the case to a close.

We are back in the present day, and Edgeworth is in his office enjoying a rare moment of downtime after the whirlwind of the past two days. His peace is soon shattered by the enthusiastic arrival of Kay, who reminds him that he promised to catch the "Yatagarasu;" that is, Calisto Yew falsely laying claim to the title. Edgeworth informs her that someone came to his office just the previous night to steal files related to the KG-8 incident, though they have yet to catch the person. But Kay is too distracted by the Yatagarasu's social engagement that night: to crash a ceremony held at the embassy run jointly by the countries of Allebahst and Babahl (formerly the single nation of Codohpia, which name is now familiar to us because of KG-8, Manny Coachen, and the smuggling ring). Kay insists they go to the fete as well. Edgeworth's main suspicion before they set out is the Yatagarasu's calling card: the one the embassy received is a black raven on white paper, but the one he found in his office the previous night is a white raven on black paper. But it's probably nothing...

We are back in the present day, and Edgeworth is in his office enjoying a rare moment of downtime after the whirlwind of the past two days. His peace is soon shattered by the enthusiastic arrival of Kay, who reminds him that he promised to catch the "Yatagarasu;" that is, Calisto Yew falsely laying claim to the title. Edgeworth informs her that someone came to his office just the previous night to steal files related to the KG-8 incident, though they have yet to catch the person. But Kay is too distracted by the Yatagarasu's social engagement that night: to crash a ceremony held at the embassy run jointly by the countries of Allebast and Babahl (formerly the single nation of Codohpia, which name is now familiar to us because of KG-8, Manny Coachen, and the smuggling ring). Kay insists they go to the fete as well. Edgeworth's main suspicion before they set out is the Yatagarasu's calling card: the one the embassy received is a black raven on white paper, but the one he found in his office the previous night is a white raven on black paper. But it's probably nothing...

Unfortunately, clearing all these mysteries had not yet cleared Gumshoe's name. If anything, he was in deeper trouble, since it was now confirmed that he ''was'' present in the hallway at the time of the gunshot! Time was running out.

Yew and Edgeworth faced off from their respective benches in the courtroom. Yew remained convinced it was Gumshoe, simply because everyone else was accounted for at the time of the gunshot, and because there was no possible exit from Lobby #2. However, she did not have an alibi for most of the people in the courthouse -- nor for herself -- in the span of time ''before'' Gumshoe took up guard duty in the hallway. When he presented the video as proof that the time of death had been fabricated, Yew became visibly nervous. She brought up the matter of the soundproofed rooms, but he countered with the open windows, one of which was opened as a direct result of what Yew herself had done: deliberately spilling her perfume. He charged Calisto Yew with the double murder, shocking everyone in the room.

Yew laughed off his conclusions and replied that she didn't even know where the knife used to kill Faraday came from, so she couldn't have been his murderer. There was just a key in his evidence bag, after all. Edgeworth pounced, revealing the key-to-knife feature and that Yew had further incriminated herself just by knowing about the key -- after all, this information was known only to Faraday and a few high-ranking law enforcement officers. And not even they knew about the knife aspect of the key. Only the Yatagarasu would know the full truth: in other words, Calisto Yew ''was'' the Yatagarasu.

Yew broke into a fit of mad laughter and confessed to dispatching Faraday because he knew the truth about her. Rell's part in the plan was merely to point to finger of suspicion at Faraday, but when it looked like Rell might blab her part of it to him, Yew had to silence both of them. Badd seemed particularly shaken by the news, and it got worse when Yew confessed that she had been the one to hire Rell to silence Deid Mann in the first place -- she was working for the smuggling ring!

Unsurprisingly, Yew had no intention of surrendering to justice. She pulled a gun on them. Franziska dived behind the prosecutor's bench, but Edgeworth was too shocked to move -- until Kay yelled a warning. He fell to his right, narrowly avoiding the bullet, and Yew escaped with the Yatagarasu's Key. Badd gave chase but was unable to stop her.

Yew, who was present, testified that she and Detective Badd had been in the neighboring defendant lobby at the time of the murder. She apparently carried a grudge against Badd for failing to protect her sister. She hinted that Badd had also failed to keep the Yatagarasu from spiriting away the critical piece of evidence that would have convicted Coachen. Gumshoe insisted he was innocent but also seemed to be hiding something; about the only thing of interest they could get from him was a pay slip from his bonus check -- a whole $5, which account for the only cash he'd had on hand. Edgeworth could tell he was lying about being alone in the hallway and wondered why Gumshoe would hold back information that could help clear his name.

Yew, who was present, testified that she and Detective Badd had been in the neighboring defendant lobby at the time of the murder. She apparently carried a grudge against Badd for failing to protect her sister. She hinted that Badd had also failed to keep the Yatagarasu from spiriting away the critical piece of evidence that would have convicted Coachen. Gumshoe insisted he was innocent but also seemed to be hiding something; about the only thing of interest they could get from him was a pay slip from his bonus check -- a whole $5, and the only cash he'd had on hand before he cashed it. Edgeworth could tell he was lying about being alone in the hallway and wondered why Gumshoe would hold back information that could help his case.

Without any warning, the little girl from earlier crept up behind Edgeworth, kicked him somewhere painful, and ran off. As she fled, she dropped a Swiss Roll snack on the floor.

Edgeworth also found it odd that the surveillance tape which showed the moment of the murder, gunshot and all, was not present with the evidence. They went upstairs to check Lobby #2 and found Badd talking with Agent Lang, but Lang left without saying much to them. Badd had not known that the key became a knife: he had, in fact, been searching the courtroom (with Kay's help) for the missing "key." It went without saying that Gumshoe wouldn't have known either. Another odd fact came up in their discussion: the defendant lobbies were soundproofed, meaning that very little outside noise could get in. Of course, both rooms had their windows open...

When the trial evidence was finally transferred to Edgeworth

Kay updated the image to show the Blue Badger doll, but now the assailant somehow turned into the Proto Badger while stalking Edgeworth. Further, the "disappearing Badger" looked like a reversed Blue Badger, as if it were a mirror image. This led Edgeworth to suspect that it was just an illusion. There must have been a secret room in the Haunted House, concealed by a mirror wall: when the wall is "open" it reflects the hidden Badger, but when closed, the Badger disappears. This was the hiding place for Lance and Oliver Deacon. When Edgeworth entered the dining room to leave the money, however, he heard the 'crash' of the mirror breaking but had dismissed it as part of the ambient noises. When he emerged and saw a slumped Badger in the same spot. It must have been Deacon's body.

Lance broke down and admitted his guilt, though he claimed it was all in self defense after Oliver Deacon attacked him. Lang, unimpressed, took both Lance ''and'' Ernest Amano into custody. Ernest Amano had been Interpol's target the entire time: he was wanted for questioning for his part in the KG-8 incident, wherein the Amano Group was caught dealing in a smuggling operation. Amano's secretary, Colin Devorae, took the fall and went to prison for ten years. Amano was taken into custody by Jacques Portsman and Buddy Faith, much to the irritation of Lang -- who dropped the tidbit that there was a corrupt prosecutor working with Amano and the smuggling ring.

Unfortunately, clearing all these mysteries had not yet cleared Gumshoe's name. If anything, he was in deeper trouble, since it was now confirmed that was the only one present in the hallway around the time of the gunshot! Time was running out.

Edgeworth and Franziska had a look inside Lobby #1, where the air was full of some overpowering flowery odor. They witnessed a conversation between Kay and "Uncle Badd" which revealed them to be fairly close and informal with one another -- Badd didn't even deny the claim that Kay was his 'assistant.' The flower scent in the air was Yew's spilled perfume, which had been overwhelming enough to get him to open the window. He gave a spare bottle to Franziska (which she, naturally, made Edgeworth tote around for her).

After some pressing, Badd opened up about his part in the KG-8 incident. He and Faraday had nearly dragged out the truth about the Amano Group's connections to a smuggling ring when the key witness was murdered and a hapless secretary was set up to confess to everything. Moreover, Manny Coachen, the man who shot the witness, escaped conviction because Badd failed to keep control of the critical piece of evidence. Badd claimed that he and Faraday continued to pursue the smuggling ring as best they could, and Calisto Yew must have done the same since they finally met on the case of the "second KG-8 incident." He said that all three of them had come up hard against the limits of what the law could do. As for Faraday, he and Badd had their own reasons for pursuing the mysterious thief known as the Yatgarasu.

Calisto Yew and the Judge entered the scene to point the finger... at Detective Gumshoe! They claimed that Gumshoe had not been guarding the door the entire time as he said: the Judge testified that he had seen an empty hallway at some point during the recess. Edgeworth pointed out that Gumshoe had no motive, but Yew retorted that Faraday had given him a dressing-down for being late about a week ago, and he could have killed Rell afterward to eliminate any witnesses. Edgeworth remained unconvinced: a double murder suggested that the third person has good reason to want both men dead. To his mind, Manny Coachen fit the bill. Unfortunately, though Coachen was indeed in the courthouse that day, he had been under constant scrutiny; he couldn't have slipped away. Gumshoe was curiously tongue-tied when asked if anyone else had been in the hallway during the recess, and so he was taken away for questioning despite Edgeworth's silent misgivings.

Two vending machines stood there, one of which sold food, including Swiss Rolls -- at extortionate prices. The Swiss Rolls were the cheapest item, and even they were $6. The open window had allowed a trail of ants to enter in pursuit of some chocolate crumbs on the floor; there was also a sticky handprint on the bench underneath it. A sharp cactus on the windowsill had proven fatal to some child's balloon. The handprint was Gumshoe's, and now it was easy to see how he could have disappeared from sight, but how could he have afforded Swiss Rolls when he was at least a dollar short? Edgeworth remembered the dollar he had changed for the little girl and concluded that they could have pooled their money -- but why would Gumshoe lie about the little girl being there?

Unfortunately, clearing all these mysteries had not yet cleared Gumshoe's name. If anything, he was in deeper trouble, since it was now confirmed that was the only one present in the hallway around the time of the gunshot.

The following morning, Edgeworth and Gumshoe went to Gatewater Land amusement park, where Edgeworth ventured forth to drop off the kidnappers' ransom money. He was directed to the Haunted House, where he found nothing more menacing than empty rooms and an empty Blue Badger costume. He completed the drop off and was turning around to leave when someone struck him across the head, rendering him unconscious for the second time in two days.

Calisto Yew and the Judge entered the scene to point the finger... at Detective Gumshoe! They claimed that Gumshoe had not been guarding the door the entire time as he said: the Judge testified that he had seen an empty hallway at some point during the recess. Edgeworth pointed out that Gumshoe had no motive, but Yew retorted that Faraday had given him a dressing-down about a week ago, and he could have killed Rell afterward to eliminate any witnesses. Edgeworth remained unconvinced: a double murder suggested that the third person has good reason to want both men dead. To his mind, Manny Coachen fit the bill. Unfortunately, though Coachen was indeed in the courthouse that day, he had been under constant scrutiny; he couldn't have slipped away. Gumshoe was curiously tongue-tied when asked if anyone else had been in the hallway during the recess, and so he was taken away for questioning despite Edgeworth's silent misgivings.

They met Manfred von Karma down in the lobby, who considered the matter closed. Edgeworth asked to be allowed to continue his investigation, since he didn't think they had enough evidence on Gumshoe for a perfect conviction, and Franziska lent unexpected support, saying she didn't want to end their competition just yet. Von Karma grudgingly agreed and left them to it.

Yew, who was present, testified that she and Detective Badd had been in the neighboring defendant lobby at the time of the murder. She apparently carried a grudge against Badd for failing to protect her sister. She also hinted that Badd's negligence had failed to keep the Yatagarasu from spiriting away the critical piece of evidence that would have convicted Coachen.

Manfred von Karma reappeared, with his 13-year-old daughter Franziska in tow. Over Badd's objections, he left Edgeworth behind to investigate the murders since he wouldn't be able to stand in court, and Franziska elbowed her way in as well, seeing it as a chance to prove herself superior to her 'little' brother. They examined the crime scene and found the victims lying across each other, with Faraday on top. Rell held a knife and Faraday a gun. Evidence bags were scattered near their bodies but the room was not otherwise in disarray; one of the windows had been left open. The gun had been brought by Faraday in as evidence, but the knife remained unexplained. There were also signs that not everything was as it seemed -- Faraday held the gun in his right hand despite ink stains suggesting the left was his dominant hand, and the lack of powder burns on Rell indicated that he was not shot at close range; moreover, the scattered bags around the bodies were at odds with the neat pile on the table. The last bit of oddness was the television in the room: its volume had been set to a high level.

Calisto Yew and the Judge entered the scene to point the finger... at Detective Gumshoe! They claimed that Gumshoe had not been guarding the door the entire time as he said: the Judge testified that he had seen an empty hallway at some point during the recess. Edgeworth pointed out that Gumshoe had no motive, but Yew retorted that Faraday had given him a dressing-down about a week ago, and he could have killed Rell afterward to eliminate any witnesses. Edgeworth remained unconvinced: a double murder suggested that the third person has good reason to want both men dead. To his mind, Manny Coachen fit the bill. Unfortunately, though Coachen was indeed in the courthouse that day, he had been under constant scrutiny by the police; he couldn't have slipped away. Gumshoe was curiously tongue-tied when asked if anyone else had been in the hallway during the recess, and so he was taken away for questioning despite Edgeworth's silent misgivings.

Edgeworth approached Yew about the KG-8 incident, knowing she must be connected somehow since she and the victim, Cece Yew, had the same name. Yew admitted, after more giggles, that Cece had been her sister, but Faraday was unable to get a conviction because the key piece of evidence was stolen.

Manfred von Karma reappeared, with his 13-year-old daughter Franziska in tow. Edgeworth asked to be allowed to investigate the murders since he wouldn't be able to stand in court, and Franziska elbowed her way in as well, seeing it as a chance to prove herself superior to her 'little' brother.

Von Karma quizzed Edgeworth on the facts of the case. A couple days prior, a worker at the Codohpian embassy was shot and killed. Mack Rell was taken into custody and found to have the murder weapon on him; moreover, he had been seen doing the deed on the security camera. The wrinkle in the case was that the Yatagarasu had infiltrated the embassy and revealed its secrets: Rell claimed to be the Yatagarasu himself at first, and then attempted to accuse the prosecutor. Because of similarities to another incident three years prior, the murder was coming to be known as the "second KG-8 incident." KG-8, incidentally, was when the Amano Group was caught in a smuggling scandal (and Colin Devorae was set up to take the fall); a Codohpian staff member named Manny Coachen was accused of killing the whistleblower, Cece Yew, before she could testify. Byrne Faraday, again, failed to get a conviction. What connected that case to the present one was that the victim, Deid Mann, was a potential witness to the smuggling ring who had apparently been shot and silenced; the wild card, again, was the Yatagarasu, who had stolen a single item and sent it to the police on the same day of the murder.

Just before the trial resumed, they were interrupted by a young Kay Faraday, wanting to exchange some coins for a dollar bill. Edgeworth traded with her without thinking much of it and prepared to enter the courtroom. Unfortunately, no one but themselves and the Judge were present. Detective Gumshoe came charging in with shocking news -- Byrne Faraday and the defendant had been found dead in Defense Lobby #2!

Edgeworth ran to investigate but got nowhere against the trio of Detective Tyrell Badd, a hardboiled character, Calisto Yew, the defense attorney, and Gumshoe. Gumshoe had been in the hallway guarding the door and could testify to hearing the gunshot, but Detective Badd was the one officially in charge of the crime scene. Yew had very little to say to him (and Edgeworth's formal and rather stiff style of speaking kept sending her into fits of giggles). Badd would reveal only that Faraday had been stabbed and Rell had been shot -- and that he had been called to testify since he works cases connected to the Yatagarasu.

Placed in restraints, Edgeworth insisted that he was a prosecutor and needed to investigate the crime scene before any evidence could be contaminated or the real culprit could escape the plane. The attendant who detained him, Ms. Rhoda Teneiro, insisted she saw him with the murder weapon, dripping blood, and that the travel wallet in his possession must mean he killed the victim for his money, but Edgeworth easily dismissed both claims by showing the empty wallet, dripping nothing worse than grape juice from a spill at the lounge. Ms. Teneiro said that the Captain had given him permission to look around, provided she accompanied him. One of the passengers, a Zinc Lablanc, drew attention to himself at that moment: a self-proclaimed art dealer from the country of Borginia, he said he saw the victim taking the elevator down to the lounge at 6:00am, just before the turbulence, leaving only a fifteen minute window for the murder. To his mind, this put the guilt clearly on Edgeworth, as nearly everyone else was accounted for at the time.

The first clue that all was it not as it seemed was the crime scene -- a set of footprints in the spilled grape juice led to the shop area, which was now closed off. Edgeworth concluded that at least one other person had been in the lounge. Ms. Teneiro also revealed the important tidbit that the elevator served the lounge, the passenger cabin, and the cargo hold, though the third required a special keycard. Searching the body revealed that the victim had broken glasses, blood on the back of his head (a heavy souvenir bank also found in the elevator could have done the deed), was holding a photo of himself taken in front of a large, red-eyed statue, and was missing the cell phone he usually wore on a lanyard around his neck. His passport, hidden in his travel wallet, revealed his name to be Akbey Hicks.

Ms. Meele interrupted with a bit more information that cast Ms. Teneiro in a bad light -- she hadn't actually received permission from the Captain to let Edgeworth search the plane. Ms. Teneiro, caught in the lie, crept away, and Ms. Meele joined Edgeworth in searching the shop. The glass case that formerly held the bank was shattered, and a small hat that would match its head was still inside, but Edgeworth concluded the bank had broken out on its own during the turbulence. A pair of suitcases caught Edgeworth's eye (and not just for being expensive and garishly decorated) by being neatly lined up when one of them had no blocks on its wheels and should have moved during the turbulence. Opening it, he found a bloodstained cloth inside: fabric in a Borginian pattern matching the headcloth of Mr. Lablanc. He speculated that the killer used the suitcase to move Mr. Hicks' body and then returned it to the shop ''after'' the turbulence, meaning the murder could have happened anywhere on the plane.

They return to the plane, where Edgeworth wanted to interview Ms. Teneiro in private. They encountered Mr. Lablanc first, who was furious about his cargo of imported art not being released from the cargo hold, and Franziska, who insisted on hearing Edgeworth's own defense. He insisted that the logical chain of events pointed to a murder ''before'' the turbulence, somewhere else on the plane, with the suitcase being used to hide the body and then stashed in the shop afterward. The souvenir bank, which could only have broken out after the turbulence, was left with the body, and the victim's wallet left on Edgeworth to frame him. Franziska responded that the evidence now pointed to one of the flight attendants, particularly Ms. Teneiro, who had lied about having permission to search the plane.

Ms. Teneiro, when pressed for what she was doing in the shop before the turbulence, admitted that she was in there to buy one of the hideous suitcases -- because she designed them but was ashamed that they weren't selling, so she made a habit of buying one on each flight to give the illusion that they were popular. She produced her receipt, time-stamped 5:40am. She also revealed in passing that only ''one'' suitcase was in the shop when she was last there. The suitcases were, in fact, so profoundly unpopular that the remaining stock were being held in the cargo hold for destruction at the end of the flight. But only staff can enter the cargo hold, and Ms. Teneiro held the only keycard... or did, but the card had gone missing. Franziska took this for sufficient proof of guilt and had Ms. Teneiro detained.

Edgeworth, Gumshoe, and Franziska investigated the cargo hold, which was surprisingly large for a plane and required a long set of stairs to reach the floor. Mr. Hicks' suitcase contained a file on Franziska, from which Edgeworth quickly deduced that Hicks was no mere passenger but an Interpol agent scheduled for a rendezvous with her at the airport. He had been investigating a smuggling route. They found broken glass from Hicks' spectacles on the floor, and a suitcase missing from the unsold stock. Edgeworth speculated that the victim was killed in the cargo hold and then was packed into a suitcase to be hidden elsewhere. The turbulence, however, shook the victim out of the suitcase, forcing the killer to abandon his body in the elevator.

Franziska continued to insist that the souvenir bank, together with Ms. Teneiro's access to the keycard, made her the most likely suspect. Edgeworth, however, saw a more likely murder weapon -- the cargo hold itself. Hicks could have fallen to his death from the upper landing. The autopsy report supported this hypothesis -- but Franziska pointed to a large box under the landing that would prevent a lethal fall. Edgeworth reminded her that they had stopped to take additional cargo between 4:00 and 5:00am, meaning the box might not have been there. The large box, naturally, belonged to Lablanc, who furiously insisted it was originally from Europe (not loaded at Zheng Fa). But the enormous statue it contained was an obvious forgery -- proven by Hicks' photograph of the red-eyed original. It also stood ''over'' the drop cloth of a piece of cargo which was loaded at Zheng Fa. This justified Hicks' presence in the cargo hold: to take photos of the hold before and after the stop at Zheng Fa.

To thank him for his trouble, Ms. Teneiro presented Edgeworth with one of her special suitcases, which he accepted with fair grace (all things considered). They had some parting words with Franziska, who was leaving to meet with an elite Interpol agent and continue her investigation, and warned them that they were sure to cross paths again. Moments later, Edgeworth received a call for help from a man named Ernest Amano, asking him for assistance -- to help his son, who had been kidnapped!

The sordid scene was further interrupted by the arrival of a distraught young woman, Lauren Paups, with an ill-concealed crush on Lance Amano, and the return of Lang, who spotted the corpse and attempted to have Officer Meekins arrested on the spot. Riled, Edgeworth insisted that Meekins could not be detained without good reason; Lang counter-argued that only an officer would be likely to carry a gun, and that he had not personally inspected Meekins, meaning the logical interpretation was that Meekins ambushed and killed the man at the garage. Edgeworth responded that the body had bled very little, indicating that the murder took place elsewhere. However, he also found Meekins' behavior suspicious: pressing a bit, he learned that Meekins had been out in the Blue Badgermobile until he lost possession of it. The Badgermobile, which was currently back in the garage, could easily have been used to transport the body -- and Meekins didn't help his case by admitting that he had lost his gun. Despite Edgeworth's best efforts, Meekins was detained. Edgeworth and Kay were forced to leave the area.

The young Mr. Amano wasn't finished with his tale yet. He insisted that he'd planned to run away with Lauren and start a new life, until they were betrayed by Oliver Deacon, who overpowered him, took the money, and ran away disguised as the Bad Badger. Lauren had already left their hideout in the Blue Badger costume, and Lance tried to warn her that Oliver was armed. But Lauren insisted it couldn't have been that way -- because if so, she had shot and killed her own father! She remembered seeing a Bad Badger in the stadium, leaving with the money. He had pointed his gun at her, so she fired a shot of her own (with a gun Lance had given her) and saw the Badger drop dead just before she ran for her life. Edgeworth easily picked through her testimony to find the holes -- it couldn't have been the actual Bad Badger since the costume's prop gun was permanently attached to its right paw, and at any rate the ''right''-handed Oliver Deacon wouldn't be a good shot holding the gun in his free ''left'' hand, as Lauren saw. The Proto Badger costume, on the other hand, could hold the suitcase and the gun in the way Lauren described, and it could easily be made to look like the Bad Badger simply by using a different costume head. But who was in the Proto Badger costume? Lance.

From this point it all began to unravel quickly. The gun Lance gave Lauren was the prop gun torn from the paw of the other Bad Badger costume. Lauren could not have killed anyone because the prop gun only shot blanks. It had been an act intended to throw suspicion on Lauren in anticipation of the discovery of Deacon's body. But if Deacon hadn't been murdered in the stadium, then where?