History Recap / GyakutenKenji2

Within Courtroom No. 3, the trial of Patricia Roland gets underway, with Justine Courtney as the presiding judge, Raymond Shields replacing the deceased Jill Crane as Patricia's attorney, and Franziska Von Karma replacing the still missing Sebastian DeBeste as the trial prosecutor. After both Ray and Franziska confirm that they're happy to procced with the trial despite being called up on very short notice, Courtney calls Patricia up to the stand. The warden is surprisingly nonchalant for someone being prosecuted for murder by *Franziska Von Karma*, asking what she's even doing in the courtroom, but the reason for her high spirits becomes clear when Franziska moves to present her decisive evidence; the knife Patricia used to murder Knightley and the bell of Dogen's that she attached to it are both missing!

!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

Huang's body is then taken away for an autopsy, and an officer informs Lang that footprints resembling those of an elementary school student were found in the dirt nearby. Kay clearly guesses who that could be, before Penny admits that she came to the lot at 10PM last night to check on John, who was practicing his lines.

!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

Edgeworth asks Lang to elaborate, but Lang reveals that having been to the Grand Tower, he knows that Edgeworth's no longer a prosecutor, meaning he no longer has investigative authority of any kind. Therefore, Lang has no reason to engage him in a battle of logic.

!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

One night, Blaise discovered that Crane - now a member of the P.I.C. - planned to murder him, and came up with a counterstrategy. First he had nurse Karin Jenson hide inside a costume trunk within the storeroom; having once forced her grandmother - coroner Dr. Bonnie Young - to forge a false autopsy report for Isaac Dover during the events of the IS-7 incident, he had a means of blackmailing her into complicity by threatening to make Dr. Young's forgery a public matter. Then, after Crane won a bid for one of the lots, he took her up into the storeroom via a secret elevator, and attacked her with the gavel he was using to conduct the auction, knocking her unconscious with a fatal blow to the head. Once he thought Crane dead, he let Karin out of the trunk and had her disguise herself as the attorney in order to make it look like she was still participating in the auction. Crane was placed in the trunk, and Karin took her clothes as part of the disguise, but secretly covered her with a red raincoat formerly belonging to Shelly de Killer that Blaise had obtained following the events of ''Turnabout Target'', wanting to at least give her some dignity in death. Finally, Karin was instructed to win the bid for the costume trunk, in order to keep Crane's body from being discovered.

Examining Huang's body and the surrounding area, Edgeworth observes no signs of external wounds on the dead president, making Kay wonder if he really was stepped on by a monster. The pair do notice a yellow stain on the front of Huang's jacket though. They also observe that the concrete surrounding the hoofprint and body is cracked all over, and Kay brings up that there are two more hoofprints in the lot. Last but not least, they spot what appears to be a horn lying near the body.

On the right side of the lot is a gate that connects it to the Grand Tower lot. Edgeworth wonders if the Grand Tower's related to this case as well, before noticing a lock attached to a piece of cut chain lying in front of the gate. Penny claims that the gate was locked yesterday - making Edgeworth wonder if Huang's killer forced their way through it - before pointing out a dent in the fence next to the gate, something else that wasn't like that yesterday.

Talking to Lotta, Edgeworth asks why she's obsessed with Moozilla. Lotta claims that around the time she took her photo of Crane in the raincoat within the Grand Tower, she saw its eye peering through the window blinds. Edgeworth remains unconvinced however.

!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

As Lotta tries to insist that there's a monster involved - while warning Edgeworth to stay out of the way of her scoop - Penny approaches Edgeworth, having recognized him from the [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Jack Hammer murder case]]. Edgeworth in turn recognizes her, and from there guesses that the lot is related to Global Studios, the company that she works for. Penny explains that Global Studios is currently shooting a movie in the lot, and she came across the hoofprints and dead body - not at all a part of the production - when she arrived to set things up for the shoot. Edgeworth asks her to call the police, before beginning his investigation.

Within the now empty meeting room of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, inside the deserted storeroom once used for Blaise's black market auctions, and atop the roof of the Grand Tower, the sound of loud stomping can be heard outside. As it gets louder and closer, we see a great, hoof-shaped hole within concrete, exposing the ground below, and then a gigantic, monstrous eye peering through the storeroom's window blinds. We then see the cow-themed boy from both the Zodiac Art Gallery and the front of the Grand Tower, followed by a shot of a fanged, bull-esque monster so enormous, it reaches into the clouds. It lets out a roar akin to a cow's moo, and we fade to black.

Edgeworth asks Lang what's happened, but Lang - looking visibly in shock over Huang's death - replies that he's trying to find that out himself. Lotta puts it down to Huang being crushed to death by the footprint of a monster, [[ShoutOut declaring that]] "[[Manga/AttackOnTitan On this day, mankind received a grim reminder: we live in fear of the Mighty Moozilla!]]", but Edgeworth is very much skeptical about this theory. Not only does he not believe in monsters, he recalls Shelly admitting that he had accepted a contract to assassinate Huang back at Gourd Lake, causing him to wonder if Shelly was responsible for this.

!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

Edgeworth then asks Karin about her actions following her entry into the auction. Karin tells him that she was instructed by the Conductor to win the bid for the costume trunk, in order to prevent another participant from discovering Crane's body. When they came up to the storeroom to conclude the deal, they discovered the body was missing from the trunk - presumably they didn't bother locking it, and Karin was ordered to search for it. She ended up finding Kay lying unconscious in front of the storeroom ladder, with Lotta guessing that Crane left the hatch above open after climbing through it, and Edgeworth surmising that Kay proceeded to accidentally fall through it due to her surprise at seeing Crane. Hence the sound Lotta heard that caused her to pass out.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

The investigation is then interrupted by the arrival of Sebastian and Courtney. The [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal perfectionist, prodigiously accomplished prosecutor]] Franziska naturally [[WhipItGood doesn't take kindly]] to the existence of the former - proceeding to whip him throughout the scene - but she's willing to be polite to the latter, and Sebastian and Courtney reveal the victim to be Jill Crane, an attorney and P.I.C. member. Hence why she had that keycard, Edgeworth figures.

Once the introductions are made, Blaise asks Courtney about the investigation. Courtney names Kay as the culprit, but Edgeworth insists there are too many unexplained factors, not least the matter of the letter. He tells Blaise that while he may be tasked with bringing criminals to justice, he won't make someone out to be a criminal without sufficient motive and evidence, prompting Blaise to remark on Edgeworth's relationship with Kay. Gumshoe points out that Kay's helped Edgeworth and the authorities multiple times in the past, but Blaise insists that's not relevant anymore, not when the Prosecutor's Office needs a quick resolution to the current case. He attempts to take Kay into custody, but while she doesn't protest, Gumshoe does, prompting Courtney to warn him that such defiance of Blaise will result in Edgeworth losing his badge on the spot. As Franziska expresses disgust at the P.I.C. using threats against Prosecutor's Badges to get its way, Edgeworth attempts to convince Kay to not give in, but it's of no use.

Edgeworth recalls how he once wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and save those in need, before remarking that his Prosecutor's Badge is keeping him from doing just that for a friend. From there, his next decision is a no-brainer; he takes off his badge and places it on the room's podium, and tells Courtney that he's resigning as a prosecutor. As Courtney, Gumshoe, Kay and Franziska all react in shock, Edgeworth declares that if it's the Prosecutor's Path to turn a blind eye to the truth, then he wants no part of it.

Blaise insists that his son's no good whatever the circumstances, and Courtney declares that she's letting Edgeworth take the guy down, a deed that Edgeworth is more than happy to perform. Courtney asks for evidence that Blaise had a burn on his face, and Edgeworth cites Karin's testimony of finding an additional, wavy-haired wig in the costume trunk when she switched places with Crane. He points out that Blaise too has wavy brown hair, in the form of his beard, and declares the "wig" to have actually been a fake beard hiding the burn mark. Blaise denies it, but Edgeworth replies that Sebastian clearly knew the truth from his earlier behavior, with Blaise subsequently driving him from the room to prevent him blabbing about it.

Courtney then comes up to inform Edgeworth that Blaise is safely in the care of the detention center. However, the location of the murderous gavel is still unknown, and Courtney also brings up two letters that Blaise claimed to have found. The first was the one on Crane that implicated Kay, and the second was a letter found on the unconscious Kay, in which Crane promised to recover Kay's "most precious memory". Blaise assumed from these letters that Kay and Crane were working together - a theory Edgeworth very much doubts - and thus he tried to frame Kay for the murder.

Edgeworth asks why Blaise murdered Crane, and Courtney replies that long ago, Crane had been dating a journalist who'd been looking into the evidence auctions, but had been murdered before he could expose them. Crane subsequently hoped to avenge her boyfriend's murder by killing the Conductor, but ended up getting killed herself, though Courtney takes comfort in being able to bring her murderer's crimes to light.

Kay then asks about Sebastian, with Courtney explaining that they've been unable to contact or even find him for a while. Kay continues to feel sorry for him, but Franziska tells her to feel sorry about how Sebastian was lied to for so long. She states that Sebastian will have to accept reality or he'll be unable to walk his own path, with Edgeworth hopeful that Sebastian will be able to move on from this.

!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

With Edgeworth having seemingly failed, Blaise prepares to draw the proceedings to a close, but Courtney stops him, coming to Edgeworth's aid once again. She points out that there's still the unexplained matter of the contradiction in Crane's autopsy report, right as Karin and Dr. Young enter the meeting room.
!Part 4-6 - End 2
!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

Simon managed to manipulate damn near the entire cast of the game, and take revenge on the four who had made his life hell. It was just too bad that he was unable to tame Edgeworth's determination to find the truth...

Edgeworth figures that he'll have to find a way past Blaise's defenses. He begins by asking why Blaise rushed Kay's arrest, causing Blaise to ask if Edgworth understands the position he's in, before taking out his lighter and trying to get it working. Edgeworth says nothing, and Blaise explains that the blame would fall on him if the criminal escaped justice, taking out his lighter once again. Edgeworth again holds his tongue, and Blaise advises him to stay out of the matter, but Edgeworth makes clear that that won't happen. Getting tearful, Blaise laments Edgeworth's persistence right as things were starting to go well...and Edgeworth jumps on this point, remarking that he seems to want Kay's arrest far more than necessary.

Blaise insists that Edgeworth is overthinking things, but Edgeworth isn't convinced, and he decides to question whether the investigation was sufficient. He asks if Kay's arrest was under Blaise's authority, commenting that the title of P.I.C. Chairman sounds quite important, not that he particularly cares about it. Blaise acts hurt over this last bit, warning Edgeworth that he'll never regain his badge if he keeps talking like that, but Edgeworth replies that whatever status that badge gives is worth nothing to him. This makes Blaise angry - his lighter flaring up as he dismisses Edgeworth's words as naivety - and Edgeworth jumps on this, asking him how much time he spent on the investigation.

Edgeworth notes that Courtney almost seemed to be on his and Kay's side just now. Courtney proceeds to ask Edgeworth if he knows anything about the stuffed bull, and Edgeworth presents the one found in the storeroom. Curiously enough, Courtney seems to find something familiar about it, but dismisses such a possibility when questioned by Sebastian, explaining that she was simply surprised to see such a thing. Edgeworth and Kay go on to examine the doll, and discover it to be equipped with a recording device, one that's activated when the right horn is turned. As Blaise watches in silence, the doll plays a message of someone recognizing a burn and declaring that they've been waiting for revenge, before letting out a cry.

Edgeworth wonders if they just heard a recording of the murder, and Lotta claims that the recording's the same thing she heard. Courtney however argues that it can't be confirmed when the voices were recorded, or if they're even relevant to the case. Lotta insists that Crane was holding onto the doll during the conversation she overheard - meaning it could well have recorded said conversation - but Courtney replies that she'll need more proof of that besides her word. Edgeworth wonders if Courtney's trying to help him with some subtle advice, before pointing out the burn scar mentioned in the recording, and informing her that Crane was shown to have a burn scar in her autopsy report.

Blaise asks how the burn scars are even relevant, and Edgeworth replies that Kay saw the doll lying next to Crane, and it just so happened to mention a characteristic burn of hers. Sebastian argues that's just a coincidence, but Courtney is skeptical of this, and Edgeworth states that one of the recording's voices - likely the one doing most of the talking - must belong to the true culprit. He agrees with Sebastian that they can't get anything about the culprit's identity from the recording due to the voice changers however, but nevertheless, Courtney is willing to accept Lotta's recalled conversation between Crane and the culprit as fact.

Blaise admits that Edgeworth's quite capable, but reiterates that he's both naive and lacking in evidence. Edgeworth has to agree with that last point, and notes that Blaise must be aware of it as well, judging by his confidence. Courtney moves forward to announce a verdict, but Lotta suddenly comes forward, claiming to have just remembered something herself. The judge agrees to hear her out, prompting an angry flare-up from Blaise, but Courtney justifies her decision on the basis that Edgeworth won't give up until she's snuffed out every possibility he can work with, with Sebastian supporting her (despite having little clue about what's going on).

Though she doesn't outright say it, Franziska indicates that she's investigating the black market auction on behalf of Interpol. Lotta then butts in; after getting lashed a couple of times by Franziska - who still hasn't forgiven her over the events of [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney JusticeForAll Maya Fey's second trial]] - she brings up that Crane looks just like the auction's Conductor, a revelation that Franziska is less than happy to recieve. She finally admits that she was investigating the auction, and had been hoping to arrest the Conductor, but if Crane is that person, all her work has been rendered squandered. She refuses to return with nothing to show for it though, and gives Edgeworth another challenge.

!Part 4-6 - End 2
!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

Simon managed to manipulate damn near the entire cast of the game, and take revenge on the four who had made his life hell. It was just too bad that he was unable to tame Edgeworth's determination to find the truth...

Edgeworth and Ray start laying out the facts. Before they can finish doing so though, Blaise and Courtney re-enter the room, Blaise claiming that he wanted to make sure that Sebastian was working hard. Taking out a lighter and playing around with it, Blaise comments on his good fortune in finding Kay here, and Courtney orders her arrest, with Blaise furiously demanding that Edgeworth be silent when he protests. Blaise reminds Edgeworth that a quick resolution is desired for this case, and Courtney points out that Edgeworth has both conducted an illegal investigation and helped a criminal escape justice. Edgeworth is willing to accept punishment for his actions, but tries to bring up the person in Lotta's photo as a new suspect. Courtney overrules him however; a red raincoat with Crane's blood and cherry blossom petals stuck to it was found near the Grand Tower. According to Blaise, this means that the person in the photo is none other than Crane.

!Part 4-6 - End 2
!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

!Part 4-6 - End 2
!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

Courtney is willing to treat this as a valid confession - nevermind that she was expressing doubts about Kay's memory beforehand, as Gumshoe points out - and congratulates Kay for her courage. Franziska and Edgeworth try to object, but Courtney overrules the former, and she and Blaise bring up that the latter is an additional suspect. After all, he carried out an illegal investigation and aided Kay in escaping the law. Courtney tells Edgeworth to accept his punishment, and Blaise declares that his P.I.C. hearing will take place tomorrow. He notes that it's pretty much a formality by this point though, and tells Edgeworth to think very hard about what he's done. And with that, Courtney declares things adjourned...

Franziska admits to feeling impressed that Edgeworth would go so far to protect Kay, but Edgeworth replies that Kay has merely gotten herself caught up in something big. Franziska is skeptical, and Edgeworth reminds her that she's gotten herself involved in a domestic case despite her current job with Interpol. Franziska then admits that she's relieved; despite giving up his badge, Edgeworth clearly hasn't lost his touch.

!Part 4-5 - End 1
!Part 4-6 - End 2
!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

!Part 4-5 - End 1
!Part 4-6 - End 2
!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.

Later, freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia disposing of Huang's body, and mistaking it for a kidnapping, sent a voicemail message of what he was seeing to his girlfriend Jill Crane, shortly before the body double found him and bludgeoned him to death with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators staged a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", and to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage. They buried Huang's body under one of the orphanage's flowerbeds. The case would later be known as the SS-5 incident.

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the kidnapping and eventually managed to discover the truth of what had happened on that night. He didn't make it public however, fearing that the truth would cause nothing but trouble in Zheng Fa. He did however attempt to convict Patricia for Cameron's murder, but Blaise tampered with his evidence, ensuring Patricia's acquital and destroying the Lang clan's reputation, and also leading to Shi-Long developing his hatred for prosecutors and the courts.

At roughly the same time, Patricia subjected Simon to a barrage of harrowing interrogations regarding his involvement in the case, and he eventually ran away, terrified for his life. He would spend the next few years desperately trying to hide from Blaise and the body double. Since Blaise controlled the police via his position of chief prosecutor, Simon was unable to go to them for help, and this eventually morphed into a massive distrust of the legal system, and an inability to trust others.

Life moved on over the years. Blaise eventually became head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, using his authority to prevent anyone investigating the SS-5 incident. The body double distanced himself from the people of Zheng Fa to prevent them discovering his true identity, while also allowing Quercus Alba's smuggling ring to cause strife for the country. Patricia got a job as a prison warden after her orphanage closed down, courtesy of Blaise's influence. Dogen was caught and convicted by Miles Edgeworth and incarcerated in Patricia's prison, where he threatened to reveal the truth of the SS-5 incident in order to blackmail her. Crane joined the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee to investigate her boyfriend's death, along with her best friend Justine Courtney. Knightley joined the security firm the body double hired for his protection, becoming one of the "president's" bodyguards. And Simon stayed in contact with Dogen, and got a job as an animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.

And that's the backstory. Time for the events of the case.

Learning that the body double would be coming to Japanifornia to make a speech following the destruction of Alba's smuggling ring, Simon set in motion a plan that would allow him to take his revenge on Blaise, Patricia, the double and Knightley. First he convinced Knightley to stage a fake presidential assassination attempt, while also arranging for Shelly de Killer to try and kill the double for real, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Target''. After Knightley was arrested, he arranged for him and Dogen to play correspondence chess with each other, and sent him a chisel with one of Dogen's signature bells attached to it, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

On the night Crane was to die however, Simon found none other than the body double waiting for him on the roof of the Grand Tower, along with Courtney. The double had Courtney leave, before firing at Simon with a pistol. In response, Simon landed his balloon on the double, crushing him to death. To prevent the dead double from throwing a wrench in his plans, Simon hid him in the warehouse he used to store the food for the circus animals, using the refrigeration systems there to throw off the time of death. He later dumped the body in a nearby film lot, hoping to frame John - who now worked as a child actor - for the double's murder, an idea that came to him when he saw a Moozilla head prop fall from a roof as a result of John's actions.

Finally, as Patricia was being tried for Knightley's murder, Simon kidnapped John and imprisoned him in the warehouse in order to blackmail Courtney - John's adoptive mother - into convicting Patricia, correctly anticipating that Blaise would attempt to sabotage his cohort's trial. Sure enough, Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped, only for his cronies to grab Blaise's own son, Sebastian Debeste.

//
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In regards to the actual auction, Lotta says that she watched it through a crack between the elevator and the floor. Edgeworth asks if she saw the conductor of the auction, and Lotta replies that she did, though she wasn't able to get any clues about their identity, since they were wearing a mask alongside the participants. She did make out their clothes though; a white jacket with a purple flower and white gloves.

!Part 4-5 - End 1
!Part 4-6 - End 2
!Behind the Turnabout
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Grand Turnabout]]
!Part 5-1 - Beginning 1
!Part 5-2 - Beginning 2
!Part 5-3 - Middle 1
!Part 5-4 - Middle 2
!Part 5-5 - End
!Behind the Turnabout
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.

18 years ago, the son of Dane Gustavia was kidnapped by his best friend, the son of Issac Dover, as part of a plan to sabotage Gustavia at Jeff Master's Great Dessert Contest. Dover's son shut Gustavia's son and himself in Dover's car, but a blizzard froze the doors shut, trapping both boys inside. The pair of them would have surely died from the cold were it not for the appearance of legendary assassin Sirhan Dogen, who rescued them and dropped them off at the nearby Happy Family Home orphanage.

Neither boy was claimed by his father, as Gustavia murdered Dover and - taking his son's absence at the contest to be a deliberate betrayal - didn't bother looking for him. With no means of identifying them, Dover's son was named Horace Knightley, and Gustavia's son was named Simon Keyes. The trauma from their near-death experience distorted their memories, so that Simon assumed that Dover was his father, and that Gustavia was Knightley's father. He subsequently assumed that Knightley had conspired with Gustavia to murder "his" father, and secretly harboured a bitter grudge against him.

Seven years later, one of the body doubles of Zheng Fa President Di-Jun Huang, resentful of having to endure the risks of the President's job without getting to reap the benefits, conspired with Blaise Debeste and Patricia Rowland, then the Chief Prosecutor and owner of the Happy Family Home orphanage, respectively, to kill Huang off and take his place. As Huang went to the orphanage to meet John Marsh, his illegitimate son with a diplomat, Dogen - who had been hired by the three conspirators - approached him and stabbed him to death. Simon witnessed the murder, and learned that the conspirators intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]]. Remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, Simon set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape.