History Recap / GyakutenKenji2

Courtney admits that Edgeworth's deduction is correct, and Edgeworth asks how John getting kidnapped relates to her. The judge reveals that she's John's mother; as proof, she presents a tabloid clipping about John that she uses as a good luck. She tells Edgeworth that she got a call from John's kidnapper prior to the start of the trial, with the kidnapper demanding that Patricia be found innocent. Hence why Patricia and Courtney acted the way they did in the courtroom, Edgeworth deduces. Courtney sadly claims that she's not fit to be a judge if her composure and impartiality can be compromised through her son, but Kay and Edgeworth both assure her that such behavior is only natural for a [[GoodParents good parent]]; the people working in law are only human, after all.

Concluding that Sebastian wants to be a different prosecutor to his father, Edgeworth asks him what he plans to do now. Sebastian answers that first he's going to return the jacket he got when he graduated, seeing as he never earned it, and "clothes fake the man" after all. Edgeworth guesses that he means "clothes ''make'' the man", and encourages him to become a prosecutor worthy of that jacket. He then keeps silent when Sebastian eagerly declares he won't let anyone make fun of him again, but when Sebastian struggles on what he can do to be accepted, Edgeworth reminds him of his desire to be a different prosecutor than his father, and thus his path should be clear.
It seems Sebastian is ready to move on with his life...and then he immediately runs off crying. Edgeworth and Kay have little choice but to return to the Grand Tower Plaza, by which point it's now 1:15, giving them 45 minutes to recover John and the evidence. They decide to at least touch base with Ray regarding everything that's happened and all they've learned.

Kay proceeds to grab the bug and loudly issue a challenge to whoever planted it. She and Edgeworth then hear a sound from nearby, and run over to find Nicole down on her ass, having fallen over due to shock from hearing Kay's shouting. Kay prepares to vent about the whole bug business, but Edgeworth cuts her off, and Nicole asks about the investigation into the kidnapping. Edgeworth then shows her the commemmorative photo again, specifically pointing out John, and Nicole admits that Sebastian was the one she saw getting kidnapped, meaning that Edgeworth and Kay have been waylaid by her once again, and they'll have to start their investigation into John's kidnapping from scratch. And with only twenty minutes left before 2PM to boot.

!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.

John silently looks away at this, before the man in black interrupts with the thing he wanted to bring up earlier. He explains that Huang's will was among the things he bought over - Edgeworth recalling that Huang had once entrusted it to the Lang clan - and Lang gives it a read, whereupon he discovers that Huang named John as his son there, despite the scandal such a thing would cause. Lang and Courtney are both shocked, but Lang confirms that the will is indeed genuine, having been entrusted to the clan long before the SS-5 Incident. Hearing this is enough to make John bolt, and Edgeworth runs after him.

!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 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.

Investigating the snowman with Edgeworth, Kay notes that it had melted by the time the police discovered Cameron's body, and one of the buttons used for its eyes was missing. Remembering the bloodstained button found in Cameron's hand, Edgeworth deduces that he grabbed it off of the snowman, with Kay confirming that the design matches. Edgeworth continues by saying that there's a huge contradiction if the button came from the snowman's eye; if Cameron did grab it from the snowman - presumably while trying to brace himself after he was struck from behind - that would put him near the snowman and away from the flowerbeds when he was attacked. Kay points out the footprints leading towards the flowerbeds, but Edgeworth questions whether they really belong to Cameron.

!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.

Beginning his look around, Edgeworth finds that there are two sets of footprints in total. The ones on the left are larger than average - Kay figures them to be size 11's - and end near Cameron's body, with Kay noting that they were thought to belong to him. The ones on the right lead to and from the body, and Kay notes that they were believed to belong to the culprit. Unlike the other footprints, these ones are of average size, making it unlikely that they'll be of use in identifying the culprit.

!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.

Kay enters in the parameters for Cameron's murder and activates Little Thief, visually transforming the Grand Tower and plaza into the Happy Family Home (and freaking out John in the process). Specifically, it's the orphanage grounds when the police found Cameron's body. Edgeworth takes note of the large amount of snow, which Lang explains only fell prior to the kidnapping and murder. He also adds that footprints within the snow served as prime pieces of evidence, and Edgeworth makes a mental note to pay close attention to them during his investigation.

!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.

Kay enters in the parameters for Cameron's murder and activates Little Thief, visually transforming the Grand Tower and plaza into the Happy Family Home (and freaking out John in the process). Specifically, it's the orphanage grounds when the police found Cameron's body. Edgeworth takes note of the large amount of snow, which Lang explains only fell prior to the kidnapping and murder. He also points out that two sets of footprints within the snow served as prime pieces of evidence, and Edgeworth makes a mental note to pay close attention to them during his investigation.

Kay enters in the parameters for Cameron's murder and activates Little Thief, visually transforming the Grand Tower and plaza into the Happy Family Home (and freaking out John in the process). Specifically, it's the orphanage grounds when the police found Cameron's body. Edgeworth takes note of the large amount of snow, which Kay explains only fell prior to the kidnapping and murder. She also points out that two sets of footprints within the snow served as prime pieces of evidence, and Edgeworth makes a mental note to pay close attention to him.

It seems that the investigation into the SS-5 Incident will end before it even begins, but then Franziska and Ray arrive at the film lot, the two of them having finished up with Patricia's trial. With them, they have the SS-5 case files, with Franziska explains that Patricia's reference to twelve years ago inspired her to look into the matter. Not for Edgeworth's sake, mind; she just wants to help Lang get to the bottom of his father's unsolved case. Lang asks Franziska how she was able to get hold of the files, and she explains that Blaise - the prosecutor in charge of that case - was the one who originally had access to them restricted. Now that Sebastian's foiled Blaise's most recent attempt to hide evidence though, all the authority he ever held has been revoked, and that includes control over the SS-5 files. Franziska adds that Sebastian's currently handling things in regard to Blaise and Patricia, while trusting in Edgeworth and the others to solve matters on their end, and Edgeworth and Courtney comment on how much he's improved this morning.

Kay enters in the parameters for Cameron's murder and activates Little Thief, visually transforming the Grand Tower and plaza into the Happy Family Home (and freaking out John in the process). She explains that she's recreated the scene of what the police discovered when they found Cameron's body at 7AM.

Edgeworth, Gumshoe and Nicole disperse the crowd in the left audience area - Nicole mentioning that she'll deal with the subsequent mud stains on her parka by simply turning it inside out - and they begin their investigation. Gumshoe finds a dark blue bag in a bin, within which lies a plan of the President's security detail, including the positions of his two main bodyguards, Rooke and Knightly. Edgeworth notices that they're not from Zheng Fa, and Nicole explains that Huang uses a private security firm, supposedly because he doesn't trust the Zheng Fa Police. Edgeworth wonders how such a sensitive document could end up amongst the public, before Gumshoe discovers something else in the bag: a gun with two fired bullets and an attached laser pointer, the former of which leads him to suspect it was used by the shooter. Edgeworth has a fingerprint test carried out on the gun and bag, but it fails to find any prints, even when the gun's bullets are checked.

Edgeworth then discovers none other than Winston Payne, who attended the speech with the chief prosecutor, and was one of the people in the private conversation recorded by Nicole. Noticing a TV crew nearby, Edgeworth tries to get some footage from them, but learns that their camera was destroyed in the chaos. It's at this moment that Kay Faraday makes her return, with an offer of help. After pleasantries are exchanged, Kay reveals a photo she took during the shooting, depicting Huang looking shocked, and Rooke and Knightly in action. Edgeworth notices that Huang has a rather prominent red spot on his forehead, one that doesn't appear in any other photos of him.

Nicole denies being the assassin, but admits that she hasn't told the whole story. Before she can do so, the group is interrupted by Horace Knightly - second-in-command of President Huang's bodyguard unit, wearer of a prominent neckbrace and a spouter of chess and gun metaphors - emerging from Huang's plane. He reveals that Huang's unharmed, but Rooke - the head of the bodyguards - is dead, having bled out from a bullet to the chest. Knightly asserts that Rooke was shot while trying to get Huang to safety, making Nicole, the one who apparently shot at Huang, the murderer. Edgeworth asks that he be allowed to examine Rooke's body and talk to the President, but Knightly refuses, stating that the Zheng Fa police will be taking over the investigation now, and orders Nicole to come onto the plane with him for questioning. Nicole insists she's not the killer, and pleads with Edgeworth for help. Edgeworth admits to himself that they still don't know the whole truth behind the case, and that he could lose it if he stands by and does nothing...

...and then things suddenly escalate. Doe puts a knife to Knightly's throat, reveals himself to be Shelly de Killer, admits to attempting to assassinate Huang, and demands that Knightly return investigative authority to Edgeworth. Edgeworth goes along with it, seeing it as a way to continue his investigation. He gives Gumshoe instructions to set up a perimeter around the plane, and the group move onto the aircraft.

Huang then brings up the question of why Rooke was murdered; his death was never part of the plan. The President admits that he regarded Rooke as the best of his bodyguards, and adds that Rooke had wanted no part in the fake assassination. In contrast, Knightly disparages Rooke; his death meant nothing in the grand scheme of things, and he was apparently too much of a coward to get involved in the fake assassination. He adds that with Rooke's death, he's now the head of Huang's bodyguards, and bitterly remarks that if Rooke hadn't died, Shelly would have had no reason to help Edgeworth continue his investigation and ultimately spoil his plan. He then argues that while he fired the first bullet, hitting the samurai balloon, the bullet that hit Rooke was fired by Nicole.

Knightly testifies that after shooting the balloon and getting Huang in the plane, he led the President into the security room while Rooke waited in the cabin. When he returned, Rooke was dead, having been hit by Nicole's bullet while getting the President inside. He argues that Nicole used the gun found in the trash. Edgeworth points out that said gun was fired twice, contrary to the number of recorded gunshots, and suggests that it was planted by the real criminal to throw off suspicion. Since they proved that the gun in the trash wasn't fired at the flag and balloon, Edgeworth can't help but doubt whether it was used to kill Rooke as well.

Edgeworth then starts his rebuttal by pointing out that Knightly died instantly upon being stabbed, and so he couldn't have screamed. Elbird is surprised upon hearing this, before admitting that the one who heard it was actually the prisoner next door. Edgeworth questions this prisoner, who states that the scream actually came from the man who discovered the body. Edgeworth still has a problem with Elbird's testimony however, namely the fact that he didn't hear the scream. Upon being questioned about this, Elbird accuses the group of suspecting him, and the mood turns ugly when Elbird and his fellow prisoners point out that they couldn't have committed the murder because they were all stuck in their cells.

Sometime after Patricia and Dogen began working together, Dogen took up woodcarving, forcing Patricia to provide him with chisels and other tools. He also began playing correspondence chess with Horace Knightly. The newly incarcerated Jay Elbird later took up residence in the cell containing the entrance to the tunnel; he eventually discovered it - though not its true purpose - and extended it to one of the cells in the neighboring detention center as part of his plan to escape the prison. He also got a pet polar bear cub named Rocky to raise as part of his rehabilitation. Patricia meanwhile hired the Berry Big Circus to host an animal show within the prison courtyard, and Simon Keyes, one of the circus members and a close friend of Knightley's, made use of the well for a trick he intended to use in his part of the show; by suspending weights within it, he would be able to yank himself off of the stage.

Things finally came to a head two days after Knightley's arrest, when Simon visited Knightley one night to deliver him a chessboard. Patricia questioned Knightly in the early hours of the morning following this visit, and discovered that the chessboard had a secret compartment housing a chisel. Reaching her breaking point, Patricia stabbed Knightly with Dogen's knife, killing him instantly. Deciding to frame Dogen for the murder in the hope that he would be out of her hair, she first replaced the knife with a chisel and tied Dogen's bell to it. Then, wrapping the body in a sheet to avoid creating a blood trail, she sprayed it with the same sweet scent she used to mark Dogen's deliveries, and then substituted it for the weights Simon was using in his contraption, ensuring that it would remain undiscovered for the time being. Finally, she hid the knife in the mouth of Ally, her pet alligator.

Edgeworth admits to Kay that even with Blaise on the stand, he doesn't know how things are going to play out. As they look through all the evidence they've found that's connected to Blaise - the motorcycle gloves found in the garage and the IS-7 Incident case files - Sebastian then chooses that moment to emerge from the Grand Tower, before running off again after Kay calls out to him. Curious about what he was doing in the Grand Tower, Edgeworth and Kay return to the skyscraper's roof, and find that the hatch to the 51st floor has been left open, presumably by Sebastian. They head down, and discover that the safe on the shelves has been opened. Looking inside, they find a folder containing both a photo of Knightley and a report on him, in which the writer states they plan to interrogate Knightly and confirm he's one of Dogen's henchmen, and tells the reader to retrieve something "he laid to rest near the flowerbed 12 years ago". Edgeworth and Kay guess that based upon the report's contents and where it was found, the report had to have been written by Patricia to Blaise, and thus proves a connection between the two of them. Edgeworth also adds that it shows a connection between the pair and Dogen, one that's likely related to the current case.

Kay offers to use Little Thief to recreate the events of the SS-5 Incident from its case files, but Lang admits that he doesn't actually have access to them, since the details of the case are considered highly classified information. He settles for explaining what he knows; on February the 10th twelve years ago, the police got a call that Huang had been kidnapped for ransom, with Shi-Long Lang's father being the last person to see the president beforehand. The ransom money was successfully exchanged for Huang, and a covert investigation into the kidnappers was carried out later, with Patricia getting suspected and put on trial during the course of it. Lang explains that he came to Patricia's prison following Knighley's murder to get a look at her for himself; having been put on extended leave from Interpol following the events of the previous game, he decided to reinvestigate the SS-5 Incident.

Having noticed yet another connection between Lang and the events of twelve years past, Edgeworth asks him what happened back then. Lang claims it doesn't concern him, and when Edgeworth suggests that those events might be tied to the present day's case, he asks for proof of such a thing. In reply, Edgeworth shows him both Patricia's report on Knightley, in which she asked Blaise to retrieve something from twelve years ago, and the letter Crane got that encouraged her to take revenge for what happened twelve years ago. He then points out that Crane and Huang have both been murdered over the last two days, and argues that the key to finding out why is related to the events of the past, but Lang only asks if Edgeworth really wants him to reopen the old wounds of the Lang clan.
moments later though, some of Lang's old subordinates arrive at the lot and urge him to reinvestigate the SS-5 Incident from twelve years ago, saying that whatever happened then has been weighing on their minds no less than it has his. That wins Lang over, and he agrees to help Edgeworth.

It seems that the investigation into the SS-5 Incident will end before it even begins, but then Franziska and Ray arrive at the film lot, the two of them having finished up with Patricia's trial.

!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 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 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 tries to talk to John, but the kid only brings up Edgeworth's lack of a badge again, prompting Kay to take over the conversation. She talks up John's career as a child actor, which does get the kid to cool off a little, but he soon gets angry again when Kay assumes him to be a kid; Penny explains that despite his short stature, John's actually thirteen years old. John goes on to recognize the dead body as that of Huang, explaining much to Edgeworth's surprise that he's met the man before. He's far from a fan of his though, but remains silent when asked why, and Penny explains that Huang - a Moozilla fan who was going to make a [[TheCameo Cameo]] in the film - met John when came over to have a look around the lot some time ago. John indicates that he wasn't particularly fond of having a non-professional actor show up in the film, even if he was a head of state. He then gives Penny a commemorative photo of the two of them and the Moozilla actor in costume from yesterday, claiming that he just had it on hand. Edgeworth takes note of the lack of hoofprints and dead Huang in the photo.

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, and Penny indicates that John was practicing his lines within the lot last night. She adds that she came to the lot at 10PM to check on him, and claims to have seen something resembling a long reptillian neck above his head. Lotta takes this to mean that Gourdy also showed up at the lot, but Lang and Edgeworth are less than convinced, though they both agree that in any case, they need to talk to John if he was here last night.

Blaise proceeds to mock his son once again, but Ray suggests it's still too early to dismiss the evidence. He suggests that Edgeworth examine the paper, and Edgeworth discovers Dogen's bell within it. Unfortunately, there's nothing they can get from it, and Blaise dismisses the bell as useless. But thanks to Edgeworth's earlier words of advice, Sebastian's unwilling to back down, and his surprising bit of intuitiveness in regards to the newspaper was very much 'not'' a fluke. Echoing Edgeworth's own thoughts, he states that the newspaper itself should be examined as well, and he and Edgeworth discover both a conspicuous handprint and traces of motor oil on the other side of it. Edgeworth calls for a fingerprint analysis, but forensics finds nothing besides confirmation that the handprint comes from a glove, and Blaise mocks his son for thinking a criminal would be dumb enough to not wear gloves when disposing of evidence.

As Courtney gives orders for the examination to be carried out, Blaise roars and rants about how he can't be taken down by Edgeworth and Sebastian, even as his son continues to condemn him. Blaise then asks Sebastian if he thinks he can survive without his father, but Sebastian isn't fazed. He admits that while he used to desire his father's approval, he was shown another path by Edgeworth following his kidnapping, and now he's no longer the person he used to be. He assures Blaise that he's always looked up to him, and thanks him for everything before saying goodbye. Blaise screams that Sebastian has never been able to do anything besides depend on him, before crashing and burning for good right afterwards.

Led by Lang, the investigation party - Edgeworth, Gumshoe, Kay, Courtney and John - arrive at the film lot, where they find Nicole and Lotta pressing Powers and Penny for details on Moozilla and Gourdy. Lang decides to resume the investigation by reviewing the events of the case; Huang was found dead within in the film lot earlier today, having previously vanished in unexplained circumstances, with the last confirmed sighting of him being from two nights ago, just prior to his meeting with Courtney on the roof of the Grand Tower. John is suddenly nervous at this, but Lang instead decides to focus on asking Courtney why she met with Huang, with the judge once again unwilling to elaborate on this matter even when suspected of murder.

John questions his mother on why she won't speak, and Kay warns that it'll only look suspicious if she refuses to answer. Lang goes so far as to suggest she's involved in Huang's murder, but Edgeworth objects, reminding Lang that Huang's body only appeared in the lot that morning, and they still don't know what happened between that moment and the meeting with Courtney. Lang explains that he's getting to that; the important question is what happened at the lot last night, and he proposes that John answer that question, seeing as his late night rehearsal meant that he was around for the events in question. John isn't happy to hear that Penny was spying on him, but Courtney - in full-on judge mode no less - warns him to behave himself.

With Blaise's attempt to dispose of the knife and chisel decisively proven, Courtney is confident that a search of the garbage dump will eventually locate them. When that happens, Knightley's killer will no longer have any chance of escape, Edgeworth assures a now far less smug Patricia. The prison warden doesn't take her impending defeat well, ranting about how Blaise failed her even after all his claims of being able to create his own truths and verdicts. With that, Courtney prepares to adjourn the trial, but before she can, Lang chooses this moment to make his own return to the case.

!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 and Regina choose this moment to reappear at the plaza, and Edgeworth lets them know that while they haven't yet found the knife and chisel, they have found the kid himself. He and Kay then question Simon about his and Regina's search, and Simon admits that they checked around the Sunshine Coliseum, having figured that Sebastian might have gone to a festival being held there. He mentions that there were fireworks and food stands at the festival, and Edgeworth recalls the explosion he and Kay heard during the phonecall with the culprit, guessing it might have been a firework. From there, Kay deduces that the culprit was near the Sunshine Coliseum when they called, but unfortunately that's still too big an area for her and Edgeworth to search on their own. If only the police could help them out, Edgeworth thinks.

Looking around the plaza further, Edgeworth and Kay find Gumshoe hiding behind the taxi. When questioned, he admits that he's continued investigating even after Edgeworth's resignation; after all, detectives don't just investigate for the sake of prosecutors. Recalling Franziska's claim that Gumshoe helped her out in regards to Crane's autopsy report, Edgeworth questions the detective about it, and Gumshoe explains that he went to the detention center to check on Kay, and subsequently overheard Blaise reveal his true colors to Edgeworth. He proceeded to look over the evidence himself, and thus Franziska ended up arranging her own autopsy reports. Having explained himself, Gumshoe prepares to head off and prove he can investigate on his own, but Kay assures him that he's already proven that, and Edgeworth - speaking as Gumshoe's friend, rather than his boss - asks Gumshoe to help him investigate. Gumshoe agrees, asking only that Edgeworth not bow to him.

Recalling the sound of fireworks during the call with the culprit, Edgeworth guesses that John was taken to the Dawn Waste Center, since that one's right next to the Sunshine Coliseum. With there literally being no time left to lose, Gumshoe and Kay head off to search for John in the vicinity of the Dawn Waste Center, while Edgeworth heads to the courthouse to buy what little more time he can.

Entering the courtroom, Edgeworth finds Blaise at the stand, the P.I.C. Chairman claiming he had no reason to hide the evidence against Patricia. Franziska brings up that Sebastian testified to giving Blaise the evidence, but Blaise denies it, saying that he can't see why Sebastian would state such a thing. Edgeworth then offers to provide evidence of a connection between Blaise and Patricia, but Blaise encourages Courtney to refuse him, and the judge is unable to respond with anything beyond reluctant silence due to her missing son. With help from Ray, Edgeworth manages to at least hint to Courtney about Gumshoe and Kay's search for John, and Courtney agrees to let him speak.

Blaise then tries to get Courtney to declare Patricia innocent, but before the judge can even respond, Sebastian bursts into the courtroom. For various reasons, Franziska, Courtney and Blaise are all less than happy to see him right now, but despite initially wavering under their glares, Sebastian manages to compose himself and state that he has come to present new evidence. Blaise notes the increased backbone within his son, but isn't particularly bothered about it, even when Sebastian tries to order him to stay at the witness stand. Edgeworth, Ray and Franziska all try to back Sebastian up, but unfortunately for them, Courtney - the one in charge of the trial - is still hamstrung by Blaise's threats towards her son.

At that moment however, Edgeworth, Courtney and Ray's cellphones all start going off. Both men take the calls, and learn that it's Gumshoe, John and Kay all calling with the news that John's been discovered safe and sound. Edgeworth hands Courtney's cellphone back to her so she can talk to John, and the judge expresses her gratitude at hearing her son's alive and well, before reminding him to thank his rescuers and stay safe.

Courtney hangs up, and secure in the knowledge that her son's out of John's clutches, wastes little time taking control of the trial from a now furious Blaise. Franziska cedes the prosecutor's bench to Sebastian, and Courtney asks him to present his evidence. Sebastian brings up the knife and chisel, but admits that he didn't actually find them; he just saw Blaise with a crumpled-up newspaper he was planning to throw into the trash, and heard the sound of Dogen's bell come from it. When he learned what his father had done, he raced to the garbage dump to search for the knife and chisel, with Edgeworth realising that this was what Sebastian was up to when he and Kay encountered him in the Grand Tower Plaza earlier. He wasn't able to get much for his efforts though, aside from the nnow dirty, rolled-up newspaper that Blaise threw away.

Blaise proceeds to mock his son once again, but Ray suggests it's still too early to dismiss the evidence. He suggests that Edgeworth examine the paper, and Edgeworth discovers that it's been wrapped around the bell of Dogen's. Unfortunately, there's nothing they can get from it, and Blaise dismisses the bell as useless. Sebastian objects however, claiming that the paper itself hasn't been examined yet.
!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.

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!

It seems Sebastian is ready to move on with his life...and then he immediately runs off crying. Edgeworth and Kay have little choice but to return to the Grand Tower Plaza, by which point it's now 1:15, giving them 45 minutes to recover John and the evidence.They decide to at least touch base with Ray regarding everything that's happened and all they've learned.

Ray and Franziska meanwhile are continuing to drag out the trial, but Patricia's starting to cotton on to what they're up to. Edgeworth calls Ray over the phone and suggests that Blaise may know the whereabouts of the missing evidence, seeing as Sebastian gave it to him, and Ray agrees to call Blaise to the stand and cross-examine him there. Edgeworth meanwhile states that he'll continue looking for John and the evidence, but silently wonders how much longer Courtney's going to be able to hold up.

Examining the contents of the safe further, Edgeworth and Kay discover the ring Knightley had been wearing when he was found dead, as well as the chessboard that was found near him. All the evidence from the second case in other words, except for the pieces they're looking for. Edgeworth recalls the warning Knightley gave about the game not being over when he was caught, and resolves to see it through to the bitter end.

Simon and Regina choose this moment to reappear at the plaza, and Edgeworth lets them know that while they haven't found Sebastian's evidence, they have found the kid himself. He and Kay then question Simon about his and Regina's search, and Simon admits that they checked around the Sunshine Coliseum, having figured that Sebastian might have gone to a festival being held there. He mentions that there were fireworks and food stands at the festival, and Edgeworth recalls the explosion he and Kay heard during the phonecall with the culprit, guessing it might have been a firework. From there, Kay deduces that the culprit was near the Sunshine Coliseum when they called, but unfortunately that's still too big an area for her and Edgeworth to search on their own. If only the police could help them out, Edgeworth thinks.

!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.

Kay expresses her frustration at knowing nothing about the culprit, who at the same time knows everything about her and Edgeworth. The ex-prosecutor agrees that it's strange, and that they should figure out how the caller obtained such information. He starts by recalling all that the caller spoke about; his meeting with Courtney in the detention center, Kay's exchange with the judge within the courthouse, and a desire to see Edgeworth and Kay's faces. Based on that last point, he deduces that the culprit planted a bug on one of them, as they would have been able to see Edgeworth and Kay's reactions if they'd tailed or taken photographs of the pair. From there, he figures that the bug was planted on the Yatagarasu's badge, since that was the only thing besides his clothes that he had on him during the meeting with Courtney. He and Kay examine the badge, and sure enough, there's an electronic bug stuck to the inside. Edgeworth guesses that the culprit planted it after attacking Kay, and from there they were able to overhear everything that happened between Edgeworth and Kay.
!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 what brought Nicole to the grand plaza, but Nicole again insists on an exchange of information before spilling. Edgeworth presents the commemorative photo of John, Penny and Moozilla (presumably Powers in his costume), and Nicole immediately guesses that he's looking for John, before revealing that she knows about the kidnapping, much to the shock of Edgeworth and Kay. When asked about this further, Nicole admits that she saw a kid being taken away by a pair of men in black, but didn't see where they went afterwards. Edgeworth and Kay guess that these were the same men the taxi driver picked up earlier, but Edgeworth notes that the taxi driver didn't see John with them. Remembering the missing box Powers told him about, Edgeworth deduces that the kidnappers stole it in order to smuggle John out of the plaza. He questions the taxi driver, who confirms that the two men did indeed have a large box with them when they requested his services, and offers to drive Edgeworth and Kay to the same place he took them.

Edgeworth admits to Kay that even with Blaise on the stand, he doesn't know how things are going to play out. As they look through all the evidence they've found that's connected to Blaise - the motorcycle gloves found in the garage and the IS-7 Incident case files - Sebastian then chooses that moment to emerge from the Grand Tower, before running off again after Kay calls out to him. Curious about what he was doing in the Grand Tower, Edgeworth and Kay return to the skyscraper's roof, and find that the hatch to the 51st floor has been left open, presumably by Sebastian. They head down, and discover that the safe on the shelves has been opened. Looking inside, they find a folder containing both a photo of Knightley and a report on him. The writer states they plan to interrogate Knightly and confirm he's one of Dogen's henchmen, and tells the reader to retrieve something "he laid to rest near the flowerbed 12 years ago". Edgeworth and Kay guess that based upon the contents, the report had to have been written by Patricia.
!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.

Examining a table on the left side of the room, Edgeworth discovers it holds pieces of evidence from the last game's final case; a bottle of Babahlese Ink, an Iron Infant doll and a lantern running on whitcrystal oil (This case might as well be nicknamed "Turnabout CallBack" at this point). Ema wonders if the room is used by the P.I.C. to store evidence, but Edgeworth replies that legal evidence is supposed to be kept in police custody once the related trials are concluded. Examining the objects further, Edgeworth notes that they all have what appear to be price tags for large amounts of money in front of them.

Among the evidence on the table is the stuffed toy Edgeworth last saw on President Huang's plane during the events of ''Turnabout Target''. Ema comments that it has a missing horn, which Edgeworth recalls was missing when he previously encountered it, before the two of them conclude that someone has been selling off old evidence here. Also on the table is a spot with only a piece of dusty cloth on display. Edgeworth spots a star-shaped part of the cloth that doesn't have dust on it, and after recalling that the murderous candelabra had a star-shaped base, he deduces that it must have been on display here earlier, until the killer decided to make use of it.

Checking another corner of the room, Edgeworth and Ema find a huge pile of banknotes. When combined with the price tags on the table, it's yet more proof of evidence trafficking taking place within the room. Edgeworth remarks that they need to investigate those dealings more closely, and Ema suggests trying to find a witness who could tell them all about it.

!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.

By now it's half past twelve, giving Edgeworth and Kay no more than one and a half hours to find John. They then notice Lotta and Nicole close by, and Edgeworth reluctantly decides to question them.
!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.