History Recap / ApolloJusticeAceAttorney

The trial begins with Payne explaining what happened. The murder took place in the basement of the Borscht Bowl Club, a Russian restaurant where Phoenix now works as a piano player. The murder weapon was a bottle of grape juice with Phoenix's fingerprints on it, and Payne claims that Phoenix was in the room at the moment of the crime. The victim was one Shadi Smith, of whom little is known aside from the fact that he was a traveller of sorts, and had recently returned to the country after a very long absense.

As Apollo returned to the lobby, he found Trucy alive and well, to his relief. But it turned out, the "assailant" was none other than "The Amazing Mr. Hat", an elaborate wooden puppet that Trucy somehow kept hidden. Justice admonished Trucy for engaging in such a hoax, but Trucy stated she was buying time. After all, didn't Apollo promise to Big Wins that Wocky would be found not guilty? Trucy then explained to Justice that could see that Wesley had an odd habit of fiddling with his book whenever he was unsure of something. And from what she learned from her father, Apollo should be able to perceive such behavior.

While it looked like Wesley is the real killer, Apollo was certain the witness was guilty of another crime. Namely, stealing Trucy's magic panties. Trucy did chase the culprit to the victim's garage, explaining how Wesley lost his phone. Defeated, Wesley explained that he had seen Trucy pulling various objects out of those panties and he wanted to figure out how it work, not even realizing it was actually StageMagic. As for why he lied about his position in the park, his actual position was near the trash can that had Plum Kitaki's panties inside them, meaning he stole those as well. With these revelations, court adjourned for the day. However, Klavier reminded everyone that Wocky is still the prime suspect.

!Day 2 — Investigation
!Day 3 — Trial
!Behind the Turnabout
Alita Tiala was a nurse in the employ of mob doctor Pal Meraktis when Wocky Kitaki, heir to the Kitaki crime family, was shot during a gunfight with a rival family and came to their clinic to get the bullet removed. The bullet was too close to Wocky's heart for the doctor to safely extract it, so he left it inside Wocky. He and Alita hid the medical report in Meraktis's safe, and claimed to the Kitakis that the operation was a success, even though Wocky was left with a bullet inside him that could kill him at any moment. Taking advantage of this, Alita began a relationship with Wocky and soon got engaged to him, knowing that when he died, he would leave her his massive inheritance.

Wocky discovered what Meraktis had done after a health check six months later. He made plans to deal with Meraktis over the matter, but Alita talked him out of doing so, not wanting him or his family to discover she had been complicit in Meraktis's actions. She went over to the Meraktis clinic with a Kitaki handgun, intending to force him to give her the damning medical report so she could dispose of it, only for Meraktis to attack her right after he opened the safe. Alita managed to get a shot off, but only hit the inside of the safe, and Meraktis soon strangled her into unconscious with a lamp power cord. Apparently not thinking straight after the whole confrontation, Meraktis assumed Alita was dead and made plans to dispose of her body.

At around the same time, university student Wesley Stickler stole Trucy Wright's Magic Panties - i.e. one of her magician's props - in order to try and figure out how they worked. Trucy gave chase, and Wesley was forced to hide in Meraktis's garage and stuff the panties into the exhaust of the doctor's car. This meant that Meraktis was unable to start his car and use it to transport Alita's body, and so he decided to "borrow" Guy Eldoon's noodle cart. After emptying it of all its noodle bowls, he dumped Alita and the Kitaki gun inside and started pulling it away, and made it to People Park before Wocky confronted him with a shiv.

Alita woke up during this time, and shot Meraktis with the gun to prevent him from ratting her out. Moments before she did so, Wesley - still out on his panty thieving - saw the confrontation between Wocky and Meraktis and called out to them from near the bin in the park, where he had hidden the panties of Plum Kitaki. Both Wocky and Meraktis looked around at the sound, and as a result, Alita's bullet hit Meraktis in his right temple. Wocky and Wesley both fled the scene at the sound of the gunshot, with Alita doing the same once the coast was clear, leaving her hospital slippers behind. Wocky was arrested on suspicion of Meraktis's murder the next day, and Alita, now playing the part of the concerned fiance, hired Apollo Justice to defend him, confident that the rookie attorney would never be able to get Wocky acquitted...

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[[folder:Turnabout Serenade]]
!Day 1 — Investigation
!Day 2 — Trial

!Day 3 — Trial Former
!Day 3 — Trial Latter

Looking to make some money, Detective Daryan Crescend and Machi Tobaye took a request from the Chief Justice to smuggle a Borginian cocoon to Los Angeles. With his son terminally ill with Incuritis, the Chief Justice needed to acquire the cocoon in order to extract the one known cure for the disease from it. This would be an especially risky maneuver, however; Borginian cocoons are also capable of producing an extremely fatal toxin, and as such, cannot be removed from the country under threat of capital punishment, which would become a major complication for Daryan and Machi.

Still, everything seemed to be proceeding smoothly, since the two had come up with a pretty decent set-up for the smuggling. Both Daryan and Machi had successful careers in music. Daryan was guitarist in Klavier Gavin's ultra-popular rock group, The Gavinners, while Machi played piano for the popular singer Lamiroir. As fate would have it, Klavier was planning to collaborate on a song with Lamiroir, which would be performed at one of the Gavinners' concerts in Los Angeles. In preparation for the event, Lamiroir gifted Klavier a special guitar, and thanks to Klavier having it delivered through a customs-exempt evidence shipping company, it was the perfect mule for Daryan and Machi's operation. Alongside the cocoon, Machi and Daryan stashed an incendiary device and a firecracker into the guitar, activatable via remote, to work as a sort of failsafe in the event the plan went south. However, the smuggling seemed to be progressing smoothly for the two of them. Unfortunately for the two of them, they attracted the attention of Interpol agent Romein [=LeTouse=], currently undercover as Lamiroir's manager.

Even so, [=LeTouse=] didn't make any moves to disrupt the plan, and the guitar was succesfully delivered to Klavier with the cocoon inside. Meanwhile, the fated collaboration between Klavier and Lamiroir was set to occur in Los Angeles, during the Gavinners' "Guilty as Charged" tour. The day of the event, Daryan was set to extract the cocoon from the guitar. Stealing Klavier's key ring, he was able to get into the guitar case. However, the guitar was vacuum-packed due to the circumstances of its shipping, which left Daryan unable to extract the cocoon without alerting his bandmate to his actions. As such, he was forced to leave the cocoon for the time being and come back for it after the night's performance.

Unfortunately for Daryan and Machi's plan, that left Agent [=LeTouse=] with a window of opportunity to carry out an investigation while Daryan was on stage. With evidence against Daryan, [=LeTouse=] decided to confront him during the second part of the concert, Klavier and Lamiroir's collaboration. The meeting would occur in Lamiroir's dressing room, and [=LeTouse=] was armed with a .45-caliber revolver. With the plan compromised, Daryan was forced to take action. Sending a message to Machi through an earpiece he had on, he had the pianist activate the incendiary device while Klavier was playing to burn the evidence, which coincidentally lined up rather well with the lyrics of the song. This gave Daryan the opportunity to get access to [=LeTouse=]'s revolver and land a shot in the Agent's shoulder. However the powerful nature of the revolver in question meant the recoil damaged his shoulder. All of this was noticed by Lamiroir who was in the air ducts at the time as part of an illusion to perform on stage.
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[=LeTouse=] remained on the floor, alive, but bleeding severely. Clinging to his last bits of strength, he wrote out his ID number with his blood, so as to inform the police of his true nature. While Daryan was able to smudge the writing, it would not be enough to hide it during luminol testing. Afterwards, Daryan set about to create an alibi for himself by throwing off the time of death via setting up more incendiaries and firecrackers in the dressing room. After that, he discarded his earpiece outside the dressing room door and returned to stage for the final act of the concert. The strain of firing the murder weapon would result in a missed cue from Daryan during the Gavinners' performance of "Guilty Love".
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While Daryan was on stage, Machi returned to the dressing room, only to be greeted with the sight of Agent [=LeTouse=], still bleeding out on the floor. Around this time, Daryan went about putting his plan to cover up his confrontation with [=LeTouse=] into motion. With Apollo and Ema backstage, Daryan triggered the firecrackers he set in the dressing room so as to create the illusion of gunshots. A panicking Machi, unaware of his partner's plan, made an escape through the ceiling panel as Ema and Apollo entered the room. Ema quickly left to call in backup while Apollo remained with [=LeTouse=]. The barely alive [=LeTouse=] was able to give Apollo one last message and inform him that Lamiroir was a witness to the attack before he finally succumbed to his wounds.
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Soon after, Machi would be arrested for the murder, and Apollo would find himself taking on another case.

[[folder:Turnabout Succession]]

!Day 2 — Trial Former
!Day 2 — Trial Latter
!7 Years Ago — Trial Former
!7 Years Ago — Trial Latter
!MASON System — Investigation
!Day 3 — Trial

The Troupe Gramarye was a group of Magicians organised by Magnifi Gramarye, known for an assortment of tricks. The show was put on by three magicians: Shadi Enigmar (with the stage name Zak Gramarye), Valant Gramarye, and Magnifi's daughter Thalassa Gramarye.

In addition to magic, the Gramarye bloodline had a unique trick: They were unconsciously hypersensitive to "tells", small twitches of the body whenever somebody was lying. To focus this trick, they had special armbands made which would react to their own unconscious detecting of a tell, so they'd know when to focus.

Thalassa left the troupe for a while, marrying a guest performer from one of their shows. She had a son, who was named Apollo. However her husband was killed in a stage accident, so she gave Apollo up for adoption, bequeathing him one of her armbands, and returned to the troupe. She eventually married Zak, and they had a daughter named Trucy.

One of the more exciting tricks of the troupe was "Zak & Valant's Quick Draw Shootem", wherein Zak and Valant would rapidly fire pistols at Thalassa. One day they try practising it with a new spin: Thalassa in mid air at the time. However the practice went wrong and Thalassa was shot, although it's unclear who fired the deadly shot. To preserve the reputation of the troupe, Magnifi told the others she was dead, and abandoned his daughter. Although she actually survived, she lost her sight and her memory, and took to singing under the stage name Lamiroir to make a living. During this time Zak met Spark Bruschel, a reporter and licensed notary, who was snooping around the Troupe in the wake of the accident, and eventually befriended him.

A few years passed and Magnifi, diabetic and dying of liver cancer, would spend his final months in hospital. Determined not to succumb to his illness, he sent letters to both Zak and Valant, implying that he knew who shot Thalassa, and ordering them to "fire one shot, in the forehead". It was all one last game; if Zak or Valant shot a nearby clown doll, Magnifi would pass on all his magical knowledge to him. If one of them shot Magnifi, he would die and his knowledge would go with him. If they did nothing, they would get nothing.

Zak arrived first as Magnifi was seemingly sleeping, but he couldn't bring himself to shoot his mentor, so he shot a nearby clown doll in the head. Magnifi woke from his feigned sleep, as this was part of his plan, and wrote a will bequeathing all the rights to the Gramarye tricks to Zak using a page from his journal. Valant arrived 15 minutes later with the intention of killing Magnifi and framing Zak, but could not bring himself to shoot anything. Magnifi revealed the trick and asked Valant to support Zak. After Valant left, he took the unused pistol and used it to commit suicide.

However Valant, long envious of Zak's greater talent and determined not to spend the rest of his life in his shadow, tampered with the scene, making it look like Zak's gun fired the fatal shot, and changing the bag of insulin to obfuscate the estimated time of death. His plan worked, and Zak was charged with Magnifi's murder. Although he could have potentially exonerated himself with Magnifi's will, Zak didn't show it to anyone so as to protect Valant.

Respected Defense Lawyer Kristoph Gavin saw the publicity surrounding the case, and surmised that Zak's lawyer could get a lot of fame and respect from a successful defense, so he offered his services to Zak and investigated the facts of the case. He noticed the missing page in Magnifi's journal, and anonymously got in contact with Drew Misham, artist and purported forger, to construct a "final" journal entry which would show that Magnifi survived his meeting with Zak, naturally implicating Valant. In truth, it was Misham's daughter Vera who was the forger; Misham was essentially her agent.

Kristoph was ready to go to court against his younger brother Klavier, who had just become a prosecutor, when Zak called him to the detention center to play a game of poker, in order to get a measure of his character. Zak didn't like what he saw, so he dismissed him as his attorney and instead hired Phoenix Wright to represent him after another game. Kristoph meanwhile was infuriated at being snubbed for someone he saw as a second rater, and decided to punish both Zak and Phoenix. After planting the fake page on Zak's daughter Trucy to give to Phoenix, he met with Klavier the night before the trial to warn him about the fake page, and instructed him to call Drew Misham as a witness. Sure enough, Phoenix uses the page in court and was implicated for using forged evidence. From seeing Phoenix's reaction during the trial, Misham figured out that Phoenix was not the client who had requested the forgery. Klavier realized something sketchy had gone on during the case, but was never able to put his finger on it.

With Phoenix's theory of the crime utterly discredited, it looked like Zak would be convicted. Zak however had other plans: He didn't want Valant implicated, so he had planned to escape from court regardless of the verdict. As the judge was about to pass his verdict, he pulled off a magic trick and escaped the courtroom, aided by Trucy. Kristoph didn't expect this, and became paranoid that he would eventually be implicated in the forgery, so he started keeping track of everyone involved in the case. He befriended Phoenix, being the only one to stick up for him at his disbarment hearing, although this was not enough to prevent Phoenix losing his license. When he was unable to find Zak directly, he had his associate Spark Bruschel tracked.

He also sent Drew Misham an envelope and stamp to send back confirmation of payment received for the forgery, with the stamp being spiked with atroquinine, a slow acting but lethal poison. Fortunately for Drew, the stamp was a Troupe Gramarye commemorative stamp, so Vera took it and has it framed. Kristoph had plans for her as well, however. During a visit to her, he noticed she bites her fingernails as a nervous tic, so he gave her a bottle of poisoned nail varnish, telling her to wear it as a good luck charm if she has to go outside, which she is terrified of doing, so eventually she would bite her nails and die.

Seven years passed. Trucy, all alone now, was adopted by Phoenix Wright, and actually became the breadwinner for the family since Phoenix's profession was closed off to him. Not that Phoenix was resting on his laurels. He spent a significant part of the next seven years investigating both Magnifi's death and the piece of forged evidence, a vague but as yet unconfirmed suspicion of Kristoph forming. Kristoph started a successful law office even without the publicity of the Gramarye case, and eventually hired an overeager new attorney called Apollo Justice.

Meanwhile Valant, implicated and held for Magnifi's death immediately after Zak's trial, was eventually released because of lack of evidence, and continued his career as a magician. However he met with little success, due to a combination of the scandal and lacking access to either Zak's natural talent or Magnifi's tricks. He planned to hold out for seven years, after which Zak would be declared legally dead and, in the lack of a formal will, Valant would inherit the tricks and make use of them.

However, Zak was also aware of the law, and made plans to have Trucy inherit Magnifi's magic. Phoenix was working a job as a pianist and poker player at a Borscht restaurant when Zak, under the name of Shadi Smith, turned up one night with Bruschel, who in addition to being a reporter was also a licensed notary. On Zak's orders, Bruschel drew up a note declaring Shadi Enigmar alive and bequeathing the rights to the Grammarye tricks to Trucy. However, Kristoph, through Bruschel, learned of Zak's reappearance and killed Zak later that evening to silence him, thereby setting in motion the events of ''Turnabout Trump''. Phoenix was able to turn the subsequent trial around and have Kristoph convicted of the murder, and eventually hired Kristoph's protege Apollo.

From prison, Kristoph kept in communication with Drew Misham. Misham, something of a recluse now, used Vera's framed Gramarye stamp to set off the last letter to Kristoph. Seven years later than planned, Drew Misham died from atroquinine poisoning, and his daughter was implicated.

In a defendant lobby the next morning, rookie lawyer Apollo Justice prepares to begin his first court case, accompanied by his mentor, accomplished defense attorney Kristoph Gavin. It's the murder shown in the prologue, and as per usual, Winston Payne is the prosecutor for the first of the game's trials. Amazingly, the defendant is none other than Phoenix Wright, who's been out of the law game for seven years, and is now considered a fallen lawyer of sorts. It's mentioned that Phoenix specifically hired Apollo as his lawyer, rather than Kristoph.

As shown in a photo of the scene of the crime, the pair were playing a friendly game of poker, with Kristoph remarking "only the cards, their backs wreathed in blue flame, [knew] its final outcome." Phoenix is asked to testify about the game, and he reveals that although he's technically a pianist, his main job is taking on customers in games of poker, and he's never lost once in the seven years he's been working at the restaurant. He also mentions that the game used two decks of cards to prevent cheating, one with blue backs, and another with red backs.

Finally caught, Olga comes clean; it wasn't Phoenix who used the bottle, but Smith. After their plan failed, Smith grabbed the bottle and hit her on the back of the neck with it, knocking her out. Olga claims that when she woke up, Smith was dead, but Kristoph argues that she’s the real killer, and lying to avoid being identified as such. He points out that she was the only other person who was in the basement, and reiterates Apollo’s earlier claim that she and Smith got into a confrontation that ended with his death. Olga denies the murder and claims that someone's trying to frame her…

...and then Phoenix once again appears at the stand, claiming that it’s not like Kristoph to come to such a hasty conclusion. He reminds the court of his theory of a fourth person being at the scene of the crime, and suggests that they're the true killer. Then in another twist, he reveals that they're inside the courtroom right now, and they just so happened to provide a clue to their identity at the beginning of the trial; they thought the cards used at the time of the murder were blue. Phoenix asks who this person could be, and Apollo realizes that it's Kristoph, who made a remark about the cards having blue backs long before that bit of information was revealed to the court. Phoenix is accusing a member of his own defense team of Smith's murder!

Payne argues that this is nonsense; for one thing, Kristoph and Smith have never even met one another! But Phoenix hints that they may in fact have done so before the poker game. Realising that this may be the truth which Phoenix had decided not to tell the court, Apollo tries to get him to testify, but Kristoph tries to overrule him, claiming that anything that happened before the game is irrelevant to the case at hand. He again attempts to blame Olga for the crime, but the judge points out that Apollo's the official defense attorney, not him. The defense's course of action is up to no-one but Apollo himself. Apollo asks Phoenix to testify.

Apollo summarises the events of the case. After Smith attacked Olga and Phoenix left to call the police, Kristoph entered the room using the secret passage. Smith heard the cupboard being moved and turned around in his chair, and was promptly hit with the bottle. He died, and a drop of his blood landed on his ace of spades as it lay on the table. To avoid revealing his use of the secret passage, Kristoph turned Smith's chair back around and swapped the bloody ace for another blue-backed card, unaware that the players were using the red-backed cards at the time.

Kristoph Gavin dined with Phoenix Wright at the Borscht Bowl Club, and left just as mysterious traveller Shadi Smith was arriving to challenge Phoenix to a game of poker. For reasons known only to himself, Kristoph decided to murder Smith. At the same time, Smith was planning to destroy Phoenix's reputation as an unbeaten poker player with the aid of Olga Orly, a professional gambler posing as a waitress at the Borscht Bowl Club.

At around the same time, university student Wesley Stickler stole Trucy Wright's Magic Panties - i.e. one of her magician's props - in order to try and figure out how they worked. Trucy gave chase, and Wesley was forced to hide in Meraktis's garage and stuff the panties into the exhaust of the doctor's car. This meant that Meraktis was unable to start his car and use it to transport Alita's body, and so he decided to "borrow" Guy Eldoon's noodle cart, after emptying it of all its noodle bowls. He dumped Alita and the Kitaki gun inside and started pulling it away, and made it to People Park before Wocky confronted him with a shiv.

He also sent Drew Misham an envelope and stamp to send back confirmation of payment received for the forgery, with the stamp being spiked with atroquinnine, a slow acting but lethal poison. Fortunately for Drew, the stamp was a Troupe Gramarye commemorative stamp, so Vera took it and has it framed. Kristoph had plans for her as well, however. During a visit to her, he noticed she bites her fingernails as a nervous tic, so he gave her a bottle of poisoned nail varnish, telling her to wear it as a good luck charm if she has to go outside, which she is terrified of doing, so eventually she would bite her nails and die.

Meanwhile Valant, implicated and held for Magnifi's death immediately after Zak's trial, was eventually released because of lack of evidence, and continues his career as a magician. However he met with little success, due to a combination of the scandal and lacking access to either Zak's natural talent or Magnifi's tricks. He planned to hold out for seven years, after which Zak would be declared legally dead and, in the lack of a formal will, Valant would inherit the tricks and make use of them.

From prison, Kristoph kept in communication with Drew Misham. Misham, something of a recluse now, used Vera's framed Gramarye stamp to set off the last letter to Kristoph. Seven years later than planned, Drew Misham died from atroquinnine poisoning, and his daughter was implicated.

Phoenix, while barred from court, remained active in the legal system. In response to public sentiment that the Judge-only system of trials was closed off from wider society, he organised an experimental jurist system, using a computer program called MASON to allow the jurists to review the facts of the case. When he learns of the Misham case, he nominates it as the inaugural trial under this new system while asking Apollo to take the case, hoping the truth will finally be revealed...

Unfortunately for Daryan and Machi's plan, that left Agent [=LeTouse=] with a window of opportunity to carry out an investigation while Daryan was on stage. With evidence against Daryan, [=LeTouse=] decided to confront him during the second part of the concert, Klavier and Lamiroir's collaboration. The meeting would occur in Lamiroir's dressing room, and LeTouse was armed with a .45-caliber revolver. With the plan compromised, Daryan was forced to take action. Sending a message to Machi through an earpiece he had on, he had the pianist activate the incendiary device while Klavier was playing to burn the evidence, which coincidentally lined up rather well with the lyrics of the song. This gave Daryan the opportunity to get access to [=LeTouse=]'s revolver and land a shot in the Agent's shoulder. However the powerful nature of the revolver in question meant the recoil damaged his shoulder. All of this was noticed by Lamiroir who was in the air ducts at the time as part of an illusion to perform on stage.

While Daryan was on stage, Machi returned to the dressing room, only to be greeted with the sight of Agent [=LeTouse=], still bleeding out on the floor. Around this time, Daryan went about putting his plan to cover up his confrontation with LeTouse into motion. With Apollo and Ema backstage, Daryan triggered the firecrackers he set in the dressing room so as to create the illusion of gunshots. A panicking Machi, unaware of his partner's plan, made an escape through the ceiling panel as Ema and Apollo entered the room. Ema quickly left to call in backup while Apollo remained with [=LeTouse=]. The barely alive [=LeTouse=] was able to give Apollo one last message and inform him that Lamiroir was a witness to the attack before he finally succumbed to his wounds.

Even so, LeTouse didn't make any moves to disrupt the plan, and the guitar was succesfully delivered to Klavier with the cocoon inside. Meanwhile, the fated collaboration between Klavier and Lamiroir was set to occur in Los Angeles, during the Gavinners' "Guilty as Charged" tour. The day of the event, Daryan was set to extract the cocoon from the guitar. Stealing Klavier's key ring, he was able to get into the guitar case. However, the guitar was vacuum-packed due to the circumstances of its shipping, which left Daryan unable to extract the cocoon without alerting his bandmate to his actions. As such, he was forced to leave the cocoon for the time being and come back for it after the night's performance.

Still, everything seemed to be proceeding smoothly, since the two had come up with a pretty decent set-up for the smuggling. Both Daryan and Machi had successful careers in music. Daryan was guitarist in Klavier Gavin's ultra-popular rock group, The Gavinners, while Machi played piano for the popular singer Lamiroir. As fate would have it, Klavier was planning to collaborate on a song with Lamiroir, which would be performed at one of the Gavinners' concerts in Los Angeles. In preparation for the event, Lamiroir gifted Klavier a special guitar, and thanks to Klavier having it delivered through a customs-exempt evidence shipping company, it was the perfect mule for Daryan and Machi's operation. Alongside the cocoon, Machi and Daryan stashed an incendiary device and a firecracker into the guitar, activatable via remote, to work as a sort of failsafe in the event the plan went south. However, the smuggling seemed to be progressing smoothly for the two of them. Unfortunately for the two of them, they attracted the attention of Interpol agent Romein LeTouse, currently undercover as Lamiroir's manager.

Unfortunately for Daryan and Machi's plan, that left Agent LeTouse with a window of opportunity to carry out an investigation while Daryan was on stage. With evidence against Daryan, LeTouse decided to confront him during the second part of the concert, Klavier and Lamiroir's collaboration. The meeting would occur in Lamiroir's dressing room, and LeTouse was armed with a .45-caliber revolver. With the plan compromised, Daryan was forced to take action. Sending a message to Machi through an earpiece he had on, he had the pianist activate the incendiary device while Klavier was playing to burn the evidence, which coincidentally lined up rather well with the lyrics of the song. This gave Daryan the opportunity to get access to LeTouse's revolver and land a shot in the Agent's shoulder. However the powerful nature of the revolver in question meant the recoil damaged his shoulder. All of this was noticed by Lamiroir who was in the air ducts at the time as part of an illusion to perform on stage.

LeTouse remained on the floor, alive, but bleeding severely. Clinging to his last bits of strength, he wrote out his ID number with his blood, so as to inform the police of his true nature. While Daryan was able to smudge the writing, it would not be enough to hide it during luminol testing. Afterwards, Daryan set about to create an alibi for himself by throwing off the time of death via setting up more incendiaries and firecrackers in the dressing room. After that, he discarded his earpiece outside the dressing room door and returned to stage for the final act of the concert. The strain of firing the murder weapon would result in a missed cue from Daryan during the Gavinners' performance of "Guilty Love".

While Daryan was on stage, Machi returned to the dressing room, only to be greeted with the sight of Agent LeTouse, still bleeding out on the floor. Around this time, Daryan went about putting his plan to cover up his confrontation with LeTouse into motion. With Apollo and Ema backstage, Daryan triggered the firecrackers he set in the dressing room so as to create the illusion of gunshots. A panicking Machi, unaware of his partner's plan, made an escape through the ceiling panel as Ema and Apollo entered the room. Ema quickly left to call in backup while Apollo remained with LeTouse. The barely alive LeTouse was able to give Apollo one last message and inform him that Lamiroir was a witness to the attack before he finally succumbed to his wounds.

One of the more exciting tricks of the troupe was "Zak & Valant's Quick Draw Shootem", wherein Zak and Valant would rapidly fire pistols at Thalassa. One day they try practising it with a new spin: Thalassa in mid air at the time. However the practise goes wrong, and Thalassa is shot, although it's unclear who fired the deadly shot. To preserve the reputation of the troupe, Magnifi told the others she was dead, and abandoned his daughter. Although she actually survived, she lost her sight and her memory, and took to singing under the stage name Lamiroir to make a living. During this time Zak meets Spark Bruschel, a reporter and licensed notary, who is snooping around the Troupe in the wake of the accident. He eventually befriends him.

A few years pass and Magnifi, diabetic and dying of liver cancer, is spending his final months in hospital. Determined not to succumb to his illness, he sends letters to both Zak and Valant, implying he knows who shot Thalassa, and ordering them to "fire one shot, in the forehead".

Zak arrives first as planned, and can't bring himself to shoot his mentor, so he shoots the nearby clown doll in the head. Magnifi wakes from his feigned sleep, as this was part of his plan, and writes a will bequeathing all the rights to the Gramarye tricks to Zak using a page from his journal. Valant arrives 15 minutes later with the intention of killing Magnifi and framing Zak, but cannot bring himself to shoot anything. Magnifi reveals the trick and asked Valant to support Zak. He then takes Valant's pistol and commits suicide.

However Valant, long envious of Zak's greater talent and determined not to spend the rest of his life in his shadow, tampers with the scene, making it look like Zak's gun fired the fatal shot, and changing the bag of insulin to obfuscate the estimated time of death. His plan works, and Zak is charged with Magnifi's murder. Although he has Magnifi's will which could potentially exonerate him, Zak doesn't show it to anyone so as to protect Valant.

Respected Defense Lawyer Kristoph Gavin sees the publicity surrounding the case, and surmises Zak's lawyer could get a lot of fame and respect from a successful defense, so offers his services to Zak and investigates the facts of the case. He notes the missing page in Magnifi's journal, and gets in contact with Drew Misham, artist and purported forger, to construct a "final" journal entry which shows that Magnifi survived his meeting with Zak, naturally implicating Valant. In truth, it's Misham's daughter Vera who is the forger; Misham is essentially her agent.

Kristoph is ready to go to court against his younger brother Klavier, who just became a prosecutor, when Zak calls him to the detention center to play a game of poker. Kristoph loses the game, but what's important is Zak gets a measure of his character, and doesn't like what he sees, so he dismisses him as his attorney and instead calls Phoenix Wright to represent him after another game.

Kristophe is infuriated at being snubbed for who he sees as a second rater, and is determined to punish both Zak and Phoenix. After planting the fake page on Zak's daughter Trucy to give to Phoenix, he meets with Klavier the night before the trial to warn him about the fake page, and gives Drew Misham's name as a witness. Sure enough, Phoenix uses the page in court and is implicated for using forged evidence. With Phoenix's theory of the crime utterly discredited it looks like Zak will be convicted.

Zak however has other plans: He doesn't want Valant implicated, so he's been planning to escape from court regardless of the verdict. As the judge is about to pass his verdict, he pulls off a magic trick and flees the courtroom, aided by Trucy. Kristoph didn't expect this, and becomes paranoid he will eventually be implicated in the forgery, so he starts keeping track of everyone involved in the case. He befriends Phoenix, being the only one to stick up for him at his disbarment hearing, although this is not enough to prevent Phoenix losing his license. While he cannot find Zak directly, he has his associate Spark Bruschel tracked.

He also sends Drew Misham an envelope and stamp to send back confirmation of payment received for the forgery, but the stamp is spiked with atroquinnine, a slow acting but lethal poison. Fortunately for Drew the stamp is a Troupe Gramarye commemorative stamp, so Vera takes it and has it framed. Kristoph has plans for her as well, however. During a visit to her, he notices she bites her fingernails as a nervous tic, so he gives her a bottle of poisoned nail varnish, telling her to wear it as a good luck charm if she has to go outside, which she is terrified of doing, so eventually she will bite her nails and die.

Seven years pass. Trucy, all alone now, has been adopted by Phoenix Wright, and actually becomes the breadwinner for the family since Phoenix's profession is closed off to him. Not that Phoenix is resting on his laurels. He spends a significant part of the next seven years investigating both Magnifi's death and the piece of forged evidence, a vague but as yet unconfirmed suspicion of Kristoph forming. Kristoph has a successful law office even without the publicity of the Gramarye case, and eventually hires an overeager new attorney called Apollo Justice.

Meanwhile Valant, implicated and held for Magnifi's death immediately after Zak's trial, is eventually released because of lack of evidence, and continues his career as a magician. However he is met with much less successful as before, a combination of the scandal and lacking access to either Zak's natural talent or Magnifi's tricks. He plans to hold out for seven years, after which Zak will be declared legally dead and, in the lack of a formal will, Valant will inherit the tricks and make use of them. However Zak is also aware of this law, and must act.

Phoenix is working a job as a pianist and poker player at a Borscht restaurant, and is surprised when Zak, under the name of Shadi Smith, turns up one night. Zak has brought Bruschel, who while a reporter is still a licensed notary, and has him draw up a note declaring Shadi Enigmar alive and bequeathing the rights to the Grammarye tricks to his daughter Trucy. However Kristoph, through Bruschel, has learned of Zak's reappearance, and after a poker game becomes an argument, he kills Zak to silence him, and for good measure tampers with the scene to implicate Phoenix. Phoenix is no stranger to being a murder suspect however, and is able to turn the subsequent trial around and have Kristoph convicted of the murder, and eventually hires Kristoph's protege Apollo as well.

From prison, Kristoph keeps in communication with Drew Misham. Misham, something of a recluse now, is running out of stamps, and to send off the final letter to Kristoph resorts to using Vera's framed Gramarye stamp. Seven years later than planned, Drew Misham dies from atroquinnine poisoning, and his daughter is implicated.

Phoenix, while barred from court, is still active in the legal system. In response to public sentiment that the Judge-only system of trials is closed off from wider society, he organises an experimental jurist system, using a computer program called MASON to allow the jurists to review the facts of the case. When he learns of the Misham case, he nominates it as the inaugral trial under this new system while asking Apollo to take the case, hoping the truth will finally be revealed...

In a defendant lobby the next morning, rookie lawyer Apollo Justice prepares to begin his first court case, accompanied by his mentor, accomplished defense attorney Kristoph Gavin. It's the murder shown in the prologue, and as per usual, Winston Payne is the prosecutor for the first of the game's trials. Amazingly, the defendant is none other than Phoenix Wright, who's been out of the law game for seven years, and is now considered a fallen lawyer of sorts.

Kristoph deduces that the reason Payne's so certain of Phoenix's guilt is that he has a decisive witness. Enter Olga Orly, a waitress at the restaurant who also takes photos of customers, one of which is of Phoenix and Smith sitting together. Olga testifies that she was the dealer for Phoenix and Smith's game, and that she saw Phoenix strangling Smith. Apollo points out that Smith was bludgeoned to death, not strangled, and after further questioning, it turns out that Phoenix was actually getting a locket with a picture of a young girl from around Smith's neck. When asked about the locket, Phoenix claims that the girl is his daughter.

Apollo isn’t convinced that Phoenix would do this for no apparent reason, and notices Olga scratching her neck more and more when he tries to discuss the subject. Suddenly his vision zooms in and slows down, enabling him to perceive Olga’s neck scratching in detail. He decides to try jogging her memory by presenting the bottle, and points out to the court that she always scratches her neck when talking about the moment of the crime, almost as if ‘’she’s’’ the one who got hit by the bottle. Olga insists that Phoenix hit Smith, and that she didn’t take her eyes off him until the police arrived…

...and in doing so screws herself over. Apollo informs her that Phoenix was the one who called the police, and that he left the basement to do so. So just how on earth could Olga have kept her eyes on him during that time?

Finally caught, Olga comes clean; it wasn't Phoenix who used the bottle, but Smith. She explains that after their plan failed, Smith grabbed the bottle and hit her on the back of the neck with it, knocking her out. She claims that when she woke up, Smith was dead, but Kristoph argues that she’s the real killer, and lying to avoid being identified as such. He points out that she was the only other person who was in the basement, and reiterates Apollo’s earlier claim that she and Smith got into a confrontation that ended with his death. Olga denies the murder and claims that someone's trying to frame her…

...and then Phoenix once again appears at the stand, claiming that it’s not like Kristoph to come to such a hasty conclusion. He reminds the court of his theory of a fourth person - the true killer - being at the scene of the crime, and states that he bought this case to court so that he could identify and catch them. And it just so happens that they're inside the courtroom right now, and they provided a clue to their identity at the beginning of the trial; they thought the cards used at the time of the murder were blue. Phoenix asks who this person could be, and Apollo realizes that it's Kristoph Gavin, who made a remark about the cards having blue backs long before that bit of information was revealed to the court. Phoenix is accusing his own defense attorney of Smith's murder!

Court resumes with Kristoph taking the stand, and Phoenix taking his place on the defense's bench. The former lawyer points out that the only point Smith's hat was off was the time between the moment of the murder and Phoenix putting the hat back on his head. Meaning that the only way Kristoph could know about it before the trial would be if he were the real killer. Kristoph however has his own explanation; before he had been hired by Phoenix, he returned to the restaurant and went down into the basement, out of fear that Smith might try something. Through a window, he saw Smith dead with his hat off, and Phoenix holding the grape juice bottle. He claims he didn't provide this information earlier to avoid incriminating his client.

Apollo insists that there would have had to be a fourth person there to swap out the missing ace, but Kristoph asks why the killer would bother to do such a thing. Acting on impulse, Apollo presents the bloody ace to the court, causing Kristoph [[OhCrap to freak out]]. Phoenix claims that he took the card from the restaurant and gave it to his daughter, but Kristoph suddenly insists that it has to be a fake. He quickly shuts up when Phoenix points out that the only person who could be certain of that is Smith's killer, however. Phoenix goes on to suggest that the blood on it came from Smith's head wound, and that the killer took it to hide the blood, thereby answering Kristoph's question.

Phoenix informs Apollo that if the card was on the table when the drop of blood landed on it, there's a problem with the crime scene. Picturing the scene in his head, Apollo figures out that since Smith's head was knocked back when he was killed, the blood went down the back of his head, meaning that it would have gone on the floor if he was facing the table. It could have gotten on the card if Smith was facing away from the table, but in that scenario, the only spot the killer could have stood in during the murder is occupied by a large cupboard. If the cupboard was moved a bit to the right however, the killer could have stood there instead.

The judge moves to have Phoenix acquitted and Kristoph arrested, but Kristoph refuses to go down. He again claims that the card's fake evidence, and reminds the court that Phoenix's upside down prints were found on the murderous bottle of grape juice, as if he were using it to hit someone. Apollo looks at Olga's photo of Phoenix and Smith, where he notices a load of grape juice bottles next to Phoenix's piano stool, and figures out that if Phoenix tried to pick up a bottle while sat at the piano, he would naturally grab it in an upside down grip. He argues that Kristoph used the grape juice bottle Phoenix was drinking from during their dinner to commit the murder, before swapping it for one of the bottles under the piano to pin the blame on Phoenix. The results of the investigation Phoenix requested earlier are then revealed; among the bottles next to the piano is a bottle containing the card Olga tried to plant on Phoenix earlier. The only person who could have put that bottle under the piano is Kristoph.

Meeting Phoenix in the defendant lobby, Apollo guesses that the girl who gave him the bloody ace is the same girl shown in the locket Phoenix took from Smith. He asks why Smith would have a locket displaying a photo of Phoenix's daughter, but Phoenix only replies that the straightest path to the truth isn't always the best one. With Apollo now out of a job thanks to the arrest of his boss, Phoenix offers him one at his agency, even though he's no longer practicing law. When Apollo brings this up, Phoenix admits that he's not qualified to do so anymore, and reveals that the bloody ace Apollo used is in fact forged evidence he created. Kristoph wouldn't have been stupid enough to let the real bloody ace leave his possession, after all. Shocked and angered by this revelation, Apollo asks if "the rumour" from seven years ago is true, but Phoenix states that it doesn't matter now. He assures Apollo that the job offer's still on the table, and leaves.

Alita Tiala was a nurse in the employ of mob doctor Pal Meraktis when Wocky Kitaki, heir to the Kitaki crime family, was shot during a gunfight with a rival family and came to their clinic to get the bullet removed. Meraktis attempted to operate, but the bullet was too close to his heart for the doctor to safely extract it, so he left it inside Wocky. He and Alita hid the medical report in Meraktis's safe, and claimed to the Kitakis that the operation was a success, even though Wocky was left with a bullet inside him that could kill him at any moment. Taking advantage of this, Alita began a relationship with Wocky and soon got engaged to him, knowing that when he died, he would leave her his massive inheritance.

Wocky discovered what Meraktis had done after a health check six months later. He made plans to deal with Meraktis over the matter, but Alita talked him out of doing so, not wanting him or his family to discover she had been complicit in Meraktis's actions. She went over to the Meraktis clinic with a Kitaki handgun, intending to force him to give her the damning medical report and dispose of it, only for Meraktis to attack her right after he opened the safe. Alita managed to get a shot off, but only hit the inside of the safe, and Meraktis soon strangled her into unconscious with a lamp power cord. Apparently not thinking straight after the whole confrontation, Meraktis assumed Alita was dead and made plans to dispose of the body.

At around the same time, university student Wesley Stickler stole Trucy Wright's Magic Panties - i.e. one of her magician's props - in order to try and figure out how they worked. Trucy gave chase, and Wesley was forced to hide in Meraktis's garage and stuff the panties into the exhaust of the doctor's car. This meant that Meraktis was unable to start his car and use it to transport Alita's body, and so he decided to "borrow" Guy Eldoon's noodle cart, after emptying it of all its noodle bowls. He dumped Alita and the Kitaki gun inside and started pulling it away, and made it to People Park before Wocky confronted him with a shiv. Alita woke up during this time, and shot Meraktis with the gun to prevent him from ratting her out. Moments before she did so, Wesley - still out on his panty thieving - saw the confrontation between Wocky and Meraktis and called out to them from near the bin in the park. Both Wocky and Meraktis looked around at the sound, and as a result, Alita's bullet hit Meraktis in his right temple.

Wocky and Wesley both fled the scene at the sound of the gunshot, with Alita doing the same once the coast was clear. Wocky was arrested on suspicion of Meraktis's murder the next day, and Alita, now playing the part of the concerned fiance, hired Apollo Justice to defend him, confident that the rookie attorney would never be able to get Wocky acquitted...

Finally caught, Olga comes clean; it wasn't Phoenix who used the bottle, but Smith. She explains that after their plan failed, Smith grabbed the bottle and hit her on the back of the neck with it, knocking her out. She claims that when she woke up, Smith was dead, but Kristoph argues that she’s the real killer, and lying to avoid being identified as such. He points out that she was the only other person who was in the basement, and reiterates Apollo’s earlier claim that she and Smith got into a confrontation that ended with his death. Olga denies the murder and claims that someone's trying tp frame her…

Finally caught, Kristoph smashes his fist down on the witness stand, and asks Phoenix if his actions today were revenge for the loss of his attorney's badge seven years ago. Phoenix replies that "My past is like my logic, straight and true. Nothing's changed. All I did was point the finger of justice in the proper." Upon hearing this, Kristoph turns AffablyEvil, and thanks Phoenix for their little tête-à-tête.

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The Troupe Gramarye was a group of Magicians founded by Magnifi Gramarye, known for an assortment of tricks. Magnifi trained three magicians to run the show: Shadi Enigmar (with the stage name Zak Gramarye), Valant Gramarye, and his own daughter Thalassa Gramarye.

One of the more exciting tricks of the troupe was "Zak & Valant's Quick Draw Shootem", wherein Zak and Valant would rapidly fire pistols at Thalassa. Practicing this trick goes wrong one day, and Thalassa was shot, although it's unclear who fired the deadly shot. To preserve the reputation of the troupe, Magnifi told the others she was dead, and abandoned his daughter. Although she actually survived, she lost her sight and her memory, and took to singing under the stage name Lamiroir to make a living.

A few years pass and Magnifi, diabetic and dying to liver cancer, is spending his final months in hospital. Determined not to succumb to succumb to it, he sends letters to both Zak and Valant, implying he knows who shot Thalassa, and ordering them to "fire one shot".

Zak arrives first as planned, and can't bring himself to shoot his mentor, so he shoots the clown. Magnifi wakes from his feigned sleep, as this was part of his plan, and writes a will bequeathing all the rights to the Gramarye tricks to Zak using a page from his journal. Valant arrives 15 minutes later with the intention of killing Magnifi and framing Zak, but cannot bring himself to shoot anything. Magnifi revealed the trick and asked Valant to support Zak. He then takes Valant's pistol and commits suicide.

However Valant, long envious of Zak's greater talent and determined not to spend the rest of his life in his shadow, tampers with the scene, making it look like Zak's gun fired the fatal shot, and changing the bag of insulin to adjust the estimated time of death. His plan works, and Zak is charged with Magnifi's murder. Although he has Magnifi's will which could potentially exonerate him, Zak doesn't show it to anyone so as to protect Valant.

Respected Defense Lawyer Kristophe Gavin sees the publicity surrounding the case, and surmises Zak's lawyer could get a lot of fame and respect from a successful defence, so offers his services to Zak and investigates the facts of the case. He notes the missing page in Magnifi's journal, and gets in contact with Drew Misham, artist and purported forger, to construct a "final" journal entry which shows that Magnifi survived his meeting with Zak, naturally implicating Valant. In truth, it's Misham's daughter Vera who is the forger; Misham is essentially her agent.

Kristophe is ready to go to court against his younger brother Klavier, who just became an attorney, when Zak calls him to the interrogation room to play a game of poker. Kristophe loses the game, but what's important is Zak gets a measure of his character, and doesn't like him, so he dismisses him as his attorney and instead calls Phoenix Wright to represent him after another game.

Kristophe is infuriated by being snubbed for a second rater, and is determined to punish both Zak and Phoenix. After planting the fake page on Zak's daughter Trucy to give to Phoenix, he meets with Klavier the night before court to warn him about Phoenix planning to use forged evidence, and gives Drew Misham's name as a witness. Sure enough, Phoenix is implicated for using forged evidence and subsequently disbarred, and it looks like Zak will be convicted.

Zak however has other plans: He doesn't want Valant implicated, so he's planning to escape from court regardless of the verdict. As the judge is about to pass his verdict, he pulls off a magic trick and flees the courtroom, aided by Trucy. Kristophe didn't expect this, and is paranoid he will eventually be implicated in the forgery, so he starts keeping track of everyone involved in the case. He befriends Phoenix, being the only one to stick up for him at his disbarment hearing. While he cannot find Zak directly, he has his associate Spark Bruschel, notary and aspiring reporter, tracked.

He also sends Drew Misham an envelope and stamp to send back confirmation of payment received for the forgery, but the stamp is spiked with atroquinnine, a slow acting but lethal poison. Fortunately for Drew the stamp is a Troupe Gramarye commemorative stamp, so Vera takes it and has it framed. Kristophe has plans for her as well, however. During a visit to her, he notices she bites her fingernails, so he gives her a bottle of spiked nail varnish, telling her to wear it as a good luck charm if she has to go outside, which she is terrified of doing, so eventually she will bite her nails and die.

Seven years pass. Trucy, all alone now, has been adopted by Phoenix Wright, and actually becomes the breadwinner for the family since Phoenix's profession is closed off to him. Not that Phoenix is resting on his laurels. He spends a significant part of the next seven years investigating both Magnifi's death and the piece of forged evidence, a vague but as yet uncomfirmed suspicion of Kristophe forming. Kristophe has a successful law office even without the publicity of the Gramarye case, and eventually hires an overeager new attorney called Apollo Justice.

Valant, implicated and held for Magnifi's death, is eventually released because of lack of evidence, and continues his career as a magician, albeit much less successful as before, a combination of the scandal and lacking access to Magnifi's tricks. He plans to hold out for seven years, after which Zak will be declared legally dead and, in the lack of a formal will, Valant will inherit the tricks and make use of them. However Zak is also aware of this law, and must act.

Phoenix is working a job as a pianist and poker player at a Borscht restaurant, and is surprised when Zak, under the name of Shadi Smith, turns up one night. Zak has brought Bruschel, who although now a reported is still a licensed notary, and hands Phoenix a note declaring Shadi Enigmar is alive and announces his daughter Trucy as heir to the Gramarye tricks. However Kristophe, through Bruschel, has learned of Zak's reappearance, and after a poker game becomes an argument, he kills Zak to silence him and implicated Phoenix. Phoenix is no stranger to being a suspect however, and is able to turn the trial around and have Kristophe convicted of the murder, and eventually hires Kristophe's protege Apollo as well.

From prison, Kristophe keeps in communication with Drew Misham. Misham, something of a recluse now, is running out of stamps, and to send off the final letter to Kristophe resorts to using Vera's framed Gramarye stamp. Seven years later than planned, Drew Misham dies from atroquinning poisoning, and his daughter is implicated.

Phoenix, while barred from court, is still active in the legal system. In response to public sentiment that the Judge-only system of trials is closed off from wider society, he organises an experimental jurist system, using a computer program called MASON to allow the jurists to review the facts of the case. When he learns of the Misham case, he nominates it as the inaugral trial under this new system, while asking Apollo to take the case, hoping the truth will finally be revealed...

Seven years pass. Trucy, all alone now, has been adopted by Phoenix Wright, and actually becomes the breadwinner for the family since Phoenix's profession is closed off to him. Not that Phoenix is resting on his laurels. He spends a significant part of the next seven years

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