History Recap / GyakutenKenji2

Gumshoe rejoins the group back in the hallway, taking advantage of the absence of Sebastian and Courtney. He informs them that the forensic test in Knightley's cell picked up bloodstains on the cleaned up area of floor, and they're currently looking into whose blood it is. Ray remarks that once the test is complete, they'll be able to prove the murder took place in Knightley's cell, so all that's left to do is figure out how Anubis moved between the detention center and prison. To help, Gumshoe brings out three of his "Seven Secret Weapons": a metal detector, Missile the police dog...and a [[TheLastOftheseIsNotLikeTheOthers fishing rod Gumshoe bought by accident]].

The group arrive at the Berry Big Circus tent to find Simon and Regina - the former now in his costume - in the middle of prep work. Simon expresses joy at seeing his new friends there, and voices his confidence in surprising Edgeworth with his performance, but Edgeworth states that he has already done so. He confirms with Regina that the Lion Balloon is owned by the circus and looked after by Simon - while also telling her of its involvement in his case - Edgeworth asks Simon if he took it out for a midnight flight a few nights ago, implying none too subtly that he's onto him now. Soon realising what he's implying, Simon asks Edgeworth what he thinks happened, and Edgeworth points out that Kay could only have gotten onto the Grand Tower roof in the manner that she did if Simon flew her there in the balloon, before claiming that Simon also drugged and kidnapped John earlier.

The group arrive at the Berry Big Circus tent to find Simon and Regina - the former now in his costume - in the middle of prep work. Simon expresses joy at seeing his new friends there, and voices his confidence in surprising Edgeworth with his performance, but Edgeworth states that he has already done so. After confirming with Regina that the Lion Balloon is owned by the circus and looked after by Simon - while also telling her of its involvement in his case - Edgeworth asks Simon if he took it out for a midnight flight a few nights ago. Simon admits that he does so on occasion, but downplays his ability as a pilot, causing Edgeworth to mockingly question why he would therefore take on the risks of flying around at night. As if realising what he's implying, Simon asks Edgeworth what he thinks happened, and Edgeworth points out that Kay could only have gotten onto the Grand Tower roof in the manner that she did if Simon flew her there in the balloon, before claiming that Simon also drugged and kidnapped John earlier.

With that, Simon reveals his true self, his demeanor shifting from that of a goofy clown to a villainous, dark-hearted harlequin. Beginning his testimony, he admits to using the balloon on the night of Crane's murder, but claims he often flies around that area for advertising purposes. Edgeworth asks if he launches the balloon from the circus tent, but Simon answers that he uses a truck to drive it to a big park near the Sunshine Coliseum. Edgeworth points out the blue truck he saw parked in front of the Grand Tower, before Lang and three of his men enter the tent whilst being accompanied by Ema; turns out she was the person Edgeworth wanted Kay to bring in. Lang tells Edgeworth that - as per the ex-prosecutor's request - he's found the lion balloon being stored in a blue truck parked nearby, with Edgeworth stating it's no doubt the one he saw earlier.

Simon objects (yes, just like his old friend Knightley, he gets an Objection! voice clip and speech bubble), arguing that it could have been another blue truck Edgeworth saw in the plaza. Kay protests, but Simon - impersonating Edgeworth for little reason other than to be a {{Troll}} - tells her that there's no evidence it was his truck they saw. Edgeworth proposes they check Simon's truck for fingerprints; he placed his hand on the truck from earlier, so if Simon's truck has his prints on it, it'll prove the two of them are the same. Sure enough, he and Ema find a print of his, but Simon tries to argue it's just a coincidence that two vehicles associated with him were in the presence of two different kidnap victims. He questions whether Kay and John's kidnappings were even connected, and Edgeworth points out that Sleepy zZz was used in both incidents, but Simon retorts that that doesn't ''prove'' a connection. He accuses Edgeworth of being just like other prosecutors and the police; making up evidence solely to see innocent people convicted.

Edgeworth's at a loss for what else to do, but Ray has Kay come to his rescue with an impromptu Simon impersonation, buying him more time to figure something out. Deciding to look for something not related to the kidnappings that's tied to the mastermind's identity, Edgeworth presents Knightley's correspondence chess memo, telling Simon of his deduction that he had Knightley and Dogen play each other at correspondence chess by acting as a middleman between them. Simon questions why he'd need to do such a thing, and Edgeworth suggests it was to make Patricia think that Knightley was connected to Dogen, thereby prompting her to murder him. Simon denies being capable of that kind of manipulation, and Edgeworth suggests they search his room in the hope of finding a letter from Knightley. Simon however replies that he throws letters away once he's read them, meaning they won't find anything...but then Regina chimes in and reveals that a letter from Knightley just arrived for him. Edgeworth and Kay take a look at it, and find it to be the late delivery of another correspondence chess memo, this one a response to Dogen's last move and dated to the day before Knightley's death. The connection between Simon, Dogen and Knightley has been proven.

As Simon curses Knightley for being a SpannerInTheWorks, a distraught Kay questions how he can act against his only friend in such a way. Simon claims that he stopped considering Knightley a friend following the IS-7 Incident; as he was on his way to the Great Dessert Contest, Knightley - who had been intimidated into doing so by his father - ambushed him and tied him up, making him the bound kid discovered by Dogen and Anubis. As a result, the two of them almost died in the snowstorm...and Simon's father was later murdered by Knightley's father. But hold on; wasn't ''Knightley'' the kid of the IS-7 murder victim?

Simon turns out to believe himself to be Dover's son, explaining that thanks to the trauma from his near-death in the snowstorm, he didn't learn the truth of the IS-7 Incident until later on. He did know that his father was being set up by Knightley's father, and thus took Dover to be his father after he turned up dead, with Knightley being a willing accomplice in the murder. He claims that being the son of a killer, it's only natural that Knightley would get himself killed, but Edgeworth informs him of the truth via Knightley's ring, explaining that it had once been a seal used by Dover's Pierre Hoquet alias, and was later returned to his son. The realization that he's therefore the son of Gustavia shocks Simon to his core; it turns out he had decided to follow Dogen's example largely because he didn't want to share the fate of "his" father. He says as much, and Edgeworth declares it proven that he's the mastermind.

Bursting into mad laughter, Simon admits that he is indeed the mastermind. He then goes into his motive; after he was discovered to have been in the orphanage garden during Huang's assassination, Patricia interrogated him ruthlessly, prompting him to run away. Blaise of course tried to have him hunted down, and with his and the body double's combined influence and resources, Simon was constantly on the run and afraid for his life, unable to trust in anyone but Dogen. In time, he reasoned that if he emulated the assassin, he'd be able to put an end to those seeking to do the same to him. Edgeworth questions why he didn't go to the police, but Simon replies that Blaise would have destroyed anything that could implicate him if he had, citing his attempt to get rid of the decisive evidence against Patricia earlier today. He remarks that he knew something like that would happen from the start, leading Edgeworth to surmise that he had John kidnapped to try and force Courtney to declare Patricia guilty during her trial. Simon won't admit to it, but he argues that he had no choice other than to act the way he did in order to defeat Blaise, Patricia and the body double. Edgeworth [[NotSoDifferentRemark retorts that he's no different from them]], given that Blaise also tried to have John kidnapped in order to influence Patricia's trial, but Simon refuses to admit to his own crime, and claims he's actually grateful for the chance he got to take his revenge on the people who wronged him.

Edgeworth comments on this motive, but Simon replies that he never actually took any lives himself, he just sent a few letters that led to things conveniently working out for him. Two of these were for Crane and Blaise, exposing their secrets to the other and subsequently leading to them trying to kill each other. Another was a letter to Knightley, detailing the fake assassination plan that led to Knightley murdering Rooke and getting imprisoned for it. And then of course there was making Patricia think that Knightley was an associate of Dogen's through the correspondence chess memos and the hidden chisel he had sent to his old friend, thereby driving her into the same maddening paranoia she and her cronies had once made him experience. Finally, he argues, he took advantage of Edgeworth's desire to emulate his defense attorney father by saving people from wrongful convictions and fingering the true killers, though he admits that getting pegged as Knightley's murderer wasn't part of his plan. Kay insists that Edgeworth was nothing but selfless back when he was solving those cases, but Ray assures her that Simon's just [[EvilCannotComprehendGood become unable to comprehend the idea of someone helping another]], and thus [[PsychologicalProjection he projects his own worldviews onto others]].

Regardless, Simon argues that while everyone he wanted revenge on [[LaserGuidedKarma met with a much-deserved fate]], there's no proof that he specifically instructed any of them to kill each other in the letters he sent them, and thus he can't be convicted of anything. There's not even any proof that he was involved in Kay's kidnapping, he adds, before indicating that he'll sic the circus animals on them - or [[WouldHurtAChild try and take John hostage]] - if they continue "trying to frame an innocent man for murder". Edgeworth tells him that Nicole overheard the taunting call he made to him and Kay - in which he admitted to ordering Blaise to kill Crane - through his bug, but when Nicole tries to play her recording of it, the tape has nothing but silence. Simon reveals that he can turn off the bug remotely, and that he did so while making his call, having deduced that Nicole was tapping it when he heard her mention the kidnapping in her initial conversation with Edgeworth. He mocks Edgeworth for not realizing he would have overheard the conversation, before declaring that there's still no proof he directly told anyone to commit murder.

A despondent Nicole asks if there's truly nothing useful in her recording. Ray asks Kay if she has any ideas - the bug having been planted in her badge - but Kay is unable to provide anything. Franziska points out that Kay's the only one who came into contact with the culprit, before Simon interrupts and insists they move on to another topic. Edgeworth notices this eagerness to change the subject, and recalling Franziska's remark from moments ago, he asks Nicole how long she's been recording. Nicole replies that she's been doing so since two nights ago, and Edgeworth asks that she play the recording from two nights past, when Simon would have been flying Kay up to the Grand Tower's roof. Nicole does so, and the group hear the familiar sound of the balloon's burner, followed by a gunshot and a loud clanging sound. Edgeworth reveals that the body double was found to have fired a gun due to the gunpowder residue on his hand, and states that both he and Courtney would have been on the Grand Tower's roof at the time the gunshot would've been recorded, with Courtney confirming as such and admitting that the body double ordered her to leave the roof after noticing something odd. The ex-prosecutor argues that the gunshot could've happened after this, but Simon insists that's just conjecture. Lang points out the clanging sound in the recording, and Edgeworth guesses that the bullet hit the Lion Balloon's basket. They examine it, and sure enough there's a bullet hole there.

Simon compliments Edgeworth on being able to figure things out, and testifies that it's just as Courtney and the ex-prosecutor say; two nights ago, he was flying up near the Grand Tower's roof when he saw Courtney and the body double there, at which point the body double ordered Courtney to leave before firing off a shot at him. He suggests that the body double had planned to kill Courtney after she told him about John, seeing as she'd essentially revealed she had proof that the body double was a fake. He then goes on to claim that his presence there was just a coincidence, but Edgeworth questions what he did after the body double shot at him. Simon initially answers that he fled in the balloon, but after Edgeworth points out that he would've had to land on the roof in order to unload Kay, he claims that he stuck around just long enough to see the body double slip through the roof hatch. Edgeworth objects to this, citing Lotta's testimony, with Lang explaining that the body double would've run into her if he moved through the hidden storeroom, seeing as she was staking the place out at the time. The ex-prosecutor argues that the body double instead left the roof via the balloon, but Simon reminds the group that Lotta fainted when Kay fell into the storeroom, suggesting that the body double could've simply hidden on the roof until then, at which point he'd have been able to depart through the storeroom without being spotted.

It seems Edgeworth's been outplayed, but Simon's not done yet. He claims that he told the body double about John, and that this prompted him to try and murder the teen at the film lot the next day, only for John to kill him instead. Edgeworth retorts that John had no motive to commit such a murder, but Simon claims that he wrote John a letter as well, telling him all about his real father. Both John and Courtney deny such a thing, but Simon isn't willing to back down, arguing that in any event he had no reason to give the body double a ride in his balloon, and the body double was crushed by the Moozilla head John made fall. Edgeworth's at a loss for what to say to defend John, but Ray encourages him to stay calm and consider ''how'' the body double could've gotten on the balloon, rather than whether or not he did.

Beginning his rebuttal, Edgeworth argues that rather than being crushed by the monster's head, the body double was killed by Simon landing his balloon's basket on top of him, in response to the other man shooting at him. Once he had done that, he could have loaded the body double's corpse into the basket and carried him away. Simon reminds them that Huang's autopsy report puts his time of death at last night, long after the events at the Grand Tower roof, before going on to mockingly thank Edgeworth for taking down Blaise, Patricia and Gustavia. The mention of the IS-7 Incident's culprit serves as a reminder for Edgeworth, and he proposes that Simon - much like his father did with Dover 18 years ago - froze the body double's corpse in order to throw off his time of death. After all, he had access to a refrigerated warehouse which he used to hide the kidnapped John. An agitated Simon tries to argue that there's no connection between him and Gustavia, but Ray reminds him of his earlier admittance to not liking sweets in the detention center, which he guesses was the result of Gustavia's sudden disappearance. Furthermore, Edgeworth points out, both Simon and Gustavia are willing to sacrifice others for the sake of protecting themselves.

Simon [[VillainousBreakdown lets out a scream, seemingly beaten]]...but no, it turns out [[SubvertedTrope he's just continuing to be a]] {{Troll}}. He claims to the investigators that there's no evidence connecting him to John's kidnapping, before asking if Edgeworth's just going to forge some, accusing the man of only seeking truths that are convenient for him. With Edgeworth and the others unable to refute, Simon claims victory and bursts into laughter...right before Gumshoe arrives on the scene and reveals he's confirmed that the Berry Big Circus was renting the warehouse where John was imprisoned. Simon tries to downplay this, but Edgeworth questions Regina, who admits that she let Simon handle all matters related to the warehouse, which was intended to store the food for the animals. With this link between Simon and John's kidnapping established, Edgeworth argues that while Simon initially hid the body double's corpse in the warehouse, he eventually decided to take it back to the Grand Tower, since suspicion would've fallen on him if it was discovered in the warehouse (hence why it turned up away from there).

Simon's not off the tightrope yet though. He argues that there's no evidence he killed the body double with his balloon, to which Edgeworth proposes that they check the balloon again. Simon asks what he expects to find, and Edgeworth - encouraged by his friends and fellow investigators - reminds him that the body double would've been carrying a bouquet of Lion Lilies when he was killed, and thus traces of them might have ended up on the balloon's basket. Ema does a check, and sure enough, there are traces of yellow flower pollen on the basket.

!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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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 mailed him a chessboard with a chisel in a secret compartment, 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.

Lang theorizes that John was waiting at the film lot when Huang was killed, whereupon he unlocked the gates for his mother so that the two of them could hide Huang's body within the costume. After another unsuccessful attempt to get Courtney to spill the beans about her meeting with Huang, Edgeworth presses Lang's point about the costume, pointing out that the tape doesn't actually show the inside of it. Lang proposes that they check the inside the costume for traces, and they find a large amount of dirt on the front of it, despite the costume supposedly being washed after Powers was done with filming yestarday. Kay suggests that the dirt was transferred from the hoofprint to Huang's body, and then to the inside of the costume from there, but Edgeworth objects; despite all of the dirt within the costume, there's none on the front of Huang's body.

It seems Edgeworth's been outplayed, but Simon's not done there. He claims that he told the body double about John, and that this prompted him to try and murder the teen at the film lot the next day, only for John to kill him instead. Edgeworth retorts that John had no motive to commit such a murder, but Simon claims that he wrote John a letter as well, telling him all about his real father. Both John and Courtney deny such a thing, but Simon isn't willing to agree, arguing that if the body double was crushed by the Moozilla head, John causing that same prop to fall makes him responsible for the man's death.

!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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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 mailed him a chessboard with a chisel in a secret compartment, 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.

Regardless, Simon argues that while everyone he wanted revenge on [[LaserGuidedKarma met with a much-deserved fate]], there's no proof that he specifically instructed any of them to kill each other in the letters he sent them, and thus he can't be convicted of anything. There's not even any proof that he was involved in Kay's kidnapping, he adds, before indicating that he'll sic the circus animals on them - or [[WouldHurtAChild try and take John hostage]] - if they continue "trying to frame an innocent man for murder". Edgeworth tells him that Nicole overheard the taunting call he made to him and Kay through his bug, but when Nicole tries to play her recording of it, the tape has nothing but silence. Simon reveals that he can turn off the bug remotely, and that he did so while making his call, having deduced that Nicole was tapping it when he heard her mention the kidnapping in her initial conversation with Edgeworth.

!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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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 mailed him a chessboard with a chisel in a secret compartment, 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 comments on this motive, but Simon replies that he never actually took any lives himself, he just sent a few letters that led to things conveniently working out for him. Two of these were for Crane and Blaise, exposing their secrets to the other and subsequently leading to them trying to kill each other. Another was a letter to Knightley, detailing the fake assassination plan that led to Knightley murdering Rooke and getting imprisoned for it. And then of course there was making Patricia think that Knightley was an associate of Dogen's through the correspondence chess memos and the hidden chisel he had sent to his old friend, thereby driving her into the same maddening paranoia she and her cronies had once made him experience. Finally, he argues, he took advantage of Edgeworth's desire to emulate his defense attorney father by saving people from wrongful convictions and fingering the true killers, though he admits that getting pegged as Knightley's murderer wasn't part of his plan. Kay insists that Edgeworth was nothing but selfless back when he was solving those cases, but Ray assures her that Simon's just [[EvilCannotComprehendGood become unable to comprehend the idea of someone helping another]], and thus [[PsyccologicalProjection he projects his own worldviews onto others]].

Regardless, Simon argues that while everyone he wanted revenge on [[LaserGuidedKarma met with a much-deserved fate]], there's no proof that he specifically instructed any of them to kill each other, and thus he can't be convicted of anything.

Simon turns out to believe himself to be Dover's son, explaining that thanks to the trauma from his near-death in the snowstorm, he didn't learn the truth of the IS-7 Incident until later on. He did know that his father was being set up by Knightley's father, and thus took Dover to be his father after he turned up dead, with Knightley being a willing accomplice in the murder. He claims that being the son of a killer, it's only natural that Knightley would get himself killed, but Edgeworth informs him of the ring Knightley wore, explaining that it had once been a seal used by Dover's Pierre Hoquet alias, and was later returned to his son.

!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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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 mailed him a chessboard with a chisel in a secret compartment, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

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

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

As Simon curses Knightley for being a SpannerInTheWorks, a distraught Kay questions how he can act against his only friend in such a way. Simon claims that he stopped considering Knightley a friend following the IS-7 Incident; as he was on his way to the Great Dessert Contest, Knightley - who had been intimidated into doing so by his father - ambushed him and tied him up, making him the bound kid discovered by Dogen and Anubis. As a result, the two of them almost died in the snowstorm...

!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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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 mailed him a chessboard with a chisel in a secret compartment, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

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

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

!Behind the Turnabout
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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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 mailed him a chessboard with a chisel in a secret compartment, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Imprisoned Turnabout''. Of course, this nearly backfired when he was suspected of Knightley's murder, but fortunately Edgeworth was around to bail him out. Finally he sent letters to both Blaise and Crane that exposed each of their secrets, before he kidnapped Kay, planted a fake letter from Crane on her, and used the hot air balloon he'd been given to advertise the Berry Big Circus to fly her to the roof of the Grand Tower, thereby setting in motion the events of ''The Forgotten Turnabout''. If Blaise killed Crane before she could kill him, Kay's presence would ensure Edgeworth's involvement in the case, Simon reasoned. In order to follow the events of the case, he planted a remote-controlled bug in Kay's Yatagarasu badge while kidnapping her.

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

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

!Behind the Turnabout
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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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 mailed him a chessboard with a chisel in a secret compartment, 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 5-5 - 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. Freelance journalist Jack Cameron witnessed Blaise and Patricia carrying Huang's body away afterwards, 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 fatally brained him with a brick. Learning of Cameron's voicemail, the conspirators used his camera to stage a kidnapping to make things line up with the "facts", as well as to deflect suspicion away from the orphanage, with the fake kidnapping coming to be known as the SS-5 Incident. They also intended to have Dogen [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed as well in order to eliminate a potential witness]], but Simon overheard their plans, and remembering how the assassin had saved his life all those years ago, he set a fire off in the front yard to distract the conspirators and help him escape. also

Dai-Long Lang, the father of Shi-Long Lang, investigated the SS-5 Incident 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.

We cut to the P.I.C. meeting room later that morning. Edgeworth is stood in front of the central podium, facing the P.I.C. members sat down at their table. At their head is Blaise, sat down within the throne-like chair in the center of the table. Also in attendance are Sebastian, Lotta and Kay. With everyone assembled, Blaise declares the meeting in session, with the subject of debate being Edgeworth's value as a prosecutor (presumably they're opting to disregard).

Lang argues that Huang went to the orphanage to meet with Amy after getting her message via the doll, and got himself kidnapped there. He also remarks that if Cameron hadn't been present as well, there wouldn't have been a murder that night. Edgeworth objects, pointing out the bloodstain found where Cameron was supposedly killed, and suggesting that someone else was murdered during the SS-5 Incident. As further proof, he presents the drawing found by Lang's father, arguing that the boy who drew it was recording something he had witnessed, and Blaise made him disappear to try and bury all knowledge of the event in question. He identifies the two figures in the drawing as Huang and Dogen, and declares that, far from being kidnapped, Huang was assassinated twelve years ago!

Edgeworth presses Dogen on his staying in touch with the boy/mastermind, with Dogen explaining that their communications went between the prison and a post office, in order to keep Patricia from learning the mastermind's address through the letters. They mostly played correspondence chess with each other, and Edgeworth recalls the correspondence chess memo he found in Knightley's cell at the detention center. Ray asks if this means Knightley was one of the missing kids from the IS-7 Incident, and Edgeworth sees that the ring of Knightley's he found in Blaise's safe is actually Pierre Hoquet's seal converted into a ring, returned to Knightley after he was discovered to be Dover's next of kin. Kay and Lang take this to mean that Knightley is the mastermind, but Edgeworth reminds them that Knightley's been dead for the last couple of days. Dogen then remarks that he enjoys writing letters in braille, but Edgeworth points out that the memo he found was typed up using a word processor. He takes this to mean that someone got Dogen's letters prior to Knightley, redid them in the word processor and sent them onto Dogen, before doing the reverse for Knightley's letters to Dogen. It's this middleman who's the mastermind, he and Dogen conclude.

Lang asks who the mastermind could be, and Edgeworth points out that there's one other candidate if Dover's son is dead, with Lang correctly guessing it to be Gustavia's son. With growing unease, Edgeworth remembers a certain someone claiming he and Knightley had no real families and were each other's only friends since childhood, before declaring that he's figured out the mastermind's identity. He recalls the mystery of the "monster", and how Kay was somehow transported to the Grand Tower roof without boarding the skyscraper's elevator elevator. He remembers the Berry Big Circus flier he was given after solving Knightley's murder, and the sound of spewing flames Nicole recorded. Finally he remembers Lotta claiming to have photographed Moozilla's eye in her shot of Crane, and asks to see the photo again. Putting it into Mr Analysis, he sees that there is indeed a big, monstrous eye peering through the blinds, but it belongs to a hot air balloon resembling a lion's head featured on the Berry Big Circus flier, with the sound Nicole recorded being its burner. The mastermind used it to fly Kay to the Grand Tower roof, and Kay points out that this would make them someone connected to the Berry Big Circus. Their identity? None other that Simon Keyes, the apprentice animal tamer, friend of Knightley, and as it turns out the son of Dane Gustavia!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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