02x01 - The Lost Turnabout

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PW: My name is Phoenix Wright,

PW: attorney-at-law.

PW: I've become somewhat well-known lately, I think.

Sign: Courthouse

PW: No matter how difficult a case may be,

PW: I stand in the courtroom to defend the clients I believe in.

PW: For their sake, I'm willing to make any sacrifice!

Sign: Lobby

PW: I should go through the file one last time before the trial begins.

PW: Hello?

PW: Looks like they hung up.

???: It's nothing personal, Mr. Attorney.

OP Card: Ace Attorney

OP Card: S

OP Card: Se

OP Card: Sea

OP Card: Seas

OP Card: Seaso

OP Card: Season

PW: How did I get into this mess?

J: That's far enough!

J: You can't run forever, Phoenix Wright!

Sign: Lobby

Title: The Lost Turnabout

PW: Ouch...

Sign: Defendant — Maggey Byrde

By: Good morning, Mr. Wright, sir!

PW: Wh-Who are you?

By: I'm Maggey Byrde!

By: I'm placing my life in your hands today!

PW: "Your life"?

By: You promised me! You said you would prove that I was not guilty!

PW: "Not guilty"?

By: Yep! Even as the Goddess of Misfortune, this is the biggest crisis of my life!

By: Looking back, my life has been a trade fair of bad luck, defeats, and setbacks!

By: But you said, "Leave it to me!"I was moved to tears, Mr. Phoenix Wright!

PW: "Wright"?

By: That's right, Mr. Wright!

PW: Phoenix Wright... What a weird name.

By: I want you to believe me! I did not k*ll him!

PW: You what? K-K-Ki...

Bai: The trial will begin shortly.

By: I'm counting on you in there, okay?

Sign: Courtroom

PW: Courtroom ?

Sign: : AMDistrict Court — Courtroom No.

PW: What is even going on?

Sign: Judge

J: Court is now in session for the trial of Miss Maggey Byrde!

PW: Who is that old geezer?

Sign: Defense Lawyer — Phoenix Wright

Sign: Prosecutor — Winston Payne

Payne: Long time no see, Wright.

PW: Right...

PW: And who are you?!

J: Your opening statement, Mr. Payne.

Payne: At once, Your Honor. The defendant is accused of k*lling her lover.

PW: You k*lled your lover?!

By: It wasn't like that!

By: Constable Prince was a senior I respected...

Payne: What's worse, her lover was a fellow police officer!

PW: A p-police officer?

J: Please call your first witness.

Gum: I'm d*ck Gumshoe.

Sign: Witness: District Police — Detective d*ck Gumshoe

Gum: I'm the detective in charge of homicides down at the precinct.

PW: That detective looks down in the dumps.

Gum: Constable Byrde was, uh, a very trustworthy subordinate!

PW: You worked under that detective?

By: Yes, sir! He was always watching out for me while I was a trainee!

By: He's a wonderful detective!

Payne: Then, Detective, describe for us the details of the m*rder.

Gum: Sir!

Sign: Witness Testimony

Gum: It happened at the park near the precinct, "Exposé Park."

Expose_Park,Sign: Exposé Park

Gum: The victim was one of the local cops, Dustin Prince.

Gum: His body was beat up bad, and his neck was snapped.

Gum: He was likely pushed down from the benches on the upper path.

Payne: There was a very crucial piece of evidence found under the victim's body.

Payne: This is it.

Gum: The victim grabbed the k*ller's glasses as he was being shoved

Gum: and held onto them as he fell.

PW: The k*ller's glasses?

PW: What about those?

By: This is my spare pair.

PW: S-Spare? Th-Then you really...

By: No! The ones they found weren't mine!

By: It was a coincidence that on that same day, I accidentally stepped on mine.

PW: Coincidence?

By: Just another day in the life of the Goddess of Misfortune.

J: Defense, you may begin your cross-examination.

PW: Huh? Cross-examination?

PW: I have to do it?

J: Obviously. Who else would?

By: This is your time to shine! I'm counting on you!

PW: Uh, what am I supposed to do?

By: Y-You don't know?

PW: No... I hate to break it to you, but I don't remember anything.

By: What?!

By: W-Wait, is it amnesia?

PW: Amnesia?!

By: I now have a new biggest crisis of my life.

J: Defense, hurry up and begin your cross-examination.

By: Just go for it!

PW: Right.

PW: Then...

PW: Let's start with the glasses.

PW: Do you have any proof that these belong to the defendant?

Gum: The lenses are for a near-sighted wearer,and are almost the same prescription as hers.

MAGGEY: ,MAGGEY

BYRDE: ,BYRDE

Gum: Even the frames look kinda like the ones she's wearing in her ID.

PW: Wait.

PW: "Almost" and "kinda" are not good enough in a case like this.

PW: Do you have more definitive proof?

Payne: One moment!

Payne: If you want definitive proof,

Payne: take a look at this photo.

Sign: Maggie

PW: M-Maggie?

J: That's the defendant's name, Maggie Byrde.

By: It's a setup! A conspiracy!

J: Order! Order!

PW: The victim wrote her name? There's no hope!

Sign: Maggey

PW: What?

PW: Hold it!

Gum: Th-There it is! Really makes my empty stomach rumble...

PW: What's come over me?

PW: Without thinking, I just yelled out.

PW: And I yelled it at the top of my lungs, finger outstretched.

PW: Witness, please state the defendant's name for me.

Gum: Huh? Well, it's Maggie Byrde.

PW: How is it spelled?

Payne: Hold it!

Payne: This line of questioning is pointless!

Sign: Maggie

Payne: Just look at the photo!

PW: Sure, it does say "Maggie."

PW: But the defendant's name is spelled "Maggey"!

MAGGEY: ,MAGGEY

BYRDE: ,BYRDE

MAGGEY: ,MAGGEY

Sign: Maggie

Sign: Maggey

PW: This is a blatant contradiction of facts!

Payne: B-But... Maybe the victim didn't know how to spell her name correctly!

PW: May I remind you that it was you who said,

Sign: Maggie

Sign: Maggey

PW: "The defendant is accused of k*lling her lover."

PW: There's no way he wouldn't have known his lover's name!

Gum: The day of the incident happened to be Constable Prince's birthday.

Gum: Maggey had gotten him a present.

PW: And is this it?

PW: That's an awfully yellow glove.

By: He loved baseball and the color yellow to death!

J: Oh? Is that glove relevant to this case?

Gum: Huh? I'm not sure.

PW: Actually, that glove is the key to this whole case!

PW: Take a close look at the glove. It's made for a left-handed person.

PW: And now, look at the crime scene photo again.

Sign: Maggie

Gum: H-He wrote with his right hand!

By: That's right! He was a southpaw!

Sign: Maggie

PW: There's no way a southpaw would use his right hand to write a dying message.

PW: Therefore, whoever wrote that...

PW: It wasn't the victim!

PW: What was that?

PW: I still can't remember, but I can feel the rush.

PW: Energy is surging through my body!

J: It seems that we have reached a conc—

Payne: Hold it!

Payne: Your Honor, the prosecution is not finished yet!

J: What?!

By: No way!

Payne: There was a witness to this m*rder.

Payne: And the witness saw the moment the victim was pushed to his death.

Payne: What's more, he saw the very face of the culprit!

By: I'm telling you, it wasn't me!

J: Summon the witness to the stand!

Payne: Sir, meet the dr*fter who was taking a walk in the park on the day of the m*rder!

Well: Hi!

PW: He saw the culprit?

Payne: Please state your name for the court, witness.

Well: First, I'd like to clarify something.

Well: Just now, you introduced my wonderful self to the court, correct?

Well: Perhaps as a "dr*fter who was taking a walk"?

Payne: Huh? Did I?

Well: But I can't have you judging me with such bias.

Well: Sure, I suppose calling me a university student would not be the absolute truth.

Well: But everything in my life is to be of the utmost, top grade quality, you understand.

Well: I am merely looking for that perfect, top notch university, don't you see?

Well: I have a rigorous selection process.

Payne: Yes, yes, I understand. I'll keep that in mind.

Well: Only first-rate fashion, cars, women, and glasses may apply!

Well: And of course, the same goes for university!

PW: But you aren't wearing glasses...

J: That's enough! Your name, witness!

: I don't know about this prosecutor of yours.

Well: I am Richard Wellington.

Sign: Witness: Gap-Year Student — Richard Wellington

Well: You may say I'm more or less a university student.

PW: What do you mean, more or less?

Well: Shall I begin, then?

Sign: Witness Testimony

Well: I was strolling through Exposé Park that day

Well: when all of a sudden, in front of my eyes,

Well: a police officer falls from above!

Well: I looked up in surprise and locked eyes with an aghast lady.

Well: Indeed, it was her!

PW: Was there anything else you noticed?

Well: Hmm... Let me think...

Well: Oh, right! I saw a bunch of bananas fall with him!

PW: B-Bananas? At the scene?

Well: Indeed. They were extremely yellow and looked rather appetizing.

PW: Bananas? Extremely yellow?

PW: Could the bananas have been...

Well: Yes, that's them over there.

PW: Really?

PW: If you think they look so yummy, do you care for a bite?

Well: It can't be... That's bananas!

PW: By the way, how's your eyesight?

Well: Wh-Wh-Wh-Why are you asking me about this all of a sudden?

Payne: Objection!

Payne: You can't say he has bad eyesight just because he mistook a glove for bananas.

J: Objection overruled.

Well: They're both /! Problem?

J: /? That's certainly not good.

PW: Why aren't you wearing your glasses today?

Well: Ack!

Well: I lost them recently, you see...

PW: You lost them?

PW: Could it be that

PW: these glasses are actually yours?

Well: Wh-Where did you find...

PW: They were found under the victim's body.

Well: Wh-What?!

Sign: Maggie

PW: Why were your glasses there?

Well: How would I know?

Well: Besides, didn't the victim name his k*ller, Maggie?

PW: Sure, he did write "Maggie,"

PW: but her name is spelled this way.

MAGGEY: ,MAGGEY

MAGGEY_: ,MAGGEY

Well: Ack!

Sign: Maggie

PW: Besides, the victim was left-handed.

PW: So this was an attempt to frame her.

PW: The real k*ller used the victim's right hand to write it!

Well: It wasn't me.

Well: To write that message, the k*ller would've had to know her name.

Well: But I don't know her at all!

PW: You don't know him either, right?

By: Right. But speaking of my name...

By: That day, when Constable Prince and I were walking around the park,

By: we found a cell phone.

By: Um, hello? I'm Maggey.

Well: Oh, thank you! I've been searching for my phone.

By: I'm glad you called!

By: We can meet up, and I can give this back!

Well: I'll be right there!

By: So we both waited right there,

By: but nobody showed up.

By: Right after I split up with him, I heard a scream...

By: And I found him dead.

PW: Maggey's name... It all adds up!

PW: Witness, did you lose your cell phone recently?

Well: S-So what if I did?

PW: You tried calling the number in a bid to get it back.

Well: How did you...

PW: That's when you learned that her name was Maggey.

PW: And that's when you incorrectly assumed

Sign: Maggey

PW: that it was spelled this way!

Sign: Maggie

PW: This mistake could only occur if you heard the name!

PW: It's clear as day now.

PW: The real m*rder*r...

PW: ...is you!

Well: Eek!

Payne: Objection!

Payne: The witness has no motive to commit m*rder!

Well: Th-That is absolutely correct! Why would I k*ll a cop?

J: Fair point.

J: Defense, can you explain what motive this witness could have had?

PW: Well...

Payne: Impossible. They'd never even met.

PW: I'm so close to remembering something!

PW: Something I was investigating!

J: It seems that the cross-examination has reached its—

Sign: Hold it!

Maya: Hold it!

Maya: Sorry I kept you waiting, Nick!

Sign: Spirit Medium — Maya Fey

Maya: I was afraid I wouldn't make it in time!

By: I've been waiting for you, Maya! You made it in the nick of time!

PW: Maya?

Maya: I'm here to the rescue with the ultra-decisive super-important evidence!

Maya: Here, Nick!

PW: Wh-What is this?

Maya: I put together a crazy list!

PW: List?

Maya: Putting it together was really hard work, y'know?

PW: Names and phone numbers?

PW: Uh, what is this?

Maya: What? You're the one who asked me to look this up!

By: They're the contacts from the phone I picked up that day!

Maya: Would you believe it? They were all members of a group of con artists!

Well: Ack!

PW: Group of con artists... cell phone... name...

J: Defense, wrap up the cross-examination!

PW: I see! This is what I was investigating!

PW: Where is that cell phone now?

Maya: Don't you have it?

By: I gave it to you when I hired you to defend me.

PW: Let me see...

Maya: That's the one!

By: Yep!

PW: Thank you. You provided the last piece of the puzzle, miss.

Maya: "Miss"?

PW: Judge, this is the motive right here!

J: What?

PW: The cell phone the defendant found.

PW: When we looked up the contacts stored on it,

PW: we found that they were all members of a group of con artists.

Payne: Con artists?!

PW: Witness, you'd saved your friends' phone numbers on this thing.

Payne: Objection!

Payne: The witness had been told he'd get it back!

Payne: Why would he have to k*ll?

PW: Because when he got there, he saw it...

PW: The victim's outfit!

Maya: It's a police uniform!

PW: That's right. Constable Prince was in uniform when he met the defendant.

PW: When you saw that, you incorrectly assumed she brought a cop along.

PW: "If he suspects anything and runs a check on my phone..."

PW: In your mind, it was possible they'd already run one!

PW: So you went into a panic

PW: and k*lled Constable Prince by pushing him over!

Well: Not bad for a lawyer with a third-rate education.

PW: What's so funny?

Well: That's not my phone!

Maya: It's the same model as the one Nick has?

Well: I've already found the phone I lost.

Well: Incidentally, the numbers stored on this phone have all magically disappeared.

Well: It must've glitched when I dropped it.

PW: He erased all the numbers that could be used as evidence?

Well: Numbers of a con artist group? Nice setup!

Maya: N-Nick...

PW: Where did you find that cell phone, anyway?

Well: Oh, you are too much!

Well: Of course you wouldn't know!

J: Witness, what is the meaning of...

J: Ow...

PW: Looks like they hung up.

PW: Now I remember everything!

PW: So it was then!

PW: That ringtone...

Well: The evidence your accusation is based on is all gone!

Maya: He's totally in the driver's seat now.

Maya: Aw, he turned the tables on us.

PW: Turned the tables?

PW: Then we can just turn them about!

: Here... Your Honor.

J: Why, thank you so much.

J: The court hereby concludes the cross-examination!

Well: If that will be all, I'll have to bid you gentlemen and ladies goodbye.

PW: Objection!

Sign: Objection!

PW: I hate to break it to you, but I still have evidence.

PW: Right in front of my eyes, too!

Well: What?

PW: Could you call my cell phone right now?

Maya: Huh? Call you?

Maya: Uh...

PW: With this, the court will see everything for what it is.

Maya: I'm calling now.

PW: Huh?

PW: You called my phone, right?

Maya: Y-Yeah.

Maya: What?

Well: Wh-Why is my phone ringing?

PW: How strange. I could almost swear that you're holding my phone.

Well: Don't tell me!

PW: By the way, thank you very much for the lump on my head earlier.

PW: I don't think I need to explain any further.

PW: When you went to retrieve your cell phone, you mistakenly took mine!

PW: This is the evidence that proves your guilt!

J: Mr. Payne, where is Mr. Wellington?

Payne: He was arrested and taken away, Your Honor.

J: It's been a while since I last saw youput on such a show, Mr. Wright.

J: Now then, I shall hereby hand down the verdict for Miss Maggey Byrde.

Sign: Not Guilty

J: Not guilty!

By: Thank you so much!

J: That is all! This court is adjourned!

Sign: Lobby

Maya: Amnesia?!

Maya: Come to think of it, you were acting weird.

Maya: You even called me "miss" and all.

PW: I'm fine now.

By: Thank you so, so much!

By: I'm moved to tears!

Gum: Maggey!

Gum: Congrats on the verdict!

By: Your name isn't d*ck for nothing, huh?

Gum: I was against your arrest until the very end...

By: I'm going to find a new life for myself starting now.

By: The next time we meet,

By: I'm sure I'll have found a whole ocean's worth of good luck!

Maya: That's the spirit. Don't let anyone call you the Goddess of Misfortune anymore.

Maya: Right, Nick?

PW: Yeah, exactly.

PW: By the way...

Maya: What?

PW: Who might you be, miss?

Maya: Huh?

Maya: What the heck? Your amnesia isn't gone yet!

PW: I'm kidding, Maya!

PW: My name is Phoenix Wright,

PW: attorney-at-law.

PW: No matter how difficult a case may be,

PW: I'll continue to stand in the courtroom to defend the clients I believe in!

Sign: Ace Attorney

Sign: Season

PW: Objection!

PW: The phantom thief, Mask DeMasque,

PW: has stolen the sacred urn from Kurain Village, Maya's home.

PW: But the stolen urn was then lost.

PW: A bizarre detective appears.

PW: Meet all the shady individuals around Mask DeMasque

PW: as the plot keeps thickening.

PW: What's more, the prosecutor waiting inthe courtroom was a total enigma!

PW: Find the contradictions!

PW: Reach out to the truth!

Sign: Next Episode The Stolen Turnabout — st Trial

PW: Next time: "The Stolen Turnabout"!

PW: Take that!