01x01 - The First Turnabout

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T:Hmm...

T:It's two o'clock, I think...

G:I-I've gotta pin this on someone.

G:Oh, I know!

G:He'll do...

PW:Perfect!

Sign:Defense Lawyer — Naruhodo Ryuichi

PW:I'm Naruhodo Ryuichi,

PW:a rookie attorney, who just got his badge three months ago.

PW:And today,

PW:for the first time, I set foot in the courtroom as an attorney!

Courthouse,Sign:Courthouse

Title:The First Turnabout

Lobby,Sign:Lobby

Sign:March , : AM District Court — Defendant Lobby No.

Sign:Ayasato & Co. Law Offices Chief — Ayasato Chihiro

Mia:What's keeping Naruhodo-kun?

PW:Excuse me!

PW:Sorry I'm late...

Mia:The trial begins at AM.

Mia:I hope you're ready.

PW:I am!

PW:Sorry to force you to take time to be here for me, Chihiro-san.

Mia:Don't mention it.

Mia:I mean, it's my beloved subordinate's first-ever defense.

Mia:I wouldn't miss it for the world.

PW:Thank you!

Mia:But I must say I'm impressed.

Mia:Not everyone has the courage to take on a homicide trial, right off the bat.

PW:I wanted... no, I had to do this.

PW:Because I owe him a favor.

Mia:A favor? To the defendant?

PW:Yes.

PW:Actually, I kind of owe my current job to him.

PW:He's one of the reasons I became an attorney.

Mia:Well, that's news to me.

Courtroom,Sign:Courtroom

PW:I want to help him in any way I can!

Courtroom,Sign:Courtroom

Sign:March District Court — Courtroom No.

Sign:Prosecutor — Auchi Takefumi

PW:That's my client, Yahari Masashi.

Sign:Defendant — Yahari Masashi

PW:He's been my best friend since grade school.

Butz:Naruhodo!

Butz:It wasn't me!

Butz:What's your problem? Lemme go!

Butz:Naruhodo! It wasn't me!

PW:I know. I believe you.

Butz:Naruhodo!

PW:But the newspapers say it was you.

Verdict,Sign:Model m*rder*d in Own Apartment in Broad Daylight!!

Sign:Suspect Yahari Masashi ()

Mia:Naruhodo-kun...

Mia:So he's the one who motivated you to become an attorney?

PW:Yes.

PW:He's a good guy at heart.

PW:He just has terrible luck.

Mia:He doesn't seem to have the best attitude.

PW:He just has terrible luck and a terrible attitude.

Mia:Anyway, you must believe in his innocence to the very end.

Mia:Do not forget that.

PW:I won't!

Sign:Judge

J:Court is now in session

J:for the trial of Yahari Masashi.

Payne:The prosecution is ready, Your Honor.

PW:The defense is ready, Your Honor.

J:Then, your opening statement, Prosecutor Auchi.

Payne:At once, Your Honor.

Verdict,Sign:Takabi Mika ()

Payne:The victim is Takabi Mika,

Payne:a twenty-two-year-old model.

Payne:She was found dead in her apartment's living room.

Payne:We have concluded she was m*rder*d from autopsy results and the state of the scene.

Payne:Time of death is estimated to have been around or PM.

Payne:The cause, blunt force trauma to the head.

Payne:The m*rder weapon was this statue of The Thinker.

Payne:I present it to the court as evidence.

J:Accepted.

J:But I must say, this is a modern thinker indeed.

Butz:Not "modern"! It's "Rodin"!

Butz:That is the gift of love that I made with all my heart and soul!

J:Oh, so it's handmade?

Payne:By the way, we found the defendant's fingerprints on the m*rder weapon.

Butz:Huh?! No way!

PW:You made it by hand. Of course your fingerprints are all over it!

Butz:Naruhodo!

Butz:Let me state my case, man...

Butz:At this rate, I'm gonna be found guilty!

Payne:The prosecution would also like to call the defendant to the stand.

J:Very well.

J:You may proceed.

Butz:All right! Hell, yeah!

Mia:Looks like your friend has a foul mouth, to go with his terrible luck and attitude.

Payne:Now, Yahari-kun...

Payne:It seems you were recently dumped by the victim.

Butz:Watch it, buddy!

Butz:We're the twentieth century's greatest couple!

PW:The twentieth century ended a long time ago, dude.

Butz:But lately, she'd been ignoring my calls, just a bit.

Butz:And standing me up, just a bit.

Payne:That is generally what we call being dumped—

Butz:Shut up with your nonsense!

Payne:They you knew about her trip overseas?

Butz:T-Trip overseas?

Butz:That's news to me, just a bit...

Payne:This is the victim's passport.

Payne:According to this, she returned from New York the day before the m*rder.

Payne:We also found a photograph taken during the trip.

Butz:My present...

Payne:I present these two items to the court as evidence, Your Honor.

J:Accepted.

Butz:Huh?

Butz:Hang on a second!

Butz:Who took that photo?

Payne:The man with whom she went, of course.

Butz:Aw! Hell, no!

PW:Please stop repeating that word...

Payne:And there we have our motive.

Payne:The defendant heard about this, and m*rder*d the victim in a rage.

J:Yes. That is quite the clear motive.

Butz:Wait a second...

Butz:I didn't do it, I swear!

Payne:By the way, on the day of the m*rder, did you visit the victim's apartment?

Payne:M-Maybe I did! And maybe I didn't!

Mia:I can hardly bear how dumb he is at playing dumb.

Payne:You don't remember?

Payne:Then, let me remind you...

Payne:The defendant is lying, Your Honor!

Payne:The prosecution would like to call its key witness to the stand.

PW:A witness?

J:Order! Order in the court!

J:Escort the witness to the stand.

Sahwit:Hello.

Mia:This is where things get real, Naruhodo-kun.

Sahwit:Hello.

PW:A witness?

Payne:Please state your name and occupation.

Sahwit:I am Yamano Hoshio.

Sahwit:I sell newspaper subscriptions.

J:Please tell the court what you saw on the day of the m*rder.

Sahwit:Of course.

Testimony,Sign:Witness Testimony

Sahwit:That day, I was at the apartment complex to sell subscriptions,

TestimonyOrange,Sign:Testimony

Sahwit:when I saw a man hurriedly leaving the apartment in question.

Sahwit:It was that man, over there.

PW:Damn it, Yahari...

PW:Why haven't I heard this?

Sahwit:I found that quite strange, so I looked inside the apartment.

TestimonyOrange,Sign:Testimony

Sahwit:And I saw a woman lying there, dead.

Sahwit:I was too scared to go inside.

Sahwit:So I rushed to a nearby pay phone, and called the police.

Sahwit:It was PM.

Time,Sign: o'clock

PW:Two o'clock...

J:A pay phone?

J:Didn't the apartment have a phone?

Payne:There was a phone by the front door,

Payne:but the area had a blackout that day, from PM to PM,

SignA,Sign:Blackout Notice

Payne:so he couldn't use it.

J:That does explain using a pay phone.

PW:A blackout?

Payne:How about it, Your Honor?

Payne:You could hardly ask for a more conclusive witness testimony.

Mia:What's the matter?

PW:N-Nothing.

J:The defense may begin its cross-examination.

PW:Y-Yes, Your Honor!

Mia:Here's your time to shine.

Mia:If your client is innocent,

Mia:the witness must have lied in his testimony.

Mia:Compare the testimony to the evidence.

Mia:A contradiction is bound to be in there.

Mia:Find it.

PW:A contradiction...

Mia:That's right.

Mia:The evidence holds all the keys.

Mia:Go get 'em.

PW:Okay.

PW:I'll give it a shot!

PW:Er...

PW:Your Honor! Just now, there was a clear contradiction in the testimony!

J:Oh? Where, exactly?

PW:Well, uh...

PW:I'm saying we should all put our heads together and find it...

PW:Ow!

Mia:What's so funny?

Mia:Right now, you need less laughter, more thought.

PW:Ah, y-yeah!

PW:The autopsy report...

PW:What is this?

PW:All right!

J:Let's try again. The defense may begin its cross-examination.

Testimony,Sign:Cross-Examination

PW:You say you found the body at PM.

PW:Are you sure of the time?

Sahwit:Absolutely sure.

PW:But according to the autopsy report,

PW:the victim's estimated time of death was sometime after PM.

Sign:Autopsy Report Name: Takabi Mika Sex: F Age: Estimated Time of Death: After PM Cause of Death: Blunt force trauma to the head Place of Death: Her apartment

SignB,Sign:Four o'clock

Sign:Two o'clock

PW:Isn't this a clear contradiction?

Mia:Brilliantly done, Naruhodo-kun!

J:The witness is to explain himself.

Sahwit:O-Of course...

Sahwit:In the apartment, I heard the time being announced.

Sahwit:She must've been watching TV before she died.

Payne:Oh, that makes sense—

PW:Huh?

PW:Wasn't there a blackout at that time?

Sign:Blackout NoticeToday, - PM

Sign: o'clock o'clock

PW:The TV couldn't have been on.

Sahwit:My apologies, I was mistaken.

Sahwit:I heard the clock.

Sahwit:The table clock.

PW:The table clock?

Sahwit:That's right!

Sahwit:The Thinker that he used to k*ll her.

Payne:Your Honor, if I may, this is indeed a clock.

Payne:If you twist the neck, it appears to say the time aloud.

Butz:Whaddya think of my genius idea?

PW:Mention these things earlier!

PW:If you twist the neck, it says the time?

PW:Yamano-san!

PW:You're lying!

PW:In your testimony, you said...

Sahwit:I was too scared to go inside.

PW:You could only know this was a clock if you heard it announce the time.

PW:That's right.

PW:You heard this clock that day.

PW:When you entered the apartment, and used it to strike the victim!

T:It's two o'clock, I think...

PW:The sound must have surprised you.

PW:And the time was burned into your memory.

PW:Am I wrong?

J:How does the witness respond?

Sahwit:I never...

Sahwit:Shut up! Quit yammering and nitpicking!

Sahwit:I saw it with my own eyes...

Sahwit:He was the one who k*lled her!

J:Order!

J:Watch your mouth, witness.

J:Can the defense prove that the witness heard this clock announce the time?

PW:W-Well...

Mia:Simple.

Mia:Let's sound the clock here and now, in this court.

PW:Yes.

T:Hmm...

It's :, I think...

J:What a Rodin way to announce the time.

Butz:Isn't it great?!

Butz:It's my genius voice—

J:But how is this proof of anything?

PW::?

PW:Prosecutor Auchi, what time is it right now?

Payne:Right now? :.

J:It's two hours slow!

PW:Yamano-san's testimony was also two hours off.

PW:Which means, what he heard at the time of the m*rder

PW:was most definitely this clock!

Sahwit:I'll grant you that's an amusing story...

Sahwit:Sure, it looks like the clock's two hours slow.

Sahwit:But we don't know if it was running slow on the day of the m*rder!

Sahwit:Well?

Sahwit:Got an answer to that?!

Sahwit:If you can't prove that, you have no case.

Mai:Naruhodo-kun!

J:How about it, defense?

Mai:You can't back down here.

PW:Am I going to fail you, after coming so close?

Butz:Objection!

J:If you don't have any proof, I cannot let you indict this witness.

Sahwit:I come all this way to testify, and you call me a m*rder*r?

Sahwit:You attorneys are all scum!

PW:Forgive me, Yahari...

J:This concludes Yamano Hoshio's cross-examination.

Mia:Not so fast!

PW:Ch-Chihiro-san?

Mia:Now is the time to laugh, Naruhodo-kun.

Mia:An attorney can only laugh when times are desperate!

Mia:Don't give up until the very end.

J:If the defense has something to say, speak up.

J:Well, do you?

PW:But there's no way to prove the clock was running slow on the day of the m*rder.

Mia:Turn your thinking about.

PW:Turn it about?

Mia:Yes.

Mia:Try to figure out why the clock was running two hours slow, in the first place.

PW:Two hours...

Sign: o'clock o'clock

PW:Two hours.

J:It seems the defense has nothing to say, after all.

PW:I see...

PW: o'clock o'clock

PW:Two hours!

J:This concludes the cross-examination.

PW:Objection!

Objection:Objection!

PW:The reason the clock was running two hours slow is this...

PW:Right here!

Sahwit:Wh-What about that photo?

PW:Japan is in a different time zone than other countries.

PW:According to her passport,

PW:the victim had just returned from overseas the day before the m*rder.

PW:The time difference between Japan and New York is fourteen hours.

PW:When it's PM here, it's AM there.

PW:Disregard AM and PM.

Mia:And the difference is exactly two hours.

PW:The victim took the table clock with her on the trip,

PW:but hadn't reset it since returning.

PW:That's why the time you heard

PW:was two hours off!

PW:How's that for yammering, Yamano-san?

J:Arrest the witness immediately!

Full Story,Sign:Full Story

PW:As a newspaper salesman, Yamano Hoshio had been burglarizing homes,

PW:while residents were away.

PW:But the victim returned while he was in her apartment,

PW:and that led to the m*rder.

T:It's two o'clock, I think...

J:Order!

J:Naruhodo-kun...

PW:Yes, Your Honor.

J:I am quite honestly amazed.

J:In your first defense, you even discovered the true culprit.

PW:Gee, thanks, Your Honor.

J:I shall now hand down the verdict.

Verdict,Sign:Not

Verdict,Sign:Not Guilty

J:Not guilty!

Payne:Aw! Hell, no!

Mia:Well done, Naruhodo-kun.

PW:Thank you, Chihiro-san.

J:And with that, court is adjourned.

Courtroom,Sign:Lobby

Butz:You're amazing, Naruhodo!

Mia:Congratulations, Yapping-san.

Butz:Uh, my name's Yahari...

Mia:Could you repeat that, Yapping-san?

Butz:Never mind, er, well...

Butz:Thank you so much!

Butz:I'll never forget this.

PW:Dude, I was the one who saved you.

Butz:Oh, right!

Butz:Please accept this!

Mia:Wait, isn't this the m*rder weapon?

Butz:Oh, no...

Butz:It's the same thing, but it's not.

Butz:I made two of them, and this one's mine.

Mia:Ah.

Butz:Please accept it as a memento of our meeting!

Mia:Then, I guess I'll take you up on it.

Mia:Thank you.

Butz:I loved her, man. How could she betray me like that?

Butz:I'm so sad!

PW:Yahari...

Mia:I wouldn't be so certain.

Mia:She loved you.

Mia:And here's the proof.

Butz:Lies!

Butz:Naruhodo!

PW:Oh, yeah. She took that clock with her on the trip, didn't she?

Butz:She probably just didn't have any others.

PW:You really think she'd take something so bulky, just because of that?

Butz:I guess not.

Butz:Thanks, man.

Mia:Today got a bit exciting, but you finally took your first step.

PW:Yeah, it was really scary, though.

Mia:But still...

Mia:It was an important step you took to help someone.

Mia:Listen well, Naruhodo-kun.

Mia:In our massive society,

Mia:there must be plenty of people out there who need your help.

Mia:Do your best.

PW:I will!

Mia:Oh, right... The reason you became an attorney?

PW:I owe it all to him.

Mia:Tell me the whole story sometime.

PW:Sure thing!

PW:I forgot my bike at the courthouse!

Mia:Oh, dear...

PW:See you later!

PW:And so, my first trial came to a close.

PW:But my promise to tell the chief about my reason for becoming an attorney

Sign:Ayasato & Co. Law Offices

PW:was a promise I wouldn't be able to keep.

Sign:Ace Attorney

:Objection!

PW:One night, tragedy befell Chihiro-san.

SignD,Sign:Beautiful Attorney m*rder*d Ayasato Chihiro ()

PW:At the messy crime scene were shards of glass,

PW:an utterly startling m*rder weapon,

PW:and a dying message in blood.

PW:What do those words mean?

PW:The one under arrest

PW:is Chihiro-san's little sister?

PW:Why were you there?

PW:Are you really a m*rder*r?

PW:Find the contradictions.

PW:Reach out to the truth!

PW:Next time: Turnabout Sisters — st Trial!

Sign:Next Episode Turnabout Sisters — st Trial

PW:Take that!