02x12 - Northward, Turnabout Express – Last Trial

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PW: The Silver Star Special Express

PW: was hijacked by the fugitive Avery Richman.

PW: His demand?

PW: A retrial of the m*rder case in which he was found guilty.

PW: I happened to be on the train

PW: and took the role of defense lawyer in this unprecedented trial.

PW: But a passenger who could've been a crucial witness was m*rder*d,

PW: and the corpse disappeared right before our eyes.

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Title: Northward, Turnabout Express — Last Trial

J: Court is now back in session for the trial of Avery Richman.

Sai: This trial can't go any further.

Sai: Mr. Gale was m*rder*d, and he vanished.

Sai: And there is no other new testimony to hear.

PW: Our last hope is gone!

Rich: How could this be?

Maya: Mr. Richman...

Sign: Hold it!

Gum: Hold it, pal!

Bo: Detective Gumshoe?

Rich: Regina?

Reg: I'm so sorry, King!

Reg: This man insisted...

Gum: I heard everything.

Gum: I'm d*ck Gumshoe, a police detective.

Rich: A policeman?

Gum: Gale Gaelic's body didn't vanish, pal!

PW: What?

Gum: It actually just showed up!

PW: G-Gale?!

Maya: How?

PW: The body teleported?

Maya: What? That's impossible!

Gum: But it showed up here just now.

Gum: It fell through the ceiling.

PW: The ceiling?

Gum: Also, you guys are the ones who vanished!

Maya: Huh? What do you mean?

Gum: I'm in Car , and it's connected to the engine!

Gum: Car and the dining car disappeared somewhere!

PW: N-No way!

Maya: We disappeared?

Gum: Sheesh, first whole cars disappear, then a missing corpse falls from the ceiling,

Gum: and then there was the flying human soul...

Maya: Human soul?

PW: That's Maya's field.

Maya: My field is spirit channeling!

Gum: Anyway, hear me out.

Gum: It happened when the lights went out.

Gum: Far away, I saw a raging flame drifting in the dark...

Sai: A soul? Ridiculous.

Gum: I saw what I saw!

Maya: A flame in the dark?

Maya: Nick, didn't we see a flame, too?

PW: Yeah, that could be it.

Gum: What? You guys saw a soul, too?

PW: No. What we saw was a birthday cake.

J: A birthday cake?

J: Ah!

PW: Yes. A little past PM,

PW: a birthday party was held here in the dining car.

Maya: Oh, a show's beginning!

Maya: Look, Nick!

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Mara: My! Thank you so much, Vega.

Mara: Thank you all as well.

Mara: I feel so fortunate to have made it to eighty-seven.

Mara: Oh, my! You're putting on a wonderful show!

PW: O-Oh no! Get a fire extinguisher! Hurry!

Maya: What now?!

J: Yes, that did happen.

PW: A raging flame in the dark...

PW: That might've been what Gumshoe saw.

Sai: Impossible! He couldn't have seen the fire in the dining car from Car !

PW: But if that was what he saw,

PW: that'd explain the disappearance of our cars.

Sai: Elaborate.

PW: The cars didn't vanish.

PW: They were rearranged.

J: R-Rearranged?

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PW: This railroad used to be a small local line.

PW: And it still has remains of old freight stations that were used for lumber transport.

PW: First, the lights were turned off,

PW: making it impossible for us to see what would happen.

PW: Then the train was slowed down before it reached the Point B,

PW: and the couplings in front of Cars and were disconnected.

Maya: The train split up!

PW: This was when the fire broke out,

PW: and that's what Gumshoe saw...

PW: Our cars running along a parallel freight line.

PW: And right when we fell behind Car ,

PW: Point B arrived.

Maya: We switched!

PW: After that, the Silver Star came to a halt.

PW: Other than to let you board this train,

PW: that stoppage had one more objective.

PW: How was that?

Rich: Yes, we needed to stop to reconnect the coupling between the cars.

Rich: I knew I picked the right lawyer.

Rich: I'm deeply impressed.

Gum: You really rearranged the cars? Why do something so crazy?

Rich: You'll find out eventually.

Sai: It was just a rich man's whim? I knew it'd be something pointless.

PW: No, there very much was a point.

Sai: What?

PW: Thanks to it,

PW: I've identified Gale's k*ller.

Sai: k*ller?

PW: The answer is quite simple.

PW: If the body before Gumshoe right now is the real Gale,

PW: that'd obviously make the one we saw before a fake.

PW: The k*ller m*rder*d Gale right there and hid his body in the ceiling!

Gum: Th-This is the crime scene?

Reg: That lightning just now... that's what made the corpse fall out of the ceiling.

PW: I'm sure the k*ller didn't expect that to happen.

Gum: Just when was this man m*rder*d?

PW: It's quite likely that it was before the cars were rearranged.

Gum: But I've been here the entire time!

PW: There was a point in time whennobody was in the car, remember?

J: That's right! Dinner!

Gum: Ah!

Reg: True. Nobody could've seen it happen if it was during dinnertime.

Rich: Then you mean the corpse we saw in Car was...

PW: A fake.

PW: Gale had already been m*rder*d and hidden in the ceiling by then.

J: But the victim was a Car passenger,

J: and nobody passed through the dining car while we were eating.

PW: Still, Gale and the k*ller must have moved there.

Sai: Nonsense. Speak in facts, not conjecture.

Sai: Is there anyone who can testify the victim went through the dinner car around then?

Maya: Of course, nobody would remember everyone they passed in the train.

PW: But in this case, just pointing out the possibility is enough.

PW: Because...

PW: There is only one person who could have done this!

J: Wh-Who is that?

PW: The k*ller... is you,

PW: Tristan Turnbull!

J: The k*ller is Prosecutor Turnbull?

Rich: What?

Sai: This isn't even worth arguing.

PW: It could only have been you.

Sai: I rushed there after I heard a body had been found.

Sai: Later, the body vanished.

Sai: That's all I know.

PW: But that corpse was a fake.

PW: In fact, that guy wasn't even dead!

Rich: He wasn't dead?

PW: Someone dressed like the victim and played dead.

PW: It was your accomplice!

PW: That would explain everything.

PW: You were the one who checked the body back then.

PW: You didn't let us get close to it

PW: and then closed the door to "preserve the crime scene."

PW: While you were buying time by the door,

PW: the "corpse" took off the victim's clothes

PW: and hid behind the door, where nobody would check.

PW: When Mr. Richman eventually opened the door, the corpse was gone.

PW: And while we stood there shocked, he sneaked out from behind the door.

Rich: B-But that's such a cliche!

J: And just who was this accomplice?

PW: Back then, there was someone who wasn't nearby when we were outside,

PW: but suddenly showed up when we went in.

PW: It was you, Rick!

Rich: Is it true, Rick?

PW: Rick?

Rick: I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help.

Maya: It was Rick?

Rich: Why, Rick?

Rich: Why would you do this?!

Rick: I'm terribly sorry, King.

Rick: I've been cooperating with American law enforcement since a year ago.

PW: What?

Rich: A year ago...?

Sai: Fool.

Rick: I was asked to procure a g*n with your fingerprints on it for a large sum of money.

Maya: g*n? You don't mean...

Rick: I did as I was told.

Rick: And a few days later,

Rick: Secretary-General Cashanova was shot during that ceremony, and you were arrested!

Rich: That whole m*rder was a setup to get rid of me?

Rick: Yes. The one who shot Cashanova was Gale Gaelic.

Rick: He fired from near you on purpose,

Rick: and the cops who frisked you planted the evidence on you...

Rick: Calling the p*stol I stole the m*rder weapon.

Pist: N-No way! The United States Prosecutor's Office hatched a conspiracy like that?

Cyl: Do you have anything to say?!

Rick: I'm truly sorry!

Rick: I just couldn't tell you!

PW: And today, you were once again ordered to cooperate

PW: by Prosecutor Turnbull.

Rick: Yes. It was after we hijacked the train and just before the trial began.

Rick: He told me to do as he said if I didn't want the king to find out I betrayed him.

PW: Before the trial began?

PW: I see! It was then!

Sai: Give me twenty minutes.

Sai: I need to prepare.

PW: In those twenty minutes,

PW: you approached Rick and forced him to help with your plan!

Rich: So that was the trick behind the body's disappearance.

Sai: Do you have proof that I cut a deal with him?

PW: Th-That's...

Sai: Of course you don't.

Sai: Besides, why would I k*ll that Gale guy in the first place?

Sai: I had absolutely nothing to do with him.

Sai: Or this bizarre conspiracy that fugitive has conjured up in his mind.

ME: That's not going to fly.

PW: Edgeworth?!

ME: It's been a while, Turnbull.

Sai: Edgeworth! Why are you...

Maya: Huh? You know each other?

ME: This is Avery Richman's court record,

ME: and it contains your name.

ME: "In charge of building the prosecution's case,

ME: Tristan Turnbull."

Rich: I-In charge?

Rich: You were?

ME: Now you can't hide behind the excuse that you were unrelated.

Sai: Why, you...

ME: Anyway, according to this record,

ME: you canceled the summons of a witness at your own discretion one year ago.

ME: That witness's name... was Gale Gaelic!

PW: What?

ME: Tonight's trial has made it clear that he was a crucial witness.

ME: Why, then, did you deliberately avoid calling that witness?

Sai: I concluded that he wasn't important to the trial a year ago!

ME: Are you trying to say you're that incompetent?

PW: Or maybe calling that witness would've been bad for other reasons.

Rich: And were those reasons really...

PW: You were afraid of the truth coming out in the trial one year ago.

PW: Which proves you were at the center of that conspiracy!

ME: Back then, you never set foot in court.

ME: But behind the scenes, you laid the groundwork to entrap Mr. Richman.

Gum: Those two are working together across the Pacific!

Gum: I'm gonna cry, pal!

Chief: You disappoint me, Turnbull.

Sai: Chief?

Maya: Who's that?

Rich: The chief prosecutor.

Rich: The man at the very top of America's justice system.

Chief: Our courts are built on the motto of always doing the right thing.

Chief: And Turnbull, you dragged themthrough the mud.

Chief: That deserves the harshest punishment.

Sai: Please wait!

Sai: I was told to convict Richman so he could be thrown out of the country!

Sai: I only did as the top brass ordered!

Chief: That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Chief: Fools who meekly follow unjust orders deserve the harshest punishment.

Chief: Your superior, who gave you that order, spilled the beans earlier.

Chief: He said he colluded and conspired with the Commerce Council, who found Cashanova a pain.

Sai: What?

ME: Gale Gaelic, who you let go,was an assassin hired by the Council!

PW: An assassin?

Chief: There was no justice in this deal.

Chief: Only blood money.

Sai: What?

ME: Either way, you played a part in a conspiracy.

ME: You clearly broke the law!

PW: Mr. Turnbull, you have no rightto judge anyone.

PW: You are...

Bo: ...an enemy of the law!

Rich: A year ago, I came to believe you were my enemy,

Rich: but it seems I was mistaken.

PW: Tell us...

PW: Everything.

Sai: It was soon after we departed.

Sai: You were invited, too?

Gale: I was just as surprised.

Gale: But I sense the hand of God behind this.

Sai: What do you mean?

Gale: This whole year, one thought has never left my mind.

Gale: That there just wasn't enough hush money.

Gale: Don't you agree?

Sai: Are you threatening me?

Gale: Being an assassin is hard work,

Gale: so I've been thinking of switching to blackmail.

Gale: Great idea, right?

Sai: Just like him, I too felt the hand of God at play.

Sai: I thought it was the perfect chance to silence him forever.

Sai: Let's talk this over.

Sai: Car should be empty right now.Let's move there.

Maya: Spikey, spikey!

Sai: It was around PM.

Sai: We went at a time when lots of people would be going in and out of the dining car,

Sai: which helped divert any attention from us,

Sai: and we easily made it to Car .

Sai: And then...

Sai: In one of the Car compartments, I m*rder*d that man.

Gum: Yikes. That's my room.

PW: And you hid the body in the ceiling.

Sai: But...

Sai: I never foresaw what was to happen.

PW: The train was hijacked,and a trial was set to begin.

Sai: If people realized he was missing,

Sai: the train would be searched, and the body found.

Sai: I had to prevent that!

ME: So you put on a miraculous show of the body vanishing in front of their eyes.

Sai: It was a bid to buy time!

Rich: The room was in flames back then.

Rich: What was that?

Sai: I ordered him to set fire to it when he was found.

Sai: It was to make sure nobody approached him before me.

Sai: Edgeworth...

Sai: I've always hated that look in your eyes.

Sai: It was to escape that very look that I went to America.

PW: No matter how far you run,you can never escape yourself.

J: That's enough!

J: Train crew! Restrain Tristan Turnbull and his accomplice, Rick!

PW: Thank you, Edgeworth.

PW: You worked truly fast.

ME: I did it to find the truth.

J: I shall hereby hand down the verdict!

Sign: Not Guilty

J: Not guilty!

PW: Wh-What now?

Rich: Everyone leave this car at once!

Rich: A b*mb will blow it to smithereens in three minutes!

PW: A b-b*mb?!

Rich: Not even I can stop it now.

PW: Mr. Richman!

Rich: Mister Wright, you have my deepestgratitude for proving my innocence.

Rich: But as one who defiled the Richman name, I cannot live on.

PW: You were planning on this all along?

Rich: Whether the retrial declared me innocent or guilty, it wouldn't change anything.

Rich: Just in case, I set up a time b*mb in this dining car!

Maya: Just in case what?!

ME: Oh, so that's why you rearranged the cars so the dining car would be at the end.

ME: So that you could disconnect its coupling and die alone!

PW: Say what?

Rich: You people are far too good for me.

Rich: Hurry up, and get to Car .

Maya: The verdict was a mistake!

Maya: We proved that, so why?

Sai: America's justice system is perfect!

Sai: That will never change, come what may!

Rich: Exactly. They'll never admit their mistake.

Sign: Objection!

Sign: Objection!

PW: I believed in you!

PW: So you believe in us, too!

ME: You're misunderstanding the justice system.

Chief: Yes.

Chief: Our justice system must always be perfect.

Chief: That's why we must correct any mistakes we make immediately.

Rich: Chief Prosecutor?

Chief: We apologize, Mister Richman.

Chief: I give you my word.

Chief: We will give you a fair retrial,

Chief: and we will make everything public.

Maya: Mr. Richman!

PW: Edgeworth... That guy must've talked him into it.

PW: Now's the time to save him.

Maya: Gotcha. Let's do this, Vanguard!

Gum: I'm in the driver's compartment! Roger that!

Maya: Nick!

PW: Come, hurry!

Maya: All right! Full speed ahead!

Gum: Roger that!

Gum: Full speed ahead!

Maya: Look, look!

PW: The first sunrise...

Rich: How beautiful.

Rich: This is the greatest sunrise I have ever seen.

PW: Yes. No objections here.

PW: You embark on a new journey now.

Sign: Ace Attorney

Sign: Season

PW: Objection!

PW: Five years ago, long before I became an attorney,

PW: I took to the courtroom for a different reason.

PW: Back then, I was the accused in a m*rder case.

PW: That's when I met first met Mia.

PW: She was still a rookie attorney at the time, and the two of us faced off

PW: against a terrifying incident.

PW: And there were even bigger shadows looming behind it.

PW: Find the contradictions!

PW: Reach out to the truth!

PW: Next time, a one-hour special: "Turnabout Memories"!

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PW: Take that!