02x16 - Turnabout Beginnings – Last Trial

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Mia: Terry Fawles, sentenced to death after a kidnapping incident five years ago,

Mia: escaped two days ago.

Vicious_m*rder*r,Sign: Vicious m*rder*r on Death Row Escapes

Mia: In that time, a policewoman was m*rder*d,

Valerie_Hawthorn,Sign: Valerie Hawthorne

Miyanagi_Yuki,Sign: Valerie Hawthorne

March______,Sign: March - : PMMeet Fawles at : PMSame bridgeWear white scarf for identificationTalk to Dahlia, tell her this time<<Make everything public>>

Mia: and her body was found in the trunk of a stolen car.

Mia: She happened to be the one whose testimony put him away in the trial five years ago.

Mia: Believing in his innocence, I took the court to defend him.

Mia: And as I pressed the eyewitness, Melissa Foster,

Mia: I finally caught a glimpse of the truth behind this case.

ME: But why would she go to such lengths?

Mia: She m*rder*d Valerie Hawthorne and hid the body in the trunk.

Mia: That's why she chose not to dump it in the river.

Mia: It was all to frame Mr. Fawles!

Mia: This m*rder and the kidnapping incident five years ago were linked.

Mia: Dahlia... Hawthorne?

DA: Yeah.

DA: That's the name of the girl who was kidnapped and m*rder*d five years ago.

DA: Fourteen at the time, huh?

DA: If she were still alive,

DA: she'd be around your age.

Mia: You...

Mia: Who exactly are you?

Title Card: Ace Attorney

Title Card: Ace Attorney

Title Card: Season

Sign: Courtroom

Title: Turnabout Beginnings — Last Trial

DH: Um, may I speak?

Mia: Yes, what is it?

DH: I'm the girl who was abducted five years ago?

DH: Er, what was her name, again?

DA: Dahlia Hawthorne.

DH: That cannot be.

Mia: Can you prove it?

ME: That would be quite difficult.

DH: I was out of the country until the year before last.

ME: That's right. She grew up in a country with a brutal civil w*r.

ME: After her parents were k*lled, she somehow made her way back home alone.

DH: So I don't have anything that can verify my identity.

Mia: What kind of trite sob story is this?

DH: Holding a grudge and k*lling the officer who testified against him...

DH: What a terrifying monster.

DH: Come to think of it, I guess I'm lucky I wasn't wearing a scarf.

J: What do you mean?

DH: Mister k*ller had forgotten what his target looked like, hadn't he?

DH: If I had worn a white scarf, I might have been k*lled instead!

Mia: Wait, "a white scarf"?

DH: Isn't that what you said earlier?

Mia: Mr. Fawles didn't remember exactly what the victim looked like.

Mia: That's why he needed a way to identify her... namely, the scarf.

Mia: Yes, but why did you say "a white scarf"?

DH: Huh?

Mia: Does the scarf in this photolook white to you?

Mia: And here's the scarf in question.

Mia: It's clearly not white.

DH: But Miss Victim's memo said...

DA: Dug your own grave.

Missing__Missing: ,Meet Fawles at : PMSame bridgeWear white scarf for identification

Mia: True, Valerie Hawthorne's memo said, "Wear white scarf for identification."

Mia: But why do you know about that?

J: Prosecutor Edgeworth,

J: did you show this witness the case file?

ME: N-No, Your Honor. I did not authorize it.

J: Then...

J: How did you know about it?

Mia: The witness knew what the memo said.

Mia: But only two people should have...

Mia: Mr. Fawles, who gave the instructions,

Mia: and Valerie Hawthorne, who wrote the memo.

DA: And one more person.

Mia: One more?

DA: How could you forget?

DA: She's right there.

March______,Sign: March - : PMMeet Fawles at : PMSame bridgeWear white scarf for identificationTalk to Dahlia, tell her this time<<Make everything public>>

Talk_to_Chinami_,Sign: Talk to Dahlia, tell her this time<<Make everything public>>

Mia: Dahlia Hawthorne...

ME: What?

Mia: "Talk to Dahlia."

Mia: I just realized what these words truly meant.

Mia: She was referring to a very specific person.

ME: Y-You don't mean...

Mia: After Mr. Fawles called her, the defendant immediately spoke to someone.

Mia: Her little sister,

Mia: Dahlia Hawthorne.

Sign: Objection!

ME: Objection!

ME: Of all the absurd...

ME: Dahlia Hawthorne was declared legally dead five years ago!

Mia: But the fact remains that her body was never recovered.

Mia: The defense asserts that this witness here

Mia: is the victim in the incident five years ago,

Mia: Dahlia Hawthorne!

J: Wh...

J: What?!

J: Witness! Just who are you?!

DH: I... I'm...

Sign: Hold it!

TF: Hold it!

Mia: Mr. Fawles?

TF: Dahlia?

TF: Is that really you, Dahlia?

Mia: Mr. Fawles! Please tell us!

Mia: Tell the court everything about five years ago!

Mia: Your Honor!

Mia: The defense requests that the defendant take the witness stand!

Mia: The court needs to hear Mr. Fawles's testimony!

J: That's certainly true.

J: What do you say, Prosecutor Edgeworth?

ME: The prosecution has no objections.

J: Very well.

J: Bring the defendant to the witness stand.

TF: Five years ago, I did kidnap Dahlia.

VH: Let that girl...

VH: Let the hostage go!

TF: Shut up!

TF: C-Come closer,

TF: and I k*ll her!

VH: Too bad for you.

VH: This is as far as you go.

TF: That woman... She betray me! Betray us!

Mia: What do you mean, she betrayed you?

TF: The kidnapping, everything... All make-believe.

J: Wh-What? Make-believe?

TF: Dahlia... My angel. My love.

TF: I do anything she says. Anything Dahlia says...

ME: Wait a second!

ME: Are you saying the kidnapping five years ago was planned by...

TF: Dahlia.

TF: And Valerie, too.

Mia: Th-The victim was in on it?

TF: Dahlia's family rich. Jewelry business.

TF: We get one jewel... That's what we thought.

TF: Dahlia wrote kidnap note.

TF: Asked for million diamond.

TF: Tell him make exchange on Dusky Bridge.

TF: We tell him Valerie, big sister, make transfer.

DA: I see. There's no way it'd fail with a police detective in your pocket.

TF: But Valerie betray us!

TF: She shot at me!

TF: I was shot in arm.

TF: And Dahlia...

TF: She jump in river.

TF: The diamond in Dahlia's backpack.

Mia: Dahlia Hawthorne jumped on purpose?!

TF: I couldn't do it! I could never push her!

DA: And that's the bitter, hot truth, eh?

DA: After Dahlia jumped, I blanked out.

DA: And Valerie arrested me.

Mia: And then you were sentenced to death.

TF: I never forget that trial!

VH: That man threw her off the bridge right in front of me!

VH: He threw Dahlia, my beloved sister, into the roaring river!

TF: These five years, all I want to know before I die...

TF: Why she lie like that?

TF: I just want to hear answer come from her mouth.

Mia: So that's why you made such a crazy escape.

TF: I forget what she look like, so I tell her to wear scarf.

TF: But I din't k*ll her!

TF: I just want to know.

Mia: You can't get out of this.

Mia: You are Dahlia Hawthorne.

Mia: Otherwise, you couldn't have known the contents of the memo!

Sign: Objection!

ME: Objection!

ME: That's enough.

Mia: Prosecutor Edgeworth?

ME: So that witness is the victim who disappeared five years ago.

ME: A shocking truth, indeed.

ME: But that has nothing to do with this case.

Mia: S-Say what?

ME: There's only one important thing to take from that testimony.

ME: The fact that the defendant despised the victim.

ME: The only one with a strong motive to k*ll Valerie Hawthorne is the defendant!

Mia: Objection!

Sign: Objection!

Mia: Not so fast, Prosecutor Edgeworth!

Mia: The defendant wasn't the only one with a motive to m*rder the victim.

Mia: Isn't that right, Dahlia Hawthorne?

March______: ,March - : PMMeet Fawles at : PMSame bridge

Mia: Take a look at the rest of the memo the victim wrote.

March______,Sign: March - : PMMeet Fawles at : PMSame bridge

: The rest?

Talk_to_Chinami_,Sign: Talk to Dahlia, tell her this time<<Make everything public>>

Mia: "Talk to Dahlia."

Mia: "Make everything public."

Mia: That's right.

Mia: The victim had told you that she was going public with everything.

Mia: You and her shared a dark secret,

Mia: so you had to k*ll her...

Mia: To silence her forever.

J: A-And that secret would be?

Mia: Five years ago, something else disappeared along with Dahlia Hawthorne.

Mia: The diamond worth millionthat'd been brought there as ransom.

Mia: Yes. It was a setup all along.

Mia: A trap to frame Mr. Fawles and keep the million all to herself!

ME: Preposterous!

ME: Five years ago, the witness was only fourteen!

ME: Do you think she was capable of such a demonic plan?!

Mia: Exactly!

Mia: This witness was a demon!

Mia: And there was one more person tormented by this demon...

Mia: Her older sister, Valerie Hawthorne!

DA: According to the case file,

DA: Terry Fawles was actually tutoring the h*wthornes.

DA: I bet that's what started the whole thing,

DA: and how he was forced to go along with his angel's scheme.

J: I can't believe it!

J: She faked her death and pretended to be someone else for five years?

DA: Valerie Hawthorne was a policewoman.

DA: With her help, it would've been possible to arrange the paperwork.

Mia: It must've weighed heavily onher conscience these past five years.

Mia: That's why she contacted her sister after Mr. Fawles called her.

Mia: And she told her what she was planning to do.

ME: "Make everything public," as she wrote in her memo.

Mia: Yes. And that is what sealed her fate.

Mia: Dahlia Hawthorne came up with yet another demonic plan.

Mia: A plan that would ensure neither of the accomplices to the kidnapping would talk.

Mia: And that is why she m*rder*d her sister, Valerie Hawthorne!

J: Order! Order in the court!

J: Wh-Why are you laughing, Witness?

DH: Forgive me. It's just hilarious.

DH: You're really amusing, Mia Fey.

DH: You can certainly weave an exciting tale.

DH: You have the evidence to back it up, don't you?

Mia: E-Evidence?

DH: Evidence that I, this inmate here, and the policewoman were all in on it, obviously.

Mia: W-Well...

DH: A make-believe kidnapping?

DH: Don't believe the lies of an inmate on death row!

DH: I'm the victim here.

Mia: But you faked your identity...

DH: Can you blame me? I was kidnapped, you know?

DH: Why wouldn't I want to go into hiding?

DH: I was scarred by the whole thing.

J: Well, defense? Do you have evidence?

Mia: It's impossible to prove that the kidnapping was staged now.

Mia: The victim's m*rder, too...

Mia: I don't have any proof.

DH: What a joke.

DH: Are you stupid?

J: It seems that we've come to the end.

J: The witness's behavior does raise certain suspicions,

J: but I'm forced to reject the defense's assertions.

DH: Of course you are.

Mia: Is this it? Is it really over?

DA: This is why you're still just a kitten.

DA: A lawyer is someone who smiles no matter how bad it gets.

DA: Get a load of that thousand-watt smile. Electrifying, isn't it?

DA: That means things are really bad for our mischievous angel, too.

Mia: But we don't have any evidence.

DA: Without evidence, the trial is over?

DA: Who decided that?

Mia: Mr. Armando?

DA: You can make your own rules.

DA: Even if there's no evidence, there's still testimony.

DA: Dahlia Hawthorne k*lled her sister Valerie,hid her body in the trunk,

DA: disguised herself as her,

DA: and met Fawles on Dusky Bridge.

DA: That's what you think, right?

Mia: Yes, that's right.

DA: In that case, there's one person who can testify about the m*rder.

TF: M-Me?

Mia: Mr. Fawles! You've heard everything, yes?

Mia: I don't know what she said to you five years ago,

Mia: but Dahlia Hawthorne is very much alive.

Mia: And you were used!

Mia: For million!

TF: That's not true.

ME: If the defense can't present any evidence,

ME: continuing this trial is meaningless.

Mia: Please wait!

Mia: Mr. Fawles! This is our final chance!

Mia: Who did you meet on Dusky Bridge two days ago?

Mia: Was it Valerie or Dahlia?

Mia: Testify to the court!

DH: Terry...

TF: Dahlia?

DH: Yes, yours truly.

TF: Dahlia... Did you betray me?

DH: I shouldn't need to say it. You should already know.

DH: My life is in your hands right now.

TF: Dahlia...

Mia: Mr. Fawles.

TF: Miss Lawyer.

Mia: Y-Yes?

TF: My throat dry.

TF: Need water.

DA: Fine. I'll treat you to some coffee.

DA: It matches the words you're about to say...

DA: Darker and bitterer than Hell itself.

DA: You know how to drink a cuppa, all right.

J: Then, defendant, make the final testimony.

TF: That day, PM, I stopped the car before Dusky Bridge.

TF: She wasn't there.

TF: So I waited on bridge.

TF: Finally, one woman came.

TF: That was...

TF: That was Valerie!

Mia: Mr. Fawles!

TF: Valerie Hawthorne!

TF: Not Dahlia!

Mia: You're still covering for her?!

Mia: She saw you as nothing more than...

ME: That's far enough.

ME: It seems the defense's claims were baseless after all.

Mia: Are you really okay with this?

Mia: You were sentenced to death, and you'll be found guilty again!

DA: Dahlia Hawthorne has placed a curse on him.

DA: He'll probably go to his grave still believing in her.

Mia: No...

DA: But you still have to press him for the truth.

DA: That's the curse of being a defense lawyer.

Mia: According to the victim's memo,

Mia: you were to meet at : PM.

Mia: You arrived awfully early.

Mia: You waited on the bridge for minutes?

Mia: Mr. Fawles?

TF: I got there around PM.

TF: But I had somewhere to go. A special place.

Mia: A special place?

TF: It's an old temple about minutes from the bridge.

TF: There, five years ago,

TF: me and Dahlia promised each other...

TF: We swore we wouldn't betray each other, and to believe in each other until the end.

TF: She brought a memento to represent our vow.

Mia: A memento?

TF: Five years ago, I hid it under base of tree there.

TF: It's a special memory for me.

TF: So I went there to get it.

Mia: Your Honor, you heard what my client said.

Mia: He left his car unattended and walked away for minutes.

Mia: Meaning Dahlia Hawthorne could've m*rder*d the victim, who arrived early,

Mia: and hidden her body in the trunk of the car.

J: Th-That's true!

ME: You intend to continue this farce?

Mia: Isn't that right, Mr. Fawles?

Mia: What's wrong?

Mia: Mr. Fawles?!

TF: That's enough.

ME: D-Defendant!

DA: Don't tell me...

TF: We promised to trust each other until death five years ago.

TF: If we can't trust each other no more, we drink bottle.

Mia: Mr. Fawles?!

ME: No!

ME: Your Honor! We need a recess!

J: Bailiffs, call the medics at once!

TF: I stupid... Couldn't keep promise.

Mia: No! We are so close!

Mia: So close to proving your innocence!

Mia: Please...

TF: If I'm innocent, I don't... trust... self.

TF: Maybe k*ll sweet Dahlia again.

TF: Thanks for the coffee.

Mia: M-Mr. Fawles?

Mia: Mr. Fawles?!

Mia: No! Open your eyes!

Mia: Mr. Fawles...

Mia: Mr. Fawles!

DA: Unforgivable...

DA: The truth was right there in front of us.

DA: We were just too soft to grasp it.

Mia: It's my fault!

Mia: It's all my fault that Mr. Fawles...

Mia: I knew it! I knew I wasn't cut out for this!

DA: Mia...

DA: Don't you get it? You can't cry yet.

DA: The only time a man can cry is...

DA: when it's all over.

Mia: M-Mr. Armando?

PW: And so ended Mia's first trial.

PW: It left no winners or losers in its wake,

PW: only a deep wound in the hearts of a young attorney and prosecutor.

PW: A year after this trial,

PW: I got wrapped up in another trial.

PW: The fateful trial that brought me and Mia together.

PW: Only after that did Dahlia Hawthorne get punished for her crimes.

PW: The verdict handed down to her was "Guilty."

PW: And in that moment, she had a perfect, angelic smile on her face.

PW: It was finally all over.

PW: At least, that's what I thought at the time.

PW: Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.

PW: Five years later, I would come to learn just how wrong I was.

Sign: Ace Attorney

Sign: Season

PW: Objection!

PW: To help Maya train,

PW: we take a trip to a spiritual retreat called Hazakura Temple.

PW: There, we met a nun named Iris,

PW: who looks just like Dahlia Hawthorne, a person I could never forget!

PW: There has to be a huge secret hidden here.

PW: The curtain rises on the series's biggest case!

PW: Find the contradictions!

PW: Reach out to the truth!

Next_Episode,Sign: Next Episode

Northward__Turna,Sign: Bridge to the Turnabout — st Trial

PW: Next time: "Bridge to the Turnabout — st Trial"!

PW: Take that!