02x21 - Bridge to the Turnabout – 5th Trial

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PW: At Hazakura Temple, a mountain training retreat,

PW: picture book author Elise Deauxnimwas m*rder*d.

PW: The first day of the trial ended with big questions yet to be answered.

PW: There were shocking facts everywhere in the incident.

PW: The real crime scene was the Inner Temple,not the main Hazakura Temple.

PW: The victim, Elise, was Misty Fey, Maya's missing mother.

PW: Iris's twin sister was ex*cuted last month.

PW: It was Dahlia Hawthorne, of all people.

PW: And then I hit upon the terrifying truth.

PW: All of this was carried out with the help of a blissfully ignorant Pearls,

PW: and it was all part of a grand plot by Morgan Fey.

PW: Her objective was to wipe out the main bloodline of the Kurain school.

PW: We still don't know if Maya is okay.

PW: Please be all right!

OP Card: Ace Attorney

OP Card: Ace Attorney

OP Card: Season

Sign: February — : AMDistrict Courthouse — Defendant Lobby No.

Pearl: I see...

Title: Bridge to the Turnabout — th Trial

Pearl: Mystic Maya is still trapped in there?

PW: Yeah.

PW: Iris is trying to disable the trick locks for us.

ME: If you're talking about Sister Iris,

ME: she's here at the courthouse now.

PW: Edgeworth...

ME: To discuss her testimony with the prosecution.

PW: She's testifying?

Pearl: Um...

Pearl: But what about Mystic Maya?

ME: Don't worry.

ME: Someone else is working onthe locks while she's here.

PW: Who?

ME: Franziska von Karma.

ME: She's been at it without sleep since last night, with the help of the head nun.

PW: Then, today's trial...

ME: ...will be led by that man.

ME: "Godot," was it?

PW: Prosecutor Godot!

ME: Well, I leave the rest in your capable hands,

ME: partner.

PW: Sure thing.

PW: I got this.

PW: The final showdown is about to begin.

PW: Watch me, Maya!

Sign: February — : AMDistrict Courthouse — Courtroom No.

J: Court is now back in session for the trial of Sister Iris.

PW: Uh...

PW: Why are you here?

J: My little brother fainted with ascorching fever, so I'm standing in for him.

PW: They were brothers?

J: Your opening statement, Prosecutor Godot.

God: People's hearts change with the shifting of the tides.

God: In this crazy world,

God: there is only one constant...

God: The bitter darkness that lies at the bottom of this mug.

PW: What are you getting at?

God: I'm saying the prosecution's plan has changed.

God: During the last trial,

God: the accused refused to admit her role in the crime.

God: But she has had a change of heart.

God: Sister Iris has a confessionto make, it seems.

PW: "Confession"?

PW: Why didn't you talk to me about this, Iris?

God: Upon meeting a pretty lady, ask for her name and profession.

God: That's one of my rules.

Iris: My name is Iris.

Iris: I am but a simple nun undergoing training at Hazakura Temple.

PW: Iris, what do you need to confess?

Iris: I'm so sorry.

Iris: I can't continue lying to everyone anymore.

Iris: I did play a part in this terrible incident.

J: Are... Are you actually confessing?

J: Are you saying that you were the one who m*rder*d Elise Deauxnim?

Iris: No, Your Honor, but I dealt with the cover up.

PW: Cover up?

Iris: I took her lifeless shell to the Hazakura Temple's courtyard,

Iris: where I desecrated it.

J: That was your doing?

Iris: Yes.

Iris: I did it to cover for her.

PW: Wait a second!

PW: Who do you mean by "her"?

Iris: Even if it meant dirtying my own hands, I had to protect her...

Iris: The daughter of the Master ofthe Kurain School of Channeling,

Iris: Mystic Maya Fey.

Sign: Objection!

PW: Objection!

PW: That's ridiculous! Maya could never...

J: Either way,

J: we must hear the defendant out first.

Sign: Witness Testimony

Iris: I went to the Inner Temple that night,

Iris: took over for Sister Bikini,

Iris: and assisted Mystic Maya with her training.

PW: But didn't you testify that you never went to the Inner Temple that night?

Iris: Well, I was lying to protect her.

Iris: When Maya passed through the garden after getting ready for her training,

Iris: Elise suddenly showed up and started attacking her with her staff!

Iris: While Maya was still stumbling,

Iris: Elise cast aside her staff and brought out a dagger from her robe.

Iris: Maya tried desperately to defend herself and stole the weapon.

Iris: It was only in self-defense!

Iris: Elise tried to k*ll Maya!

Iris: That's why I tried my best to protect her!

God: If you moved the body to Hazakura Temple,

God: Maya Fey wouldn't be suspected.

God: Not a bad idea.

PW: Iris...

PW: I still don't know why you're doing this,

PW: but your testimony has a clear contradiction.

PW: Elise couldn't have cast this staff aside.

PW: This thing has a gimmick.

J: I-Isn't that...

J: Isn't that blood?!

J: Whose blood is it?!

PW: It's being analyzed as we speak.

PW: But it doesn't make sense that she'd throw this sword away and use a smaller one.

PW: In the first place, Elise would never try to m*rder Maya Fey!

God: How can you be so sure?

PW: Because the victim's real name was not "Elise Deauxnim."

PW: Her real name was Misty Fey.

J: Fey?

Iris: N-No...

PW: Misty Fey was the Master of the Kurain, who'd been missing for years.

PW: She was also Maya Fey's mother!

J: Are you serious?!

Iris: It can't be...

Pearl: M... Mystic Misty?!

PW: Why would she try to k*ll her daughter, who she hadn't seen in years?

PW: What reason could she possibly have had?!

J: Order! Order in the court!

God: Well...

God: I'm sure it's a long story.

God: When we investigatedthe Inner Temple's garden again,

God: we discovered this little beauty that backs up the testimony.

God: There's a bloodstain on its tip.

God: We're still waiting on forensicsfor this one, too.

J: Are you saying that was the m*rder weapon?

God: That is the prosecution's belief.

J: This photo of the crime scene seems odd.

J: Why was the snow around the lantern cleared out?

J: Oh? There's something written on the lantern.

ioyaM,Sign: ayaM

J: I-Is that... a m-message written in blood?!

Mayoi,Sign: Maya

J: It says "Maya" backwards!

Iris: That's right!

Iris: After Elise was stabbed,

Iris: she reached out behind her and wrote her k*ller's name

Iris: in her own blood!

PW: Crap! I forgot about that!

Sign: Hold it!

God: Hold it!

God: Hang on just a minute.

God: What are you all talking about?

PW: What do you mean? We're talking about that message written in blood.

God: Nonsense.

God: Are you saying there's something written on the lantern?

PW: Could it be...

PW: He can't see it?

J: Anyway, this is a vital clue.

J: What do you say?

J: Prosecutor Godot?

God: R-Right...

God: Let's move on, witness.

PW: Is Prosecutor Godot panicking?

Iris: After it happened,

Iris: I thought it was my duty to protectthe future Master of the Kurain School.

Iris: And so, we decided that I would move the body using the snowmobile.

God: Yeah.

God: There were clear snowmobile tracks from the bridge to Hazakura Temple.

PW: Clear tracks from Dusky Bridge...

Iris: That reminds me. When I carried the body to the bridge,

Iris: the snow had already stopped.

PW: "The snow had already stopped"?

PW: Are you absolutely certain?

Iris: Huh? Y-Yes, I remember it clearly.

PW: Objection!

PW: That just isn't true.

PW: That night, the snow stopped falling at : PM.

PW: Five minutes before it did, something crazy happened.

Iris: What do you mean?

God: Oh, right...

PW: It appears that you are unaware

PW: of the lightning strike that hit Dusky Bridge.

Iris: L-Lightning strike?

PW: You couldn't have moved the body across!

PW: Because the bridge was already on fire!

PW: In other words, witness, your testimony...

PW: is a complete and utter lie!

PW: Iris is trying to frame Maya.

PW: But why?!

J: Witness!

J: Lying under oath will bring a contempt of court charge!

God: The snow stopped five minutes after the lightning strike?

God: How laughable.

God: Weather in the mountains is as fickle as a maiden's heart.

God: It changes unpredictably all the time.

Iris: Right!

Iris: It's just like a maiden's heart!

PW: You can't be serious.

God: Listen up.

God: That night, the victim's body was moved to Hazakura Temple.

God: That fact remains.

God: Can you provide a better explanation for it?

Iris: Yeah, yeah!

Iris: Are you saying a corpse jumped across the burning bridge?

PW: That's right.

PW: The body did cross the burning Dusky Bridge somehow.

Pearl: Nick...

J: It certainly was burned to a crisp.

J: And one of the suspension wires is gone.

PW: Is that it?

PW: Is that what happened?!

God: It seems you have no other explanation.

God: That means you have no right to call this witness a liar.

PW: Objection!

PW: "A corpse jumped across the burning bridge"?

PW: Believe it or not,it's not entirely implausible.

God: It's not entirely implausible, eh?

God: But it does seem implausible that you could back that claim up.

PW: I don't know about that.

PW: After all, there was a witness.

God: What?

PW: I'll have to bulldoze my way through this.

Tenryusai_Mathis,Sign: Laurice Deauxnim

PW: It was Laurice Deauxnim!

PW: A potential genius picture book author!

Tenryusai_Mathis,Sign: Laurice Deauxnim

J: Genius...

God: ...picture book author...

Iris: Potential?

Crowd: Who's that?

Crowd: Never heard of him.

PW: He was in a nearby shack on the night of the m*rder.

PW: And that's when he witnessed the moment in question.

God: The moment in question?

PW: This sketch is an exact drawing of what he saw.

J: Are you really doing this?

J: Are you using those scribbles to claim the victim flew through the air?

PW: Yes, Your Honor!

God: Now that you've brought it out, don't try to take it back.

PW: Of course not!

PW: The truth is hiding in this sketch!

God: Then let me ask you.

God: What are you trying to saywith those scribbles?

PW: This sketch that Laurice Deauxnim drew

PW: is a complete contradiction!

J: We know that already!

PW: No, no. That's not what I mean.

PW: Take a look at this photo.

PW: The suspension wires are below the bridge.

PW: But in this sketch,

PW: the wires appear to be above the guard wires.

J: Maybe the artist just saw it wrong?

Iris: Or perhaps he just drew it wrong.

God: Or you're wrong in the head.

PW: He drew what he saw.

PW: There has to be a reason behind this difference.

PW: According to the court records,

PW: Laurice Deauxnim was sketching "in his dreams" back then.

God: "In his dreams"?

PW: And right then,

PW: lightning shoots from the sky and sets the bridge aflame.

PW: He witnessed that moment, yes...

PW: lying on his back!

Iris: What?

PW: The scene he saw was actually upside down!

God: So that's what the sketch is supposed to look like.

PW: The victim's body wasn't flying above the bridge.

PW: It was actually swinging below!

PW: That's right!

PW: Just like a pendulum!

Sign: Objection!

God: Objection!

God: Dusky Bridge is meters long!

God: Where would you find a ropeto swing across it?

PW: It's right there.

God: What?

PW: Don't you see it?

J: Th-The snapped suspension wire?!

PW: When lightning struck the bridge,

PW: one of the suspension wires was coming loose from its anchor.

PW: The culprit tied the body to iton the spur of the moment

PW: and swung it across to the other side.

PW: They had to move the body to Hazakura Temple at all costs.

PW: But they couldn't cross a burning bridge.

PW: This was the only way they could move the body!

J: Order! Order in the court!

Iris: Mister Wright!

Iris: Do you have any proof thatthe culprit really did such a thing?

PW: Of course I do.

PW: The victim's body had bruises consistent with a fall from a two-story building.

PW: After swinging across the bridge, the body crashed into the ground.

PW: And that impact knocked the crystal sphere loose.

J: It seems the defense has proven how the body was moved.

Sign: Objection!

God: Objection!

God: Use this cold coffee to cool yourself down.

J: P-Prosecutor Godot?

God: That was a rich and bitter deduction, Trite.

God: But you forgot about one thing.

PW: What would that be?

God: If the culprit sent the body to the other side like you say,

God: then naturally, there must've been someone there to catch it.

God: An accomplice.

God: Can you tell us who received the body on the other side?

PW: Well, obviously...

PW: It can only be you, Iris.

Iris: M-Me?

Iris: The only way to transport the body from Dusky Bridge was by snowmobile.

God: Objection!

God: Were you even listening to the testimony?

God: This little cutie pie was cleaning up after Maya Fey at the Inner Temple.

God: In other words, she was the one who sent the body across.

PW: I haven't forgotten, but have you?

PW: Iris was witnessed at Hazakura Temple

PW: taking the victim's body to the courtyardand camouflaging it there!

J: This is entirely puzzling.

J: It's almost as if the defendant was in two different places at the same time.

Sign: No Objections!

PW: No objections!

J: N-No objections?

PW: Yes.

PW: There were two Irises on the night of the m*rder.

God: Two of the defendant?

PW: To be more precise, they were identical twins.

PW: Your Honor!

PW: I'm sure you remember her, too.

J: W-Wait, you are...

PW: That's right.

PW: Dahlia Hawthorne, Iris's twin sister.

God: Objection!

God: Did you forget? Dahlia Hawthorne is already dead.

PW: Yes. I hear she was ex*cuted last month.

J: M-My...

Iris: That's right!

Iris: My sister isn't in this world anymore!

PW: You're wrong there.

PW: You of all people should already understand.

PW: After all, the blood of the Kurain School of Channeling flows within that body.

J: Ch-Channeling?

PW: By the way,

PW: why didn't you mention it?

PW: That the body was moved by pendulum?

Iris: I-I mean, I really had no idea.

Iris: I didn't know anything about a pendulum.

PW: There's no way you wouldn't have known.

PW: You were the one who received the body.

PW: I've been feeling something off with today's trial.

PW: You suddenly started confessing,

PW: trying to frame Maya with your testimony...

PW: You are not Sister Iris.

PW: I never thought the day would comewhen I'd see you again,

PW: Miss Dahlia Hawthorne.

J: B-But isn't she already dead?

PW: That's right. It's notDahlia Hawthorne in the flesh.

PW: Who this witness really is...

PW: is a spirit, currently inhabiting the body of a spirit medium!

J: A-A spirit?!

PW: It's all written right here in these instructions.

___into_action__,sign: ...into action...come to, it will all be over. Channel a spirit as soon as you hear the bell for lights out and leave the rest to her. Her name is... ...is on our side, so don't worry about a thing. Here is a photo of her. Use it when you channel her. I know you can do it. After everything is over, burn this letter. You mustn't tell anyone about it. Gravely sunder the Master, roast her in the fires of Hades, and bring our vengeance to fruition.

PW: Dahlia Hawthorne was to be channeled on the night of the m*rder!

DH: That is...

PW: It was written by your mother, Morgan Fey!

J: H-How could this be?

PW: There's proof that a second Iris appeared that night.

PW: Back then, she gave me this hoodat Hazakura Temple.

PW: But...

PW: The Iris who showed upat the Inner Temple after that

PW: was wearing the hoodshe had already given away.

PW: Contradictory, don't you think?

God: Objection!

God: But she was in police custody the entire time!

God: When did she switch places with Dahlia Hawthorne?

PW: There was one small window of opportunity.

PW: Yesterday, her whereaboutswere unknown for a few minutes.

PW: It was when that earthquake happened.

God: Earthquake?

PW: Back then, she ran to the Inner Temple.

PW: And we went after her.

PW: But they had already switched places by that point in time.

J: B-But if we were to admit that spirit channeling is real,

J: there would be no need for tria—

DH: Be quiet.

DH: It's been a long time, hasn't it,

DH: Uncle?

J: I remember that demeanor!

God: Guess I'll have to ask again.

God: Upon meeting a pretty lady, ask for her name and profession.

God: That's one of my rules.

DH: Dahlia Hawthorne.

DH: Permanently retired.

DH: Long time no see,

DH: Feenie.

PW: Dahlia Hawthorne!

PW: It's time to finally close the book...

PW: Both on her and my past self!

Sign: Ace Attorney

Sign: Season

PW: Objection!

PW: To think Dahlia would show up in Iris's body...

PW: She's already dead, but her and Morgan Fey'sterrifying plot comes to light.

PW: In order to save Maya,I reach one conclusion.

PW: The trial reaches its final stages.

PW: The truth will be revealed soon.

PW: Find the contradictions!

PW: Reach out to the truth!

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

Next_Episode,Sign: Next Episode

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PW: Take that!