Turner Grey

"Turner Grey"

- What nerve, calling herself a weather girl! She's going to hear about my $1500 suit! [...] I'm sorry. I thought that before we got down to business, we could have some friendly chatter.

Turner Grey was the Grey Surgical Clinic's doctor and director. He was the murder victim in a plot to usurp the position of the Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique.

Malpractice incident
In 2016, there was a malpractice incident at the Grey Surgical Clinic in which 14 in-patients died. Grey blamed a nurse, Mimi Miney, for the deaths. He claimed that she had mixed up the medications, which had resulted in the deaths.

On May 24th, Mimi and her sister Ini were involved in a car accident. Only Ini seemed to have come out alive, though her face had to undergo reconstructive surgery. Some believed that Grey was responsible for the accident.

Death
"Phoenix Wright"

- (This doctor needs his head examined...)

A year later, the clinic was doing badly. Fewer and fewer people were attending. In desperation, Grey asked Ini (who was studying the occult at college) about hiring a spirit medium to call Mimi's spirit, and Ini recommended Maya Fey, future Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique. He intended to make Mimi take the blame for the malpractice incident by signing a written confession. Grey also wanted Mimi to write a statement that her death was due to her own negligence and not due to him. This would be Fey's first channeling and so she agreed only to perform it if she saw Phoenix Wright again, and so Grey found Wright and brought him to Kurain Village. Two days before the channeling, Grey bought a pistol on the black market, in case the spirit proved to be violent.

Ini was actually Mimi, who had tricked her surgeons into giving her Ini's face. Because of this, Fey's channeling would fail if it proceeded, and Mimi feared that Grey would figure out the truth. To this end, with the help of Morgan Fey, she hid in the channeling room, knocked Maya out, and stabbed Grey in the chest. Although severely wounded, the damage was not enough to cause instantaneous death, and so Grey survived long enough to attempt to shoot Mimi with his pistol, but he missed. Mimi took his gun and shot him at point-blank range right in the forehead, instantly killing him.

Maya Fey was accused of the crime, but Wright was able to prove in court who the real culprit was. In the process, he also discovered that the true purpose of the murder was to remove Maya from the village, allowing Morgan's daughter Pearl to take over as Master of Kurain.

Personality
"Lotta Hart"

- I hear he's good at surgery and stuff, but his personality stinks like wet sheep.

Grey was the type of person who liked to pass the blame onto others, whether it be his clinic staff or even the TV weather girl. He didn't care that Mimi had died or even that 14 of his patients had died; he was only upset that Mimi had died before taking the blame. He came across as a rather irritable and self-important individual and Wright noted that he wouldn't like to become a patient of his.

Grey also tended to try and out-compete people. When shown Wright's badge, Grey dismissed Wright's profession, calling his own career saintly in comparison, and when Wright commented that Fey Manor seemed nice, he again dismissed it and claimed that he would have his own, far greater grand mansion someday. Lotta Hart's research into him revealed him to have been a controlling man, who would yell at nurses and patients if they didn't do what he wanted. He was also described by Mimi as a "slave driver" who was extremely tough on his staff, frequently overworking them. Nevertheless, he was a skilled surgeon and was well known to the public, although that was mainly because of his appearance in various tabloid shows due to the malpractice incident.

Name

 * "Kirisaki" (霧崎) comes from the Japanese verb "kirisaku", which means "to cut open".


 * "Grey" may be a reference to the human anatomy textbook Gray's Anatomy or to the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, the name of which is an amalgam of the name of the main character (Meredith Grey) and the aforementioned medical textbook.


 * "Turner Grey" may be a play on "turning grey" which is certainly what his hair is doing, possibly due to the stress caused by his job. It could also be a play on "turn her grey", which could be a reference to the amount of stress he caused to Mimi, resulting in the death of several patients. Alternatively, his name could also be a reference to Grey Turner's sign, a type of bruising around the torso that can predict a severe attack of acute pancreatitis. This bruising is named after the British surgeon George Grey Turner.


 * "Paul Afforme" is a play on the French phrase "j'ai pas la forme", which means "I'm not doing so well" or "I'm sick".

Development

 * There has been some minor controversy involving Grey, regarding his in-game sprites and art (see above) in that, when he lifts his glasses, he uses his middle finger. Showing the middle finger is not insulting in Japan and the gesture was overlooked in the English localization.


 * The circumstances of his murder are similar to another case that involved a car accident, the murder weapons being a knife and a gun, and the victim being a doctor. Both cases also the second ones in their respective games.