Turnabout Goodbyes

Episode 4: Turnabout Goodbyes (which in the Italian language version is "Ombre dal Passato", which translates as "Shadows from the Past") is the fourth episode of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. It is the last playable episode in the original Gyakuten Saiban and the penultimate Case in the DS version, followed by Rise from the Ashes.

Central to the episode is the 15-year-old unsolved DL-6 Incident, in which Gregory Edgeworth was murdered. The episode also features Miles Edgeworth's mentor, Manfred von Karma, as the prosecutor.

This episode also features a rudimentary precursor to the tool-assisted investigations in Farewell, My Turnabout and Bridge to the Turnabout; Wright uses a police dog, a fishing pole and a metal detector to examine the area around a boat rental shop.

Prologue
Two men stood in a boat at Gourd Lake. One of them said that after 15 years of waiting, he would finally have his revenge. He brought out a pistol and fired it, bidding the other man a "Merry Christmas". One of the men then fell into the lake. The camera then zoomed on the apparent murderer who was holding a pistol, Miles Edgeworth.

Investigation
Maya Fey asked Phoenix Wright whether he knew of any good waterfalls for her spiritual training, to which he answered that he knew nothing about waterfalls. He mentioned that Gourd Lake was close by; Fey was disappointed, but Wright suggested that she take a cold shower, which she did. Maya complained that the pressure in the shower is low, to which Wright suggested that Maya call the Fire Department and have them spray her with a hose.

In the news, locals had apparently spotted a creature named "Gourdy," similar to the Loch Ness Monster. Another story appeared: murder at Gourd Lake. To Wright's surprise, the suspect apprehended for the murder was Miles Edgeworth.

Wright and Fey visited Edgeworth in the Detention Center to find him in a bad mood. He refused to let Wright represent him in court, and left without saying another word.

Wright and Fey arrived at Gourd Lake to find Detective Gumshoe, who was looking for some evidence to prove Edgeworth's innocence to no avail. He informs Wright that every other police officer strongly believed Edgeworth was the murderer. Then, Gumshoe was called into a meeting and he gave Wright directions to the precinct where he works; he also gave them permission to investigate the crime scene.

In the Gourd Lake woods, Fey found a party popper and popped it, which triggered a camera out in the woods, angering the owner, Lotta Hart. After calming down, Hart introduced herself as a college student and claimed to have come out to take pictures of falling stars. Wright asked her to look for any shots her camera took during the murder the previous night.

In the meantime, Wright and Fey went to the police station, where Gumshoe gave them the autopsy report for the murder. Fey, recognizing the victim revealed that he was an attorney working at Marvin Grossberg's law firm.

Returning to the woods, Hart retrieved a photo of the men on the boat, and she also claimed to have seen the murder. She went off to the police while Wright and Fey ran into Larry Butz. During the ensuing discussion, Butz revealed that he, Wright, and Edgeworth went to the same school when they were children. They also discussed Gourdy and the circumstances behind the sighting.

At Grossberg Law Offices, Wright and Fey told Grossberg about the murder. When they showed him the victim's photo, he recognized the man as Robert Hammond, the defense lawyer in the infamous DL-6 Incident, in which the police consulted Misty Fey to channel the victim, Miles Edgeworth's father Gregory Edgeworth; the man he implicated was found innocent, ruining Misty's reputation. Grossberg gave Wright a picture of Misty Fey to motivate Miles into talking.

At the Detention Center, Wright showed Edgeworth the photo. Edgeworth, having nothing further to hide, explained everything he knew about DL-6. He was nine years old at the time; he believed he saw his own father shot right in front of him. One suspect was arrested; the police concluded that this suspect was the only person who could have done it. If the suspect were alive now, he would have been over 50 years old.

When asked about his father, who was a famous defense attorney and a role model for Miles, Miles refused to talk.

Miles asserted that he did not kill Robert Hammond, and he asked Wright to defend him, which Wright accepted. An earthquake struck moments later, leaving Miles curled up in a ball in fear.

At the precinct, Gumshoe yelled at Wright for bringing Lotta Hart; she had a photo of the shooting, and she could enlarge the photo as well. Wright showed Gumshoe Edgeworth's request; Gumshoe informed him that Edgeworth was afraid of earthquakes, a fear he never had in school.

Trial
Phoenix Wright's opponent was Manfred von Karma, Edgeworth's mentor, who had never lost a single case in his 40-year career. Von Karma quickly assumed control over the judge and the courtroom. First on the stand was Detective Gumshoe, who testified that Edgeworth was arrested on the spot. He presented the bullet from Hammond's body and the murder weapon: a pistol with fingerprints from the defendant's right hand. The ballistic markings on the bullet matched that of the pistol.

After a short recess, Lotta Hart took the stand and testified that on the night of the murder, she saw two men on a boat. The cross-examination failed to find anything advantageous to the defense, as von Karma deemed the defense's questions as irrelevant, going so far as to sustain his own objections. Von Karma warned that any further pointless outbursts from the defense would get the offender held in contempt of court, but Maya Fey questioned the integrity of the testimony, forcing Hart to reveal that she clearly saw Edgeworth. She was promptly arrested. In addition, Wright was able to prove that Hart could not have seen Edgeworth clearly because her photo did not show the men on the boat clearly.

It was eventually revealed that Hart had actually been looking out for Gourdy, and that when she had heard a "bang", she had thought it might have been the monster, so she did not really see the boat at all. She enlarged the photograph. While it did not reveal the shooter, it did reveal that the shooter was holding the murder weapon in his left hand, whereas the same gun had fingerprints from Edgeworth's right hand. However, the issue remained that only Edgeworth could have shot Hammond in the boat.

Investigation
At the Detention Center, Fey told Wright that she knew she had to save the trial, hence her outburst. She assured that as soon as the paperwork is done, she would be free to go. However, her spiritual powers were still weak from not training, so it was impossible to summon her sister Mia Fey for help.

At the crime scene, Wright encountered Gumshoe, who thanked him and Fey for saving Edgeworth. Gumshoe told Wright that the prosecution would bring up another witness for the next day's trial. The detective then told Wright that Edgeworth's fear of earthquakes, as well as his career as a prosecutor, started with the DL-6 Incident. He also told Wright that Edgeworth would be paying bail for Fey.

Fey rejoined Wright upon her release. They met Hart at the entrance to Gourd Lake. Hart offered to give them some valuable information in exchange for some info about Gourdy. They told Detective Gumshoe about the deal, and they borrowed his metal detector. They later used this to find an air tank located near a boat rental shop near the lake. The tank was traced back to Larry's Steel Samurai balloon, which he received from his girlfriend Kiyance. About a week before the murder, Larry had tried to fill the balloon up with the tank, but it had sent the balloon out into the lake. He had spent four days looking for it, finally finding it on the night of Robert Hammond's murder. Having found "Gourdy", Wright told Hart about it; the photo in the newspaper was taken on December 20th, the same day Larry's balloon made a big splash in Gourd Lake. A depressed Hart finally revealed that von Karma's next witness was the caretaker of the boat rental shop.

At the rental shop, Wright and Fey met the old caretaker, who seemed to be under the delusion that they were his kids Keith and Meg. He also seemed to believe that he was running a pasta shop called the Wet Noodle, and his sole companion was a parrot named Polly. After learning almost nothing from the man, Fey asked Polly, "Have we forgotten something?" Polly, to Fey's shock, responded, "Don't forget DL-6!"

Wright and Fey informed Gumshoe of this development; the old boat rental caretaker might have been connected with the DL-6 Incident. Gumshoe gave them special permission to go into the records room to learn more about DL-6.

On December 28, 2001, an earthquake had struck, leaving an elevator in the District Court inoperable for five hours. Over time, the elevator's three passengers had succumbed to oxygen deprivation. The murder victim was Gregory Edgeworth, and the pistol that had killed him had been fired twice. The suspect had been a bailiff named Yanni Yogi, but he had been acquitted due to the brain damage he had allegedly received after passing out.

Trial
Von Karma called the old boat caretaker to the stand. The old man claimed he could not remember his name or his identity from the past. In his testimony, the caretaker claimed to have seen a boat after hearing a gunshot. After hearing the gunshot, he had seen a man walking by him near the shop. He also claimed that the fog was thick, but that he had seen his face nonetheless. When Wright questioned this statement, the caretaker claimed that the man was the defendant, and that he was certain of this. Manfred von Karma had lured the defense into a trap. Wright's objections were overruled, and Edgeworth was declared guilty. Just then, Larry Butz burst in, demanding to testify about what he had witnessed on the night of the murder. Despite von Karma's protests, the request was granted with a short recess.

During the recess, Edgeworth declared that Butz might be their one chance to turn the case around, as previously Von Karma had only run perfect trials: perfectly complete evidence with perfectly prepared witnesses. However, he had not factored Butz into his "perfect" case. Wright pushed through Butz' testimony. Butz claimed that he only heard a single gunshot, which contradicted Hart's testimony that there were two gunshots on the lake that night. Butz revealed he was listening to his radio at the time; when asked about it, he remembered that the DJ was saying, "Hey! It's almost Christmas!" when he heard the gunshot.

Wright took this and ran with it. Presenting a photo of the lake that Lotta's camera had taken at 11:50 p.m., Wright explained that the camera was set up to respond to loud noises. Going further, the murder weapon, the pistol, had been fired three times. Using this evidence, Wright presented his theory: There was actually two shootings at Gourd Lake Park, and the people on the boat were Edgeworth and the murderer. The murderer invited Hammond first, and shot him at the boat shop, which is where Butz would have been once he returned the boat when he heard the gunshot before midnight. He then stole Hammond's coat and met Edgeworth on a boat. He drew the pistol and shot twice in order to create a witness. He then dropped the pistol, jumped off the boat, swam back to shore, put Hammond's coat back on his body, and threw him into the lake.

When questioned who the murderer was, Wright revealed he didn't know, because he didn't say his name. He claimed that the boat shop caretaker that testified earlier was the murderer. The judge quickly ordered that the boat shop caretaker be brought back in. In the meantime, Edgeworth was questioned about Wright's theory. Edgeworth confirmed that he was invited to the Gourd Lake Park boat shop with a letter signed by Robert Hammond. However, he wouldn't say what the "important thing" Hammond wanted to discuss was. The Bailiff suddenly interrupted the trial, revealing that the boat shop caretaker had fled the court. The judge suspended the trial for another day, and a search warrant was issued for the caretaker. Out of the court, Edgeworth told Wright about a "nightmare" he kept having... a memory... of murder.

Investigation
Back at the Wright & Co office, Phoenix and Maya were starting to discuss the way the trial had just gone when Larry swanned in, expecting adoration for his role in "saving" the trial. It was at this moment that Phoenix finally felt ready to reveal the reasons behind his becoming an attorney and his unrelenting faith in both Larry and Edgeworth: the class trial from 15 previous, wherein both classmates stood up for him when no-one else would.

Prologue note
Considering what had actually happened during the fake murder, the camera angle in the opening scene is from the perspective opposite of that of Lotta Hart.