Terry Fawles


 * "Terry" redirects here. You may be looking for Dick Gumshoe, who is called Terry, "the kid next door", by Yanni Yogi.

Terry Fawles was Mia Fey's very first client, as well as the very first defendant to be prosecuted by Miles Edgeworth.

Seduction
Five years prior to his death, Terry Fawles met, and was seduced by, 14-year-old Dahlia Hawthorne. They buried a vial of poison under a tree near Hazakura Temple and vowed to each other that whoever lost faith in the other would drink the poison.

Fake kidnapping plot and arrest
One day, they planned a fake kidnapping with him and her older stepsister, Detective Valerie Hawthorne. They stole a raw diamond from the Hawthornes' father and held Dahlia for ransom, which the three planned to split between each other. They met at Dusky Bridge. However, the Hawthorne sisters betrayed Fawles; Valerie shot Fawles in the arm and then Dahlia jumped off the bridge and into Eagle River.

Fawles was blamed for this "murder" and sentenced to death, based on the testimony given by Valerie. For five years, Terry Fawles was in solitary confinement, wondering why Valerie had betrayed him.

Escape
Five years later, Terry escaped police custody and phoned Valerie to meet her at Dusky Bridge to ask her the reasons for her actions. He showed up at Dusky Bridge, where he met who he thought was Valerie, but who was really Dahlia in disguise; she had killed the real Valerie behind his back. Fawles went back to the temple to retrieve the vial, and then when he was leaving, he was arrested for the murder.

Trial and death
At the trial, Terry was represented by rookie attorney Mia Fey along with her co-council, Diego Armando. However, his faith in Dahlia had waned, and he drank the poison. After testifying that he had met Valerie instead of Dahlia, Fawles coughed up blood and died on the stand, leaving his lawyer with an emotional scar. Dahlia, who had testified against Fawles, managed to leave without an accusation over her head.

Name

 * "Terry Fawles" has a roughly similar pronunciation to "tears fall", or "there he falls".


 * "Fawles" is similar-sounding to "false" and it is an anagram of "flaws". This may be a reference to the "little lies" that he told during his second trial.


 * For his Japanese name, the pronunciation of "Onamida Michiru", combined with the kanji in "Michiru" makes up: "beautifully falling tears".


 * "Régis Florimet" could be a reference to the famous Fleury-Mérogis prison in France, which is the largest prison in Europe.