Turnabout Goodbyes

Episode 4: Turnabout Goodbyes is the fourth episode of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. It is the last playable episode in the original Gyakuten Saiban and the penultimate episode in the Nintendo DS remake, 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 remaining man, Miles Edgeworth, looked at the pistol in shock.

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. Fey complained that the pressure in the shower is low, to which Wright suggested that Fey 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.

"Dick Gumshoe"

- And... do me a favor! Stand by Mr. Edgeworth! He needs help, and you're the ones to help him!

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 informed 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.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- I didn't want you to find out about it. That is why I refused your offer to defend me. I'm sorry if it sounded like I thought you weren't up to the job. I just wanted to keep you away from DL-6.

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 Edgeworth, the prosecutor refused to talk. Edgeworth also mentioned that, by the statute of limitations law, the DL-6 Incident would be closed forever 15 years after it happened: in three days.

Miles asserted that he did not kill Robert Hammond, and he asked Wright to defend him, which Wright accepted.

"Phoenix Wright"

- ...? Huh? Where's Edgeworth? "Maya Fey"

- ... There He's on the floor in a ball, shivering. I guess he doesn't do so well with earthquakes. "Phoenix Wright"

- (I've heard of running, but curling up in a ball?)

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 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. Despite von Karma's objection, Hart showed the court this new version. 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. The judge asked who had shot, if it wasn't Edgeworth. Remembering what Edgeworth told him during the recess, Wright suggested it could have been the victim. von Karma objected: the pistol was fired one meter away from the body, so it couldn't have been suicide. Therefore, the issue remained that only Edgeworth could have shot Hammond in the boat. The court was adjourned.

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 went out of the shack. When he tried to get back, he discovered the shack was locked from the inside.

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

Wright went down to the detention center to talk with Edgeworth, who told a little about his past. The trial of Yanni Yogi had caused him to hate defense attorneys. von Karma had later taken him in and taught him everything that he knew now about prosecuting. Determined to take Edgeworth off of the hook, Wright went to the Gourd Lake.

At the entrance, Wright met Gumshoe, who thanked him for finding the real culprit. Gourd Lake Woods was apparently off limits, since the park ranger found out that Hart was camping there. Gumshoe went off to search for the caretaker, who was still missing. On his way to the caretaker's shack, Wright met Marvin Grossberg, who offered him any help that he might want then left.

Entering the shack, Wright saw Polly, but no caretaker. Fey asked Polly for the number to the caretaker's safe, which she did. Inside was an unsigned letter, giving instructions identical to what Wright had speculated in court: how to "get revenge on the two men who ruined your life", killing Hammond and framing Edgeworth, in detail. Wright showed the letter to Edgeworth, who knew now that the caretaker had to be Yanni Yogi. Wright asked why, and Edgeworth revealed his nightmare in detail.

In the dream, in the elevator with his father, Yogi panics and attacks Gregory, and his pistol escapes from its holster. Miles then throws the gun at Yogi to get him to leave his father alone. Just before he passes out, the gun goes off, and Miles hears a hideous scream: Miles kills his father.

Wright didn't believe that Edgeworth really killed his father, and he wondered if there was someone else who knew about the DL-6 Incident. Wright told Grossberg about the dream, to which Grossberg replied that it was possible that the dream was true. If Yogi wanted revenge on Edgeworth, there was no other explanation. Gregory Edgeworth also could have lied to protect his son.

Wright then showed the letter to Grossberg. Grossberg described Hammond as being a skilled defense attorney, but only winning for his own sake. When Yogi was found innocent, his life was ruined, so he had a motive to kill Hammond. Grossberg then recognized the handwriting on the letter, but he couldn't remember whose it was. Wright suggested that it could be von Karma's, and Grossberg agreed.

Wright asked why von Karma would want to frame Edgeworth. Grossberg replied that it could be to take revenge on Gregory Edgeworth by hurting his son. Gregory Edgeworth had lost against von Karma, but left him with the only penalty in his entire career. After that, von Karma had taken a six-month vacation, the only one that he had ever taken. Grossberg said that there were files about DL-6 in the Records Room, so Wright should go there to prepare himself for the trial.

Arriving at the Criminal Affairs Department, Wright asked for permission to visit the Records Room once more. The Chief replied that he could only be there while von Karma also was, since von Karma was already there. Entering the room, Wright noticed that a drawer was opened; it was labeled "Unsolved Cases: Evidence", and all the evidence related to the DL-6 was removed. von Karma then showed himself to Wright and Fey.

Talking to him, Wright couldn't discover why he had taken under his wing the son of the only defense attorney who had him a penalty, but he discovered that von Karma would bring the DL-6 Incident to court and that he was sure that Edgeworth would confess his guilt. Wright showed von Karma the letter, who replied that he had told Yogi to burn it after reading, confirming that it was von Karma who had sent it. von Karma then asked for it back, but Wright refused. That was when von Karma drew out his stun gun. Fey jumped on him to buy Wright time, but this proved futile as von Karma rendered them both unconscious.

By the time Wright and Maya woke up, von Karma had left with the letter and all of the DL-6 evidence. Fey was losing her self-esteem because she had again failed to help and couldn't even call Mia, but Wright noticed something in Fey's hand. Fey had managed to grab a piece of evidence from von Karma: the bullet that killed Gregory Edgeworth. Hoping that this single bit of evidence would be helpful, Wright and Fey left the Records Room and prepared for the final battle.

Trial
At the defendant lobby, Gumshoe told Wright that the police had found the caretaker, and that he was going to testify. When the trial began, von Karma was strangely cooperative of the process, answering the judge's questions and even telling Wright to cross-examine the witness. The caretaker testified that he figured that he had nothing to do with the incident, and he had gone to buy food for Polly. Wright ignored this excuse and insisted that he did have something to do with the case.

Wright declared that the caretaker was Yanni Yogi and told the judge to check for the caretaker's fingerprints and compare them with Yogi's. However, von Karma replied that the caretaker had worked on a chemical plant before and had burned his fingerprints on a chemical accident. Wright was astonished that Yogi would burn his fingerprints off to hide his identity. Intending to pour salt on the wound, von Karma joked, "Perhaps you'd like to cross-examine the parrot for a little comic relief, hmm?" Wright suddenly realized that this was exactly what he had to do to save his case, and he accepted von Karma's "challenge", countering the prosecutor's immediate objection by invoking his right to accept any suggestion made by the prosecution.

Wright asked Fey to talk to the parrot. When they asked the parrot if they had forgotten something, the parrot didn't answer; von Karma had probably retrained the parrot. Trying to get some lead, they asked the parrot about her name and about the safe number. Wright connected Polly's name to that of Yogi's fiancée, Polly Jenkins, and connected the safe number, 1228, to the date of the DL-6 Incident, December 28. Von Karma tried to refute these as coincidences, but the judge saw them as reflecting a pattern, beginning to be convinced of Wright's accusation.

The judge called Yogi again to the stand, and the caretaker gave in. He revealed his real self and confessed to killing Hammond for revenge, saying that he had achieved everything that he wanted to achieve before being taken away. When Edgeworth was called to the stand and given a "not guilty" verdict, however, Edgeworth suddenly objected. To Wright's horror, he then admitted to killing his father in the DL-6 Incident.

A recess was called to set up the DL-6 trial. Edgeworth immediately apologized to Wright in the defendant lobby for blowing all of the latter's efforts. Fey and Gumshoe lamented what had happened, but then Fey noticed that Wright was looking over the court record again. Wright was preparing his defense for the DL-6 trial; he didn't believe Edgeworth's dream, and he was determined to find out what had really happened in the elevator.

DL-6 trial
The trial resumed and Edgeworth gave his testimony:

"Miles Edgeworth"

- That day, I had gone to the courtroom to observe one of my father's trials.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- As we went to leave, an earthquake struck, trapping us in the elevator.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- My father and Mr. Yogi lost their composure, and began to argue.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- Just then, something heavy fell at my feet.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- I picked it up, and threw it at Mr. Yogi. I wanted them to stop fighting.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- A moment later, there was a single gunshot, then a scream.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- It was a terrible scream. I remember it to this day.

"Miles Edgeworth"

- That's all.

For the cross-examination, Wright revealed what he found wrong with Edgeworth's story. Edgeworth had claimed that only a single gunshot was fired; however, in addition to Gregory's wound, there was a crack in the elevator window that looked like a bullet had been fired through, and the gun had been fired twice. This indicated that another person had been involved in the incident: the real killer. Von Karma responded that there was no way to prove any statement about the cracked window or why the gun had been fired twice; neither necessarily had anything to do with the incident. Furthermore, only a single bullet had been found on the scene. Wright's only lead was completely crushed; he realized that his hunch had been too simple for a 15-year cold case, and he wondered whether he had been wrong this whole time.

The judge and von Karma reminded the court that the statute of limitations on DL-6 would run out today, so judgment had to be made right then, right there. As Wright desperately tried to figure out what to do, he thought that he heard Mia's voice, urging him on. To make Wright's case work, the second bullet had to exist; Wright conjectured that the killer had taken it. It was obvious that Wright was grasping, but the judge was forced to consider Wright's new train of thought. Egged on further by the voice, Wright concluded that, although the killer had no need to take the second bullet, he nevertheless had to take it. He then suggested that Miles had, in fact, shot the killer, who had been standing outside the elevator.

Fey then remembered that von Karma had taken a vacation for no apparent reason after the DL-6 Incident. Wright was now shaking, but he knew that he had to reveal his target: von Karma himself. Von Karma demanded proof that he was shot; Wright knew that the prosecutor wouldn't leave a paper trail by removing the bullet, so he boldly pointed to Gumshoe's metal detector. Despite von Karma's attempts to refuse a metal detector scan and delay the trial, it was too late; Wright repeated that DL-6 had to end right then, right there. The metal detector reacted to the bullet in von Karma's right shoulder.

Von Karma then made his final, most desperate claim, that he was shot long before DL-6. However, Wright then presented the bullet from Gregory's heart that Fey had managed to grab from von Karma the previous day. This bullet's ballistic markings could be compared to those on the bullet inside von Karma's shoulder, solving the DL-6 mystery once and for all. Defeated, von Karma uttered a terrible scream, which Edgeworth immediately recognized as the very same scream that he had heard in the elevator.

von Karma admitted that Edgeworth had accidentally fired a bullet into his shoulder while he was outside the elevator, and he had seen the unconscious bodies of Yanni, Edgeworth, and Gregory through the window. He had gone into the elevator, taken Yanni's pistol and shot Gregory as revenge for soiling his perfect record with the only penalty he received in his career. Edgeworth was found "not guilty" again.

"Maya Fey"

- That's how you say "thank you"!

"Miles Edgeworth"

- Mmm. I... I see. '*ahem*' Whooooooooooooop! ... I... I feel foolish.

"Maya Fey"

- Don't worry. Take it a little at a time. You'll get used to it.

"Phoenix Wright"

- (It's been fifteen years since I've seen Edgeworth this... unguarded.)

Afterword, Edgeworth thanked Wright and Hart took a photo of the group. She would later state that a ghost had appeared alongside the group, Mia Fey.

Aftermath
The next day, Wright woke up to find a note from Fey. She was leaving to complete her spiritual training. Finding Fey at the train station to head home, Wright tried to reassure her, but she said that she didn't do anything helpful. However, Wright showed Fey the bullet that she had held at the Records Room, which had allowed him to win the case. Now happy, Fey boarded the train with tears in her eyes, promising to return a better medium. "Phoenix Wright"

- And so my story ends. Time to turn a new page... and say goodbye to the novice defense attorney that I once was... Now, a new story begins... With the same old crazy cast of characters...



Note

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

Other languages

 * Italian - Ombre dal Passato (lit. Shadows from the Past).
 * Spanish - El caso del Adios (lit. The Turnabout of Godbyes