Turnabout Countdown (demo)

Episode 1: Turnabout Countdown is the first episode of the game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. It marks the return of defense attorney Phoenix Wright to the courtroom after his disbarment 8 years earlier. Wright must defend the schoolgirl Juniper Woods on the charge of planting a bomb that destroyed a courtroom. It also introduces Athena Cykes as Wright's co-counsel, Gaspen Payne (younger brother of Winston Payne) as the case's prosecutor, and the new "Mood Matrix" game mechanic.

The demo version of the episode was made available on the Nintendo eShop on October 1, 2013.

Prologue
A man with strange goggles smiled menacingly down at the small metal box in his hands. Wires stuck out from one side of the box, and on another side was a timer readout. The top of the box had a bright red light on it.

Suddenly, an explosion reduced a courtroom to rubble.

Lobby

 * 9:22 a.m.

It was Phoenix Wright's first time in a defendant lobby as a lawyer in a long time. He was trying to hide his nervousness while chatting with Athena Cykes, a lawyer he had recently hired, and Juniper Woods, his client. Also in the room was Apollo Justice, Wright's other employee, who had been in the courtroom when it was bombed. Although he had been injured in the incident, he insisted that he was fine. Cykes enthusiastically assured the group that Wright would win easily.

Trial

 * 9:46 a.m.

The judge remarked nostalgically on seeing Wright at the defense's bench again. The prosecutor, Gaspen Payne, immediately had a verbal row with Cykes, calling Wright "Phoenix Van Winkle", to which Cykes retorted that Payne would lose within ten minutes. Payne followed with his opening statement: During a trial in Courtroom No. 4, a time bomb, hidden inside an elephant doll named "Phony Phanty" that had been presented as evidence, had suddenly detonated. The remote trigger for the bomb had been found on the defendant. The burnt tail of the doll had been recovered, and the defendant's fingerprints had been found on it.



Payne called his first witness: Ted Tonate, a member of the bomb disposal squad. He testified that he had deactivated the bomb before it went into evidence. From the gallery, he claimed to have seen the bomb's timer reactivate. Wright pointed out that this was impossible, since the entire bomb had been hidden inside the doll. Tonate replied that he had heard the timer make a beeping sound to indicate that it had been activated.

Payne then called Woods to the stand. Cykes sensed Woods's fear as she testified about the explosion and the rubble that had fallen on her. Wright knew that he needed to borrow Cykes's ability to hear the emotions of other people. Cykes turned on her Mood Matrix and went through Woods's testimony to find a feeling of happiness at the point at which Woods talked about the rubble. Wright asked Woods about this, and Woods remembered that Apollo Justice had protected her from the rubble, explaining his injuries.

Woods elaborated that she had tried to escape the courtroom, but the bomb had gone off, flinging rubble her way, which was when Justice rescued her. Using the Mood Matrix again, Wright found it odd that, in addition to happiness and shock, Woods also felt grief. Woods explained that she had a "Bum Rap Rhiny" doll with her, but she had realized during the explosion that she had lost it. When she showed a picture of the doll, Wright realized that the tail that had been presented earlier was not the elephant's but the rhino's!

"Phoenix Wright"

- Let's get Ms. Woods that not guilty verdict together, you and me! (And reclaim the legendary title of "Ace Attorney"!)

Trivia

 * The judge breaks the fourth wall on one occasion when commenting on the ten-minute time limit, saying "There isn't much time in a demo, after all!"
 * The Bombing Incident Report is a piece of evidence exclusive to the demo; it does not appear in the full version of the game.