Turnabout Sisters


 * You may be looking for the character theme tracks entitled "Turnabout Sisters' Theme".

"Miles Edgeworth"

- "Innocent"...? How can we know that? The guilty will always lie, to avoid being found out. There's no way to tell who is guilty and who is innocent! All that I can hope to do is get every defendant declared "guilty"! So I make that my policy.

Episode 2: Turnabout Sisters is the second case in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. With his mentor Mia Fey murdered, it is up to Phoenix Wright to clear the name of the prime suspect: Mia's little sister Maya. However, in order to do this, Wright must defeat the undefeated "Demon Attorney", Miles Edgeworth.

This case marks the death of the major character Mia Fey, as well as the first appearances of Maya Fey, Dick Gumshoe, Marvin Grossberg, and Miles Edgeworth. It also introduces investigation chapters and reveals some information about the Fey clan.

The crime
At 8:57 p.m., a man came into Mia Fey's office to take some papers that would damage his business practices if revealed. To keep Mia Fey from revealing his secrets, the man grabbed The Thinker, a gift given to Fey after a recent case, and smashed it over her head with a strong blow. Before collapsing to the ground, Mia murmured, "Red... White... Blue."

Arrest
Phoenix Wright arrived late to the office and smelled blood. Fearing the worst, he rushed into the office and found Mia Fey's corpse, with a strange young girl crying over it. The girl collapsed out of shock.

Wright found that the murder weapon was the &quot;Thinker&quot; clock that his friend Larry Butz made. He also found a receipt with the name "Maya" written on the back of it with blood. He showed the receipt to the girl, who happened to be Maya Fey, Mia's younger sister. Just then, the police arrive and arrested Maya, citing the bloody writing as well as a call from a witness.

Sept. 6
At the Detention Center, Maya Fey asked Wright if he could get a veteran lawyer to represent her in court. To this end, Wright headed for Marvin Grossberg's office to find it empty. A painting of a fisherman was prominent on the wall.

At the Fey & Co. Law Offices, Wright met the detective in charge of investigating the crime scene, Dick Gumshoe. Thinking that Wright was Maya's attorney, Gumshoe gave him the victim's autopsy report and the news that Miles Edgeworth, the undefeated "Demon Prosecutor", would be prosecuting Maya Fey tomorrow. He asked Gumshoe for Maya's cell phone back and received it.

At the Gatewater Hotel, Wright met Edgeworth's key witness, April May. In May's room, Wright noticed a screwdriver in one of her drawers, but May did not allow him to touch it.

Wright then headed back to Grossberg's firm to meet him. He was present, but he refused to take Maya's case without giving a reason. Wright went to the detention center to tell Maya the bad news. During the ensuing conversation, Maya revealed that she was born into a long line of spirit mediums. The Fey family, including Mia, had had these powers ever since the first Fey was born. Fifteen years ago, the police consulted Misty Fey, the mother of Mia and Maya, to find the culprit of an unusual murder. However, the suspect was acquitted, and a man named "White" found out about Misty and sold the information to the press, making Misty and the police the laughingstocks of the nation. Misty disappeared soon afterward, and Mia became a lawyer to investigate White and the incident. Wright, feeling sorry for Maya, agreed to defend her; he could not abandon her, for he would be betraying the reason he became a criminal defense attorney in the first place: to look out for those who had no one to believe in them.

Remembering that May reacted adversely when he reached into her drawer, Wright returned to the hotel room and found a wiretap in the same drawer.

Trial
Trial began with Miles Edgeworth's assertion that decisive evidence and a decisive witness will prove the defendant's guilt. Dick Gumshoe was called to the stand first and he laid out the facts: the victim's body was discovered by the window and she was struck a blunt object, the Thinker clock found lying on the floor.

Gumshoe testified that he arrested Maya because of April May's witness account. However, after pressing, Wright pointed out that her testimony wasn't the "hard evidence" Gumshoe claimed it to be. Gumshoe then corrected himself, testifying that the arrest was because he found a piece of paper with the name "Maya" on it and concluded that before she died, Mia wrote her killer's name in blood. Wright countered with the autopsy report, which stated that Mia died instantly on the moment she was struck. Edgeworth then presented a modified autopsy report that stated that Mia did not, in fact, die instantly, which nullified the contradiction.

April May took the stand and claimed that she saw Maya attack Mia with the Thinker, accidentally calling it a clock. Wright objected that there was no way she could tell if the weapon was a clock by looking at it. May claimed that she had heard the clock from her hotel room, but a recorded conversation between the victim and the defendant proved that the clock mechanism was removed prior to the murder. Wright suggested that May had heard it was a clock while she was tapping Mia's phone with a wiretap. Having nowhere else to turn, May confirmed Wright's accusation, but she was still adamant about not killing Mia; she had an alibi that a bellboy at the hotel could verify. This bellboy was called to the stand.

The bellboy's testimony revealed nothing important about the case. However, during the cross-examination, Wright pressed him until he let slip that May checked in with another man, and that Edgeworth told him not to mention the man in his testimony unless specifically asked to do so. With the possibility of a new suspect, court was adjourned, and May was arrested for tapping Mia's phone.

Investigation
Wright first went to the detention center and questioned April May, with little success, until Wright threatened to take May's tapping to the press. He then went to the Grossberg Law Offices and found two photos with the name "DL-6 Incident" on the backs of both. He also noticed that the painting on the wall was missing. He took the photo of the purple-haired man labeled "DL-6 Incident - Exhibit B" and showed it to the bellboy, who confirmed that the man in the picture was the man who checked in; he even wrote an affidavit for Wright, swearing that he was the one.

Wright went back to the detention center, showing May the photo of the man and the bellboy's affidavit. She finally revealed that the man was her employer Redd White, the President of Bluecorp.

Wright went to Bluecorp headquarters and met Redd White. Wright recognized Grossberg's painting in the headquarters, but when he confronted White about it, he warned Wright that he controlled the police and the courts, and that Wright was a nobody who was powerless to stop him.

Wright then confronted Grossberg, who admitted that he could not defend Maya because White was blackmailing him. Grossberg had told White about the medium in the DL-6 Incident in exchange for riches, and now White was threatening to reveal this fact to the press unless Grossberg did his bidding. In fact, blackmail was the whole basis behind Bluecorp's "business". Back at the scene of the crime, Wright discovered that some papers (in fact, the entire W section) were missing from Mia's files, but he also found suicide articles with the word "White" written on top of them in pencil. White had blackmailed various powerful figures over the years and driven them to suicide. Phoenix Wright decides to confront his mentor's killer again. He showed the suicide report, saying that White had blackmailed the politician into suicide. He accused the man of killing Mia Fey to keep her quiet, using May as an accomplice. In response, White called the Prosecutors office, informing them that he would testify against Wright, implicating him as the killer. White told Wright that he would receive an incompetent lawyer from the state, and then he would be found guilty; Wright would be unable to do anything about it. Gumshoe then arrived and arrested Wright.

Sept. 8
At the detention center, Wright refused his state-appointed attorney, saying that he had a plan. Maya was released and Wright was incarcerated in her place. He explained everything to her, and she assured him that she would be at court the next day to support him.

Trial
Prosecutor Edgeworth met Wright in the defendant lobby and warned him that he would do anything for a conviction, and that everyone would be on White's side. He justified his conviction to have every defendant convicted by referring to the uncertainty of any given defendant's guilt. Wright replied that Edgeworth had changed; he knew him from years earlier. After Edgeworth left without a word, Wright decided that he would not wait for his state-appointed lawyer and would represent himself instead.

Trial began with Redd White on the witness stand. He testified that he was reading some business papers until he heard a loud noise outside his window. He claimed to have seen the defendant hit Mia Fey over the head with a blunt object. Wright asked White to state the direction in which Mia ran. White replied that Mia ran to the left and the killer gave chase, but Wright pointed out that this contradicted the floor plans of the office and April May's testimony, unless White witnessed the crime from the killer's point of view. White testified further by saying Wright hit the victim twice, claiming that Mia had used the last of her strength to run to the left before being hit a second time, but the autopsy report had already established that Mia died from a single blow. White then claimed that he heard a glass light stand falling over, which caused him to look through the hotel window and witness the murder. Wright countered that White could not have seen the stand or the light stand from the hotel window, so he should not have known that it even was a light stand unless he was the killer. Edgeworth objected to this conclusion, advising White to admit that he was the one who placed the wiretap into Mia's office one week before the murder; he would have seen the light stand then.

Unable to find any more evidence, Wright accepted defeat, but then he saw Mia next to him, telling him not to give up, and then he passed out. When he woke up, Mia informed him that Maya was able to channel her spirit, and she told him to look at the front of the receipt with the word "Maya" on it. It was a receipt for the purchase of the light stand, bought the day before the murder. Wright pointed this out when court reconvened, once again implicating White as the killer. Edgeworth persisted, requesting one more day to investigate Wright's claims, but Mia gave Wright a note to read aloud; it was a list of well-known people that White blackmailed. Mia told White to confess to the murder if he did not want the list revealed to the media and, having no other options, White conceded. Phoenix Wright was declared not guilty, marking Edgeworth's first defeat.



Aftermath
Phoenix Wright inherited Mia Fey's law firm, and Maya became Wright's assistant at Mia's request.

Development

 * Turnabout Sisters was the first scenario created for the game and was originally intended to be the introductory case. However this was changed to enable Mia to interact with Wright more as his mentor before her death.


 * April May and Redd White were some of the first characters created and they set the standard for all the witnesses that would follow them, in terms of both eccentricity and pun-based names. Their names were actually chosen together in the original Japanese version of the game where the naming theme between the two characters is more obvious (May's Japanese name means "high, middle and low ranking" while White's means "small, medium and large").

Typos
When May first introduces herself to the court, the judge tells her off for winking at the courtroom audience. However, due to a spelling error, instead of telling her to "refrain from wanton winking", he instead refers to it as "wonton winking". Despite the single letter difference and sounding similar phonetically, the two words have very different meanings; "wanton" means "lewd" or "impulsive and unpredictable", while a "wonton" is a kind of Chinese dumpling.