Turnabout Countdown

Unreleased

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.

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 defendant. Also in the room was Apollo Justice, Wright's other employee, who had been the attorney in the courtroom that had been 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 on the defense's bench again. The prosecutor, Gaspen Payne, made a sarcastic reference to Urashima Tarō, to which Cykes retorted that Payne would be KOed in ten minutes. Payne followed with his opening statement: During a trial in Courtroom No. 4, a time bomb, hidden inside an elephant doll 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 exploded, 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 replied that she had been carrying a rhino 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!