Turnabout Serenade

Episode 3: Turnabout Serenade is the third episode in the video game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. Apollo Justice has to defend a teenage pianist called Machi Tobaye from a nation called Borginia in the murder of a singer's manager.

July 7
Klavier Gavin invited Apollo Justice and Trucy Wright to his band's "Guilty as Charged" Tour (with a 20% discount from the regular price). Backstage, they met the mysterious songstress, Lamiroir, along with her pianist Machi Tobaye and her interpreter Romein LeTouse, who were all from Borginia.

Later during the third set, Justice and Ema Skye were talking backstage when they heard sounds like gunshots coming from Lamiroir's dressing room. They barged in the door, finding a dying LeTouse. With his dying breath, LeTouse told Justice, "Cold... Can't see... The witness... is siren..." while Skye contacted the police. Hearing this, Justice rushed out and went to the Gavinners's dressing room, where he comforted Lamiroir and Tobaye. Midway through the conversation, Tobaye excused himself to get some fresh air. After Lamiroir and Justice finished talking, they decided to go to the scene of the crime.

Detective Skye had surprised Justice, while giving him a lecture about "not keeping an eye on the body when I told you to" talk. After seeing Justice's confusion, she pointed to the location where the victim once had been. A surge of panic went through all the Gavinner members, as Wright and Justice went to try to find the body, which was located on top of the elevated stage along with an unconscious Tobaye.

Tobaye was immediately arrested because he was the "only person who could have done it". This was because he was the only person who could have fit through the air vent.

July 8
Trial day 1, Machi was accused for being LeTouse's killer. Advancing through the trial, it is discovered that Romein LeTouse was an Interpol agent, whose mission was to be an undercover agent looking into the case about the smuggled Borginian Cocoon, which, if smuggled, shall be penalized with death.

References to popular culture

 * During a conversation in the early part of the investigation, Justice and Gavin have the following exchange: "Nobody told me there would days like these" "Strange days, indeed". "Nobody told me there would days like these. Strange days indeed" are lines in the chorus of the John Lennon song "Nobody Told Me".


 * There are several references to the band The Police when investigating the Gavinners's dressing room. If a poster of a policeman is examined, Trucy wonders if the band are trying to "trick kids into thinking the police are some kind of band". Justice thinks "that's just silly. Who'd name a band the "police"?" Also in the dressing room, if the red light on the wall is examined, Trucy thinks that it would "be cooler if they turned that red light on". Justice, on the other hand, says that "They don't have to turn on the red light", which is a reference to The Police song Roxanne.


 * Before the second trial, when Valant Gramarye enters the courthouse using the front door, Justice comments that he's entering just like a regular muggle. This is a reference to the Harry Potter fantasy novels, which are set at a school for magic, with non-magic users (i.e. the general public) being referred to as "muggles".


 * During the second day of investigation, Trucy mentions Lamioir as having "elephant ears", to which Justice replies: "Somehow I don't think it means what you think it means." Furthermore during the second day of the trial, Justice says: "That's the only logical explanation", referring to the position where Laminoir was when she witnessed the crime. Gavin responds by saying: ""Logical"? I do not think this word means what you think it means, Herr Forehead!" These are references to a similar line said by the character Inigo Montoya to Vizzini (Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE." Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.") in the 1987 American romantic comedy adventure film The Princess Bride.


 * When you enter the Gavinners's dressing room after the murder has taken place Apollo at some point will say "No rest for the wicked" Which is part of the name of a song by the band "Cage The Elephant" called "" which was released sometime after "Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney" in the 16 June that very same year.

Typos and mistakes

 * During the Justice's investigation on the second day, Klavier Gavin, while in his office, says "... Too tell the truth, I'm not even sure what it is" instead of "... To tell the truth, I'm not even sure what it is"