| This article contains information about Ace Attorney media that has been recently released and thus likely contains spoilers! | |
|---|---|
 Readers of this page should be aware that this article likely contains MAJOR SPOILERS concerning the media in question. You have been warned! | |
- For other hallways, see Hallway.
| Detention center corridor | |
|---|---|
| Link to the template page | |
| |
| Available evidence | Missing Guard Uniform Mr. Knight's Cell Key Security Gates |
| Locations in Detention center | |
  Not shown: Visitor's room | |
A corridor in the detention center leads to various rooms such as the holding cells, a monitoring room, the warden's office, and the prison.
Layout[]
The doorway leading to the prison and the doorway leading elsewhere in the detention center have security gates. This means that the passage of people through this area is heavily secured, though packages undergo a simpler check and items could be smuggled through this method. Throughout the corridor are lockers for the guards. The corridor also contains a trophy display case. Above it are framed profile photos of four people. There is a sign near the door to the monitoring room that reads "Your Life, Your Choice".[1]
Prison murder[]
In the 2010s, Fifi Laguarde was appointed warden of the prison. Her dubious past began to catch up to her when assassin Bodhidharma Kanis was caught and sent to the prison. Kanis had information that could implicate Laguarde in a past incident, allowing him to coerce the warden into giving him special privileges. Kanis became known as "the fixer" due to his ability to get items delivered to his fellow inmates through this coercion. Laguarde would frequently interrogate the assassin to try to get him to reveal the information that he had, but he never budged.
Rocco Carcerato, an inmate at the prison, took advantage of the fixer's services to attempt an escape. Using stolen kitchen utensils, he dug a tunnel to the holding cell. On March 25, 2019, Bronco Knight was arrested and detained in the holding cell. A day later, Carcerato attacked Knight and an escorting guard to steal the keys to the holding cell. The other guards blamed Knight for the attack. Later, at Carcerato's request, a guard uniform was stolen from one of the lockers.
The next day, Miles Edgeworth, the prosecutor in charge of Knight's impending trial, visited the detention center to talk to him. However, a guard told him that Knight had just been found dead. Edgeworth hurried to the detention center corridor, but was surprised when the guard led him further in, reaching the prison. Judge Verity Gavèlle and prosecutor Eustace Winner visited later on, sent by the Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence to replace Edgeworth as the lead investigator.
The investigation conducted by Gavèlle and Winner continued to the following day, and failed to find a murder weapon. However, they arrested Simeon Saint as a suspect. Eddie Fender, Knight's defense attorney, took Saint' case. As he was heading through the detention center corridor, he found Edgeworth with Kay Faraday and Dick Gumshoe, who were trying to find a way to continue investigating. After some convincing by Faraday and Gumshoe, Fender agreed to take Edgeworth on as an assistant.
Fender returned to the detention center while Edgeworth was interrogating Kanis. He learned from the guards of the earlier incident with Knight. When Edgeworth was finished with Kanis, he returned to the detention center and found Laguarde talking to one of the guards about her interrogations of the assassin. Edgeworth then investigated the holding cell, during which time Interpol agent Shi-Long Lang visited the detention center. Lang was investigating the incident from Laguarde's past, but would not discuss this with Edgeworth when the two briefly crossed paths.
Gavèlle and Winner left the prison to see Edgeworth talking to the guards. Despite Gavèlle's attempt to get Edgeworth to leave, Winner decided to challenge his senior in an argument on the case. His arguments turned out to be very flimsy, with Gavèlle picking up the slack and explaining the many holes in his logic. However, the argument simply raised more questions as Edgeworth failed to demonstrate his working theory that Knight had been killed inside his holding cell.
Later, Carcerato made his escape, disguising himself as a guard using the stolen uniform. However, he could not leave due to a shock bracelet that he was forced to wear as a prisoner, and was eventually caught after Edgeworth had discovered his tunnel. The next day, Edgeworth continued his investigation and figured out the secret behind the fixer. He concluded that Laguarde was the killer, and found the murder weapon inside Ally, her pet alligator. Saint was released shortly afterward and thanked Edgeworth and Fender for helping him. Fender then offered Edgeworth a more permanent position at his law firm as a defense attorney. Edgeworth would not make a decision about this for some time.
References[]
- ↑ The sign reads "自業自得" (essentially, "What goes around comes around") in Japanese. In the fan translation patch, the sign reads, "EAT FREE, LIVE FREE IN PRISON."