| Florence Niedler |
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| Florence Niedler |
| This calls for an injection, stat! Please roll up your sleeves! |
Florence Niedler is a nurse at the Hertz Hospital, where her grandmother Hilda Hertz is the director. The two are normally seen together, with Niedler acting as Hertz's assistant.
Unwilling accomplice[]
Hertz and Niedler.
The ringmaster of a black market auction got into contact with Niedler in order to coerce her into being his accomplice in the murder of Rosie Ringer. By threatening to reveal that her grandmother, Hilda Hertz, had falsified an autopsy report for the IS-7 Incident years prior, Niedler felt she had no other option but to cooperate.
On the night of April 4, as the auction began, Niedler hid in a costume trunk in the secret evidence storage room used by the auction on the hidden 51st floor of the Bigg Building. After the ringmaster (who wore one of the masks with a built-in voice changer that all participants in the auction wore in order to conceal their true identities from each other, and so Niedler did not know who he was) successfully struck Ringer before she was able to do so first, he had Niedler switch places with her by putting on her clothes and a wig that was similar to Niedler's own hairstyle. While the ringmaster was otherwise occupied, Niedler covered Ringer with a red raincoat. She noticed a wavy wig nearby as she was doing so, but dismissed it due to the more important events that were taking place.
Niedler then replaced Ringer in the auction. Since all auction participants wore masks with voice-changers on them, it was easy enough for her to put on the mask Ringer had worn and take her place due to their similar physiques. She successfully bid on the costume trunk, which contained Ringer, and then returned to the storage room with the ringmaster. However, by this time, Ringer had managed to escape from the box and climb a ladder out of the storage room to the top of Bigg Building before succumbing to her wound. Kay Faraday, who had stumbled across the dying woman, managed to fall down the hatch Ringer had used, knocking herself unconscious on the floor of the storage room. Niedler took the raincoat off Ringer before the ringmaster could see it. Niedler and the ringmaster then dressed Ringer's body in a replica of the ringmaster's clothes.
Both Faraday and Ringer were locked inside the costume trunk until the end of the auction. Believing that Faraday was an accomplice of Ringer's, the ringmaster decided to plant evidence on her to implicate her in the murder. The whole time, Niedler could not identify the ringmaster, as he always wore his mask. All she knew was that he had a mark on his chin.
Niedler took initial care of Faraday after she was found in an amnesiac state at the Bigg Building. Despite her physical injuries being only minor, Niedler wrapped a number of bandages around her patient. Faraday's clothes were sent to a forensics lab for testing. Niedler then brought her to Miles Edgeworth's office; as Faraday had Edgeworth's business card on her person, he was the only person who the nurse could think might know her. Niedler then accompanied Hertz to the Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence's chamber, where Ringer's body was found and where the auction had taken place. Hertz relayed her autopsy report orally to Niedler, but Niedler intentionally wrote it down incorrectly. While the head wound was the cause of death and the stab wounds found on the body were post-mortem, Niedler switched the order of events so that the stab wounds were the cause of death. Grandmother and granddaughter then bought cotton candy at the viewing platform at the top of the building before leaving.
Niedler and Hertz were summoned the next day to Edgeworth's Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence hearing to determine his fate as a prosecutor. However, Edgeworth's deductive skills quickly allowed him to reveal Niedler's role in the forgery and murder. Edgeworth attempted to expose Excelsius Winner, the chair of the Committee, as the killer and auction ringmaster, and eventually, the mark that Niedler had seen was identified as a burn mark. Through this, it was discovered that the wavy wig Niedler had seen was actually a fake beard worn by Winner to conceal the burn mark on his face.
Faraday regained her memories soon after Winner's arrest. Niedler gave her back her original clothes and removed all her bandages. Niedler and Hertz would later be tried for their respective crimes but received lenient punishment due to the fact that they had both been blackmailed.
Personality[]
| Florence Niedler |
| Better safe than sorry! A pound of prevention is worth an ounce of cure! That's my motto! |
Mugshot.
Niedler is excessive with her precautions, as summed up in her corruption of the saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." She applies excessive bandages (such as with Kay Faraday, despite her injuries not being very severe), offers injections to anyone she feels is under the weather, and has a poor bedside manner. She has a strong bond with her grandmother and was willing to resort to crime in order to protect her. Although Hertz would occasionally hit Niedler on the head with her walking cane when irritated with her, Niedler would be just as likely to respond by slapping her grandmother's hair bun.
Name[]
- Japanese - Touko Mutou (武藤 瞳子):
- Her full name in Japanese is a play on "budoutou" (ブドウ糖) and "mutou touko" (むとう とうこ), which are the Japanese terms for "glucose" and "grape sugar," respectively. This may be a reference to the sugar pills used as placebos in medicine.
- "Muto" (ムトウ) is also a major manufacturer of medical supplies in Japan.
- English - Florence Niedler:
- Her given name is a reference to Florence Nightingale, a 19th century nurse considered the founder of modern nursing. Her surname is meant to sound like "needler", referencing her use of injections.
- Chinese - Wǔténg Diǎndī (武藤 典滴):
- Her given name in Chinese is a play on "Diǎndī" (點滴) meaning " IV drip."
Unofficial[]
- English - Karin Jenson:
- Her name in the unofficial English fan translation patch for Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit is "Karin Jenson." "Karin" may be intended to be a play on "caring" or "carrying," while "Jenson" may be a play on "injection."
Development[]
The kanji on her nurse cap is "安全第一" (anzen dai ichi), which translates into English as "safety first." It was translated as "Safety 1st!" in the unofficial English fan translation.