Athena Cykes returned to the agency, lamenting how the trial had spiraled out of her control. She returned to the detention center with Apollo Justice, only to learn that Juniper Woods had hired Aristotle Means as her attorney. Cykes nonetheless had some questions to ask her.
Cykes learned that the rumors surrounding the school had some basis in fact. A schism had developed between those who sought to find the truth and those who sought their favored results by any means necessary. Additionally, the photo presented by the prosecution had been taken around 6 p.m., so the time on the clock was wrong. Woods also said that she had seen Hugh O'Conner as she was leaving the art room, but she seemed upset by this fact. After encountering O'Conner, she had seen the two statues on the outdoor stage, though they were covered in sheets. Cykes thanked Woods for this information and had her promise that, if Cykes were able to find the truth of the case by sundown, then Woods would hire her as her attorney again.
"The Outdoor Stage"[]
Cykes and Justice headed to the outdoor stage, where Klavier Gavin was lamenting the broken statues and the two missing banners. The three gathered the rubble on the stage, managing to reassemble the statue of Gavin and a new white statue of Lady Justice. No evidence of the statue of Wright could be seen. There was also a wire-and-pulley system between the stage and the art room, where the school banner was. Bobby Fulbright was in the art room and lowered the banner for them. However, the Gavinners banner was still missing. Inside the school banner was what looked like a page from Constance Courte's journal, with "October Hugh 120" written on it. The banner itself had a bloodstain. Cykes also found drag marks behind the stage.
"Questions for Scuttlebutt"[]
Scuttlebutt's first photograph.
The second photograph.
Cykes and Justice suddenly noticed Myriam Scuttlebutt and chased her to the maintenance area. Scuttlebutt handed over the burned remains of the Gavinners banner, which she had found in an incinerator. She was apparently so upset at being fooled by a scoop that wasn't there that she started deleting her photos. Cykes talked Scuttlebutt out of it, which managed to save only two photos. Cykes had by now figured out that Scuttlebutt secretly wanted to befriend the trio that she kept writing about. When Scuttlebutt accidentally broke her laptop, Cykes told her that she could borrow one from the agency, on the condition that she would ask the trio to let her hang out with them. Scuttlebutt agreed to this and gave Cykes the two photos that she had remaining.
"Questions for O'Conner"[]
Cykes found O'Conner in the hallway. He refused to talk about the leverage that Simon Blackquill had over him or what the meeting with Courte was about, but he did point out that neither he nor Robin Newman would have confessed if either of them were the real killer. He also stated that he would testify on the "truth" that Cykes so desperately wanted, but that it would not be favorable to her. He stated that he did not care about Woods anymore before leaving. Cykes and Justice decided to head for the art room.
"The Art Room"[]
The police had finished investigating the art room, and only Bobby Fulbright was there. He informed Cykes that the voice recording had been fully analyzed and Woods had been confirmed as the one shouting, "You're a goner!" Undeterred, Cykes checked the clock and confirmed that it was an hour ahead. To prove that the clock had been wrong on the night of the murder, Cykes pointed out that outside the window in the photo was what looked like a moonlit night sky, even though the moon would not have been visible from that window. She took one of Scuttlebutt's photos and showed that the night sky backdrop of the outdoor stage was being moved at 6 p.m., thereby forming the moonlit sky. Fulbright was forced to concede that the prosecution's argument on this matter had been refuted.
Cykes looked around for more clues. She found the winch that Fulbright had used to lower the school banner. A white rope on the floor indicated the location of a large bloodstain. Nearby was some of Newman's pottery, which also had bloodstains on it. Cykes also saw two paintings of Woods, a realistic one by Newman and a stranger style by Courte. In addition, Courte had apparently stored the mock trial scripts in a bookshelf in the art room, though Scuttlebutt's script was on a table next to an envelope marked "Use". Justice noticed that a white statue that was in Woods's art room photo was missing.
"A Fabrication Exposed"[]
Cykes asked Fulbright if he had seen Newman, and he directed her to the Lecture Hall, where she was watching a video of the mock trial. She claimed that she had finished both statues on the night of the murder, but she could not produce any evidence of what she had been doing. There was apparently a snitch going around conducting surveillance on students, and there were rumors of bribes. On the missing statue, Newman explained that it had originally been a statue of Lady Justice, but Courte had broken it accidentally and then redesigned it. Cykes realized that this was the statue that she had put together earlier.
Woods setting up the audio during the mock trial.
Cykes watched the mock trial video with Newman. Before the mock trial, Means had given a speech. Newman said that Woods had been in charge of the audio in addition to her other duties. Newman also showed Cykes a diagram of the Lecture Hall, which showed that Means and Courte were supposed to be on balconies on either side of the Lecture Hall. The recording of the mock trial showed Woods yelling, "You're a goner!" Cykes realized that Scuttlebutt's recording had been fabricated using this voice clip. Gavin, who had just entered the Lecture Hall, asked for both recordings to analyze the voices in question. Justice then noted that it was almost sundown, and he and Cykes headed to the detention center to report their findings to Woods.
"Figuring Out Juniper"[]
Woods heard Cykes's story, but was still reluctant to cooperate with her. Woods insisted that neither Newman nor O'Conner would hurt a fly, and claimed that O'Conner was a gifted student who would never cause trouble. However, Justice noticed that she coughed when mentioning that O'Conner would never cause trouble. Cykes realized that O'Conner had figured out that Woods was the snitch, which was why he had claimed that he did not care about her anymore. Cykes pointed to Courte's planner, which mentioned a "routine report".
Woods admitted to being the snitch and suspecting O'Conner from the start. She said that she would report to Courte every month about any instances of wrongdoing that she had seen. Her reason for suspecting O'Conner was that she had overheard him talking to someone on the phone about paying money for good grades. Cykes realized that the scrap of paper that she had found was related to this, and she suspected that Courte was taking bribes. Woods then finally revealed that, during her encounter with O'Conner, she had seen his hand, and it had been dripping with blood! With the cards really beginning to stack against O'Conner, Cykes assured Woods that she would get to the bottom of all this, whatever the truth may be.