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| John Wilson |
| ……… Doctor Mikotoba, may I remind you that I have vastly more experience than you. |
John H. Wilson was a British professor who was invited by Yujin Mikotoba to teach in Imperial Yumei University's medical department in Japan.
The Professor case[]
- Main article: Professor case
John H. Wilson was the highest authority in the Great British Empire's forensic bureau, but he got caught up in a forging scheme when aristocrat Klint van Zieks became a serial killer. Mael Stronghart wanted to protect the man's secret to keep the law running as smoothly as possible, so he roped Wilson into having his assistants, Courtney Stevens and Yujin Mikotoba, repair replacement lancets to keep them busy during Klint's dissection. Wilson pretended to find Genshin Asogi's ring, which Tobias Gregson and some thugs he gathered had stolen from Asogi, in van Zieks' stomach, to give the appearance that van Zieks had swallowed it to provide proof of his killer. Yujin raised the possibility that there should've been internal wounds from the sharp claws on the ring, but Wilson claimed he knew of other cases that said otherwise. This successfully pinned Klint's death on Genshin Asogi.
Wilson then took part in the "Reaper of the Bailey" curse on Klint's younger brother, Barok van Zieks. His job was to ensure that the Reaper's killings could not be attributed to Barok.[1] Six years after the Professor incidents, Mikotoba invited Wilson to become a professor in the medical department at Imperial Yumei University in Japan, with Stevens taking over his duties in London.
Death[]
- Main article: The Adventure of the Great Departure
Meeting Ryunosuke Naruhodo before his death.
Stronghart would eventually ascend to the position of Lord Chief Justice. Unfortunately for Wilson, Stronghart had even greater ambitions, and eventually sought to eliminate him and Gregson to tie up all loose ends. Ten years after the Professor killings, he sent the assassin Asa Shinn to Japan as a medical exchange student known as Jezaille Brett. A chance to make her move presented itself when Wilson had a tooth extracted from the Hotta Dental Clinic. Shortly after that appointment, the two met at La Carneval, where Shinn put curare in Wilson's carbonated water, which entered his bloodstream through the wound. Suddently, they were approached by another patron, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, who introduced himself to the visiting professor.
John Wilson's corpse.
Due to the effects of curare, Wilson's muscles were paralyzed and he became unable to breathe. When the professor had succumbed to the poison, his body began to fall, so Shinn used the chair to support it. His wrist was burnt on Shinn's hot steak plate. Shinn dropped Wilson's handgun on the floor, and when Naruhodo picked it up to return it to Wilson, Shinn fired her own hidden handgun, to disguise Wilson's murder as due to blood loss. Wilson's blood got on Shinn's plate as he was shot facing the table. As the La Carneval "waiter" detained Naruhodo and shoved him in to the supply closet, Shinn rotated the chair so that Wilson's back was facing the table.
As depicted in The Adventures of Herlock Sholmes with Herlock Sholmes.
Because Ryunosuke Naruhodo was framed for the murder of a British man and the countries had recently entered an alliance, his trial was held in absolute secrecy. Naruhodo successfully exposed "Jezaille Brett" for killing Wilson, but Stronghart's role was not exposed. Nine months later, Taketsuchi Auchi tried to establish Wilson's death as motive for Rei Membami killing Brett.
In addition, Herlock Sholmes' assistant, Iris, believed her father and Sholmes' old partner was John H. Wilson because the handwriting on Klint van Zieks's autopsy report matched case records she kept in her trunk. However, Yujin Mikotoba had written both of these, and Wilson had only signed his name on the autopsy. Iris' real father was Klint van Zieks.
Name[]
Mugshot.
- Japanese/English - John H. Watson (ジョン・H・ワトソン) / John H. Wilson:
- Wilson's name in the Japanese version shares the name of Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes canon.
- His last name in the English version, like that of Herlock Sholmes, comes from the Arsène Lupin stories by Maurice Leblanc.
References[]
- ↑ Stronghart: Those who had cooperated with me already were only too happy to participate in my plan. Inspector Gregson...Dr Wilson... My minions worked tirelessly to ensure that the finger of guilt could never come to rest on you. It's all thanks to them that you were exalted as the demigod the Reaper became. Van Zieks: ......... Kazuma: But Dr Wilson left Britain four years ago when he was invited to work in Japan. Stronghart: That's right. So I had to employ the services of his young protégée after that. Dr Courtney Sithe. Ryunosuke: Dr Sithe... Stronghart: So what with the execution of the Professor and the subsequent reign of the Reaper of the Bailey... ...I've successfully safeguarded law and order in our mighty capital for the past decade. That...is everything. The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve. Capcom. Episode: The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo (in English). 2021.