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| Presidential plane | |
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| People to meet | Di-Jun Wang Tabby Lloyd Shelly de Killer Bronco Knight |
| Available evidence | Bulletproof Attache Crime Scene Notes President's Bulletproof Vest Security Monitor Card Bloodstained Bullet |
| Linked locations | Lakeside stage |
| Locations in Gourd Lake | |
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The president's plane is a seaplane used by President Di-Jun Wang of Zheng Fa. In March 2019, the president arrived at Gourd Lake using the plane to give a speech.
A rivalry turned deadly[]
Bastian Rook was the leader of the president's bodyguards. However, another bodyguard named Bronco Knight sought to usurp Rook's position. To this end, he convinced the president to stage an assassination attempt during a publicized event to boost his ratings. Rook refused to participate in the plot, and the president sensed Knight's jealousy of his fellow bodyguard. In the end, the president agreed to the plan, but his hesitation pushed Knight over the edge. He decided to plan to kill Rook and pin the blame on a reporter named Tabby Lloyd, whom he convinced to point a laser scope at the president during a publicized speech.
On March 25, 2019, the president's plane arrived at Gourd Lake, and Wang stepped out with his bodyguards for the speech. Only Knight and Rook were with him because of an infiltration days prior by assassin Shelly de Killer, which Rook had thwarted. During the speech, the fake assassination plot went underway as Lloyd used the laser scope and Knight fired two shots from behind his bulletproof attache case, throwing the crowd into a panic. The president retreated with his bodyguards into the plane, and hid inside a locked, soundproofed room. Despite knowing that the whole thing was a fake, he was terrified and did not even turn the power on.
With the two bodyguards alone, Knight took action and fatally shot Rook under his armpit. The bullet tore through Rook's body and hit one of the nine security monitors in the cabin. Knight removed the damaged monitor and placed the president's Taurusaurus Plushie inside the empty space left behind. He then told Wang that Rook had been killed. The two agreed to have the Zheng Fa police take over the investigation to cover up the truth about the fake assassination attempt.
Knight emerged from the plane to the spectator area, where Miles Edgeworth was investigating the incident and questioning de Killer and Lloyd. He tried to arrest Lloyd for Rook's murder, but de Killer subdued him and forced him to allow Edgeworth to investigate the plane. The assassin wanted to know what had really happened to the man who had stopped him. The president was still hiding when they entered the plane. De Killer tried to get him to come out, but he refused. Eventually, the assassin made his escape, satisfied with the progress of the investigation, despite the efforts of Dick Gumshoe to have the plane surrounded.
With de Killer gone, President Wang revealed himself and tried to get Edgeworth to leave the plane and the investigation. He had Knight confiscate the evidence that Edgeworth had gathered. During this time, the bodyguard switched his own gun with the gun that he had planted in the spectator area to implicate Lloyd, transferring the laser scope and loading an extra bullet into his gun to hide the fact that it had been fired a third time to kill Rook. Meanwhile, the president tried to claim extraterritorial rights, but Edgeworth retorted that extraterritoriality did not apply, since the gunshots had been fired from outside the plane.
The president relented and had the evidence returned to Edgeworth. Through Wang's testimony, Edgeworth figured out that the assassination plot had been a fraud all along. Despite Knight's protests, Lloyd revealed that she had merely pointed a laser scope at the president, as instructed. Eventually, the monitor with the fatal bullet was found, and Edgeworth figured out what Knight had done with the two guns. Knight was outed as the real killer and was arrested for his crime.