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| People to meet | Tabby Lloyd Shelly de Killer Winston Payne Bronco Knight |
| Available evidence | Ms. Lloyd's Tape Bullet Trajectory Security Plan Kay's Photographs Mr. Knight's Revolver Red Raincoat |
| Linked locations | Lakeside stage |
| Locations in Gourd Lake | |
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The spectator area is the place from which an assassin was believed to have targeted President Di-Jun Wang of Zheng Fa during his speech at Gourd Lake in March 2019.
The speech[]
On March 22, 2019, Bronco Knight, one of President's Wang's bodyguards, made an offer to journalist Tabby Lloyd. In exchange for a special interview with the president, she would come to the president's speech wearing a red raincoat, and point a laser pointer at his forehead. She was not informed of the purpose of this request, but she agreed to it. In reality, she was being set up to take the fall for a bogus assassination attempt on the president, orchestrated by Knight. A day later, an assassin named Shelly de Killer tried to kill the president for real, but was thwarted by Bastian Rook, the head bodyguard.
On March 25, President Wang arrived at Gourd Lake from a seaplane and stepped out onto a lakeside stage specially prepared for the occasion. From the spectator area, Lloyd turned her yellow parka inside-out into a red raincoat to disguise herself. She then used her tape recorder to record the president's speech. In front of her was the Chief Prosecutor with one of his subordinates, Winston Payne, and their conversation was also recorded. Meanwhile, Kay Faraday took a photo of herself with the stage and audience in the backdrop, with the backs of Lloyd and the prosecutors visible. Hidden elsewhere in the audience was de Killer, who was also wearing a red raincoat to disguise himself as Lloyd.
As Lloyd pointed her laser pointer at the president, two gunshots suddenly rang out. The ensuing panic destroyed all news footage of the event. Now finding it undesirable to be mistaken for the false assassin, de Killer ditched his raincoat under a nearby stall. Faraday caught another photo of the crowd, with de Killer in it, as well as a photo of the president with his bodyguards, a laser still aimed at him. As the president and his bodyguards retreated into the plane, the entire crowd was contained within the spectator area. The Chief Prosecutor had Miles Edgeworth come to Gourd Lake and investigate the incident.
As Edgeworth and Detective Dick Gumshoe were investigating the stage, Lloyd called out to them, claiming to have information about the incident. She initially refused to divulge it unless Edgeworth gave information about himself, but Edgeworth got her to reveal her recording of the incident. This prompted him and Gumshoe to investigate the spectator area, finding a security plan and a six-shot revolver in the trashcan, which Knight had planted to implicate Lloyd. Edgeworth soon found de Killer's raincoat and questioned him. De Killer told him that Lloyd was the one who had pointed the laser sight.
Knight then emerged from the plane and informed everyone that Bastian Rook had been killed, and Lloyd was the prime suspect. He tried to bar Edgeworth from investigating the plane, but de Killer subdued him and put a knife to his throat, demanding that Edgeworth be allowed to continue. Through the investigation of the plane, Edgeworth was able to straighten out the facts and have Knight arrested for the murder.