The Thinker

The Thinker

The Thinker is a miniature replica of the statue The Thinker that functions as a clock. Larry Butz made two of these clocks, one for himself and the other for Cindy Stone.

Usage

The Thinker's neck is a switch. When tilted, it says "I think the time is [current time]..." out loud. The time can be adjusted like any other clock.

As a murder weapon

Main article: The First Turnabout

Frank Sahwit used Stone's Thinker clock to kill her while robbing her home. Butz was accused of the murder, and Sahwit stood as the sole witness, but Butz's attorney Phoenix Wright found holes in Sahwit's testimony related to Sahwit knowing that the Thinker was a clock in the first place. Eventually, Sahwit's testimony was completely invalidated when Wright showed that the clock was set to Paris time; this in turn implicated Sahwit as the real killer.

As a murder weapon again

Main article: Turnabout Sisters

Butz then gave his copy of the clock to Wright's mentor Mia Fey as a gift, in her office. She removed the clockwork and used the Thinker to store files related to Redd White, whom she was investigating and was going to hand it over to her little sister Maya Fey for safekeeping. However, White caught wind of the investigation and killed Mia Fey with the Thinker.

Phoenix Wright then had to defend Maya who was accused of murdering her sister. The star witness, April May, was an employee of White's and testified to seeing the murder from her hotel window. However, similarly to Sahwit, it turned out that she knew too much about the Thinker for her testimony to hold. She had, in fact, set up a wiretap in Mia's office to find out about the evidence inside the Thinker.

Wright eventually confronted Redd White at his office at Bluecorp, but White used his influence to lay a murder accusation on Wright, and Wright represented himself in court for Mia's murder. He eventually exposed White as the real killer.

Uncle Bear

Main article: Farewell, My Turnabout

In 2018, Wright and Pearl Fey investigated the murder of Juan Corrida. While they were talking with Wendy Oldbag in the hotel room that the victim was using, a bear-shaped alarm clock startled Wright by uttering, "I'm Uncle Bear, and I say it's "bearly" 8 o'clock!" Shortly afterward, Wright checked the bear toy with Dick Gumshoe's rudimentary bug sweeper for a listening device. He mentioned to Fey that the clock reminded him of "something that happened a long time ago," in reference to Mia Fey's murder. The clock has similar attributes to the Thinker, being heavy and laborious, and using self-referential phrases to signify the time.

Auctioned evidence

Main article: Turnabout Target

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The Thinker made a brief cameo during Manosuke Naitō's breakdown. It was among the objects that fell down on his head when he tossed his spinning gun in the air, hitting the overhead compartment in Teikun Ō's private jet. Both statues being used in murders, they were supposed to be in the police department's evidence room, however at least one of them was supplied for Bansai Ichiyanagi's illegal auction. This is the only instance in which someone was struck with the Thinker and was not killed.