Tobias Gregson

Tobias Gregson

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Inspector Tobias Gregson V · T · F
Occupation	Scotland Yard detective
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	19th century
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	44* (The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro)- 45* (Twisted Karma and His Last Bow)
Last known status	Deceased
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Brown
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	Iris Wilson (friend) Gina Lestrade (pupil)
Affiliates	Mael Stronghart (superior, boss, conspiring killer; arrested) Scotland Yard (workplace) Herlock Sholmes ("rival") Barok van Zieks (partnered prosecutor) Seishiro Jigoku (assassination target, killer; arrested) Kazuma Asogi (attempted killer; backed out) Asa Shinn (accomplice; deceased) Ashley Graydon Daley Vigil Chalan Musgrave (assassination target; deceased)
Aliases/nicknames
Gregsy* (by Iris Wilson) Sulky Skulkin* (by Nash and Ringo Skulkin)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	トバイアス・グレグソン (Tobias Gregson) グレグソン刑事 (Gregson-keiji)* (lit. of Detective Gregson) グレグソンくん (Gregson-kun)* (by Iris Wilson) グレグソン刑事さま (Gregson-keiji-sama)* (by Susato Mikotoba) グレグソン刑事クン (Gregson-keiji-kun)* (by Herlock Sholmes) 刑事クン (Keiji-kun)* (by Herlock Sholmes; lit. Detective)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	The Adventure of the Runaway Room
Musical theme	"Tobias Gregson - The Great Detective's Great Foe

Tobias Gregson

Gina... The truth is, I'm not the upstandin' fellow you think I am. You might be a diver at heart, but it's a good heart. You've reminded me I need to be true to myself. I've got one more job to take care of before it's ta-ta to London town for the foreseeable. And then I've gotta complete your education in the art of detection 'à la' Gregson, as they say.

— The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo

Tobias Gregson was a Scotland Yard detective working in London during Ryunosuke Naruhodo's time in England. Due to his role in a certain case, Gregson became known as a legendary detective.

Secret missions

Main article: Professor Killings

Tobias Gregson helped Mael Stronghart frame Genshin Asogi for being the Professor, to which he opposed at first, until Stronghart convinced him that this would be necessary to prevent Genshin from claiming any more victims, as Gregson mistakenly believed Genshin was the Professor. He hired a group of mercenaries to attack Genshin, stealing his trademark ring. Then, with Stronghart's help, Gregson would argue for Klint van Zieks' autopsy report, which would not normally be done to a noble in the House of Lords.

After that, he helped Stronghart spread the "Reaper of the Bailey" conspiracy. During this time, Gregson would investigate guilty defendants prosecuted under Klint's younger brother Barok who twisted their own trials to escape justice, and come up with the best ways for Britain's notorious assassin, Asa Shinn, to eliminate them.

Gregson also took interest in Daley Vigil, a former employee from Barclay Prison who was terminated following complications arising from the Professor case, and was masquerading as a street vendor named "Hugh Boone". To that end, Gregson paid Vigil to use his ID and make a public scene wherever he was directed, claiming the detective was there to investigate, in order to mask his movements around London. During that time, Gregson also grew close to Iris Wilson for helping further bolster his public reputation through her stories, to the point that he also became compliant to her own demands.

Eventually, Stronghart decided that Gregson knew too much about Klint's autopsy and his own past, so to eliminate Gregson, he had Genshin's son, Kazuma, kill him. Since by that point a treaty had been made between Japan and England, Stronghart knew if Kazuma was fully exposed of killing Gregson, England would have difficulty arresting the young Japanese man. Unfortunately for Lord Stronghart, his plan went awry as Kazuma was knocked out and allegedly killed by Nikolina Pavlova, sparing Gregson for some time.

First meeting with Naruhodo

Main article: The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro

Gregson first met Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Susato Mikotoba the day after they won their first trial in London. Though initially dismissive of the pair, he eventually agreed to help them after Iris asked him to via a note, telling them the location of Garrideb house.

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Revisiting the haunted lodgings

Main article: The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro

The next day, he investigates the attempted murder of William Shamspeare, Natsume's lodger. When Naruhodo and Sholmes arrived, they deduced that Natsume would be most likely culprit, so Gregson took him to Scotland Yard. When he returned to the boarding house, he told Naruhodo and Susato that the crime scene would be cordoned off in five minutes. When Shamspeare momentarily recovered, Gregson helped complete the line that Shamspeare started to quote. Later he informed Natsume in his prison cell that Shamspeare has fully recovered, and that Shamspeare is accusing him of being the culprit.

In court, Tobias Gregson took the stand with Natsume, the inspector explained the case then submitted a photo of Shamspeare unconscious as evidence. During the testimony, he explained the poison that Shamspeare ingested would only react within half an hour. Naruhodo pointed out a three-hour gap from the medical reports, but van Zieks rebuked it. Later that day, he investigated Shamspeare's flat and allowed Naruhodo and Susato to search as long as they don't ruin the crime scene. When Sholmes found handprints on the wall, Gregson removed the painting but couldn't find anything behind it. Gregson also told them three things he found in a hiding place, an article about a prisoner named Selden, a photo of John Garrideb and Duncan Ross, and a tin box.

The next day, Gregson gave his report on the tea in the soap Shamspeare was using to make "fake" coins to pay for gas, there was no strychnine in it. He later delivered the files about Selden to Naruhodo. Eventually it was revealed the Olive Green was Ross's fiance and wanted to get revenge on Shamspeare. Selden actually promised Shamspeare a treasure in his flat, the box contained the key to it. The handprints were because Shamspeare blew into the lamp to try and scare Ross away but he ended up killing him. The treasure was revealed to be the dog collar that Klint's dog wore when he killed his victims. Fearful, Sholmes gave Gregson the collar and told him to take good care of it.

Blackmailed by a government mole

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Main article: The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story

Two months after Natsume's two trials, Gregson was called to a Scotland Yard briefing regarding the theft and leaking of confidential government correspondence. When it was revealed that McGilded was in on the plot prior to his death, Gregson was ordered to covertly acquire as many of McGilded's belongings as possible in order to contain the situation. Eventually, he was called over to Windibank's Pawnbrokery at the behest of the owner to stop a confrontation between Naruhodo, Gina Lestrade, and Ashley Graydon over a music box disc that McGilded had pawned off. Though Graydon escaped in the chaos, Gregson was nonetheless able to confiscate the disc from Naruhodo despite Lestrade's objections.

Windibank himself was killed later that night, with Gregson taking up the investigation for that incident as well. After a while, he allowed Naruhodo to investigate the crime scene. He also briefs them on the case after some coercion from Iris.

Faced with a return

Main article: The Return of the Great Departed Soul

Tobias Gregson, being allowed back on the job again, took Gina Lestrade under his wing to become an inspector.

A twisted path to resolve

Main article: Twisted Karma and His Last Bow and The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo

While Gregson sent Vigil out to be a decoy with the "Red-Headed League", a small-time scam of Fabien de Rousseau and Peppino de Rossi, he was given a "Reaper” mission for October 31st aboard the SS Grouse as it headed for France. The target was Seishiro Jigoku, who was put on trial ten years ago when he made insulting remarks while trying to save Genshin Asogi. Since Asa Shinn was killed, the assassin that would go with him was Kazuma Asogi. Before he left his secret room to go there, he spoke fondly of Lestrade, and left her his "detective spirit".

While in Seishiro Jigoku's cabin on board the Grouse, Gregson learns that Kazuma is Genshin's son. He tells him that he believes that his father was the Professor even now but didn't have enough evidence to prove it back then. He said he just worked as the mission instructed for the British Empire. But Gregson refused to say exactly what he did, even if it meant his death. This caused Kazuma to furiously draw his sword and swing, not hurting the detective but chipping Karuma on Gregson's trunk. Then Kazuma decided to leave, disembarking in Dunkirk, France to stay the night, so Gregson decided to kill Jigoku all by himself. But Jigoku didn't know Kazuma Asogi was alive and had already decided to kill Gregson on his own to complete the assassination exchange program. The "Reaper" mission assigned to Gregson was a fake asked by Jigoku himself. When Jigoku returned to his room, he found Gregson there. He choked Gregson, knocking him unconscious before the other could shoot him. As first-class cabins are surrounded by guards, Jigoku decided to wait until the emergency drill later that evening to strangle him to death. Unfortunately, just as that time arrived, Gregson woke up and started attacking Jigoku in a frenzy. In a moment of panic, Jigoku used the gun the English government had given him in the exchange program sixteen years ago and shot Tobias Gregson, killing him instantly.

Jigoku took Gregson's coat off and hid his body in the freezer, trying to buy some time and fake Gregson's time of death. However, he didn't notice the fish and chips falling out of Gregson's coat, which quickly started to rot due to the heated cabin and was placed back in the coat by Jigoku the following morning. There was no chance to throw the body overboard due to all the guards. He then put Gregson's body in his own trunk and took him off the boat and to the hotel.

Jigoku's English counterpart had informed him of Gregson's Fresno Street apartment with Daley Vigil, so he went to drop the body off there. He set up some firecrackers he bought from "Venus" and used the candles as a makeshift timer that would set off the firecrackers at around 5 o'clock. That way, when Vigil came to visit, the firecrackers would mimic a gunshot to falsely establish the time of death and incriminate Vigil. Unexpectedly, Barok van Zieks showed up to the apartment on his investigation of Gregson instead, and he took the fall with "Venus", "Sandwich", and Vigil as witnesses. Maria Gorey performed the autopsy on Gregson and she reported the possibility of his corpse being tampered with after discovering the rotting fish and chips.

Personality

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Tobias Gregson was a hardworking detective who took pride in the Scotland Yard's name. As for being a devoted worker, he despised criminals and lawbreakers. When he first met with Ryunosuke Naruhodo and his co., he spoke in distaste for the foreign attorney, but overall treated him as a citizen respectfully. However, because Naruhodo was foreign (or a defense attorney), he initially did not go out of his way to help them with an investigation with the exception of Iris Wilson's presence. However, over time, he began to respect Ryunosuke and became impressed by his performances in court. He even showed appreciation for him and his friends for finding Drebber's workshop before it was blown up.

There was a darker side to Gregson, however; his loyalty to his country was so extreme that it could easily be twisted. Gregson was very strong-willed in doing whatever was necessary to ensure Great Britain's stability, going as far as to forge evidence indicting Genshin as the "Professor." He justified this by saying that even though there wasn't enough real evidence to convict Genshin, he was sure that the man was the Professor, and he prioritized keeping his country safe over examining the truth. Gregson was willing to take the secret of the evidence forgery to his grave, even when his life was threatened by Kazuma.

Although Gregson was tough on crime, he was shown to be compassionate to Gina Lestrade, a street pickpocket who had also committed perjury, by taking her under his wing and training her as an inspector. He comforted her at times by telling her the "Death Bringer" only goes after the "bad guys." Before what would turn out to be his final mission, Gregson left a letter to Lestrade expressing that she had a good heart and had inspired Gregson to be true to himself; he was going to take her to Paris to escape the Reaper's grasp and further train her to be an inspector. Unfortunately, this never came to pass.

His favorite food was fish and chips which he was almost never seen without. He also carried a pocket watch around as a gift for solving the Professor's killings, which he had a habit of winding every day via a special key disguised as a policeman figurine.

Name

Tobias Gregson is The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles's version of the Inspector Gregson from the Sherlock Holmes canon.

Notes

• Gregson is the only murder victim in the series to have appeared in person in multiple episodes of multiple games prior to his death, with his profile appearing in all of said episodes. In this sense, he one of the most prominent characters in the series who becomes a murder victim, being the "main detective" of two games, other than Mia Fey, who appears through spirit channeling after her death. He is prominent enough that he gets his own closing credits scene in The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve through a flashback taking case before his murder, which is the only instance of such a scene occuring in a closing credits sequence.
• Gregson's passport number is ACD0522, the initials of Arthur Conan Doyle, and his birthday, May 22nd.