Turnabout Academy

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Turnabout Academy V · T · F
Incident overview
Dates	October 24-26, 2027
Time of incident	Between 6 and 8 PM
Victim	Constance Courte
Weapon / cause of injury	Blood loss from a deep stab wound
Related persons	Apollo Justice Phoenix Wright Klavier Gavin Trucy Wright Clay Terran* (allusions)
Related locations	Themis Legal Academy 1st Floor 1F Hallway 1F Waiting Room 3rd Floor 3F Lecture Hall 3F Art Room External areas Outdoor Stage Maintenance Area Detention Center - Visitor's Room District Court - Defendant Lobby No. 3 Wright Anything Agency
Evidence	Attorney's badge Courte's Planner Arrow Themis Herald* (returned to Scuttlebutt) Stage Costume* (taken by Newman) Mock Trial Script Themis Herald Extra* (returned to Scuttlebutt) Awl Courte's Autopsy Report Tape Recorder* (updated three times) Glowing Costume Photo* (taken by Newman) School Camera Photo Purple Fragment* (updated as Purple Fragments and used to repair Gavin's statue) White Fragment* (updated as White Fragments and revealed to be a Lady Justice statue) Lady Justice "Hugh" Scrap School Banner Burnt Fragments Stage Set Up Photos Voiceprint Analysis Lecture Hall Diagram
Trial data
Courtroom No.	4
Presiding judge	judge
Defense team	Athena Cykes
Prosecutor	Simon Blackquill
Defendant	Juniper Woods
Verdict	Not Guilty
Trial witnesses	Bobby Fulbright* (not cross-examined) Myriam Scuttlebutt Robin Newman Hugh O’Conner Aristotle Means

Episode 3: Turnabout Academy is the third episode of the game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. When a murder occurs at the Themis Legal Academy matching the one depicted in a mock trial, Juniper Woods, who set up the mock trial, finds herself as the defendant in a real one. Woods' friend Athena Cykes takes up her case, with Apollo Justice as co-counsel, against the mysterious convict prosecutor Simon Blackquill.

Klavier Gavin returns to reprise the mock trial with Justice in order to gain more insight into the real murder, while Woods is rumored to be involved in a love triangle between the cool and intelligent Hugh O’Conner and the hot-blooded Robin Newman, but Cykes senses that there is something going on beneath the surface between the three friends.

Themis Legal Academy

1:25 p.m.

1F Hallway

1:29 p.m.

3F Lecture Hall

1:33 p.m.

1F Waiting Room

2:15 p.m.

Lobby

9:47 a.m.

Trial

10:00 a.m.

Lobby

October 26, 9:45 a.m.

Trial, part 2

10:00 a.m.

References to other cases

• Juniper Woods' costume design for the festival is almost identical to that worn by Lamiroir when she sung "The Guitar's Serenade" in Turnabout Serenade. Oddly, neither Apollo Justice, Trucy Wright, nor Klavier Gavin make any comment on this, despite all three having met Lamiroir in said costume. The costume may have been chosen by Gavin, as it is "The Guitar's Serenade" that he plays with Woods during the festival.

• If the academy newspaper is presented to Phoenix Wright, he mentions that he was an arts major at university. When Cykes asks how he became a lawyer instead, he responds that it was a very complicated situation, and she reads a lot of complex emotions from him. This is all in reference to the events of Turnabout Memories (as well as Bridge to the Turnabout to a degree).

References to popular culture

• Upon discovering the body, Wright says to Cykes: "Nice work, Athena. Your face only turned five shades of pale. I was expecting fifty." This is a reference to the title of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey.

• When Cykes and Justice are talking to Myriam Scuttlebutt, Justice says "Myriam, wouldn't you feel better if you came out of the dark and into the light?" This is a reference to the Falco album Out of the Dark (Into the Light).

• There are numerous references to the Metal Gear video game series, in particular the cardboard boxes often used in the series as mobile disguises, that revolve around the cardboard box-wearing Myriam Scuttlebutt. The first is when Cykes and Justice are discussing her, in which Cykes thinks "(So, this is the future cardboard box technology has afforded us, huh...)". The second is, when Justice notices the box, he asks for it to not have a snake under it (referring to the code name used by the main character of the Metal Gear series, Solid Snake). The final reference is after Woods' acquittal, when Cykes thinks to herself "(Myriam's got this Tactical Espionage Action stuff down to a science...)"; a reference to the "Tactical Espionage Action" tagline commonly used for the Metal Gear series.

• Newman calls Prosecutor Blackquill "Birdman" at one point during the first day of the trial due to his pet hawk, Taka. This may be a reference to the Adult Swim animated television comedy series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.

• At the beginning of the second day of trial, Cykes states that the "Cykes Brigade is psyched!" This may be a reference to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya franchise, in which the titular character's club is named the SOS Brigade. Incidentally, Wendee Lee, the English voice actress for Athena Cykes, also voices Haruhi Suzumiya in the English dub of the anime adaptation.

• While Cykes is rebuilding the Lady Justice statue, Justice asks what is she doing, to which she replies "Don't stop me now. The artist inside me wants to get out and have a good time". This is a reference to the first two lines ("Don't stop me now, I'm having having such a good time") of the chorus of the rock song "Don't Stop Me Now" by the band Queen.

• As Cykes is questioning O'Conner about why he was running late, she at one point says "Et tu, Your Honor...?!" to the judge. This is a paraphrase of "Et tu, Brute?" (commonly translated as "You too, Brutus?", but literally meaning "And you, Brutus?"), which is commonly believed to be the last words of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar upon seeing that even his friend Marcus Brutus had joined those who had come to assassinate him. However, there actually no evidence that the man ever said those words, with the quotation actually coming from the last words of Julius Caesar in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare.

Note

• This is the first, and to date only, case in which the lead prosecutor has left the courtroom without permission.