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| Turnabout Legacy |
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| Eddie Fender |
| Hey, Gregory... I'm... going back there. Tomorrow. With your boy. I'm finally going to find out what happened eighteen years ago... |
Episode 3: Turnabout Legacy is the third episode of Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit. Eddie Fender takes Miles Edgeworth to a mansion once owned by Samson Tangaroa and tells him about the IS-7 Incident. This incident is Gregory Edgeworth's final case, in which he attempts to clear Tangaroa of a murder charge while confronting the infamous Manfred von Karma. As the story is being told, someone attempts to murder one of the people involved in the IS-7 Incident, and Eustace Winner and Verity Gavèlle take over the ensuing investigation. In order to solve the case, Miles must connect the two incidents together, and finish what his father started.
Gregory Edgeworth's case is chronologically the earliest playable case in the modern-era Ace Attorney series, a title previously held by Turnabout Reminiscence. Peculiarly, however, this is only the first of three backstories given for the fateful trial between Gregory and von Karma in the broader Ace Attorney media, the others being in the film and Gyakuten Saiban - Jikan Ryokosha no Gyakuten. The dual-case format is reminiscent of Turnabout Succession, which also featured a past case and a present case that are connected. Whereas Turnabout Succession uses the MASON System to weave between past and present, Turnabout Legacy devotes entire acts to each case.
Acts and chapters[]
| Act | Chapter | Type |
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| "Beginning" | "Opening" | / |
| "The IS-7 Incident" | Investigation | |
| "Tyrell Badd's Argument" | Argument | |
| "Investigating Ms. Scone's Room" | Investigation | |
| "Manfred von Karma's Assertion" | Argument | |
| Middle | "An Incident Occurs" | / |
| "What Larry is Hiding" | Mind Chess | |
| "Winner's Winning Deduction" | Argument | |
| "Ms. Scone's Testimony" | / | |
| "Crime Scene Re-Creation" | / | |
| "A Body Appears" | / | |
| "The Events of 18 Years Past" | / | |
| "Frost's Alter Ego and Bound's Confession" | / | |
| "Latter" | "Interview with Mr. Tangaroa" | |
| "Investigating the Fountain Room, Pt. 1" | Investigation | |
| "Gusto and Frost's Connection" | Argument | |
| "The Mistery of the Missing Body" | / | |
| "The Identity of the Body" | / | |
| "Investigating the Fountain Room, Pt. 2" | Investigation | |
| "Judy Bound's Testimony, Pt. 1" | Argument | |
| "Judy Bound's Testimony, Pt. 2" | Argument | |
| "Where the Body Was Hidden" | / | |
| "Her Real Goal" | / | |
| "The Commottee's View" | Argument | |
| "Motive for Murder" | / | |
| "Why They Worked Together" | Mind Chess | |
| "Confrontation - Carmelo Gusto, Pt. 1" | Argument | |
| "After the Betrayal" | / | |
| "Confrontation - Carmelo Gusto, Pt. 2" | Argument |
Timeline[]
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| Date | Event type / related incident | Description | Notes | |
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| March 26, 2019 | The Captive Turnabout & Turnabout Legacy |
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| April 2, 2019 | Turnabout Legacy | Carmelo Gusto triggers a poison gas trap but survives. | N/A |
Apr. 2, 2019: Reminiscence[]
The Bake 'n' Bop title card.
Eddie Fender was watching a recording of the show Bake 'n' Bop. The show featured Samson Tangaroa and Judy Bound singing and dancing while baking a cake. Fender then turned to a photo of him and Gregory Edgeworth, and announced his intention to bring Gregory's son to that fateful crime scene.
- April 2nd, 10:05 a.m.
Fender took Miles Edgeworth to the Zodiac Hall. Upon entering the Fountain room, Fender asked Edgeworth about whether he had heard about his father's last case, the IS-7 Incident. Miles responded that his mentor Manfred von Karma had given him the files on the case as soon as he had become a prosecutor. He had also taken another look at those files after Fender's invitation. He had vague memories of watching his father battling it out in court against von Karma, only to lose in the end. Fender then began to explain what he knew as the truth of the events from 18 years ago, when Fender had just started at Edgeworth and Co. Law Offices.
Dec. 24, 2000: The IS-7 investigation[]
- 5:00 p.m.
Gregory Edgeworth and Eddie Fender waited in the detention center for their new client, who had contacted them as soon as he was arrested. Fender was upset about somebody getting murdered on Christmas Eve. Their client then arrived, and the three introduced each other. Fender was awed that he was meeting the great confectioner Samson Tangaroa, and the two, along with the guard on Tangaroa's side of the window, even sang and danced to the Bake 'n' Bop theme song.
Edgeworth questioned Tangaroa to learn more about him and the crime. Tangaroa had held a dessert contest, and during the judging, the body of Artie Frost had been discovered in one of Tangaroa's desserts. Edgeworth wanted to be sure that Tangaroa was innocent, and he asked point-blank whether he could trust the confectioner. Tangaroa looked into Edgeworth's eyes and replied that he would never kill anyone. Satisfied, Edgeworth agreed to take the case, and headed off to Tangaroa's mansion with Fender.
- 6:00 p.m.
Edgeworth and Fender at the fountain room.
When they arrived, Edgeworth and Fender were greeted by Judy Bound, caretaker of the mansion and Tangaroa's assistant and show partner. Fender saw another chance to dance to the Bake 'n' Bop theme song. After that, Bound offered Ceylon tea to both guests. Edgeworth remarked at the designs of the cups, and noticed that the saucers were chilled. Bound explained that the tea set was made in France by Paul Halique.
Bound was the one to discover the body. During the middle of judging, she had heard something breaking from Tangaroa's room, and had peeked inside to discover the body inside Tangaroa's dessert entry. She asked Edgeworth and Fender to save Tangaroa, and then left to deliver tea elsewhere. Edgeworth and Fender headed for the crime scene.
The crime scene[]
- 6:30 p.m.
The two entered Tangaroa's room and met Detective Tyrell Badd, who was conversing with a chef. The detective gave them a reception as cold as the room itself, and declined to allow them to investigate the crime scene, saying that he was suspicious of defense attorneys. Edgeworth insisted that he merely wanted to confirm whether his trust in his client was justified. Realizing that Edgeworth would not give this up, Badd reluctantly allowed them a supervised investigation.
Edgeworth took a look at the counters used by Tangaroa for his cooking. Among the wares was a moon-shaped teapot similar to what Bound had used earlier. Badd noted that the tea set was the only thing on the counter with Tangaroa's fingerprints. There was also a forensics team in the room, examining a stream that apparently ran throughout the mansion and was connected to the fountain in the room.
The seal found by Edgeworth in the chest.
Tangaroa's chocolate ship dominated the room, and an outline of the body was seen inside a chocolate treasure chest beside the ship. The chest was closed, but its lid was broken, exposing the interior. Edgeworth saw that one of the stands that supported the ship was broken. This had caused the ship to topple over, and the bow of the ship had fallen onto the chest, breaking the lid. Peering inside the chest, Edgeworth found a seal engraved with a symbol and the letters "PH". Edgeworth now knew the source of the ruckus that Bound had heard, and he wondered what had caused the stand to break.
Edgeworth asked Badd for information about the victim's death. Badd showed him a photo of the body, which Bound had taken with an instant camera, and said that the victim had been struck with a blunt object. However, Badd told Edgeworth that the lawyer would have to ask the prosecutor in charge about the murder weapon. Looking at the photo, Edgeworth noticed that the area of chocolate that was stained with blood was missing from the scene. Badd inquired with forensics about this, only to learn that none of the technicians had touched the blood.
Edgeworth approached the chef, whose name was Carmelo Gusto. He was one of the participants in the dessert contest, and his specialty was in making candy using candy pumps. He was planning to head for Zheng Fa once the case was concluded in order to improve his confectionery design skills, which were lacking as of yet. In the meantime, the police were keeping him around as a consultant on the sweets in the mansion.
Gusto explained that the goal of the contest was to craft artistic works made entirely out of sweets, and that the prize was the "Ultimate Cookbook". Edgeworth was given a copy of the rules, which read:
| Rules:
2. Non-confectionery items may not be used as decoration. Stands and display materials will be provided. 3. Contestants may not enter another contestant's room until judging has been completed. |
Gusto said that neither he nor any of the other chefs had learned of Frost's death until after the judging had completed. Each of the four chefs had a room to themselves, with Samson Tangaroa at the left, followed by Carmelo Gusto, Delicia Scone and Artie Frost. Tangaroa had begun judging at 3 p.m. with Gusto. Scone's sweets were said to be cream-based, while Frost's works were sculptures made out of frozen desserts. Gusto described Scone as a woman who would do anything to win. Badd added that the body had been discovered during Gusto's judging.
Edgeworth then inquired on the conversation between Badd and Gusto that he had interrupted. The detective answered that he had noticed something off about a chocolate frame on one of the walls. Inside the frame was the Ultimate Cookbook, which all of the contestants had known about in advance. Edgeworth noticed that there was a leaf-shaped cavity on the lower-left corner of the frame. In fact, Badd had discovered that every dessert in the room had something missing. Edgeworth considered this fact along with the broken stand, and he conjectured that someone had ransacked the room. There was also a set of chocolate finger marks on the frame, but it had no fingerprints.
Near the chocolate frame, a control panel for temperature and lighting was hidden beneath the wall. It was currently set at 15 °C (59 °F), which Gusto explained was the ideal temperature for maintaining the integrity of chocolate. He added that cream has to be kept at 10 °C (50 °F), while he only need to avoid moist air and high temperatures for candies. This information seemed to impress Badd greatly, but Gusto insisted that all this was basic knowledge that any dessert chef should know. The control panel could set the temperature as low as -30 °C (-22 °F).
Badd told Edgeworth that it was clear to him that Tangaroa was the killer. All the rooms in the mansion were lockable from the inside. There was only one key that could unlock them from the outside, and only Tangaroa had it. Edgeworth asked Badd for further details on his reasoning.
Badd's theory centered on an alleged plan by Tangaroa to hide his crime and make it appear as if it had occurred during the judging. Part of his argument was that Tangaroa had intentionally left his room unlocked and destroyed the lid on the chocolate chest, so that the body could be seen. Edgeworth rebutted that Bound had entered Tangaroa's room upon hearing the ship break the chest open, which meant that Tangaroa, who had been in Gusto's room during that incident, could not have caused it. Badd countered that Tangaroa could have designed the stand to break while he was judging, though he had no evidence for this. Edgeworth asked whether the damaged sweets had fingerprints, but Badd was not sure, so he asked forensics to dust for prints on them. In the process, Scone's fingerprints were discovered.
Badd decided to question Scone, and Edgeworth asked if he could accompany the detective. Badd said that it was not his duty to permit that, but would anyway since Edgeworth had been so helpful. One of the policemen warned Badd that the prosecutor was still investigating Scone's room, but Badd replied that he and the prosecutor did not exactly see eye to eye. Badd then decided to tell Edgeworth who his opponent was: Manfred von Karma, an infamous prosecutor who had not seen a single loss in 24 years, and who was said to be willing to do anything for a guilty verdict. Edgeworth was undeterred, and stated that he did not judge people by their reputations. He would see for himself what von Karma was really like.
Delicia Scone's castle[]
- Contest Hall, Delicia Scone's Room, 7:30 p.m.
Tyrell Badd and the lawyers were greeted by Delicia Scone and her model castle made out of cream as they entered her contest room. Manfred von Karma stepped out of the castle as the others were talking; Gregory Edgeworth attempted to exchange introductions, but the prosecutor replied that he did not care for the names of mere defense attorneys, who only existed to be crushed by him. Although it seemed that the prosecutor did not want to share information with Edgeworth, he allowed him to investigate, then left to investigate Gusto's room. Badd then explained that he was not the original detective assigned to the case, and had not gotten an opportunity to investigate. Although he wished to investigate by himself first, Edgeworth convinced him to investigate together, as before.
As Edgeworth looked to investigate the castle, Fender commented that Scone's entry looked like something out of a fairy tale. This led Edgeworth to remark that his son, who was in elementary school, was more interested in law books than in fairy tales. Edgeworth worried that his son would have trouble making friends. Fender offered his friendship, but Edgeworth replied that he might be more like an older brother.
Everyone had noticed that Scone's room was warm compared to Tangaroa's room, and indeed, the control panel in the room was set to 20 °C (68 °F). Edgeworth peered into the opened doors and noticed that there were objects inside. Badd stepped closer to take a look, and he was surprised to find his shoes sinking into the melting cream. Edgeworth said that the temperature of the room was too high for fresh cream, which was why it was melting. Badd noted that the doorknob of the castle doors was still firm despite this, and he checked it to find that it was not made of sweets at all. In fact, the castle and the fairy decorations were all made from ordinary inedible materials, covered with a layer of cream. The entire entry was faked!
Inside the castle, Badd found four blue cloths and two large, yellow rocks on top of hexagonal pedestals. Moreover, the castle gate consisted of two columns with hexagonal cavities. Edgeworth wondered if the rocks were supposed to be placed on top of the columns. He asked Scone about this, but she seemed hesitant to say anything, and Badd correctly guessed that von Karma had told her not to talk. Nonetheless, Scone explained that the rocks were actually lamps made from rock salt. Scone decided to explain the cloths by showing rather than telling, and had Badd and the officers in the room set it up.
The bloodstained lamp.
As it turned out, the items inside the castle were used to adorn the room and castle itself, enhancing the fantasy look. The cloths hung over the fairies and glowed. However, one of the cloths seemed to be missing. Scone said that the cloths were special fluorescent cloths that glowed using rainbow light projection devices, and confirmed that one cloth and one rainbow light device were missing. Moreover, the salt lamps were not lighting up like they were supposed to. The lamp on the left had a bloodstain on it, and Edgeworth deduced that this was the murder weapon. Forensics confirmed that the blood belonged to the victim.
Edgeworth questioned Scone about the incident. She had begun making her desserts around 10 a.m., followed by having afternoon tea for an hour with Tangaroa and Bound starting at 1:30 p.m., on the lawn outside the mansion. Edgeworth confronted her on her fingerprints at the crime scene. Scone was forced to admit that she had been there. She claimed that it was to study Tangaroa's sweets, and she confessed to eating some of the sweets inside, including the boat stand.
Edgeworth also pointed out that inedible props like the lamps and cloths were against the rules. This seemed very suspicious, especially combined with the fact that her sweets were faked as well. Edgeworth asked Scone why she had set the temperature control to room temperature, and it seemed that she did not know that a lower temperature was needed to maintain the integrity of the cream. Lacking such basic knowledge, Edgeworth had to conclude that Scone was not really a confectioner, and that she had an ulterior motive for entering the contest.
Edgeworth decided that he needed to speak with von Karma. The prosecutor should at least have found the murder weapon, but he had left Scone alone. Badd agreed with Edgeworth, and they and Eddie Fender headed outside to the fountain room.
- 8:05 p.m.
When Gregory Edgeworth confronted Manfred von Karma in the fountain room, the latter seemed to have expected that the former had found the murder weapon. Von Karma argued that Tangaroa had used the salt lamp as the weapon and then had brought it back to Scone's room. This, he asserted, had all been done to draw suspicion away from him, and to remove any evidence pointing to a specific killer from the scene. Edgeworth rebutted that something pointing to a specific killer actually had been left at the scene: the blue cloth that had been wrapped around the body. He explained that the blue cloth was the luminous cloth that had gone missing from Scone's collection.
However, von Karma seemed to have anticipated this argument. He revealed that Tangaroa had disqualified Scone for using inedible props, and had confiscated the lamps and cloths and stored them in his room. Thus, Tangaroa was the only one with access to the murder weapon. Von Karma also revealed that only Tangaroa's and Scone's fingerprints had been found on the salt lamp. Edgeworth realized that von Karma had set him up the whole time by allowing him to investigate the crime scene.
Nonetheless, Edgeworth pointed to the unidentified finger marks on the Ultimate Cookbook, opening up the possibility that the real killer had worn gloves and thus had not left any prints on the murder weapon. Von Karma was surprised that Badd had allowed the lawyers to investigate the crime scene. He claimed that Tangaroa had left the finger marks, but Edgeworth replied that the evidence for such a claim was lacking. Edgeworth turned his attention to Scone, saying that her behavior and lack of basic knowledge on desserts indicated that she was not even a real confectioner. He informed von Karma that Scone's rule violations went far beyond the inedible props, and that her entire entry was just a mannequin covered in cream.
Scone finally confessed that she was a pharmacist, not a confectioner. She claimed that she had joined the contest for a chance to eat Tangaroa's sweets. As for the finger marks, it was apparent that they did not belong to her, since she had left fingerprints on the other desserts in the room. She also admitted to entering the victim's room to sample his sweets, and said that no one else had been there. She complained that the part of Frost's entry that she had sampled had tasted salty. Von Karma decided that he had to investigate Frost's room to verify Scone's testimony. Edgeworth asked if he could follow the prosecutor, and von Karma replied that the lawyer may follow, but that he would not be allowed to investigate.
- Contest Hall, Frost's Room, 9:00 p.m.
Inside Frost's room was a sight that neither lawyer nor prosecutor had expected; Frost's sherbet sculptures had disappeared without a trace.
April 2, 2019: The poison gas incident[]
- 10:15 a.m.
Eddie Fender decided to put off the rest of his story for later. Miles Edgeworth was surprised at the amount of detail in the telling, none of which was mentioned in the case files. Fender then explained that the art gallery they were in was Samson Tangaroa's former mansion, and that it was exhibiting Artie Frost's dessert from the IS-7 Incident. Fender did not know whether it was a replica or the real thing, so he had come here to check it out. He attempted to open the door to the far right, into the Winter Wing, but it was locked. Edgeworth informed him that the pamphlet that he had obtained at the entrance indicated that the Winter Wing was through the second door from the right. Fender was puzzled at this arrangement, but he paid it no mind and proceeded to the Winter Wing.
- 10:20 a.m.
Edgeworth and Fender taking a picture.
The Winter Wing was very cold. Fender found the temperature control to the room, but it was locked. Edgeworth recalled that the pamphlet said that the Winter Wing was set to -3 °C (27 °F).
There were sculptures of the winter constellations Taurus and Gemini, as well as a hollow ice block with the Pleiades depicted on its surface. As Edgeworth looked at the sculptures, he remarked to himself that he was looking at something that his father never got to see. Suddenly, Fender took a photo of the two of them with an instant camera. He then proceeded to take more pictures of the room, including the sculptures.
- 10:30 a.m.
Suddenly, a scream was heard from outside. Edgeworth and Fender bolted outside to find Larry Butz on the floor, with an unconscious man in front of him. Butz was terrified, saying that he had seen something that no one should ever have to see. As two other people started to gather, Edgeworth realized that the far right door to the Autumn Wing was open, and that poison gas was coming out from it. He quickly warned everyone to stay away from the Autumn Wing door.
- 10:42 a.m.
The victim was Carmelo Gusto, one of the chefs from the IS-7 Incident. He was rushed to an infirmary in the art gallery, and it looked like he was going to survive. Edgeworth turned his attention to Butz, asking what he had seen. Butz claimed that he had simply been terrified at the sudden sight of a man falling unconscious.
One of the other witnesses to the poison gas incident then arrived to serve them tea. She was Judy Bound, who had spent the last 18 years in show business before returning to Tangaroa's former mansion as its curator and receptionist. Apparently, the other witness was Delicia Scone and she was in the infirmary. It seemed that everyone still alive who was linked to the IS-7 Incident had returned here. Bound served them the Ceylon tea and left to inform the other visitors of what was going on. Fender remarked that the saucers were warm this time, as opposed to the chilled saucers from 18 years ago.
Dick Gumshoe and Kay Faraday soon arrived, worried about Edgeworth. The four decided to conduct a preliminary investigation in earnest. Gumshoe put on a gas mask and entered the Autumn Wing. It seemed that the sculptures and room temperature in the Autumn Wing were identical to the ones in the Winter Wing. The floor was wet, indicating that the sprinkler system had been activated. Apparently, the sprinkler system would send an alarm to the security room when it detected smoke or fire. The sprinklers could only be manually activated from the security room, and Bound was the only one working in the art gallery.
- 11:15 a.m.
Edgeworth decided to confront Butz again on what he had seen. However, he knew that a direct confrontation would be fruitless, so he used a "Mind Chess" approach.
"Larry's Goal"[]
Knowing how restless and troublesome Butz was, Edgeworth began by asking why he was in the art gallery in the first place, hoping that he would eventually calm down. Indeed, Butz reacted defensively at first, but during his ramblings, he said that his girlfriend Lulu liked his art. Butz had come to the art gallery to paint her astrological sign, Gemini. Edgeworth concluded from this that Butz had come to see the Gemini sculpture.
"His Actions at the Hall"[]
When Butz realized that Edgeworth had just played him, he decided that he would just remain silent. Edgeworth switched up his questioning tactics in response, becoming more aggressive. Edgeworth learned that Butz had not gotten a pamphlet, and had not even paid the admission fee. When pressed on this, Butz continued that he had not seen anybody at the reception booth, not even Bound, who presumably had left to turn on the sprinklers. Butz then lamented that the Winter Wing had been completely ruined. Edgeworth was surprised that Butz even knew about it, and concluded that the Winter Wing had been his goal all along.
The Winter Wing[]
Edgeworth noted how easily Butz confessed, but he still had to be careful. He asked whether Butz had entered the Winter Wing. It seemed that he had tried to get in, but could not. Butz explained that Gusto had fallen out from the Winter Wing door. Edgeworth realized that Butz, like Fender, had mistaken the Autumn Wing for the Winter Wing, and that Butz had intended to sketch the Gemini Sculpture.
Edgeworth finally asked Butz directly about what he had seen in the Autumn Wing. He pointed out that Butz had intended to sketch the Gemini Sculpture for his girlfriend, so he must have seen something. Butz started to panic, and insisted that there was no evidence that he had seen anything scary. Edgeworth replied that Butz had just told him that he had seen something scary.
The Autumn Wing[]
Larry Butz's drawing of the Pisces statue.
Butz finally decided to cooperate. He said that his eyes had been fixated on the Gemini Sculpture, which Edgeworth found odd, since Butz had really looked into the Autumn Wing. Butz decided to show Edgeworth a sketch of what he had really seen. The statue depicted in the sketch seemed to be weeping tears of blood. Butz said that the lower half of the statue had "transformed" into a fish, indicating that it was really the Pisces statue.
As Edgeworth pondered what Butz's revelations meant, Gumshoe informed him that it was safe for him to enter the Autumn Wing. Gumshoe also reported that a recently used gas burner had been found at the scene. There was also a fallen stepladder at the scene, and Gumshoe explained that someone must have used it to open the lid of the case containing the Pisces sculpture, releasing the poison gas. The Capricorn sculpture beside it was partially covered in a luminous cloth, the same kind that had been used by Delicia Scone 18 years ago. The two other statues were fully covered by luminous cloth, and Gumshoe removed them to reveal the Aquarius and Aries statues. Edgeworth realized that the Pisces statue had also been partially covered, and the "transformation" had just been that cloth falling off. It also seemed as if the Autumn Wing had been set up to appear like the Winter Wing.
Before an investigation could get underway, Eustace Winner and Verity Gavèlle arrived at the scene. Edgeworth informed them that he was only here to assist in the case as a witness to the crime. This seemed to satisfy Winner, who proceeded to try to explain what he had learned from the doctor at the infirmary, but he had to call the doctor again to confirm the information. Gavèlle told Edgeworth that the poison gas had been created through a chemical reaction with Ubiquium and Asphyxion. Asphyxion in particular was not a chemical that could be obtained by just anyone.
"Mr. Winner's Shining Logic"[]
Winner accused Butz of the crime because he was the only one in the art gallery with a substance that contained Ubiquium, namely paint. Edgeworth pointed out that this did not account for the Asphyxion, and indeed it seemed as if Winner had misheard the report on how the poison gas had been made. Edgeworth asserted that the main concern at the moment was the mechanism to start the poison gas. He brought out Butz's sketch of the Pisces statue, and he said that the tears were actually drops of Ubiquium. He then pointed to the pink liquid on the floor in the sketch, suggesting that this was the mixture of the red Ubiquium and the white Asphyxion.
Edgeworth's hypothesis did not convince Gavèlle. The pink liquid could have come from anywhere, and the sketch had been drawn by a suspect, making it unreliable. Moreover, Edgeworth had failed to establish whether Butz had entered the Autumn Wing. In response, Butz stated that the door had been locked until Gusto had fallen through it, and both Fender and Edgeworth could vouch for this fact. Butz could not have been in the Autumn Wing earlier, since he had not inhaled any poison gas. Gavèlle relented and decided to fetch Delicia Scone for more information. As she and Winner left, Edgeworth wondered whether Gavèlle had suspected Scone from the beginning.
Delicia Scone suspected[]
- 12:05 p.m.
Scone arrived and was introduced to everyone. She said that she had come to the art gallery to meet with Bound, whom she had befriended. She displayed her knowledge of Ubiquium and Asphyxion, as befitting of a pharmacist. She also revealed that the company that she worked for produced the insecticide Infesticide Ultra, which had Asphyxion as its active ingredient. It was notable that Scone had access to heavily restricted substances like Asphyxion and Infesticide Ultra.
Meanwhile, Gumshoe had investigated the sculpture cases and found that the lid of the Pisces statue had traces of Ubiquium on it. Scone pointed out that, at a temperature of -3 °C (27 °F), the Ubiquium would have frozen to the lid. Edgeworth suggested using Little Thief to find out what had happened, but Gavèlle would not allow it until Edgeworth could tell her who had set off the poison gas. Edgeworth responded that only the victim could have set it off.
Faraday used Little Thief and everyone examined the lid of the Pisces statue. The lid was cracked, and Gumshoe said that the lid did not show signs of being hit from the outside. Edgeworth concluded that the cracked lid was due to thermal fracturing. He realized that Gusto had used the gas burner to open the lid, since it had been frozen shut. This had caused the Ubiquium to drip to the bottom of the statue and mix with the Asphyxion.
With that matter settled, Winner and Gavèlle moved to accuse Scone of the crime. Apart from her having access to Infesticide Ultra, a bottle of the insecticide had been found in Gusto's pocket, bearing Scone's fingerprints. Moreover, as a friend of Bound's, Scone had had prior access to the Autumn Wing. In an attempt to defend herself, Scone brought out a theft report that she had issued the day before, and said that her bottle of Infesticide Ultra had been stolen a week earlier.
Edgeworth discussed the matter with Fender. It would have been rather nonsensical for Scone to have committed the crime in the way that incriminated her the most. Instead, Bound was the only person who could have premeditated this complex crime. Edgeworth noticed that Fender seemed to have expected this conclusion. Meanwhile, Winner decided to speak with Bound next and, by Gavèlle's suggestion, had Gumshoe investigate the Winter Wing.
- 1:35 PM
A body in the fountain.
Gavèlle, Edgeworth and Faraday joined Winner to find that he intended to have his subordinates talk to Bound and get their report later. Disappointed, Faraday walked toward the fountain. Suddenly, a dead body floated up to the surface of the fountain! Before everyone could even digest this discovery, Gumshoe bolted out of the Winter Wing and said that the sculptures there had all disappeared! The connections and similarities to the IS-7 Incident were becoming all too clear. Fender decided to tell the rest of the story of Gregory Edgeworth's investigation.
Dec. 24, 2000: The mystery of the sculptures[]
- 9:05 p.m.
The 18-year-old photo.
Manfred von Karma had immediately kicked Gregory Edgeworth and Eddie Fender out of Artie Frost's room. They and Judy Bound ate chocolate together in the fountain room. Edgeworth noted that it was sweet yet misshapen. Bound said that she had made the chocolates herself, and that she would regularly make chocolate for Samson Tangaroa as well, since chocolate was his favorite food. Bound explained that she had been left on Tangaroa's doorstep as a child, and Tangaroa had raised her, so she lived her life trying to make him happy.
Edgeworth asked Bound if she knew anything about the victim. She claimed she did not know much about him, but she had taken a photo of his dessert entry. Fender noticed that the lyre on the Gemini statue had no strings, and Bound said that it seemed unusual for Frost to make a mistake like that. Edgeworth's attention was caught by this, having just established she was unfamiliar with the man, but she claimed that this was just a feeling that she had about him.
The photo had been taken with an instant camera, the only camera in the mansion. Bound explained that Tangaroa took photos of the entries, but he had run out of film. He had had Bound fetch more film, and it was on her way back to him that she had heard the ship crash and subsequently discovered the body. Bound had kept the camera with her since then. Fender asked for a demonstration of the camera, and so Bound took a photo of him and Edgeworth.
Just then, Tyrell Badd and Delicia Scone came out from Frost's room, saying that they had been kicked out. Badd said that it did not matter, since the crime scene had been investigated. The police had heard from Bound that she had seen Carmelo Gusto entering the victim's room, so von Karma was questioning him. He was under suspicion for melting Frost's desserts.
Badd offered to show Edgeworth the photo of Frost's room as it was now. He explained that he was not content with being von Karma's lap dog, and that if the prosecutor would not let him investigate, then he would do whatever he liked, such as team up with the defense. The photo showed that the power cords running the refrigeration of the desserts had been pulled out. As they were commenting on the desserts, Scone revealed that she had eaten the strings on the lyre, and repeated that they had tasted salty.
Scone also mentioned that she had seen the initials "PH" engraved on both sherbet sculptures. Edgeworth realized that the man who had made the sculptures had also made Tangaroa's teapot and owned the seal containing the initials "PH". Artie Frost and Paul Halique were the same person. As Badd left to confirm this with the police, Bound admitted that she had realized who Frost was after seeing the seal.
Edgeworth then asked when Bound had taken the photo of the sculptures to begin with. After Bound had refilled the camera, she had taken the photo of the sculptures, the photo of the body, and the photo of Edgeworth and Fender. Yet, only three out of the maximum of 20 photos' worth of film remained. Bound relented and revealed the 14 photos that were unaccounted for. They were all photos of the sculptures from various angles.
Badd asked whether Bound had melted the sculptures. She replied that she must have accidentally unplugged the power cords, perhaps by getting one of her feet caught in them. Edgeworth was skeptical of this admission, but with no way of demonstrating that it was a lie, he had to leave it alone for now. Badd then gave Edgeworth all of the photos.
Von Karma and Gusto then appeared. Bound told them that she had melted the sculptures, and apologized to them for the trouble that this had caused them. Edgeworth asked Gusto what he had been doing in the victim's room, but von Karma cut him off. He also told Bound come with him, as she was under suspicion as a complicit in the murder. In fact, he took everyone with him, leaving only Edgeworth and Fender behind. It could not be helped. The two decided to retire for the day, and visit their client first thing tomorrow.
Dec. 25, 2000[]
- 10:00 a.m.
Gregory Edgeworth and Eddie Fender found Judy Bound waiting in the visitor's room of the detention center. The three talked for a while, and then Tyrell Badd appeared on the other side of the glass, bringing Samson Tangaroa with him. Tangaroa's black hair had turned white, and he looked very exhausted from the interrogation. Apparently, the detective who had originally been in charge of the investigation was doing the interrogations. Edgeworth took out the chocolates that Bound had given him, but said that there were rules against giving outside objects to suspects. Badd took it upon himself to give the chocolates to Tangaroa, and warned them not to tell anyone.
Tangaroa ate the chocolates and sprang back to his usual lively self. He thanked Edgeworth and Badd, commenting that the prison food was completely tasteless. Badd mentioned that the prison mainly served salt beef and stew. Badd then told Edgeworth that an investigation on Artie Frost revealed that he was, in fact, the true identity of Paul Halique. Halique was notable not just for his sculptures, but for his greed as well, and he would charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single sculpture. Badd soon had to leave, so he said his goodbyes while Edgeworth wondered about what he had just learned.
Edgeworth asked Tangaroa for more information about the contest finalists and their entries. Delicia Scone had naturally been disqualified for her finals entry. Carmelo Gusto's semifinals entry had been exquisite, but his finals entry had been lacking in both design and taste. Moreover, the semifinals entries of Gusto and Frost had tasted exactly the same, despite having different designs. As for Frost's finals entry, both the design and the taste had been excellent.
Edgeworth confirmed that Tangaroa had eaten what Scone had left of the strings on the lyre, but once again, he had not tasted the salt. This confirmed to Tangaroa that he had a form of "dissociated taste disorder", which prevented him from tasting salt. Edgeworth advised Tangaroa to get medical treatment for this condition, but Tangaroa replied that he had a recipe for curing it in his mansion. Bound protested, but Tangaroa told her that there was no point in hiding the recipe from his lawyer.
As the meeting wrapped up, Tangaroa told Bound to live her own life instead of living solely for his sake. This greatly upset Bound, who bolted out of the room, crying. Tangaroa explained that everything that Bound did was to make him happy. He wanted Bound to do what she wanted to do, instead of wasting her life on him.
Before Edgeworth left, he warned Tangaroa that the police and prosecution would be looking to get a confession out of him. Edgeworth could take measures to prevent the interrogations from getting too bad, but a confession would give Manfred von Karma a significant advantage. Fender promised that he would visit every day. Edgeworth assured Tangaroa that he would get be able to save him, as long as Tangaroa believed in Edgeworth to the bitter end.
- 11:03 a.m.
When Edgeworth and Fender arrived at Tangaroa's mansion, Badd informed them that they were only allowed to investigate the room, and that the police and Bound were the only people around. Apparently, von Karma was nervous because he still had not received an autopsy report. Undeterred, Edgeworth went over to a forensics officer at the fountain. Badd asked the officer what he had found, and the officer replied that traces of chocolate, sherbet and blood were in the fountain water. Edgeworth remembered that a piece of chocolate had been taken out of the chocolate chest where the victim's body had been found. Badd ordered a comparison test between the blood from the fountain and the the murder weapon, and they indeed matched.
Edgeworth decided to talk to Bound. She had fetched a photo that she had taken of the semifinals entries. Edgeworth asked her whether there had been any differences between the semifinals and the finals other than what they already knew. Bound replied that Gusto's son had been with him during the semifinals, but not during the finals.
It turned out that the recipe book for the cure for dissociated taste disorder was the Ultimate Cookbook, and that all of the finalists had known what it really was. Tangaroa was the only heir to the chair's position of the pharmaceutical company known as the Tangaroa Group, and Tangaroa's parents had left the book to him when they died. Tangaroa had known that the book was widely sought after, but not wanting to just give it away, he had decided to hold a contest to give it to somebody he acknowledged as a Tangaroa dessert chef. However, the other members of the Tangaroa Group had objected to this and sent Delicia Scone to win the book. Moreover, Bound had secretly helped Scone in order to protect Tangaroa. Edgeworth thanked her for the information and asked her for more tea.
Confrontation with von Karma[]
As Edgeworth wondered whether he could talk to Gusto, von Karma appeared. The prosecutor insisted that it was obvious that there was no relationship between Frost and Gusto, other than that they had participated in Tangaroa's contest. Edgeworth disagreed and, based on the semifinal entries, suggested that the two had collaborated with each other. At this, von Karma admitted that Gusto had already told him about this. Gusto and Frost had indeed cooperated until the day before the finals.
Edgeworth asked von Karma for more information on the collaboration. Von Karma claimed that the cooperation had lasted only until the semifinals, but Edgeworth retorted that Scone had tasted Frost's entry and claimed that it had been delicious. Von Karma dismissed this as coincidence and subjective opinion, especially given the salty lyre strings. Just then, Fender wondered how Frost had managed to make the sculptures on time to begin with, given all the time that had to be taken to wait for the sherbet to freeze. Edgeworth thanked Fender for this insight. He concluded that von Karma had been right, and that the sherbet must have been prepared in advance, during the semifinals.
Von Karma insisted that the relationship between Gusto and Frost was irrelevant to the case. Edgeworth pointed to the fact that Gusto had snuck into Frost's room at one point, but in response, von Karma presented a photo of the two men and their sons at an elementary school. He said that Gusto had merely sought to retrieve the photo, believing that he would be suspected if any connection had been found between him and the victim. With this, the prosecutor declared that he had no time for the attorneys and that he needed to get back to investigating.
Edgeworth found it suspicious that von Karma had any investigation left to do. He recalled the lack of an autopsy report, the blood found in the fountain, and the missing blood from the crime scene. Edgeworth deduced that somebody had to have removed the body after its discovery, since there was no point for the killer to have removed just the bloodstains and to have left the body to be discovered. Edgeworth had assumed that von Karma had been hiding information on the body from him, but now he realized that there was no information on the body to begin with. The killer, not the police, had removed the body.
Edgeworth confronted von Karma again, accusing him of hiding the fact that the body had never been retrieved, and making Badd "babysit" the attorneys so that he would not find out. Edgeworth pointed to the water composition test on the fountain to prove where the bloodstained chocolate had gone. Von Karma was unnerved that Badd had let Edgeworth obtain this information, and took him off the case. He also refused to admit to anything, saying that this matter would be decided in court.
With von Karma gone, there was nothing left for the lawyers to do but to prepare for the upcoming trial. Edgeworth hoped to expose the prosecutor's methods and clear Tangaroa's name. As part of this, he requested from Badd one last favor, a trump card that he could use in case all of his other efforts failed. Fender wanted to know what this trump card was, but Edgeworth replied that he would see it eventually in court, by his side.
IS-7 trial and aftermath[]
Gregory Edgeworth in court.
Manfred von Karma was far more ruthless than Gregory Edgeworth and Eddie Fender had expected. The trial ended up dragging on for a year due to the disappearance of the ice sculptures and von Karma's tactics. Edgeworth accused von Karma of lying about having the victim's body, but the prosecution squashed the argument with his police lackies and a faked autopsy report. On December 28, 2001, Samson Tangaroa finally gave in, falsely confessing to being an accomplice to the crime. In response, Edgeworth used his trump card: recordings of Tangaroa being forced to confess.
In the wake of this bombshell evidence, Detective Ian Sideman, the original detective in charge of the case, was dismissed from the force, and von Karma was penalized by the Chief Prosecutor. Even so, Tangaroa gave up and was declared guilty. Edgeworth went with his son to an elevator to go home, hoping to get a re-trial for Tangaroa in the future. However, he was found murdered in the elevator hours later.
Fender took over Tangaroa's case after Edgeworth's death, and von Karma assigned another prosecutor to replace him. However, the killer was never found, and so Tangaroa could not withdraw his confession. As Fender found out later, Tangaroa had been told that Judy Bound would be held under the same charges if he did not confess. After the trial, Fender visited Tangaroa as often as he could, though he ultimately could not visit every day. Bound, however, managed to visit every day, rain or shine.
Apr. 2, 2019: End[]
- 2:10 p.m.
By 2:10, Eddie Fender had finished telling Miles Edgeworth about the IS-7 investigation. He continued to describe the trial and the aftermath, saying that he regretted that he had not gone to go home with Gregory Edgeworth that day. He had also coped with the guilty verdict by directing his anger at Miles, who had eventually become a prosecutor under von Karma's tutelage. Edgeworth told the lawyer not to worry, and pulled out the files that von Karma had given him on the incident. Fender was shocked to find that Edgeworth's files claimed that Samson Tangaroa had been found guilty of murder, and he pulled files that he had obtained directly from the District Court's records to prove the discrepancy. He and Edgeworth realized that von Karma had altered the files so that the senior Edgeworth would not go looking for the real killer.
Fender finished his story with his taking over his mentor's case, as well has Bound's dedication to visiting Tangaroa. He reiterated that he was here now to find the truth. Edgeworth replied that, although as a prosecutor his path was different from his father's, as Miles Edgeworth he also wanted to find the truth behind his father's last case. Satisfied, Fender handed Edgeworth the original IS-7 case files and evidence.
Eustace Winner and Verity Gavèlle returned. Gavèlle initially refused Edgeworth's offer to investigate cooperatively as before, but Edgeworth demonstrated some of his value to the case by asserting that the recently discovered dead body was that of Artie Frost. Gavèlle protested that the police had taken possession the body from the IS-7 Incident, but Winner got a call from forensics soon afterward, which corroborated Edgeworth's claim. Manfred von Karma's actions in the IS-7 investigation were now highly suspect, which meant that Fender, as part of the IS-7 defense team that had originally made the accusation, was an important witness in the case. Moreover, Edgeworth was not only Gregory's son but also von Karma's adopted son, so he was highly important as well. Gavèlle relented and allowed them to investigate the fountain room.
Investigation[]
Edgeworth's goal was to find out where the victim's body and the Ubiquium had been hidden. His only clue thus far was that Ubiquium had a minty aroma.
Bound's tea set was still in the room. As he and Kay Faraday were talking about the tea set, Bound returned and served them more tea. Edgeworth noticed that this tea had a slightly different aroma from the tea that he had had in the morning. Larry Butz suddenly started yelling at Edgeworth for his nitpicky comments, and said that he would not talk to him anymore. Edgeworth began to suspect that both Butz and Bound were hiding something.
Edgeworth asked Bound about the ice sculptures. She explained that she had used her photos of Paul Halique's scupltures as a base to make replicas of his statues, and then to complete the entire zodiac. Edgeworth told her that the Autumn Wing seemed like it had been intentionally disguised as the Winter Wing, but Bound claimed that she must have gotten some designs mixed up. Edgeworth knew that she was lying, but left the issue alone.
Edgeworth looked for something to give him leverage over Butz. He found a puddle of tea on the floor, in which Faraday found a shard of pottery with the letters "PH" engraved in it. Edgeworth showed this to Butz and said that he was planning on bringing it to Gavèlle's attention if Butz refused to talk. Butz admitted that he had broken one of the teapots while trying to pour a cup of tea to give to Gavèlle.
Butz apologized to Bound for breaking her teapot. He added that he had looked under the service cart carrying the tea set and switched the teapot that he had found there with the one that he had broken. Edgeworth noticed that Bound seemed more surprised by the switched pots than the fact that Butz had broken one of them. Regardless, he asked Butz whether he had done anything else, and Butz annoyedly replied that he had spent the rest of the time sketching beautiful women.
Edgeworth deduced that the switch was the reason for the differing aromas between the morning and afternoon tea. He recalled that the afternoon tea had a fresh minty aroma. He concluded that Bound must have hidden the Ubiquium inside the afternoon teapot, explaining her unusual reactions to Butz's apology. However, Bound claimed that she did not know how to make the poison gas.
Edgeworth asked Delicia Scone about how one could obtain knowledge to prepare the poison gas, and she replied that the Ultimate Cookbook contained information on preparing Infesticide Ultra. Edgeworth then asked Fender what he knew about Bound. The attorney replied that Tangaroa's relatives had kicked her out of the mansion after the incident, and she had pursued her acting career in order to buy the mansion from them. She had even managed to get the Ultimate Cookbook back from the Tangaroa Group. Bound could have used the Ultimate Cookbook to produce the poison gas.
Edgeworth and Fender also discussed the connections between the poison gas case and the IS-7 Incident. Fender mentioned that Carmelo Gusto and Artie Frost each had a son, and that both boys had gone missing after the IS-7 Incident. Only Frost's son had ever been found, and Frost himself had never had a proper funeral. This allowed the police to cement their claim that the body was in their custody.
Edgeworth decided to see Butz's pictures, which depicted Bound, Gavèlle and Scone. Bound was depicted pushing the service cart, except the tablecloth covering it was light blue, whereas the tablecloth covering it now was white. Butz explained that Bound had emerged from the Winter Wing with a different service cart while he was cleaning up the mess that he had made. She had then entered the Summer Wing, and had come out later with a lift cart.
Edgeworth mentioned the picture to Bound. He had noticed that the cart in the picture had chocolates on it, rather than the tea set. Bound explained that she had been giving out chocolates to the people in the investigation. Edgeworth noticed that the chocolates had melted a little.
The lift cart in question was beside Fender near the tea puddle. Fender recalled that Artie Frost had used this cart 18 years ago to transport his sculptures. Edgeworth noticed that the lift cart's surface was wet.
Edgeworth talked with the forensics officer at the fountain and learned that Ubiquium, Asphyxion and sugar had been detected. He also got a call from Dick Gumshoe, saying that both cases in the Winter Wing had some amount of light blue liquid spilling from them, and the liquid contained the same sugar that had been detected in the fountain. Moreover, the liquid from the Gemini sculpture's case had traces of salt and blood. Finally, a rainbow light device had been found at the scene.
Edgeworth thanked Gumshoe for the information and turned to Scone to ask her about the decorations. Scone explained that she had given Bound four new salt lamps and the four luminous cloths in her possession. Edgeworth recalled that, while Scone was looking through her bag for her theft report, he had seen a luminous cloth in her bag. Scone said that she had found it in the fountain. Since the four cloths that she had given to Bound had been used in the Autumn Wing, she had realized that this cloth was the one that had gone missing 18 years ago.
Bound's testimonies[]
- 2:33 p.m.
Forensics confirmed that the teapot with the minty aroma had traces of Ubiquium on it. Scone then remembered that she had met with Bound a week earlier, and she had noticed that her Infesticide Ultra had been stolen the night afterward. Edgeworth also confronted Bound with the fact that she knew how to make the poison gas from the Ultimate Cookbook. Fender added that he found it hard to believe that anyone other than Bound could have set up the poison gas trap.
However, Bound retorted that all of these arguments were circumstantial, and that there was no solid evidence that she did any of these things. The Ubiquium could have come from anywhere. Anyone could have stolen the Infesticide Ultra. The gallery lacked security guards and cameras. Edgeworth realized that he had to connect Bound's actions between the IS-7 Incident and the present, in order to get to the truth.
Edgeworth asked Bound about her decision to open the art gallery, leading once again to her claim that she had prepared replicas of Paul Halique's sherbet statues. In response to this, Edgeworth presented the results of the analysis on the liquid in the Winter Wing. The analysis showed that the sugar in the "replicas" was the same as the sugar in the original statues from 18 years ago. Bound had not melted Frost's statues, but had hidden them somewhere else for 18 years.
Edgeworth went over what Bound had done 18 years ago, in order to determine when and how she had stolen the statues. Fender remembered that the saucers that she had served back then had been chilled. Edgeworth deduced that Bound had placed the statues, still inside their cases, onto the lift cart, then covered the cases with a tablecloth to disguise the setup as a service cart. In doing this, she could smuggle the statues out from right under Gregory's nose.
Bound admitted to stealing the statues and melting the unfinished works to make it appear as if all of the statues had melted. However, the statute of limitations on the theft had run out in 2007, so she could not be arrested for it. In response, Edgeworth revealed that Bound had also stolen Artie Frost's body. The body had been placed inside the Gemini statue, and the luminous cloth covering it had been used in conjunction with a rainbow light device to make the body look like part of the statue.
Edgeworth continued that, 18 years later, Bound had to move the body again to avert suspicion. She had used the same method as before, and dumped the body into the fountain network in one of the other rooms. The body had then made it to the fountain. The luminous cloth it was wrapped in had floated up first, to be discovered by Scone, and then the body had surfaced later after thawing.
Edgeworth added that Larry Butz had witnessed her pushing the "service cart" with the chocolates. The tablecloth covering the cart had looked blue due to the ice in direct contact with it underneath. Due to lack of time, Bound had used one of the hollow ice blocks in the Winter Wing to contain the body and complete the disguise as before. She had then continued to give out the chocolates from her pocket. As for the tablecloth, she was wearing it around her waist, and testing it for traces of sherbet would prove everything.
Bound finally admitted to setting up the poison gas trap. She had planted the Infesticide Ultra into Carmelo Gusto's pocket to make the incident look like a suicide, and failing that, the Infesticide Ultra itself would point to Scone. Bound added that she had stolen the sherbet sculptures and placed them in the mansion's freezer, not knowing that the body had been in there. It was only after buying back the mansion and looking in the freezer again that she had realized what she had unwittingly done.
Edgeworth realized that Bound's true motive was to find the real culprit behind the IS-7 Incident. The true culprit was the only other person who knew where the body really was, and Bound knew that he would come to the museum to find it. She had switched the Autumn Wing and the Winter Wing, and disguised the Autumn Wing, to protect the real Gemini sculpture. Fender told Bound that she could have come to him, but she replied that the statute of limitations had run out on the IS-7 Incident, and so she felt that she had to take matters into her own hands.
Initially, Bound had left only the Autumn Wing open. When opening the rest of the rooms to prepare for the museum's official opening, she had noticed that the Autumn Wing had been locked from the inside. The one who had looked inside the Pisces sculpture, believing that it was the Gemini sculpture, had triggered the trap. Edgeworth indicted Carmelo Gusto as the culprit behind the murder of Artie Frost.
The truth of 18 years ago[]
- 3:11 p.m.
Edgeworth wanted to reopen the IS-7 investigation, but Gavèlle had other plans. She said that the Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence wanted to arrest Bound for both incidents. Edgeworth wondered what the Committee was thinking as he questioned its actions. Gavèlle claimed that there was nothing further to investigate, anyway, but Edgeworth showed her the analysis of the liquid in the Winter Wing, which contained traces of blood. The investigation could not be considered complete without identifying whose blood this was.
Just then, Gusto returned to the fountain room, fully recovered. He learned that he was being suspected, but he claimed that he had simply opened the Pisces case to look at it up close. He asserted that he had no motive for murder. Fender recalled that there had been an issue with the partnership between the two. Edgeworth also recalled the mysterious finger marks with no fingerprints, suggesting that Gusto had tried to view the Ultimate Cookbook. Moreover, Samson Tangaroa had run out of film before Bound had used the camera.
Edgeworth asked Gusto what his father could not: What had happened to the partnership the day before the finals? Gusto claimed that it had ended peacefully, and moreover, he could not have murdered Frost while Tangaroa had been in the room. However, Edgeworth determined that Gusto had used the camera to photograph the contents of the Ultimate Cookbook. Fender recalled that neither Gusto nor Frost had participated in the afternoon tea. Thus, Gusto had at least had an opportunity to commit the murder.
Edgeworth asked Gusto why he had collaborated with Frost in the first place. Edgeworth let Gusto elaborate on their relationship prior to the contest. He had noticed that Gusto would pretend to meditate whenever he was cornered, and this tendency revealed itself when Edgeworth asked whether Frost also wanted the title of world's greatest confectioner. Edgeworth concluded that Frost had a different motive, and Gusto concurred. Frost had merely been after the Ultimate Cookbook.
Edgeworth asked Gusto whether he also had a goal other than the title, which seemed to anger Gusto. The chef insisted that the title was all that he was after, then described his efforts to improve his design skills. He mentioned that he had even studied Tangaroa's recipes before pretending to meditate again. Edgeworth suggested that Gusto had also been after the Ultimate Cookbook, and Gusto admitted that this was true. Edgeworth knew that the Ultimate Cookbook was not really for recipes, so he decided to pursue this matter further.
Edgeworth asked Gusto whether he intended to make desserts with the Ultimate Cookbook. Gusto talked about the Ultimate Cookbook for a while, then pretended to meditate again. Edgeworth was able to confirm that, like the other contestants, Gusto had known about the Ultimate Cookbook's true purpose. Gusto pretended to meditate again, but the jig was up. He claimed that he had needed the Ultimate Cookbook for his son's illness. Gusto was starting to look worried, and Edgeworth pressed his assault.
Edgeworth asked Gusto about his son. He waited until Gusto described how his son would visit the contest venue to play. Edgeworth remarked that Gusto's son did not seem very sick, and Gusto explained that the illness was not life-threatening. Edgeworth also confirmed that the Ultimate Cookbook had contained the only cure at the time. Gusto claimed that he had been entirely focused on his own work, but Edgeworth already knew that this was not true. Gusto admitted that he had sampled the other works, but they had tasted flavorless.
It was finally time to find out what the illness was. Edgeworth insisted that Gusto not be so secretive about a disease that was not life-threatening. He learned that it was the same taste disorder that Tangaroa had contracted. Moreover, Gusto had also contracted the disease. Gusto had collaborated with Frost in order to obtain the cure to his own disease! Gusto finally confessed that he had been the one with the illness, but he claimed that he had still had the intuition to win the contest.
Edgeworth recalled that Gusto's final entry had been rated poorly. Gusto blamed his lack of training at the time for this. Edgeworth found it striking that Gusto had done fine with Frost's entry the previous day, only to fail at his own dish. Edgeworth realized that something had been different between the semifinals and the finals. Gusto denied any difference, but Edgeworth mentioned that Gusto's son had not appeared during the finals. Gusto's son had been taste-testing the desserts for his father.
Gusto began to laugh and taunt Edgeworth, saying that he had no evidence for his assertions. Even Gusto's son could not be reached, since he had never been found since his disappearance. Gusto added that he had abandoned the search for his son, presumably because his son would only serve to implicate him for his crime. He said that his son did not matter anymore, now that he had his sense of taste back.
Just then, Dick Gumshoe returned and announced the results of a forensics test on the blood in the liquid at the Winter Wing. The blood belonged to Carmelo Gusto. This confirmed what Edgeworth had suspected all along. Recalling that both of Scone's rock salt lamps had had their light bulbs broken, Edgeworth asserted that the supposedly unstained lamp had been stained with Gusto's blood. Gusto had rubbed his bloodstain away using the lyre on the Gemini sculpture. This was why Gusto had gone so far as to open the Pisces case.
Gusto then laughed and admitted to the crime. He explained that Frost had betrayed him by breaking off the collaboration. Combined with the disappearance of his son, it had been guaranteed that Gusto would lose and Frost would win. Gusto had then resorted to taking photos of the Ultimate Cookbook.
Frost had caught Gusto taking the photos and found out about the taste disorder. Gusto had then tried to strike Frost, but the latter had gotten the first blow in, causing Gusto to strike his head on one of the salt lamps. Frost had asked Gusto for a large sum of money in exchange for his silence. Refusing to be a victim of blackmail, Gusto had struck Frost dead with the other salt lamp.
Gusto had originally intended to frame Scone for the murder because of her cheating, so he had placed the lamps inside her castle. He had respected Tangaroa, but he had had no problem with shifting the blame onto a cheater. Gusto had hidden the body inside the chocolate treasure chest, and had planned to freeze the body before its discovery to throw off the time of death. However, Scone's snacking had led to the premature discovery of the body by Bound. Because of this, Gusto had settled for hiding the body inside the Gemini sculpture.
The original detective, Rip Lacer, had neglected to inform Manfred von Karma about the missing body. Because of this, von Karma had only found out about it after indicting Tangaroa. It had been too late to back out of his indictment, so von Karma had resorted to forging an autopsy report to maintain his perfect win record. Edgeworth suspected that somebody had been trying to conceal the truth behind the IS-7 Incident.
In response, Gusto claimed that the statute of limitations had run out on the IS-7 Incident, making it legally impossible to arrest him. Edgeworth wondered about this and learned from Gusto that he had gone to Zheng Fa for training in confectionery design. Edgeworth pointed out that Gusto's stay in Zheng Fa extended the statute of limitations. Gusto replied that he had stayed in Zheng Fa for precisely three years. Given this information, the statute of limitations had run out four months ago.
Fender thought of one more way to extend the statute of limitations, but he could not use his client's suffering in good conscience. Edgeworth realized what Fender was talking about: The fact that Tangaroa had been tried for a year and convicted of being an accomplice to the murder would extend the statute of limitations by one more year. Finally defeated, Carmelo Gusto made a candy sculpture of himself and sliced it in half. He was then taken into police custody.
Aftermath[]
- 4:56 p.m.
Edgeworth, Fender and Faraday went to the detention center to deliver the news to Tangaroa. Gumshoe escorted Tangaroa to the Visitor's Room to greet them. Fender told Tangaroa everything, and the old chef tearfully thanked him and Edgeworth for what they had done. Tangaroa was also saddened that Bound would resort to crime to save him, but Edgeworth informed him that she had made his favorite chocolates every day for the past 18 years. Tangaroa resolved to do the same for her until she was released.
Fender thanked Edgeworth for his role in closing Gregory's last case. The attorney was planning on representing Bound in court, and sort out the issues between Tangaroa's conviction and the statute of limitations on Gusto's crime. Under the law as it stood, Gusto's arrest depended on Tangaroa's conviction. Fender told Edgeworth that it was his choice to continue down the prosecutor's path, or to join him in saving clients.
Conclusion[]
- 7:29 p.m.
Fender "talking" to Gregory.
Fender returned to Edgeworth and Co. Law Offices to give the news to Gregory. He placed the photo he had taken with Miles beside the one he had taken with Gregory 18 years ago. With Gregory's last case finally closed, Fender hoped to continue Gregory's legacy, along with Miles if that were possible. Meanwhile, Miles Edgeworth thought about the forces that were now threatening to take away his prosecutor's badge, and wondered which path he should follow.
Continuity[]
- At one point, Gregory leans on the fourth wall by commenting that he hopes the case won't end with "Thus the truth was lost for all eternity", which is the closing line of the game's Game Over sequence.
- Ron DeLite and his wife Desirée DeLite from The Stolen Turnabout can be seen visiting the Zodiac Hall.
- A boy wearing horns is also present at the Zodiac Hall; his name and role would only be revealed in Turnabout for the Ages.
- During the discussion about Samson's teapot between Gregory and the young Fender, the conversation diverts towards coffee, with Fender saying "Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than Hell itself… that is coffee" ; this is a reference to Godot from Trials and Tribulations, who frequently used the phrase.
- When Eddie Fender mentions wanting Edgeworth to experience what it is like on the defense's bench, Edgeworth recalls that he has already done so in Bridge to the Turnabout.
- Larry Butz returns to use his "Laurice Deauxnim" pseudonym he adopted in Bridge to the Turnabout; he also makes a passing mention of the picture book he conceptualized during said case, Franzy's Whippity-Whip Trip.
- According to Delicia Scone, the pieces of the Luminous Cloth were developed by Blue Screens, Inc., a company that first appeared in Recipe for Turnabout.
- Coldkiller X, the cold medicine that appeared as evidence in the trial of Phoenix Wright in Turnabout Memories, was also present in the Zodiac Hall's infirmary.
Cultural references (English fan translation)[]
- There is a chemical on a counter called "punchout", a reference to the Punch-Out!! video game series.
- When Detective Badd gives Samson Tangaroa the chocolates that Judy made, Samson sings about how they, "melt in my mouth, not in my hand," a line that has long been associated with M&Ms candy.
- When introducing Larry Butz, Edgeworth says "a Butz by any other name would smell just as much". This is a reference to the line from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
- When presenting the chocolates to Kay Faraday, upon being denied them, she begins to speak like Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, even quoting "My precious".
Typos[]
- When examining the rock crystals inside the whipped cream castle, detective Badd says, "Looks like somebody was using the the castle for storage...".
