Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations/Episode 5: Bridge to the Turnabout/Part 4-3: Trial

The Judge will announce the results for the test of the dagger. The blood on it was not Misty's, but they didn't have time to search whose blood. The Dagger will be updated.

Maya is called up, not looking happy with her bloodline to say the least. Godot encourages her to testify what she saw.

At the Inner Temple: Cross-Examination
Press on the 4th statement. Maya will say it was her last hope. When given the choice ask about "My last hope". Maya will inadvertently say that there was someone else behind her attacker. She then says she meant to keep that a secret. A new statement will be added anyways.


 * I could see a man behind my attacker by the light of the stone lantern.

Present the Stone Lantern in that statement. The lights were off, so there was no way she could see the person behind her attacker, let alone recognizing him as a man. Maya doesn't want you to go on, but you have to to find the truth. When asked who this person was, Present Godot's Profile. You have the court turn off the lights in the courtroom. They do so and what do you know? Godot's recognizable visor is brighten. It looks like Maya saw Godot.

Godot has The Judge ask Maya if she saw Godot's glowing visor. Maya denies it and says she could tell that he is a man for different reasons. Maya will testify again.

The Killer: Cross-Examination
First of all, Press on the 3rd statement. You will bring up a question. Why did the killer lit up the torches? Why did he put so much effort to move the body?

Press on the 4th statement. The snow was removed in an unnatural rectangular shape. The killer probably tried to remove the snow to cover up the blood. But why so many?

Now, Press on the 2nd statement. You ask Maya why the killer would tamper with the scene (She won't answer until you press the above statements). Maya will guess that it was to protect her. If Bikini saw the blood, she would have thought that Maya did it since she was the only one there. A new statement is added.


 * I think it was for my sake that the killer cleaned up the evidence of what had happened.

Present the Stone Lantern on that statement. The killer removed the blood-splattered snow and removed the body, but he forgot to do one thing, wipe off the bloody-writing that said "Maya" on it. How could he have done that mistake if he was protecting her? You are asked for an explanation, say that The killer didn't notice it. Anyone can have noticed the writing, except people with certain conditions. When asked who would miss it, Present Godot's Profile.

You remind the court about the events recently. Godot presented the stone lantern and didn't notice the red blood. You then recall the Trés Bien poisoning case when Godot presented the apron and didn't notice the ketchup. Godot will admit that he could not see red in his visor.

If that is true, then Godot has to be the killer. You will explain about the shoveled snow. If the killer wanted to removed the bloody snow, why didn't he just shovel the bloody area rather than the whole yard? The killer could not have seen the blood, not because the lanterns were not lit, as you have proven they were.

Just then, Maya interrupts. Just why is she defending Godot? She requests for another testimony this time about Pearl.

After the Incident: Cross-Examination
Press on the 5th statement. You will hear from Godot that he was investigating. Ask about Godot's investigation. Just what did he find at the Inner Temple? Godot will say he found a poster with Misty Fey in it "clad in her stunning Japanese garb surrounded by the hue andaroma of Western tastes."

There it is, the weak spot! Present the Hanging Scroll on the 4th statement. If he had seen the scroll with Misty Fey on it, then the way he described it, he had seen it before the murder occurred, it was covered in gravy afterwords. So Godot was there way before the murder happened.

So why was Godot at the Inner Temple? Could it be that he knew of the plan all along? If so, how? When given the chance, Present the Burnt Letter. Morgan planned the murder a year ago, but when Pearl already found it, the seal was broken, as if someone already opened it. How could Godot have seen it when the letter was hidden? Probably because one of his visits at the Detention Center. At one point, Morgan told her about the letter. Godot had probably knew about the letter because he was eavesdropping!

Godot will ask you one more question, why would he go through the trouble to read a letter after eavesdropping, go to the Inner Temple to wait for the crime to occur. And sacrifice someone just to protect someone he doesn't know. Godot has no reason to save Maya from danger if he doesn't know her. But, you should already know that he protected her for a different reason. When asked to present evidence for a reason, Present Mia Fey's Profile.

Godot had worked alongside Mia as a defense attorney. And his name, Diego Armando, obviously!

Godot's Tragedy
Godot will now tell you a story of his tragedy. It started after the case with Fawles. Six months after the case, which Mia failed to unmask Dahlia, Dahlia wanted to talk with Diego. Diego went to the courthouse and was poisoned by her. He went into the coma for five years before finally waking up. By then, he had lost everything. Mia was dead and Dahlia was sentenced to death. Godot blamed you for not protecting her, because you could have done so while he was away.

Diego, now Godot, was very distraught that he wasn't able to protect Mia, but that fateful day made him made up for it. He overheard Morgan's plan, giving hope to Godot. He could protect Mia's only sister to make up for things, but to do that, he needed help. He contacted Misty, who agreed to help as Maya's life was in danger. He also contacted Iris, who helped with the murder.

Elise (Misty) had Pearl read with her so she wouldn't go to the Inner Temple to channel Dahlia. However, Pearl went to the temple anyways due to her concern with Maya. This lead Misty with no choice. She would channel Dahlia before Pearl and Godot would come out of hiding to save Maya, yet sacrificing her mother's life.

Godot (Diego) is done with his confession and asks you to do the rest. You have proven his motive, but now you have to prove to the court that Godot (Diego) killed Misty. You will now hear the last testimony of the game, much to Maya's reluctance.

The Time of the Murder: Cross-Examination
Press on the 5th statement. Maya says that she heard a scream as soon as the lights went out. She thinks Dahlia used the sword from Misty's staff and wounded the killer, who stole the sword back and delivered the final blow. When asked if you agree, say There is a contradiction. Maya just said in her testimony that blood was splattered all over her clothes before she heard the scream, probably because the sword was already inside Dahlia, so she could have used something else to wound the killer. When asked what, Present the Dagger.

When the killer was wounded, the dagger would have left a wound. After being talked back with your theories, you are given one chance, and one chance only to spot where the wound is. Present Godot's Profile. It is quite obvious now. The wound is hiding under Godot's mask!

Now watch the following scenes that reveal twists explained below. Until then...

Sister Iris is found...



What REALLY Happened
It all began with the rivalry between Morgan Fey and Misty Fey with the battle for the Master's position of the Kurain Channeling Technique. Morgan was married to a man who was a jeweler and had two twin daughters, Dahlia Hawthorne and Iris. The man had married Morgan because he wanted power: Morgan was sure to have the Master's position because she as older than Misty, and it was tradition that the eldest sister is the most spiritually powerful of her siblings. Against all odds however, Misty showed more spiritual power, and won the Master's position. This left Morgan part of the branch family, whose duty it was to serve the Master.

Eventually, Misty became involved in the DL-6 Incident, in which she was asked by the police to use her powers in order to identify a murder. However, it ended in disaster when the man was found innocent. Misty became humiliated and was labeled as a fraud. She left the village, and her daughters, in despair and took the talisman with her. She began a new life as a children's illustration book author, under the name Elise Deauxnim.

After the incident, Morgan had abandoned her husband and two daughters, so they left the village. Morgan's ex-husband later married another woman. Dahlia convinced him to throw out Iris (a backstabber), because she knew he didn't like children, and the new wife already had one daughter, Valerie Hawthorne. Iris went to live in Hazakura Temple, where she was raised by Sister Bikini, the head nun of the temple.

Dahlia grew up hating her family. She soon hatched a plan to take revenge against her father: she had her boyfriend (Terry Falwes) pretend to kidnap and hold her hostage on Dusky Bridge. In exchange for Dahlia, Terry had been demanding a diamond worth $2,000,000 from her father. Her step-sister, Valerie Hawthorne, was in on the plan, and provided the diamond as requested at the appointed location. Iris was in on this plan, but she backed out at the last second, betraying her sister. On Dusky Bridge, Dahlia took the diamond and jumped into the river. She lost the diamond, but was eventually saved by Iris, who nursed her back to health. Dahlia was livid at Iris for betraying her. Fawles was accused and convicted for the "murder" of Dahlia Hawthorne, in which the prime witness was Valerie Hawthorne, and was sent to prison with a death sentence. Dahlia changed her name into Melissa Foster and began a new life. Two years later, Morgan remarried and gave birth to Pearl Fey. The second man left the village, Morgan and Pearl behind shortly. Pearl was spiritually strong and Morgan began to dream of a day in which Pearl would get the Master's position. To achieve this dream, however, all of the main family members would have to die.

Years later, Mia Fey, one of Misty's daughters, left the village to get a job as a defense attorney. She wanted to know what happened to her mother and avoid any family feuds that may arise between her and her sister Maya, over the Master position. Mia began a relationship with Diego Armando, her mentor and senior attorney. They grew to love each other and became a couple.

The lovebirds eventually became involved in a case, in which Terry Falwes was charged with escaping police custody and murdering the woman who had convicted him in the kidnapping case 5 years earlier: Valerie Hawthorne. Miles Edgeworth the prosecution for this case. The prime witness was a woman named Melissa Foster. However, Mia exposed her true identity as Dahlia Hawthorn, and was going to win, but in the end, the trial ended in disaster with Terry committing suicide and Dahlia was set free. It left an emotional scar on Mia, Armando, and Edgeworth. Mia and Armando refused to get off Dahlia's back and started perusing her.

Eventually Armando and Dahlia had a talk in the courthouse in which the incident took place six months earlier. Dahlia slipped poison in Armando's coffee. Armando took the drink and collapsed, and fell into a coma. Dahlia then looked for someone to help her hide the poison. She found a college student named Phoenix Wright, and she gave the necklace containing the poison to Phoenix, who thought of it as a love symbol. Dahlia contacted her sister, Iris, again and told her to get the vial back from him. Iris pretended to date Phoenix, and tried on every occasion to ask for the vial back, but Phoenix had refused. During this time, Iris actually began to fall in love with Phoenix.

Dahlia grew impatient with Iris and eventually had enough. She decided to take matters into her own hands. She plotted to kill Phoenix, but had to kill her former boyfriend, Doug Swallow first. Phoenix was arrested for murder with Dahlia as the witness. This created a new case, in which Mia returned to get revenge against Dahlia. This time, Dahlia was convicted for the murder of Diego Armando, Doug Swallow and the attempted murder of Phoenix Wright, and was sentenced to death. Phoenix was grateful and decided to become a defense attorney.

A few years later, Phoenix became a lawyer under law firm of Mia. Tragically, Mia was killed by a man she had been pursuing soon afterwards.

One year later, Morgan tried to get Maya convicted for the murder of Dr. Turner Grey, in order to secure the Master position for Pearl. The plan failed. Morgan left a message for Pearl in a secret location before she was sent to prison, where she was reunited with Dahlia. Morgan plotted with Dahlia to kill Maya, in another attempt to secure Pearl's position. Dahlia agreed to help, but for her own personal reasons: to take revenge on Mia, who was already dead by then. Five years after the poisoning, Diego finally woke up from his coma. However, he was blind and his hair had turned white. He came to hear the tragic news that his lover, Mia Fey, was dead. He eventually came to learn that Phoenix could have saved her. He came to hate Phoenix for letting his loved one die. He quit becoming a lawyer and started becoming a prosecutor. His vision was mostly restored with a visor that allowed him to see everything, except the color red. He changed his name to Godot and battled Phoenix in the Mask☆DeMasque and Trés Bien cases, losing in each one.

One day, Morgan called Pearl to the Detention Center, now with more envy in her heart for the Master's position than ever. She tells Pearl about the letter she had hidden for her, and sends her home. She had been unaware that Godot had been spying on them and overheard the conversation.

Godot makes it to Kurain Village first and manages to find and read the letter before Pearl. The contents say that Pearl must channel Dahlia after 10:00PM at spiritual dojo, Hazakura Temple, so Dahlia could find and kill Maya Fey, Mia's sister and Misty's daughter. Since Dahlia and Iris looked identical, Iris would be framed for the murder and would be sent to prison. Pearl should afterwards burn the letter. Godot saw the opportunity and took advantage of it for two reasons: to save Maya Fey's life in repayment to Mia, and to have his own personal revenge against Dahlia Hawthorne. So, Godot just leaves the letter for Pearl to read. Though Pearl didn't quite understand it, she decides to follow the instructions anyways, as it was her mother's "last wish".

Godot decided to contact two women, Iris and Misty. He managed to contact Misty using his job as a prosecutor. He tells her about the plan Morgan had intended. This forces Misty to come out of hiding after 17 years and travels to the Hazakura Temple as her alter ego, Elise Deauxnim. Iris prepares by going to the Hazakura Temple and gives Godot her cell phone number.

When the day finally comes, Misty arrives with a katana in her staff and Godot waits secretly in the Inner Temple, where Maya would be training, in case anything should happen to her.

Iris was going to participate, but stayed in her room that night, due to a threat letter to come to the Heavenly Hall or else her secret would be revealed. Iris thought her secret of deceiving Phoenix would be revealed to Phoenix himself, who was at the temple at the time. The threat letter was actually a love letter made by Elise's assistant, Laurice Deauxnim (Larry Butz) who is threatening to reveal her "love" to Bikini.

After dinner, Maya goes with Bikini to the Inner Temple to begin her training. Pearl follows behind with a pot of gravy to check on Maya, whom she is worried about. After 10:00PM, Misty couldn't find Pearl and feared that the plan was about to come through. Seeing nothing else that could stop Pearl, she channelled Dahlia's spirit before Pearl could. Without realizing who summoned her, but presuming it was Pearl, Dahlia goes to the storage room with her staff and picks up a knife (she doesn't know a sword was hidden in the staff) and leaves the temple with the weapon in hand. Dahlia crosses the bridge and runs into Bikini. Bikini mistook her for Iris and tells her to look after Maya while she takes a hot bath (she had a bad back). Dahlia finds Maya in front of the stone lantern at the garden and took action. She hits Maya in the head with the staff, tosses it aside, and pulls out the dagger to finish her off.

That's when Godot came in. He pulled out the sword from Misty's staff and stabbed Dahlia in the back, blinded by rage and losing all concern for the person who was channelling her. Dahlia turned, knocked off Godot's mask and wounded his face with the dagger. Dahlia writes Maya's name on the stone lantern with Misty's blood before finally collapsing. The channeling was cut off and Misty dies, and Maya, recognizing Godot and the situation, collapses.

Finally coming back to his senses, Godot realizes what he had just done, and so he decided to doctor the scene. He puts his visor back on and calls Iris, to meet him at the bridge. While it was still snowing, Iris takes the snowmobile to Dusky Bridge. Godot takes the unconscious Maya to the Training Hall and carries Misty's impaled body to the bridge. Unfortunately, lightning struck the bridge, setting it on fire.

Godot comes up with a plan, seeing no other way to dispose of the body: he takes one of the bridge's severed cables and ties it around Misty's body with her staff still impaled. He then swings it over to the other side of the bank. The body dropped 10ft to the ground, bruising it and knocking off the crystal on the staff. Iris takes Misty's body to the Hazakura Temple courtyard, again with the snowmobile, removes the sword from the body, and cleans the blood off. Bikini saw Iris removing the sword and fainted with a chilling scream. Iris then takes the Shichishito from the Ami Fey statue and impales the wound with it. She goes to her room, where she was arrested.

Meanwhile, Godot alters the scene. He lights up the lantern and shovels all of the snow he can to get rid of the blood, and hides the dagger in the pine tree. He hides to wait for the police without noticing the message of "Maya" on the lantern, still written with blood.

Meanwhile, Maya comes to inside the temple. Stuck at the Inner Temple since the bridge was burnt out and not finding anything at the garden, she writes a letter and summons Mia for help. Mia doesn't have all of the details, but she somehow knew it was Dahlia that attacked her sister. (Mia may have read Morgan's instructions to Pearl, since Pearl dozed off and was also stuck at the other side of the bridge and had the letter with her). She tells Maya to lock herself in the training hall doors and summon Dahlia, in case Pearl tried to summon her again herself. Maya then locks herself with one of the trick locks and summons Dahlia, trapping her inside the temple.

Dahlia, again, hasn't realized who summoned her. She assumed it was Pearl, who actually couldn't summon her. Pearl, meanwhile, spilled gravy all over the wall scroll, thanks to a misunderstanding of the letter that Elise (Misty) gave her. She waited, as Godot waited elsewhere, for the police to arrive, to arrest Iris. Dahlia thought she finally had revenge on everyone she hated, but she was wrong.

Bridge to the Turnabout: Epilogue
As you watch the ending, present Pearl Fey's profile when asked. Phoenix will yell out "Objection!" at one point, and the credits will roll! Congratulations, you just finished Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations!

Well, this is it, the end of the game, and sadly, the end of the Phoenix Wright saga. However, it is not the end of the Ace Attorney series overall. In the next game of the series, a new hero will step up on the defense's chair, so if you want the next game for a new story and features to the DS exclusive sequel, go right ahead and buy it, however, if you are expecting to see all of the characters you know and love to return, (Edgeworth, Gumshoe, von Karma, the Feys, etc.) maybe you should pass for now. Trust us, you'll regret it if you don't. If you are ever in need of assistance, come to us and you'll finish it faster than you can say "Objection!"