Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth/The Kidnapped Turnabout/Part 3-4 - End 1

It turns out that the costume was hidden in some tall grass before it was discovered. Since Agent Lang has yet to arrive, we can investigate the costume. Examine the silver object in its neck hole. It looks similar to the victim's pendant, but before we can figure anything out, Agent Lang will interrupt us. He will say that it's a piece of decisive evidence, as it has the name Lauren engraved in the back. Ms. Paups's Pendant will be added to your organizer. That means that Lauren Paups is one of the kidnappers, which she confesses to. Agent Lang will now shift his suspicion of the murderer to Ms. Paups, as his team found Officer Meekins gun that didn't show signs of having been fired. Lauren confesses to this too! This case can't be that simple, Lauren must be hiding something! Edgeworth will request that she give a testimony.

Rebuttal: Ms. Paups's Confession
Press statement 5, and raise an objection when prompted. Ms. Paups's will say that Mr. Deacon probably planned to kill her from the very beginning, though he couldn't have. Raise an Objection and present Ms. Paups's Pendant, then present Mr. Deacon's Pendant. They have a similar colour and are made of the same material, so they could be one pendant. Connecting them makes a Pegasus pendant. Now present Colin Devorae's Dossier. Oliver Deacon was just an alias of the victim to avoid capture after he broke out of jail, but there's one thing that holds special interest. Present the words sole daughter. Colin Devorae is Lauren Paups's father, so he couldn't have planned to turn on his own daughter. Lang thinks there's another possibility why Mr. Devorae turned on Ms. Paups.

Rebuttal: Another Possibility
Present Stolen Costumes at statement 4. Four costumes were stolen by the kidnappers, though one is found at the kidnapper's hideout. That means there must have been a third kidnapper. The third kidnapper could be the mastermind of the kidnapping, and he's Lance Amano. Lance doesn't seem to recall a third kidnapper, so he could be simply faking the kidnapping. Agent Lang and Lance himself will say that Lance wouldn't have seen all the kidnappers while he was kidnapped. Lance will try to recall his kidnapping.

Rebuttal: Lance's Testimony
Press statement 5 to get a new piece of testimony.


 * The door leading outside was locked tight, so I had to use the underground passageway.

Present the Broken Prop Sword on this new statement. The door itself was unlocked, only the sword was jamming the door up until Agent Lang's men break into it. Even if his hands were cuffed, Lance can easily have removed the sword. Lance must have locked himself in to pretend he's being held captive, but because he doesn't have the key to the door, he had to use a prop sword. Agent Lang will say that Lance doesn't have a motive to fake a kidnapping, but he does have one. Present the Love Letter. This love letter isn't a love letter at all, but a collection bill from a loan company. Lance was in quite a debt, so he had to fake his own kidnapping to get the money for repaying the debt.

Lance will confess that he kidnapped himself, though he was later betrayed by Mr. Devorae. The victim attacked Lance when he was alone, though Lance managed to subdue him. Then, he and Ms. Paups escaped by wearing the costumes and getting away seperately. Ms. Paups wore the Blue Badger costume and escaped first, but Lance is attacked again by Mr. Devorae. He then put on a Bad Badger costume and took the money. Lance contacted Lauren and warned her about the victim. Ms. Paups still thinks that she killed her own father.

Rebuttal: Chain of Evemts
Press statement 3. You will get a revised piece of testimony.


 * But that Badger pointed the gun in his left hand at me, aiming to shoot me dead!

Present Colin Devorae Dossier. The victim was right-handed, so the person that aimed at her couldn't have been her own father! Agent Lang will then say that the Bad Badger had a model gun in his right hand, so the victim could only have used his left hand to hold the real gun. If that's the case, then the Bad Badger must've been carrying the gun in his left hand and the suitcase with his right hand. There's an obvoius contradiction here, so the only way to explain it is that Both are correct. There was a way for the Bad Badger to use both hands freely, and that's the Bad Badger's Head. The head of the costume could have easily been matched with the body of another costume, the costume of the Proto Badger. The Pink Badger's body is a different colour, the Blue Badger costume was already being worn by Lauren at the time, so the only possibility is that the person Lauren Paups killed was wearing a Proto Badger body.

Lauren will say that Lance Amano was wearing the Proto Badger costume. Lance was only pretending to be the victim, so that Ms. Paups would have thought that she killed the victim. There is only one reason Lance would want to do that, and that's because he was the murderer! Lance will reveal that his hand was left-handed, which matches Paups's testimony. Agent Lang will say that Lance must know that the bullet could have passed right through his costume and killed him, but Lance probably knew that, so he did something to prevent him from being killed. Present the Missing Model Gun. The model gun has been ripped off of the disposed Bad Badger costume, and it can fire blanks. Lauren threw the gun into the sea, so there's no way to prove our case. We also don't know where the murder really took place. The murder must have taken place at an earlier time.

Lauren will say that she witnessed the victim in a restrained state, so he couldn't have been killed any earlier. Or could he?

Rebuttal: What Ms. Paups Saw
Press statement 3. You will get a new piece of evidence.


 * The captive had a Bad Badger's head on, so I'm absolutely sure it was Mr. Deacon.

Press this new statement and raise an objection. Present the Bad Badger's Head and select Miles Edgeworth. The kidnappers abducted Edgeworth to make him look like the victim! If Edgeworth was mistaken for the victim by Ms. Paups, that means the victim had already died by then. Lance then let Paups escape first before removing the Bad Badger Head and staging the murder. However, since Ms. Paups never actually checked who the captive was, she couldn't verify that Edgeworth was there either!

Another costume
Mr. Amano will arrive to make up for his son's actions by presenting a new piece of evidence. It's the missing Bad Badger costume! Mr. Amano will say that he fished the costume and the gun from the sea, and will explain that he has gotten permission from the Chief of Police to do as he pleases. He had it privately examined by a group of forensics experts, who confirmed that the blood was the victim's and the fingerprints on the gun belonged to Ms. Paups.

Examine the neck hole of the head. There are pieces of a mirror in it, but why is it there? Mirror Fragments will be added to your organizer. Then, examine the gun on the badger's abdomen to add the Revolver to your organizer. Finally, examine the bullet hole. The hole has burnt marks around it, which means that the victim was shot at point blank. The Victim's Costume will be updated in your organizer.

Rebuttal: Decisive Evidence
Press statement 1 and raise an objection. Ms. Paups prints couldn't have been on the gun. Present the Stolen Costumes. Lauren Paups was wearing a costume while she was at the stadium, so how could she have left prints? Her fingerprints could have been left when she touched it when the other kidnappers went to collect the ransom money. We also have proof that the whole muder is in fact set up. Present the Victim's Costume and present the bullet holes. If the victim was shot from below the stage, there shouldn't have been any burn marks!

Agent Lang will now challenge you to give the true crime scene. The only place Lance and the victim were alone was when they went to collect the ransom. Present the Haunted House, then present the Mirror Fragments. The fragments were found in the costume, and the only place they could have came from was the Haunted House. Agent Lang will state that there is another broken mirror at the hideout, and although it is much less likely for the fragments to get into the costume, we can't prove that the fragments came from the Haunted House!

If we can prove the murder happened at the Haunted House, we can prove Lance's guilt! Unfortunately, Mr. Amano will state that he bought the deed to the Haunted House, so we can't investigate it.

The chapter will now end.