Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth/Turnabout Airlines/Part 2-3 - End 1

Looks like we're finally in the cargo hold. This could be the actual scene of the crime. Let's get to investigating!

Investigation - Flight I-390: Cargo Hold
Check the suitcases. There is clearly one missing, as well as some glass fragments near them. You will get the Glass shards logic.

Next, check the black suitcase. Looks like this is the victim's, and he has a file about Franziska von Karma. You will get the Profile on Franziska logic. Strange...does the victim know her?

Talk to Franziska. She was already at the airport when the airplane landed, giving out orders. But why?


 * Why at the airport?: Franziska was investigating a large multi-national crime, and has colloborated with the Interpol. You will get the Interpol logic.

Now we can start connecting some logic pieces! First, connect Glass shards with Broken glasses. The glass shards are the broken lens of the victim's glasses, meaning he was here. Now connect Profile on Franziska with Interpol. The victim could be an agent of Interpol who was supposed to meet up with Franziska at the airport. Looks like we have some questions for Franziska. Talk to her again.


 * Truth about Hicks: The victim was an Interpol agent investigating an international smuggling ring. You will get the Smuggling logic. Hicks was supposed to call Franziska when he landed.

Agent Hicks must have came down to the cargo hold as part of his investigation, but since he couldn't have had the keycard, he could have been accompanied by a crew member. Once he is there, the killer killed him, moved his body into the elevator. As the plane hit the patch of turbulence, the victim's body flew out of the suitcase along with his belongings. And with that, our investigation is complete!

Well, all this evidence really points to Rhoda Teneiro...or does it?

Definitive Evidence

 * 1) If it was a crew member, any one of them could've shown Agent Hicks to the cargo hold.
 * 2) But the point to keep in mind is the keycard that allows the elevator to come down here.
 * 3) The only person with such high-level access is Ms. Rhoda Teneiro!
 * 4) I'd say that's a pretty decisive piece of information, wouldn't you?

Rebuttal
Press the second statement. Rhoda claimed her keycard was stolen, so it is possible someone else did it. Franziska will rebute by saying that she's the only person who can get the murder weapon from the locked display. You will get a new statement


 * Further, there is the matter of the key to the display case that held the murderous bank.

Press this new statement. It might not be the murder weapon, but Franziska doesn't accept that. There is no other possible murder weapon other than that. We must find a way to rule the piggy bank out, and we can do that by further examining the body. We don't even know the victim's autopsy reports, so how can we be sure that his death was caused by the piggy bank?

Franziska will demand Gumshoe to get the autopsy report. He returns, but with some bad news. The victim died by a blow to his head, but was bruised from his shoulder to his mid-back. Autopsy Report will be added to your organizer.

Zinc Lablanc will barge into the cargo hold trying to check on his luggage. And his willing to do that by force! Running straight at the officer he...falls off the railing. Falling off the railing...lets recall all the past facts. We need to prove that the Mr. ifly piggy bank isn't the real weapon, the real murder Weapon couldn't be found and the Cause of death was from extensive bruising from his head down to mid-back.

You will automatically enter logic mode. Connect Cause of death with Mr. ifly piggy bank. It's only one bruise down the victim's back, the piggy bank is too small for that. You will get the A sizeable weapon logic. Now connect Weapon couldn't be found with A sizeable weapon. A large weapon will have been discovered ages ago, so why haven't we found anything like it? Unless it's something so big we completely missed it. We don't have evidence to show it. The cause of death was not caused by a beating, it was cause by a free fall! The murder weapon is the floor! That explains the size of his injuries. The victim fell from the top of the stairs down to the floor of the cargo hold.

That means Lablanc must also be dead! But he's alive and still conscious. If that large piece of cargo hadn't been there to break his fall, he would've been dead! Agent Hicks could have been killed when the cargo box wasn't there. The plane made a Refuelling in Zheng Fa, during which cargo is also transfered. The box next to it is labeled the Zheng Fa Express, so it was loaded after the refuelling. Cargo from Zheng Fa will be added to your organizer. Looks like it's time for another investigation.