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.

Investigation - Lower Deck Cargo Hold
Examine the large piece of cargo that broke Lablanc's fall. It turns out this is one of Lablanc's cargo. We could get more information about it from him. Talk to Lablanc.


 * Lablanc's Cargo: The cargo contains the "Alif Red Statue" from Europe, and it costs quite a lot. In fact, it's too valuable for us to investigate. You will get the Valuable piece of art logic.

Now go into logic mode and connect Smuggling with 'Valuable piece of art. This statue could be a fake, transfered onto the ship during the refuelling at Zheng Fa. Talk to Lablanc again.


 * Fake Statue: Lablanc insists that his statue isn't a fake, presenting a Cargo Certification document to prove it. It's put loaded on the plane back on Europe. Uh-oh...that's not looking good for our case. We still get the Alif Red Certificate in our organizer.

Lablanc will finally reveal the statue. It seems pretty familiar doesn't it? The Alif Red Statue will be jotted down in your organizer. Now examine the statue. Something in here contradicts something we already have. Deduce the statue's eyes and present the Photo of Mr. Hicks. The statue in the photo clearly has red eyes, but this statue has orange eyes. This statue is a fake! Now, move to the lower half of the statue. Deduce the cloth stuck underneath the statue and present the Cargo from Zheng Fa. If the neibouring piece of cargo was brought onto the plane at Zheng Fa, it couldn't have get its cloth stuck under the statue loaded in Europe! It was smuggled on in Zheng Fa.

Agent Hicks could be investigating this statue. Even if he could do that after the plane has landed, the cargo would have been swapped, implicating that the owner himself swapped it. That means someone was involved wih forging the cargo certificates. Alif Red Certificate will be updated in your organizer.

And with that, our investigation is complete. Agent Hicks likely knew that the statue was going to be smuggled, so he took the photo for future reference. Then, trying to find proof that the cargo was indeed smuggled, he came down to take a photo of the cargo hold. There isn't any statue on the plane during this time, which alone could be good enough proof. He can then have the cargo crew arrested for smuggling the statue. After moving the statue, there is in fact blood under it. The killer did a good job cleaning it up, and he did it with a Bloody Cloth, otherwise the cargo crew at Zheng Fa will discover the blood traces. Which means the murder could have happened before the plane landed to refuel. This means a certain person isn't telling the truth. Ms. Meele's testimony is contradictory. She claimed that the victim was still alive when the plane finished refuelling. That means she must be lying. And we need to get the truth out of her.