Edgeworth walks towards his office. As he opens his office door, he finds that it's unlocked. He enters his office to find...a body. Suddenly, someone emerges behind him. After a brief conversation, he shoots the framed jacket in the room and leaves.
The scene changes and we see that some police officers have arrived at the scene. Suddenly, a detective busts in. Anybody who has played an Ace Attorney game before will recognize him as detective Gumshoe! After a little conversation, Edgeworth will wonder why the crime happened in his office. Receive the logic: Crime Scene: My Office. Afterwards, Gumshoe will say that the Office Key to the office was with him the whole time. Receive the logic: The Office Key. You will be introduced to a new mechanic in this game called the logic system. Press the logic button to enter logic mode where you must connect to pieces of logic.
However, if you make a wrong connection your health bar will decrease. For now, there are only two pieces of logic. Connect Crime Scene: My Office with The Office Key. Congratulations! You have connected the first two pieces of logic in the game. Edgeworth will deduce that the murder in his office was no coincidence but why did the killer pick the place? Receive logic: The killer's goal.
Investigation
You can now freely walk around Edgeworth's office. Examine the Revolver that the murderer dropped. Gumshoe recognizes it as the guns used by the precinct. Receive the logic Revolver.
Now, walk over to the Dead body and examine it. You will enter a subscreen that allows you a closer look at the crime scene. Examine the Black object next to the body. Looks like the victim is Detective Buddy Faith. Receive the logic Victim was a detective. Now Examine the body itself. The victim was shot dead through his abdomen. The body was found at 2:05 AM by Edgeworth. Crime Scene Notes will be stored in the organizer, which Edgeworth will introduce you to. Examine the toppled files at the top of the screen. Looks like there was a fight here. Receive logic Signs of a Struggle.
Now go to the logic screen and connect Revolver with Victim was a detective. Since the revolver is assigned to the detectives of the precinct and the victim is a detective, that means the gun was the victim's! Further examination of the body reveals an empty gun holster! The Victim's Revolver will be added to the organizer. Examine the Barrel of the gun. Looks like only one shot was fired from this gun. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room. He looks like the murderer! After wrongly accusing Edgeworth and Gumshoe of killing "Jim", which is what he calls his partner Buddy Faith, he introduces himself as Jacques Portsman. After some more conversation, he will request that the officer dusting the framed jacket to take some pictures of him.
Now you can examine the Framed jacket that the officer was dusting. Immediately upon close-up Edgeworth will notice a contradiction! He will now introduce you to the deduce function. Point at the Bullet hole on the frame and press the deduce function, then present the Victim's Revolver. Only one bullet was shot from the gun, so how is there two bullet holes at the crime scene? There could only be Another handgun! Edgeworth will then remove the frame and behind it is a secret safe! Secret Safe will be added to the organizer. Examine the Panel on the safe. Looks like someone used it and wiped the fingerprints clean! You will get a new logic Wiped fingerprints, and the Secret Safe will be updated in the organizer.
Go into Logic mode and connect The killer's goal with Wiped Fingerprints. Since the fingerprints on the safe was wiped off, the murderer might be trying to steal something! Receive the logic Motive: Theft (?). Now connect Signs of a struggle with Motive: Theft (?). The mess of files might be the result of the killer searching the files, not a struggle between the killer and the victim! Gumshoe will rearrange the files with the help of Portsman.
Now Deduce the Bullethole in the bottom right of the files. Present Crime Scene Notes. The victim is shot in the abdomen, and he was standing at the time based on the bloody handprints, so the bullet hole couldn't have been there! When prompted, select The order of the files. The files must have been arranged wrongly at the time of the crime. However, Edgeworth will claim that the files are arranged as he left it, even though the name of the files are in the wrong order. So that means the files are arranged incorrectly at the time of the murder!
After rearranging the files, looks like our assumption was right! You will receive the logic Files in dissaray. However, there will be another thing that will catch your eye. Examine the Bloody files at the bottom right previously concealed by the body. On the files, there is the word Gumshoe written in blood! Not only that, one of the files is stolen! Stolen File will be added to the organizer.
And with that, your investigation is complete!
Confrontation
Now Portsman will once again accuse Gumshoe of killing Faith. Edgeworth decides to cross-examine Portsman. Gumshoe will ask how to perform it. If you're an Ace Attorney veteran, you should know how to do this, so pick Maybe some other time. If this is your first time playing any Ace Attorney game, pick Might as well.
Argument: Jacques Portsman
- Detective Gumshoe. You stole Jim's gun from him and shot him dead.
- Further, you messed up the files to look like you have committed theft instead.
- That's when you moved Jim's body that was sitting in front of the bookshelf!
- But thanks to that, you didn't notice the bloody letters his body was hiding.
- And it will be by his final words that you will be brought to justice.
Rebuttal: Mr. Portsman's Logic
Present the Stolen File at statement 4. If Gumshoe really stole the file, he could have seen his name! The missing letters in Gumshoe's name also means that the file was stolen after the murder!
Mr. Portsman is left speechless, but he still has something up his sleeve! He calls for a young lady of the buildings security to be escorted here. Gumshoe starts to get mad at this. Looks like its none other than Maggey Byrde, the security guard on shift that night. (Phoenix Wright fans should recognize her too!) She could have used the master key that opens all the building's doors to get in! It's time for another cross-examination!
Whose Maggie Byrde: Without spoiling anything, Play "Ace Attorney: Justice For All" and "Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations" to know the story behind her character.
Argument: Jacques Portsman
- It's pretty obvious that Ms. Byrde snuck into your room using the master key.
- I mean if Detective Gumshoe isn't the one who opened the door...
- ...then that leaves Ms. Byrde as our prime suspect.
- On top of which, she knows our good detective, doesn't she?
- Making it all the more probable that she was the one who faked the dying message.
After this, you should receive the Master Key.
Rebuttal: Reason for Suspicion
Press the first statement. Maggey will say that she wasn't able to use the master key! Select Ask for more details when given the chance. She will say that the master key wasn't at the booth during 1 AM. Maggey will say that the key disappeared at 1 AM then magically reappeared after that! Portsman will add a statement into his testimony:
- Her intent? From the messed-up shelves to the wiped-down safe, I'd say thievery.
Present the Secret Safe at this new statement. Only prosecutors know about the safe, so Maggey couldn't have been the thief! She couldn't have found it by accident because the thief knew exactly where to look, specifically the bookshelf and the safe. Looks like Portsman is cornered here. However, he suddenly claims that he told Faith about the safes and that Faith was the thief, and that Maggey was just going to stop him, being a security guard. The victim stole the key, went into the office, gets shot by Maggey in self-defense, and Maggey takes the key back with her! Now, Portsman will force us out of our office.
You can choose to save if you wish.