Ace Attorney Anime Series
By Tayla Drago
Bonus Episode #5 – Rise from the Ashes: 5th Trial
Time: February 24, 9:41 AM
Location: District Court Defendant Lobby No. 1
Last time – we left off with many things after the trial from yesterday with more investigating to be done. Jake prints out the five people of the evidences room coming in and out with their ID cards to give to Phoenix, Cassie, and Ema which all had something to do with the SL-9 case from two years ago and from which Bruce was killed for to finding the items; for Gumshoe to show them with shattered pottery pieces, a rubber glove, and some blood hand prints left out, for Ema's items did some good to get the results for them and the pottery to put together. With Meekins arrested on a crime he didn't do for someone broke in the get the items to recall on what happened, Edgeworth was there too looking for a screw driver to have an order from Damon himself. And before that – both he and Cassie were barely killed by the stalker only for Phoenix and Gumshoe came to the rescue for him to make his get away...Learning of the SL-9 case of Joe Drake was sentence to death on lots of murder and had one detective killed for saving someone's life, to not go so well to reopening it for Bruce to get killed over; with Edgeworth barely doing some of the work for him and Cassie to get caught 'the stalker was trying to murder someone else to mistaken Cassie Freeman for it'. So now what will happen next? With Edgeworth's hands healed up and Cassie to recover from almost drowning to be herself again and with her Phoenix by her side to go into the court room, Ema joins with them from outside of the building.
Cassie: Looks like we're all here now. Good morning, Ema.
Phoenix: Morning. Did the fingerprint turn up with any results?
Cassie: Who does it belong to?
But before that...
Ema: Yeah, but I got more news...I want back to the parking lot last night, I sprayed some Luminol all over the place.
Phoenix: And...?
Cassie: Did you find anything?
Asking the question, she looks at Cassie first...
Ema: I hope you're not a ghost.
Stretching her cheeks out, Cassie deals with Ema to tell her the good news.
Cassie: Hey! (At least she was only checking.) I'm still alive, Ema, okay? This person wanted someone else with Edgeworth dead and took me for the other instead. We just need to know who...
Ema: Sorry about that...Right, the news! There were traces of blood, but there was less than you two think on what just went down.
A bit confusing there in words.
Phoenix: So what does it mean?
Ema: Right now, I'm not sure. Oh, and I got to work on the broken pottery shards.
Cassie: From yesterday. It's like playing puzzle pieces. And what does it look like?
Ema: From it looks like, it seems to be a jar of some kind.
Imaging it to put the pieces by drawing it out, what Ema said made perfect sense.
Cassie: Drawing all of it matches the whole detail so far. It is a pottery of some kind.
Phoenix: Okay, and...what about the fingerprint?
Ema: Well there was some type of match at the data base.
Phoenix: And...Who was it?
Cassie: Tell us.
Ema: Well...
Moving away from a far view of the building, she says it to have the two say this part next out loud.
Phoenix and Cassie: WHAT!?
Was it good news, bad, or already having some answer? Trying to say it, we cut to inside of the courtroom next for the three and others were ready for the trial on the second day to begin.
Time: February 24, 10:00 AM
Location: District Court-Courtroom No. 9
Ema: It might've been there by accident.
Cassie: Really, Ema? I mean you're not wrong, it just still hard to believe. (Just explaining it to the court will be another thing.)
Want to know what Ema told them who's fingerprint it was? You'll find out soon enough.
Phoenix: Maybe but we still need to present it either way.
Ema: Well "he's" not a murderer.
Cassie: No, but what he might of done is still a crime to my point of view.
So this person was a guy, huh?
Phoenix: We still have to pay our cards without a doubt. That's all we can do. Cassie, there's a lot of cops. No stalker will come back this time to hurt you, Edgeworth, or his other target.
Holding hands with Cassie's to kissing it, they'll be fine to watch out this time.
Cassie: Right, Phoenix. We just got to get through this and Lana will be found not guilty real soon.
Here comes the judge now to take his seat and hits his gavel to begin the trial.
*ALL RISE!*
Judge: Court is now in session for the trial of Ms. Lana Skye.
Saying each sides of them being ready and all that so on...
Phoenix: The defense is ready, Your Honor.
Cassie: The defense's partner is also ready, Your Honor.
Edgeworth: The prosecutor is still puzzled, Your Honor.
Well that was something new for Edgeworth to be saying for the Judge to hear.
Judge: Mr. Edgeworth...?
Edgeworth: It takes 30 minutes by car to reach criminal affairs from the Prosecutor's Office. The victim, Bruce Goodman, was slain at both places at the same time. Today I will present evidence relating to the murder at the Police Department. In so doing, I believe the way in which we should proceed will reveal itself.
Sounds like a good idea to do.
Judge: Hmm...What does the Defense and Ms. Freeman have to say about this?
Phoenix: The defense agrees, Your Honor.
Cassie: I'm fine with it as well, sir.
Then they'll do so, only by then they'll have their answers of Lana's innocence.
Judge: Very well, Mr. Edgeworth. You may proceed.
Edgeworth: The prosecutor calls the possible murderer at the police station to the stands.
We all know who it'll be, none other than Meekins himself. Entering in to take the stands, and to find out what really happened to prove in this...clumsy but good man's innocence.
Cassie: Officer Mike Meekins.
Phoenix: Fasten your seat belts. (Hoo boy. Things are getting wild from the get-go.)
From what he told Phoenix and Cassie about him seeing the stranger to steal the SL-9 evidences to almost had Meekins in his words – this wanted to have the Judge, Edgeworth, Ema, and others in the room to hear about this next. Using the hand sign again, Meekins was ready to speak up.
Edgeworth: You may speak up, witness.
Meekins: I'll try to.
Edgeworth: Good. Then Meekins, I would like for you to give us the report of the crime.
Hopefully Meekins can recall on what happened to him, all of it to find out who the stranger was who have stolen the evidence knife from the SL-9 case and why. So here goes nothing.
Meekins: Very well, sir.
Cassie: Ready or not, here we go. (Please help us out here.)
Witness Testimony
Meekins: Although it's not my normal duty, I was assigned to guard the evidence room that day! I spotted a suspicious man on the security screen, and rushed into the room! I was only doing what I was trained to do, sir! I was suddenly attacked! I fought for my life! Then I...I did it! After that I passed out...until another officer smacked me awake!
So from Meekins going up to the stranger to see who it was, he just pulls a knife on him out of nowhere. And what did he do besides passing out? Did Bruce really try to threaten this guy?
Judge: Hmm. So the victim, Detective Goodman, attacked you?
Or so Meekins thought it was Bruce himself, but I doubt it myself just like Cassie was.
Meekins: Yes, sir!
Judge: And I was told from Goodman's doing and what he took from the knife was important evidences? Let's examined it.
What it was all recorded 'since Phoenix and Cassie heard the story from Meekins in person', but seeing it on caught on tape was next for Edgeworth to present next in his hands.
Edgeworth: Since yesterday, I was given very important evidences all caught on tape. It'll show us plenty of evidences on here as well. I haven't seen it yet due to the crime scene investigation at the crime scene was going on.
Judge: Very well. Bailiff! Have a video player and TV brought in!
Getting a VCR with a TV connected to it into the room to see the whole thing went down all connected and ready to go.
Cassie: From Meekins words, we'll see what it looks like more on tape. (If only we knew about this one sooner.)
Edgeworth: This video contains a fight happening from 5 to 7 PM. So what the witness's saying is correct about the event it did happened, then it did happen from 15 minutes after the tape.
Placing the tape in the VCR, Edgeworth uses the remote to play the tape, and everyone watched it all on the computer screen TV. Moving back and forth from left to right slowly...It showed the Blue Badger sign in the middle, with Meekins walking up to what he thought to be Bruce; with him opening up the locker with a rubber glove falling down, then shows the stranger attacks Meekins, and then turning the camera again to have this person disappear. He must've fled to leave Meekins out cold and on the ground with a big cut on his hand. And that was it on the tape itself. Stopping the video, they witness what they've all seen and from Meekins words to remember it well.
Cassie: Meekins was right on what he told us, Phoenix! Every last word from it was shown on tape!
Stopping the tape for Edgeworth to do and talk about it next.
Cross-Examination
Just get on to cross-examining with Meekins already.
Edgeworth: The prosecution has a question which might be related to the case at hand, Your Honor.
Judge: Oh? What's that, Mr. Edgeworth?
Pausing the video on the Blue Badger mascot sign.
Edgeworth: I would like to know...What the hell's that thing?!
Cassie: I believe it's the Blue Badger, Edgeworth...
Looking at it again, Meekins explains it to Edgeworth to be allow to walk around the court room carefully.
Meekins: Sir! That is the pride and joy of the entire Criminal Affairs Department, sir! It's the Blue Badger, sir!
Edgeworth: The what?!
And yet, he never heard of it until now.
Phoenix: (Why am I not surprised this isn't going smoothly?)
Meekins: That sir, is the reason why it was in the evidences room in the first place. The Blue Badger always stands in the hallway of the police department. But after the ceremony, the chief wanted it to be moved in the evidences room. He didn't want it there for people to move around the place a lot.
Phoenix: I wonder why...
Just out of nowhere for Damon to ask the cops to do so?
Meekin: I assume it might get damaged. After the ceremony, I was order to go back to retrieve it. However, that is when the tragedy accrued.
Cassie: So that's why the Blue Badger was in there and back in the hallways again. And yet, it's still having some technical problems.
Meekins: I notices it too, Cassie. Wow! We think so alike-!
Cassie: It was just luck, thank you Meekins.
Less talking about love, and more working here.
Meekins: As I work up, I quickly returned it back to its original spot.
Edgeworth: In any case...Does the defense and Ms. Freeman wish to examine the tape any further?
They might as well try to get somewhere with all of this.
Cassie: We might as well, right Phoenix?
Phoenix: The defense and Cassie both want to.
Cassie: So the defense does and so do I.
It was Phoenix's turn to use the remote.
Edgeworth: Good luck.
Looking at the tape a lot for Cassie tries to find something, while Phoenix controls it all with the remote.
Edgeworth: The prosecution has no use of this tape, for it doesn't clear up the identity of the victim and with no testimony from it either.
Well, Meekins wasn't lying to prove in his innocent besides words but on tape too.
Meekins: But, sir! The face was hidden well, but it had to be Detective Goodman! He had to use his fingerprint to get the locker door to open for him.
Yeah all did who worked there, but in the video...it wasn't so since the door was already open for the stranger to have something blocking the locker door from locking up.
Cassie: Huh...? Phoenix, back up a bit by rewinding this part and slow it down...there!
Doing so, the two see something on what fell when the locker door did open up.
Phoenix: Wasn't that...?
Cassie: Something was keeping the locker door from closing all the way and I think we got our answer right here. *BINGO!* Do it, Phoenix.
And so he does for Phoenix and Cassie had their answer to say so to Meekins of another twist.
Phoenix: (We got it.) *OBJECTION!* My and Cassie's understanding if of the lockers there like Officer Meekins didn't see the person use his finger print. When people do use it an find a match, the light will turn on and open up for them for the door to open.
Edgeworth: That's a simple explanation, yes.
Phoenix: Now I would like to direct the court's attention back at the video tape.
Cassie: Both Phoenix and I have discovered something very important in it. Watch and see.
Playing it again to remember the scenes I did explain the best I could and from Phoenix's words.
Phoenix: Somehow to the locker before the death of Bruce Goodman, look at his locker here. The lights were already on. Which means the locker wasn't locked when he opened it.
Edgeworth: *OBJECTION!* According to the information I have here, the security doors are program to lock up areas to not be use at night time and others to unlocking them too. Like the lockers electric senors on the button handle of the locker. And according to one of the records, there's an under sensor on the door. For when the doors close, the senors meet up at one another to complete a electrical circuit to make them locked up tightly.
Yep, it all said it like Edgeworth just said.
Cassie: True...I would have trouble opening it even if I use a crowbar to do so.
Phoenix: But how else could the light been on if the door was closed?
It was hard to say, unless something was holding opened.
Judge: The court hopes you can explain that, Mr. Wright. And Ms. Freeman, if you have found the answers for us.
That's was easier said than done for the couple return to their seats.
Phoenix: Well Your Honor, both Cassie and I don't know how we feel about it. But our partner here's good at the science things more.
Cassie: In any case...Ema, take it away!
It was time for Ema Skye to shine and to aid the others next.
Judge: Well young lady, do you have something to show us in this matter?
Ema: Well, Your Honor...If the two senors aren't connected to the lock or the door, then it would never still lid up.
It's all true. You need to place your finger to scan your information on it to open up with the light on 'those who work there'. But if it doesn't then it would do anything at all to be locked up, only for someone thing holding it open.
Judge: And any thoughts for you, Defense and Ms. Freeman?
Phoenix: As a matter of fact, Your Honor, we do.
Cassie: True fact on the door thing, now we'll show you about the one that was stayed open next.
Walking out of the seats, it was time for these two two show the rest on the video tape.
Phoenix: Take a look after the locker was opened.
Showing the scene of the stranger 'to think it was Bruce' as he opens the locker door, something falls down the rubber glove which kept the door opened.
Cassie: *GOT YOU NOW!* You see now? (It makes sense how the glove was on the ground.)
Judge: Something fell out!
Now they all see it to rewind and play it again to get the whole thing clear as day.
Phoenix: The object that fell out was never in the locker in the first place. It was jammed in the door.
Cassie: This person put it in there to make sure to keep the door from closes all the way, making things much easier for him.
Edgeworth: Please...Let's suspense in this theory, there's no way an object like a rubber glove would stay in the wedges of the door because it can conduct electricity.
Presenting the item itself next.
Phoenix: But it does, Mr. Edgeworth.
Cassie: And it's not because it's made of rubber, it's far from it. I think it's strong to hold on the door handle like the lockers in the evidences room because it was also thin.
Phoenix: For this glove was discover at the scene of the crime. It's both thin and made of rubber. But more importantly, it's also tagged to say SL-9 on it. That was the case from which Goodman was head of, but it would make sense if it was stored in his locker.
Cassie: In other words, someone use this chance to get something from Bruce's locker well planned.
This surprises Edgeworth to hear more about this from Phoenix and Cassie next.
Phoenix: On the day of the crime, even I couldn't open that locker because it was never truly closed. For Cassie and I to believe there's no doubt for the locker to once belong to Bruce Goodman himself.
Hitting his hand on the table...
Edgeworth: Now that's not true, Wright! As Meekins just said to prove in the victim's identity.
Meekins: That's true, sir! There's one other thing that proves the man was Detective Goodman, sir! To enter the evidence room, one must use their ID card! When an ID card is used, there's a record of it! At the time of the crime, the detective had used his card!
All of that is true even Meekins had one around his next, same with Edgeworth having al of the paper work in his hands.
Edgeworth: And I have the ID record on February the 21st right here, and there are two numbers on it. They have a time stamped from quarter pass nine. One belonging to the witness, and the other to belong to Detective Goodman.
From the paper to have the ID number 4989596 used twice and the other was Meekins to check on things until he was attacked.
Cassie: He's right about one thing, but still. (And yet, why was Bruce's wallet found at the parking lot?)
Phoenix: And yet someone else got a hold of Goodman's card. (From the way Cassie's thinking, it was odd for Goodman's wallet and ID card was found at the Prosecutor's parking lot during our first investigation.
Edgeworth: You two can support on your own claims, Wright. But without any evidences, it'll only lead to nothing. I suggest we move on.
Well that's what he thinks to show true proof in Edgeworth's face.
Phoenix: I may not have solid proof, but I have something to show the true answer to this conclusion. This paper here is a lost item report which was filled out by Bruce Goodman on the day of the murderer.
Pulling out to be reading it next.
Cassie: Proof of Bruce's hand writing.
It was a perfect match.
Phoenix: The lost item was, he was reporting about his missing ID card.
Cassie: *BINGO!* We found it at the prosecutor's parking lot!
With that part said, there was more to answer to next.
Edgeworth: And why is that?
Phoenix: Because there's something else on this report which shouldn't be here. When Goodman was writing everything down, the ID number one he cross something out to rewrite it again. Even then, he got it wrong. With his ID card number one it, he would've simply check it if he had to.
What was written on there was this -
[Lost Item Report
Name: Bruce Goodman
ID No.: 582
Date: 2/21
Lost Item:
Statue: ]
See? He didn't write the number down being 4989596. All it said was a 5, 8, and the other number was cross out to have a 2 only, three numbers instead.
Cassie: Unless of course...He didn't have his card!
Edgeworth: So let me see if I understand this...You two are saying that Goodman's locker was sabotage? So there's no way to know who could've opened it.
Phoenix: I supposed.
With a lot more to to say next.
Edgeworth: So let's gather up the facts. There's a chance that Goodman might not be involved with this event at all.
Phoenix: Ah... (No. This is bad.)
All was silence for Phoenix didn't have nothing, same with Cassie and Ema.
Edgeworth: What's the matter, Wright? You now realize what you just done?
Cassie: Not good here...!
Edgeworth: Mr. Wright and Cassie have kindly informed us all that the evidences room, has nothing to do with the case at hand. Ergo, no double murderer. Goodman was killed at one place and one place only.
Phoenix: Your Honor, the Prosecution are saying about this case is unrelated. While it's not true the stranger isn't shown completely on tape, we said there's no connection between them. There was blood leftover on the evidence's floor. For Ms. Freeman and defense demands further investigation into this.
Cassie: I also agree!
Seems fair to learn more about this next part.
Judge: Your proof has a good point, Mr. Wright. However to examine this further, then we need to question on more witness.
Seems like it...With Ema nodded at Phoenix and Cassie, it was time to mention someone's name next. Someone who should've been on security patrol on that day too, someone for Meekins to say the name of that someone as well in the same building with him, and someone to do so under Bruce's name. I think we already know who it was.
Cassie: I guess it's time. With proof on Meekins' innocence, we know who it is, Your Honor.
Phoenix: Your Honor, the Defense and Ms. Freeman have a certain witness in mind.
Judge: Oh? Who?
And now they say who it was to call "him" to the stands next.
Phoenix: Jake Marshall.
Yep, the fingerprint to get information out of was Jake himself for Ema tells them.
Cassie: Now let's call up Jake to the stands. Meekins, since you're free to go to write some paper work to be fine now.
Meekins: Thank you so much, Cassie! You guys are true lifesavers. Someday I'll repay on what you've all done for me!
Leaving now for Meekins was free to go and was helpful to them to keep on working.
Cassie: Yeah, sure... (A nice guy to be like Gumshoe someday, huh? What a strange man he can be. And now, it's time to have Jake testify for us next.)
So all along for Jake to be Bruce Goodman to take the reports from the SL-9 case, but why...? For Phoenix, Cassie, Ema, Edgeworth, Judge, and all of the others inside the court room will hear his whole story with proof to be be shown too. We'll know why this happened before Bruce was killed and why Jake was bringing back the case from two years ago. All of it.