Balamb Garden Archive
Clip from surveillance tape #368 - Camera #243 - Quad
7:01 P.M. - 7:30 P.M., March 21
*Description of clip follows. No audio.*
A large crowd of students is gathered, holding candles. Selphie Tilmitt is on stage, speaking into a microphone. A band is waiting near the back of the stage. She introduces Adrian Shepherd, who comes onto the stage. The crowd claps. Shepherd speaks for a few moments. Tilmitt returns and introduces another person. Quistis Trepe comes onto the stage, to much applause. She speaks. She finishes, Tilmitt returns. Shepherd, Trepe and Tilmitt are all on stage with a microphone each, speaking. Tilmitt provides another introduction, and Squall Leonhart comes on stage, followed by applause. He produces a speech from his pocket and readies himself to speak. Before he can, Mikel Jervich enters the Quad, followed by a dozen SeeD's, all armed with assault rifles. Jervich is tall, stocky, dark- skinned, and looks very angry. A combat shotgun hangs from a strap on his shoulder. Jervich jumps up onto the stage and speaks to the crowd, waving some papers and pointing at Leonhart. Leonhart turns to the back of the stage. Another group of SeeD's has appeared there next to the band, rifles leveled at Leonhart. The crowd looks shocked, as do the speakers on stage. Jervich cuffs Leonhart's hands behind his back. Jervich escorts Leonhart out of the Quad, followed by the armed SeeD's.
END CLIP
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Personal Statement of Rinoa Heartilly
Concerning the incarceration of Squall Leonhart
Received 9:03 P.M., March 21
Why? I don't understand why you think Squall could've done this. I know that it looks bad, but I also know Squall. We've been through a lot together. There's no way he would've murdered an innocent student.
I'll be honest here; I love him. I know you're going to cry that I have a conflict of interest, but I don't believe so. Even if I didn't love him, I would stand by his innocence. This is because I know that Squall Leonhart is a good man, no matter what you say he did or did not do.
The evidence you have isn't completely convincing, either. What if someone else used Squall's gunblade to commit the murder? It's the perfect frame job, if you ask me.
I am totally convinced that Squall is innocent, and I will fight his conviction in every way possible.
Rinoa Heartilly
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Personal Statement of Squall Leonhart
Revised
Received 11:21 P.M., March 21
I would like to apologize for the trouble I have caused. I also extend apologies to the family of Gordon Kayle and the entire Investigative Committee that I tried to disband. I would also like to apologize to you, Mikel Jervich, for my actions when you neared your goal. My conduct was unacceptable, and stemming purely from self-interest, violating every principle of Garden that I stand to protect. I can say nothing else but that I am sorry.
I did what I did out of love. There is little else to say in my defense. Rinoa Heartilly is the only person that matters to me, and I love her more than I can describe. Gordon Kayle threatened to take away my love, to turn her against me in a cruel plot of blackmail. I met him in Instructor Trepe's classroom that morning to discuss the "deal" he wanted to cut. Unfortunately, he was very flippant and condescending, knowing that he had hit me in a very vulnerable area, so to speak. I am sorry to say that I lost control over the things he said to me. Anger, hatred, absolute rage, everything I usually keep bottled up inside came bursting out all at once, and I could not stop myself.
I hid the clothes I'd been wearing and put my gunblade where it belonged, changing into my SeeD uniform. When I met Seifer and Quistis at my office, I went along with what they said and did my best to feign ignorance, to be my usual calm, quiet self. As you know, I also took all actions I would normally take had I not been so closely involved with this murder. It turns out I underestimated your abilities in criminology.
I do regret what I have done, and I will accept the consequences. Although I have killed many people, I have never murdered before, and I know now better than I ever would have that it is a shameful thing. Perhaps one day I can be forgiven for my sin.
Now I know how Seifer must feel.
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BALAMB GARDEN JUDICIARY TRIBUNAL
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE ALPHA (SICA)
Final Report
March 21
Subject: Gordon Kayle, 18 yrs old, Junior SeeD cadet. Found dead in Instructor Trepe's classroom 6:57 A.M., March 17.
Suspect(s): Squall Leonhart, Commander of SeeD Forces.
Motive: Vengeance in connection with alleged blackmail
Alternative Charge(s): Obstruction of Justice, Perjury
Evidence: Surveillance Tape #243
Personal Statement of Squall Leonhart
Personal Statement of Squall Leonhart - Revised
Audio Tape #6, #7, #8
Personal Statement of Eustid Kadowaki
Post-Mortem Report: Gordon Kayle
BRT - Sample #2: Commander Leonhart's gunblade
It is the opinion of this committee that Commander Leonhart is guilty of the murder of Gordon Kayle. This has been confirmed by his own confession. The committee suggests a full court-martial and that a secondary investigation commence to look into Mr. Kinneas and Mr. Dincht as accessories to the murder.
mj/xh END REPORT
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Clip from surveillance tape #368 - Camera #243 - Quad
7:01 P.M. - 7:30 P.M., March 21
*Description of clip follows. No audio.*
A large crowd of students is gathered, holding candles. Selphie Tilmitt is on stage, speaking into a microphone. A band is waiting near the back of the stage. She introduces Adrian Shepherd, who comes onto the stage. The crowd claps. Shepherd speaks for a few moments. Tilmitt returns and introduces another person. Quistis Trepe comes onto the stage, to much applause. She speaks. She finishes, Tilmitt returns. Shepherd, Trepe and Tilmitt are all on stage with a microphone each, speaking. Tilmitt provides another introduction, and Squall Leonhart comes on stage, followed by applause. He produces a speech from his pocket and readies himself to speak. Before he can, Mikel Jervich enters the Quad, followed by a dozen SeeD's, all armed with assault rifles. Jervich is tall, stocky, dark- skinned, and looks very angry. A combat shotgun hangs from a strap on his shoulder. Jervich jumps up onto the stage and speaks to the crowd, waving some papers and pointing at Leonhart. Leonhart turns to the back of the stage. Another group of SeeD's has appeared there next to the band, rifles leveled at Leonhart. The crowd looks shocked, as do the speakers on stage. Jervich cuffs Leonhart's hands behind his back. Jervich escorts Leonhart out of the Quad, followed by the armed SeeD's.
END CLIP
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Personal Statement of Rinoa Heartilly
Concerning the incarceration of Squall Leonhart
Received 9:03 P.M., March 21
Why? I don't understand why you think Squall could've done this. I know that it looks bad, but I also know Squall. We've been through a lot together. There's no way he would've murdered an innocent student.
I'll be honest here; I love him. I know you're going to cry that I have a conflict of interest, but I don't believe so. Even if I didn't love him, I would stand by his innocence. This is because I know that Squall Leonhart is a good man, no matter what you say he did or did not do.
The evidence you have isn't completely convincing, either. What if someone else used Squall's gunblade to commit the murder? It's the perfect frame job, if you ask me.
I am totally convinced that Squall is innocent, and I will fight his conviction in every way possible.
Rinoa Heartilly
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Personal Statement of Squall Leonhart
Revised
Received 11:21 P.M., March 21
I would like to apologize for the trouble I have caused. I also extend apologies to the family of Gordon Kayle and the entire Investigative Committee that I tried to disband. I would also like to apologize to you, Mikel Jervich, for my actions when you neared your goal. My conduct was unacceptable, and stemming purely from self-interest, violating every principle of Garden that I stand to protect. I can say nothing else but that I am sorry.
I did what I did out of love. There is little else to say in my defense. Rinoa Heartilly is the only person that matters to me, and I love her more than I can describe. Gordon Kayle threatened to take away my love, to turn her against me in a cruel plot of blackmail. I met him in Instructor Trepe's classroom that morning to discuss the "deal" he wanted to cut. Unfortunately, he was very flippant and condescending, knowing that he had hit me in a very vulnerable area, so to speak. I am sorry to say that I lost control over the things he said to me. Anger, hatred, absolute rage, everything I usually keep bottled up inside came bursting out all at once, and I could not stop myself.
I hid the clothes I'd been wearing and put my gunblade where it belonged, changing into my SeeD uniform. When I met Seifer and Quistis at my office, I went along with what they said and did my best to feign ignorance, to be my usual calm, quiet self. As you know, I also took all actions I would normally take had I not been so closely involved with this murder. It turns out I underestimated your abilities in criminology.
I do regret what I have done, and I will accept the consequences. Although I have killed many people, I have never murdered before, and I know now better than I ever would have that it is a shameful thing. Perhaps one day I can be forgiven for my sin.
Now I know how Seifer must feel.
* * *
BALAMB GARDEN JUDICIARY TRIBUNAL
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE ALPHA (SICA)
Final Report
March 21
Subject: Gordon Kayle, 18 yrs old, Junior SeeD cadet. Found dead in Instructor Trepe's classroom 6:57 A.M., March 17.
Suspect(s): Squall Leonhart, Commander of SeeD Forces.
Motive: Vengeance in connection with alleged blackmail
Alternative Charge(s): Obstruction of Justice, Perjury
Evidence: Surveillance Tape #243
Personal Statement of Squall Leonhart
Personal Statement of Squall Leonhart - Revised
Audio Tape #6, #7, #8
Personal Statement of Eustid Kadowaki
Post-Mortem Report: Gordon Kayle
BRT - Sample #2: Commander Leonhart's gunblade
It is the opinion of this committee that Commander Leonhart is guilty of the murder of Gordon Kayle. This has been confirmed by his own confession. The committee suggests a full court-martial and that a secondary investigation commence to look into Mr. Kinneas and Mr. Dincht as accessories to the murder.
mj/xh END REPORT
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