# 12 - Northward, Turnabout Express — Last Trial
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**[00:00] PW**
*The* Silver Star Special Express**
**[00:02] PW**
* was hijacked by the*
* fugitive Avery Richman.*
**[00:06] PW**
*His demand?*
**[00:07] PW**
* A retrial of the murder case*
* in which he was found guilty.*
**[00:11] PW**
*I happened to be on the train*
**[00:13] PW**
* and took the role of defense lawyer*
* in this unprecedented trial.*
**[00:16] PW**
* But a passenger who could've been*
* a crucial witness was murdered,*
**[00:21] PW**
* and the corpse disappeared*
* right before our eyes.*
***SIGN*** Ace Attorney
***SIGN*** S
***SIGN*** Se
***SIGN*** Sea
***SIGN*** Seas
***SIGN*** Seaso
***SIGN*** Season 2
***SIGN*** Northward, Turnabout Express — Last Trial
**[01:57] J**
Court is now back in session for
the trial of Avery Richman.
**[02:04] Sai**
This trial can't go any further.
**[02:07] Sai**
Mr. Gale was murdered, and he vanished.
**[02:10] Sai**
And there is no other new testimony to hear.
**[02:13] PW**
*Our last hope is gone!*
**[02:20] Rich**
How could this be?
**[02:23] Maya**
Mr. Richman...
***SIGN*** Hold it!
**[02:26] Gum**
*Hold it, pal!*
**[02:28] Bo**
Detective Gumshoe?
**[02:29] Rich**
Regina?
**[02:30] Reg**
*I'm so sorry, King!*
**[02:32] Reg**
*This man insisted...*
**[02:34] Gum**
*I heard everything.*
**[02:36] Gum**
*I'm Dick Gumshoe, a police detective.*
**[02:40] Rich**
A policeman?
**[02:41] Gum**
*Gale Gaelic's body didn't vanish, pal!*
**[02:44] PW**
What?
**[02:45] Gum**
*It actually just showed up!*
**[02:51] PW**
G-Gale?!
**[02:53] Maya**
How?
**[02:56] PW**
The body teleported?
**[02:58] Maya**
What? That's impossible!
**[03:00] Gum**
*But it showed up here just now.*
**[03:03] Gum**
*It fell through the ceiling.*
**[03:05] PW**
The ceiling?
**[03:06] Gum**
*Also, you guys are the ones who vanished!*
**[03:09] Maya**
Huh? What do you mean?
**[03:11] Gum**
* I'm in Car 3, and it's*
* connected to the engine!*
**[03:15] Gum**
* Car 1 and the dining car*
* disappeared somewhere!*
**[03:18] PW**
N-No way!
**[03:19] Maya**
We disappeared?
**[03:22] Gum**
* Sheesh, first whole cars disappear, then a*
* missing corpse falls from the ceiling,*
**[03:26] Gum**
*and then there was the flying human soul...*
**[03:28] Maya**
Human soul?
**[03:28] PW**
That's Maya's field.
**[03:30] Maya**
My field is spirit channeling!
**[03:32] Gum**
*Anyway, hear me out.*
**[03:34] Gum**
*It happened when the lights went out.*
**[03:36] Gum**
* Far away, I saw a raging*
* flame drifting in the dark...*
**[03:39] Sai**
A soul? Ridiculous.
**[03:41] Gum**
*I saw what I saw!*
**[03:43] Maya**
A flame in the dark?
**[03:46] Maya**
Nick, didn't we see a flame, too?
**[03:51] PW**
Yeah, that could be it.
**[03:52] Gum**
*What? You guys saw a soul, too?*
**[03:55] PW**
No. What we saw was a birthday cake.
**[03:58] J**
A birthday cake?
**[04:00] J**
Ah!
**[04:01] PW**
Yes. A little past 8 PM,
**[04:03] PW**
a birthday party was held
here in the dining car.
**[04:08] Maya**
Oh, a show's beginning!
**[04:12] Maya**
Look, Nick!
**[04:18] VegaMytonbred**
Happy birthday, Grandmother.
**[04:21] Mara**
My! Thank you so much, Vega.
**[04:26] Mara**
Thank you all as well.
**[04:27] Mara**
I feel so fortunate to have
made it to eighty-seven.
**[04:32] Mara**
Oh, my! You're putting on a wonderful show!
**[04:44] PW**
O-Oh no! Get a fire extinguisher! Hurry!
**[04:52] Maya**
What now?!
**[04:54] J**
Yes, that did happen.
**[04:55] PW**
A raging flame in the dark...
**[04:58] PW**
That might've been what Gumshoe saw.
**[05:00] Sai**
Impossible! He couldn't have seen the
fire in the dining car from Car 3!
**[05:04] PW**
But if that was what he saw,
**[05:08] PW**
that'd explain the disappearance of our cars.
**[05:11] Sai**
Elaborate.
**[05:12] PW**
The cars didn't vanish.
**[05:14] PW**
They were rearranged.
**[05:16] J**
R-Rearranged?
***SIGN*** Railroad Report
Vol. 10
**[05:18] PW**
This railroad used to be a small local line.
**[05:21] PW**
And it still has remains of old freight
stations that were used for lumber transport.
**[05:26] PW**
First, the lights were turned off,
**[05:28] PW**
making it impossible for us
to see what would happen.
**[05:32] PW**
Then the train was slowed down
before it reached the Point B,
**[05:37] PW**
and the couplings in front of
Cars 1 and 3 were disconnected.
**[05:47] Maya**
The train split up!
**[05:49] PW**
This was when the fire broke out,
**[05:52] PW**
and that's what Gumshoe saw...
**[05:54] PW**
Our cars running along
a parallel freight line.
**[05:57] PW**
And right when we fell behind Car 3,
**[06:02] PW**
Point B arrived.
**[06:10] Maya**
We switched!
**[06:11] PW**
After that, the *Silver Star* came to a halt.
**[06:14] PW**
Other than to let you board this train,
**[06:17] PW**
that stoppage had one more objective.
**[06:19] PW**
How was that?
**[06:27] Rich**
Yes, we needed to stop to reconnect
the coupling between the cars.
**[06:33] Rich**
I knew I picked the right lawyer.
**[06:35] Rich**
I'm deeply impressed.
**[06:37] Gum**
* You really rearranged the cars?*
* Why do something so crazy?*
**[06:42] Rich**
You'll find out eventually.
**[06:44] Sai**
It was just a rich man's whim?
I knew it'd be something pointless.
**[06:51] PW**
No, there very much was a point.
**[06:54] Sai**
What?
**[06:56] PW**
Thanks to it,
**[06:58] PW**
I've identified Gale's killer.
**[07:03] Sai**
Killer?
**[07:05] PW**
The answer is quite simple.
**[07:07] PW**
If the body before Gumshoe
right now is the real Gale,
**[07:12] PW**
that'd obviously make the one
we saw before a fake.
**[07:16] PW**
The killer murdered Gale right there
and hid his body in the ceiling!
**[07:21] Gum**
Th-This is the crime scene?
**[07:26] Reg**
That lightning just now... that's what made
the corpse fall out of the ceiling.
**[07:30] PW**
I'm sure the killer didn't
expect that to happen.
**[07:35] Gum**
*Just when was this man murdered?*
**[07:39] PW**
It's quite likely that it was
before the cars were rearranged.
**[07:44] Gum**
But I've been here the entire time!
**[07:51] PW**
There was a point in time when
nobody was in the car, remember?
**[07:56] J**
That's right! Dinner!
**[07:58] Gum**
*Ah!*
**[07:59] Reg**
* True. Nobody could've seen it happen*
* if it was during dinnertime.*
**[08:03] Rich**
Then you mean the corpse
we saw in Car 1 was...
**[08:07] PW**
A fake.
**[08:08] PW**
Gale had already been murdered
and hidden in the ceiling by then.
**[08:12] J**
But the victim was a Car 1 passenger,
**[08:16] J**
and nobody passed through the
dining car while we were eating.
**[08:21] PW**
Still, Gale and the killer
must have moved there.
**[08:24] Sai**
Nonsense. Speak in facts, not conjecture.
**[08:27] Sai**
Is there anyone who can testify the victim
went through the dinner car around then?
**[08:35] Maya**
Of course, nobody would remember
everyone they passed in the train.
**[08:41] PW**
* But in this case, just pointing*
* out the possibility is enough.*
**[08:45] PW**
*Because...*
**[08:46] PW**
There is only one person
who could have done this!
**[08:49] J**
Wh-Who is that?
**[08:52] PW**
The killer... is you,
**[08:56] PW**
Tristan Turnbull!
**[09:01] J**
The killer is Prosecutor Turnbull?
**[09:04] Rich**
What?
**[09:06] Sai**
This isn't even worth arguing.
**[09:08] PW**
It could only have been you.
**[09:10] Sai**
I rushed there after I
heard a body had been found.
**[09:14] Sai**
Later, the body vanished.
**[09:16] Sai**
That's all I know.
**[09:19] PW**
But that corpse was a fake.
**[09:21] PW**
In fact, that guy wasn't even dead!
**[09:25] Rich**
He wasn't dead?
**[09:27] PW**
Someone dressed like the
victim and played dead.
**[09:30] PW**
It was your accomplice!
**[09:32] PW**
That would explain everything.
**[09:35] PW**
You were the one who checked
the body back then.
**[09:39] PW**
You didn't let us get close to it
**[09:41] PW**
and then closed the door to
"preserve the crime scene."
**[09:44] PW**
While you were buying time by the door,
**[09:47] PW**
the "corpse" took off the victim's clothes
**[09:52] PW**
and hid behind the door,
where nobody would check.
**[09:58] PW**
When Mr. Richman eventually opened
the door, the corpse was gone.
**[10:02] PW**
And while we stood there shocked,
he sneaked out from behind the door.
**[10:07] Rich**
B-But that's such a cliche!
**[10:09] J**
And just who was this accomplice?
**[10:11] PW**
Back then, there was someone who
wasn't nearby when we were outside,
**[10:16] PW**
but suddenly showed up when we went in.
**[10:20] PW**
It was you, Rick!
**[10:22] Rich**
Is it true, Rick?
**[10:27] PW**
Rick?
**[10:28] Rick**
I was wondering if there was
anything I could do to help.
**[10:31] Maya**
It was Rick?
**[10:32] Rich**
Why, Rick?
**[10:34] Rich**
Why would you do this?!
**[10:37] Rick**
I'm terribly sorry, King.
**[10:39] Rick**
I've been cooperating with American
law enforcement since a year ago.
**[10:44] PW**
What?
**[10:45] Rich**
A year ago...?
**[10:47] Sai**
Fool.
**[10:49] Rick**
I was asked to procure a gun with your
fingerprints on it for a large sum of money.
**[10:54] Maya**
Gun? You don't mean...
**[10:57] Rick**
I did as I was told.
**[10:59] Rick**
And a few days later,
**[11:01] Rick**
Secretary-General Cashanova was shot during
that ceremony, and you were arrested!
**[11:07] Rich**
That whole murder was a
setup to get rid of me?
**[11:12] Rick**
Yes. The one who shot
Cashanova was Gale Gaelic.
**[11:16] Rick**
He fired from near you on purpose,
**[11:18] Rick**
and the cops who frisked you
planted the evidence on you...
**[11:23] Rick**
Calling the pistol I stole the murder weapon.
**[11:29] Pist**
N-No way! The United States Prosecutor's
Office hatched a conspiracy like that?
**[11:34] Cyl**
Do you have anything to say?!
**[11:38] Rick**
I'm truly sorry!
**[11:40] Rick**
I just couldn't tell you!
**[11:42] PW**
And today, you were once
again ordered to cooperate
**[11:47] PW**
by Prosecutor Turnbull.
**[11:48] Rick**
Yes. It was after we hijacked the
train and just before the trial began.
**[11:55] Rick**
He told me to do as he said if I didn't
want the king to find out I betrayed him.
**[12:00] PW**
Before the trial began?
**[12:03] PW**
I see! It was then!
**[12:04] Sai**
Give me twenty minutes.
**[12:06] Sai**
I need to prepare.
**[12:08] PW**
In those twenty minutes,
**[12:10] PW**
you approached Rick and forced
him to help with your plan!
**[12:14] Rich**
So that was the trick behind
the body's disappearance.
**[12:19] Sai**
Do you have proof that I cut a deal with him?
**[12:22] PW**
Th-That's...
**[12:23] Sai**
Of course you don't.
**[12:25] Sai**
Besides, why would I kill that
Gale guy in the first place?
**[12:30] Sai**
I had absolutely nothing to do with him.
**[12:33] Sai**
Or this bizarre conspiracy that
fugitive has conjured up in his mind.
**[12:43] ME**
*That's not going to fly.*
**[12:50] PW**
Edgeworth?!
**[12:53] ME**
*It's been a while, Turnbull.*
**[12:55] Sai**
Edgeworth! Why are you...
**[12:58] Maya**
Huh? You know each other?
**[12:59] ME**
This is Avery Richman's court record,
**[13:02] ME**
and it contains your name.
**[13:05] ME**
"In charge of building
the prosecution's case,
**[13:07] ME**
Tristan Turnbull."
**[13:08] Rich**
I-In charge?
**[13:10] Rich**
You were?
**[13:12] ME**
* Now you can't hide behind the*
* excuse that you were unrelated.*
**[13:16] Sai**
Why, you...
**[13:17] ME**
Anyway, according to this record,
**[13:20] ME**
you canceled the summons of a witness
at your own discretion one year ago.
**[13:25] ME**
That witness's name... was Gale Gaelic!
**[13:28] PW**
What?
**[13:30] ME**
* Tonight's trial has made it clear*
* that he was a crucial witness.*
**[13:34] ME**
* Why, then, did you deliberately*
* avoid calling that witness?*
**[13:37] Sai**
I concluded that he wasn't important
to the trial a year ago!
**[13:40] ME**
*Are you trying to say you're that incompetent?*
**[13:45] PW**
Or maybe calling that witness
would've been bad for other reasons.
**[13:50] Rich**
And were those reasons really...
**[13:51] PW**
You were afraid of the truth coming
out in the trial one year ago.
**[13:55] PW**
Which proves you were at the
center of that conspiracy!
**[14:00] ME**
*Back then, you never set foot in court.*
**[14:03] ME**
* But behind the scenes, you laid the*
* groundwork to entrap Mr. Richman.*
**[14:09] Gum**
Those two are working
together across the Pacific!
**[14:12] Gum**
I'm gonna cry, pal!
**[14:13] Chief**
You disappoint me, Turnbull.
**[14:18] Sai**
Chief?
**[14:19] Maya**
Who's that?
**[14:20] Rich**
The chief prosecutor.
**[14:22] Rich**
The man at the very top of
America's justice system.
**[14:25] Chief**
Our courts are built on the motto
of always doing the right thing.
**[14:29] Chief**
And Turnbull, you dragged them
through the mud.
**[14:33] Chief**
That deserves the harshest punishment.
**[14:34] Sai**
Please wait!
**[14:36] Sai**
I was told to convict Richman so he
could be thrown out of the country!
**[14:39] Sai**
I only did as the top brass ordered!
**[14:42] Chief**
*That's exactly what I'm talking about.*
**[14:44] Chief**
* Fools who meekly follow unjust orders*
* deserve the harshest punishment.*
**[14:50] Chief**
Your superior, who gave you that order,
spilled the beans earlier.
**[14:55] Chief**
He said he colluded and conspired with the
Commerce Council, who found Cashanova a pain.
**[15:02] Sai**
*What?*
**[15:02] ME**
Gale Gaelic, who you let go,
was an assassin hired by the Council!
**[15:08] PW**
An assassin?
**[15:09] Chief**
There was no justice in this deal.
**[15:12] Chief**
Only blood money.
**[15:13] Sai**
*What?*
**[15:15] ME**
Either way, you played
a part in a conspiracy.
**[15:18] ME**
You clearly broke the law!
**[15:20] PW**
Mr. Turnbull, you have no right
to judge anyone.
**[15:24] PW**
You are...
**[15:25] Bo**
...an enemy of the law!
**[15:35] Rich**
A year ago, I came to
believe you were my enemy,
**[15:38] Rich**
*but it seems I was mistaken.*
**[15:45] PW**
Tell us...
**[15:46] PW**
Everything.
**[15:48] Sai**
It was soon after we departed.
**[15:54] Sai**
You were invited, too?
**[15:57] Gale**
I was just as surprised.
**[16:00] Gale**
But I sense the hand of God behind this.
**[16:04] Sai**
What do you mean?
**[16:05] Gale**
This whole year, one thought
has never left my mind.
**[16:08] Gale**
That there just wasn't enough hush money.
**[16:12] Gale**
Don't you agree?
**[16:13] Sai**
Are you threatening me?
**[16:15] Gale**
Being an assassin is hard work,
**[16:17] Gale**
so I've been thinking of
switching to blackmail.
**[16:21] Gale**
Great idea, right?
**[16:23] Sai**
Just like him, I too felt
the hand of God at play.
**[16:27] Sai**
I thought it was the perfect
chance to silence him forever.
**[16:32] Sai**
Let's talk this over.
**[16:33] Sai**
Car 3 should be empty right now.
Let's move there.
**[16:37] Maya**
Spikey, spikey!
**[16:37] Sai**
It was around 6 PM.
**[16:40] Sai**
We went at a time when lots of people would
be going in and out of the dining car,
**[16:44] Sai**
which helped divert any attention from us,
**[16:46] Sai**
and we easily made it to Car 3.
**[16:50] Sai**
And then...
**[16:51] Sai**
In one of the Car 3 compartments,
I murdered that man.
**[16:56] Gum**
Yikes. That's my room.
**[16:59] PW**
And you hid the body in the ceiling.
**[17:04] Sai**
But...
**[17:06] Sai**
I never foresaw what was to happen.
**[17:09] PW**
The train was hijacked,
and a trial was set to begin.
**[17:12] Sai**
If people realized he was missing,
**[17:14] Sai**
the train would be searched,
and the body found.
**[17:17] Sai**
I had to prevent that!
**[17:19] ME**
So you put on a miraculous show of the
body vanishing in front of their eyes.
**[17:24] Sai**
*It was a bid to buy time!*
**[17:26] Rich**
The room was in flames back then.
**[17:29] Rich**
What was that?
**[17:30] Sai**
I ordered him to set fire
to it when he was found.
**[17:38] Sai**
It was to make sure nobody
approached him before me.
**[17:49] Sai**
Edgeworth...
**[17:50] Sai**
I've always hated that look in your eyes.
**[17:53] Sai**
It was to escape that very
look that I went to America.
**[17:56] PW**
No matter how far you run,
you can never escape yourself.
**[18:02] J**
That's enough!
**[18:04] J**
Train crew! Restrain Tristan Turnbull
and his accomplice, Rick!
**[18:13] PW**
Thank you, Edgeworth.
**[18:15] PW**
You worked truly fast.
**[18:17] ME**
I did it to find the truth.
**[18:19] J**
I shall hereby hand down the verdict!
***SIGN*** Not Guilty
**[18:25] J**
Not guilty!
**[18:29] PW**
Wh-What now?
**[18:30] Rich**
Everyone leave this car at once!
**[18:34] Rich**
A bomb will blow it to
smithereens in three minutes!
**[18:38] PW**
A b-bomb?!
**[18:41] Rich**
Not even I can stop it now.
**[18:48] PW**
Mr. Richman!
**[18:49] Rich**
Mister Wright, you have my deepest
gratitude for proving my innocence.
**[18:53] Rich**
But as one who defiled the
Richman name, I cannot live on.
**[18:58] PW**
You were planning on this all along?
**[19:01] Rich**
Whether the retrial declared me innocent
or guilty, it wouldn't change anything.
**[19:07] Rich**
Just in case, I set up a time bomb
in this dining car!
**[19:13] Maya**
Just in case what?!
**[19:14] ME**
Oh, so that's why you rearranged the cars
so the dining car would be at the end.
**[19:20] ME**
So that you could disconnect
its coupling and die alone!
**[19:23] PW**
Say what?
**[19:25] Rich**
You people are far too good for me.
**[19:29] Rich**
Hurry up, and get to Car 1.
**[19:36] Maya**
The verdict was a mistake!
**[19:38] Maya**
We proved that, so why?
**[19:41] Sai**
America's justice system is perfect!
**[19:43] Sai**
That will never change, come what may!
**[19:45] Rich**
Exactly. They'll never admit their mistake.
***SIGN*** Objection!
**[19:49] Sign**
Objection!
**[19:50] PW**
I believed in you!
**[19:52] PW**
So you believe in us, too!
**[19:55] ME**
You're misunderstanding the justice system.
**[19:58] Chief**
Yes.
**[20:00] Chief**
Our justice system must always be perfect.
**[20:03] Chief**
That's why we must correct any
mistakes we make immediately.
**[20:06] Rich**
Chief Prosecutor?
**[20:09] Chief**
We apologize, Mister Richman.
**[20:12] Chief**
I give you my word.
**[20:14] Chief**
We will give you a fair retrial,
**[20:17] Chief**
and we will make everything public.
**[20:21] Maya**
Mr. Richman!
**[20:23] PW**
Edgeworth... That guy
must've talked him into it.
**[20:26] PW**
Now's the time to save him.
**[20:27] Maya**
Gotcha. Let's do this, Vanguard!
**[20:30] Gum**
*I'm in the driver's compartment! Roger that!*
**[20:38] Maya**
Nick!
**[20:39] PW**
Come, hurry!
**[20:50] Maya**
All right! Full speed ahead!
**[20:53] Gum**
Roger that!
**[20:54] Gum**
Full speed ahead!
**[21:15] Maya**
Look, look!
**[21:17] PW**
The first sunrise...
**[21:20] Rich**
How beautiful.
**[21:22] Rich**
This is the greatest
sunrise I have ever seen.
**[21:25] PW**
Yes. No objections here.
**[21:31] PW**
You embark on a new journey now.
***SIGN*** Ace Attorney
***SIGN*** Season 2
**[23:20] PW**
Objection!
**[23:21] PW**
Five years ago, long before
I became an attorney,
**[23:24] PW**
I took to the courtroom for a different reason.
**[23:26] PW**
Back then, I was the
accused in a murder case.
**[23:30] PW**
That's when I met first met Mia.
**[23:32] PW**
She was still a rookie attorney at
the time, and the two of us faced off
**[23:35] PW**
against a terrifying incident.
**[23:37] PW**
And there were even bigger
shadows looming behind it.
**[23:42] PW**
Find the contradictions!
**[23:43] PW**
Reach out to the truth!
**[23:44] PW**
Next time, a one-hour special:
"Turnabout Memories"!
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**[23:47] PW**
Take that!