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Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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Case 5 - Rise From the Ashes
Investigation (Day 2) - Part 1





: Uh... um, Mr. Wright! So...
: What's going on with the case, anyway!?
: I... I'm a little confused.
: Huh!? W-well, um... let's see. (What is going on?)



: He died in the Prosecutor's parking lot... and the Police Department's evidence room.
: What's this "and the evidence room" part!?
: The Prosecutor's Office and the Police Department are 30 minutes apart by car.
: ... Well... that's what we're going to find out. (Or try to, at least...)
: ...
: Alright! Let's do it!
: (Glad she's in good spirits, but I'm not sure she's going to be much help with this...)
: Don't be so sure, Mr. Wright.
: Huh?
: Would you mind coming with me?
: I'll prove that these thick-rimmed glasses of mine aren't just for show!
: Let's go! Science awaits us!

And we are immediately jumped to...



: You know, I really don't think we should worry about the Police Department murder!



: (Of course it was our victim who was killed at the Department...)
: And my sister would never do such a thing! I know it...

Sudden flashback!



: The oil drum kicked over by the Chief Prosecutor...
: was brimming with water!



: (Even though she says they don't get along, Ema really likes her sister...)
: That's not it at all!
: It's just...
: We're both professionals at what we do... and I trust her!
: (Big words for a high school student.) Well, whether there was blood stains or not... The water in that oil drum washed it all away.
: He he heh. Ignore the strength of my science at your own peril, Mr. Wright!
: Huh? What's that grin for?



: L-luminol?
: Blood is sticky stuff, you know. You can't just wash it away with a little water.
: Even if you can't see it, it's still there...
: But wouldn't the police have already done those tests?
: Never trust anyone's eyes but your own, Mr. Wright!
: Just give it a try!
: M-me? Why do I have to do it!?
: I'm a minor! I can't even drink yet!
: (We're testing blood stains with this stuff, not drinking it...)
: Here, look, I'll lend you these glasses.
: Huh? You had an extra pair of those things?





Luminol testing takes place on the bottom screen, like examining.

: To test for a blood reaction, just spray the luminol on it.



: Touch the screen to spray it on.
: Okay! Let's find us some bloodstains!



Once a bloodstain has been identified this way, you have to tap it.



: So, this is a bloodstain?
: Uhhhh... It's so... ugh!
: Ema, you're shaking.
: It's just... this is my first time seeing real blood!
: (Scientific investigation in action...)
: O-okay, well, we definitely know this is a bloodstain.
: But, doesn't something strike you as odd? Scientifically speaking, of course?
: (What's odd about this... scientificallly?)





: Why, the blood stain's location is odd! Elementary!



: I mean, I would think that if there was a fight, you'd expect some bloodstains here.
: ... I suppose you might think that.
: C'mon, Mr. Wright! We're all counting on you!
: (There is something odd about this bloodstain... But if it's not the location of the blood, then maybe...) Maybe it's the amount of blood that's odd?

Or...



: The perpetrator and Detective Goodman fought here, right? Don't you think there'd be a little more blood?

Convergence.





: I mean...



: (It's strange! If they fought here, there'd have to be more bloodstains than this.)
: Uh, h-hey, Mr. Wright!



: See... I'm pretty handy to have around, right?



: I saved up my allowance to buy this!

The Luminol is added to our evidence list. I forget to actually look at it for a bit, though.

: We can't be sure that the police will reveal all their evidence in court.
: Sometimes they fail to mention evidence that doesn't fit with their view of the case.
: And we'll drag that "hidden evidence" out into the light of day!
: Yeah!
: It feels like we're really investigating a crime now, doesn't it?
: (This luminol stuff is going to come in handy.)
: Hah!



: Ms. Starr!



: You only trust your own eyes, hm?
: Not bad, you two...



: Sorry, it's just, that kind of lead in doesn't really get my mouth watering.

And now we can look around or talk to Angel.



: So that's where Ms. Starr saw the incident from.
: You can probably see quite a lot from up there. (Hmm...)



: Where's the security guard, anyway?
: Well, this is just something I heard...
: But apparently he went out to buy coffee for Ms. Starr.
: (That woman is a force to be reckoned with...)



: So, this is the famous oil drum.
: Well, no time like the present! I'll try to kick it over myself!
: Hii-yah!
: ......
: Th-that's okay. Don't cry. (That Lana Skye must be a powerful woman...)

So let's talk to Angel now.



: You certainly put me in a tight spot today.
: My apologies Ms. Starr, but...
: No, no, it's okay. It was my fault.
: Oh, we know.
: I witnessed everything from that security room right there. But...I was afraid that wouldn't sound convincing enough, you see...
: I was wrong to think that. I'm sorry.
: Sorry? You lied on the witness stand! That's unforgivable!
: ...



: Little girl, don't forget what's important here. Even if the place I witnessed the events from was different, I still saw what I saw.



: Ah...
: I swear it on my honor as a detective!
: She stabbed Goodman!
: ...!





: So... you were a detective, weren't you, Ms. Starr?
: Yes... It was a long time ago.
: Well, two years ago. No matter how hardened the criminal, when they faced me...



: They coughed it up.
: Coughed it... up?
: They confessed.
: They babbled like babies.



: I wouldn't doubt it.
: Every day, I dragged the dirt out of the mouths of suspect after suspect...
: And before long, they called me...



: The Cough-up Queen!
: Oh, and here I thought someone had gotten food poisoning from your lunches.
: And... you were "let go"? Er... fired?



: And if these prim and proper prosecutors hadn't let me go, I'd still be one today.



: Ess... el..? (Wait! She doesn't mean...!)

If we present her photo...



: But... even I get flustered sometimes.
: So, you went straight to the scene of the crime?
: And climbed the chain link fence in an effort to stop the murder?



: In other words... five minutes after the crime?
: Those five minutes are the whole problem...
: The hole in my testimony, as it were.
: The five minutes weren't the problem, Ms. Starr, you lying was the problem!
: Listen, little girl.
: I've had my testimony "disregarded" before... And I wasn't going to have it disregarded again! Just like that time...
: (That time...?)

If we present either the SL-9 note or the SL-9 knife...

: Um... What do you think about this?





: Goodman...
: Goodman was the head detective on that case, you know.
: Really?
: That knife was evidence from that case... the murder weapon. It was due for transferal the very day that Goodman was killed.



: As I suspected... SL-9 isn't over! Not yet!
: Do you think you could tell us more about the SL-9 Incident?



: That's when I learned the truth.
: We're nothing to them. Disposable.
: Disposable?
: Two years ago... it was the biggest case I'd ever handled.





: So... they didn't solve it?
: On the contrary. It was solved quite cleanly. The criminal was caught and executed.
: (E-executed...?)
: Yes, the criminal got what was coming to him. It doesn't get any cleaner than that. The only problem was...
: they never did find decisive evidence. Not even a little.
: What!? But the criminal was executed, right?
: Evidence... of a sort. Made up evidence.
: Wh-what?
: You mean they executed someone with fabricated evidence!?
: ...
: The best part came several months after the trial. Every detective involved with the case was dealt with.
: Some were demoted to patrolmen, others found themselves out of a job...
: And... you were one of those?
: Myself, and one other person you know well.
: (Wait, could it be...?)



: Exactly. Officer Jake Marshall. He's on security detail in the Police Department, isn't he?



: As professional detectives, we investigated that case from every angle.



: And then... it was over. And he was demoted.
: However...
: He hasn't forgotten. And neither have I!
: You haven't forgotten SL-9?
: There was another side to that case, a hidden side. That's what we're after now.
: And no one up in their fancy offices can stop us.
: Wait! Th-those lunches you sell...
: There is only one reason I come to sell lunches in this accursed office.
: I come here to meet old friends... boyfriends that can help me investigate.
: (Ms. Starr's old boyfriends... How many does she have, anyway? Just when the detectives on the case have disappeared, we find new evidence...)
: There has to be a connection!
: So, Rookie...
: Wh-what!
: It seems like you're serious about investigating this case...
: Yes.





: I know a certain guy who might help you if you tempt him with this treat...

And it goes into the inventory.





: I can almost hear the sound of steak frying on the grill!
: No doubt it's all cold and tough by now.
: No, I'm sure it's delicious!
: Ms. Starr poured her heart into making this!
: So long as she didn't put any other organs in there...



: She must mean "beef." She probably just wrote it generically.
: Uh... yeah. Let's hope so.
: Of course, as a scientist I have to check what additives she used.
: Go to town.
: Huh? It says here... "Hours of sweat and labor."
: So that's why the sauce is so salty...

Anyway...

: Um, Ms. Starr...?
: Officer Marshall... is he your... uh, are you his...?
: Are you g-g-g-going out!?
: Why do you want to know?
: I was just wondering what happened to him?
: A long time ago, when he was helping my sister do cases, he was so nice. He got along so well with my sister, it made me jealous. And... he was nice to me too, back then.
: (This would be when Officer Marshall was a detective.)
: But now...
: now he's so cold!
: ...
: Jake and I are merely cooperating on this investigation. We're putting the past to rest, as it were.
: Nothing more than that.
: I... I see.
: Thank you.
: (Officer Jake Marshall... Hmm...)

Next time: Getting out of this drat parking lot.

Mors Rattus fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 13, 2016

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The Doomhammer
Feb 14, 2010

Honestly I don't know how the police department will recover from the death of Bruce Goodman, their only half-way normal detective.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
Normal characters are a precious commodity in Ace Attorney.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

WASP CREW

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

Normal characters are a precious commodity in Ace Attorney.

It's why he had to die! He's too normal to be a witness or a suspect, so the police department can't use him in court.

MightyPretenders
Feb 21, 2014

So, now we hear that no body was found at the evidence room.

KataraniSword
Apr 22, 2008

but at least I don't have
a MLP or MSPA avatar.
I am my own man.

MightyPretenders posted:

So, now we hear that no body was found at the evidence room.

Meaning that either something's being covered up, or the Double Goodman Murder was a red herring to somehow try to throw the trial into confusion.

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

KataraniSword posted:

Meaning that either something's being covered up, or the Double Goodman Murder was a red herring to somehow try to throw the trial into confusion.

You ever hear the phrase "kill someone, dig them back up, and kill them again"?

Well.......

Cangelosi
Nov 17, 2004

"It's cute," he said to himself warily, "but it's not normal."
Maybe there's clones involved.

...

What? They did that in Deep Space 9. :shrug:

Lunar Suite
Jun 5, 2011

If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.
Would that car have been able to drive, with something stuffed in the tailpipe (causing a buildup of exhaust and preventing fresh oxygen from entering the cylinders, to vaporize the gasoline)?

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
I miss all of the silly laws at the end of each update.

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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Sadly, I ran out.

dotchan
Feb 28, 2008

I wanna get a Super Saiyan Mohawk when I grow up! :swoon:

Lunar Suite posted:

Would that car have been able to drive, with something stuffed in the tailpipe (causing a buildup of exhaust and preventing fresh oxygen from entering the cylinders, to vaporize the gasoline)?

Depends on how well it was stuffed. And even with an "airtight" seal, the pressure of the exhaust might be able to eject the obstruction. (That's what the Mythbusters found out when they tried with a banana.)

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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Case 5 - Rise From the Ashes
Investigation (Day 2) - Part 2

We begin by heading for the police station.



: It's even busier here today than it was yesterday.
: The detectives are running around so fast they're blurring.
: (I suppose it makes sense-- a detective did get killed in their own department.)
: So... the evidence room. The scene of the crime!
: According to the pamphlet we got at the front desk...
: Here it is!
: (She's like a kid at an amusement park.)
: Ooh, a real crime scene! Let's go take a look!

But first...



You may have remembered the evidence being kept in a room off of Criminal Affairs last time. That is, apparently, a different evidence room, because it has nothing to do with what we're looking for at all.



: Wow, everyone looks deadly serious here...
: Well, there was a vicious murder of a detective in this department, after all.



: Ugh... It makes my head hurt.
: Well, first things first. I want to check out the crime scene here.
: Yes, you sound "dead"-set on investigating!
: But don't mess up, or we could wind up... dead!
: I doubt anyone wants more mysteries or dead bodies around here right now. (But... it doesn't look like anyone's going to help us much, either.)

So, instead, we should check out that security guard office.





: What's with the decor in this place? It's very... eccentric.
: According to the pamphlet, this is the guard station for the evidence room.
: So, beyond that door is the evidence room... the scene of the crime?
: It sure seems that way...
: Oh. Ohhh...
: What's wrong?
: It's those cacti! They're so prickly... so imposing! It's hard to think straight.
: (If you can't handle the cacti, stay out of the desert...) What I want to know is, if this is a guard station, where is the guard?
: I have a feeling I know who this guard is already...

Let's take a look around.



: Look, on the floor, a lasso!
: Hmm... looks like it's set up to trap something.
: A trap, here?
: Wait, I know!
: Maybe someone was trying to catch a wild bull in here...
: But the lasso missed!
: You sure have an active imagination.



: The evidence room is beyond that door.
: Let's just walk in! ...
: It won't open.
: You thought it'd be open? (I think we'd need someone's permission to go in there first...)



: It looks like there's a video feed from the evidence room here.
: There's a light blinking below the monitor.
: It says "Recording"!
: I bet we could use this computer to check on who went in and out of here!



: This swinging door makes the place look like some kind of saloon!
: But look, it's nailed shut. You can't get in that way.
: Of course not! If you went in through here...
: The cactus would fall over. Ouch!
: I'd say it'd be more of an "Yeeeeaargh," myself.



: Yipes, that sure is prickly. It must be the real deal.
: I would think just one big one would be sufficient.
: This cactus...
: is a lot like my sister, actually.



: M-Ms. Skye?
: Encased in a cold, rigid shell, with thorns pointing in every direction...
: Just like her.
: ... You know, I've been looking at this cactus a while now, and I don't see the resemblance.
: ...
: It's more an attitude thing than a physical similarity.



: There's a security guard uniform hanging here.
: It looks more like a costume than a uniform, honestly.
: A leather jacket, leather pants, a leather...
: What was that called again?
: A punchy? A paunchy? A pinchy?
: I know! A poochy!
: Hmm...
: Wait, maybe that wasn't it.
: (It's a "poncho," but I think I'll keep that information to my self for the time being.)

That's about all we can do in here now, so it's time to find someone who can get us past that door.





: (This place is charged with frantic energy, as always.)
: Please!!!
: Huh? Wasn't that...





: Detective Gumshoe!
: Now's no time for chit-chat, pal. I'm a busy man!
: What I really need is a steak lunch from Lunchland.



: ...
: ...
: (I think I just heard the sound of his heart breaking.)
: Now's no time for despair!
: We've caught our criminal!
: Now we just need evidence!
: The criminal... you mean...?
: You heard about the stabbing in the Police Department evidence room, pal?



: Another detective... was killed at the Police Department!?
: And the perpetrator? Do you have a suspect?
: Well, there was a suspect.
: Just arrested 'em, in fact.



: But, Detective Gumshoe, who was it?
: Listen, pal, all I know is I need me a steak lunch, pronto!
: Standing around here talking isn't going to fill my belly!

He goes to leave.

: W-wait! Don't leave!
: If you want to know more, head on down to the detention center, pal.
: Questioning should be over, so I figure he's down there having a good cry.
: Later!

And he leaves for real.

: He ran off to the evidence room...
: Well, this investigation is off to a running start.

To get to the detention center, however, we have to stop by the office.







Here, we can chat with Ema.



: Well... where should we begin?
: Oh, well, isn't it obvious? We should begin with that, y'know... that thing.
: The mystery of the victim I guess. How could one man, Detective Goodman... be killed in two places simultaneously?
: Oh, well, you see...
: We should go to the Police Department... the evidence room, was it?
: Uh...
: I'm not being very useful here, am I...
: (No, no! You're being very... helpful.)



: Poor Mr. Edgeworth...



: After all, you were in the defendant's chair just last year...!
: ...!



: Ah, about the killing at the Police Department, right.



: (But I can't help but think... Someone at the Police Department doesn't like Edgeworth...)

Now, to the detention center.





: Still, I do feel better about things. A little.
: I mean, they caught the person who stabbed Detective Goodman, didn't they?
: Uh, yeah, I guess they did. (Best to not go too far down that road right now. Things will just get confusing.)



Imagine this accompanied by an annoying megaphone feedback squeal sound effect.

: Wh-what was that!?
: Sir! That's what I'm saying! Me, a perpetrator? I-I-I'd say I-I-I was the perpetrated against, sir! That's whaat I'd say!





: Wait, I know who you are...



: I'm here, sir, at the request of the Chief, sir! I've got your report, sir!



: No, sir! I'm not, sir! I'm a little lost patrolman, like a little lost lamb, sir!
: Oh, I get it.
: You're here to deliver a report?
: No, sir, I, uh, how should I say this...
: (Wait... he isn't... is he?) You... Officer Meekins... You didn't... did you?
: Err..........



This is why I hate Officer Meekins. Every time this sprite shows up, the same annoying whine sound effect plays. Be happy that I am not subjecting you to it.

: What...!? Whaaaaaaaaat!?
: (Now this is an unexpected turn of events...)

But still, we may as well question him.



: Sir! I'm a patrolman with General Affairs, sir! SIR!
: Ow. I can hear you fine, Officer Meekins.
: I had some business that day, sir, and so I went to the evidence room, sir... The guard office in front of the room was empty, sir!
: So, normally there's a guard at the evidence room?
: That's right, sir! Because evidence is kept in the evidence room, sir! Now, the security officer...
: was none other than Officer Marshall!
: (M-Marshall!?)



: That's when I saw him, sir!





: (What the heck is this guy doing?)
: So what happened then?
: After that, sir, I... I...
: everything went white! I saw red! I blacked out! And... when I came to,
: I was here. In the detention center.
: (How long were you out!? Days!?)
: Um, might I ask... what happened to your hand?



: Sir! There was no one to bandage me, sir! So I did what I could to wrap it up, sir!



: Yet another similarity between this case and the one at the Prosecutor's Officer...
: First things first... tell us how you hurt your hand!



: Um, I don't mean to pry, but you are the perpetrator, correct? You killed Detective Bruce Goodman in the evidence room... right?
: Sir...
: Please don't look at me with those sad puppy dog eyes, sir! If oyu have to label me as perpetrator or victim, sir...



: Um, I would, but you happen to be in detention. And alive and well at that.
: Ah, yes, well, that's true, sir. I suppose you could say that.





: Well, sir, if I had to label him as a "stranger" or a "total stranger"...
: Then I'd say he leans heavily on the "total stranger" side!
: So... you didn't know him?
: Sir! I work in a tiny department, devoid of light or other creature comforts!



: I don't know any detectives!
: So, if he was a total stranger, why did you stab him?
: Sir! I had n-no intention of killing him, sir! None!
: N-nor do I have any recollection of k-killing him, sir!
: (At least someone around here is more confused than I am.)



: And your hand... that happened when Detective Goodman was stabbed?
: Well! You see, sir,
: I, er...
: Don't you think that you should just confess?
: But, sir! Sir! But! There was nothing I could do!
: "Nothing you could do"...?
: Sir, to tell the truth, sir, when it happened...
: When the detective pointed that knife at me, I just hollered, sir!



: And the next thing I knew, I was unconscious!
: The next thing you knew you were... huh?
: Then, when I opened my eyes...



: I was alone in the evidence room, sir! All alone! Alone because...
: Because Detective Goodman had disappeared!!!
: What!?
: Then when I looked down, I was gushing blood from my hand, sir!
: Oh, the shock! Oh, the sorrow, sir! Can you imagine how I felt?
: (The victim's body... disappeared...?)
: Hmm... That's some story.

If we present the switchblade knife...

: Officer Meekins, this is for you!
: Eeeek! I-I'm scared of knives, sir!
: It's okay, I just wanted you to take a look at it.
: That's it, sir! Last night, sir! That's the one!
: I was an apple, sir, in my dream, sir, and I was... I was being peeled!
: On second thought, you don't have to look at the knife.
: (Hmm... He's overreacting to the knife, but I guess he's been through a lot.)

...yeah, we'll give him a break. I need a break from that goddamn megaphone anyway.

Next time: Slightly fewer annoying sounds.

Mors Rattus fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Nov 12, 2016

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

go away meekins

quote:

This swinging door makes hte place look like some kind of saloon!

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

You know, for all the hate Marshal got in this thread, i really love him. The dude got demoted to being a glorified security guard and desperately clings to the cowboy image to compensate

ultrabindu
Jan 28, 2009

Mors Rattus posted:

: What's going on with the case, anyway!?
: I... I'm a little confused.

This could be added to start of every update really.

hosed if I know what's going on.

Mzbundifund
Nov 5, 2011

I'm afraid so.

FoolyCharged posted:

You know, for all the hate Marshal got in this thread, i really love him. The dude got demoted to being a glorified security guard and desperately clings to the cowboy image to compensate

Sadly, he was already all-in on the cowboy image even before his demotion.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
Just seeing that image of Meekins' yelling rustled my jimmies and I can't even hear the feedback noise.

FoolyCharged posted:

You know, for all the hate Marshal got in this thread, i really love him. The dude got demoted to being a glorified security guard and desperately clings to the cowboy image to compensate

In Japanese, I have to wonder if this was more in line with Marshal's character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dTG1_x-K8

MightyPretenders
Feb 21, 2014

And here's where the "double murder" situation really starts to go downhill.

Near as I can figure, things happened like this:
Meekins confronts a suspicious person in the evidence room and is knocked out.
He wakes up later and goes about his day, though he is inconsistant on this point.
Meekins is then assigned to deliver a report about a murder in the evidence room to Edgeworth. The report is not accepted.
Then Meekins is arrested for the murder that he was assigned to help with the investigation of.
Chief Gant interrupts the Lana Skye trial with this report and news of the arrest, then tries to blame the poor handling of the case on Edgeworth.

Laying it all out like this shows how little sense both the evidence room crime and the police response to it makes.

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

It is curious and wants to accept all kinds of challenges
Now I'm imagining Meekins as being voiced by Justin Roiland

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
An update old, but:

Mors Rattus posted:

: We can't be sure that the police iwll reveal all their evidence in court.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

Meekins sucks, but I do love that sprite where he's choking himself with the cuffs.

GeminiSun
Feb 16, 2011




lovely CHARACTER GIMMIIIIICKS!! :argh:

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
I'm kinda sad to see so many people are down on this case so far. I actually like it quite a bit.

Maybe it's because the original AA1's witnesses were comparatively more grounded compared to what we're getting here?

Zerbin7
Oct 15, 2014

It's a living.
I agree that this case is one of the better ones, and a real treat later on. That said, Meekins is kinda... blah.

MightyPretenders posted:

And here's where the "double murder" situation really starts to go downhill.

I was going to argue that you got the order of events wrong but....

Huh.

How did I never notice that before? :confused:

Zerbin7 fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Nov 13, 2016

Mraagvpeine
Nov 4, 2014

I won this avatar on a technicality this thick.
Yeah, they really could have used an editor or at least someone to point that out.

EponymousMrYar
Jan 4, 2015

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Zerbin7 posted:

I agree that this case is one of the better ones, and a real treat later on. That said, Meekins is kinda... blah.
Meekin's is the low point in this case.

And it's 90% because of that freaking bull horn.

The rest is him tripping over himself way, way too much to be endearing/tolerable.

BioEnchanted
Aug 9, 2011

He plays for the dreamers that forgot how to dream, and the lovers that forgot how to love.
I like Meekin's Sling. He's just handcuffed his hurt hand to his collar :3:

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

This case gets better as it goes along.

Still though Damon is the best thing about it.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Damon is the best thing about it.

Definitely.
Right, Udgey?

SirSamVimes
Jul 21, 2008

~* Challenge *~


Rigged Death Trap posted:

This case gets better as it goes along.

Still though Damon's unnerving silent stare is the best thing about it.

Glazius
Jul 22, 2007

Hail all those who are able,
any mouse can,
any mouse will,
but the Guard prevail.

Clapping Larry
If they have no body, how do they accuse Meekins? Suspiciously truncated security footage?

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

Glazius posted:

If they have no body, how do they accuse Meekins? Suspiciously truncated security footage?

They took one look at the man and realized he was a cold blooded, hardened killer.

I mean look into those eyes and tell me that isn't a man capable of murder.

Mors Rattus
Oct 25, 2007

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Work, among other things, is kicking my rear end. No update tomorrow. Will try to make up for it ASAP.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

FoolyCharged posted:

They took one look at the man and realized he was a cold blooded, hardened killer.

I mean look into those eyes and tell me that isn't a man capable of murder.


I weep for the Japaniforian police force that the best they can get is Gumshoe, a guy who thinks he's a wild west sheriff and Meekins.

resurgam40
Jul 22, 2007

Battler, the literal stupidest man on earth. Why are you even here, Battler, why did you come back to this place so you could fuck literally everything up?

MysticalMachineGun posted:

I weep for the Japaniforian police force that the best they can get is Gumshoe, a guy who thinks he's a wild west sheriff and Meekins.

At least the Police Chief seems reasonably competent, even if I find his false jocularity somewhat off-putting.

Cangelosi
Nov 17, 2004

"It's cute," he said to himself warily, "but it's not normal."
...can we have the option to leave Meekins in jail?

EponymousMrYar
Jan 4, 2015

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.
That would just make him use his bullhorn more.

We must do everything we can to stop that.

Aerdan
Apr 14, 2012

Not Dennis NEDry

MysticalMachineGun posted:

I weep for the Japaniforian police force that the best they can get is Gumshoe, a guy who thinks he's a wild west sheriff and Meekins.

...And here we have an example of why the Oxford comma is important.

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Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010

Aerdan posted:

...And here we have an example of why the Oxford comma is important.

Are you sure? I mean, have we ever seen Meekins and the Texas Ranger at the same time?

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