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Panel 1: Medium shot of the secretary. She is facing forward. “No, I was preoccupied at the time.”
Panel 2: Medium shot of Miles looking back at the camera over his shoulder with a condescending toothy smirk on his face. “So you see, there is no possibility that the prosecution’s theory of the crime could have happened as they assert.”
Panel 3: extreme Closeup of Franziska’s angry snarling face. Her teeth are bared and clenched. Her irises are pupil-less. An angry vein shows on her head.
Panel 4: An upper body shot of Gumshoe. His eyes are narrowed and brows quirked as though he is thinking hard. One of his hands is in a loose fist held in front of his lower chest. His mouth is off to one side of his face is a pursed squiggle of thought. He is interjects, “Hey pal! How do you explain the theft then? There aren’t any other people who could have done it. We were all down on the pitch and all the other classes were in their own classrooms for that period. Phoenix is the only student who wasn’t in a classroom that hour.”
Panel 5: a medium shot of the secretary. She has a pensive look on her face and one hand is raised and fidgeting with the collar of her suit jacket at her chest. There is a thought bubble of the type that indicates Phoenix is reading her thoughts and she is thinking, “Well, except for the boy who almost died and the one in the infirmary.”
Panel 6: a medium shot of Phoenix looking shocked. His eyes are wide open ovals with just dots instead of an iris and pupil, his eye brows are raised almost to his hairline, his mouth is open comically wide and there are surprise lines near the top of his head. A speech bubble from him merely reads “!” And there is a thought bubble coming from him that reads “Someone almost died!?!?!?”
Panel 7: a high angle three-quarter shot of miles looking panicked. His eyes are wide and his irises are small and have no pupils, there are dark bag lines around them. He is sweating and there are blue vertical mood lines of distress running down the top half of his face. His mouth is an open-mouthed frown. The background behind him is a moody blue.
Panel 8: A medium shot of Phoenix looking back over his shoulder with wide worried eyes. His thought bubble reads, “How do I get him to get her to say that out loud without letting him know I can read minds?”
Panel 9: Top of second page. A waist up shot of Phoenix thinking deeply. One arm is crossed over his waist with the other arm resting its elbow on it with the hand raised up to the chin in contemplation. You can’t see his mouth, his eyes are narrowed in though there are a series of white circles stretching in a line from either side of him. He is thinking “Think Phoenix think. On the left side of the page this panel is overlapped by the beginnings of panel 10 which is styled like an oversized thought bubble.
Panel 10: this panel is made up of 3 overlapping inset panels like a stylized thought bubble that extends from panel 9 down over panel 11. At the top we can see the back of the secretary’s head, there is a yellow exclamation point above it. To the left, siting at a table facing us is Kazuma in his military green secret police jacket, holding his SSS police identification out. Dark thought bubbles announce Phoenix’s train of thought, “What would Uncle Kazuma do?” , “He’s good at convincing people to talk…” Directly below this is an inset of the secretary’s terrified face with her jacket being held at the neck by a hand wearing a military green jacket sleeve. Directly below this is a closeup from the secretary’s point of view with a wad of her purple jacket cloth at the bottom up into Kazuma’s very intense, scary, unhinged you-will-answer-my-question-now interrogation face. The background behind him is solid black with a scratchy red aura emanating from him, his eyes are scratchy sketch lines. He has zero chill.
Panel 11: to the right of the unhinged Kazuma thought is another medium shot of Phoenix, he is blowing out a breath cloud and looks a little dismayed at conclusion of his thought experiment, there is an sfx of ‘geh’ and he is thinking, ‘Maybe not…”
Panel 12: a shot of Phoenix from the waist up. He is looking down at a stack of photographs held in his hands. There is a yellow surprise burst coming from his head and he says “Oh!”
Panel 13: A shot of the photographs he is looking at. Most of them are just shown as different colours, but one has an image in it and that is of the front of an ambulance. There are a series of whisper speech bubbles over it. “PSSST. Hey Miles.” , “Hmm?”, “What about the ambulance?”, “?!”
Panel 14: a mid shot of Miles from the back in 1/4 profile, his eye looks surprised. He asks, “Ambulance?”
Panel 15: A medium shot of Phoenix with a broad, open-mouthed smile. He is holding up another photograph showing a blueish sedan with an ambulance behind it and pointing to the ambulance. A shout speech bubble says, “Yeah! Look it came in right behind us.”
Panel 16: a close up of Miles in 3/4 profile looking happy with an open mouthed smile. An sfx above him reads “AHA!”
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Panel 1: a medium shot of Miles in 3/4 profile. There is a small smile on his face. He says, “Witness, why didn’t you check the defendant in when he arrived?”
Panel 2: a medium shot of Franziska, she is giving a side-eye and scowling. Her speech bubble reads, “You idiot! She already answered that! She had to handle and incident outside.”
Panel 3: A closeup from a low angle of Miles, who is looking smug again, a wide smirk stretching across his mouth. , “Ahh, but it wasn’t just any incident. There was a medical emergency was there not, witness?”
Panel 4: A medium shot of the Secretary holding her lapel and saying ‘How did-?” Before she is cut off.
Panel 5: a medium shot of an angry Franziska who is gesturing with her arms and interrupting with a shout of, “What are you talking about?”
Panel 6: Another overhead view of the photographs from the security camera. Most of them are jut background and only show colours, but there are 3 with images that show the blue sedan by itself, the blue sedan with the ambulance behind it, and the ambulance pulled up to the gate speaker showing the driver’s face and EMT number on the side. A speech bubble reads “If you look at these photos from the gate security cameras, you can see an ambulance entering , just behind the Van Zieks’ car.
Panel 7: In the background is a memory image of students playing soccer down on the pitch. In the middle is Gumshoe in his p.e. clothes, drawn with two heads one looking to the right and the other to the left with action lines in the center to show he’s rapidly looking around. In the sky are sfx for wee-woo-wee-woo in English and pi—po— in katakana for the sound of the ambulance siren. In the foreground in front of the memory is a half body shot of Gumshoe in his blue uniform with a surprised speech bubble saying, “Oh Yeah! I think I remember hearing the sirens a couple of times while we were outside, now that I think about it, pal.
Panel 8: A close up of Franziska with an exaggerated shouting mouth. A jagged speech bubble with a very thick black border and very bold lettering reads, “NO ONE ASKED YOU, SCRUFFY!”
Panel 9: Top of second page.
A small talking head of Gumshoe says, “Sorry, boss.” A Medium shot of Franziska one hand by her chest and the other reaching out toward the camera palm up. She has a rounded devious smirk pulled high on one side of her face her eyes are ovals, but flattened off at the top and angled in the same angled in direction as her eyebrows, giving her an overall devious look of someone who thinks they are about to strike a major blow. She says, “Is the defense’s new theory of the crime that the real thief made their getaway in an ambulance? What kind of fools do you take us for, Miles Edgeworth?”
Panel 10: A low angle medium shot of Miles there are head shaking motion lines by his face, his eyes are not really narrowed, but tensed his mouth is somewhere between a smirk with teeth and nervous tension. A jagged speech bubble shouts, “What? No!” A thought bubble reads, “That would be convenient though…”
Panel 11: A close up of Miles’ face from a normal angle. He is frowning slightly and looking serious. He says, “However, it does seem like quite the coincidence for these two events to occur within the same hour, no?”
Panel 12: on the right side of the panel is a medium shot of an annoyed Franziska, she is clenching her teeth in a lopsided grimace, her eye lids are half lowered over her eyes and a series of horizontal blue mood lines descend from her forehead down between her eyes. Her head is slightly lowered. A jagged speech bubble asks, “Then what are you implying?” On the left side of the panel is an upper body shot of Miles standing with arms crossed over his chest and head angled back and to the side with an annoyed haughtiness to it and a sneer. He says, “Gumshoe just said that all the other students were in their classrooms, having class, but that is a contradiction to the facts.”
Panel 13: A medium shot of Miles with his arm outstretched to the right, index finger pointing in the classic objection pose. He says, “Ms. Doherty, the medical emergency, was it a student or faculty?”
Panel 14: A medium shot of the secretary in 3/4 profile. Her had is raised to her chin and she says, “It was a student, from class 5B. He went into anaphylactic shock.”
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Panel 1: a mid shot of Miles. He looks confident, One hand is on his hip, the other is raised palm up to his side. He has a semi-confident smirk. He is saying, “You must agree, Franziska, that it is impossible that the students in 5B would be focused on class when one of their classmates was having a terrifying crisis in front of them. And, implausible to think their teacher had his attention anywhere but on the student.”
Panel 2: A close up of the Judge in profile. His mouth is open in surprise and he looks a little concerned. He says, “Oh dear, it must have been very traumatic for his classmates to have to witness such a thing. I should imagine they would have wanted to step out of the room when the paramedics arrived. I almost hate that we’ll need to quarantine them all now.”
Panel 3: a low angle shot of Miles. His mouth has dropped open in a comically exaggerated way and there is a yellow shock burst over his head. A jagged speech bubble shouts, “What! Why would you need to quarantine them?”
Panel 4: A medium shot of the judge, he is facing the camera, but looking down and to the side. He says, “Two violent and mysterious illnesses in a single morning? They’ve clearly been exposed to something.”
Panel 5: a three quarter shot of the secretary in profile. She has both hands raised in front of her mouth. Her speech bubble says, “Oh, no, this incident didn’t happen in the classroom. He collapsed in front of the crew repairing that damaged floor in the west stair well after staggering out of the restrooms.”
Panel 6: a medium shot of a smug looking Franziska her hand is raised and she is wagging her index finger back and forth for left to right and saying, “And there goes your foolish contradiction.Unless you are back to claiming one of his classmates is a psychic who sensed his closing airways and led the rest of the class on a rescue mission?”
Panel 7. An exaggerated shot of Miles. Both of his hands are raised out into the foreground near the camera palms up with the fingers bent into claws, his mouth is wide open in an extreme yell that shows both his upper and lower horseshoes of teeth and tongue almost to the uvula. He has irises but no pupils. His face has red angry blush lines and beads of sweat. A black messy dark thought bubble with white text screams, “GAH! Why can’t I catch a break here?”
Panel 8: top of second page. Medium shot of Phoenix, “What about the other student?”
Panel 9: medium shot of the secretary. “Oh he wasn’t in the classroom either. That happened in the foyer before classes even began.”
Panel 10: An inset of a closeup of Miles’ face in profile. “Was he taken to hospital as well?” A Three quarter shot of the secretary. She is clasping both hands in front of her. “No, we assumed it was just a stomach bug or food poisoning, he’s a boarding student so he’s been in the infirmary since it happened.”
Panel 11: a medium shot of Miles. He is resting his chin on one hand and thinking. He says, “Hmm. In that case there were at least 2 students who weren’t in their classrooms.”
Panel 12: A medium shot of Franziska she is looking annoyed as usual and has one hand raised near her face with a finger resting on her chin as she scowls towards the camera and says, “Who BOTH have the alibi of being deathly ill.”
Panel 13: A large medium shot of Miles with a large open-mouthed smirk on his face. His head extends up out of the panel frame and over the lower frame of panel 12. There are 2 multi-bubble speech bubbles one in panel 12 and the other in panel 13 that contain his statement, “Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless the prosecution’s argument that there were no other students on campus who were not in their classrooms from 9 until 10 apart from my client is clearly false. Prior to collapsing in from of the workers, the student who had the medical emergency was not in his classroom. “