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Whenever I get to the AJ trilogy investigations will feel so empty without Sholmes, I'm sure. And the courts won't feel right without a jury!

This case's jury is still pretty lowkey though, despite a summation examination (which we don't even need to ask for, lol). The exceptions are juror #4, the scientist guy, and juror #6, the 'back in my day' cop, possibly the worst juror we've endured yet. There's also a bizarre corn child gimmick that I don't get.

Drebber's text has this tendency of highlighting lots of unimportant words, I'm not sure what exactly that's meant to convey about his character but it's a neat idea. I like that the waxwork is suddenly present in the court right when we present it, I guess it was there all along just offscreen.

It occurred to me how very convenient it was for us to get a piece of evidence with Courtney's maiden name on it immediately before the part of the trial where it'd be useful, but the intermission shows that everything happening here is according to Sholmes's plan. He's not trusting us enough to tell us what's going on, but he seems to want Pandora's Box open while other characters are apprehensive about it. The game is hyping up this last section a lot, I'm excited!

Tusspells has a fun testimony, I like her character (and theme). The game isn't afraid to get very macabre here, intimately describing details of rigor mortis while describing how the then 16 year old (!) Esmerelda dug up a grave and held the fresh cadaver's jaw up so she could create a fitting waxwork of it. Jeez. And all this to make a face that isn't even on display in public. This section ends with Barok calling Sithe to the stand, and unfortunately I have to leave it here for today. I hate to, as I'm sure this will be the last segment of the case, but this way my hype can build further!

I wonder about Stronghart's motivations here. He told van Zieks to prosecute this case (and Ryunosuke to defend it), despite presumably being able to foresee that Sithe would be relevant, and that Barok's own principles would take precedence for him over his orders. Either he was testing his #1 prosecutor's loyalties, he's not as smart as I figured, or for some reason this is part of his plan. Is he happy to cut Courtney loose? Hm.

Again my mind turns to the Professor's identity. If it's not someone we the player would recognise, it has to be a face that would mean something to one of the characters. Maybe this talk of twin brothers is foreshadowing! I'd imagine that Stronghart, Sithe, Mikotoba, Jigoku, Sholmes, and Wilson could all have been in London at the time of these murders, but what face would mean anything to them? I assume Sholmes already knows the identity. Perhaps Klint van Zieks wasn't a victim of the Professor but was the killer himself? ...Eh, no, that wouldn't work with the timings. Hmm. I don't know where this will go. I noticed Osman's signature on the 10 year old article, though, so I imagine that ties to Drebber's motive for the murder.