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I wrote down Graydon in all of my notes so that will probably make things worse. >_>

Anyways, the small box is a music box! Can we play the music disk now? Ryunosuke wants it played and Gregson is absolutely against it. Van Zieks sides with us so the disk finally gets played. It's Morse code! I was wondering what it could possibly be since it doesn't seem like it could have been a recorded voice. Please translate Juror No 5! That message must be something absurd. Graydon says the music box is broken but Ryunosuke disagrees. I wonder if the Morse code message was translated from Japanese. Wait, it was probably always an English message to begin with even in the Japanese version. Ryunosuke suggests that the sound is Morse code and contains stolen government secrets and the culprit would have done anything to get it back. If so, why did Graydon leave the music box behind? There's also the question of why Mason had the disk full of secrets to begin with.

We move on to Graydon's testimony regarding stealing secrets and the Skulkins want in again. The Skulkins just sold out Graydon! I can't believe they just did that! They are NOT okay with selling out the country and now outright point the finger at Graydon being there during the crime. It seems like they're upset that Windibank died as well. Also, it turns out I'm dumb. Graydon correctly points out that a single note is not enough to encode Morse code and two notes are required. I guess this is why Juror No. 5 can't translate for us. But that's okay, the music box had a secret second half so we just need to find where the second disk is.

The Skulkins are apparently on our side now and spill the beans on their history with Graydon. It turns out they were old friends. They also know that Ashley Graydon used to be Ashley Milverton. Susato isn't here but she bails us out with her research on the omnibus case. Mason's last name was also Milverton and Graydon is Mason's son! Ryunosuke presents the second half of the music box. The claim is Mason was trying to sell a second disk to McGilded. When things went wrong, the second disk would end up at Windibank's. Graydon finally admits to being at Windibank's that night but still denies being involved in either murder or stealing government secrets. But, just showing that Graydon was shot should be good enough. The Skulkin gun shot Sholmes's pouch. Windibank's gun shot Graydon. That means it must have been Graydon who shot and killed Windibank. Therefore, Gina can her her Not Guilty now, right? Nope. Graydon has another card up his sleeve.

Graydon says he saw Gina shoot Windibank through the peephole in the door. As a result, Gina's coat got covered in blood. Van Zieks tells us that real luminol exists to test for blood. Well that's not good. We already know Gina's coat is covered in blood. That's another six Guilty votes so it is time for the third Summation Examination!

Or not? The Baliff starts speaking to us and it is Sholmes! I don't really get Van Zieks. He says he doesn't like Ryunosuke much but is frequently very cooperative except for when he isn't. Sholmes says Susato gave us one last going away present to use as a last resort. The present is the Cat-Flapomat! How does that help?! Wait, is Sholmes implying that Susato made the peephole in the storeroom door. The peephole doesn't exist in the 1:00am photo but it does exist in the 1:30am photo. That's abusrd! Susato, what have you done?! I can't believe that that detail was sitting in the Court Record the whole time!

Ryunosuke asks to cross examine Graydon again. I guess we aren't doing a summation examination after all. I present the 1:00am photo to the line about Gina throwing the gun out the peephole but that doesn't work even though I think it should. Gotta present the Cat-Flapomat instead. With no peephole, Graydon's testimony falls apart! We also use the security photos to show that the peephole didn't exist at the time of the murder but it still isn't enough.

So we take a different approach yet again. We need to figure out why Graydon knows about a peephole that didn't exist when he was at Windibank's. There's also the issue of how he knew about the blood on the coat but that's not a real issue. He briefly stole Gina's coat from her so he might have figured it out then. Ryunosuke thinks Gregson leaked info about the peephole to Graydon during Gina's testimony in exchange for the second disk. Did the peephole really never come up between Graydon first arriving and his testimony using it? It feels like it might not have, but I would have to go back and check. To prove Gregson made a deal, Ryunosuke demands that Nash be searched and we find the disk! Graydon passed the disk to Gregson who hid the disk on Nash but that's not enough to get past Ryunosuke! I'm not sure if Nash was in on this though. It seems like he wasn't which makes sense since Gregson wouldn't trust Nash to keep it a secret.

Graydon still won't crack from this since it still doesn't prove the disk came from him. So we go crack Gregson instead. We threaten to play the music box with both disks installed. Gregson suddenly panics over this and says Ryunosuke insisting on this may make him an enemy of the entire British government. But, Ryunosuke will stop at nothing to protect his client! Van Zieks is very helpful as always. He wants the truth so he won't get in the way. Won't he get in trouble for this as well? I suspect he doesn't care! The music box plays Morse code for a bit before Gregson breaks and asks for it to stop. He finally admits to feeding Graydon information about the peephole in exchange for the disk. Ryunosuke says this finally shows that Graydon was the third intruder who shot Windibank.

This finally gets Graydon to admit to his crimes. He met McGilded one day and got an offer for lots of money in exchange for government secrets from his job as a communication officer. Graydon reached out to Mason to build the special music box and the disks. McGilded would give 10 Guinea for the first disk and 1000 Guinea for the second. 1000 Guinea is a lot! That's enough to build a mansion in the most prestigious area of Tokyo (Thanks Susato!). Graydon never told his father was the real contents of the disks were but Mason eventually got suspicious from the amount of money it was bringing in. One time Mason said he wanted to do the exchange for the disks. That was the night of the omnibus murder. Even Graydon doesn't know why the deal fell through. Only that his father was dead and McGilded still got the second disk. For revenge, Graydon also used his money to have McGilded killed after the omnibus trial.

After that, Graydon tried to recover the two disks and the music box. He figured out Gina had the ticket from the trial and followed her. But, after that fell apart and the police took one disk, he used more extreme measures to try and get the second. That fell apart as well when Windibank turned out to be inside his shop at the time. Graydon managed to get the disk but Windibank showed up and shot at Graydon. Graydon ended up shooting back and unfortunately his one shot turned out to be lethal. After that he ran for it. And that's everything that happened.

The judge asks the jury for the votes and we get our six Not Guilty votes! Gina still has to deal with perjury from the omnibus murder trial and also for breaking into Windibank's. Finally Juror No. 5 steps in with a translation of the music box! I'm thinking Mason figured it out and the disks contain a different message but I'm wrong. Juror No. 5 says that the two disks put together did NOT make up a Morse code message. It was completely meaningless. We know for a fact that Graydon was selling secrets so what went wrong here? In any case, we get our fireworks and confetti!

Van Zieks and Ryunosuke have a little chat after the trial. It looks like Van Zieks has taken a specific interest in Ryunosuke. He only became prosecutor for the case to go up against Ryunosuke. I guess that's why we didn't hear anything about the prosecutor for the case for such a long time. He also hints at a Japanese friend who betrayed him but beyond that continues to be cryptic about his past. I guess I need to wait until the second game to find out what happened.

After the trial Ryunosuke meets up with Gina, Sholmes and Iris. While Gina isn't guilty of murder, she still has a bunch of other charges to answer for so she's still not free. But after all this, Gina says she might be trying to get out of the pickpocket business. The prison carriage arrives so Gina needs to go now. She thanks Ryunosuke for believing in her and then she's off! Iris and Sholmes inform Ryunosuke that due to weather conditions, Susato's ship can't leave yet. Isn't it kinda bad that Susato is still in the country since she has that whole manipulating the crime scene