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Special Episode: Turnabout Reclaimed

We have a brief recess, get some info from DePlume and Dr Crab, and reconvene.

We press on every whirr, click and fweet to no avail. We decide to not pursue the cross-examination of Orla. We suggest that using recordings of Orla and Azura on the TV phone, Rimes could have manipulated Orla using that audio. We clarify that Orla cannot do more than 2 tricks at the same time, so we pick the song as being fake [Orla was supposedly doing the lifesaver trick and singing at the same time]. We point out that the walkie talkies issued to all Aquarium crew members can be used to broadcast to speakers inside the Aquarium. Rimes disses us, saying his walkie talkie is broken and there's no way to prove otherwise.

Upon examination, his walkie talkie has some strange teeth marks, not quite matching Orla, but matching the teeth marks Azura Summers' walkie talkie, carried as a memento by Shipley, would have received. We find out there were TWO ORCAS. One, named Ora, had a short tooth, compared to Orla, who has all her teeth intact. We blame Rimes for Shipley's death, and call in Sasha.

Sasha confirms that Ora, the first orca, and Orla, the second, are sisters. After Azura Summers' death last year, Ora was put down and Orla took over all her show duties. Phoenix objects before the Judge's ruling to point out the weird Ladder Fingerprints, showing that Rimes was trying to save Shipley when he fell... not kill him. Shipley's death was an accident, but Rimes was trying to get himself a guilty verdict because he felt bad about the situation.

Sasha Buckler is declared Not Guilty. Cue the confetti.

I guess Shipley's body was hidden in the Skull Rock, so when Sasha moved it in an attempt to sabotage the show she wasn't allowed to be in, she had no idea it contained Shipley's body. Rimes then manipulated Orla into performing the lifesaver trick in front of Ms DePlume.

Now that we all know the truth, Sasha will take time off until her heart condition improves, Ms DePlume will be on the Aquarium's side in her future writings, and Dr Crab reveals that the 'bribes' and his mysterious trips with Captain Shipley were to another aquarium, paying them to take care of Ora, the first orca, who had not been put down and was merely relocated.

We throw Orla a well-deserved fish, and Phoenix receives a surprise orca smooch!

We continue next time with Investigations! A big shout out to @colliding for offering up a copy of the game for me to purchase. Thanks so much.

I did buy SOJ during the store sale, so we will get to that after AAI and 2.

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