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And so we come to the end. Time to finish "The Grand Turnabout" and wrap up Prosecutor's Path.

We head to the Berry Big Circus to see if we can corner Simon and maybe catch up to Dogen. Simon has undergone a character design: now he's dolled up like a jester, as though he were the freaky love child between beloved 2-3 characters Ron and Max. At first, Simon continues to play dumb and innocent, giving us a guilt trip for earlier when we said wed believe in him in the prison case. Thankfully, Edgeworth isn't putting up with this dude's shit anymore, which causes Simon to do his Matt Engarde impression and break bad. Now hes like K-Mart Joker. Or knock-off Kefka, take your pick.

Evil Simon's main gimmick is mimicking Edgeworth's voice and his "objection" sound clip. I think the writers could have done more with this, honestly. I would have liked to have seen Simon mimic other "objections" besides Edgeworth, and throughout the game I think he should've been using this skill to make the mysteries more complicated. He also has his animal control thing, but both of these animations (some squirrels doing acrobatics; some small animals creating an armrest) don't really play off his character very well.

While questioning him, Lang shows up, and he brings Ema along, so I assume well be doing some scientific investigation. Sure enough, we find ourselves having to do the classic fingerprint minigame.
After fiddling with desume for a few minutes, I figure out how to simulate blowing into the mic. We figure out that Simon owns the blue truck that Edgeworth was rubbing up on earlier that day. The blue truck carried Simon's balloon, and our strategy is to somehow place Simon at the scene of the crime.

Simon is pretty smart for a crazy person, and so it takes a while to figure out which evidence is the best way to link him to the murder. Edgeworth presents the "typed-up chess correspondence" but Simon has already thrown away the physical evidence. Regina, in her one useful moment, reports that Simon received a letter from Knightley today, from beyond the grave (spooky!). Nah, it's just that it takes a while for mail to reach the circus. Did you all know that the dude in charge of the USPS is purposefully tanking the business and slowing down the mail? Its true!

Thanks to the trauma of being locked in a car as a kid and losing his memory, Simon is all sorts of crazy. He thinks he's Dover's kid (he's really Gustavia's). Pseudo-cornered, Simon admits to manipulating the criminals so that they eventually kill each other, Baron Zemo-like. "An empire that crumbles from within can never rebuild." That's a Marvel reference for you folks out there. His motive for doing this is that the power trio (BD, Blaise, and Roland) mis-treated him after the Dogen incident. This raises a number of questions: Why didn't they just kill Simon? Why didn't Dogen come back and kill the trio after he learned they betrayed him?

All he did was put the pieces in place. He plotted the fake kidnapping in case 1, set up Knightley's murder in case 2, and framed Kay for Crane's murder in case 4, all to get back at BD, Blaise and Roland indirectly. Simon never actually "killed" anybody.

Or did he?

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