Okay so like I genuinely, genuinely, cannot stop thinking about the fact that Phoenix and Maya went and showed von Karma this crucial piece of evidence they found that inextricably links von Karma to conspiracy and murder. Like they have this letter in von Karma’s handwriting outlining the entire plot and they show it to him. They know he’s a terrible man and absolutely ruthless, that he’s currently stealing evidence for the DL-6 incident so that no one can use it, and they’re just like “we have this very important trump card that can give us an edge to save Edgeworth. Let’s definitely show our hand to this ruthless cruel man. Can’t go wrong.” And then they get tased.
I cannot stop thinking about this absolutely stupid sequence of events but I also cannot stop wondering: did they tell Edgeworth about this?
Like honestly Phoenix is probably down to never mention this again, because he should be learning from his past mistakes like when White punched him in the face and Vasquez had her mafia boys nearly murder them, only to be saved by Gumshoe. He’s had issues with this twice already. Fool me once, fool me twice, what the hell’s the third time?
And well, for one, they’re all definitely stressed enough over this trial as it is. Edgeworth has had a shitty past few days, unbelievably shitty, and this is going to A) probably make him feel even worse, and B) he’s going to take the opportunity to call Phoenix an absolute fucking idiot (deservedly) so better just….just go in and do what we can. We haven’t lost yet. Better not to make things worse. If we lose and Edgeworth is found guilty I can figure out whether I want to get this off my chest then, not now.
But Maya’s psychic powers have her still being staticy as hell as an after-effect of the tasing and she zaps Phoenix and then Edgeworth and honestly everything surrounding Phoenix and Maya is weird as shit and there’s bigger things to worry about so Edgeworth probably doesn’t question it then.
Later, after the trial is over, Gumshoe takes the gang out for a celebration and honestly Edgeworth’s probably still processing everything, he was declared innocent of murder and then confessed to the murder of his father and was declared innocent of that because his mentor and replacement father-figure was convicted of the murder of his father. It has been a rough day. It has been a rough four days. How do you cope with this? Probably by thinking about literally anything else and so Edgeworth ends up remembering that morning that Maya tried to give him a pat on the back and gave him an electrical shock instead and he’s like. what is up with that.
“Oh, yeah! Sorry, sorry! It’s because I’m a psychic, you know” - no, he doesn’t know, I mean he does know she’s a psychic by now but he doesn’t actually know in the slightest what is up with that - “and I was still channeling the effects of getting tased yesterday.”
“You… were tased?”
“Yeah, me and Nick, von Karma tased us when we ran into him down at the precinct.”
Edgeworth takes a solid 20 seconds to process this. “…von Karma tased you?”
Phoenix is trapped in some conversation with Larry and cannot extract himself to hear and intervene in the impending disaster happening next to him.