[One of the crueler elements of this world is that he has to face so many people dear to him and tell them that horrible story again, reliving it over and over. Maya, Edgeworth, Mia... and now Iris.

It still stings just as badly, as he wonders what she'll end up thinking of him. He shakes his head softly.]

Well... for the most part, I was set up. Somehow arranged for me to be handed the supposed evidence. And I presented it in the courtroom without a second thought, like some kind of a fool. [He feels a foul taste in his own mouth as he looks back.]

The person who was commissioned to make the evidence was even paid to testify that I was the one who ordered it. And I was left... without any defense, and soon enough, without any badge. It took seven long years before I could clear my name.