April 20th 2026 2:32 PM
Olga Orly took the stand again, where she revealed she wasn't truly an innocent waitress working that night, but was a pro dealer hired by Shadi Smith to finally defeat Phoenix Wright in poker.
The two's plan was to plant a card in Wright's pocket, and then call him out and search him once the hands were revealed at the end. But the planted card disappeared, and she testified further.
She claimed she planted the card, Wright lost, and Smith searched him. The card was missing, and Wright retaliated, hitting Smith with the bottle. The planted card, the five of hearts, was slipped into Wright's pocket while he was having dinner. The plan was to make it look like he switched it with the Ace. They searched him thoroughly, but found no trace of the card. And right after that was when he hit Smith.
Justice kept pressing her on that last claim of her testimony, pointing out that whenever she recalled it, she rubbed the back of her neck in what looked to him like pain. He kept pressing her about what happened after the crime, and she said she kept Wright in her sight until the cops got there, where he sat at a daze at the table until they arrived. Justice Objected, presenting Wright's cellphone as evidence that she let him go upstairs to call the police. She caved, and admitted that Smith hit her with the bottle, and she fell unconscious, and didn't witness the crime take place.
Kristoph Gavin accused her of possibly being the killer in that case, and Wright retorted with his theory from earlier, that there was a fourth person altogether. Wright brought back up the two hands from earlier, and how a card of a different colour was swapped into the victim's hand, something a outsider would do without knowing.
Wright revealed his plan was to bring this case to court all along, to catch this fourth person, someone who told the court they were using blue cards during the game all before the coloured photo was shown. That someone, Justice remembered, was Gavin.
Winston Payne claims it's impossible for Gavin & Smith to have even met each other, and Justice requests for Wright to testify, but not before Gavin interrupts him, trying to implicate Orly for the crime.
Phoenix testifies that he and Kristoph had dinner together at the Borscht Bowl Club that night, with Smith walking in to talk to him 5 minutes after Kristoph left. And after Orly and Smith were unable to catch him cheating, Smith hit Orly, and he stayed in the basement when Wright went upstairs to call the police. When he got back downstairs Smith was dead, with blood streaming down his forehead. And so he went back upstairs to call Gavin, to request his firm defend him.
The cross-examination then began. Wright testified he and Gavin dine often, and that Gavin and Smith could have crossed paths when he left. The plan was foiled early, since Wright found the card in his pocket, and placed it in the bottle of grape juice he had been drinking, which happened to be the murder weapon. Justice examined the bottle, only to find nothing inside it. He also brought up that Smith was wearing his hat in the first crime scene photo, which Wright refuted by saying it was the only piece of evidence he touched, putting it back on his head since he wore it all evening.
Wright then told the court that he did all those things for a reason, and requested the defense play the phone call between him and Gavin for the court. One quote from Gavin struck out to everyone; "You mean someone cracked that flawless bone china pate? It... wasn't you, was it?" Wright clarified a pate is a type of smooth, shiny porcelain, which brought to mind Smith's bald head. Wright began to suspect Gavin the moment he said that.
And when he got back downstairs, Smith was dead, his hat fallen to the floor. He put it back on, intending to keep the secret until it came to light in court.
The court has been adjourned for one final recess, after which Kristoph Gavin will testify.
