sirenspull | [Video. Locked to Siren's Port Police Department and incidentally Lawyercast.] Before Sirens.

[Filter to SPPD and Incidentally Lawyercast; 100% Unhackable.]

I would like to file a missing person's report. Should I discover any one of you to be lax in this investigation I will see to it that I issue a formal complaint and we will address your salaries at the next board hearing.

As you're well aware I am Crown Prosecutor, which makes me your superior. I am to supervise your work by decree of the law, the City's judicial department, and by authority of my position.

[His voice is crisp and controlled. Smooth and calm despite the topic in question.]

The person in question is Franziska von Karma. She was last seen Friday, March 16th, leaving from her office on SPU grounds where she was reportedly a member of the faculty as a professor of law. According to witness testimony she has since disappeared. Her Networking Device is likewise offline. As I'm unaware of where she lives details would be…conductive to leading a search.

Consider myself, Prosecutor Manfred von Karma, in charge. All relative details concerning her schedule, documentation, and evidence will be handled and forwarded to me.

Question every person she was acquainted with. Arrest anyone suspicious. I don't care if you feel inconvenienced. She needs to be found!

[There's an angry rise in his voice as he addresses the video, a slight sneer on his features.]

Firm decisive action. That is what is necessary.

[Filter to Corporal Mayer; Private]

Corporal. I require your professional expertise in this matter...Certain effects, should they be found, should be placed into my care immediately.

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[Taking a breath, livid and flushed yet regaining his composure quickly.]

You think you're making a point? That you're being clever?

You're a fool. A selfish child! This is your sister. Do you care if she was tortured and mutilated beyond recognition? No! Instead you would rather focus on some petty means of getting the last word for no reason other than to serve yourself!

[Finally, his composure breaks; he lashes out with a vicious snarl:]

Don't pretend like you loved her.

Insufferable....Idiot! You're a stupid fool. You would want to think that!

[Good. He sees your true pettiness for what it is!]

You're the one that shows your true indifference in the end!

How so. Tell me that. How am I indifferent, you self-righteous self-indulgent -

[He cuts himself off, barely managing to choke back a snarl of rage.]

Indifferent because I don't want the man most likely to have killed her to oversee the investigation?

[He just calms the more Edgeworth offers this infuriating cant.]

So, is your reasoning so praiseworthy that you do not realize the sheer idiocy of conducting an investigation when you yourself are supposedly the suspect?

[If he had indeed slain her wouldn't she have just come back to incriminate him?]

You really have fallen far from the bench, haven't you? You're slipping. If nothing else, I can see why you downgraded your badge for an attorney's.

What would be my motive in murdering my own flesh and blood? True, we weren't on speaking terms, but only because of her own sheer stupidity. Latent post-teenage rebellion, I suppose.

It still stands that she is [was?] a Von Karma. Your logic is flawed.

Edited 2012-03-29 20:50 (UTC)

Of course. Because no one has ever been murdered by a family member before. [And, though he tries to keep the bitterness from his voice:] And like you've never tried to see the death of someone you raised before.

[And a slight pause, and then there's a different sort of anger - ]

And do not call her stupid.

[So this tantrum is about him. How pathetic.]

Your statement is both erroneous and foolish, as expected. If anything I would say sibling jealousy motivated you to do something to her, Edgeworth.

Her actions were. I said nothing to the effect of her intellect, but it matters not. I've done more for her than what you've done! Which is nothing!

[Private]

Because I refused to treat you anything less like the dog you are? How petty. This isn't even about you and yet you had to spin it that way anyways. You're an ungrateful spoiled brat. I should have left you to the state to be lost in the system and forgotten forever.

You don't know what I have or have not done for her, fool.

[Misery over that last statement drives him to greater anger.]

You must have lost your edge, sir, considering how you leap to conclusions.

What do I care what you call me? You're like a yipping mongrel at my heels now. Little more than a self-indulgent prig. Not even I raised you to be this way.

[They haven't spoken since...The incident. Ironic, that this second time around would be over Franziska.]

My, my how hypocrisy runs deep in your veins. Wasn't it you doing just that several moments ago? Or, is it, as I suspected, your attempt to make a one-sided argument look valid? What are you hoping to achieve?

What conclusions, pray, did I jump to? That you should follow procedure and not run an investigation when it is your duty to recuse yourself? Is that it?

That I murdered her, fool!

I didn't accuse you. I said you could be a suspect. I'm aware that you're unaware of this, but suspicion and guilt are not one and the same.

You may as well have!

Don't deign to lecture me, Edgeworth.

Then do the proper thing, von Karma. The thing you must do.

No. I will not back away on your say so. She is my daughter!

[He's adamant about this. Which can only mean one thing: That she...Is all he has left.]

It's not on my say so. It's on the say so of the rules of professional conduct.

[Somehow, he manages to choke back his bitter snarl demanding to know why he was such a terrible father to her in that case.]

And you think you're the one best suited to police what my actions are? This is not open for discussion.

[Terrible because he pushed his children to their full potential? She's only sour because of Miles Edgeworth being his pet protege, you know.]

Then you deny her justice.

By seeing to it that she is found?

By ensuring that the investigation is not proper. And she's not going to be found.

How? I am doing all that is necessary and required. The evidence will tell.

No, you are not. By heading the investigation, you are tainting it. Anything you find will be invalid in the eyes of the law.

...

Hn. Doubtful.

[Considering his involvement back home in a number of investigations where this so-called "proper" procedure was nixed.]

"Doubtful" only if the transgression does not come to the attention of a review board - and I will ensure that it does.

So then. It has come to this.

Well, Miles Edgeworth, then let me tell you this: You are the one who would deny Franziska justice.

There is no man more capable than I in handling this case. What is more, what do you think you will accomplish by doing so? You will merely embarrass yourself.

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