"Hmm..." Gumshoe set the pen behind his ear in an almost involuntary fashion, slipping the notebook into his pocket. "We gotta look into those files. If we could pick up a paper trail, we'd have him behind bars faster than it takes for water to boil!" He smirked, having delivered a decent one-liner there. "No, seriously! With our expertise...! We could definitely build a convincing case. And this time -" he flashed a huge grin - "Mr. Wright would be on our side! We'd be unstoppable!"

He hastily stopped chuckling as Mr. Edgeworth answered.

"Sir, he... Mr. Wright's had his darker days, but he's always managed to climb out the holes he's dug himself into." He offered the prosecutor a weak smile. "Y- You shouldn't worry. We've underestimated him before... He doesn't give up that easily."

Nodding glumly at the other man's final choice, he took a quick look of that mysterious scar that hadn't been explained to him before. It felt something like a white-hot spike piercing his heart when he was then enlightened as to the secret of the mark. He clenched his fists until they were quivering, rendered incapable of finding the right – or respectable – words to describe his indignation and mild disbelief. It seemed the heated expression had frozen on his face.