At least the guy could take a joke. While he hadn't burst into laughter, he also hadn't sent Harvey a look that said that he needed to be more serious about all this. While it was true that there was nothing funny about their situation when it came down to it, they knew so little that sometimes the only thing Harvey could think of to do was make ridiculous claims like that.

Still, when it came down to it, he was no joker, and so he moved on to study the counts that the man was showing him. Eighteen was already a lot, but Harvey got the feeling that there were way more than that. As Edgeworth pointed out, a lot of people weren't fessing up -- hell, he wasn't. He realized that his little tally was missing from Edgeworth's map, mainly because he hadn't died.

The part of him that still remembered with perfect clarity what it was like to be an attorney wanted to clear that up for the man, but the part of him that had been through Rachel's death said no.

"Yeah, some people on the bulletin seemed to be saying that they'd seen illusions but hadn't actually died, so there's that to consider as well," he pointed out. There, that was some contribution, even if he wasn't admitting to the whole truth.