OOC: Personal History and Point of Arrival *contains case 1-5 spoilers*
Personal History
Canonly, no information is given about Damon Gant’s youth, and very little is explained about him from before the SL-9 case within Rise from the Ashes. The reason for this is because Rise from the Ashes wasn’t added to the original Ace Attorney game until after the Phoenix Wright games were adapted from Gameboy Advance to Gameboy DS. While this inserted case has caused some inconsistencies between PW1 and PW2 and 3, there is nothing particularly dire that needs to be addressed.
We can assume from his age during case 1-5 that Gant was born sometime around 1951 or 1952. Whether he was born and raised in Los Angeles is not known. Nothing is canonly stated about his family or marital status.
Considering his position of authority within the police department during the cases mentioned in the game, Gant most likely began his life as a police officer in the Los Angeles precinct as a young man. Through dogged will and ambition, Gant managed to climb the ladder of success and was promoted through the ranks. He was a genius at finding crucial evidence at crime scenes, evidence that would almost be “too perfect,” earning him the title of the “crime computer.” At the age of 60, he had reached the title of acting Vice-Head of Criminal Affairs, and was next in line for the position of district Chief of Police. It was 2012, and that was the year that he began working with Lana Skye.
Lana was talented as an investigator, and together with Gant they solved various crimes. They became known as the Legendary Duo, a partnership to be reckoned with. It was with mutual disdain for criminals that pushed them to the limit, or so it seemed. At this time in his life, most characters proclaim Gant to have been the best of the best, someone who inspired all who watched him work.
Despite all this praise and promise, Gant wasn’t satisfied. Over the years it seems his wish for power increased, even to the point where the thought of being in charge of every officer in the precinct wasn’t enough. But there would never have been anything more, no extra opportunity to gain, if not for the Joe Darke killings-a case that closed with a tragedy.
It all started when an ordinary businessman accidentally hit a pedestrian with his car. Without any prompt, the man then killed all the subsequent witnesses to the accident. The real details to these murders are relatively unknown, due to a lack of evidence. The most skilled detectives were placed on this case, but not even they could put a finger on the serial killer. Involved in the crime investigation under Executive Detectives Damon Gant and Lana Skye was Bruce Goodman, the detective heading the case, and Detectives Angel Starr and Jake Marshall. Working alongside them was Neil Marshall, the prosecuting attorney meant to convict whatever suspect they found. There was literally no one else better suited for the job, yet they couldn’t catch the killer.
The end of the case finally came on February 15, 2015. It’s never mentioned how long the investigation lasted, but it only ended because Darke turned himself in. That day was the Police Department annual evidence transferral, when old evidence from closed cases is stored away in an underground warehouse. Awards were also being given out to the top cops and prosecutors of the previous year. Neil Marshall received the King of Prosecutor’s award, and Gant and Lana were there to help him celebrate. After taking a picture together, Lana moved off to do some paper work while Gant and Neil went straight in to Darke’s interrogation. That’s where things went wrong.
During the questioning, somehow Darke escaped in a panic-how he did this is anyone’s guess, but Gant simply says he and Neil “slipped up.” The two detectives ran after the suspected serial killer, who managed to get on the elevator before they could reach them. Gant claims he and Neil split up, Neil taking the stairs up while Gant himself took them down. And then the electricity failed. Upon reaching the first floor, Gant realized Darke hadn’t escaped downstairs, so he quickly made haste back up the stairs. Arriving at the 15th floor, Gant found Neil along with Darke and Ema Skye, Lana’s younger sister, passed out in the office he shared with Lana. It was plain to see a struggle had occurred between the three, but to Damon Gant there was something much more here-an opportunity.
It was plain from a small handprint etched into the leather of Neil’s vest that Ema had pushed him, knocking him unconscious. Quickly cutting the patch with the handprint off, Gant took matters into his own hands and, lifting the unconscious prosecutor, impaled Marshall on the sword of the suit of armor behind the desk. It only took a few minutes for Neil to die. With Neil’s blood, Gant wrote Ema’s name on a nearby vase, creating a “message from the victim.” He then proceeded to smash the vase, taking one of the most obvious chunks from the pile. Together with the cloth, Gant stashed these pieces of evidence within his personal safe and then left the crime scene.
Lana was the next on the scene… and fell right into Gant’s trap. Lana thought Ema had killed Neil, but she wasn’t going to allow her sister to be punished for it. She started with the suicide note, wiping off as much blood from the vase pieces as possible. Gant chose that time to return and struck a deal with his distressed partner. Together they rearranged the crime scene, planting the tip of Darke’s knife into Neil’s wound, and moving the bodies to implicate Darke as the murderer.
A new prosecutor was chosen for the case, a talented young man named Miles Edgeworth, and a trial was held. Ema was called to testify, but she was unable to speak on the issue and simply drew a picture, though it wasn’t a very detailed picture, only showing the moment right before “Darke” murdered “Neil.” Along with that picture and with the evidence forged just so, they were able to finally bring the case to a close. Ema was never suspected, and they finally had the incriminating evidence they needed to put Darke away for good. He was sentenced to death, at the cost of Neil Marshall’s life.
It was a grueling case, and its closure brought about a great change within the office. Gant was promoted to district Chief of Police and he was now able to do as he pleased. However, the detectives who had worked on the case, now labeled the SL-9 incident, were troubled by the inconsistencies in the evidence. Even the evidence list was too small compared to the length a list would normally have been. With all the suspicions being thrown around, Gant knew he had to do more to cover up his crime, and now he had the power.
As Chief of Police, he was able to control every officer within the precinct, and so he began to take care of every detective who began to show suspicion. Jake Marshall was demoted to a security officer for the precinct evidence storage room, Angel Starr was fired, and Bruce Goodman was never placed at the head of any other big investigation again.
As for Lana, Gant had something special in mind. She had always planned on becoming a prosecutor, so Gant granted her wish, and used his influence to place her as Chief Prosecutor in the L.A. Prosecutor’s office. With her in charge, Gant not only had completely control of the P.D. but also a finger in how the Prosecutor’s office was run. After all, she owed him big for telling her how to cover up “Ema’s” mistake. And so, Gant lived the good life, manipulating cases and crime scenes however he wished, and having Lana do most of his dirty work where it involved the prosecutor’s office. This lasted two years, until the annual Police Department award ceremony and evidence transferral of 2017.
On that fateful day, February, 21 2017, Det. Goodman came to Gant to talk about the evidence transferral. He had lost his ID so Gant kindly offered to go with him to the evidence room and let him through the security door. But when Goodman began to talk about reopening the SL-9 case, Gant panicked. Even though he had hidden his tracks so well before, it wouldn’t do to have someone find out his and Lana’s involvement in the fabrication of evidence. So, without thinking about it, Gant took the old switchblade knife that Darke had used in the serial murders from Goodman’s open locker and stabbed him through the chest.
Now he had another murder on his hands and this time it was in a place that was sure to be stumbled upon sooner or later. Hastily, he set to work cleaning up the blood on the floor, (accidentally leaving his own bloody handprint on another locker) and getting rid of the evidence from Goodman’s locker himself. He then moved Goodman’s body to the parking lot. He broke into the trunk of a car he recognized, that of Miles Edgeworth, and stuffed Goodman’s body inside. Gant called Lana and told her the situation, forcing her to help him hide the body. She agreed (after all, she didn’t want the case opened any more than Gant did) and so when Gant had Edgeworth return to the Prosecutor’s office that day, she was ready.
However, Lana was caught by Angel Starr as she tried to manipulate the body. And that’s what marked Gant’s downfall, because Phoenix Wright was called on by Ema to defend her older sister in the murder trial of Bruce Goodman.
With an eyewitness having caught Lana “murdering Goodman” with Edgeworth’s knife in the parking lot, Gant felt safe. Even though he may have been losing his hand in the Prosecutor’s office, at least it wasn’t his head on the chopping block! But he still thought it would be good to keep an eye on the case, and involved himself in the investigation. Edgeworth was placed as prosecutor over the case, so Gant made sure to keep Gumshoe, the detective most loyal to Edgeworth, out of the loop.
On the first day of the trial, Gant showed up to present some evidence that he claimed Edgeworth had overlooked (Lana’s muffler and Joe Darke’s switchblade knife), as well as to point out something the prosecutor had failed to take note of-that another murder had taken place in the evidence room at the same time as the “murder” of Goodman in the Prosecutor’s office parking garage. This, of course, was a lie, but one that suited Gant just fine, since it would throw the entire investigation off his trail. Gant used Edgeworth’s shoddy investigative work to belittle Edgeworth’s abilities, and made it quite plain that he thought “Worthy” was losing his touch and growing overconfident.
Gant’s testimony about the murder in the evidence room caused some confusion to fall on the current trial so Phoenix set out to investigate to see if there was anything that tied the two murders together. Gant, still not too worried about Phoenix finding anything that would incriminate himself, gave Phoenix a visitor’s ID and permission to search as he pleased. He had already manipulated the evidence again, destroying the tape that showed himself killing Goodman, but he kept another recording that showed the “murder” that happened at 5:15 in the evidence room. Phoenix also found the bloody handprint Gant had forgotten to wipe away, but there was no way to tell it was Gant’s because he had been wearing gloves during the murder.
On the second day of the trial, it became apparent through testimony and evidence that there was no real second murder at 5:15 in the evidence room. Jake Marshall had dressed as Goodman and stolen his ID, planning to steal the evidence before the transferral. The Judge almost passed down his verdict on Lana, but Ema reminded them of the bloody handprint no one was able to identify. Since there was still reason for doubt and one ID number left unaccounted for on the record, the case was allowed one more day for investigation. Before the court adjourned, Jake admitted couldn’t let the case go because of what happened to his brother Neil. In the end, he forced Lana to admit that forged evidence was used, which threw the court into an uproar.
Determined to find the true killer and the unidentified owner of ID 7777777, Phoenix began to look farther into the case and found himself returning to the crime scene of the SL-9 case-Damon Gant’s office. Gant, caught with half of the evidence list, hid it quickly in his desk then set about trying to distract Phoenix by showing him the picture he took with Neil Marshall and Lana on the day of the incident. He refused, however, to allow Phoenix to search his office for any clues, insisting that case was not connected to Goodman’s murder.
Although he knew Phoenix couldn’t get into his office without an official police ID card, Gant remained suspicious and returned to his office later that day to find Phoenix poking around with Det. Gumshoe and Ema. Forcing everyone out, he smiled as he fired Gumshoe on the spot and ordered Ema to stay for some questioning about the SL-9 case.
Sometime between that evening and before the last day of the trial began, Gant talked with Lana again, reminding her of what was at stake if she failed to hide their trail. When Lana stepped up, she asked immediately for the trial to come to a close, but neither Edgeworth nor Phoenix would allow it. Gant tried to push for closing the case, but when Edgeworth insisted for it to continue Gant made it plain that Edgeworth would later regret his actions.
Ema testified, but because of Gant’s previous evidence falsifying, she only ended up incriminating herself. Edgeworth again came under scrutiny for his role in presenting the falsified evidence and the court lost faith in his abilities, so he allowed Phoenix to choose who would speak and on what topic.
Phoenix, hoping Gant would incriminate himself just as Ema had, called the man to the stand and asked him to testify about the SL-9 case. Gant, after making a small threat, testified. At first, nothing could get him to admit to falsifying the evidence. He put it all on Lana and insisted it didn’t benefit him so he has no reason to manipulate the evidence. But when Phoenix presented evidence from Gant’s safe, it became clear that he had to have been involved somehow. The safe’s numbers matched the ID number 7777777, and it was revealed that Gant was with Goodman on the day of the evidence transferral. Gant was a little on edge for a moment, but they still couldn’t connect him to the murder. He had no way to kill Goodman in the Prosecutor’s office parking garage since he never left the Police Department that day. He refused to testify about any more of the case and left, but not before leaving Lana with a parting threat: if she agreed with Phoenix that Gant was involved with the fabrication, then only trouble will be found down the line.
Gant expected Lana would cover everything like she always had. And he had already manipulated the evidence enough to make Ema out as the most likely suspect of Neil’s murder. In fact, the more the case continued on, the more Ema looked like a murderer. And then Phoenix turned the case around and began to look at the evidence in a new light.
Phoenix managed to get Lana to tell the truth about what she saw at the crime scene where Neil was killed, but before she could continue her testimony Gant returned, wishing to plead his defense. He was almost not allowed, since he refused to give testimony before. But he said the evidence would speak for itself. The scrap of cloth Phoenix took from this safe was all he needed to show Ema guilty of Neil’s murder. But Phoenix twisted the case around again, and instead Gant was forced to testify to protect himself.
It finally was revealed that Gant did falsify evidence, but he claimed it was his insurance so that he would never get blamed for the murder he insisted Ema committed. But it was the cloth itself that implicated Gant as the murderer, since it had obviously been cut from Neil’s vest before he had been killed.
As soon as Gant realized he was trapped, it was all over. He laughed like a maniac, then finally told the whole story, about why he killed Goodman, and how he moved the body by secretly having Edgeworth deliver it to Lana for disposal. He was taken away after leaving a few parting words; a warning for Edgeworth, how he was similar to Gant when he first began solving crimes, as well as some words of hope. He believed the justice system would change as long as people like Phoenix and Edgeworth stepped up to see it through.
Gant was arrested and his trial was to begin shortly after the end of case 1-5.
Taken from When?
I will be taking Gant from right after he leaves the courtroom, when it has finally come to light that he was the killer of not just Detective Goodman but of Prosecutor Neil Marshall. After being arrested and carted away, Gant never expected to find himself suddenly waking within a mental institute...
Canonly, no information is given about Damon Gant’s youth, and very little is explained about him from before the SL-9 case within Rise from the Ashes. The reason for this is because Rise from the Ashes wasn’t added to the original Ace Attorney game until after the Phoenix Wright games were adapted from Gameboy Advance to Gameboy DS. While this inserted case has caused some inconsistencies between PW1 and PW2 and 3, there is nothing particularly dire that needs to be addressed.
We can assume from his age during case 1-5 that Gant was born sometime around 1951 or 1952. Whether he was born and raised in Los Angeles is not known. Nothing is canonly stated about his family or marital status.
Considering his position of authority within the police department during the cases mentioned in the game, Gant most likely began his life as a police officer in the Los Angeles precinct as a young man. Through dogged will and ambition, Gant managed to climb the ladder of success and was promoted through the ranks. He was a genius at finding crucial evidence at crime scenes, evidence that would almost be “too perfect,” earning him the title of the “crime computer.” At the age of 60, he had reached the title of acting Vice-Head of Criminal Affairs, and was next in line for the position of district Chief of Police. It was 2012, and that was the year that he began working with Lana Skye.
Lana was talented as an investigator, and together with Gant they solved various crimes. They became known as the Legendary Duo, a partnership to be reckoned with. It was with mutual disdain for criminals that pushed them to the limit, or so it seemed. At this time in his life, most characters proclaim Gant to have been the best of the best, someone who inspired all who watched him work.
Despite all this praise and promise, Gant wasn’t satisfied. Over the years it seems his wish for power increased, even to the point where the thought of being in charge of every officer in the precinct wasn’t enough. But there would never have been anything more, no extra opportunity to gain, if not for the Joe Darke killings-a case that closed with a tragedy.
It all started when an ordinary businessman accidentally hit a pedestrian with his car. Without any prompt, the man then killed all the subsequent witnesses to the accident. The real details to these murders are relatively unknown, due to a lack of evidence. The most skilled detectives were placed on this case, but not even they could put a finger on the serial killer. Involved in the crime investigation under Executive Detectives Damon Gant and Lana Skye was Bruce Goodman, the detective heading the case, and Detectives Angel Starr and Jake Marshall. Working alongside them was Neil Marshall, the prosecuting attorney meant to convict whatever suspect they found. There was literally no one else better suited for the job, yet they couldn’t catch the killer.
The end of the case finally came on February 15, 2015. It’s never mentioned how long the investigation lasted, but it only ended because Darke turned himself in. That day was the Police Department annual evidence transferral, when old evidence from closed cases is stored away in an underground warehouse. Awards were also being given out to the top cops and prosecutors of the previous year. Neil Marshall received the King of Prosecutor’s award, and Gant and Lana were there to help him celebrate. After taking a picture together, Lana moved off to do some paper work while Gant and Neil went straight in to Darke’s interrogation. That’s where things went wrong.
During the questioning, somehow Darke escaped in a panic-how he did this is anyone’s guess, but Gant simply says he and Neil “slipped up.” The two detectives ran after the suspected serial killer, who managed to get on the elevator before they could reach them. Gant claims he and Neil split up, Neil taking the stairs up while Gant himself took them down. And then the electricity failed. Upon reaching the first floor, Gant realized Darke hadn’t escaped downstairs, so he quickly made haste back up the stairs. Arriving at the 15th floor, Gant found Neil along with Darke and Ema Skye, Lana’s younger sister, passed out in the office he shared with Lana. It was plain to see a struggle had occurred between the three, but to Damon Gant there was something much more here-an opportunity.
It was plain from a small handprint etched into the leather of Neil’s vest that Ema had pushed him, knocking him unconscious. Quickly cutting the patch with the handprint off, Gant took matters into his own hands and, lifting the unconscious prosecutor, impaled Marshall on the sword of the suit of armor behind the desk. It only took a few minutes for Neil to die. With Neil’s blood, Gant wrote Ema’s name on a nearby vase, creating a “message from the victim.” He then proceeded to smash the vase, taking one of the most obvious chunks from the pile. Together with the cloth, Gant stashed these pieces of evidence within his personal safe and then left the crime scene.
Lana was the next on the scene… and fell right into Gant’s trap. Lana thought Ema had killed Neil, but she wasn’t going to allow her sister to be punished for it. She started with the suicide note, wiping off as much blood from the vase pieces as possible. Gant chose that time to return and struck a deal with his distressed partner. Together they rearranged the crime scene, planting the tip of Darke’s knife into Neil’s wound, and moving the bodies to implicate Darke as the murderer.
A new prosecutor was chosen for the case, a talented young man named Miles Edgeworth, and a trial was held. Ema was called to testify, but she was unable to speak on the issue and simply drew a picture, though it wasn’t a very detailed picture, only showing the moment right before “Darke” murdered “Neil.” Along with that picture and with the evidence forged just so, they were able to finally bring the case to a close. Ema was never suspected, and they finally had the incriminating evidence they needed to put Darke away for good. He was sentenced to death, at the cost of Neil Marshall’s life.
It was a grueling case, and its closure brought about a great change within the office. Gant was promoted to district Chief of Police and he was now able to do as he pleased. However, the detectives who had worked on the case, now labeled the SL-9 incident, were troubled by the inconsistencies in the evidence. Even the evidence list was too small compared to the length a list would normally have been. With all the suspicions being thrown around, Gant knew he had to do more to cover up his crime, and now he had the power.
As Chief of Police, he was able to control every officer within the precinct, and so he began to take care of every detective who began to show suspicion. Jake Marshall was demoted to a security officer for the precinct evidence storage room, Angel Starr was fired, and Bruce Goodman was never placed at the head of any other big investigation again.
As for Lana, Gant had something special in mind. She had always planned on becoming a prosecutor, so Gant granted her wish, and used his influence to place her as Chief Prosecutor in the L.A. Prosecutor’s office. With her in charge, Gant not only had completely control of the P.D. but also a finger in how the Prosecutor’s office was run. After all, she owed him big for telling her how to cover up “Ema’s” mistake. And so, Gant lived the good life, manipulating cases and crime scenes however he wished, and having Lana do most of his dirty work where it involved the prosecutor’s office. This lasted two years, until the annual Police Department award ceremony and evidence transferral of 2017.
On that fateful day, February, 21 2017, Det. Goodman came to Gant to talk about the evidence transferral. He had lost his ID so Gant kindly offered to go with him to the evidence room and let him through the security door. But when Goodman began to talk about reopening the SL-9 case, Gant panicked. Even though he had hidden his tracks so well before, it wouldn’t do to have someone find out his and Lana’s involvement in the fabrication of evidence. So, without thinking about it, Gant took the old switchblade knife that Darke had used in the serial murders from Goodman’s open locker and stabbed him through the chest.
Now he had another murder on his hands and this time it was in a place that was sure to be stumbled upon sooner or later. Hastily, he set to work cleaning up the blood on the floor, (accidentally leaving his own bloody handprint on another locker) and getting rid of the evidence from Goodman’s locker himself. He then moved Goodman’s body to the parking lot. He broke into the trunk of a car he recognized, that of Miles Edgeworth, and stuffed Goodman’s body inside. Gant called Lana and told her the situation, forcing her to help him hide the body. She agreed (after all, she didn’t want the case opened any more than Gant did) and so when Gant had Edgeworth return to the Prosecutor’s office that day, she was ready.
However, Lana was caught by Angel Starr as she tried to manipulate the body. And that’s what marked Gant’s downfall, because Phoenix Wright was called on by Ema to defend her older sister in the murder trial of Bruce Goodman.
With an eyewitness having caught Lana “murdering Goodman” with Edgeworth’s knife in the parking lot, Gant felt safe. Even though he may have been losing his hand in the Prosecutor’s office, at least it wasn’t his head on the chopping block! But he still thought it would be good to keep an eye on the case, and involved himself in the investigation. Edgeworth was placed as prosecutor over the case, so Gant made sure to keep Gumshoe, the detective most loyal to Edgeworth, out of the loop.
On the first day of the trial, Gant showed up to present some evidence that he claimed Edgeworth had overlooked (Lana’s muffler and Joe Darke’s switchblade knife), as well as to point out something the prosecutor had failed to take note of-that another murder had taken place in the evidence room at the same time as the “murder” of Goodman in the Prosecutor’s office parking garage. This, of course, was a lie, but one that suited Gant just fine, since it would throw the entire investigation off his trail. Gant used Edgeworth’s shoddy investigative work to belittle Edgeworth’s abilities, and made it quite plain that he thought “Worthy” was losing his touch and growing overconfident.
Gant’s testimony about the murder in the evidence room caused some confusion to fall on the current trial so Phoenix set out to investigate to see if there was anything that tied the two murders together. Gant, still not too worried about Phoenix finding anything that would incriminate himself, gave Phoenix a visitor’s ID and permission to search as he pleased. He had already manipulated the evidence again, destroying the tape that showed himself killing Goodman, but he kept another recording that showed the “murder” that happened at 5:15 in the evidence room. Phoenix also found the bloody handprint Gant had forgotten to wipe away, but there was no way to tell it was Gant’s because he had been wearing gloves during the murder.
On the second day of the trial, it became apparent through testimony and evidence that there was no real second murder at 5:15 in the evidence room. Jake Marshall had dressed as Goodman and stolen his ID, planning to steal the evidence before the transferral. The Judge almost passed down his verdict on Lana, but Ema reminded them of the bloody handprint no one was able to identify. Since there was still reason for doubt and one ID number left unaccounted for on the record, the case was allowed one more day for investigation. Before the court adjourned, Jake admitted couldn’t let the case go because of what happened to his brother Neil. In the end, he forced Lana to admit that forged evidence was used, which threw the court into an uproar.
Determined to find the true killer and the unidentified owner of ID 7777777, Phoenix began to look farther into the case and found himself returning to the crime scene of the SL-9 case-Damon Gant’s office. Gant, caught with half of the evidence list, hid it quickly in his desk then set about trying to distract Phoenix by showing him the picture he took with Neil Marshall and Lana on the day of the incident. He refused, however, to allow Phoenix to search his office for any clues, insisting that case was not connected to Goodman’s murder.
Although he knew Phoenix couldn’t get into his office without an official police ID card, Gant remained suspicious and returned to his office later that day to find Phoenix poking around with Det. Gumshoe and Ema. Forcing everyone out, he smiled as he fired Gumshoe on the spot and ordered Ema to stay for some questioning about the SL-9 case.
Sometime between that evening and before the last day of the trial began, Gant talked with Lana again, reminding her of what was at stake if she failed to hide their trail. When Lana stepped up, she asked immediately for the trial to come to a close, but neither Edgeworth nor Phoenix would allow it. Gant tried to push for closing the case, but when Edgeworth insisted for it to continue Gant made it plain that Edgeworth would later regret his actions.
Ema testified, but because of Gant’s previous evidence falsifying, she only ended up incriminating herself. Edgeworth again came under scrutiny for his role in presenting the falsified evidence and the court lost faith in his abilities, so he allowed Phoenix to choose who would speak and on what topic.
Phoenix, hoping Gant would incriminate himself just as Ema had, called the man to the stand and asked him to testify about the SL-9 case. Gant, after making a small threat, testified. At first, nothing could get him to admit to falsifying the evidence. He put it all on Lana and insisted it didn’t benefit him so he has no reason to manipulate the evidence. But when Phoenix presented evidence from Gant’s safe, it became clear that he had to have been involved somehow. The safe’s numbers matched the ID number 7777777, and it was revealed that Gant was with Goodman on the day of the evidence transferral. Gant was a little on edge for a moment, but they still couldn’t connect him to the murder. He had no way to kill Goodman in the Prosecutor’s office parking garage since he never left the Police Department that day. He refused to testify about any more of the case and left, but not before leaving Lana with a parting threat: if she agreed with Phoenix that Gant was involved with the fabrication, then only trouble will be found down the line.
Gant expected Lana would cover everything like she always had. And he had already manipulated the evidence enough to make Ema out as the most likely suspect of Neil’s murder. In fact, the more the case continued on, the more Ema looked like a murderer. And then Phoenix turned the case around and began to look at the evidence in a new light.
Phoenix managed to get Lana to tell the truth about what she saw at the crime scene where Neil was killed, but before she could continue her testimony Gant returned, wishing to plead his defense. He was almost not allowed, since he refused to give testimony before. But he said the evidence would speak for itself. The scrap of cloth Phoenix took from this safe was all he needed to show Ema guilty of Neil’s murder. But Phoenix twisted the case around again, and instead Gant was forced to testify to protect himself.
It finally was revealed that Gant did falsify evidence, but he claimed it was his insurance so that he would never get blamed for the murder he insisted Ema committed. But it was the cloth itself that implicated Gant as the murderer, since it had obviously been cut from Neil’s vest before he had been killed.
As soon as Gant realized he was trapped, it was all over. He laughed like a maniac, then finally told the whole story, about why he killed Goodman, and how he moved the body by secretly having Edgeworth deliver it to Lana for disposal. He was taken away after leaving a few parting words; a warning for Edgeworth, how he was similar to Gant when he first began solving crimes, as well as some words of hope. He believed the justice system would change as long as people like Phoenix and Edgeworth stepped up to see it through.
Gant was arrested and his trial was to begin shortly after the end of case 1-5.
Taken from When?
I will be taking Gant from right after he leaves the courtroom, when it has finally come to light that he was the killer of not just Detective Goodman but of Prosecutor Neil Marshall. After being arrested and carted away, Gant never expected to find himself suddenly waking within a mental institute...