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So, as the title states, I was replaying case 4-4, when something struck me. Not a bottle of grapejuce, but a possibiliby.
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I've heard the Mason system be targeted by a lot of people for having "messy time travel". But the Mason system, as far as I understood, is just a simulation system the jurors use to examine the available information (with Phoenix loading up his entire investigation probably being an exception). But, what about those moments when you use information gathered in the present for things that, chronologicly, would be in the past?
While replaying, I noticed that there are really only two moments where this would absolutely be necessary: Vera's Psyche-Locks, and Zak's Psyche-Locks. Now, Vera's could be explained. Phoenix could have already suspected Kristoph, and known about the nailpolish from being "friends" with him.
But with Zak, the real problems arise, and this is where I got my realization. Some of the information you use on him you only get during investigations that take place
after his death. Talking to him would be
impossible without time travel... or a spirit chaneling.
My theory is that Phoenix did not break Zak's Psyche-Lock that night in the Borscht Bowl club, like it shows in the simulation, but sometime later, after his death, and that he edited the simulation to hide this from the jurors. After all, we know what kind of people Phoenix has in his social circle. It wouldn't be such a stretch to think that he could arange to have his spirit called in order to question him when he had enough information.
That's my theory. I don't know if anyone has brought this up before, but if not, discuss. Please.
Serve the Story - that's one of my rules.
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That wasn't an objection, honest! I was just pointing someone to the bus stop!