Like so many high crimes, it all revolved around hatred. [Edgeworth's slipping composure reveals anger giving way to despair as he leans his head on his hand again.] Von Karma's hatred of my father for putting the slightest scratch upon his record led him to... to murder Father when power returned and the e-elevator door opened before him to reveal our unconscious forms and... a-and the very gun I'd thrown. And yet, to see Father dead did not satisfy him -- he went so far as to attempt to manipulate my life into ruins in order to sate his thirst for vengeance! My own hatreds... he recognized them as weapons that he could use against me. E-even in my own murder trial... he knew that should I be found innocent of the murder of Robert Hammond, the incident would stoke my doubts and cause me to... to mistakenly confess to causing Father's death.

I-if not for Wright, I...