| “ | I can see why Mia thought so highly of you. Who knows? A few years from now, you just might make it to the top. I owe you my thanks, Mr. Wright. | „ |
| ~ Lana Skye |
Lana Skye (Japanese: Tomoe Hōzuki) is a minor antagonist in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. More specifically, she is the anti-villainous secondary antagonist and the defendant of the special episode "Rise from the Ashes," being the one who forged evidence during the SL-9 Incident along with Damon Gant, and also being an accomplice to the murder of Bruce Goodman.
Biography[]
According to her younger sister Ema Skye, her parents died in a car accident sometime during Ema's youth. After their parents' passing, Lana was left to raise Ema throughout her entire childhood. Lana eventually became a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department.
She attended the same university as Mia Fey, whom she had a great deal of admiration for.
The SL-9 Incident[]
In February 2015, Ema was waiting for Lana, making plans to go to dinner after her shift. The plan would eventually be thrown off after serial killer Joe Darke busted into her and Gant's office, inciting a fight with Neil Marshall, a prosecutor. Ema unknowingly knocked Neil Marshall unconscious, along with Darke.
After all this, Lana Skye returned back to her office and saw Ema and Darke lying on the floor, while Neil's corpse was impaled onto a sword. With Lana panicking and Gant arriving at the crime scene after her, she and Gant rearranged the crime scene to save her sister.
Using false evidence, Joe Darke would eventually be executed for both the SL-9 Incident and Neil's murder. After, Gant blackmailed Lana by threatening to expose her sister as the one responsible for the SL-9 incident. Gant had both a jar with Ema's name was written on it and a piece of cloth with Ema's fingerprints. Lana was promoted to Chief Prosecutor afterwards, and she would then be forced to obey Gant's orders.
"Rise from the Ashes" Case[]
In February 2017, two years after the SL-9 Incident, Lana was accused of the murder of Bruce Goodman, a detective at her police department. Phoenix Wright, a defense attorney, decided to defend her, despite the fact that Lana kept on insisting that she did the crime in order to save her sister from getting arrested.
During her final trial day, Lana was manipulated by Gant to testify against herself. After her testimony, she gave Phoenix Wright a book called "Evidence Law," which had a crime photo of Neil's corpse in it, which led Wright to become more suspicious of Gant and form a plan. Gant was then called up to the witness stand by Wright to testify about what he saw during the SL-9 Incident. With the help of the Evidence Law book that Lana handed to Wright, Gant was exposed as the real killer for the Bruce Goodman murder and also the murder of Neil Marshall.
Despite being found innocent for the murder of Bruce Goodman, Lana Skye was still arrested for being an accomplice to murder, and also for forging evidence during the SL-9 Incident, regardless to the fact that she had been blackmailed into doing so. Despite this, Lana was relieved by the fact that Ema was not Neil's murderer as she had originally believed, and smiled for the first time in years. In the defendant lobby, Lana hugged her sister goodbye, before she was taken to the precinct. While in custody, she expressed hope to one day return to the field and investigate crimes with Ema, who she arranged to live with a coroner friend of hers in Europe.
