Pal Meraktis (Japanese: Teruo Ukari) is a supporting character in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and the victim in the "Turnabout Corner" case. He was the head doctor at the Meraktis Clinic, until he was shot and killed by Alita Tiala.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Pal Merkatis formed an intense rivalry with Guy Eldoon during their timke in preschool, which would persist for the rest of their lives. Eldoon would claim that Merkatis would copy him and try and prove himself the superior of the two. When Eldoon became a surgeon, Merkatis quickly opened his own clinic and established ties with organized crime, with his clinic being used by various gangsters and members of the mob to patch up injuries that cannot be taken elsewhere, such as those acquired in turf wars. This surge in business resulted in Eldoon being forced to close down his own clinic and resign himself to working as a noodle vendor.
Quack Doctor[]
One day, the son of the head of the Kitaki family of gangsters, Wocky, was shot in a turf war and taken to his clinic. The bullet had gotten lodged in an extremely precarious position beside Wocky's heart; the porcedure to remove the bullet was almost impossible to carry out without killing the patient, with only a few surgeons in the world possessing the ability to do so successfully. Fearing potential reprisals from the Kitakis if he reported his failure, Meraktis pretended that the operation was a success and left the bullet inside Wocky to slowly kill him.
"Murdering" Alita[]
Six months later, the bullet inside Wocky was found during a check up. Realizing what Meraktis had done, Wocky took a gun and went to hunt the doctor down to teach him a lesson. However, Wocky's fiance, Alita Tiala, stole his gun from him and went to the Meraktis Clinic. She had been the nurse for Wocky's botched operation, and was planning to marry him so that she could gain his family fortune when the bullet eventually took Wocky's life. At the clinic, she told Meraktis that Wocky knew what he had done and that he was after him. She tried to threaten him into opening the safe and handing over the operation records, but Meraktis turned on her, knocked her down, and strangled her.
Alita blacked out and, in his panic, Meraktis thought he had killed her. Due to his car not starting, he stole a nearby noodle stand, put Alita's "corpse" inside, and began wheeling her to the river in the park to dispose of her.
His Murder[]
On the way there he ran into Wocky, who was out to kill him. He tried to hurriedly explain the situation with Alita to him, but before he could, he was shot dead by Alita, who had woken up inside the noodle stand. Wocky was confused by what happened, not knowing if he was the one who shot Meraktis, and fled from the scene. A witness who saw the murder ran to a payphone to call the police, at which point Alita exited the stand, threw the gun onto the scene, and then ran.
The true version of events was eventually exposed at the trial of his murder, where Wocky stood accused.
Personality[]
Not much is known about Meraktis, other than the fact that he was very dishonest in his profession. He was willing to become a riotous doctor to make certain of obtaining success over his rivals. His dikephobia by the rambunctious crowd has driven him to cover up his unsuccessful operation on Wocky Kitaki, and this has driven him to take aggressive action against Alita Tiala after finding out that their cover has been blown. He is also shown to keep many jars of assorted goldfish in his office.
Trivia[]
- Pal Meraktis is a play on "malpractice," something Pal was guilty of.
- Pal not checking the pulse of his victim directly led to his death. This is especially ironic, as checking for a pulse is one of the most basic rules that doctors are given when dealing with a body.
External Links[]
- Pal Meraktis on the Ace Attorney Wiki
