my tricks. they're being ghosted

The deaths of the patients were a result of the nurse Mimi Miney mixing up their medications. 

Mimi was deemed responsible for this incidence of medical malpractice by the police. 

Weeks after the malpractice incident, Mimi and her sister, Ini Miney, were involved in a car accident where Mimi was driving resulting, in the death of Ini. The exact contributing factors to the accident are unclear. However, there are rumors that Grey drugged Mimi with sleeping pills, which caused the accident. At other points, Mimi also blames exhaustion from her working at the clinic and from her involvement in the malpractice investigation as contributing to the accident. 

Mimi’s face is very badly burned from the accident to the point that she is unrecognizable, and immediately after the accident Mimi uses a picture of Ini for facial reconstruction surgery, allowing her to take on the identity of her dead sister and to fake her own death. 

Although Grey was not legally determined to be responsible for malpractice, tabloids continue to spread rumors about his involvement in the malpractice and in Mimi’s accident. Grey’s clinic is struggling with declining numbers of patients. Grey attributes this downturn in business to the tabloid rumors rather than the malpractice incident itself. 

In an attempt to completely stop rumors about his involvement in the malpractice and accident, Grey sets up a spirit channeling to have Mimi sign an affidavit confessing to being responsible for the malpractice. 

Mimi, who is currently living as her sister, becomes aware of Grey’s plan. She fears that the channeling will expose her faking her death. To avoid this secret from getting out, she contacts Morgan Fey and devises a plan to kill Grey during a faked spirit channelling. 

While there is no evidence that he did anything legally wrong, Phoenix expresses apprehension toward Grey’s plan to get a confession from Mimi from beyond the grave and skepticism towards Grey’s version of events. Beyond tabloid rumors, Mimi, disguised as her sister, is the player’s main source of information about Grey’s character as a boss and how the culture and expectations of his clinic contributed to the medical malpractice. We get additional information from Lotta, who reports that he was an overly-controlling, verbally abusive boss. Phoenix confirms that this was his impression of Grey too, and seems apprehensive when Maya whole-heartedly believes Grey’s version of events as she prepares her channeling session with him. 

Interestingly, the player’s significantly bad impression of Turner Grey stands alongside ambiguity about the facts of the malpractice case and the car accident. In one instance, Mia comments to Phoenix that there is no way to know now if Mimi was actually drugged when the accident occurred.

With this line also, Phoenix is clear that the “truth” they are working with is what was documented by the police; in the context of Phoenix's experiences it seems like a possibility to him that the police report did not reflect the truth completely. 

While the text does not suggest that Grey was responsible for the medical malpractice in a legal sense, or that he intentionally caused Mimi’s accident, I would assert that it does suggest his controlling style of leadership and narcissism created a situation where his nurses were irresponsibly pushed to the point of incompetency. 

However, because the power he has over his nurses exists within the normative hierarchy of the workplace and because his behavior falls within legally acceptable limits, he is able to dodge any kind of responsibility for the situation he created. Indeed, he does choose to dodge responsibility at every turn. 

Indeed, Grey’s continued insistence on evading accountability after Mimi’s death is what leads to his murder. A particular nuance to this case is the clarification of Mimi’s motive to kill Grey. At different points of the trial, the case’s prosecutor, Franziska von Karma, and Phoenix assert that Mimi wished to get revenge on Grey due to him allegedly drugging Mimi the night of the car accident, which led to the death of her sister. However, once Mimi’s guilt in the murder is revealed, she is clear about her motivation; she did not kill Grey to get revenge (although she does say he deserved it), but did it to cover up her faked death and escape through her sister’s stolen identity. Had Grey, who had already been cleared of legal liability for the malpractice suit, moved on from the issue after Mimi’s death, rather than hounding her from beyond the grave, Mimi would have had no motive to kill him. 

I do not want to absolve Mimi of responsibility, especially for her decision to murder Grey and frame Maya. However, it is undeniable that the circumstances, where she was being made to directly shoulder the blame for the death of 14 patients and the death of her sister, with no recourse to hold the man that put her in that situation accountable, cornered her. Mimi felt unable to face the reality of her responsibility in the malpractice case and in her sister’s death, and she saw her faking her death and taking on her sister’s identity as her only escape. Ironically, hiding within her sister’s identity, Mimi finds herself trapped again; She hates her sisters’ lifestyle and involvement in paranormal studies, and eventually she is pushed to murder to cover up her secret. As unfair as the initial situation was, Mimi’s inability to face the reality of her responsibility for the deaths of the patients and her sister only ends up making her body count tick even higher. By going to such extremes to avoid consequences of her actions, she is in fact following in her boss’s lead, dodging any kind of accountability at all costs.

While at least some of the truth of what occurred in Dr. Grey’s clinic comes to light and Phoenix clears Maya’s name (again), the end of this case is bleak. Phoenix gets justice for Turner Grey, a man who was never held accountable for the harmful culture he cultivated in his clinic, and condemns Mimi, a victim of that workplace culture. This realization goes hand in hand with the discovery that Morgan Fey was Mimi’s accomplice and that she framed Maya for murder in order to place her daughter, Pearl, as next in line for the master title. Arguably, this case has one of the worst “downer” endings in the series (I think only “Turnabout Beginnings” from Trials and Tribulations can compare). The bleakness of this ending stands in contrast to the endings of the two other main cases in JfA, which both allow their characters to begin healing from past traumas.

One thing about this case that stands out to me is the text’s agnosticism toward the question of who was ultimately to blame for the malpractice incident and for Mimi’s car accident. The ambiguity of the facts surrounding these events made this write-up somewhat difficult for me, as I was concerned that my interpretation was too biased towards Mimi (they should have had a union if you ask me) in the absence of “verified facts”. I wondered if I was missing subtext that would tell me more clearly how I, as the player, was supposed to interpret the situation. It's clear at the end of the trial that Mimi can be determined to be at least guilty of Grey's murder, and further questions about moral culpability for previous events are not really relevant to the limited scope of the trial.