[Again, he's left just staring at Edgeworth--but far more aghast this time, like he's just admitted to something far more bizarre, fathering a hippogriff or taking up with a vampire or something--and then he laughs, sort of distantly, because what the hell--]

You're not-- you're not serious. You were going to do it, and you didn't, you were-- that's not the same at all! That's intent, that's a thought, that's-- talking yourself into it, that's not the same as killing someone!