Professor Layton and the Unwound Future characters Luke Triton
Plot
As Layton and Luke are invited to witness a demonstration of a time machine built by Dr. Alain Stahngun, the experiment goes awry, causing the disappearance of Stahngun and the prime minister, Bill Hawks. One week later, as numerous scientists have been reported missing, Layton and Luke receive a letter purporting to be from Luke ten years in the future, leading the two to a quaint clock shop in the London back alleys. Inside, the old couple who own the shop show the two another time machine in the guise of a giant clock, and the pair find themselves in a drastically-changed quasi-steam punk London ten years from their present, where they meet the Future Luke. He explains that in this future, Layton has become the head of a mafia-like mob known as the Family and taken control of London. Layton and Luke agree to assist Future Luke in stopping this Future Layton. After briefly returning to the past to look up some files pertaining to an accident which claimed the life of his girlfriend, Claire, ten years ago, Layton and Luke return to the future London, inadvertently bringing Flora, Inspector Chelmey and his assistant Barton with him. As the group investigates the whereabouts of Future Layton, Luke becomes withdrawn for a short time. It's revealed that his family is moving overseas, and he's afraid of losing his friendship with Layton. Layton reassures him that their friendship will persist even when they're apart, and they resume the investigation.
Travelling through Chinatown and up a giant pagoda, the group encounter Future Layton, where he is revealed to be Dr. Stahngun, whose true identity is Dimitri Allen. He reveals to have taken Bill hostage, revealing that they, along with Claire (whom he also had feelings for), were working on a time machine ten years ago, but Bill's desire for money made him sell a crucial part, which led to the accident that claimed Claire's life. This led to Dimitri's dedication to build a working time machine and return to the past so he can save Claire's life. Dimitri attempts to trap Layton, but this plan is foiled when Don Paolo, a recurring villain-turned-hero of the series, reveals that he has been disguised as Layton to help and that he also loved Claire.
Together they infiltrate Dimitri's base of operations to free the other scientists, where Layton encounters Claire's near-identical sister, Celeste, who assists them in escaping. As everyone gathers at the Thames Arms restaurant, where Dimitri is also waiting for them disguised as the bartender, Layton manages to deduce that they are not actually in the future, but in a pseudo-replica of London built in a cavern. The purpose of this replica was to fool the scientists into thinking they were stranded 10 years from home, motivating them to build a time machine in order to return home. Dimitri built this replica London when he realized that he alone could not construct a working time machine and needed scientists that were just as motivated as him. Layton also deduces that Dimitri is but a pawn compared to the true mastermind, Future Luke, whose true identity is Clive, a boy who sought revenge against Dimitri, Bill and London in general as the explosion that killed Claire also took his parents away from him.
Kidnapping Flora, Clive escapes to his mobile fortress, the machine the scientists had really been working on without Dimitri's knowledge, which he brings to the surface to attack London. With help from Don Paolo, Layton and Luke manage to board the fortress and free Flora, later joined by Celeste. After deducing that they need to reverse the flow of power from the generator, they discover Bill is attached to the generator, wired to a bomb. With thanks to Celeste's old watch, they manage to reroute the bomb's wires, free Bill and reverse the power flow of the fortress, causing it to collapse. After flying Don Paolo's modified Laytonmobile to get everyone to the ground, where Chelmey manages to evacuate the underground citizens, Layton returns to help Celeste rescue Clive from the fortress before it falls down into the fake future London and explodes.
As everyone safely regroups, Clive is put under arrest but promises to atone for his crimes, thanking Layton for comforting him as he did the day his parents were killed. It is then revealed that Celeste is actually Claire herself, who was teleported ten years into the future during the accident. However, her presence had become unstable and would soon send her back in time to the moment of her death, leading Dimitri to try to find a way to save her but to no avail. Accepting her fate, Claire has a tearful final reunion with Layton before bidding farewell and disappearing back to her time, to the moment of her death. Layton, although crushed to lose Claire again, finally comes to terms with his loss and removes his hat out of respect to her as it snows.
After the incident, Layton bids farewell to Luke as he boards a ship to his new home. Some time later, Layton receives a letter from Luke, inviting him to investigate another puzzling situation with him, in Steam Bison, America.
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