I was wondering when someone would bring that up! Have you reread the dialogue in those scenes carefully? Because there was a little foreshadowing...
Spoiler : Explanation :
You can tell it's probably Phoenix and not Tigre in the funeral, Lithuania, and return-to-the-office scenes because Phoenix explicitly mentions sending books on law to Viola. So Viola and Tigre are still prepping! There's a particularly telling quote when he looks at the books:
At the funeral:
Later, when prepping for the trip to Lithuania:
Even the timestamp typewriter narration is worded carefully:
So why DID he go to Lithuania? Because he was being stalked by the P Syndicate and needed to go into hiding, and didn't want to be anywhere close to Maya in case the trick was discovered!
Is this cheating? We made it clear that Tigre himself lies in his inner monologue, but Phoenix is in the dark about his scheme for now. If Phoenix ever said "Maya is really dead," we'd have contradicted ourselves! But... is that what he said?(For some reason, Viola's
started taking an interest
in how the law works...)
(She called me in Lithuania and
said that she and "an
acquaintance" wanted to learn.)
(So I'm packing up my best
law books and lending them to
her and this mysterious friend.)
(Apparently she wanted books
on etiquette and acting, too,
but I don't have any of those.)
At the funeral:
And you thought that was denial, not Nick being all wound up over the emotional stress of trying to fake Maya's funeral... but he said it, didn't he? "Maya isn't dead."(My emotions are stuck,
like wheels spinning in a ditch,
at how impossible it all is.)
(Maya... isn't dead.
Maya just isn't dead!)
(So this is all going to go
away like a nightmare.)
(Maya will be standing there...
and it'll all be the way it
was before...)
Later, when prepping for the trip to Lithuania:
He never said who or what he was getting away from. And when explaining to Shannon why he doesn't want to solve a mystery, he says:(I just can't stay at that
office anymore...
I need to get away.)
...without my partner, I just...
don't feel up to it today.
Maybe some other time.
Note that he doesn't say "I can't do this with Maya dead." Only that he misses her and doesn't feel like solving crimes without her.(It's just not the same
without Maya.)
Even the timestamp typewriter narration is worded carefully:
...not "after the murder." Edgeworth, too, refers to a "shooter" and "the shooting," not the murder. Likewise, he never refers to Maya dying in his conversation with Larry...Two Months After
the Shooting
So why DID he go to Lithuania? Because he was being stalked by the P Syndicate and needed to go into hiding, and didn't want to be anywhere close to Maya in case the trick was discovered!
Spoiler : Parody :
Tigre lying in his inner monologue and faking hallucinations to himself to fool "mind-reading lawyers."
Spoiler : Prologue :
Prologue Phoenix is depressed that Maya got wounded and had to go into hiding, and left the country to shake the Syndicate's surveillance until it was safe to come back. If Maya and him had been seen meeting, it would have been all over.