turns out to, in fact, be Claire, and after Dimitri's underground faux London and Clive's Fortress of Madness are stopped, it is revealed that the time machine ten years ago was successful, if only for a split second, sending Claire into the future ten years, to the then-present, however, she had to return to her own time after finally telling Layton her true identity to perish in the lab explosion, breaking Layton's heart once again.
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