SOLOMON: NaCl is sodium chloride, and sodium chloride is the formula for salt. Hey! It was salt! So that's what that excess of NaCl was in my tank. No wonder my eyes were stinging. Anyway, they sprinkle salt on the wrestling ring, I guess as a purification ritual.

MCGURK: But how does that help us?

SOLOMON: I'm not sure. But I'll use this Japanese phrasebook here to ask the clerk if she's seen anything suspicious. Let's see. Oh, yeah: "Have you sold an unusually large amount of salt recently?" That ought to do it. Be right back.

MCGURK: Wow! That's a good phrasebook!