SOLOMON: I think NaCl, or sodium chloride, is the formula for sugar, but I'm really not sure.

MCGURK: But how does that help us?

SOLOMON: Well, I guess 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 sugar recently?" That ought to do it. Be right back.

MCGURK: Wow! That's a good phrasebook!