前景提要：午夜的泳池，卷福、华生和莫利亚蒂，生与死的静谧时刻，被一个电话打破了......
M：Sorry, boys. I'm so changeable! It is a weakness with me, but to be fair to myself, it is my only weakness. You can't be allowed to continue. You just can't. I would try to convince you, but everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.抱歉，男孩们，我老是那么变化无常。这是我的缺点，可老实说是我的唯一缺点。不能允许你们继续了，不可以了。我试图劝服你，可我想说的你大概都已经想到了。
S：Probably my answer has crossed yours.或许我的回答你同样心中有数。
M：Do you mind if I get that?不介意我接个电话吧?
S：Oh, no, please. You've got the rest of your life.没事，请便。尽情使用你的余生吧。
M：Hello? Yes, of course it is. What do you want? Say that again! Say that again, and know that if you're lying to me, I will find you, and I will skin you.喂?废话当然是我什么事?你再说一遍，再说一遍，警告你，要是你敢骗我，我会找到你，活剥你的皮。
M：Wait. Sorry... Wrong day to die.抱歉，死期未到。
S：Did you get a better offer?你有更好的邀请了?
M：You'll be hearing from me, Sherlock. So if you have what you say you have, I will make you rich. If you don't, I'll make you into shoes.会给你消息的，夏洛克。要是你真有你说的东西，我会让你发大财。要是你没有，我会把你做成鞋穿。
W：What happened there?怎么回事?
S：Someone changed his mind. The question is... who?有人让他改变了主意，问题在于…是谁?
S：What are you typing?你在敲什么?
W：Blog.博客
S：About?写什么?
W：Us.写我们
S：You mean me.是写我吧
W：Why?为什么?
S：Well, you're typing a lot. Right, then. So, what have we got?看你敲了一大篇嘛。好吧，看看有什么新案子。
Man A：My wife seems to be spending a very long time at the office.我妻子好像在办公室待得太长了。
S：Boring.无聊
Woman A：I think my husband might be having an affair.我觉得我丈夫有外遇
S：Yes.对
Man B：She's not my realaunt, she's been replaced. I know she has. I know human ash.她不是我姑姑，她被人偷换了，我知道她被换了，我认识人的骨灰。
S：Leave.离开。
Man C：We are prepared to offer any sum of money you care to mention for the recovery of these files.无论您提出何种报酬，我们都能满足，只要能找回这些文件。
S：Boring.无聊。
Man D：We have this website, it explains the true meaning of comic books, cos people miss a lot of the themes. But then all the comic books started coming true.我们开了个网站用来解释漫画书的真正意义，因为人们忽略了其中很多主题，但随后所有的漫画开始变成现实。
S：Oh...interesting.有意思。
S：Geek Interpreter, what's that?极客漫画通是什么?(谐音"希腊译员"原著篇目)
W：That's the title.是标题。
S：What does it need a title for?标题有什么用?
S：Do people actually read your blog?真有人读你的博客?
W：Where do you think our clients come from?你觉得客户都是哪来的?
S：I have a website.我有个网站啊
W：In which you enumerate 240 different types of tobacco ash. Nobody's reading your website. Right then, dyed blonde hair, no obvious cause of death, except for these speckles, whatever they are.你在上面列举了240种不同的烟灰，谁会看你的网站啊。好吧，漂染金发，死因不明，除了这些不知什么的斑点。
S：Oh, for God's sakes!天呐，拜托
W：What?怎么了？
S：The Speckled Blonde?! "斑点金发女"?
Children：They wouldn't let us see Granddad when he was dead. Is that cos he'd gone to heaven?爷爷死了之后，他们不让我们见他，是因为他上天堂了吗?
S：People don't really go to heaven when they die, they're taken to a special room and burned.死人其实不会上天堂的，他们被送到特定地点烧掉了。
W：Sherlock...夏洛克...
L：There was a plane crash in Dusseldorf yesterday. Everyone dead.昨日杜塞尔多夫(德)发生一起空难，无人生还。
S：Suspected terrorist bomb. We do watch the news.怀疑恐怖分子安炸弹?我们也看到了新闻。
W：You said "boring" and turned over.你说这无聊就换台了。
L：Well, according to the flight details, this man was checked in on board. Inside his coat he's got a stub from his boarding pass, napkins from the flight, even one of those special biscuits. Here's his passport, stamped at Berlin Airport. So this man should have died in a plane crash in Germany yesterday, but instead he's in a car boot in Southwark.从航班记录来看，这人办了登机手续，大衣里还有登机牌票根，航班上的餐巾纸，还有一块特供饼干。这是他的护照，在柏林机场盖章，就是说这人本该死于昨天德国的空难，却跑到了萨瑟克区一辆车后备箱里。
W：Lucky escape.是祸躲不过。
L：Any ideas?有想法么?
S：Eight so far.OK, four ideas. Maybe two ideas.目前有八个。好吧，四种想法。就算两种吧。
S：No, no, no, don't mention the unsolved ones.不行不行，没解决的别往上写
W：People want to know you're human.大家想看你凡人的一面。
S：Why?为什么?
W：Because they're interested.因为他们感兴趣。
S：No, they're not. Why are they?才怪，他们凭什么感兴趣?
W：Hmm, look at that.1,895.嗯，你看这个1895。
S：Sorry, what?抱歉什么?
W：I reset that counter last night. This blog has had nearly 2,000 hits in the last eight hours. This is your living, Sherlock, not 240 different types of tobacco ash.我昨晚重置了计数器，过去8小时这个博客有近2000点击量。这才是你的生计来源，夏洛克，不是240种不同的烟灰。
S：243. 243种。
S：So what's this one? Belly Button Murders?这个案子叫什么?"肚脐谋杀案"?
W：The Navel Treatment? "脐部治疗案"
L：There's a lot of press outside, guys.外面有很多记者，伙计们。
S：Well, they won't be interested in us.反正不是冲我们来的
L：Yeah, that was before you were an internet phenomenon. A couple of them specifically wanted photographs of you two.嗯那是你成为网络红人之前了，其中有一些人特别要求拍你们的照片。
S：God's sake! J ohn.老天呐！约翰。
W：Hmm?嗯?
S：Cover your face and walk fast.遮住脸快点走
W：Still, it's good for the public image, big case like this.这有助于提升公众形象啊，毕竟是这样的大案。
S：I'm a private detective, the last thing I need is a public image.我是个私家侦探，我最不需要的莫过于公众形象。
Mysterious woman：Hello. I think it's time, don't you?喂，我觉得时候到了，你说呢?
