翻译校对：dull bull 姜小野 字幕制作：dull bull
从前，在一个离大城市不远的地方，有一个小镇 There was once upon a time, a town, not far from a big city.
一条大路穿过小镇，但是沿途只有几家商铺 A road ran through, but there were only a few businesses.
一家咖啡店，一家五金店，还有一个警署 A coffee shop, a hardware store, a sheriff's office.
小镇上有各种各样的人 And all kinds of people..
流浪汉，离家出走的青少年 vagrants, runaway teens
宗教狂信者，还有那些退休的老家伙 religious fanatics, retired seniors who
总之，这个小镇属于那些想要被遗忘的人 well, it was a town of those who want to be left alone
他们也确实如愿以偿 and so they were.
镇上的警长，鲍比拉格朗日，已经在这里呆了好多年了 Sheriff, Bobby LaGrange, had been there for years
他也做些木工玩意儿 also made wood novelties.
但在这小镇上最奇异的事还是 But the most astonishing thing about the town was
一座有着七个面的钟楼 an old belfry, that had a clock tower with seven faces.
在这个名叫斯旺谷的小镇的任何一处都能看到它的报时 You could see the time from anywhere in the town of Swann Valley.
而每一面显示的时间都是不一样的 the faces persistently told different times.
毫无疑问，有些邪恶的东西居留在那儿 No question, something evil was abiding there.
这或许是因为许多年前镇上发生的一场可怕的谋杀案 Perhaps it was because of the terrible murder that happened years before.
可怕到没人敢提起，但却鬼魂般萦绕着这个小镇 Too terrible to talk about. But which haunted the town.
又或许是因为那些聚集在湖对岸的青年 Or perhaps it was those teenagers who gathered across the lake.
有些人认为那些青年在做邪恶的事 Some people thought they did bad things.
像是崇拜撒旦 Worshiped Satan.
穿邪恶的衣服，放邪恶的音乐 The way they dressed, the music they played
而对于他们神秘的领袖，人们只知道他被称作火烈鸟 and their mysterious leader known only as Flamingo.
引诱着无知的年轻人 A seducer of innocent youth
还有传闻说那里存在着更可怕的事 and some said...far worse.
就在这时，一个三流的通俗小说家，霍尔巴尔的摩 It was at this certain time that a third string writer of popular fiction, Hall Baltimore
驱车来到斯旺谷 drove into Swann Valley.
他来这儿是为了系列小说新一卷的签售 On his book signing tour of another of his series of novels
这些小说讲的是巫术 about witchcraft.
打扰一下，你知道书店在哪儿吗 Excuse me, do you know where the bookstore is?
- 这镇上可没有书店 - 真棒 - There's no bookstore around here. - Great.
斯旺谷 始于1878年 五金商店
- 你看过霍尔巴尔的摩的惊悚小说吗 - 我不感兴趣 - Have you ever read a Hall Baltimore thriller? -No, thanks.
你看过霍尔巴尔的摩的惊悚小说吗 Have you ever read Hall Baltimore thriller?
没有，霍尔巴尔的摩是谁 No…Who is Hall Baltimore?
- 就是我 - 哦，很高兴见到你 - I am he. - Oh. Nice to meet you.
- 请问你叫… - 我叫史黛丝，噢，不好意思我得走了 - and you are… - Stacey. Oh excuse me, sorry.
史黛丝你好，史黛丝再见 Hi Stacey. bye Stacey.
- 嗨 - 嗨 - Hey. - Hey.
你这儿卖枪械吗 You sell weapons?
- 不，不卖枪械，只是卖弹药 - 手枪呢 - Uh, no weapons, just ammunition. - Pistols?
- 只卖弹药 - 是的 - Ammunition? - Yes.
- 刀具呢 - 只有Isle 2 - Knives? - Isle 2.
大名鼎鼎的霍尔巴尔的摩，我要买一本 The Hall Baltimore. I'll take one.
- 你能签个名吗 - 当然 - Could you uh…autograph it? - sure.
就写给鲍比拉格朗日 To Bobby LaGrange.
鲍比拉格朗日惠存，最好的女巫，霍尔巴尔的摩 To Bobby LaGrange. Best witches. Hall Baltimore.
做个挂在打折店里促销的小说巨匠是个什么滋味 How does it feel to be the bargain basement Stephen King?
不算太棒 Not too wonderful.
你知道吗，我自己也写恐怖小说 Well, you know, I uh, I write horror stories myself.
真的吗？你同时还是镇上的警长？ You don't say? And you're the sheriff here in the town?
已经干了四十年了 40 years.
你介不介意读点我写的东西 You wouldn't uh,or Would you,mind reading some of my stuff?
我会很感激的，你知道吗，我们这儿发生了很多谋杀案 I'd be much obliged. You know We had a mass murder.
就在不久之前 A while back.
很多本地人说这个镇子有鬼魂作祟 A lot of folks think the town's haunted
这个嘛，我在这个镇上的签售已经结束了 Well, I'm, I'm uh, just wrapping it up here in the town
我该回去了 and then I'm gonna be on my way.
- 你是个神秘小说家却对大桩的谋杀案不感兴趣？ - 我确实不感兴趣 - you a mystery writer and you're not interested in mass murder?- No
你现在就跟我来 you come with me right now
来看看现在停在太平间里的宝贝 and take a look at the doozie I got in the morgue
- 你在太平间里停着具尸体？ - 没错先生 - You got a doozie in the morgue? - Yes sir.
- 现在就有？ - 没错先生 - now? - Yes, sir.
你能从中找到一个好故事 There's a story in it.
- 我知道这看起来像什么 - 看起来像根木… - I know what this must look like - It is like a wood...
噢！老天！能不能告诉我你在这儿干了多久了 Ow! Jesus!. Let me ask you a question. How long have you worked here?
- 那个 - 你不能用载着死人的轮床来压我的脚 - Well - You don't run a gurney with a dead person on over my foot!
对不起，警长 Sorry, sheriff.
- 斯旺谷经常有这样的谋杀案吗？ - 以前有过同样的 - Is this a common occurrence in Swann Valley? - It's happened before.
显然是连环谋杀案，标志就是这根木桩 serial killing it appears to be. Leaves a calling card as a wooden stake.
- 我不想看她的脸 - 我不会怪你 - I don't want to see her face. - I don't blame you.
我的意思是，这真惨极了，她只是个可怜的女孩 I mean, it's really a tragedy. She's just a poor girl.
阿尔比斯？阿尔比斯！ Arbus? Arbus!
- 行了，行了 - 你可还在当班 - Alright, alright. - You're on the clock.
- 你知道她的身份吗？- 这个女孩吗？ - Do you know who she is? - This girl?
我们这儿各种各样的人都有，流浪汉，离家出走的 We get all kinds here. vagrants, runaways..
还有更坏的，就是湖对岸的那些孩子 worse, those kids out at the lake.
各种各样的都有 All kinds.
你觉得我们合作一本书怎么样，就关于这个案子 How'd you like to colabrate on a book about this? You and me?
你打算就那样把那根木桩留在她身体里吗？ Are you gonna…leave that stake in her like that?
- 你好，请把我的瓶子装满咖啡 - 好的 - Howdy. I'd Like to fill my thermos full of coffee, please.- Okay
埃德加爱伦坡（美国小说家 诗人）在这个镇上留宿过？ Edgar Allan Poe slept in this town?
- 确实 - 就在老的奇克林旅馆 - Sure did.- At the old Chickering Hotel
在他回家的路上 way back when.
- 奇克林旅馆，谢谢 - 祝您愉快 - Chickering Hotel. Thanks. - Have a good day.
1843年 埃德加·爱伦·坡 1843 Edgar Allen Poe
向你致敬，先生 With my respect sir.
一个新鲜的声音，一场令人印象深刻的处子秀——纽约时报评 霍尔巴尔的摩著
我最亲的女儿：这是我的第一本小说， 我对它就如同对你一样骄傲。爱你的爸爸
命运的朝圣者
给爸爸，爱你的——维姬
我想写些我确实想写的东西 I want to write something I do.
写些为我自己而写的东西，个人化的东西 I want to write something for me. something personal.
你能理解吗，我不能再这样走下坡路了 Does that make any sense? I have to break the spell of this downward spiral.
所以我只能这么做并且我已经试着在做了 There's only one way to do it and I'm trying to do it.
我不会再写任何一本女巫故事了 I'm not gonna write another witch book.
我已经跟他们说清楚了，并且…并且…我要为我自己写东西了 I told them that...and, and, and that's it, I'm gonna do something for me.
你以前就这样做过 You've done it before
那时候你还不喝酒，那是在维姬出事之前 When you weren't drinking. Before Vicky's accident.
我不能这么快就走出那些事 I can't rush these things.
你能做到的，我懂…我懂你的意思 You can do this. I…I know what…I know what you mean about
你只需要再写一次就行了，只管把那该死的东西写出来 you just have to do it one more time. Just write the damn thing
然后你就能… then you can
就能尽管写你真的想写的东西了 then you can take the time and write what you really want to write.
我知道的，我懂你的，你也知道 I understand, I get it. you know I do.
你打电话给山姆说我们需要一笔预付款了吗？ Did you call Sam? Did you tell him we need an advance?
我确实打了，那屈辱极了，而且我不可能再写女巫故事了 Well I did and it was extremely humiliating. And I'm not gonna write another witch story.
- 你到那里去是去度假是吧？ - 不，我… - You're having a holiday? - No I‘m…
- 而我却困在这儿应付那些讨债的家伙 - 听我说 - and I'm stuck here trying to put people off - Listen to me.
用空头支票来搞定所有的事 come up with magic numbers to make it all work out.
- 一边假装一切顺利一边招待他们 - 丹妮丝你能不能听我说一句 - Pretend there's nothing wrong and put food on the table. - Denise will you listen to me?
你不能，你不能这样跟我说话，你得成熟起来，成熟起来 You can't, you can't speak to me like this, just grow up, grow up!
别人经常问我，你怎么能对女巫那么了解 People always ask me, "How do you know so much about witches?"
我就会告诉他们，因为我娶了一个女巫 and I tell them, "'Cause I married one."
- 嗨 - 嗨，你是从哪儿过来的？ - Hey. - Hello. Where do you come from?
就走的那条路，你刚才从我身边过去了 Just down the road. You passed me.
你在看我的牙齿吗？ You looking at my teeth?
不，我不是，我只是在想我刚才可没看到你 No I'm not, I just didn't know where you came from.
我对自己的龅牙很在意 I am very self conscious about my buck teeth.
让我看看 Show me.
你的牙齿没问题，只是戴了些箍 Your teeth are fine. It's those braces.
- 总之我讨厌我的牙 - 那没事的，你总会习惯它们 - Anyway I hate them. - No, they're fine. You'll grow into them.
就因为我的牙，别人都叫我吸血女孩 They call me Vampira, because of these teeth.
- 但你可以叫我V - V，那很棒，你的真名是什么？ - but you can call me V… - V. that's nice. What's your real name?
弗吉尼亚 Virginia.
你叫弗吉尼亚，你大约十三岁吗？ Virginia. You're about 13?
嗯，我十二岁，但因为长得高就看着大些 Yeah, I'm 12. But I look older because I'm tall.
我知道你是谁，你写了那些女巫故事 I know who you are. You wrote those witch stories.
而且你来这儿是要在五金店签售那些书 And you're here to sign books over at the hardware store.
我爱你的书 I love your books.
尤其是有一段里面，伊丽莎白说 Especially the part where Elizabeth says,
"万勿弃我而去，为我将生死相随" "Forsake me never, for I will entice you from my grave."
我最喜欢这一段 That's my favorite part.
谢谢，我很喜欢你的样子 Thanks, I like your look.
噢，是吗 Oh…yeah.
我就喜欢这样穿 It's just the way I dress.
- 你还在害怕我吗？ - 你说什么？ - You scared of me yet? - What?
我好怕 Yes.
其实也就一点点 A little.
那个钟楼已经报过三次午夜了 That clock it chimed midnight three times already.
在这附近计时是没用的 Keeping track of time around here is pointless.
所以我才错过了你的签售 That's why I missed your book signing.
那座老旅店还开着，来吧孩子，我请你喝杯苏打水 Well that old hotel is open. Come on I'll buy you a soda, sweetie
我有个女儿，和你一样大 I have a girl your age.
- 不，我觉得这不是个好主意 - 为什么 - No, I don't think that's a particularly good idea. - Why not?
这是因为我的故事，我本来是要去五金店里讲给你听的 That's what I had to go to the hardware store and talk about. My story.
- 那你现在就可以告诉我 - 不，我不能 - Well tell it to me now. - No, I can't.
来吧 Come on.
我们还没关门，请进 We're open. Come in.
我…是出来散散步的，我想我刚才迷路了 I…went for walk, I guess I got lost.
- 嘿，那个小女孩哪里去了 - 哪里有什么小女孩 - Hey what happened to that little girl? - What little girl?
- 餐厅还开着吗？- 餐厅永远都开着 - Is the restaurant open? - Restaurant's always open.
那座钟楼每一面显示的时间都不一样，有了它你什么时候都能来吃早餐 What with that old clock tower and all those faces, you can get breakfast anytime.
也是 Yes.
- 先生贵姓 - 巴尔的摩 - Well, Mr…- Baltimore.
这该死的钟 Damned clock.
那台钟从来都不能显示正确的时间 That clock has never told the correct time.
等着看吧，你会大吃一惊的 Just you wait. You're gonna be very surprised.
台钟的铃是很重要的 Bell's the important thing,
而这个铃运行得很好 and it's working beautifully.
- 比之前更好 - 我只想来杯啤酒 - Better than before. - I'll just uh, have a beer.
梅尔文（人名，意为男巫）他是管那个教堂钟楼的 Melvin is the belfry custodian, assigned to the big clock at church.
那是份没有希望的工作，纯粹是个负担 It's a hopeless job. And a real burden.
那个老机械装置快没救了 That old mechanism's on it's last legs .
我几乎每天都上那儿去 I go up there about every day, or most.
那七个面朝着我就好像是我发明了夏令时 Those seven faces they look at me like I was the one who invented daylight savings time.
你知道是谁发明了夏令时（一种在夏天拨快时钟的时制）吧？ You know who came up with daylight savings time, don't you?
是希特勒，那你知道是谁现在还支持这个主意吗？ Hitler. And, you know who supports it now?
是那些医生，你知道为什么吗，是因为高尔夫 Doctors. And you know why? Golf.
他们想要更多时间来玩高尔夫，就是这么一回事 They want more time to golf. That's what it's all about.
你没法改变时间，时间却能改变你 You can't change time. Time changes you.
你不同意吗？在夏令时的问题上你怎么看？ Don't you agree? What's your position on daylight savings time?
- 我没怎么想过这个问题 - 那你都在想些什么呢 - I've never really thought about it. - What have you been thinking about?
- 这就是那个坟墓 - 坟墓？ - That's the grave. - Grave?
噢，你可以走上去，别担心，这整层楼都是个坟墓 Oh you can walk on it. Don't worry. The whole floor is a grave.
- 真的吗？ - 十二个孩子就埋在那儿 - It is? - There are twelve children buried right down there.
是十三个孩子，他们被残忍地杀害了 thirteen children murdered in cold blood.
是，事实上他说的是对的 Well, actually he's right.
是十二个，但另有一个女孩逃走并被诅咒了 It is an even dozen, but one got away and she was damned.
- 那是什么时候的事？- 噢，很长时间以前了 - When was that? - Oh, a long Time ago.
我把这钟修好了，我把它修好了 The clock is fixed. The clock is fixed.
哈，说什么修好了修好了 Ha, the clock is fixed. The clock is fixed.
V.
抓住你了，魔鬼 Got you, devil.
- 她吸了我的血 - 吸出来，快把它吸出来 - She drew blood. - Suck it out. suck it out, suck it out.
- 她真该死，快写下来 - 嘿 - Goddamn her…write it down. - Hey
- 她什么时候咬的你，是四点钟 - 才不是四点钟 - What time did she bite you? 4 o'clock. - It isn't 4 o’clock.
- 这钟显示的是四点钟 - 你在开玩笑吗 - The clock says four o'clock. - You've got to be kidding me?
那就是死去的孩子们 It's the dead little kids.
是你 You?
你为什么在这儿 Why are you here?
- 她跟你说了什么？ - 什么也没说，有什么是她该跟我说的吗？ - what has she told you? - Nothing. What should she tell me?
走开，老家伙，你知道自己做了什么 Go away, old man…you know what you did.
孩子们，快点 Children, hurry.
月亮在下沉了，该睡觉了 The moon is going down. time for nap.
快点，都回去，去吧 Come on. Come along now, come on.
老天，我搞不清楚状况了 my God, I'm lost.
也许这就是我需要的，这个故事 Maybe this is what I need, this story.
你去哪儿？ Where are you going?
帮帮我 Help me.
是你，我的天，爱伦坡 You? My god, Edgar Poe.
带我出去 show me the way.
霍尔，醒醒 Hall, wake up.
- 你在…我知道你在那，你醒了吗 - 什么，我不在 - Are you, I know you're there. Are you awake? - What? It wasn't me.
是我，你的妻子，在吗 It's me. This is your wife. Hello?
霍尔，醒醒，你在…我知道你在 Hall, wake up. Are you, I know you're there.
- 发生什么事了？ - 你醒了吗，是我 - What's the matter? - Are you awake? It's me.
怎么了？没出什么事吧？ What's the matter? Everything okay?
- 我是你的妻子 - 是，我知道你是谁 - This is your wife. - Yeah, I know who you are.
我只是不…呃… I didn't, well…
我要清醒一下，你…我的天…你干了什么 《草叶集》 I need a second. What's, oh my god. What have you done?
看到了吗，就是这个 Yeah? That?
- 你知道它值多少钱吗？- 是，我知道 - do you know how much it's worth? - Yeah, I do.
十六万美元 160,000 dollars.
不，它可比那贵重得多，它是无价的 No, it's worth a lot more than that. It's priceless.
你甚至不该碰它，你是怎么打开我的保险箱的，千万冷静下来 you shouldn't even be touching it. How did you get into my safe? Just calm down.
千万停下来，就…就… please stop, just, just,
不管你在干什么，停下来把它放下，别拿这个开玩笑 whatever you're doing, just stop and put it down. That's really not a joke..
你觉得这是个玩笑，我可不觉得，这是本好书不是吗 you think it's. I don't think it's funny. It's a nice book though eh?
当然，惠特曼只有… Yes, Whitman only had...
那书只有四本落在私人收藏者手里，你能懂这意味着什么吗？ there's only four of those in private hands okay. Do you understand what that means?
- 你…那是当时他亲自排字的版本 - 你觉得我在开玩笑是吧 - Do you.. He set the type himself. - Do you think I'm joking?
- 千万别 - 你知道吗，我觉得你关心这本旧书胜过自己的家庭 - please. - you know what. I think you care more this old book than you do your own family.
- 你得戴上手套 - 你知道吗 - You need the gloves for that. - You Know what?
给我预付款否则你就跟它吻别吧 Get the advance or you can kiss it good bye.
别逼我这么做 Don't make me have to do this.
我不想这样的，是你逼我的 I don't want to. I have to.
斯旺谷图书馆 管理员 格拉迪斯拉格朗日小姐
- 你好，我来找… - 小声点，拉格朗日夫人在睡觉 - Hello. I'm looking for…- Mrs. LaGrange is sleeping. Quiet.
哦，不好意思 Oh, sorry.
我想来查查关于老奇克林旅馆的资料 I'd like to know if you have any information on the old Chickering Hotel?
我去找找档案 I'll check the files.
谢谢你 Thank you
爱伦坡写了一个关于斯旺谷钟楼的故事
谋杀孩子的凶手 震动斯旺谷 惊骇居民
牧师说钟楼中居住着魔鬼
1955年9月26日
他告诉我们魔鬼来到了斯旺谷，就住在教堂钟楼上 孩子们都会被诅咒，除非他拯救他们的灵魂
魔鬼 钟楼
斯旺谷警署
- 请接斯旺谷警长办公室 - 稍等 - Swann Valley, sheriff's office please. - one moment.
- 警长办公室的号码是，3932293923，需要接通吗？- 是的 - Your number is 3932293923. do you wish to be connected？- yes
这里是警长办公室，我们今天休息 Sheriff's office, we're closed.
是的，嗨，是我，那个作家，还记得我吗 Yes, hi, it's me, You remember me, the writer.
我在窗户这边，现在我到前门来 I'm here at the window. I'm gonna go to the front door.
好吧 Alright.
- 我们今天休息 - 我能跟你说几句吗 - We're closed. - Can I talk to you?
听着，警长说尸体停在这儿的时候不能出任何岔子 Look, sheriff says nothing happens as long as that thing is in here.
- 哦，那警长在哪儿 - 今天星期天 - Oh, where's the sheriff? - It's Sunday.
他该在教堂，但这谁也不知道，他并不很虔诚 He's at the church. It's a mystery, he's not very religious
等等，你之前说验尸官什么时候会来取出那根木桩 Listen, listen, uh…what time did you say the country coroner was coming to take the stake out?
我可没说过这个 I didn't say nothing about nothing
- 呃…有人说是这周，我记得有人说过 - 反正不关我事 - Um, uh, somebody said it was this week, somebody said. - But it wasn't me.
我能，我能进去吗？ Can I, can I come in?
行，但记得别碰任何东西，那可都是证据 Okay but look you can't touch anything. It's all evidence.
什么都别碰，明白了吗 Don't touch anything, you got it?
我得对这负责，并且我可不想那老家伙朝我嚷嚷 It's my responsibility, and I don't want that guy yelling at me
我最烦那个了 I'm sick of it
- 你好 - 警长在吗？ - Hello. - Yeah, can I talk to the sheriff?
稍等一下 Just a minute.
鲍比 Bobby.
有电话找你 Telephone.
警长，那个外面来的作家现在在办公室里 Hey Sheriff, I got that writer fella from out of town here at the office.
他不知道今天是星期天吗 He doesn't know it's Sunday?
让我跟他说 Let me talk to him.
嘿鲍比，这里是霍尔巴尔的摩 Hey Bobby, it's Hall Baltimore.
我一直在想你说的故事和那个死去的可怜女孩的画面 Yeah I couldn't get your story and the image of that poor dead girl out of my mind.
- 真的吗？ - 是的，我整晚都梦见那个 - Really? - Yes, I dreamt about it all night.
我想和你一起把那个故事写出来 I'd like to write that book with you.
所以，你是个警长同时你还做蝙蝠屋？ So, you're the sheriff and you make bat houses?
对，但这是个给鸟的 Yes, and that's a bird house.
这完全不一样 Totally different. .
蝙蝠和鸟自己能分清 The bats and the birds know which is which.
通常我都写女巫故事，但 Well normally I write about witchcraft but
会吸血的可是吸血鬼而不是女巫 what are vampires but witches that suck blood.
这完全不一样 Entirely different.
我们这真没有过女巫 We haven't really had one here.
从我记事起，这镇上就没有过女巫 There are no witches here, since as long as I can remember.
我可以去问问我姐姐，她的年纪比哈迪斯都大 I could ask my sister. She's older than Hades.
欢迎来到我的办公室，快来坐下 Welcome to my office. Come on have a seat.
想想这个，霍尔巴尔的摩和鲍比拉格朗日合著，棒极了 Imagine this. Written by Hall Baltimore and Bobby LaGrange. Sweet.
或者这个，霍尔巴尔的摩著，灵感来源于鲍比拉格朗日 Or, Hall Baltimore with an idea by Bobby LaGrange.
什么叫”灵感来源于“，我这儿有的可不止是个该死的“灵感来源于” What do you mean an idea by? I got a hell of a lot more than an idea by.
- 我有个了不起的人物 - 是吗，那是谁？ - I got a great character. - Yeah, who?
- 就是我，鲍比拉格朗日 - 接着说，把它好好说清楚 - Bobby LaGrange.- Calm down. Tell me what you got. Shoot.
我把它叫做，吸血鬼的处决 I call it, The Vampire Executions
那会大卖的 and that will sell.
还不坏，接着说 Not bad. Go on.
那个女孩，她是谁，她只是个离家出走的孩子？ The girl, who is she? is she just a runaway?
或者是个看起来大些的十二三岁的女孩 Or just some 12 or 13 year old girl that looks much older than she really is.
流浪者？无家可归的人？ A Vagrant? Homeless?
- 为什么要用那根木桩？ - 是啊，为什么？ - Why the wooden stake? - Yeah, why?
是那个杀了她吗？ What, did that kill her?
或者那是女孩死后才插进去的？ Or was it something that was added later?
凶手把它用作自己的标志 As a calling card for the real killer?
你想，那木桩的一端被磨得很光滑 You see, one end of it was worn smooth.
没有指纹 No fingerprints.
然后它被慢慢地推进女孩的身体里 And then it was pressed into her...slowly.
不是戳进去的，也不是刺进去的 Not jab, not stab.
几乎就像是被某种机器完成的 Almost as if it was done by some kind of a machine.
- 某种机器？ - 是的 - A machine? - Yeah.
这就是我把它叫做吸血鬼处决的原因 That's why I call it The Vampire Executions.
我想她是被…一架电椅杀死的 I think she was killed by… an electric chair…
专为吸血鬼设计的电椅 for vampires.
一架处决设备，专门为吸血鬼设计的 An execution device, designed especially by and for vampires.
那可真特别，我想知道它能是什么样的 That's different…I wonder what that would look like.
我想过这个，还做了个模型 Well I thought of that. I made a model.
- 准备好了吗？- 准备好了 - Ready? - Ready
这怎么样？ How about that?
看看这个 Watch this.
你喜欢吗？ You love it?
- 我能为你做什么，霍尔 - 嘿，山姆 - How can I help you, Hall. - Hey Sam
还记得你跟我说过如果我有了可靠的想法，你就会给我一笔预付款吗？ remember you said if I come with a bulletproof idea, you'd give me an advance?
- 又一笔预付款 - 没错，又一笔 - Another advance. - Yeah, another, more.
你得知道，一个可靠的想法该像是骨头上的肉 A bulletproof idea comes with meat on the bone.
而不能像是飘在湖上的雾 Not a lot of fog on the lake kind of crap, you know.
是，没人能像你这样混用隐喻，山姆 Yeah, well no one can mix metaphors quite like you Sam.
标题是这个，听着，吸血鬼的处决 Here's the title, right. just listen The Vampire Executions.
吸血鬼是吗？ vampires huh?
主人公是这样，一个小女孩，被谋杀的女孩 And the main character get this... she's a little girl, a murdered girl.
- 美极了 - 对，是美极了，但她只是个孩子 - Beautiful. - Beautiful, yeah, but she's just a kid.
不不，我说的美极了是指她被谋杀了这件事 No, no, no, I meant it's beautiful that she gets murdered.
但这里还得有很多情节，而不是一大堆风格化的屁话 But it's gotta have a lot of story. Not a lot of style bullshit.
那么告诉我，这个所谓的处决是怎么做的 So tell me, how does this execution bit play out?
我会想出来的，我是说结尾会有一个非常…非常棒的反转 I, I will find out. I, I mean there's a great...great twist ending.
- 还有中心？- 绝对有中心 - With heart？ - With tons of heart
而且我早上就会给你一个完整的梗概 and I'll get you a complete outline in the morning.
但你得马上替我给丹妮丝汇一张支票 But you gotta get me a check to Denise right away.
我可不是开玩笑，事实上你用银行电汇会更好，这实在很急 I'm not kidding around, in fact, in fact the bank wire transfer would be better. It’s an emergency
听着，我在想，这不是个绝对保险的想法 You know, you know, I'm thinking, it's not bulletproof.
但是霍尔巴尔的摩，作为一个巫术大师写一个吸血鬼故事 But Hall Baltimore, master OF witchcraft doing a vampire story...
- 听起来还不坏 - 简直是好极了 - It's not bad. - Not bad at all.
- 如果它有个好的结尾 - 一定会的 - If it's got an ending. - It's got an ending.
- 一个可靠的结尾 - 绝对可靠 - A bulletproof ending. - Bulletproof
但是山姆，你得帮我妻子渡过难关，行吗 But Sam, you gotta tide my wife over okay?
这可是我写这本书的原因，行吗，我需要两万五千美元 This is why I'm doing it alright? 25 grand.
行了，你知道我接下来要干什么吗，我要汇给丹妮丝一万美元 Okay, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna wire Denise 10,000 dollars.
两万五千美元，那会很好，我会很感激的 25. That, that's great. I really appreciate it.
我说过了，我会给丹妮丝汇一万美元 As I said, I'm gonna wire Denise 10,000 dollars...
但我早上得看到梗概，不然我就不汇了 but I need the outline in the morning or I'm gonna stop payment.
- 山姆 - 而且别整那些湖上的雾 - Sam? - And no fog on the lake.
那夜很潮湿 The night was… humid.
那夜阴云密布 The night was… cloudy.
雾，薄雾…薄雾下落 Fog. A Mist… a mist descends…
吸血鬼的处决 霍尔巴尔的摩著 灵感来源于鲍比拉格朗日 落在湖面上。明妮…明妮… on the, on the lake Mini, Mini, Mini ...
翁瓦尼帕努基湖 Unwanipanuki lake.
雾，浮出湖面，就像 The fog… floated out like
维姬弗吉尼亚无声的… Virginia's silent ...
梦 dream.
不行，这糟透了 No, that sucks.
湖面上的雾…雾… The fog on the lake, the fog on the ...
湖面上的雾…只是为了折磨山姆 The fog on the lake…just to torture Sam.
湖面上漂浮的气味就像是… The scent floats out like…
泪 tears.
这也不行 On a whale's ass? No.
湖面上的雾…唿…直刃剃刀 The fog on the lake…the flake. The straight edge razor.
湖面上的雾让我想起我的第一任妻子 The fog on the lake reminds me of my first wife.
这是在浪费时间 It dissipated with time.
我迟早会发疯的 I'd lost my mind.
现在我已经口齿不清了 And now I have a lisp.
现在我突然变成了一个黑人篮球运动员 And now I'm suddenly turning into a black basketball player.
她…曾是… she…was…
我现在打起字来就像个从六十年代来的同性恋篮球运动员 I'm typing as a gay basketball player from the sixties.
我喜欢超短裤 I like short shorts.
它们虽然暴露，但穿起来很舒服，方便我跳投 They are revealing, but it's comfortable. It helps me jump.
湖面上没有雾 There was no fog on the lake.
湖面上没有雾，有的只是薄雾，朦胧的薄雾，淑女般的薄雾 维姬宝贝你在哪里，我好想你
神秘小说作家之女死于船只事故
这里是斯旺谷警署的副警长阿尔比斯 Swann Valley, sheriff's department. Deputy Arbus speaking.
阿尔比斯，那个作家叫我去帮他做了一堆的事 Arbus, the writer fella told me to go do a bunch of errands for him
现在嘛，他却没回他的旅店 well, he's not back here at his motel.
如果你看到他，跟他说我最多再等半个小时 If you see him, tell him I'll wait another thirty minutes
- 就是这样，我得挂了 - 好的，警长 - and that's it, I got to go. - Alright, sheriff.
为什么门没锁上，阿尔比斯 Why isn't the door locked, Arbus?
是这样，我给你留的门，PJ Yeah, I left it open for you, PJ.
你吃过了吗？ what happened to your diet?
我刚刚还在想你什么时候能把我的汉堡带来 I was wondering when you were gonna get here with my hamburgers.
- 想玩牌吗？ - 想，但你什么时候把饭钱付给我 - Feel like to playing some cards? - sure, but when are you gonna pay up?
- 嘿，PJ，能把那儿的台灯线拿过来吗 - 好的 - Hey PJ, get the cord there would you. - Okay
别再那样无声无息地走进太平间了 Don't ever walk into a morgue like that unannounced.
- 我的心脏可承受不了 - 抱歉，可我敲过门了 - My heart can't handle it. - Sorry, I knocked.
对了，警长在你的旅店那边 Yeah, well, sheriff's over at your motel
而且他说，“我最多再等半小时” and he said I'll only be here another thirty minutes.
好的，谢谢 Okay, thanks.
你还欠我十八美金，阿尔比斯 You owe me eighteen bucks, Arbus.
打个盹，白日梦，睡得香 Snooze, Ropopose, Sleep all
夜安睡。还有这种你没列在清单上的药，但我觉得不错 Night all… and you didn't put this on your list. But I liked it. I thought it was good.
- 夜安眠 - 我就需要这个 - Sleeping All. - Just what I needed.
我们要在一起写东西吗？你之前可说过的 Are we gonna work on this together? That is what you said.
那些药可只能让你睡着 These are just gonna put you to sleep.
它们能让我有个做梦的机会 A chance to dream.
- 但你还没读过药的标签 - 不，我读了 - But you didn't read the label’s. - Yes I did.
你就是这样写作的？我还以为所有城里的作家 This is how you write? I thought that all city writers
- 都是喝点酒然后恍恍惚惚地写东西的 - 我们确实是这样，但是 - just got sauced and then wrote in some kind of trance - We do, we do but
这故事有个可靠的结局而我恰好知道有个人能帮我找到它 There is a bulletproof ending out there and I know just the guy to get me there
嘿，你有认识镇上的医生能给我开真的“药”的吗？ Hey do you know a doctor in town that can give me prescription for a real…real one?
我不能那么做，我可是公务员 I can't do that. I'm a public official.
暮光，鲍比拉格朗日著 Twilight Lights. By Bobby LaGrange.
在蕾丝便服下，她的肌肤鲜嫩得像是黄油中浮出的奶油 Her skin was as fresh as cream, floating up from butter
她常常用那个来逗弄我 under the lace negligee she liked to tease me with.
你为什么一直回到这儿？ What keeps bringing you back here?
我想要解开一个谜 I'm trying to solve a mystery.
我正是在等你，我的朋友 I'm waiting for you, my friend.
就在这儿，就在她的墓穴旁 Here, by her tomb.
- 你先请 - 谢谢 - After you. - Thank you.
你可是埃德加爱伦坡，所以…如果你… And you are… Edgar Allan Poe, so…if you…
我能帮你些什么 How can I help?
那个，我不知道故事的结局是什么 well… I don't have no ending.
你知道狄更斯吗，一次他写信给我 Did you know the Dickens once corresponded with me
谈论在写作时先写结尾，再从后往前写的技巧 concerning the technique of writing the ending first. And working backwards.
关于你在写的东西，长度是？ What did you need? Length?
每页四十到五十行，至少两百页 40 to 50 lines per page. 200 page minimum.
- 它的领域呢？ - 美 - Province? - Beauty.
- 情调？ - 他们没跟我说这个 - The tone? - They'll tell you.
既然这些要点都已经确定了 These points being settled
- 我们可以开始考虑叠句了吗？ - 我喜欢这个 - shall we consider the refrain? - I like it.
这个怎么样：钟楼在逐渐变成我 The bell tower is becoming to me.
叠句必须要简短，在我自己最有名的作品里（见《乌鸦》） A reframe must be brief. In my own work, my most famous
我立刻找到了仅仅一个单词，我得说恐怕那样才是最好的 it's lead me at once to a single word is the best. I'm afraid.
那个词就是永不复焉 Nevermore.
这里马上出现了一个困难 The difficulty arose from the presumption that the word
你没法让一个人类单调地重复这个单词 must be monotonously be spoken by a human being.
然后我立刻又有了一个想法，让一个会说话的无理性动物来这么做 then immediately arose the idea of a, a non reasoning creature capable of speech
然后，非常自然地我想到了一只鹦鹉 and, then very naturally a parrot suggested itself.
但这又很快被一只乌鸦代替 But it was superseded forthwith immediately by a raven as equally
乌鸦也能像人一样说话，但却是预示不幸的鸟 capable of speech, but as a bird of ill omen
绝对比鹦鹉更能与悲郁的情调保持一致 infinitely more in keeping with intended tone.
所有这些话值得这瓶上好的爱尔兰威士忌吗？ Is all this worth the price of that very good bottle of Irish whisky?
是的，当然是，请继续说 Yes, of course, please continue
于是，我问自己 So, I asked myself
依照人类普遍的理解 of all the melancholy topics
在所有忧郁的主题中，什么是最具悲剧性的？ what according to the universal understanding of mankind is the most tragic?
是死亡 Death.
那么这个悲郁的主题什么时候才最有诗意？ And when is this most tragic of melancholy topics most poetical?
是当它以柔和的方式暗示出美的时候 When it most loosely alludes itself to beauty.
因此，美丽女子的死 The death therefore, of a beautiful girl
毫无疑问是世界上最具诗意的主题 is unquestionly the most poetical topic in the world.
同样毫无疑问的是，最适合在这个主题中最适合作叙述者的 Equally it is beyond there that the lips best suited for the topic
就是那个爱她的男子 are those of the man who loved her.
所以，现在我必须把这两个想法合在一起 So, I had to combine these two ideas
一个是爱人哀悼他死去的情人 of the lover lamented his deceased mistress
另一个是在大约一百行的诗里，乌鸦不断重复“永不复焉”这个词 and the raven' continuously using the word "Nevermore"in a poem of about 100 lines.
让“永不复焉”成为这首情调悲郁的诗里每一节的最后一行 with "nevermore" as conclusion of each stanza in a poem of melancholy tone.
你是怎么找到结尾的？ How do you uh, find the ending?
你正在写的故事是一个悲剧 Your story is a tragedy.
它就发生在我曾经下榻过的老奇克林旅馆 It happened here at the old Chikering hotel where I once slept.
镇上有很多孩子，有孤儿，离家出走的孩子，丢失的孩子 There were many children in the town. Orphans runaways, the lost children.
而且在那之前不久，他们被交给牧师艾伦弗洛伊德照管 And before long they were taking in to protection of pastor Alan Floyd.
他是个和善的人，爱他的这些孩子们 He was a kindly man, loved his kids.
所有人都会赞同说他把孩子们照管得很好 And everyone agreed that he took very good care of them.
他教给他们圣经历史，对上帝的爱以及美德 He taught them cataclysm, and love of god and goodness.
有一夜发生了一件事 And one night it happened.
有一个孩子不见了，就在这时可怕的东西浮现了 One of his children was missing. And that's when it came out.
是谁不在这儿？ Who isn't here?
是彼得？他去… Peter? Where did…
他该不会去了河对岸吧 he didn't go across the lake.
永远别跟湖对岸的人来往 Never ever go with the people across the lake.
这非常重要，那些人就像…就像害虫 This is very important. They are like, like, like vermin.
那些湖对岸的恶棍，他们是不洁的 Unclean, those, those fiends across the lake.
他们是不死的恶魔 They are the undead
他们是吸血鬼 They are vampires.
他照顾孩子们，养育他们 He took care of them and fed them.
用附子草以及其他植物的汁液 Anointed them with the juices of spoilage,
为他们行涂油礼 and sinkfoil and wolfsbane.
保护他们远离邪恶 Anointed them against evil.
转过头去，谢谢 Turn your head. Thank you
就是这样，好了 That's right. There we go.
让你既舒服又安全 Make sure we keep you nice and safe.
有天你会穿上尼龙袜的 Someday you are gonna wear nylon stockings.
没有收到梗概，我还在等着，我要的结尾在哪儿？
- 他他妈怎么还不来？ - 你干嘛拿我妈妈的通灵板 - Where the hell is he? - What are you doing with my mom's Ouija board?
- 你见过这东西吗？ - 我们要拿它来干嘛？ - Have you ever seen one of these? - What would you do with that?
创新是让侦探故事和华人侦探陈查理变得有趣的关键元素 Innovation is what made the detective story and Charlie Chan entertaining.
鲍比拉格朗日…是个懂得创新的侦探 Bobby LaGrange… is an innovative detective.
你先请，先生 After you, sir.
那个，那是个通灵板 That, ouija board.
我们现在非常接近于 We are in close proximity...
死者 to the deceased.
并且凶手可能还在这个地区 And the killer is probably still in the area.
或许我们不该在太平间里这么做 Maybe we shouldn't be doing this in a morgue.
首先调暗灯光 Dim the old lights..
你好 Hello.
- 我们认识你吗？- 认识 - Do we know you? - Yes.
你在用力，我感觉到了 You're doing that, I can feel you.
- 不，我没有 - 安静点！ - No I'm not - Shut up!
H… I… M.
是个“他” Him.
它想要你也加入 It wants you
好吧，我们认识你吗？ Okay, do we know you?
我… I…
就是…她 am… her.
阿尔比斯，那是怎么了 Arbus, what was that?
- 接着问她 - 问什么？ - Ask her. - ask what?
是谁杀了你？ Who killed you?
B…
- 警长，是你在用力，我感觉到了 - 我没有 - Sheriff, you're doing that. I can feel it. - I'm not.
是谁杀了你？ Who killed you?
B…
湖边的那些坏孩子，他们是邪恶的 The evil kids at the lake. They are evil.
那个叫火烈鸟的孩子，就是他带坏了那些孩子 And that Flamingo kid, he's the one that infects them.
他是个吸血鬼，是他杀了你吗？ He's a vampire. Is he?
“是” 'Yes'.
快来，阿尔比斯，藏好你的枪 Come on, Arbus. Keep your gun hidden.
- 你肯定很渴吧？ - 确实如此 - You must be thirsty? - Exactly
- 我来找火烈鸟 - 他就在那儿 - I'm looking for Flamingo. - He is right back here.
当天空像盖子般沉重而低垂 When low and heavy sky weighs like a lid
压在久已厌倦的呻吟的心上 Upon the spirit moaning in ennui,
看来你受过教育，知道波德莱尔 Educated… you know Baudelaire.
我懂得生活，老兄，我也知道波德莱尔的梦想 I know life man. And I know the dreams of Baudelaire.
当它把整个地平线全部包围 And when, spanning the circle of the world
泻下比夜更惨的黑暗的昼光（《恶之花·忧郁之四》） It pours a black day sadder than our nights
我希望你能帮我确认这个失踪女孩的身份 I was hoping you could help me find this missing girl.
她大约十二三岁 She is 12 or 13.
这里有很多女孩 There are a lot of girls here.
你知道，人们说这里发生的事是邪恶的 You know, people are saying what's going on up here is…evil.
你会为此担心吗？ Are you worried about that?
看看你的周围，你觉得这看起来邪恶吗 Look around you. Does this look evil to you?
看那月亮 Look at that moon.
那很美 It is beautiful.
我很担心 I have been worried…
我们已经三天没有见到她了 it has been 3 days since we've seen her
她只是个我照顾的孩子，但我担心她出了什么事 She's just a little kid that I take care of, but I'm worried that something has happened to her.
阿尔比斯，真该死 Arbus. Damn it.
你在这儿？没穿制服？ You? You're out of uniform?
还不是在这儿执行公务？你到底在这儿干什么？ And you're here on unofficial business. What the hell are you doing here?
他说你同意了的，他还给了我二十美元 he said you were okay with it. He gave me 20 bucks.
我亲爱的合作者 Mr. Collaborator.
在这整个调查过程中，我还以为我们是同伴 I thought we were a team, all the way through this investigation.
鲍比拉格朗日可不喜欢被骗 Bobby LaGrange does not like to be tricked.
也不喜欢被当成傻瓜耍 Nor does he like being made a fool out of.
大名鼎鼎的火烈鸟，哦，哦，哦 The famous Flamingo. my…my…my
少女的杀手 the lady killer.
阿尔比斯，逮捕这个谋杀犯 Arbus, arrest this murderer.
他喜欢那样，无论是被带去还是逃回来 He's like that…either coming or going.
或许他已经逃走了 Or he's already gone.
- 那就是那地方的钥匙？ - 就是这些 - Those are the real keys for the…- These are them
- 这可是原配的钥匙 - 哇哦，真神奇 - these are the official keys. - Wow, that's amazing.
- 这就是钟楼的钥匙吗？ - 是的 - 真的吗？ - This is to the clock tower? - Yes - really?
嘿给我，把它还给我，你拿着它要去哪儿？ Hey give me, give me that. Where are you going with that?
- 拜托了，只是去看看 - 什么？你不会想去那儿的 - Come on, just to see. - What? You don't want to go up there.
真奇怪，我昨天才刚到这儿来过 That's odd, I was up here yesterday…
- 这个锁昨天可没这么难开 - 真是昨天？ - and I didn't have a hard time with this lock at all. - Yesterday?
呃，可能是上个星期 Uh, maybe it was last week.
- 那你打开了吗？ - 可能是上上个星期 - It worked? - Maybe it was the week before last.
让我来试试 Let me try.
- 给你 - 谢谢 - Here. - Thanks.
那是什么鬼东西？ What the hell was that?
告诉我，你以前到这儿来的时候见过这样的东西吗？ You tell me you ever notice anything like that when you were up here?
你是不能上那儿去的，那地方被诅咒了，你不知道吗？ You're not going up there. This place is haunted. Didn't you know that?
- 那是什么气味？- 那是魔鬼 - What's that smell? - The devil.
魔鬼住在那儿 The devil lives up there.
你自己解决它吧，我要走了 You're gonna get it all over yourself. I'm going out.
但愿还能再见 Goodbye.
来陪我们吧爸爸…来陪我们吧爸爸… come with us daddy… come with us daddy
帮帮我爸爸…来陪我们吧爸爸… Help me, daddy…Come with us daddy.
帮帮我…帮帮我…来陪我们吧爸爸… Help me…Help me…daddy. Come with us daddy
帮帮我 Help me.
听，有声音 listen,
他们是邪恶的吗？ Are they evil?
不，当然不是 No.no
告诉我是谁杀了她，告诉我 tell me who killed her. tell me.
你说你想知道是谁杀了她，但你真想知道吗？ You say that you want to know, but do you?
- 我想知道真相 - 那会产生后果 - I want to know the truth. - There are consequences.
我还有什么选择呢？ What choice do I have?
- 把整个故事告诉我 - 如你所愿，我的朋友 - Tell me all of the story. - As you wish, my friend.
只是发生的那件事让你羞于去回忆 There happened events just make you ashamed to remember.
- 给你 - 谢谢，这刀真锋利 - Here you go. - Thank you, it's a sharp of knife.
我想知道那秘密的调料是什么 I wanna know what the secret ingredient is.
我们会给每个人都准备特别的柠檬水 We're going to have special lemonade for everybody.
就是那样，干得好 That's right. good job.
- 这好讨厌 - 小心点 - This is too stinks. - Careful.
你切到你的手指了 You cut your finger.
- 给你，爱丽丝 - 谢谢 - 不客气 - Here you go, Alice. - Thank you. - You're welcome.
拿好了 There you go.
别喝那个柠檬水，他在里面放了些东西 Don't drink the lemonade, he put something in it.
- 别，停下 - 我想喝柠檬水，弗吉尼亚 - No, stop. - I would like lemonade, Virginia
弗吉尼亚，好了，大家都站好 Virginia. all right, stand still.
弗吉尼亚在干些傻兮兮的事 Virginia, is being very very silly.
而我们都要喝些柠檬水，又甜又美味的柠檬水，尝尝 And we're all going to have some lemonade, it's delicious and sweet, taste it.
- 都别动，别动，待在这儿 - 你在干什么 - Stay…stay…stay here. - What are you doing?
然后他代替命运做了一个决定 Then he made a fateful decision.
与其让他的孩子们和吸血鬼一样灵魂受诅咒 Rather than have his children's souls be damned as vampires
他在柠檬水里下了药，然后切开了他们的喉咙 he drugged their lemonade, and slit their throats.
你能阻止他吗？做些什么 Can you make him stop? Do something
这就是你说的，美丽的死亡 Death of beauty.
有一个孩子想要解救她自己 One child tried to save herself.
弗吉尼亚？ Virginia?
你在玩我们最喜欢的游戏，是吗？ You're playing our favorite game, huh?
我会找到你的 I'll find you.
抓住你了 Got you.
弗吉尼亚 Virginia.
通天之路 直往上帝 One way to God.
通天之路 直往上帝 One, one, one way to God.
抓住你了 I got you.
当怪物抓到她的时候，他把她锁在地下室里 Once the monster caught her he put her in chains in the vault.
不 No.
你不许再叫了 You must stop screaming.
我告诉过你，上帝想要你做个母亲 I told you God wants you to be mom.
好极了，把你想喊的都喊出来吧 That's right. scream all what you want,
现在即便是上帝也听不见你了 Even God can't hear you now.
通天之路 直往上帝 One road, one way to God
皆以耶稣之名 All in Jesus name.
在那些她无比美丽的最美好的日子里，我爱她 During the brightest days of her unparalleled beauty. I loved her
并不是那个活着的呼吸着的弗吉尼亚 not as the living and breathing Virginia
而是我梦中的弗吉尼亚 but as the Virginia of the dream.
如你所见 You see…
我亲爱的朋友 dear friend…
她最初是我年轻的表妹 she was my young cousin
后来成了我深爱的妻子 my beloved wife.
她的名字是弗吉尼亚 her name was Virginia.
但我又给了她许多名字 but I gave her many names.
莱诺尔 Lenore
贝蕾妮丝 Berenice.
丽姬娅 The lady Ligeia.
马德琳小姐 Madeline Usher.
安娜贝尔李 Annabel Lee.
埃莉奥诺拉（以上均为爱伦坡笔下的女性） Eleonora.
我还把自己当成是你的合作者，快开门，起来 I assume that I am your partner? Open the door, wake up.
快起来 Wake up.
- 把门打开，霍尔 - 来了，来了，等一下 - Open the door, Hall. - Alright, alright. hang on.
- 一直等到你发现了这个吗 - 什么？ - Wait 'til you see this. - What?
我刚订阅了作家周刊 I subscribed to "Writers Weekly."
而这则消息正好在里面 and this just in
说你刚在一个叫“吸血鬼的处决”的项目上拿了一万美金的预付款 says that you took a 10,000 dollar advance on a project called "The Vampire Executions."
不不，那些钱是付给我以前的一些作品的 No, no. that was money for some old writes.
并且那些钱已经到我妻子手上了，那个消息是错的 And that money already went to my wife. that's a mistake.
但我在想，我确实喜欢吸血鬼的处决这个项目 But I was thinking, I do like "The Vampire Executions"
并且我愿意让它署上我们两个人的名 by Hall Baltimore and Bobby LaGrange.
现在就把我的五千美元给我 give me my $5,000 dollar now.
在我们开始写故事之前可不会有什么金钱流转对吧 There's not gonna be any money exchanged until we get to the story right?
- 我们会找到结局的 - 结局？ - We gotta get to the end. - The end?
结局，那就是凶手是谁，所有谋杀故事都是这样 The end. It's a who done it. Like every other murder mystery.
- 先让我清醒一下 - 结局就是谁杀了她 - Just let me wake up. - It comes to who did it.
- 好吧 - 你有什么毛病？ - Okay. - What's the matter with you?
- 你正在丢掉你最大的一笔财富 - 什么财富？ - You're foregoing your greatest asset.- Yeah. what's that?
就是鲍比拉格朗日，那个书中的侦探 Bobby LaGrange, the detective
你要完成这个人物，然后把他用到所有的故事里 You gotta take Bobby LaGrange and use him much more throughout the entire story
因为他能够一个人解决罪案 because he could solve the crime himself..
显然这是件系列凶杀案 clearly it's the work of a serial killer.
湖对岸的某些人想要杀死那些女孩 Someone wants to silence the girls,on the other side of the lake.
因为那些人会把病态的心煎来吃 because, they fried a sick mind.
那些人把心煎得滋滋作响，那些人已经变态得无可救药 And then they sizzle them, because of some psyco hocus pocus condition
凭那个就能把那些人判作邪恶的婊子，那些人就是邪恶的婊子 that condemns them to being the evil sluts that they are.
那就是在那些人变态的心里的东西 And that is what's in a sick mind.
你是这么想的，鲍比？你觉得她们，她们是些邪恶的婊子？ You think so, Bobby? You think they're uh, they're evil sluts?
- 哪些人？ - 那些年轻女孩 - whom? - The young girls.
当然他妈的是，她们都沉溺于黑暗的东西，每一个都是 Shit yes, they're all into dark things. every one of them
她们崇拜的是死亡，以及性爱 they worship death and sex.
你是怎么想的？ What do you think?
哦不，你可不会 Oh no you don't...
不，不是鲍比拉格朗日做的，是那些人 No, not Bobby LaGrange. them.
湖对岸的那些恶魔崇拜的是妓女 Those devil worshiping whores on the other side of the loch.
当然他妈的是，她们都沉溺于黑暗的东西，每一个都是 Shit Yes, they are all in dark thing every one of them.
她们崇拜的是死亡，以及性爱 They worship death and sex.
她们太粗俗了，不知道什么对她们好 They were just too saucy for their own good.
你知道的，她们那有魔鬼栖居的雪白肉体 You know, they have that white flesh with the devil inside them.
那些你总是禁不住去想的小美味 That little spice you can't stop thinking about.
- “那可不能怪我” - 那可不能怪我 - It's not me. - It's not me.
- “那是它们干的” - 那是它们干的 - It's them. - It's them
是那恶魔的肉体 flesh of the devil.
我拯救了她们的灵魂 I saved their souls
你… You…
你没权力评判我 you don't judge me.
“别评判我”，把他的所有伪装都撕开 Do not judge me. tearing it out.
- 老家伙，混蛋 - “原谅我” - Old, old bastard. - Forgive me
原谅我越出了天国的界限，寻求肉体的愉悦 forgive me for seeking pleasure outside of the company
向我显示另一条拯救灵魂的路 cast me another way for my spirit.
可能，在这条路上泥土都将被煮沸，也只有在这条路上 perhaps, it takes the dirt to be boiled, only here alone?
所有这些罪恶，才有洗清的可能 With all of these things together, thrown
绝对的，绝对可靠的结局 Bullet-proof, bullet-proof.
我看到这悬崖就发抖 I can't even look at the cliff, without trembling.
就这样小小的悬崖吗？ This little cliff?
等等，等等我 Wait, wait.
你还敢再往前走吗？ Do you dare to go further?
你在说什么，把结局告诉我 What are you talking about, tell me the ending.
如果你不现在停下来，所有你写下的都将成为关于你自己的故事 If you don't stop now, every word that flows from your pen will be your own tale.
你，你自己就是你在找的结局 You. You are the ending you seek.
既然我已经离结局这么近了，又怎么能停下来呢？ How can I stop now when it's so close to the end?
那就该面对真相了 Then it's time to face the truth.
要结束这个故事，没有其他的路可走 To end this story, there is no other way.
我好羞愧，我该哭的，那是我的小女儿 I am so ashamed, I should cry That's my little girl.
那是我的女儿，那时她想要我和她以及她的朋友们一起出去 That's my daughter. She wanted me to go with her friends.
我那时以为她们开的是那种小船 I thought they were little boats…
我以为她们开的是儿童船，我不知道她们开的是快艇 I thought they were children's boats. I didn't know they were speedboats.
我没法带着她们，那天早上我醉得没法醒来 I couldn't guide them. I was too drunk to wake up that morning.
我跟个女人在一起 I was with a woman.
我无地自容 I am so ashamed.
我本可以去的，我设了闹钟 I could have gone, I set the clock,
但我设错了时间，所以闹钟没有响 but it was the wrong time So the alarm didn't go off.
我本来可以到那里去的，但是 I could have been there, but
到了那儿，可能还是… been there, maybe still…
我好羞愧 I'm so ashamed…
好羞愧 so ashamed.
或许如果我到了那儿她就… maybe if I would have been there she would…
我本能在那儿的，我本该在那儿的 I could have been there, I should have been there.
我的小女儿 This little girl.
我的朋友，我们都担着这个小小的鬼魂 We share this little ghost, my friend.
我们的作品必须成为给可爱的她们准备的坟墓 Our work must be the grave that we prepare for its lovely tenant.
斯旺谷警署
罪人
噢老天 Oh God
帮帮我，帮帮我，爸爸 Help me. help me, Daddy
真是可靠的结局，你送来的这些稿子 Bullet Proof. You delivered the goods here.
我跟你说，这绝对是骨头上的肉 I'm telling you, meat on the bone.
- 你这么觉得，山姆？ - 我是这么觉得 - You think so, Sam? - I do.
霍尔巴尔的摩，巫术大师，不再仅仅如此了 Hall Baltimore, master of witchcraft, no more.
永不复焉 Nevermore.
霍尔巴尔的摩的小说吸血鬼的处决 销量达三万册，这是个不错的成绩
自杀的警长，鲍比拉格朗日，最终被发现 与另外三桩“木桩”系列凶杀案有关联， 再加上副警长阿尔比斯的谋杀案
丹妮丝没有卖掉霍尔珍藏的 惠特曼《草叶集》的稀有版本 他们仍然在一起
火烈鸟则再未示人