Rafe: I'm not interested in any deal you have to offer me.

James: Has no one told you the art of negotiation? I make you an offer. You make a counteroffer. We meet somewhere in the middle, and everybody's happy.

Rafe: Oh, ok. So here's my counteroffer -- no. No way. Absolutely not.

James: I thought you were serious about wanting to be with your lovely alison again.

Rafe: Don't you even say her name.

James: She's suffering, you know. It's tragic.

Rafe: Just stop it!

James: I mean, all you asked for was a little time to say good-bye. And what? What? Did they say no? Did they say it was against the rules? Well, our rules are so much more flexible.

Rafe: No, I don't want to hear it.

James: I think you do, master rafe. Now listen to what i have to say. Don't beg those ingrates for a mere few minutes to be with the woman you love. Work with me. I can guarantee you and alison a lifetime together.

Rafe: You can give me a lifetime on earth?

James: But, of course, I can't control what you do with it. But I imagine you'll go straight down there and sweep that delicate, young flower off her feet. You can promise her the world and deliver this time. You can be married in a real ceremony in the eyes of -- well, whomever. And when you've shared the rapture that you both feel, there will be children. And grandchildren.

Alison: Rafe, darling, we're going to have a baby.

James: And if you don't take up smoking and limit yourself to one glass of wine with dinner, there could even be great-grandchildren.

Rafe: Stop, ok?

James: I'm just showing you what's possible, rafe. Rafe: Ok. All right. Well, then what would this cost me?

James: We'll talk about that when you've made up your mind.

Rafe: Yeah, except i can read the fine print, and it says you want my soul.

James: Everything comes with a price, master rafe. Where I come from, down there on earth, and even up here. I mean, look how it's costing you now to be away from your sweet alison. And I ask you -- what is a soul worth when it's empty of love?

Rafe: I know who you are, and I know who you work for. I won't do business with you.

James: Huh. Well, that must have been some other lovesick fool I heard when he called out, "I'd give anything to see her again. Anything." That's a direct quote -- "anything." And so i answered the call.

Rafe: Well, you know what? I wasn't asking for you.

James: Well, I'm all you've got. You know, that girl, she's aching for you.

Rafe: She wouldn't want me to sell my soul to the devil.

James: Well, we could look at it another way -- as the greatest gift that a man can give the woman he loves. She's suffering. Can you feel it?

Alison: Rafe, I need you. Please, you have to concentrate.

James: I can hear her. Can you?

Alison's voice: Please, rafe. I need you so much. Come back to me if you love me.

James: End her suffering, master rafe. Her happiness rests in your hands.

Rafe: Just stop -- now.

James: Look, I'm simply trying to do my job, and you don't care for the truth.

Rafe: What you're offering me is misery. What you are, who you are goes against everything that i believe in, everything that i am.

James: Everything you are now? Or everything you used to be before you discovered that earthly pleasure called love? Ah, love. It can change the best of men.

Rafe: You'll never get my soul.

James: I wonder, is it your youth that keeps you so naive?

Rafe: No, it's my conviction that keeps me strong. I despise you and everything that you represent. You get your joy from other people's pain. You thrive on tragedy. You would suck the humanity out of anyone who would let you. Well, hear this, james -- I won't let you! You can't have my soul. And I will fight you and your kind into eternity if i have to.

James: That's very impressive. You're not who i thought.

Rafe: You bet that's right.

James: And if you'll excuse me, you're wasting my time.

Rafe: That's right.

James: You see, i thought you were really in love with alison.

Rafe: I am.

James: No. No, rafe. No, to truly love, to love deeply, eternally, you have to sacrifice something of yourself for the one you love. For alison. You simply don't have what it takes. Pity.