Loki:
Wait, so all I gotta do, I walk through the arch thing... and then I can go back home?
Bartleby:
No. By walking through the archway, all your sins are forgiven. Then all we have to do is die.
Loki:
Die? I don't wanna die!
Bartleby:
What, you'd rather hang around here for a few more eons?
Loki:
No! We don't even know if we CAN die.
[Bartleby looks exasperated]
Loki:
All right, but what if we can and then, and then the arch thing doesn't work? What then? Hell? Fuck that.
Bartleby:
It's possible.
Loki:
Fuck that!
Bartleby:
If we cut off our wings, transubstantiate to complete human form, we become mortal. If we die with clean souls, there's no way they can keep us out. We won't be angels anymore, but at least we get to go home.
Loki:
Who sent the paper?
Bartleby:
Who cares who sent the paper? All that matters is that after all these years, we found a loophole! They can't keep us out anymore! And once we get back in, I'm sure they'll just forgive and forget.
Loki:
But this thing is, this is... this is... this is church law. It's not divine mandate. Catholic Church laws are fallible because they're created by man.
Bartleby:
One of the last sacred promises imparted to Peter, the first Pope, by the Son of God before He left was... "Whatever you hold true on earth..."
Loki:
"I'll hold true in heaven."
Bartleby:
It's dogmatic law. The Catholic Church says it's so, God must adhere, this thing has a papal sanction...
Loki:
Let it never be said that your anal-retentive attention to detail never yielded positive results.
Bartleby:
You can't be anal-retentive if you don't have an anus.
Loki:
Outstanding work!
