Painterly two dark hands reaching together above a small flame in a brass dish.

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Kittridge

You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me. I just want to make sure that you do it in hell.

— Mission: Impossible · 1996

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a menacing warning dressed in calm, almost polite language, telling an adversary that their reckless or corrupt path is fine by the speaker only because it guarantees a fatal, damning consequence waiting at its end.

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