<P> Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey) interviews people from the office repeatedly to hear the tale of Dwight's heroics . Believing themselves to be alone at the end of the day, the two kiss passionately . Jim sees them and decides that keeping their relationship secret will be his gift to Dwight to make things "even". Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) returns from anger management, and Dwight, unprovoked, subdues him with pepper spray . Toby confiscates the rest of Dwight's arsenal, previously hidden in various locations in the office . </P> <P> Meanwhile, Darryl Philbin (Craig Robinson) asks Michael for a 10 percent raise due to the extra workload resulting from Roy's absence . When he discovers that the raise would make him higher - paid than Michael, Darryl goads Michael into going to Corporate to negotiate his own raise . Jan Levinson (Melora Hardin) initially tries to keep their romantic relationship out of the negotiations but ultimately gives Michael the maximum 12 percent raise that was authorized despite his continued inability to negotiate properly . </P> <P> Elsewhere, Toby becomes considerably annoyed with Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) and Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling)'s constant making out and arguing in the cubicle next to his . </P> <P> "The Negotiation" was written by supervising producer Michael Schur and directed by Jeffrey Blitz . It concluded a story arc featuring Roy Anderson's attempt to win back Pam, his former fiancée . Roy's portrayer, David Denman, reported he was "really grateful" that executive producer Greg Daniels allowed his character to develop, "where all of a sudden, he wasn't just a complete idiot but felt bad for being a bad boyfriend and wanted to try to get the girl back . It's so rare to have that on a television show, because so often everyone wants you to be the same character every week . It was quite refreshing creatively to get to do that ." Referring to Jim and Pam, Denman felt it was "inevitable that Romeo and Juliet had to get together" and end the series' love triangle . "Otherwise," he explained, "it gets kind of tiring and old . I think it was the appropriate time (to leave), and I had such a great experience working with all those guys ." Denman also added that Daniels' decision stemmed from a desire to advance the Jim--Pam storyline "to the next stage," rather than having anything to do specifically with Denman himself . Denman briefly returned in the series' fifth, seventh, and ninth seasons . </P>

Michael tells jim to not give up on pam