High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Deal" is the ninth episode of the second season of NBC`s Seinfeld, and the show`s fourteenth episode overall. The episode centers around protagonists Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who decide to have a purely physical relationship, based around a set of ground rules. However, as their "relationship" progresses, they experience difficulties maintaining their original friendship.