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Everyone is happy about Gail admitting defeat. Roark tries to help Gail but he wont have him. Dom goes to see Roark at Monadnock and is finally happy after all thats happened The next day she calls the police to report a missing ring so the adultery story makes it to the papers. All the papers run it, including the banner, who slanders Dom as the one who ruined it. Gail reads this slander as his ultimate suffering
— Jan 21, 2026 07:14PM
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Enright buys the Cordlandt property to rebuild it. Gail gets divorced from Dom. Toohey wins his suit and gets rehired at the Banner. Gail watches him for 10 minutes, then the presses shut off and he says the banner is no more. Gail calls Roark to have him build his tower. Even though he says his life had no meaning, he wants it created for what could have been. Dom visits Roark at the top as it’s being completed
— 23 hours, 7 min ago
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Roarks trial for blowing up Cortlandt begins. Lots of people are there, including all main characters. Peter explains the background as a witness. Roark goes on a long tangent about creators versus second handers, and how it’s a creators job to be independent and true to themselves whereas second handers depend on others opinions and thoughts and don’t make anything. The jury finds him not guilty
— 23 hours, 37 min ago
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The Banners board convenes and yell about Gail needing to concede, and he does with the condition that Toohey does not return, and with the finality of the feeling he had when he almost killed himself. He wanders around the city at night. He gets a copy of the banner and reads the denouncement of Roark on the front page. He realizes he gave power to this voice and cant be forgiven since he betrayed his greatness
— Jan 20, 2026 07:28PM
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Toohey writes about Roark in the Banner. Gail fires him and the three others involved. Toohey goes into his office laughing, saying it’s too late and that he will be back. The union strikes the paper, leaving Gail to run the paper with terrible new hires (basically by himself). Dom comes to work at the banner again. Gail visits Roark who tells him to not give in. The paper loses advertisers and isn’t being read
— Jan 20, 2026 06:34PM
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Toohey comes over to Peter’s; Peter has not been leaving his apartment. He asks Peter for the full story, since he knows that Roark helped him with the Cortlandt projects. He yells at Peter, who lamely gives up the contract he and Roark made. Toohey rants about wanting power to take over the world by breaking men’s souls to feel guilty, to be performing for and jealous of others, to make everything average
— Jan 20, 2026 05:16PM
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Dom almost dies but recovers. Gail figured out the plan immediately and freed Roark from jail. Society explodes against Roark for his actions, since altruism is something they can all get behind, but Gail tells all of his papers to defend Roark aggressively. People move on from Roark and start hating the banner and Gail. Toohey is very happy about the situation since it puts him in a position to take the papers
— Jan 18, 2026 07:23PM
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Roark returns to find others helping Peter with the project houses. Peter basically had no say on the project so he couldn’t stop it. He goes to Roark and apologizes but Roark knows it isn’t his fault. He visits Dom and gives her instructions to go to the project and lie down in a ditch. That night she does, and Roark blows up the buildings, destroying Doms car making it look like she was hurt in the explosion
— Jan 18, 2026 06:44PM
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Gail invites Roark on his yacht for a few months, and Roark agrees. Roark tells Gail about how those who live with no self live within others, live second-hand. They do things only for the approval and acceptance of others, and therefore won’t listen to anything outside the influence of public opinion. They never do things they want solely because they want it, only because it is impressive to others
— Jan 13, 2026 07:23PM
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Peter runs into Katie on the streets of NYC, which surprises him since she apparently moved to DC a few years ago. She seems unsurprised and strictly polite, with no surprise. They get tea and he tells her to drop the act and about his life and how he loved her. She seems happy, but completely unsurprised or upset, as if she’s killed off that part of her past. Peter is hurt
— Jan 13, 2026 05:44PM
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Gail is upset when he sees the pictures of the housing since he clearly knows it’s Roarks work, but Roark tells him he’ll sue if Gail accuses him of doing it. Gail has an interaction with Alvah that makes him feel like Alvah won’t listen, and makes him think (but not enough) about his control over the company .Gail shows Roark a huge swath of land in Hell’s Kitchen that he wants Roark to build his tower on
— Jan 11, 2026 03:57PM
