- Cosmo-Slotnick Pictures decides to hold a contest to build a skyscraper in New York.
- That is one bizarre contest, but in this novel the entire world seems infatuated with architecture, so we'll roll with it.
- Keating is supposed to enter a design for Francon and Heller.
- But of course, he has performance anxiety and has to get Roark to help him.
- Roark says he wants no credit at all for this stupid building and Keating doesn't have to worry about blackmail.
- Keating gets angry and the two argue. Or Keating argues and Roark does his stone-faced routine.
- Roark is starting to run out of money and his commissions are drying up.
- Cameron dies, and, on his deathbed, tells Roark to never give up.
- Keating tells Katie they can get married after the competition is over, but Keating still sees Dominique and tries to kiss her. He's a dirbag like that.
- Dominique gives him the cold shoulder and says she'll marry him if she ever wants to punish herself one day. Ouch.