- Roger Enright buys the Cortlandt House from the government and hires Roark to rebuild it the way he originally wanted.
- The housing project will charge reasonable rents and is now privately owned and out of government hands, something that Ayn Rand approves of.
- Wynand is forced to rehire Toohey.
- But then he shuts down The Banner and tells Toohey he's out of a job.
- Psych!
- Toohey just goes to work for another paper, though, so Wynand's victory isn't all that stellar.
- Wynand hires Roark to build the Wynand skyscraper in Hell's Kitchen.