He powered off the lamp, stood up, and walked out into the silent hallway. The firm was his now. And he intended to keep it clean.
Marcus stared at him. “What are you proposing?”
“So why aren’t you?”
“Twenty minutes,” Zane said. “If I’d sent it to the committee, you’d be gone in twenty more.”
But as he unlocked the bottom drawer of his new desk, he made a quiet promise: he would never be Marcus. He would never need an anonymous tip to do the right thing. And if one day another envelope appeared on another young partner’s desk, he hoped they’d handle it the same way. does zane become managing partner
The vote was unanimous the next day. Elena hugged him. Harold Finch shook his hand and said, “The firm is in good hands.” Marcus gave a short, gracious speech about Zane’s vision and integrity, and no one in the room knew the price of those words.
So yes. Zane became managing partner.
Thursday morning, he walked into Marcus’s corner office and closed the door. Marcus looked up from a deposition brief, his smile polished but his eyes wary. “Zane. Come to twist the knife before the vote?”