Heather did not fire me. She stood up, and she walked around her desk, and she hugged me. I want to say that again because it was as surprising at the time as it sounds now: my CEO hugged me in her office on a Monday morning. She said, "I am so sorry. I am so sorry we put you in the position where you thought this was the only way." She said she was going to personally call the board that afternoon. She said Marcus was going to be fired by 2 PM. He was. Our head of HR walked Marcus out of the building at 1:47 PM. Security was with her. Marcus did not protest. He did not cry. He took a personal effects box and he left. I have not seen him since. I learned, three weeks later, from a journalist who called me asking about the story — which I did not speak to, on Heather's advice — that Marcus had done the same thing at two previous companies. Nobody had caught him before me. Both of those companies reached out to Heather to update their records.