Zane is not likable. In one scene, he steals a dancer’s subway token. In another, he lies to his mother about having a real job. This moral gray area feels realistic for the underground battle scene, which has often been sanitized for network TV.

Jonas hesitated. “Because… sometimes the city sends things that don’t like to be contained. Some things—” He stopped, eyeing the ledger again, then reached and drew a thin key from his pocket. He turned it once in a hidden lock at the spine. The ledger resisted as if it had a memory of its own, then swung open.