Interestingly enough, the UK version ends with an unseen person finding Mattie's tape recorder, which she secretly used to record the pair's final conversation and her death. In the second episode of the first season, Frank asks Zoe to meet him in a subway station after she had successfully planted his story about secretary of state hopeful Michael Kern. As with the season two premiere, the pair's conversation ends right as the train approaches, at which point Frank says to a distracted Zoe, "Don't miss your train, Miss Barnes.
It's the last one tonight. An eagle-eyed House of Cards fan on Reddit spotted a foreshadowing piece of dialogue between Zoe and Francis from their first meeting during the first episode of season one. At the time, Zoe is still working for the Metro section of the Washington Herald and desperately trying to move up. In the scene, Francis asks, "Metro is killing you, huh? In the 13th episode of the first season, Francis delivers a classic line while talking with Remy Danton Mahershala Ali , saying, "I don't use people unless I can throw them away afterwards.
OK, so we had no way of seeing this one coming, but it's interesting to note that this death has been in the works from day one. In a recent interview, creator Beau Willimon revealed that Zoe's death had been planned since the beginning of the series. Source: Netflix. It Happened in the British Series First, the most obvious clue: Netflix's House of Cards is based on the the British miniseries of the same name, which in turn was based on a novel by Michael Dobbs.
When she first started submitting reports based on Underwood 's leaked info, she began to alienate her coworkers at the Herald with her rogue and mildly arrogant attitude, and unintentionally steals Janine Skorsky 's position as White House Correspondent. She eventually leaves the Herald due to a conflict with her superior and joins Slugline. She finally teams up with Skorsky after both had left the Herald; despite their professional competition, they respect each other's work ethic and have the same goals in mind.
Both end up at Slugline and together they unearth the hidden details regarding Russo's DUI cover-up and his death. While Russo's death was officially ruled a suicide, the team of journalists correctly suspected that the Congressman's death involved foul play and that Underwood was involved.
Underwood requests a clandestine meeting with her and prior to their meeting, she learns some crucial details that suggest Russo was murdered; he was found on the passenger side of the car in which he was presumed to be alone, killing himself via carbon monoxide. At a public park, Barnes meets with the newly appointed Vice President and is coerced to drop her suspicions idiocy and start anew, stating that her connection to a powerful figure would be increasingly valuable to her own gain.
When she asks Underwood about Russo being found on the passenger side, he quickly deflects her suspicions. Underwood admits to covering up Russo's DUI, but claims that the cover-up is the extent of his involvement and that his death was without question a suicide. By the end of their meeting, the embattled journalist is clearly leaning toward teaming with Francis again due to the fact that he is now in a much more powerful position and that her investigation is an uphill battle.
As Zoe and her team continue to dig for information, she appears to doubt her own suspicions and brings up details that stand in the way of Underwood 's involvement. She swiftly leaves the meeting and expresses a desire to be alone, or more importantly, isolate herself from Skorsky and Goodwin.
Francis asks to meet Barnes once again at a train station. While the meeting place is far more public, Francis is in disguise and hides behind a fenced structure. When we first met Zoe, she was a lowly staffer at the Washington Herald , working underneath chief editor Tom Hammerschmidt, political editor Lucas Goodwin, and chief political correspondent Janine Skorsky.
When she saw Democratic House Majority Whip Frank Underwood checking her out during a social function, she decided to approach him about becoming a source in order to elevate her status at the paper. He passed her Donald Blythe's flawed education reform bill, the Herald published it… and that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. OK, so less of a "beautiful friendship" and more of a mutually-beneficial-but-ethically-murky-relationship-turned-affair-with-super-creepy-father-daughter-undertones.
Throughout the season, Frank continued to use Zoe to spin the stories and angles he wanted in the press, and she continued to use his scoops to advance her own career, eventually moving from the Herald to jazzy internet startup Slugline.
But everything changed when Congressman Peter Russo died. Although the official story was that Peter committed suicide, Zoe had suspicions that Frank had actually murdered the easily manipulated gubernatorial candidate. So Season 1 ended with Zoe embarking on a covert investigation into her own source, with the help of both Lucas and Janine.
The trio made headway when they discovered the identity of Rachel, the call girl Frank recruited to seduce Peter into falling off the wagon in advance of his untimely death. In the Season 2 premiere, apparently imagining that her prior sexual relationship with Frank would somehow made her immune from his wrath, she met with the newly-minted Vice President — a man she suspected of being a murderer — ALONE — in a secluded corner of a subway station.
It really shouldn't have come as much of a shock when he proceeded to unceremoniously shove Zoe in front of an oncoming train , to us or her… but it did. Since Netflix had wisely used Mara's face in all the advertising for the second season , no one saw her sudden death coming in literally the first episode.
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