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Zoe Barnes, a reporter for the Washington Herald, will do anything to get her big break. During the first episodeof season 2, Mara's character, journalist Zoe Barnes, gets killed when power-hungry politician Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) pushes her in front of an oncoming train. Tom Hammerschmidt, Zoe and Lucas's former news editor, digs deeper into the latter's claims of Frank's misdeeds. He approaches Remy and, with his help, starts to piece together Frank's corruption. Tom also meets with Walker, convincing him to help by appealing to his anger for being forced to resign. Remy Danton and Jackie Sharp also decide to go on the record against Frank to lend credibility to the story.
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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. Barnes was desperate to advance her stature within the Washington Herald newsroom. Directing all her charm, sexuality, youthful energy, and social skills towards securing journalistic sources in the D.C. Political establishment, she had been hoping to obtain information that would lead to bigger stories and better professional prospects.
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An American family is kidnapped in Tennessee by two supporters of a radical Islamist group called the Islamic Caliphate Organization (ICO), who agree to negotiate only with the ambitious Republican nominee, Governor Will Conway. Frank invites Conway to the White House to assist in the negotiations as a publicity stunt, and Conway helps buy critical time in locating the suspects. However, tensions between the Conways and Underwoods lead to the governor ending his role in the crisis. TVLINE | Did you do anything to actively throw people off? I took bunch of random pictures on the set in the two weeks that it took me to shoot my final episode and then throughout the months when I wasn’t shooting we’d tweet a picture as if I was on set and I really wasn’t.
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Underwood counter-proposes to Tusk that they work together to fulfill both their interests, which Tusk accepts. Meanwhile, after ending their affair, Zoe begins piecing together clues about Underwood's various plots. The season ends when Underwood accepts the nomination for Vice President of the United States. Meanwhile, Hammerschmidt continues to investigate Zoe's death, and is given information by an unknown leaker within the White House. Major document dumps are made available to Hammerschmidt, which, among other charges, prompts an impeachment hearing against Frank.
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The 'Megan Leavey' star played a journalist into the second season of the Netflix series. Also in 2007, she finished her work in the film Transsiberian, by Brad Anderson, which takes place on the Trans-Siberian Railway that runs from China to Moscow. She spent three months shooting the thriller in Vilnius, Lithuania,[9] starting in December 2006. The film also shot on location in Beijing and Russia.[30] Mara played Abby, a 20-year-old runaway from Seattle.[31] Transsiberian premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in January.
"The reason I call it successfulis because there's a deep love and trust and understanding between these twopeople, even if they're calculated in their ambitions," he explained. "A lot of people know therewas an English series and a lot of people have seen it, not that [our version] isexact to what happens in that series," Mara added. "I just assumed that peoplewould expect certain things to happen and regardless of whether or not theythought Zoe would stick around everyone's been sort of shocked by the way ithappened, which is nice." Even those who have seenthe original "House of Cards," where the Zoe character meets asimilar fate, may have been surprised by exactly how the plot unfolded. With her new Cabinet in place, Claire decides to undertake a new, progressive, agenda. The Shepherds, meanwhile, continue to plot her downfall, enlisting the help of Brett Cole, an ambitious Congressman who seeks to become Speaker of the House.
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The incumbent, Doris Jones, plans to retire and endorse her daughter Celia as her successor. Claire offers them federal funding for a key Planned Parenthood clinic in exchange for stepping down, but they refuse the offer. Frank wins back Claire's support by promising not to sabotage her campaign in Texas, but he later publicly endorses Celia in his State of the Union address.
In 2007, she appeared in the comedy Full of It with Ryan Pinkston for New Line Cinema. No, I don't think that's fair to say because there's lots of other characters that you meet in season 2. Like I said, I still haven't seen the season, and I don't know the story at all, so I really have no idea what it's going to be like. I think that there's going to be plenty of other characters and situations with Frank that will be just as entertaining and satisfying. The first season, Russo was one of my favorite characters—but I loved the way that they handled that death.
They had some people screaming at one point, but I think they told the extras at that point that like, a dog or something was thrown in front of the train.
She makes moves and says things impulsively, wounding or angering people she later needs to win back. Zoe, though — Zoe is all ruthless aspiration and a willingness to throw others over or step on their necks to get ahead. It’s the kind of ambition that’s all about context — it’s a quality that could be heroic or terrible depending on how its framed, particularly in a show like this, and one that audiences tend to find more troublesome in female characters. Zoe is uppity, she doesn’t wait her turn, she pushes for work in other reporters’ territory, she’s not thankful for what she’s given.
That idea appealed to Fincher, who had never previously worked in television and who not only executive produced House of Cards, but also directed the first two episodes. "We wanted it to feelabrupt and like it was the last thing you expected, for sure," said Willimon. Four months after the murders, Claire reverts to her maiden name and continues her progressive agenda. Annette, now strained from Bill, plots with Usher, no longer Vice President, to assassinate Claire.
TVLINE | Are you relieved the cat’s out of the bag and you can discuss the twist publicly? I’m talking about it but I’m not really talking about it, because it’s hard to know if you’re spoiling it for other people. Showrunners Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson, who took over from creator Beau Willimon after the fourth season, explained why Zoe is so integral to the series. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the premiere of her latest movie, Megan Leavey, in which Mara plays a Marine who bonds with a military combat dog in Iraq, the actress admitted she still hasn’t watched the fourth or fifth seasons of House of Cards.
Underwood now knows that despite their "fresh start," Barnes's in-depth knowledge of a number of details is a threat; he lures Barnes into running after him and waits for her to turn the corner. To Barnes's surprise, Underwood is there waiting for her, and he pushes the helpless Barnes in front of an oncoming train. The calculated locale of the murder as well as the deleted contact information ensure that the death appears to be an accident. 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.
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