Lucas Goodwin uses the cover of the crowd to get near Frank, shooting him in the liver before being shot by a Secret Service agent and friend of Underwood, Edward Meechum. Weeks later, Frank Underwood is speaking to an angry crowd as part of his own primary campaign. He tries to convince her to investigate Zoe Barnes and Peter Russo, but Dunbar refuses to get involved, more focused on winning her primary campaign. However, he still is focused on exposing Underwood, prompting him to seek a private audience with Heather Dunbar, who was seeking the Democratic nomination for a presidential campaign, against Underwood. Two years after his imprisonment, Lucas Goodwin was released into witness protection. While Skorsky outright refused to participate, Hammerschmidt said he would investigate, but specified that he would treat it as any other investigation, regardless of his personal involvement. Initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, Goodwin attempted to convince Tom Hammerschmidt and Janine Skorsky to carry on the investigation, but without any of the involved parties coming forward, they have no evidence.
Made aware of his attempts by informants in the FBI, Doug Stamper coordinates a successful attempt at entrapment, resulting in Goodwin’s arrest for cyberterrorism. After Her Death – Goodwin & HammerschmidtĪfter her death, her boyfriend Lucas Goodwin attempted to pick up the pieces of the Barnes’ investigation. The well-thought place of murder, combined with the deletion of contact information from her phone, makes it seem as though her death was an accident. Keenly aware that her knowledge represents a threat to his burgeoning political empire, he gets her to follow him behind a barrier, and shoves her in front of an oncoming train. He convinces her that they need to create a “fresh start,” prompting her to delete his contact information from her phone, and all previous text messages.ĭespite the promise of trust, Barnes continues to ask about Russo, and reveals she knows more about Frank Underwood’s Chief of Staff Doug Stamper than he would like. Although the meeting was in a more public place, it took place at night and Frank Underwood was cautious to keep himself hidden from security cameras. Underwood, afraid of how much Zoe Barnes might know, schedules another meeting with her, at a DC metro station. Barnes walked away from the meeting beginning to doubt her suspicions, and isolates herself from her boyfriend and her coworkers at Slugline. While Underwood admits to being involved with covering up the DUI, he denies any further involvement in the Russo tragedy, and persuades Barnes to work with him again, now that he is in an even more powerful position. Zoe Barnes goes to Frank Underwood, now the Vice President, looking for more details.
What Barnes finds out is that Russo was found in the passenger side of the car, despite the news reporting that he had killed himself via carbon monoxide poisoning, alone. Russo, indebted to Frank Underwood for helping him cover up a DUI and escapade with a prostitute, is known to have committed suicide. While working at Slugline, Barnes, working with a former colleague, Janine Skorsky from the Herald, begins to investigate the death of Peter Russo, a member of the House of Representatives. Eventually, this led to her leaving for an online newspaper, Slugline, which in the show fills a role similar to a hybrid between the real-world Huffington Post and TMZ. After sniping the position as White House Correspondent, Barnes continued to upset things at the Herald, creating tension between herself and her editor Tom Hammerschmidt. Barnes soon began to upset coworkers with her new-found confidence. He would leak her information from inside the Capitol, and she would run stories to help him further his own political game. This glance from Underwood toward Zoe Barnes’ backside is what started it allīarnes was informed about the photo, and went to Underwood’s house, persuading him to work with her, to their mutual benefit. Underwood, then Whip of the Democrats, who had House majority, was caught by tabloid photographer sneaking a glance at the back of Barnes, in her tight-fitting white dress.
On a date with a congressional staff aide, Zoe Barnes attended the same opera as main character Frank Underwood. Barnes therefore directed all of her charm (read: sexual energy) and social skills toward getting sources from within the political establishment in Washington. Ambitious but young, the reporter for the Washington Herald was dissatisfied with the banality of the stories about which she was writing. Zoe Barnes was introduced to the show in the first episode.
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