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But you know, I knew that I was going to be seeing everybody a few weeks later. It was definitely bittersweet, because I was bummed to leave, but I was also so excited about what we had done. She has always been one of my favorite actresses of all time so I think she’s been sort of gearing up to take over for a long time,” Mara told ET in 2018 about Wright taking over the lead role on the show. It’s a huge flaw, but all of the show’s characters have them, and Zoe may be many grades below Underwood in her machinations, but she has promise.
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When Russo decides to come clean about his role in Underwood's schemes, Frank kills Russo and stages his death as a suicide. With the special election in chaos, Underwood convinces the Vice President to step down and run for his old position of governor – leaving the Vice Presidency open to Underwood, as was his plan all along. Underwood is introduced to Missouri billionaire Raymond Tusk, Walker's friend and advisor. Tusk reveals that he has been influencing Walker's decisions all along and convinced him to cancel the original agreement, and explains he will influence Walker to nominate Underwood for vice president if he does a favor benefiting Tusk's interests.
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As a protective measure, Frank's aide Doug Stamper brings Rachel to a safe house while Frank lures Zoe to a Metro station and, unseen by witnesses or security cameras, pushes her in front of an oncoming train. Zoe's death compels Janine to abandon the investigation, but Lucas continues the search alone. He solicits the help of a hacker to retrieve Frank's text history. However, the hacker, Gavin Orsay, actually works for Doug and frames Lucas for cyberterrorism.
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She was 30 years old when the first episode aired on February 1, 2013. Although a shock for fans of the show, Mara’s exit from House of Cards did not surprise the actress. Her contract for the show was for 14 episodes, and she was promised a gory death for her character. Zoe’s apparently lack of a moral compass is troubling, but it seems part and parcel of her most maddening and compelling quality, which is her inability to think ahead, to look at things from a larger perspective. She starts sleeping with him because she thinks it’s a way to keep him close, then tries to cut the affair off when she thinks it may tarnish her reputation as a journalist.
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Claire shares her husband's cold-hearted, ruthless pragmatism and lust for power, and they frequently scheme together to ensure the success of each other's ventures. They both work with Remy Danton, a corporate lobbyist and former Underwood staffer, to secure funds for their operations and expand their influence. Even though I knew it was coming, it was still very shocking to watch it.
Frank and Claire travel to South Carolina for a primary, but a series of scandals causes Frank to narrowly lose the state to Dunbar. Frank discovers that Claire had been leaking information to Dunbar, and she threatens to continue unless he names her as his running mate. After Frank begins his vice presidential duties, Claire becomes close with the First Lady and learns Walker's marriage is strained.
"I got so many #wtf tweets. That was the most popular thing that people were saying," she said. "It was such a crazy thing to start the season off with, and we hoped it would be a big deal." The quest for power knows no nationality or political allegiance. Claire relocates to Dallas and runs for Congress in her home district.
There's no moments of him [Frank]—or at least I don't know, because I haven't seen the rest of the series. The reason I was so excited to be a part of it—and I wasn't bummed about it—was because I thought it was such a ballsy move to do it on the very first episode of the second season, and not do it halfway through, or [in] the last episode of the second season. Even if people have seen the original [House of Cards, in which the Zoe character meets a similar fate] even if they know what happens to the character in that one, you don't know when or if it will happen or in what way. So I thought Beau [Willimon, Cards's creator] did such a great job in coming up with that whole thing. And I know the way she goes was really thought out, and it took a very long time to decide what the best way would be. Despite only appearing for a handful of episodes in the series, Mara’s character remains one of her best-known roles.
Rachel, fearing potential harm and Doug's growing obsession with her, ambushes Doug and leaves him for dead, fleeing into hiding. In 2017, following allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey, Netflix terminated their relationship with the actor. The sixth and final season was produced and released in 2018 without his involvement. TVLINE | I’m worried Zoe’s death may be forgotten, and that Frank won’t be made to pay. I love the show and the questions of morals and who’s good and bad — none of that bothered me as a viewer.
She asks Doug to perpetrate the act, but he is reluctant, mainly desiring to protect Frank's legacy. Claire, through now-Speaker Cole, blackmails Justice Abruzzo into recusing himself in a case dealing with her power to launch nuclear weapons. Janine Skorsky and Doug continue to work to uncover the Underwoods, with Doug leaking contents of Frank's secret audio diary while Claire blames everything on Frank. Claire then uses the pretense of ICO obtaining a nuclear weapon to create a crisis, leading the Shepherds and Doug to accelerate their plans. After sending a copy of Frank's audio and letter opener to Claire, Doug visits her in the Oval Office where he admits that he killed Frank because he was undermining his own legacy.
The season ends with Claire ignoring Frank's call, then breaking the fourth wall to tell the viewers, "My turn." On Friday, Netflix will unveil its American remake of House of Cards, written by Beau Willimon (Farragut North) and directed by David Fincher (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). In a paradigm-shifting move, the streaming video giant Netflix will be releasing all 13 episodes of the show’s first season on the same day, a move that could sound a death knell for the traditional scheduling models of network television.
In response, the Underwoods set up extensive surveillance on all White House personnel. Eventually, the leaker makes a voice-modulated call to Hammerschmidt, implicating Doug in Zoe's murder. The Underwoods convince Doug to take the fall for killing Zoe, and the leaker is revealed to be Frank himself. The leaks are revealed to be part of Frank's master plan to resign the presidency to Claire, believing his thirst for power can be better achieved in the private sector, working alongside his wife's presidency. Frank, concerned about Secretary Durant's intention to testify at the impeachment hearing, pushes her down a short flight of stairs upon accepting her resignation, hospitalizing her.
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