But things go another way, and so Frank covertly launches a bitter and complicated revenge scenario, aided by his chief of staff (Michael Kelly), his ice - queen wife (Robin Wright), a party - boy congressman from Pennsylvania (Corey Stoll), and, naturally,
a brash young reporter, Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara), who works at a Washington Post-like newspaper and who would do anything to cover «what's behind the veil» of power in the Capitol hallways and get herself off what she erroneously calls the «Fairfax County Council» beat.