Thereafter Zoey takes up Bill's principle of 'We look after our own'. While not altogether swayed, she finally understands how much Bill cared for her and the others through the act of sacrificing his life to give them a chance to escape from a land overrun with Infected. However, Francis has the insight to explain to Zoey that Bill does these things for the right reasons: the welfare and survival of the four of them. She accuses Bill of being capable of cold-heartedly leaving his companions in the lurch if it suited his selfish interests, a charge that taciturn Bill is unable to refute in words. She questions his motives and harbors doubts about the trust she has placed in him. However, for a while before this event, Zoey is estranged from Bill when she is shocked by how easily he left the Doctor, Jeff, and Annie to die back at Millhaven. The Sacrifice comic exposes the underlying strength of Zoey and Bill's relationship when he willingly sacrifices himself to keep Zoey and the other Survivors safe. She also seems to reciprocate by caring about his well-being at all times. Bill generally seems to be slightly more emotional when Zoey dies compared to the others. When the tragedy of her parents' deaths is revealed, she hugs him for comfort and later she is seen resting on his shoulder in the evacuation vehicle. Bill In many ways, Zoey and Bill have a father-daughter relationship.Overall, Zoey is perhaps treated the kindest by the other Survivors. WARNING: The following is conjecture and may not be considered canon.

Weeks later, Zoey was shocked to discover that her father may have been a Carrier and the mercy-killing could have been in vain. She then reached for her father's gun and after a heart breaking 'I love you dad', she pulled the trigger.

His last request was for Zoey to kill him before he became an Infected. Fortunately before she could reach Zoey, Wade shot her in the back of the head. Zoey came back to witness her father being mauled by her mother, who then noticed her daughter's presence and quickly lunged at her. Holding Carolyn in his arms, Wade commanded Zoey to call for an ambulance. Her father was able to kill the Infected but not before it savaged Zoey's mother. The argument was short lived however when an Infected suddenly found his way into their living room and attacked Zoey's mother, Carolyn. These actions caused tension between her divorced parents one night and started a heated argument between the two regarding their daughter's future. Her father, Wade, wished for her to become a police officer like himself, often taking her to shooting ranges to get her into some practice. She got her love for this film genre from her father who introduced her to movies featuring zombies, slasher murderers and extraterrestrials at a young age. Zoey was once a student at Aldrich in Philadelphia under a scholarship to become a filmmaker but instead of attending classes, she spent her time watching horror films and justified this to her upset mother as doing some 'research'. Now that the planet's overrun with murderous zombies, and all of her professors are dead, Zoey at least has the cold comfort that she's been studying up on the right subject after all. After spending her first semester holed up in a dorm room watching old horror movies, Zoey was given a choice: Stop fooling around and get her grades up, or drop out.

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