ambassador to the United Nations by her husband - sabotages a press conference. Things kick off with Russian President Viktor Petrov over a treaty that was designed to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which is complicated when the First Lady - who is appointed U.S. He employs novel writer Tom Yates to write a book about his campaign to get everyone in the USA a job, America Works. Public scandal forces Garrett Walker to resign and Tusk to be arrested, leaving the way for Frank to become President at the Oval Office.īy this point, Frank's accumulated more enemies than there are cards in a deck, and is the most powerful man in the world by default. Claire publicly reveals she was raped by a general during college we're introduced to Frank's successor as House Whip, Jackie Sharp, who starts a sexual relationship with Remy Denton: Frank's former Chief of Staff who is now Raymond Tusk's little helper.Īs for new Chief of Staff Doug? He becomes obsessed with Rachel, who eventually hits him over the head with a rock. The journalists get close to the truth about Peter Russo's death, so Underwood pushes Zoe under a train.
Tusk hires Seth Grayson to look into the VP, but Seth later turns and becomes Underwood's Press Secretary. Zoe breaks things off with Frank when she and fellow journalists Lucas and Janine start to uncover the truth about Peter's death Claire's having an affair with photographer Adam Galloway and Frank sparks a feud with wealthy business man Raymond Tusk when President Garrett Walker nominates Underwood to be Vice President.įrank is the newly appointed Vice President of the US who wades war on associate Raymond Tusk over the President's relationship with the Chinese government, when Tusk speculated that Frank is purposely ruining the President's career. He throws a brick though his own window, goads Marty Spinella into punching him to get an education bill passed, and murders troubled congressman Peter Russo by gassing him to death in his own car - but not before Doug Stamper has set him up to fail with prostitute Rachel Posner.
The series sees Underwood do whatever it takes to get ahead. He's a US Congressman from South Carolina and Democratic majority whip, whose married to the CEO of an environmental organisation, Claire, and shagging/feeding stories to journalist Zoe Barnes on the side. Series one introduces us to Frank Underwood the scheming, devilish politician whose middle name may as well be Machiavellian. Here's a crash course on everything that's happened so far. As much as we're over-excited for House Of Cards series 5 to land on Netflix later this month, A LOT has happened since we were introduced to The Underwoods, and it's easy to forget what's actually gone on.