to work with Anton Meyer in Michigan. He hands Zoe his keys and she is then promoted to clinical lead. When Martin Ashford (Patrick Robinson) returns to the department, he makes a bad impression on Zoe and when she gets the flu, she becomes reluctant to leave him in charge. She is impressed, however, when she returns the following week and finds the ED running well. She becomes stuck between 'a rock and a hard place' when junior doctor, Lily Chao (Crystal Yu) makes a complaint against Ash and makes matters worse when trying to persuade Lily to not complain. Zoe is later seen helping Ash realize that his daughter, Ella Ashford (Tahirah Sharif) isn't the good girl he believes. Zoe also began a close friendship with senior nurse, Tess Bateman (Suzanne Packer), after assisting her through an abortion she had while in an affair with fellow nurse, Adrian Fletcher (Alex Walkinshaw). At that point, Zoe is the only other people that know who Fletch had an affair with aside from Fletch and Tess, themselves. Zoe later begins to panic when Tess tells her that she is planning on resigning so that she doesn't have to face Fletch again, but fortunately, Zoe manages to show her that she loves Holby City Hospital and everyone would miss her if she were to leave. Robyn Miller (Amanda Henderson)'s stepbrother and the new porter, Max Walker (Jamie Davis) later takes a shine to Zoe as she spends a day seeing what is like to be a porter. They later sleep together and begin a secret relationship. It is later shown that Zoe is struggling to manage running the ED, going to meetings with the head office staff and treat patients. This doesn't go unnoticed by the staff, but most of them brush it off. Zoe also becomes impressed with new registrars; Ethan Hardy (George Rainsford) and Caleb Knight (Richard Winsor) and nurse; Lofty Chiltern (Lee Mead)'s work and agrees for them all to stay on a permanent role. Zoe is next seen trying to save Dixie's girlfriend, Carol Walcott (Georgia MacKenzie) from dying of a head injury she failed to alert anyone off. Zoe is the one that is left to tell Dixie that Carol has died. Zoe later helps a veteran tell her daughter that she was in fact adopted. Zoe and staff nurse, Rita Freeman (Chloe Howman) treat a prisoner, who