hopes that if he ends up in the ED, he may be able to see his mother. It later turns out he has a serious condition and mother and son are eventually reunited. Zoe begins to pester the hospital's new CEO, Guy Self (John Michie) for a new consultant as they have still been in need of a replacement for Dylan. They later plan to draw up a shortlist but, in the week leading up to this Guy hires the hospital's former cardiothoracic surgeon, Connie Beauchamp (Amanda Mealing), who has retrained as an emergency department consultant. Zoe is unaware of this and immediately clashes with her upon her arrival and becomes infuriated when she discovers that she will be sharing an office with Connie. Zoe, Connie and Lily later join to help a father and his daughter, who has ADHD after the father is impaled with a metal stick and the daughter disappears. However, it isn't long until Zoe is arguing again with Connie over how the ED should be run. Zoe later works with staff nurse Robyn Miller (Amanda Henderson) after an elderly women arrives in the ED after sniffing cocaine. Connie later annoys both Zoe and Ash when she starts playing games with each of them, pretending to agree with both of them. However, they both discover what Connie has been doing and confront her. Zoe is made very annoyed by Connie, when she voices her opinions over the ED to Guy. Weeks later, a horrific helicopter accident involving a family results in Zoe attending the scene of the accident. After the area is deemed unsafe, Zoe is left trapped in the helicopter with one of the patients. When both are rescued, Zoe's patient dies when Zoe defends the ED to the press and media, who are present due to the events that occurred last week, involving an increase of patients arriving at the ED. Zoe then realises that the role of clinical lead is not something she enjoys, as it involves constant meetings and paperwork and therefore less time with patients, which is what she wants to do. As a result, in the aftermath of the death of her patient, she steps down from the role of clinical lead. The role of clinical lead is given to Connie, which leaves her delighted. Guy questions Zoe's future in the department, to which Connie tells Guy that when she