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| - Zoey is an activist for the issues she believes are important. She had previously chained herself to a 100-year-old redwood stone, stolen a police horse at an anti-war rally, set a car on fire after the Guns 'n Roses 2009 concert, and stolen a whole van of white rabbits from a beauty company. However, she became a nuisance to Ted as a protestor against the destruction of The Arcadian, an old hotel in NYC which would be torn down to be replaced by the new Goliath National Bank office headquarters of Ted's design. Ted expresses interest in her at first and finds himself in a dilemma between work and love, which is increased when Barney has a poster of Ted placed on the façade of the Arcadian. This turns Zoey against Ted, and she puts him in her crosshairs. He tries to make ends meet by integrating the old façade into the new GNB headquarters, but when he shows her the design, he finds out that she is married. Realizing that his efforts were for Zoey rather than the Arcadian, he scraps his new design and reverts to the old ones, bringing his relationship with Zoey to hatred once more. (Architect of Destruction) To frustrate Ted further, Zoey enrolls in Ted's architecture class and lures all of his students to protest in favor of the preservation of the Arcadian, turning them against him. Ted loses control of his students to the degree that they don't even show up for class one day, but he regains control when he threatens to give an F to all who don't show up in class next day. (Canning Randy) Shortly after, at the autumn spectacular at the NYC Museum of National History, Ted runs into Zoey again, and her husband, George Van Smoot, also known as The Captain. Unlike Zoey, the Captain likes Ted and invites him on his boat. While at the spectacular, Zoey manages to manipulate Ted into saying that he dislikes GNB and their plans to scrap the Arcadian on tape. But The Captain finds out everything and offers Ted to find the tape and erase it, knowing how Zoey's temper tantrums can get in the way of people who are trying to do their jobs. Ted refuses, unaware that Zoey can overhear their conversation from the other side of the hall. She finds Ted and explains that she erased the tape (although it is later revealed in Landmarks that this was a lie), but will still be keeping him in her crosshairs starting on Monday. The two end up dancing. (Natural History)
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