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.
