Zoe Washington

Sophia Washington (sister)

Ark Society

Arthur Edwards (Colleague)

**Zoe Washington** (also known as *The Socialite*) is a target in The Ark Society mission in *HITMAN™ 2*.

## Background

*Twin sister to Sophia Washington, two young Providence operatives who serve as the leaders of The Ark Society.*

*The Washington twins are wealthy socialites and heirs to a vast 3rd generation fortune. Their grandfather, reverend Wendell Washington, established a mega church empire and their father, Byron Washington III, is President of the Pax Mundus Foundation: a hugely influential conservative think tank - widely regarded as the cradle of climate change denial.*

*A Princeton illumines, like her sister, they both seem like the embodiment of entitled "east coast elite." They are graceful creatures with a smug, superior demeanor and they share an effortless elegance and beauty that only generations of curated genes can produce. But Zoe and Sophia are also wild at heart. Their distant slave ancestors, brought from Benin in chains, practices Vodun and they like to say that something dark and feral runs in the Washington blood line.*

*In college, Zoe came under suspicion of running a coke ring at Princeton, and her reputation was almost ruined, but the late superstar lawyer Ken Morgan got her off the hook with his now legendary "affluenza defense." In the wake of the scandal, the twins disappeared for a while to travel the world, seeking thrills and adventure. And after a chance encounter with world-famous treasure hunter Blake Nathaniel in the Congo, the twins developed a taste for fortune hunting.*

*Soon after, Zoe and Sophia hired a band of trigger-happy ex-CICADA mercenaries and began to prowl the world's most remote regions in search for ancient relics, with little regard for the indigenous populations. Several human rights organizations suspect the twins of annihilating an entire indigenous Amazon tribe, while searching for the lost city of Z, but the evidence was inconclusive.*

*Recently, the twins have focused much of their energy on leading the Ark Society, while they were entrusted after Janus' forced retirement. Intel recovered when Mr. Grey raided the Providence archive in New York indicates that the twins are not only ruthless but endlessly entitled - fully expecting to one day make Partners.*
*Curiously, they seem to have been appointed directly by the Providence Partners without Janus' or the current Constant's consent.*

## Description

Like her sister, Zoe is arrogant, spoiled and class-focused, often sneering at those who come from middle or working class backgrounds, even founding Ark members such as Janus himself. She is on bad terms with Blake Nathaniel, and will insult him or argue with him if their paths cross. She is accompanied by an Elite Guard as she walks the grounds of the castle.

## Trivia

* Originally, the Washington twins' family background had 6 generations of wealth (their father Byron also had a "III" suffix at the end of his name), which might have been plausible if they were descended from such early African-American millionaires as Madam C.J. Walker, O.W. Gurley, Annie Malone, Robert Reed Church, William Leidesdorff or Mary Ellen Pleasant. However, within two months of Hitman 2's release, their backstory was amended to have them born into only 3 generations.
* Zoe was born around eight minutes older than Sophia, according to the castle staff talking near the catacombs.
* There will be 3 outcomes when Zoe interrogates 47 disguised as an Ark Initiate; if 47 answers all four questions correctly, she will promote 47 as an Ark Member, making him wear the disguise without raising suspicion, and if he answers all four questions wrongly, she will die being electrocuted with the ECT polygraph machine device, however if 47 gets a mix of right and wrong answers, then she wouldn't qualify him to be one member.
* At Princeton, she bullied a rival named Dierdre Fitzgerald to the brink of suicide.
* She is one of the three targets who can be killed with an Antique Cannon, the others being Silvio Caruso and Francesca De Santis.
* Throughout her routes inside the castle, there are a lot of window opportunities that she could be killed with suspended objects such as chandeliers and cages.
* When she talks to Blake Nathaniel, he will tell a joke to Zoe that her eyebrows grew longer, making her tell him to "cut the shit Blake".
* She will be an enforcer of the Butler disguise, together with Sophia Washington and the Constant himself.