Ok so I have made a few more attempts at putting this in to the Ajax FAQ module, with no luck. Everything shows, but the check doesn't happen, and the question is sent regardless of the reCaptcha.
Like I said b4 the $zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_FAQ_CAPTCHA_CHECK'); inside of the class.faq_request.php kills the page with an error, so I tried moving the notify to the tpl_modules_faq_questions.php file. Top or bottom of the file this didn't work.

Also as this is an ajax pop-up how would I add it to the $event_array line in the class.google_recaptcha.php file?

Thanks for any ideas