Detective Jacque Morneau, AKA "The Smoker" is a protagonist-turned-main antagonist of Emesis Blue.
He is voiced by Chad Payne who also voiced Dr. Fritz Ludwig, The Hunter, Redmond Mann, Cyclops, Maynard Conagher, Agent Stemmons, and Stalingrad in the same film.
Biography[]
A former spy for Builder's League United (BLU), Morneau was a private detective and the right-hand man of Governor Jules Archibald. A flashback from the film shows he was complicit in Archibald's corrupt deeds, executing a handful of BLU mercenaries for supposed "treason" in exchange for a promotion. Morneau complies, asking for several benefits in return, including a new car and a business partner. Morneau receives the latter in the form of a washed up war veteran Jane Doe.
After Archibald goes missing on Halloween 1968, Morneau and Doe quickly begin an investigation to find him. In an alleyway, Morneau confronts their first lead, "Stalingrad", the Heavy of Reliable Excavation Demolition (RED), BLU's rival company. He questions the Russian man about Archibald's disappearance, but he claims to know nothing. When Morneau asks about the briefcase Stalingrad is carrying, he attacks Morneau. Meanwhile, Jane listens to police radio chatter about a stolen hearse. As he goes out to smoke, he notices the hearse parked next to him. Jane's attention is drawn to the fight happening in the alley, where he intervenes and shoots Stalingrad dead. Angered, Morneau has Jane fetch his camera. While inspecting the briefcase, a man dressed as a plague doctor appears and knocks Morneau out before taking the briefcase and fleeing in the stolen hearse.
Jane and Morneau discuss the contents of Heavy's briefcase and its possible connections to Archibald's kidnapping. Jane uses a radio to tell a police officer to pursue the hearse. When the cop confronts the Undertaker, Jane and Morneau hear him scream, prompting Morneau and Jane to go to the crime scene. Morneau, Jane, and several police officers then investigate the scene at Jeremy's house. Interviewing an injured police officer, the cop tells Morneau that he saw the culprit drive away in an ambulance. Finding a bloodied hacksaw, Morneau and Jane decide to go to Fritz's office. When they arrive, they begin to investigate it. When Fritz's phone rings, Jane answers it, and a recording of Fritz asks him who he is. Believing this to be the actual Fritz, Jane threatens to find and kill him.
Morneau and Jane arrive at Conagher Slaughterhouse. Noticing the collapsed bridge, Morneau initially wants to call for backup, but Jane instead retrieves a rocket launcher from the trunk of Morneau's car, where he plans to rocket jump over the moat. Annoyed, Morneau knocks the rocket launcher out of Jane's hands, causing a stray rocket to destroy his car. When the two are shot at, Jane grabs Morneau and jumps into the moat. Inside the slaughterhouse's sewers, Morneau complains about Jane's actions interfering with his investigation, and threatens to shoot Jane unless he leaves. Jane taunts Morneau when the two hear something coming from further into the sewer. Jane goes to investigate and is shot at by RED's Sniper. Tricking the Sniper into shooting his bulletproof vest, Jane fires a rocket at him, the explosion severing his leg. As the two leave the Sniper to bleed out, Jane is confronted by the Butcher, a Pyro donning a white mask, who forces him to disarm. Morneau confronts the Butcher, who shoots him in the leg, and Jane flees, leaving Morneau behind. As an emergency exit closes behind Jane, the Butcher goes to apprehend Morneau.
Morneau is woken up tied to a chair in the Butcher's lair. As he threatens his apprehender, the Butcher quietly removes their mask, showing their burnt, disfigured face. Later, the Butcher receives a phone call from the Hunter about Jane. This gives Morneau enough time to cloak, free himself, and knock the Butcher out before shooting him dead. As Morneau leaves, he flicks his cigarette onto the ground, invertedly igniting some spilled oil. Morneau tries to flee, but is set on fire before falling into a sewer drain. In another part of the basement, Archibald is speaking with someone on a payphone, revealing that he faked his death in order to escape charges regarding the construction and testing of the Respawn Machine.
As he leaves, he is confronted by the heavily burned Morneau. Archibald pleads for mercy and attempts to reason with him to no avail, as the enraged Spy shoots him dead. Jane flees into a nearby room, which plays a film made by Archibald to BLU's respawning mercenaries. He also discovers several photos from testing of the Respawn Machine, including one of Archibald seemingly executing Jane. The Hunter confronts Jane and prepares to kill him, only for Fritz to appear and incapacitate him. The Hunter accepts his death as Jane finishes him off. Before the two can leave, they are apprehended by Morneau.
Fritz awakens in the execution room with Jane and a completely insane Morneau, now going by "the Smoker", whom interrogates Fritz about the briefcase, and falsely accuses him of killing Archibald and Jeremy. Fritz claims to not know anything about the briefcase. Frustrated, the Smoker forces the three of them to play Russian roulette. Jane and the Smoker are safe, but Fritz ends up shooting himself. The Smoker takes the briefcase and allows Jane to leave before cloaking.
Human Death[]
Human Morneau being toasted
While Jane Doe is wandering around behind the slaughterhouse seeing that there is an whole entire vision of a trench battle during the gravel war going on and sees Ludwig and the Undertaker playing a game of chess the the Detective finds Jane and confronts him before he gets immolated and burned by a pyro and dies over a fire
Disfigured Death[]
disfigured Morneau's death
Archibald's funeral is held and attended by both Mann brothers, Jane, and Morneau, the latter now sporting a white mask and a voice changer. Morneau delivers a eulogy, where he claims that Archibald was killed in a botched rescue attempt. When Jane is brought up to explain what happened, rather than follow the script given to him, he laughs.
Annoyed, Morneau claims that Archibald was murdered by Fritz, playing him up as a mentally unstable drug addict who also kidnapped Jeremy and killed Jeremy's mother before taking his own life. As Morneau explains that he will be BLU's new Chairman of the Board, Jane prepares to kill the both of them with a grenade when Fritz suddenly bursts from Archibald's coffin and shoots Morneau dead.