Emesis Blue (2023) KILL COUNT

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Emesis Blue (2023) KILL COUNT is the three hundred and ninety-ninth video of The Kill Count.

Overview[]

Prologue[]

A tape is shown of several test trials for the Respawn Machine, a device created of Helix Technologies capable of bringing back humans after death. In each trial, the revived test subject begins displaying severe side effects, both mentally and physically; the first test subject exclaims "It's eternity in there!" and collapses, the second is missing his eyes, yet is apparently undisturbed, and the third says nothing but shakes and twitches rapidly. The fourth trial does not have a man in it, but an unknown darkness and tendrils creep across the walls and camera before parts of the shot appear to be blacked out.

On October 31, 1968, Fritz Ludwig, a Medic mercenary for Builders League United, or BLU, is sleeping in his office. He has a nightmare of a man dressed as a plague doctor entering his office. As the man approaches him, Fritz is awakened by the arrival of Jeremy, BLU's Scout, for his check-up. As Fritz checks on Jeremy, the TV in the background broadcasts news of the kidnapping of Jules Archibald, a BLU executive and governor of New Mexico. Jeremy tells Fritz he has been having nightmares recently and feels as though he's being watched. Fritz assures Jeremy that he's just being paranoid and gives him a bottle of Valium to take. As he offers to take Jeremy home, Jeremy complains about being laid off and warns Fritz not to let BLU push him around. As they leave, a box containing several of Fritz's VHS tapes of old German films falls, and Jeremy a tape of the 1931 film M, before leaving.

Chapter One: Graveyard Shift[]

Elsewhere in town, Jacques Morneau, BLU's former Spy now turned detective, is investigating Archibald's disappearance with BLU's Soldier Jane Doe. Morneau instructs Jane to stay in the car while he goes to meet with someone. In a nearby alley, Morneau confronts "Stalingrad", the Heavy of Reliable Excavation Demolition, or 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, the Undertaker, the same figure in Fritz's nightmare, appears and knocks Morneau out before taking the briefcase and fleeing in the stolen hearse.

Chapter Two: "Dinner's Ready!"[]

As Fritz and Jeremy drive to Jeremy's house, Jeremy, who previously had an accident with the Respawn Machine, asks Fritz about the previous accidents he's witnessed with it. Fritz explains that the Respawn Machine sometimes does not function properly, and the last accident he saw was so traumatic he refuses to go into detail. Arriving at Jeremy's house, Jeremy invites Fritz to come inside, but Fritz declines. Jeremy enters his house, unaware of the hearse parked outside. In his living room, Jeremy is watching the tape he took from Fritz's office when his phone rings. Answering it, he hears a recording of the conversation he had prior with Fritz, which disturbs him. Turning to his side, he sees his mother's decapitated head and a masked man in his house. Fritz decides to go back to Jeremy's house and sees that the door is unlocked. Entering Jeremy's house, he finds the living room in disarray and Jeremy gone. Going further inside, Fritz is taken aback by the sight of Jeremy's mother's dead body and the letter M drawn on the wall. When someone starts knocking on the door, Fritz faints. Fritz awakens in his office with his hands bloodied. As he washes his hands, an unknown figure slides an envelope underneath his door. The envelope consists of a key and several photos secretly taken of Jeremy. When Fritz's phone rings, he answers it and hears the conversation Jeremy had with him at his office, then hears Jeremy's muffled screaming. Looking up, he sees the words "CONAGHER SLAUGHTERHOUSE" written on the wall.

Meanwhile, Jane and Morneau discuss the contents of Heavy's briefcase and its possible connections to Archibald's kidnapping. Jane uses the radio to trick one of the police cars into pursuing the hearse. When the cop confronts the Undertaker, Jane and Morneau hear him scream, prompting Morneau and Jane to go to the crime scene.

Chapter Three: Intel Hell[]

Morneau, Jane, and several police officers 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.

Meanwhile, Fritz arrives at Conagher Slaughterhouse, and as he crosses the bridge to the entrance, it collapses behind him. With the entrance of the slaughterhouse closed off, Fritz climbs onto an elevated floor and goes inside. Once in, the entrance behind him closes, and a large, imposing figure exits from a nearby elevator and chases him. Fritz manages to evade his pursuer and escapes into the basement of the slaughterhouse. In the basement, he hears noises coming from a chained-up coffin. Using the key from the envelope, he unlocks the coffin and finds a bound Jeremy. After Fritz frees Jeremy, Jeremy suddenly attacks Fritz and acts unusually hostile towards him. As he runs away, he is shot and injured by a sentry gun built by Maynard Conagher, an Engineer. Maynard's brother, Zed, takes Jeremy away to torture 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.

In the basement, as Jeremy is being tortured, Fritz attempts to steal Maynard's Wrangler when the phone rings. Maynard answers it, believing it to be his younger brother calling from Dustbowl, only for an unknown voice to inform Maynard that Dustbowl is gone. Maynard asks about his brother's whereabouts, but the voice only instructs him to keep the briefcase secure. While Maynard plays the piano, Fritz sneaks up behind him and attempts to strangle him. Maynard overpowers Fritz and uses a shotgun to finish him off. As Maynard prepares to dispose of Fritz's body, Fritz suddenly comes back to life and kills Maynard. As Zed comes to check on the commotion, he is shot by Fritz using Maynard's Wrangler. Taking the briefcase, Fritz kills Zed as he dies laughing, but then learns that he was too late to save Jeremy, as he has been tortured to death.

Chapter Four: Crossroads[]

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.

Jane attempts to open the exit to save Morneau, but is unable to. He sees two people talking to each other, and as he approaches them, he sees the Creature, a deformed feral Scout, and hides. Using a crowbar, Jane breaks open a door to enter a nearby hallway, having a close encounter with the Creature. Traversing the hallway, Jane begins to experience a war flashback. Arriving at the other side, he notices RED's one-armed Demoman, "Cyclops", trapped behind a fence. Cyclops tells Jane about a cache of weapons located in a respawn locker upstairs and asks to be freed. Realizing that the two men he saw talking with each other earlier were actually him and Cyclops from the future, and that the Creature will start approaching them, Jane frees Cyclops and carries him upstairs. The Creature chases the two and grabs ahold of Jane's leg, so he plunges his crowbar into the Creature's head, seemingly killing it. Jane and Cyclops enter the respawn locker, which contains the corpses of several RED mercenaries, and arm themselves. As they do so, the RED mercenaries spring to life and attack them. Jane and Cyclops attempt to flee, but when the door closes behind them, they dispatch the undead creatures.

In the basement, Fritz is attacked by an undead RED Medic, which he electrocutes. He then sees a video of the RED Medic reviving the dead Stalingrad (who is actually the large man who chased him earlier), causing him to go berserk and kill the Medic. The undead Heavy approaches Fritz and begins to chase after him. As Jane and Cyclops mull over what to do, they hear Fritz call for help from behind a closed door. Stalingrad bursts through the door and attacks the two, pinning them under a statue. Fritz distracts Stalingrad long enough for Jane and Cyclops to free themselves, and the three enter the elevator and descend into the underground. Fritz begins to break down in tears, but after Jane and Cyclops offer him a cigarette to smoke, Fritz starts laughing menacingly.

Chapter Five: The Doorway[]

A flashback shows Archibald instructing Morneau to execute several BLU mercenaries for treason in exchange for a promotion. Morneau complies, asking for several benefits in return, including a new car and a business partner. In the present, 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.

The elevator descends into a prison, and Jane and Cyclops decide to investigate it while Fritz stays behind. Walking past the prison cells, Jane discovers Archibald alive in one of them. As Jane and Archibald talk, Cyclops notices a door with the word "BAR" written above it and enters it. Seeing a wheelchair move on its own at a nearby hallway, Jane goes to inspect it. Finding nothing, he comes back to discover Archibald and Cyclops missing. Cyclops, his missing eye inexplicably healed, orders a drink from the bartender, Dell Conagher. The two discuss the Respawn Machine, with Dell recalling how he once talked to his late grandfather while respawning, who told him how it feels like eternity in there.

Fritz wanders off and comes across the terminal for the Respawn Machine, which activates and discovers someone that can be respawned, along with a warning that their data is corrupted. Fritz tells the machine to respawn them anyway, thinking that he can get Jeremy back. However, the machine experiences a fatal error due to the corrupted data and by the time the door of the machine opens, there is nothing but a tidal wave of blood.

Jane enters a command room, where he overhears a pre-recorded telephone conversation between Archibald and Blutarch Mann, BLU's founder. Archibald tells Blutarch that they have 800,000 dead test subjects lying around, but they were able to find ten test subjects compatible with the Respawn Machine, although one of them kills themselves during the phone call. After he's done speaking with Blutarch, Archibald calls up Redmond Mann, RED's founder and Blutarch's twin brother, and begins to advertise the Respawn Machine. Jane is suddenly attacked by the Hunter, the now-deformed RED Sniper, and flees into a laboratory.

At the Butcher's lair, 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, which ignites some spilled oil. Morneau tries to flee, but is set on fire before falling into a sewer drain.

Fritz decides to enter the Respawn Machine, where he finds himself in Scout's house. Walking through the house, he notices a wall lit up and approaches it. Peering through a gap, he sees himself and Jeremy from earlier during Jeremy's checkup. As they leave, Fritz attempts to knock down the wall, causing the box of VHS tapes to fall down. When past Fritz and Jeremy exit, Fritz chases after them, only to come across a vision of himself standing over Jeremy's mother's dead body. When Fritz comes to, he sees the Butcher, alive and on fire, approaching him. Fritz flees into a nearby church and hides inside a confessional.

Jane finds himself in a cryogenics lab, where he discovers clones of himself in several tanks. He also discovers Cyclops' frozen corpse clutching a grenade. Noticing Stalingrad entering the lab, he arms the grenade and flees just as it explodes. The Hunter catches up to Jane and fires a rocket launcher at him. In the church, the Butcher finds Fritz and begins to burn his face when the two are knocked back by the explosion from the Hunter's rocket. Fritz manages to retrieve his gun and shoot the Butcher in the face, stunning them. Grabbing the Butcher's axe, he incapacitates them before finally decapitating them.

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.

Chapter Six: Katabasis[]

Fritz awakens in the execution room with Jane and a completly 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. Jane comes across a hole in the wall leading to a pit filled with thousands of dead test subjects, and jumps into it when someone begins trying to break into the room. Inside the pit, Jane finds a truck scooping up the dead bodies and jumps into its bed, where he is buried under dead bodies.

Jane is freed when the truck falls to its side and comes to a broken bridge separating him from a staircase. He prepares to rocket jump over the gap when Stalingrad appears and attacks him. Grabbing his rocket launcher, Jane fires it at Stalingrad to fling himself to the other side. As he's about to climb the stairs, he's shot in the back by someone and falls into the gap. His flask having caught the bullet, Jane comes to and enters a nearby sewer pipe, where he hears a creature roaring and flees. As he exits the sewer, he sees himself inside Morneau's car from earlier, revealing his present self to be the mysterious figure from before. When the car explodes, Jane suddenly finds himself outside of Conagher Slaughterhouse, now on fire. As he leaves, Stalingrad appears and chases after him, only to be killed by fallen debris.

Some time later, Jane is interrogated by Stemmons, a CIA agent who was tracking Archibald's actions. Stemmons instructs Jane not to tell anyone what he discovered at Conagher Slaughterhouse, and Jane complies.

Chapter Seven: Blood Brothers[]

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.

During the ensuing chaos, Jane helps Fritz retrieve the briefcase and escape. As Blutarch and his driver flee, they run a red light and crash into another car. Jane approaches the injured Mann and kills him. Fritz hijacks an ambulance and drives away, running down Redmond as he gloats over his dead brother. Fritz drives down a deserted road before coming across Dell Conagher's bar. Entering it, he's given the key to the restroom by Dell. In the restroom, Fritz takes his valium, which is revealed to be Emesis-branded diazepam. Archibald exits a stall and, after washing his hands, smiles at Fritz before leaving. As he leaves, Jeremy enters and greets Fritz, to the latter's happiness. It's then revealed that Fritz was killed after he fell asleep whilst driving and crashed the ambulance into a pole. The briefcase, now opened, is shown to contain a glowing red orb.

Deaths[]

Counted Deaths[]

6 Red Bodies - Bodies seen being dumped - 1 min in
"Stalingrad" - Shot in chest with revolver by Soldier - 8 mins in
Scout’s Mom - Decapitated - 12 mins in
Dr. Fritz Ludwig - Blasted in chest with shotgun by Maynard - 31 mins in
Maynard Conagher - Stabbed with broken bottle, skull crushed by Ludwig - 32 mins in
Zed Conagher - Shot by sentry gun, executed with shotgun - 34 mins in
Jeremy the Scout - Tortured with power drill by Zed - 34 mins in (Death confirmed)
Red Sniper - Leg blown off by rocket, bled out - 39 mins in
9 Bodies - Seen dead in trenches of war - 41 mins in
Detective Jacques Morneau - Immolated in vision of war - 41 mins in
War Vision Scout - Shot in head, transformed post-death - 41 mins in
Deformed Scout - Stabbed in eye with crowbar by Soldier - 44 mins in
Zombie Sniper - Bisected by door, executed with pistol - 46 mins in
Zombie Engineer - Electrocuted with overhead light - 47 mins in
Zombie Scout - Crushed by supply closet - 47 mins in
Zombie Heavy - Exploded with electricity and gasoline - 47 mins in
Zombie Soldier - Shot by "Cyclops" - 47 mins in
Red Medic - Tossed aside by resurrected “Stalingrad” - 50 mins in (Death seen)
Zombie Red Medic - Head crushed by resurrected "Stalingrad" - 50 mins in
3 Prisoners - Executed with revolver - 54 mins in
"The Tenth Class" - Killed self with gun - 1 hr 3 mins in (Death heard)
"Cyclops" - Frozen to death in cryo chamber - 1 hr 12 mins in (Body found)
"The Butcher" - Decapitated with fire axe by Ludwig - 1 hr 15 mins in
Jules Archibald - Shot in head by Spy - 1 hr 17 mins in
Zombie Red Sniper - Axed in chest, executed with shotgun - 1 hr 20 mins in
Dr. Fritz Ludwig - Loses at Russian Roulette - 1 hr 23 mins in
800,000 Test Subjects - Unsuccessfully respawned, dumped in pit - 1 hr 24 mins in
Time Loop Soldier - Blown up in car - 1 hr 30 mins in
Re-Animated "Stalingrad" - Crushed by collapsing building - 1 hr 32 mins in
Detective Jacques Morneau - Shot in head with revolver by Ludwig - 1 hr 38 mins in
Mann Bodyguard - Shot in throat with revolver by Ludwig - 1 hr 39 mins in
3 BLUTECH Goons - Blown up with grenade by Soldier - 1 hr 40 mins in
Blutarch's Chauffeur - Killed in car accident- 1 hr 40 mins in
Blutarch Mann - Shot in head 5x with revolver by Soldier - 1 hr 41 mins in
Police Officer #1 - Gunned down in shootout by Ludwig - 1 hr 41 mins in
Police Officer #2 - Gunned down in shootout by Ludwig - 1 hr 41 mins in
Redmond Mann - Run over with ambulance by Ludwig - 1 hr 42 mins in
Dr. Fritz Ludwig - Drowsy driving kills (Crashed into phone pole) - 1 hr 46 mins in

Non-counted Deaths[]

Dell Conagher - Possibly died at some point offscreen
Unnamed Police Officer - Possibly killed offscreen by the Undertaker, screams heard over radio. his body found later in a dumpster off-screen

Trivia[]

This is the first fully animated movie on the Kill Count.
- It is also the first SFM animation on the Kill Count.
- It is also the first fan piece of media since Social Mediasochist II.
  - It is also the first to not be based on a horror property.
This Kill Count has the most amount of deaths (with 800,054 kills) and the shortest kill average (at 8 milliseconds), overtaking Dude Bro Party Massacre III (with 4,295 kills and a kill average at 1.44 seconds), making Zoran sad. :(
- However, it allowed James's long personal nightmare to end, making James happy. :)
- This is also the first 5-6 digit kill count number.
This is the eighteenth Kill Count to have the set color changed.
This is the first Kill Count to be sponsored by Dr. Squatch since Black Friday.
This is the third Kill Count where there is no pie-chart. The first being The Look-See Season 1, and the second being Stranger Things 3.
During the Sponsor Segment, Zoran (dressed up as the Doctor) is seen doing a Kill Count on Doctor Who (which is non-struck due to it being distributed by the BBC).
- Before the Kill Count came out, a short on TikTok was released with Zoran in the Kill Count set with Doctor Who props on the Set-Dec, leading people to believe that a Doctor Who Kill Count is coming, but James confirmed on Twitter that it will never happen & was meant for a joke.
This is the first Zombie kill count since The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals to not have a Coolest Corpse handed out.
"Emesis Blue" can be viewed here.
This kill count's estimate is actually shown to be 800,050 kills, as James had counted The War-Vision Detective (who died in a fire, but was an illusion), War-Vision Scout (Who was actually an infected, Deformed Scout), Deformed Scout (who had survived getting stabbed by the crowbar. It is proven when his body was absent where Soldier last saw him, and later on, Attacks Stalingrad from getting into the elevator. Though it's possibly Deformed Scout was killed by Stalingrad, but nothing is confirmed) and Time-Loop Soldier (which was an actual illusion, only the explosion came from Conagher Slaughterhouse which snapped Current Soldier back to reality) by mistake.