He works for Horne’s Department store as a general manager. Emory recruits female employees for work at One-Eyed Jacks through the perfume counter. Laura Palmer and Ronette Pulaski were recruited in this manner. His operation is discovered by Audrey Horne when she starts working at the department store. He tells Blackie who Audrey really is when the young girl is working undercover at the brothel and teams up with the madam for the blackmail of Ben Horne. Jean Renault eventually kills Emory during the kidnapping scheme.