Mitch Emhoff
Background
Mitch Emhoff is a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is married to Beth Emhoff and his daughter is Jory Emhoff and his stepson is Clark Morrow.
During the events of Contagion (2011) played by Matt Damon
On Day 2, Beth returns home where she is greeted by Clark and Mitch. On Day 3, Mitch goes to Clark's school to pick him up and the School Nurse walks Clark over to Mitch and tells Mitch, Clark was complaining about feeling warm. She tells Mitch she took Clark's temperature and it was over 100 degrees. On Day 4, Beth is starting to experience tunnel vision. She drops her coffee cup and then collapses and starts suffering from a seizure. Mitch takes Beth to the hospital. Dr. Arrington talks to Beth as ER Nurse 1 asks Mitch if Beth has any history of seizures. Beth starts to Code Blue and ER Nurse 2 tells Mitch he has to leave the room. Later Dr. Arrington along with a Social Worker tell Mitch that Beth died. Mitch at first refuses to believe it and then starts to demand to know how Beth died. As he is returning home, Mitch receives a call from Carrie Anne and he tells her to hang up and call 911. He gets home and Carrie Anne tells him Clark said his head hurt so she sent him to bed. Mitch runs upstairs and finds Clark dead. On Day 6, Helpful Doctor tells Jory, Mitch is in isolation, but she can talk to him with a phone. They talk and he reassures her that he is okay and he suggests she stay with her mother in Wisconsin, but she refuses. On Day 7, Dr. Erin Mears asks Mitch questions about Beth and when she mentions Beth had a long layover in Chicago, Mitch mentions that Beth once had a relationship with someone named Jon Neal and he figures out Beth was cheating on him. On Day 12, Mitch finds out he is immune to MEV-1, but Dr. Mears tells him Jory can still get sick due to her receiving part of her DNA from her mother. As Mitch and Jory are leaving the hospital, they pass a man demanding to know if the hospital has forsythia. Mitch is watching the news as a TV Anchor reports over 3000 cases of the MEV-1 virus in the area. He hears the doorbell ring and runs over and stops Jory from answering the door for Andrew. Andrew tries to leave some flowers as condolences for Beth and Clark, but Mitch tells him to take them with him. On Day 14, Funeral Director tells Mitch they can't take any of the MEV-1 bodies due to insurance issues with their employees and union. Mitch tells Beth's Mother the funeral home won't bury her. On Day 18, Mitch and Jory go to the grocery store and find it being looted. Mitch encounters a Sick Lady who coughs on him and asks him for help. They try and drive into Wisconsin, but are told by National Guardsman to go back the way they came. On Day 26, as Mitch is waiting in line for MRE's, a Man with Megaphone tells those in line they have exhausted their supply for the day and the crowd charges at the supply trucks. He hears gunshots from his neighbor's house and sees two masked men run out of the house. On Day 29, Mitch goes to various neighbor's houses to look for supplies. He finds most of his neighbors gone. He returns home and finds Jory making snow angels with Andrew and pulls Andrew away from Jory and tells him to go home. On Day 133, a lottery is held for the first vaccines and Mitch and he assures Jory the government won't run out of vaccines. He then goes to the mall. On Day 135, Mitch picks up Beth's camera and scrolls through photographs of her trip to China. A now vaccinated Andrew and Jory have their long delayed prom dance.