Morehart is the tertiary antagonist of the 1996 film, Eraser. He is one of the co-conspirators (the other two are his boss Daniel Harper and U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin) behind a scandal to sell rail-guns on the black market.
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During the beginning of the film, U.S. Marshal John Kruger (the hero of the film) come across a plan formulated by Cyrez Corporation to sell rail-guns (created by Cyrez CEO William Donahue) to the black market, notably to an infamous Russian mafia boss named Sergei Ivanovich Petrofsky for $52 million. The FBI then turned over to Cyrez executive Lee Cullen for help, and she procured two discs containing the evidence behind the arms sale.
Following Donahue's suicide, Morehart takes over as the new head of Cyrez to continue on with the plan. Though Harper manages to steal one of the discs, Morehart soon learns that Cullen has got the other disc and tried to access it at her home and that she called a Washington Herald reporter named Claire Issacs about the scandal, so he arranged several hitmen to kill her. However, Kruger arrives to the rescue and takes Cullen to New York for safety. Upon calling Harper about the events, Morehart is ordered to have Issacs killed while Harper assigns Deguerin to kill Kruger and Cullen.
While having a ride at a limousine with Harper and Deguerin, Morehart exclaims that they can't cancel the incoming shipment at the Baltimore docks, to which Harper agrees with. Harper then demands Deguerin to finish the job or else he will be killed. Deguerin then suggest that they lay down a trap at Cyrez, because he deduces that Kruger and Cullen will head over there to access the disc that will expose the scandal.
To that end, Morehart had put up extra security at Cyrez to ensure that Kruger and Cullen can't get in to the system. However, this wasn't the case when one of the Cyrez employees detected that Kruger and Cullen have already started accessing at a different terminal inside the building, something which Morehart didn't expect. Deguerin then threatens to kill Morehart unless he can figure where they are, to which the Cyrez employee replies that he can scan the entire building and nail them if the computer they're using stays online.
As Deguerin start clearing up several rooms to pinpoint the duo's location, Morehart explains that two federal investigators have arrived and warned Deguerin that he can't be seen. Deguerin then orders Morehart to stall the investigators while one of his men to call in a helicopter to escape. Deguerin then escapes from the building, taking a captive Lee with him while Kruger is forced to escape. Fortunately, with the help for a mob witness Johnny Castleone (who Kruger saved earlier) and his cousin Tony Two-Toes (who owns the Baltimore docks) Kruger is able to stop the shipment and expose the presence of the rail-guns to the arriving authorities. As a result, Morehart is presumably taken into custody.
The next day, a hearing takes place, but Morehart, Harper, and Deguerin manage to escape charges of treason, since a conviction and sentence for them will not be possible under civil law jurisdiction. As they leave in their limousine, Kruger fakes his and Lee's deaths by blowing up a vehicle in front of a large crowd of witnesses, including Morehart himself. Deguerin believes the explosion had been set up by Harper, but Harper assumed vice versa. The conspirator soon realize that no one within their inner circle had actually arranged it. The limousine then suddenly comes to an abrupt halt on a train crossing, and the doors lock themselves shut. The driver, who turns out to be Johnny himself in disguise, exits from the limo and runs off from the area. Deguerin anxiously looks around before receiving a phone call from Kruger, stating that he is about to be "erased". Looking out of the window, Harper, Deguerin and Morehart see a freight train steadily approaching them, and Kruger and Johnny stand by to watch it smash into the limousine, finally killing Morehart and his conspirators for good.