Dan Stokely
Background
Dan stokely is a charter boat captain in Fort Pierce, Florida.
During the events of Empire of the Ants (1977) played by Robert Lansing
Charlie Pearson drives up to the Pelican Yacht Club and carries a bag of groceries onto Dan's boat and hands them to Crewman. Marilyn Fryser tells Dan to keep the boat from bobbing too much and brings up how she paid him a lot of money to charter his boat to take her potential clients to her land development. Harry Thompson and Velma Thompson are the first customers to arrive. Larry Graham and Christine Graham arrive next followed by Coreen Bradford. Joe Morrison pulls up in his sports car and Thomas Lawson and Mary Lawson are dropped off by a bus. The last to arrive is Margaret Ellis. Marilyn introduces everyone to each other and the boat leaves the dock. Marilyn, Charlie and the customers arrive at Dreamland Shores and mingle and eat hors d'oeuvres. Margaret asks Dan his opinion on the land and he tells her he would think twice about buying it even if they struck oil. Later, at the beach, the group arrive in time to see the Dreamland Shores Ants walking on the dock heading towards the boat. Dan jumps into the water and swims to his boat and helps Crewman fight off the Ants that have climbed aboard. An Ant kills Crewman and Dan sets his boat on fire and swims back to shore. The group makes a campfire and they wonder what is happening. The next morning, it starts to rain, putting out their fire. Dan asks Charlie where the workers came from and Charlie tells everyone the workers had a boat which they left at a nearby river. Marilyn wants to stay while the others leave to try and get the boat. They reach the boat and Dan starts to row it towards the nearest town. Larry lies and tells the others Christine ran off. They come to a fork in the river and Larry demands they take the left path. While Dan and Joe are trying to move a fallen tree blocking their path, the boat is attacked by the Ants. They manage to get away and take the other path in the river. They are attacked by the Ants again and the boat is overturned. Larry is killed while the others make it to shore.
Dan figures out the Ants are herding them somewhere. They come across Sam Russell and Phoebe Russell and tell them about the Ants. As Phoebe is whispering to Coreen, Sam yells at her to call the sheriff. They are picked up by Sheriff Art Kincade, who drives them past the sugar refinery and then into the town of Sunland. Anson Parker is on the phone with Harrison demanding a shipment of sugar. Anson directs Dan to the location of a car rental place and he and Joe go to it. At the car rental business, Ginny tells them to come back tomorrow after she finds out they don't have drivers license and are not locals. Dan and Joe see Sheriff Kincade and a deputy walking around and realize the Sheriff lied. They steal a car and drive away with Marilyn, Margaret and Coreen. Dan finds some road flares in the car and keeps them. They come across a road block and Joe tries to drive away, but crashes the car into a canal. They are pulled out and Joe and Coreen run away after Dan is knocked unconscious after hitting a deputy. Sheriff Kincade has Marilyn, Margaret and Dan brought to the sugar refinery. Sheriff Kincade takes them to a booth with the Queen Ant inside and explains how the Ants need the people and the people are turned into slaves by a pheromone released by the Queen. A group of people are placed one by one into the booth including, Anson, Sam and Phoebe and Ginny and then sprayed with the pheromone. Joe and Coreen are eventually caught and brought to the others. Marilyn is put inside of the booth and sprayed with the pheromone. After exiting the booth, she tells the others they must obey the Ants. Dan goes next and lights a flare and the Queen starts to shriek as he sets her on fire, causing the other Ants to attack everyone. Joe tells Dan to take the others to the river. Dan, Coreen and Margaret make it to the river and a boat shortly before Joe does and they all speed away in the boat.
