Charlie Pearson
Background
Charlie Pearson is a personal assistant to Marilyn Fryser in Florida.
During the events of Empire of the Ants (1977) played by Edward Power
Charlie drives up to the Pelican Yacht Club and carries a bag of groceries onto Dan Stokely's boat and hands them to Crewman. Marilyn asks him what took him so long and tells him he is always on call. 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. Marilyn asks Charlie where Jim and Pete are and he tells her they probably left after they finished their work. Marilyn gets upset and tells him they are fired. Charlie walks up to Joe and tells him he knows he can't afford any of the land and Joe cheers him. Marilyn takes everyone on a tour of the area and stop for refreshments. While the rest of the group is continuing on with the tour, Velma notices Mary and Thomas are gone. Margaret screams and Charlie recognizes the dead body of Pete in the grass. Joe and Coreen decide to look for Mary and Thomas and tell the others they will meet them back at the boat. At the beach, the rest of 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. She goes into the beach house, but finds an Ant inside and she and Charlie run to catch up with the others. Charlie stops to help Marilyn who is stuck on a branch and is killed by the Ants, while she gets away.
