Joe Morrison
Background
Joseph "Joe" Morrison is a resident of Florida. He had a job that paid 30 thousand a year, has a two bedroom condominium, a ten thousand dollar sports car is divorced and has one four year old child.
During the events of Empire of the Ants (1977) played by John David Carson
Joe pulls up in his sports car and takes Marilyn, Charlie Pearson and the customers arrive at Dreamland Shores and mingle and eat hors d'oeuvres. 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. Coreen Bradford and Joe go for a walk and they talk about themselves. While the rest of the group is continuing on with the tour, Velma Thompson notices Mary Lawson and Thomas Lawson are gone. Margaret Ellis 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. They find the bloody clothes of Thomas and Mary and are then chased by the Dreamland Shores Ants. At the beach, the group makes a campfire and they wonder what is happening. The next morning, it starts to rain, putting out their fire. Dan Stokely 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. Joe tries to make a call to John Amstead at the State Attorney's Office, but is told the phone call can't be made. Anson Parker 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. Joe and Coreen are eventually caught and brought to the others in the sugar refinery. Marilyn is put inside of the booth and sprayed with the Queen Ant 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 and runs to a fuel truck and opens the fuel spigot and drives towards the sugar factory. Joe jumps out of the fuel truck as it is about to hit the warehouse with all of the Ants and the Ants catch on fire and burn. Dan, Coreen and Margaret make it to the river and a boat shortly before Joe does and they all speed away in the boat.
