Adkins was first seen on a television screen as John McClane was asking an information booth attendant where the public telephones were located, at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. Following a weather report for the DC Metro area, the newscast was thrown to him, where he was reporting live from Escalon Airport in the Republic of Val Verde. He and a number of other press and news media personnel were awaiting the arrival of the recently deposed dictator General Ramon Esperanza, for his extradition to the United States and eventual arrival at Dulles.