Cliff Adams
Background
Cliff Adams is a DEA agent working undercover. He owns a company Cliff’s Air Service Hanger #69 based out of Miami Florida as his cover. Cliff has a letterman jacket from Sanford High class of 68 which he emblazoned with his plane service name and logo.
During the events of Cocaine Wars (1985) played by John Schneider
Cliff Adams lands his plane on Gonzalo Reyes’ airfield. He and his partner Rikki get out of the plane and Rikki is immediately confronted by Reyes. Reyes accuses Rikki of stealing portions of his drug shipments for the past six months. Cliff defends Rikki, but Rikki is killed by Wilhelm. Cliff has a meeting with Reyes who orders Cliff to kill Marcelo Villalba, a local reporter and presidential candidate. Cliff refuses and Reyes threatens to keep Cliff’s plane and not pay him the money he is owed. Bailey is negotiating a deal with Klausmann and Wilhelm when Cliff walks over. Cliff elbows Klausmann and tells him he knows it was him and Wilhelm who were ripping off Reyes and not Rikki. Cliff is dropped off by Bailey at the Urubamba Hotel and Bar. Cliff is about to be shot by Miguel when Pugg, the bartender, warns Cliff. Cliff smashes a tequila bottle on Miguel and throws him out the bar window. Janet Meade walks into the bar and her and Cliff reminisce. She asks Cliff if he could get an interview with Reyes for her, but Cliff says no. Cliff walks around town and witnesses a PSSP political rally where Marcelo is giving a speech to a large group of people carrying his signs and chanting. Police move in to shut the rally down and Cliff is forced to fight his way to safety. Cliff goes to Janet’s apartment to find her tending to Marcelo’s wounds, who she introduces to Cliff. When Cliff leaves Janet’s apartment, Wilhelm attempts to drive over Cliff with his vehicle. Wilhelm eventually crashes his vehicle into a building, causing it the car to explode on impact. Cliff has a meeting with Marcelo and Janet where he promises Marcelo a list of Reye’s drug partners in Miami. Cliff pays General M. Lujan a visit and offers to give him the same information he offered Marcelo. Cliff next sets up a meeting with Reyes to smooth things over. As Cliff and Janet are riding in her car, Klausmann stops them by gunpoint in from of the Urubamba bar. Cliff is ordered out of the vehicle, but he manages to take Klausmann’s weapon away from him when Janet drives her car at Klausmann. Before Cliff can shoot Klausmann, Pugg walks out his bar with his own weapon and tells Cliff no fighting outside his bar. Janet and Cliff continue on their way, however Klausmann chases after them in his vehicle. Klausmann attempts to ram Janet’s vehicle off the road, but ultimately dies when his vehicle plunges off a cliff. Cliff has his meeting with Reyes and Reyes agrees to pay Cliff 2 million dollars. Cliff returns to his hotel room to find it ransacked. He calls Lujan and demands 2.5 million for the information on Reyes in restitution for Lujan’s men destroying his place. While Cliff is at the local brothel a news report comes on the television with breaking news on a drug raid in Miami with Janet listed as the reporter who provided the information. Cliff goes to the location where he is supposed to meet Marcelo, however he is ambushed and they are both captured by Lujan’s men. Lujan has Cliff tortured while he demands the papers on Reyes. Cliff manages to wrestle Lujan’s gun away from him and orders Lujan to tell his men to free Marcelo. Cliff and Marcelo escape from Lujan’s prison, but before leaving, Cliff throws Lujan in front of a speeding taxi, killing Lujan. Cliff returns to the brothel with Marcelo and tells Bailey to pick up the package of evidence from the Hotel Bolivar for Marcelo. Cliff also tells Bailey he left him some money to get back to the United States. Cliff then calls Reyes to have a swap, the information for Janet. Cliff sneaks into Reyes’ camp and begins the slaughter of Reyes’ men. Oswaldo is killed when Cliff grabs him by gunpoint and orders him to call a group of men over to his location. Cliff then kills Oswaldo and the other men. Gomez is killed when Cliff pushes Gomez at Reyes, who shoots Gomez. Cliff and Reyes ultimately have a fist fight, with Cliff winning and shoving Reyes’ face into a bag of cocaine. Reyes’ dies when he stumbles into his outdoor lab and Cliff shoots the jar of chemicals, setting the lab and Reyes on fire. Cliff and Janet then leave in Cliff’s plane.
