Shortly after the traveler leaves, Dixon strong-arms him over a photocopier, nearly foiling his chance for promotion, before later promising Viktor that he will never let him leave the airport. When a Russian traveler creates a delicate situation when Customs attempts to remove the medicine he is carrying for his father, Dixon is annoyed when Viktor, whom he uses to persuade the man to leave the medicine behind, claims he misheard his Krakozhian dialect for 'father' as 'goat' so the traveler can leave with them. During this time, he also befriends some of Enrique's friends whom he plays poker with, including a cargo handler named Joe Mulroy, and an Indian janitor named Gupta Rajan, learning from the latter that he came to the United States in order to avoid being arrested for stabbing a corrupt police officer back in India in 1979. After meeting with Amelia once again and wanting to take her out for a meal, Viktor begins improving his English while attempting to find work, and is soon hired by an airport contractor and paid under the table after he impulsively remodeled a wall at a gate that was scheduled for future renovation. When Viktor is unable to secure himself some food after Dixon cuts him off from an avenue of money, his plight is noticed by a food service worker at the airport, Enrique Cruz, who offers him food in exchange for helping in learning more about an immigration officer that he is infatuated with, Dolores Torres. During his initial days at the terminal, Viktor encounters and helps out a flight attendant named Amelia Warren after she slips on a wet floor and breaks the heel of her shoes, who assumes he is a contractor of sorts from the pager he was given by Customs but is surprised by his respectful kindness to her. Dixon, who wants him to illegally attempt to enter the country so he can deport him, decides to try finding ways to make it difficult for him to survive in the terminal, slowly becoming obsessed in doing so. Customs branch, Viktor chooses not to break out of the terminal but wait patiently until he can legally enter the United States. Much to the frustration of Dixon, who is being considered for promotion to director of the U.S. Left with no other options, Viktor decides to settle in at a closed off section of the terminal, Gate 67, with only his luggage and a peanut can, soon making a home out of it.

Customs and Border Protection seizes his passport and airline ticket, whereupon its temporary director, Frank Dixon, makes him stay in the terminal he came through. Due to his inability to communicate in proper English, the airport's branch of the U.S. As a result, the United States no longer recognizes Krakozhia as a sovereign nation, and he is no longer permitted to either enter the country or return home as he is now considered to be stateless. Kennedy International Airport, only to find that his passport is suddenly no longer valid due to the sudden outbreak of a civil war in his homeland. Viktor Navorski, a traveler from Krakozhia, arrives at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time is unable to return to his native country due to a military coup. It is about a man who becomes trapped in New York's John F. The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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