A wealthy CEO hires McGraw to find his runaway wife. He finds her but is disturbed by her condition, so he won't tell her husband where. McGraw demands answers from the CEO and his executive assistant about their relationships to the wife.
Part 1 focuses on the first chakra Muladhara, which is where we find balance in terms of survival. It's about getting back to nature and having our most basic physical needs met, which is why this is commonly referred to as the root chakra.
In Las Vegas, a supposed Baron has been on a very suspiciously long winning streak at the dice tables, so the manager calls in McGraw to figure out how he's doing it.
McGraw interrupts a camping vacation to help out a fight manager friend with a fighter who's up for an important match, but whose sullen attitude indicates he's ready to take a dive.
Bad luck for McGraw. Not only does he break down in the desert and finds himself stranded in the small town of Calidad but, to his dismay, he also finds out his hotel there is the sheriff's office jail. McGraw is indeed accused of murdering a café waitress.
In Havana, McGraw meets a strange English girl who was a survivor of the sinking of an ocean liner, but now has lost her memory. She's also mixed up with some local thugs and a mysterious stalker.
A manicurist sees an Albert Anastasia-type murder and goes into hiding. McGraw links the case to another killing, figuring both were revenge for being in death sentence case jurors. The witness must be used as bait to lure the murderer out.
McGraw is asked to investigate a stick up man that confesses to the police about robbing a business man, trouble is, the crime never took place and to complicate things, a woman who might hold the answers is murdered.
