Murphy is living a quiet life of semi-retirement with his wife, Kai, and their newly adopted baby in their home outside Fort Smith, Arkansas. Kai, part Navajo, teaches on the reservation in the Indian Nation in the Ozarks. Murphy is called back into service when William Burke, special advisor to President Arthur, shows up in Fort Smith with an assignment. New York Governor Grover Cleveland is running for president and Arthur wants Murphy to head up Cleveland's security detail for a six-week tour. Murphy has no choice but to accept the assignment. While Murphy travels to New York, Kai visits Murphy's parents at their farm in Tennessee. They grow corn and use it to make bourbon whiskey that is sold to a bottling company. After one hundred barrels are sold to the bottling company, two of the men hired to do labor in the warehouse, Tom Holland and John Moats, enter the house and demand money from Murphy's father. He gives them twenty thousand dollars, but before they leave, Moats has ideas about Kai. Murphy's father intercepts Moats and is shot and killed.