Part 1 is the first of the two chapters of Teardown, being released on 29 October 2020 (An extra mission was released in 0.7, 11 May 2021). It is succeeded by Part 2.
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Löckelle Teardown Services is in poor financial condition due to a decline in the demolition industry. Tracy, the player's mother, desperate for funds, contacts the owner of Evertides Mall, Gordon Woo. Woo requests that the Löckelle Municipality Folk Museum be destroyed to make space for a new wing of the mall.
As the museum was destroyed illegally, the local head of the police, Parisa Terdiman, is asked to investigate the incident, which leads to the player. The player is then asked to partake in investigations into tax fraud by Lawrence Lee Junior. Through breaking into Lee Chemicals, Lee Junior's inhabited Chemical Plant, multiple times to aid in Parisa's investigations, Lee Junior himself contacts you to revenge who he thinks is breaking into his Chemical Plant, namely Gordon Woo. The player is sent to Gordon Woo's private mansion to steal paintings.
This ignites a sort of war between them: Each time the player does one of the jobs for one of them, the other one demands an even bigger and more damaging job. Even though some jobs are relatively tame, like beating the track record in the race track in Gordon's Mansion or wrecking a tower in Lee Chemicals that although has no functional use, is a big family monument, others quickly escalate to cause more and more damage to each other.
During this escapade, Gillian Johnson gets introduced, acting as a worker for an insurance company that Gordon Woo is insured by. Because of Gordon Woo's legal trickery to earn more money through this insurance company, Gillian orders the player to destroy Woo's insurance papers. Woo, now without insurance, thinks it's all because of Lee, and in a fit of rage orders the player to bomb the dam near Lee Chemicals to flood the place and close it down for good. After one final mission from Parisa Terdiman to collect accounting documents, Lee Junior is arrested and put into jail, ending the rivalry for at least a while.
Parisa discovered through the investigation of Lee that BlueTide, a fictional company producing an addictive energy drink with the same name, is also doing less than legal activites, but forgets about it in favor of finishing the investigation about Lee's tax fraud. This plot is later picked up in Part Two.
Sprinkled throughout Part One are also messages from Tracy which show that the clients pay well and that they can slowly afford to upgrade their way of living, and a construction worker named Anton Wolfe, who is not connected to any of this and just asks for your help in multiple side missions.
