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We'll know here in a couple hours if we've made damn

liquor or buttermilk.

This time on "Moonshiners"--

The market is totally flooded with cheap liquor.

There's no way we can sell ours.

It ain't horrible.

If we can't figure out a way to compete with this guy,

we're dead in the water. - You're full of [bleep].

That's terrible.

So you're needing some liquor, are you?

- Yeah. - This first time buyer,

you know, we really don't know him that well.

I'd hate to show up 100 gallons and have me set up

or something, you know.

What's going on? Y'all broke down?

There's a vehicle, like, stopping in the road,

and it's, like, blinking the lights at me.

- Something right here. - Is that our stash house?

- What? - God dang it, man.

- God dang. - Tim.

The cops will be here in a minute.

[bleep].

This is how we make the moonshine.

How many more runs do you reckon we're gonna have

to make? - Not many more.

I'll tell you, we got a house full now.

In Culpeper County, Virginia, after returning to

his outlaw roots to chase bigger profits

from tax free liquor...

How much time you got to get that 1,000 gallon?

Well, I got about four weeks.

...Tim Smith ran into resistance from a local preacher.

That stuff is from the devil, man.

Hell bent on driving moonshine out of the region.

- Like, somebody done shot it. - Somebody wrote

something on it. - That's a Bible verse.

Now dodging the preacher and the law,

Tim and his best friend Tickle stock their stash house

in advance of their first-ever tariff-free deal

with a Canadian buyer.

Well, I mean, a thousand gallons is a whole

lot of liquor.

I know, but normally, you know, I don't really want

to stash all this much together.

You know, you just kind of want to settle it as you make it.

You know, right now, all we're gonna do is get

the moonshine to the stash house.

I think we're on probably about the ninth or tenth load.

We may need one more load to fill it up.

You know, it's been a long journey, just to get to

this point.

You know, I'll just be glad when we get done.

Well, yeah.

Tickle, I keep seeing a car back there, man.

A truck or something.

Maybe they just happen to be going the same direction.

- I mean, maybe. - Been doing that for a while now.

Well, I mean, the road only goes one direction.

I know, but he ought to be done, got home by now.

What's done happened where you done got this paranoid

about moving all this?

We got 100 gallons of moonshine back here, Tickle.

Well, I mean, I understand that, but the important thing

right now is to stay calm because we do got 100 gallons

of moonshine.

I know it, but that joker is following us, Tickle.

Now, getting this bottom, I'm gonna take this turn at

this creek and see if he comes across the creek.

Well, let's see what he does.

He turned behind us.

Watch it, watch it, watch it.

Got deer coming across your road up here.

- There's a buck. - Mm-hmm.

We're gonna have to find some kind of way

to lose this cat.

Maybe around a curve or something where he can't

see us.

You've got enough distance on him.

All right, Tickle.

I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.

Road right over here to the left, Tim.

- Right there, right there. - Take that and shut her off.

Tickle, let's get out of here.

You ain't kidding, man. Well, we lost him.

Now, don't you believe me, man?

There's something going on, Tickle.

Well, I mean, I see that, I see that.

Something's definitely going on.

In the legal world, you know, you're having

a stockpile of moonshine.

I mean, it's just like money in the bank.

But then, when you go illegal and this stuff is just piling

up on you, the risk is piling up.

Dog, she's about full.

I don't know how much more we're gonna get in here.

I mean, we just start in that corner right there

and just keep coming this way.

Yeah, well, that's the only thing we can do.

I mean, I still got to figure out how am I gonna transport

this stuff and get it into Canada.

Right now, I just want to get rid of this liquor.

This is gonna be it, buddy.

So let's get the hell out of here.

- We got everything covered? - Yeah.

- All right. - Let's rock and roll.

Let's rock and roll.

Huck, it's about time to get started back.

Well, everything is getting green to budding out, ain't it?

That's a sure sign, ain't it?

In the heart of the Smoky Mountains,

traditional moonshiners Mark and Huck head to a secret

location to meet a nervous, first-time customer

with money to burn.

Closing a single high-volume deal could keep their stills

churning out tax-free income most of the summer.

How you doing, bud? Good to see you.

Good to see you.

So you're needing some liquor, are you?

Yeah, if you can do it, I'd like to have at least

100 gallons of plain, corn liquor.

But I can't be a meetin' y'all like this.

- It's just too risky. - I understand that.

He's wanting 100 gallon liquor.

That sure help us get started out good if we can sell him

that much.

You think you boys might pull that off?

Yeah, we can do it.

How much you want a gallon, Huck?

Well, I mean, he's taking 100 gallon.

We can cut him some slack on that.

Say $80? OK with $80?

I think, $80 is fair enough.

- That's a good price. - You want to shake on $80?

Yeah, we'll shake on $80.

But the only thing, it's too risky to meet

like this all the time.

And 100 gallons, that's a lot to be, you know, moving around.

Well, I'll tell you how we can do it.

- We can do a dead drop. - All right.

But what we want to do

is figure out somewheres to leave it.

Usually a dead drop, they ain't much way of getting caught.

I like it better myself.

We'll leave the liquor, and he can leave the money,

and we'll never see him again, probably.

Boys, you know where you come around that big, deep curve past

that apple orchard up there at Turkey Pen Gap, that big, white,

oak stump up there?

Yeah, that's out of the way.

It's kind of, you know, hid, you know.

Yeah, it's kind of off below the road there.

Yeah, that be a good place to leave the money?

Yeah, it's off below of the road.

Ain't nobody see nothing.

Hey, call and let me know, guys.

We'll do it. We appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you.

This starting of the season,

we ain't been to the still site since last fall.

Got to get mashed in and everything, but it's gonna

take us a pretty good while to get this order run.

Way to go, that's a lot of liquor, ain't it?

- Yeah. - We could do that two or three times this season.

- We'd be set, wouldn't we? - Yeah.

Puss,

if we can't figure something out on these three runs about

how to make cheap liquor, I don't know what we do.

In Cocke County, Tennessee,

after a close encounter with the law, returned them to

their backwoods roots, Mark and Digger face

a new threat.

You can't blame a feller for picking it up at that price.

$15 a gallon.

An unknown competitor selling shine for nearly

half their price.

To win back their customers, the Tennessee duo conduct

an experiment to crack the low cost recipe,

hoping to produce their own higher quality corn liquor

at a competitive price.

This thing looks like chocolate gravy.

- Did you make any alcohol? - My God, it's bitter as lye.

The market is totally flooded with cheap liquor.

I mean, it's so cheap that there's no way we can

sell ours.

You know, Digger and I never cut corners on the quality of

the products we use in our liquor, but here we've cut

every possible corner we can to try to see if it's possible to

make a profitable $15 jar.

All right, let's cap her off, get ready for the first one.

This.

Light her up.

Lay it to it.

All right, corn syrup and cornmeal.

We'll know here in a little bit.

Yes, we will.

We got three test mashes made with the cheapest ingredients

that we could find.

Cornmeal with corn syrup, cracked corn, which is

scratch feed, and liquid cane sugar,

and we have a sweet feed with imitation pancake syrup.

So we're gonna run the ground meal and the corn syrup

mash first. - We got steam a comin'.

Woo, there'll liquor blowin' out of there in no time.

If we can get that corn syrup, it's little less than half what

grain sugar is.

If it wasn't more economical, all these big industries makin'

soft drinks and candy wouldn't use it.

Well, we got liquor, Hattie.

We'll see if it's good liquor or bad liquor here shortly.

What are we looking for out of these runs?

Out of all three of them, we want to see which one's

the biggest yield and which one's got the best flavor.

If we can't figure out a way to compete with this guy,

we're dead in the water.

I'm telling you, that one's about to peter out.

Yep, we're breaking at the worm right now.

All right, the corn syrup and the corn meal is done.

Yep.

Let's move on to cracked corn and liquid sugar.

So, as we pull jars, we're gonna put them on

their respective barrels, let them wait there and rest

until the rest of it's run.

After that, we're gonna pick us a sweet jar out of the middle

there in the hearts, taste it, and see if we've got

good liquor.

Well, you know that scratch feed Puss, that's about as

cheap a corn as you can get.

We're up to snuff here, but there goes all

of our heads. - Yeah, we've got a plenty out of that.

Yeah, we won't have to pitch no heads off of this.

Yeah, it's running immediately.

- Jimmy crack corn. - I don't care.

Jimmy makes liquor out of crack corn, I start to care.

So now it's just one more,

two down, one to go, baby man.

We're gonna run the sweet feed mash next.

You know, if we end up with three runs of dog piss here,

you know, I'll be at a complete loss of how this guy's making

it so cheap.

- Ah. - Ah, looky there.

Kind of like me pissing in the morning.

Runs three different directions.

We'll know here if we've made them any liquor or buttermilk.

I'll let that dribble out. We've got all our liquor run.

We're gonna get in here and get to tasting.

The first one we're gonna taste is the sweet feed

and pancake syrup liquor.

Well, here we go.

It ain't horrible.

You're full of [bleep]. That's terrible.

Well, if I'd have acted like that, you wouldn't have

tried it at all.

The sweet feed and the fake pancake syrup.

Honestly and truly, this, I mean, I'm going to shoot 100%

straight with you. It's pretty nasty.

Scratch feed and liquid sugar.

I mean, it ought to be decent liquor.

It's got a hell of a lot better nose on it than that cut little

fella right yonder does.

I don't know.

You know, this scratch feed liquor, it's a tolerable drink.

But it's not something that we want to endorse.

All right, the corn syrup and the corn meal.

See if it tastes like it's supposed to taste like.

It ain't up to snuff with our white corn liquor,

but it's, it's OK.

This corn syrup liquor with the corn meal,

it's OK, but it's still got a little off note

in there somewhere. You know, we're used to

making quality liquor for people,

and they're used to paying a premium price for it.

It's still not up to our standards.

This $15 jar that Killer Beaz sourced for us, there's no way

that they can sell it for $15 a jar.

Ain't nobody run this liquor around here.

This liquor's been run someplace else.

I'm going to say we're not looking at an old backwoods

liquor man. We're looking at a damn thief.

We've got somebody that's either stealing somebody else's liquor

that they're making in the woods,

or they're stealing some legal facility's liquor

out of their facility.

I think you're absolutely right.

But if we're gonna be competitive, we need to

figure it out. - Yep, I believe you're right.

Let's go make a field trip.

Yeah, we got to get site up, everything working good.

We got a big order, a hundred gallons, but if

I don't have to move my still site, it saves me a week or two

to get set back up.

Let's get our water running and we'll get our barrels full

and mashed in and we'll be good to go.

Let's get our corn, get her in there,

and we'll be in good shape.

We're gonna set this just a straight corn liquor run up,

just put her corn and her sugar.

We're gonna set up two barrels, 100 gallon of mash.

We should be able to get 10 gallon out of these

two barrels.

It'll take several run to get us 100 gallons.

You seen our old stirring stick anywhere?

- There's what's left of it. - Oh, good gosh.

- How'd that break? - Don't know.

- We can stir it with it, can't we? - Yeah.

This is malt.

We sprouted this corn and ground it.

This is a natural yeast right here, this malt is.

- Our liquor tastes so good. - Yeah.

Gives a better corn taste, don't it?

Yeah, boy.

Don't give you so much of a headache.

I don't like them headaches anymore.

Mm-mm.

I get a few every now and then.

- But I still like to have fun. - Mm-hmm.

Gotta have fun.

Well that oughta fix her up right there, now.

Well, that's perfect, ain't it?

Yeah, I think we got our site in good shape.

Our mash right now done.

All we gotta do is run our liquor.

All right, Huck, let's load our tools up.

We got a meeting to get to. Let's get to it.

- Well, we're getting close. - I hope we're getting close.

My gosh, this road just keeps getting gnarlier.

Welcome to North Carolina.

One mile west, forced to go solo after Mark and Digger's

arrest last season, Kelly and Amanda pay a formal

visit to Mark Rogers' turf, following the unwritten code to

seek a fellow moonshiner's blessing before setting up

a new operation in their area.

Mark and Huck have literally taken me under their wing.

I got nothing but respect for them.

So, if we're coming into North Carolina,

we got to get their blessing.

I agree 100%.

So we are no longer under the enterprises of

Mark and Digger this year, and we got to find our own

still site somewhere far away from Eastern Tennessee.

Well, there they come, I believe.

Well, I guess we're about to find out what she's wanting.

If I'm going to North Carolina, the first thing I need to do

is get Mark and Huck's blessing.

Mark and Huck have taught me a lot of things about the ways

of the backwoods.

They were really my first introduction into this

whole world. - What's up?

Well, we're in a little bit of a sticky situation.

Kind of need a favor from you guys.

Mark and Digger's whole operation has been

completely shut down.

We need to get real far from them.

Even across state lines, would probably honestly be

the safest thing for us.

We're just looking for somewhere that we can

set up our operation.

If I'm gonna come into North Carolina,

I want your permission first.

I guess, bottom line is, are you willing to help us?

We don't, I mean, we don't think so.

We haven't done anything in months.

That's why we took a break for so long,

and that's literally the main reason we come this far over.

Yeah, yeah, we'll help you. Best we can.

Thank you.

Yeah, we've got a lot of spots.

That'd be perfect for them right there.

Yeah, it is.

It means a lot to one of your partners, you know,

you've got enough respect to come and ask permission.

It'll be a good location, plenty of good water.

Tell you how to get there, but it'd probably be better

if I drawed you a map.

Because they come and ask me, I'll do everything I can

to help.

I got a bunch of them in case I mess up.

Well, now, wouldn't it be just as easy for you to drop a pin

for us? A pen?

It's the only pen I got.

Most of us know how to drop a little pin on a map

and send us to a GPS coordinates.

Go to the bottom of this road right here.

Unfortunately, that's not how Mark Rogers rolls.

Go down the main road. Take a right.

Now, keep in mind, there's no address, right, to a still site

in the woods.

It's just gonna be general directions on how to get there.

And it's about seven mile.

They's a set of train tracks on one side, river on the other.

He's got a seven-mile-long road, about an inch long,

and then he's got a river that's as wide as the road

is long. - Then across railroad track

come over into a big field.

There'll probably be a cow or two in it.

- Sounds easy enough. - Yeah.

Hopefully we can find where he's talking about.

I knew I could count on you guys.

Just be careful and make a lot of liquor is all I can say.

You know, the thing about it is with Mark Rogers, you can trust

his judgment when it comes to woods.

- Thank you guys, very appreciate that. - Yep, see ya.

You know, the only thing that worries me right now is if

we can find this place with this napkin map.

I mean, it can't be rocket science.

Told you we could count on them.

Right now, I'm picking up a load of cornmeal.

You know, I got certain little spots that I got people

dropping stuff off.

Make sure there ain't no snakes in here.

You know, even though it's not illegal to buy sugar,

not illegal to buy cornmeal, but if I'm seen buying cornmeal

and sugar, that's kind of like a red flag.

Well, I got a few bags of cornmeal.

Had a guy drop off for me, so that way,

you know, they don't see me at the farmer's supply

picking up the cornmeal.

I mean, you got to take all the precautions

you can, you know?

Think about it. Back in the day,

people didn't really know who I was.

Now they know who I am.

So if they see me and they see me buying mason jars

or cornmeal, hey, I don't have hogs and pigs and chickens.

We're just taking all the precautions we can.

Just like the old days, you know?

For, you know, the next month, I've got to continue to do this

all the time.

You drive it down to the site tomorrow and mash in.

You know, I got to pick up all the raw goods.

The old saying about moonshining is making alcohol

when the moon shines.

Anything you're doing in making moonshine, whether you're

hauling moonshine, staging somewhere, making it,

producing it, whatever.

The night, that's actually on your side.

Nobody on the road tonight.

How about that? I spoke too soon.

what's wrong with these people?

What, what, what?

He gettin' out of the truck?

Maybe they broke down, you know?

What's going on? Y'all broke down?

What are y'all doing?

Maybe they broke down, you know?

There's a vehicle, like, stopping in the road,

and it's, like, blinking their lights at me.

So I'm thinking, you know, is he stopping,

you know, because he's breaking down?

What's going on? Y'all broke down?

What are y'all doing?

What do you mean you're watching the neighborhood?

This ain't a private road.

No?

Y'all just ride up and down the road all the time,

stopping people?

Oh.

All right, well.

Well, I hope your truck ain't in the way,

because I'm going that way.

Yeah.

Get on out of here.

What's going on here?

I don't know what's going on here.

It sounds like they don't like moonshine

is what it sounds like. I mean, they're not the police.

You know, that's one thing. They're not cops.

I don't know is this the same vehicle following me just

the other night because these guys knew what road I was on.

I ain't never dealt with nothing like this in my life.

It wasn't like this back in the day.

This is a little bit different that we're working with.

Is this like a group, organization, or something?

I really don't know what kind of people we're dealing with.

I mean, you know, if it was law enforcement, at least you know

who you're talking to. And they got rules.

These guys don't have no rules.

- Oh, man. - Kelly, this is scary.

We're sliding your way.

As long as we're not flying off that cliff.

Oh, god, I don't like this.

Kelly and I found the perfect still site with the help of

Mark Rogers and Huck way over into North Carolina.

The only problem is, it's pretty hard to get to.

Leave it to Mark Rogers to send us to the hardest place

in the world to make liquor.

Oh, just promise you won't go off the cliff, OK?

You know, I don't think you could get much farther off

a beaten track in North Carolina than where

we're at right now.

The good part about it is security.

The bad part about it is, it's hard to get to for you or

anybody else.

Here's gonna be the problem. We're spinning right now.

But I don't know that I can get the trailer up here.

I'm gonna let some air out of the tires.

Letting a little air out of the tires.

It's so muddy here that I'll drop them down to about

16 pounds of air, and hopefully we can cruise up

through there.

Hell yeah, I sure hope we can make it up there and don't go

off the side. - Let's fire it up

and see what happens up through there.

Once we can get everything up there and set up, it'll be

worth it.

Ah, the rest of it's dry now.

Right on the edge.

You know, our goal here is basically to drive in as close

to the still site as possible because we don't want to carry

this stuff any farther than we have to.

And the corn's still good after that hill.

We made it. Well done, Kelly.

The really cool thing about this year is

this is our own still site.

It's just me and Kelly making the liquor ourselves,

the way we want to do it, selling it

the way we want to sell it. So it's exciting,

but it's also a little scary.

I think we're good right there.

This still site is beautiful.

We're kind of in a ravine with big slopes on both sides that

give us a lot of cover and we have a really good source of

spring water that runs right down the middle.

It's literally like this place was just meant for us to put

a still in.

Oh yeah, look at that.

I just want to make sure try not to suck up any mud,

but it feels good to be back here grabbing some spring water

and making a corn mash.

Today, to keep it simple, we're just gonna make some

good, old-fashioned, corn liquor.

Corn liquor is the staple around here in these parts.

Everybody drinks corn liquor. You don't need a thermometer.

If you've got the water going to a boil, then at

least you know... - Oh yeah, we're good.

...it's hot enough to cook the corn.

It's quick, it works off fast, and it'll give us good

volume back.

Uh oh.

Oh, this just can't be good.

Hello?

All right, we'll see you.

Digger, we gotta go meet them. They got something going on.

- That's not good. - He said, "I need to talk

to you right now, as quick as possible."

We just got a call from Mark and Digger

on the emergency burner phone.

It's supposed to be only for emergencies,

so I'm pretty curious as to what they're calling for.

He said, "Destroy this phone," so...

Digger, we got to get Amanda and Kelly's opinion.

I mean, we've done determined there's no way

that they can make that corn liquor that cheap

with traditional mash and ingredients.

You know, Amanda's palate's awful damn sophisticated.

We need some help with this.

Digger and I have not been able to sell any of our liquor

because of this corn liquor that's been flooding

our market everywhere.

Prices got so low that it's ridiculous.

Kelly and Amanda are probably our closest allies

in the moonshine world.

And, you know, I would like Amanda to taste this as well.

I'd like hers and Kelly's opinion

on what they think it is.

I mean, you know, we said we wouldn't be in touch

unless it was an emergency.

Hell, if we're all going to the porthouse, I think that

constitutes an emergency. - Oh, I hear them a coming.

We feel it only fair we need to tell Kelly and Amanda

the corn market is dead.

Well, it's never good news when we have an emergency call, guys.

Well, it's a bigger emergency than you might be thinking.

We said we wouldn't call, but me and Digger thinks

this is an emergency.

Going broke ain't nothing but an emergency.

We ain't been able to sell no liquor, and right

here's the reason. Our area's flooded with that.

$15 a jar for that liquor right there.

- This is not what yuns made, this is...? - That is not.

- And it's everywhere now? - It's everywhere.

We just don't understand how anybody can make it and sell it

for $15.

The way the ingredients and jars and fuel is right now,

there ain't no way it comes up with them figures.

We want y'all to taste it, especially your tongue, Amanda.

I want you to get it, in there and tell me if there's

anything dynamic.

A little fiery.

It's not terrible.

Hmm.

You know how like in a clear liquor, you can taste the pot

still or like the copper.

That's not traditional corn liquor.

You know what that tastes like to me?

That's not traditional corn liquor.

- I know it's not. - No.

It would have so much more flavor.

It really would.

You know what that tastes like to me?

GNS.

GNS, or grain neutral spirit, is a mass-produced alcohol made

with a base of grains, but it's been distilled to such

a high proof that it's essentially

odorless and flavorless.

GNS is a commercial commodity used by some mass market liquor

brands to produce inexpensive versions of traditional

spirits, like vodka and gin.

But by law, purchasing GNS for commercial use requires

a federal permit, and the federal government

mostly tracks inventories of GNS nationwide.

If it's GNS at 190 proof and they're proofing it down,

and they can put two drops of corn flavoring in it,

or they could do, I mean, there's so many different ways

you could get there.

Yeah, how else could they sell it for that cheap?

Nobody can sell it that cheap, Amanda, you know that.

We've got our still site set up and we just mashed in

corn liquor, so run it, don't run it?

You have to run it because your money's done spent.

But I wouldn't build no more mash back.

I wouldn't sweeten them fermenters back in.

I'd wait till we figure out where this is coming from.

We're gonna have to do something different.

You can't keep up with that price point.

We're gonna compete in this market right now.

We have to go above and beyond and make something that people

are willing to pay extra money for.

I'm just gonna have to get creative and make something

that they've never seen before.

I think that we need to be on our way, and we appreciate it.

I hate to be the bearer of this bad news, but take it

and use it for what it's worth. - Yeah.

We got to try our damnedest to figure out who's representing

this as backwoods moonshine and how they're doing it.

Well, we didn't give them no good news, did we?

- Oh yeah, cap's dropped. - It's ready.

It's ready.

A week ago, we mashed in two barrels of good corn liquor.

We've got a 100-gallon order.

We're gonna get her run off today.

The reason I use wood instead of propane is

it was the way I learned how to run liquor.

Start over again.

It takes a while to run 100 gallon of liquor.

We'll just have to do it, you know, 10 gallon at a time,

till we get the order filled. - Here it comes, Huck.

Yep.

What we been waiting on.

I've made thousands of gallons of liquor over my lifetime,

and every time I run, it's just about as exciting as

I was the first time I ever run one.

Look, I think it's about time to take a little taste,

don't you? - Sample it.

Yeah.

- Clear as a bell, ain't it? - That's pretty, boy.

It's gonna be strong.

Ah, yeah.

It's good.

This liquor tastes exactly like I thought

it would. It is good.

If you took two real good drinks out right there.

You wouldn't know nothing for days.

It's a lot funner if you drink when you're making your liquor.

There's been a lot of moonshiners passed out at

the still site. - Yeah.

Well, I've done it a time or two.

But it's a lot safer and better if you don't.

- Boy, it's getting better, Huck. - Is it?

Yeah.

We got our 10 gallon run out of these two barrels.

That's exactly what we wanted on the first run.

Go ahead and deliver it and then pump it back in there

and mash it in a second time.

I want to call him up and tell him it's there and let him

pick it up.

We'll see how it goes from there.

- There you go. - Well, we got something.

We got some light now. Where's the still site?

There we go, right there. See, I knew it was right here.

Ooh, a little step there.

Even though we've had all kinds of problems with this

1,000-gallon order, I'm attracting different kinds

of people, the wrong kind of people.

There's two guys, stops me on the road,

questioning me about what I'm doing.

They don't like it.

So I'm thinking the old saying about moonshining is,

"Make an alcohol when the moon shines."

That's the best cover I got. But, I mean, we almost there.

The mash is coming ready, and we are running.

And I just can't wait to finish this run.

- Let me check this beer. - We can see what we're doing.

- Tim. - Yeah?

- It's ready, ain't it? - Oh, yeah.

Looks good to me, don't you?

Ain't nothing wrong with that.

- Throw the fire to it. - Yeah.

You ready?

Let it roll.

These right here, they're running so good,

they're gonna put out a whole lot this time.

I mean, every time we run it, we get a little bit more.

- A little bit more, exactly. - A little bit more.

We've had an uphill right here, but we're finally

starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

And I'm gonna say maybe one more run,

and we're good, we've got this order filled.

The fire's on, Howard.

- You got to stir it. - I'm stirring, boys.

Do not drop that hoe in there, neither.

Hey, do y'all want to do this?

Oh, look at the little man get up there.

That's why he was about to still hang around.

Oh, he's dying to get up over there.

- Look, he gets on top of it. - And you get this out.

Every square inch of it.

Hold on. Something ain't right here.

Look. Look, Henry.

Look.

Is that our stash house?

This is on the camera I got in there.

- This is live. - Yeah, me and Tim put them up.

- This is right now. - That's two guys, man.

- Might be the law. - Wait, listen.

What's he saying?

- Pull it out. - "Pull it out."

We need to get our asses over here.

Oh, Howard, it might be the law.

- That's not the law. - How do you know that?

If they were the law, they wouldn't rip

down the camera. - You right about that.

- You 100% right about that. - They just took the camera down.

Laws don't rip down cameras. They need those cameras.

They're not documenting anything.

They're not looking for any evidence.

Police would have took a video of this stuff so they could

prosecute us.

Uh, so wait a minute.

That's about 15 minutes to get over there.

Let's cut the fire, cut these lanterns, get in the truck.

- Please. - Let's go together.

These guys are not law enforcement.

- They know it's moonshine. - Tim, you got your gun?

I got it.

More than likely, they're gonna try to steal it.

So it's important that we get over there right now

and stop them.

This ain't good. Tell you that.

That's what I'm telling you now, man.

If these people still up here, we need to fan out.

What the f... Holy sh...

- What? - Damn it, man.

Henry. Henry, Howard.

- God dang, Tim. - Ah, damn.

That thing is blazing, man.

The cops will be here in a minute.

- Holy [bleep]. - Go.

All of our hard work right here, Tim?

Holy [bleep].

It's gone, is all I can tell you.

There's nothing left.

I don't know about y'all, but I'm out of here.

Fire department's gonna be coming.

Fire department's definitely gonna be here in a minute.

[bleep].

Damn almighty.

- Come on, come on. - What the hell?

- Come on. - We got to get out of here.

- Get out of here. - Everything's gone.

Get in the truck.

Sweet feed.

You sure you don't want second helping?

Old timers told us it wasn't worth [bleep].

You got a gun you can put to my head so I'll drink it.

It smells so bad. Here we go.

Pfft.

Pull the trigger.

My taste buds just called an emergency meeting.

Give me that. It ain't that bad.

They just filed for divorce.

Lord, have mercy. Hell fire.

Pfft.

Mother of pearl.

I got to run back to the house and dig up one

of Stella's dog turds and see if I can get that taste

out of my mouth. That's awful.

They told us the truth, baby man.

Sweet feed liquor ain't worth a fiddler's damn.

That ought to be outlawed right there.

Boy, he wanted to get away back in here, didn't he?

Yeah, he did.

Meh, there'll be several trips in here.

- Oh, yeah. - Be safe, you know.

Let's hope that old boy comes across with his end.

I guess we're fixing to find out.

Yeah.

Yeah, finally, we got our first 10-gallon run, and we're gonna

bring it and set it off there at the dead drop.

First time buyer, you know, we really don't know

him that well.

I'd hate to show up 100-gallon and have me set up,

or something, you know, so this'll be a little safer.

Next run, it'll be a lot bigger.

Yeah.

We just need to hide it good where you know if somebody

did come around it, they wouldn't notice it.

We about to get there.

I see that gap up there.

- We made her, Huck. - We're here.

Where's that stump at, Huck?

Right here.

We need to find us a good place to hide the liquor.

Back in that laurel right there.

- Right across from the stump. - Yeah.

All right, Huck, can you see anything?

That looks camouflaged to me.

That'd be good right there, Mark.

We pulled up and found the stump where he can

put the money.

Right straight across from the stump,

there's a good patch of laurel right there.

We can stash some liquor right there and camouflage it

real good.

We're ready to get out of here, ain't we?

Once we get out of here and get phone service,

I'm gonna call him that the liquor's there,

and we'll go from there.

I think that'll do it, Huck.

It'll be a job getting out of here.

This is stupid Tickle, and I'm gonna sound stupid

when I call him to say I need another three, four weeks,

and I don't know what to do about it.

This is a serious situation here.

I mean, we've did so much work, and now it's all gone.

Who in the world even is this?

I mean, it was somebody following us.

We're dealing with some crazy,

some group, I don't know what they call them, cult.

Maybe it's them same two guys that was following us,

the ones that stopped you. Maybe it's the same two guys.

Right now, we got two stills that's full, ready to run.

We was gonna run them.

At least we can finish that run, get a little bit

of something going on here, and hopefully I can talk to

this guy and buy some more time.

Well, all we can do, Tim, is keep on rolling with

what we got.

What the hell is that

over there?

What, did he leave the burner going?

I don't know. We shouldn't have.

We cut the burner off, didn't we?

Yeah, we cut the burner off.

What the hell?

Huh? Look at this.

Look.

- We cut everything off, didn't we? - Yeah.

- This is unbelievable. - What in the world?

Nothing but charred wood. We got charred wood left.

Man, look at our roof.

I think that we need to get the hell out.

You need to get the hell out of Virginia.

- We're two steps behind. - They played us.

Look, look, guys. Got to have a plan.

And I'm not gonna give up on this.

It just don't roll that way.

Slow down, son.

I'm underwater. I got to go.

I got to go, Henry.

Now, this still site's a little different than most still sites.

We've actually got to drive up a river.

Damn it, Tickle. Damn it.

Uh oh.

I'll tell you what I need is some aged whiskey.

You give us a couple of weeks, we can have it done.

I'd like to know where you come up with this idea we're gonna

sell some aged liquor. - Well,

we've always pulled through somehow or another.

Y'all need to just go on down your damn way.

It's gettin' ready to get damn ugly if y'all don't get

the hell out of here. - They stole our liquor.

I'm going to put them out of here for good,

and I don't want them back in this country.