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How about some nice hard seltzer that's like 10 %?

This time on "Moonshiners."

That's gonna make some good... strawberry-kiwi liquor.

Yeah, boy.

Me and Jerry definitely don't want Ken to know

that we don't know how to do a hard seltzer.

Let's roll with it.

Please don't blow up on me.

What a mess.

Yeah, we just lost 200 gallons of mash.

We're in a heck of a fix.

We're building a decoy. It might not hold liquid.

But it's gonna do what we want it to do.

Serious change of plans here.

The law gonna be here any second.

This is how we make the moonshine.

Middle of the woods, ringer on.

Sorry, y'all. Hello?

- Hey. - What's up, buddy?

What?

Is it copper? Is it stainless?

What is it?

In Rocky Mount, Virginia...

You hear that? Listen

...after police raided his Carolina still site

and sent him into hiding...

They just took part of the still now.

...Josh gets an unexpected call from his tow truck driver

cousin with a lead on the whereabouts of

his irreplaceable copper moonshine still.

Do you know what that still's worth?

Jim Tom helped me build that still,

and he is no longer with us.

He can't help me build another one.

And you know what copper costs these days?

That still is the last still that I made a run of damn

liquor with my dad with before he died.

This thing's got a lot of sentimental value.

Jim Tom helped him build it, and let's face it,

Jim Tom's not building any more pots.

Don't let them crush my still.

I'm on the way.

You know it's an impound lot.

You know I broke into one one time years ago and almost went

- to jail over it. - OK.

And you're gonna... What's your plan?

There's really no amount of money that can replace

this still to me. Other than going to jail,

I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get that still back.

If I can put my paws on it without going behind bars,

oh, it's gonna happen.

Let's roll down and see it.

We roll up in there, guns blazing.

- Let's go get my still. - Let's go check it out.

Let's do it.

This is a risk I'm willing to take.

I left North Carolina to get out of the heat.

Now I'm stepping right back into the lion's den trying

to get my still back from the law.

I'll be glad to get this whiskey dropped off, don't you?

Me and you both, man. Ready for another payday.

The best aged stuff that's ever made the backwoods, son.

- Hey. - Hey, man.

Mike, Jerry, how the hell you doing?

In Maggie Valley, North Carolina, after cutting

out their middleman bootlegger to sell imitation

barrel-aged whiskey...

There she flies.

...directly to an unlicensed biker bar,

Mike and Jerry return to the bar owner to collect

payment on what they hope is the next of many deliveries.

You got, what, 10 cases for me?

- Got you seven. - Seven.

- 20 gallons. - Seven?

Yep, 20 gallons this time.

All right, let me give you a hand taking it in.

Where's this stuff going there, Ken?

- That's good, that'll work. - - All right.

- Well, that takes care of the easy part. - - All right.

Now the hard part.

Well, I got some Benjamins for you.

- Greenbacks will be nice. - I got some Benjamins.

That's what we like to see, most of all.

Well, I'm not gonna count them all out because

I already did. There you go.

All right, man, that looks like that.

- That's it. - All right, man.

All right, now, when do you need your next load of things?

Well, you know, these young folks.

- Oh, I know how they are. - They're all asking for that...

seltzer.

- Seltzer? - Seltzer.

Like bubbling liquor? Bubbling alcohol?

- Yeah, yeah. - We can do that.

Yeah, probably.

Hard seltzer is very popular

these days amongst the young folks.

It's one of the top-selling drinks out there.

How about some nice hard seltzer that's like 10 %?

That'd sell.

With us being in the illegal world, we could probably

make it as high as you want it.

All right, why don't you make up some seltzer and give me

some samples, and we'll go from there.

Yeah, that sounds good to me.

The question ain't, do I think me and Jerry can make this happen.

Me and Jerry's got to make this happen.

Hard seltzer.

What have we got ourselves into now?

Not much.

In Graham County, North Carolina...

...after sending an outsized message to two mountain men

who dared to steal their liquor...

...traditional moonshiners, Mark and Huck are laying low,

making liquor the old-fashioned way.

One 10-gallon run of high-proof shine at a time.

That ought to be getting you close.

Yeah.

Hello?

What's going on?

What's up?

Two weeks from today?

Oh.

Well, yeah.

I think so.

Two weeks from today, we'll be there.

This is our most important buyer right here.

You know, we gotta keep him happy.

If there's any way possible,

we gotta try to get this order.

Well, Huck...

I'm gonna mash in every barrel I can mash in and run it,

but I think I can make it work.

All right.

Ooh, ah.

Well, that's a drive, ain't it?

Heck of a drive, man.

I'm back in North Carolina

because my cousin Brent that runs the towing company,

he calls and tells me he just got a call

from the Sheriff's Department saying that

they want him to pick up a car and a liquor still.

I know where the still's at, I know where the impound lot is,

and I know where they're going with it.

- I just need to know if it's mine. - That's a big need to know.

So how are we gonna do it?

I guess I'm gonna go to the impound lot.

They've hired Jackson's to haul it.

Well, I work for Jackson's.

If I work for Jackson's and they've hired Jackson's

to haul it, they don't have no idea

that I'm the one driving.

The Sheriff's Department's all the time hiring Jackson's

towing company to haul stuff from their impound lot

to the scrapyard.

And back in the day, I worked for Jackson's.

My plan's simple.

Pretend like I still work for Jackson's towing,

show up at the impound lot, and see if we can catch

a glimpse of our still.

They know you, man.

It's your part of the country.

You think the law don't know you if you go up in there?

It was your still site just got busted, dude.

You shouldn't be the one that goes.

All I know is I got to get this thing.

I got to get it back.

It may not be the smartest thing for us to be breaking

into a police anything, but that still means the whole

wide world to me, and I want it back, even if that means me

going in to get it.

I'll go in there and check and see if it is

your pot or not.

Worst case scenario, I could say it's an honest mistake.

They don't know me.

I ain't got no record around here.

Are you sure you want to do this?

I mean, I'm willing to do it for you.

If you're sure you'll do it,

I think it's perfect, because ain't nobody gonna

know anything, and we ain't breaking no law, so they ain't

nothing to arrest anybody on, but you can't go looking

like that.

Tickle can't just bust up in there like some Joe blow

off the street. Luckily, I got some work gear

that he can wear.

What do we got here? What do we got here?

Try this on and see if it all fits.

Well, that fits. That'll work right yonder.

We're a real team.

We all got each other's back, and the fact that Tickle's

willing to go into a police impound lot to help me get

my still back means the world.

All right.

When I worked for Jackson's, we're always on the side of

the interstates and stuff, towing down 18-wheelers

and so on and so forth. Got to wear this stuff.

Well, so this'll make me look I look like I actually

fit in with the towing company, what you telling me?

Well, that's part of their garb.

I guess if you want to sneak in someplace, you got to look

like you belong, right?

As I get this uniform put on, I really start to feel like,

"Hey, man, this might actually work."

I genuinely look like a tow truck driver.

I mean, what do you think?

I think we're fixing to go get a still back

- is what I'm thinking. - - Yeah, man, that looks like, to me, we're in business.

Let's roll on with that.

Josh, me and you go in my truck right here.

Nobody around here knows that one.

Josh? Don't you wreck my damn truck.

You sure you good with this, Tickle?

I'm good with this, Josh. I mean, nobody knows me here.

I think I can roll in and out, nobody be none the wiser.

- I sure look the part, right? - 100 million percent.

Josh got word from his cousin Brent, who runs a tow truck

business, that he was hired to transport a still from

the police impound lot to a salvage yard.

And there's a good chance it might be Josh's still.

So what our plan is, is they're gonna drop me off.

I'm gonna head in on foot.

Main thing is just get in, get out, find a still,

get a picture of it.

Locate this still as quickly as I possibly can.

They're gonna go a little ways down the road, and we're gonna

keep in communication through walkie-talkie.

- Got your walkie-talkie? - I do.

Let me show you here, all right?

Walkie check, Henry, you hear me?

- Got you, brother. - In and out, Tickle.

- In and out, big dog. - Gotcha.

Same rules as at the still site.

My plan is to keep to myself, not draw any attention.

Hopefully, I can get in and out of here without anybody

even realizing I'm back here looking for this still.

You all good, Tickle? We're down the road.

Rolling through the front gate now.

No turning back now, fellers.

We're gonna be on the back side of the place on top of

the hill, so when you come out, you come out that way.

I'm back here.

I see a whole bunch of people, cars, trucks, all kinds of

stuff, but I don't see a still anywhere right off.

I may have to do some walking.

This is a pretty good-sized place.

As soon as Tickle gets in there, he radios to us

and tells us this place is a lot bigger than I thought it

was gonna be. This might take a little while.

And that's one thing we don't have.

Time is definitely not on our side.

10-4, I'm rolling through here now.

All I see is all cars, no copper.

See a whole lot of vehicles out here, y'all,

but so far that's all I'm seeing.

It looks like acres and acres and acres of them.

Just spotted a still pot out here.

What'd he say?

Do what?

Just found a still.

Let me get a picture of it.

Oh, man.

Hold on, hold on, y'all.

I think there's a cop coming. Just give me a second, y'all.

Just stay quiet on the radio for one second.

Did you say there's a police officer coming toward you?

He's coming right for me.

Just hold off for a second.

I don't want to be talking on this radio.

- You doing all right? - Hi, doing all right.

Doing all right.

I work with Jackson's Wrecker Service.

Well, we got a job coming up.

I'm just taking some notes, taking some pictures.

Make sure everything runs along smooth.

All right, well, I hadn't been there too long.

I'm a new fella.

All right.

Nice meeting you. You have a good one.

All right, all right. Sounds good.

Trying to make my way out of here.

Nice, man.

I'm heading out now.

I am relieved beyond belief to be out of this impound lot...

God almighty, Josh.

This is killing me, boss.

...and be back in the truck,

heading away from this place.

All right.

You have to show me what you got.

Is that your still?

Still don't see nothing but bushes.

Oh, hell yeah. That's 100 % it.

As big as that still is, you don't see?

That's it. That's it.

- That's your still? - Yeah.

This is, in fact, Josh's still.

Hey, let's get back over here to--

over here to our spot over here, and let's try to make a plan.

We got what we came here for.

Now that we know it's my still, we know where the impound yard

is, we know where the scrap yard is, we just got to get

back in the shop and get a game plan.

Yes! We found it!

I knew there wasn't another

damn bust in the county. I knew it

- Made her huck. - Made her back.

Yeah.

We just got two barrels of mash set up, so we're gonna

have to at least set up three or four more barrels to

get it in, and we ain't got a lot of time to do it.

Let me go over here and get this malt.

All right.

All right.

Once I get these three other barrels worked in,

we'll be running every two days anyway.

This is our malt we're putting in here.

That'll make him work good

and make him taste good.

That'll get me a whole lot closer to 150 gallons.

Woo!

Right down the straddle. That's cold.

That'll cool ya off.

Let me go up here and pull this uphill a little bit.

Taking a bath already this morning.

Yeah, we'll get all that run and set it up again

and again and again.

Let's get out of here.

Henry, we got less than 72 hours to figure out

what we're gonna do.

Now that we've seen the still, we got proof that it's at

the impound lot, and it's gonna be headed to the scrap yard

in three days to be demolished.

We gotta come up with a plan to get it back.

What's the plan?

All I know is we know where the still's at.

We just gotta figure out where, when, and how we're gonna

intercept it. - We passed several good spots,

man, but we can't tell one from the other.

My cousin Brent runs a wrecker service that's been hired to

haul my still to the scrapyard.

And so while he's moving the still from one place to

the other, that's when we're gonna steal it back.

All right, check it out.

Let's say this is the impound lot, all right?

Road goes out. We take the first left.

People at the impound yard, they know Brent.

Comes in and out of there all the time.

I don't think there'll be any issues picking it up.

While he leaves there, we're gonna figure out how

we're gonna have to steal my still back before he gets to

the scrapyard, because the last thing I want is to get

my still crushed.

We'll go this way, and we'll take that almost all

the way to where we're going.

Right?

There's a pulloff, like, down in here somewhere.

There's no traffic on that road except for the people that live

on it or the people that come flying across through there to

cut through, which is very rare.

So I think that's the spot.

From the impound yard to the scrap yard is about

30 minutes.

On one of those little side roads in between there is where

we're gonna steal our still back.

We're gonna steal our still back, and then Brent's gonna go

back to the dang scrap yard, and we are scot-free.

But you know one thing, man.

What's gonna happen when he goes back and he's only

got a car? He don't have a still.

They're expecting a still to be on that truck as well as a car.

They might just want to confirm that it's crushed.

- Exactly. - OK.

So that means we got 72 hours to build a dummy and get it all

built, get ready, get this plan together, and get over there?

- Less than 72. - It don't got to be functional.

It needs to be pretty doggone lightweight, something we can

just throw on, throw off, sheet metal or sheet aluminum.

- Aluminum's lighter. - Aluminum, definitely.

- And it's cheaper. - Yeah, but we got to get it.

Well, we can get some of that.

Now, look, aluminum, it don't look like a still.

But throw a little paint on it or something.

I'll find some copper paint.

So we're gonna get some aluminum and some spray paint

and bang together some sort of an apparatus

that we can swap it out with.

All it's got to do is be shaped like a still and look

- the color copper. - Let's make it happen.

So, we get in here, and these other three flavors ran off.

To make some good old hard seltzer.

Hard, bubbly seltzers.

Me and Jerry's been selling a lot of aged whiskey

to the biker bar on consignment,

but we just want some hard seltzer.

This part I ain't worried about.

It's the next step.

- Got me a little concerned. - Me too.

I know we can make good-flavored vodka.

Biggest problem is, me and Jerry's never made

any hard seltzer. It's not our forte.

We gotta make it right, that's for sure.

We made flavored vodka, but we ain't never put

a bubble in it.

Mash is ready, ain't it?

She actually looks ready.

Hard seltzer's become the drink of choice.

The only stuff that the biker bar owner could possibly sell

right now when it comes to seltzer is the store-bought

stuff, and people want something harder than that.

So, that tells me there's nobody else out there in

the woods making a hard seltzer.

All right, brother, pop it to it.

All right, here comes some good old sugar wash.

Me and Jerry's gonna be there first, hopefully.

All right, buddy,

that's about it. We're about full.

Woo, all right, all right, all right.

Kiwis and black cherries and strawberries

and pineapples.

Me and Jerry's done some research on these

hard seltzers, and the flavors we're running here today

is some of the top sellers.

So, our plan is to try to make

a strawberry-kiwi, a pineapple, and a black cherry.

That's gonna make some good strawberry-kiwi liquor.

Yeah, boy.

Strawberry-Kiwi, here we go.

We just want that vodka to pick up a hint of that natural fruit

flavor that we're looking for...

Here goes our kiwis.

...in order to start trying to put seltzer to it.

Well, percolating.

Our steam is hitting the jars.

It's starting to break these strawberries down and release

all that good flavor.

You're gonna cross it over and mix in with the kiwi,

and by the time it gets to the money spout, we'll have

mixed strawberry, kiwi-flavored vodka.

There it is.

Ole high heads right there, boy.

Woo wee!

That's about a perfect stream, too, isn't it?

Get ready to get rid of these heads.

That's rubbing alcohol right there.

Tell you what, for as high as it is,

that flavor's really there.

Once we eat up the strawberry and kiwis, we can hit

two valves, throw it through the straight arm, take the jars

off, pack them full of pineapples.

There it comes.

Them pineapples is a-coming on through, ain't they?

Mm.

It's definitely hot, but, man, that flavor is,

I mean, like, stick to the roof of your mouth.

Thick.

Flavor is really, really popping through,

coming out in this pineapple.

I'm gonna cap this one off.

There you go.

Last, we're gonna do our black cherry.

That's one of the most single, sought-after seltzer flavors

on the market.

Cherries are breaking down.

OK, won't you get your jar?

We'll catch us a taste of that.

I'll empty this right here. You ready?

Smells good, son.

Man, that's gonna be the one right there.

I'll tell you what.

That right there's gonna sell, huh?

That's gonna sell good.

You know, we've got three delicious flavors of vodka here.

We're good on these vodkas, but turning this stuff into

a seltzer, we can't afford to screw this up, Jerry.

Carbonating is what's gonna, got me a little bit worried.

Me and Jerry's never made hard seltzer before, but we've got

to put our heads together and make this right.

We can get out of here and get to the shop.

We're gonna run these two barrels tonight.

Next night, we're gonna run the other three barrels

if we can.

Yeah, it should give us enough time to run 150 gallons,

and we can get it delivered to our bootlegger.

What a mess.

We ain't gonna be running none tonight, Mark.

When you walk into something like that and all your mash

turned over, there's all kinds of things running through

your mind.

You don't know if it's the law, or somebody, or an animal.

You don't know what it is, you know,

till you look around a little bit.

Yeah.

We just lost 200 gallons of mash.

We're in a heck of a fix.

Let's see what's on that camera.

Well, we can...

look and see what it is.

I've got, I'll have it on this phone here.

- There he is. - Yeah.

Looking at the camera and everything...

it's an old bear.

One of my old buddies come in and tore my still site up.

Ain't a real big one, though, is it?

Yep.

Son of a gun.

Yeah.

The only option I've got is get mash back in and run

everything we can run and maybe, if I'm lucky,

I'll borrow the rest of it.

All right.

This still is supposed to be crushed here, I mean,

what, like 24 hours? - Yeah.

Something's gotta happen or we're not gonna get it back.

The Sheriff's Department's all-time hiring

Jackson's Towing Company to haul stuff

from their impound lot to the dang scrapyard.

And my cousin, he works there, he runs it.

He says that the police called him and told him

they want him to come pick up liquor still

at the impound yard and take it to the scrap yard.

That's my still.

That still means the world to me, and I want it back.

We need to get this done.

Well, let's get some of this metal in here.

You want to grab a sheet and bring it in, Josh?

Last thing I'm gonna do is break into the police

impound lot. That ain't gonna happen.

We come up with a plan that maybe we could pull like

a switch on them, put a dummy still in there, that don't

really mean so much to us.

What's up?

Looks like exactly what we need.

Swap them out. Hopefully they'll crush

the thing that we don't care about,

and we'll get our still back that's a prized possession.

Right here's what we're looking at, y'all.

We cut these two-by-fours like this right here.

Four of them. Here, two-by-four, here.

And then we run a two-by-four across here, and that should

stabilize that whole bottom.

And then we can lay that piece of metal in there, cut it

- exactly this size here. - For the bottom?

For the bottom, as far as the looks, we got this to

take care of the copper look.

Biggest thing, fellas, is this has got to look like a still.

Our goal right now is just to basically build a still that

looks just like the still that they're about to crush.

This still doesn't have to hold water.

It doesn't have to match exactly.

It's just got to play the part.

We just got to pull a switcharoo.

I think it ought to be a little skinnier, but whatever.

It's OK.

We're building a decoy.

I'm not gonna lie to you, if I could figure out

how to do one out of cardboard,

we'd do it out of cardboard.

Starting to look like a darn still pot already, right?

I like that.

We can take these, do those half moons,

put four of them on here, one, two, three, four,

put the bottom right to it, and then all we gotta do is

- build a cake. - Let's get it done.

What we're gonna do is take some wooden strips, we're gonna

shoot some screws through it, and use that to hold everything

together and use it to make it rigid where this thing will

stay together while the crusher crushes it.

Now let's get us a bottom in this thing.

This still's 100% irreplaceable.

It's not the money and the copper or the time that

it took to build it.

It's the fact that I built it with Jim Tom.

It's the fact that the last run of liquor that I ever made with

my dad, I made with this still.

Almost makes me want to put some mash in the thing and just

see what it does, right? - I bet we'll get far with that.

I bet we will.

It means the whole wide world to me, and I want it back.

What do you think, Josh?

We're fixing to pull this off, man.

I'm telling you.

We got this still all put together.

It might not hold liquid,

but it's gonna do what we want it to do.

And while it does look like a good resemblance of

Josh's copper pot, it's not copper.

Man, this worked out good.

It even looks good.

You know what, man, it's all we need, you know,

to guide the scrap yard.

All we need to put a little bit of paint on it, take that baby

on in there, get your still.

- Nice. - All right, let's do it.

Grab some paint.

Our entire plan hinges on that this dummy still passes for

Josh's real still at the scrap yard.

Now, what we wound up using was two different kinds of copper

- spray paint on this still. - There you go, Josh.

We used one that was a nice, shiny copper.

Then we found one that looked like a hand-hammered copper,

and it gave it a little bit of an aged look.

Move in close.

From right here, that looks like copper.

- It damn sure does, don't it? - I think it looks good.

It looks good. It really ages it.

I'm really proud of this pot right here.

It came together in record time, and really, it couldn't

look better. - That's beautiful, Josh.

- Yeah, it looks too new. - Holy .

It's actually shocking to me

how much this looks like a real copper pot.

All right, she's strapped down. We're ready.

All right, let's go meet Brent.

Let's get this done.

I think we'll do the strawberry-kiwi first.

- What do you think? - Sounds good to me.

Me and Jerry just got through running three different

fruit-flavored vodkas here.

We got pineapple, strawberry-kiwi,

and black cherry.

Boy, them strawberries is already smelling good.

We're pretty good at making vodkas, and that's all

a seltzer is, is carbonated flavored vodkas.

You just got to put the bubbles to it.

That's already starting to smell like mama's kitchen when

she's making jams and jellies. - Yeah, buddy.

So, first thing we're gonna do is cut up a bunch of fruits,

cook them down, add some sugar, a one-to-one ratio of sugar to

the fruit, make a real, natural, simple syrup.

Yeah, I think we're ready to rock and roll, buddy.

Tell you what, that sure does smell good and look good.

Then we're gonna add that into our already-flavored

vodkas that we've got.

We're just simply gonna strain the rough fruit off of

the syrup, put the syrup straight into

the finished product of the alcohol.

Whoa, look at that beautiful color, son.

That looks good. Lord have mercy.

If that don't catch the eye, I don't know what will.

Stir it up. And taste it and see

what it's like.

I tell you what, Jerry, that almost strawberry-kiwi

- kind of puts a peach flavor to that, don't it? - - Mm-hmm.

Proofs in the jar. What does it taste like?

Wow, son.

That's good. I'm telling you, that's good.

We put some carbonation in that right there?

That's gonna be fine, ain't it?

- That'd put a hair on a man in a hurry. - You ain't lying, buddy.

It's a good 10 %, which is about double what anything else is,

but the flavor is just amazing.

I say let's carbonate it

and try it and see what it's gonna be like.

The only step we gotta take now with strawberry-kiwi

is to add those bubbles,

put the carbonation to it, and see how it turns out.

Let's roll with it.

- Add her slowly. - Please don't blow up on me.

- You hear it? - Yeah, I hear it.

It's holding the pressure. I ain't hearing no leaks.

Nothing's breaking so far.

- Let's just go 55. - All right.

Don't push the envelope too much.

Everything's holding tight, taking the hoses off.

We're gonna put our spout on it, fill the jar up,

see if we got some bubbles.

That ain't got the fizz in it, I don't know what does.

It went ch-ch.

You could hear it, couldn't you?

Snap, crackle, and pop.

- Look at the bubbles in there. - Oh yeah.

Man, that tickles all the way down

- Oh, wow. - That's good, ain't it?

This stuff is phenomenal. It's delicious.

It's got the right amount of carbonation in it.

It's got the right amount of flavor, sweetness to it.

Got that little punch of alcohol.

I'll tell you what, if that don't sell, they ain't a liquor

ever gonna sell. - Nailed it, buddy.

- We just got a lot of jars to fill. - A lot.

This is gonna be an all-day process.

We're on our first jar of our first flavored

strawberry kiwi. It's phenomenal.

It's great.

But we got an all-day process to go on here.

We got to make more simple syrups.

We got to temper more alcohol down,

we've got our job cut out.

I think I'm getting the hang of this.

I think so.

This is it, y'all. Is Brent picking y'all up here?

Brent will be here anytime.

So we're gonna meet y'all at the drop point.

Me and Tickle and my cousin Brent,

we're going to the impound yard to pick up my still.

We all know the plan. Meet us down there.

We'll walkie right before we get there, let you know

we're close, be ready to jump out, pull the switch,

because the quicker we get it on there and get it off,

the less likely we are to be saw.

The more likely we are to drive off scot-free.

They've hired Jackson's to haul a truck and my still to

the scrapyard to be crushed at the same time.

So the plan is, they're gonna meet us down the road,

and we're gonna pull off and meet these guys and just

pull a switch and then take the dummy still and the truck

to the scrapyard to be scrapped.

The good still's gonna go in our truck and go home with us.

- It's on now. - You're driving.

All right. Let's do it.

No turning back.

- What's up? - Hey, how's it going?

- Y'all ready to do this? - I'm ready to do it.

Let's roll.

We still got to be careful.

We got to be quick.

Ain't no turning back now.

You're right about that.

It's on.

It just got real, Josh. It just got real.

- Hey guys, how you doing? - - Doing all right.

Hey, good seeing you again.

What you guys picking up?

Going to pick up that truck and that still.

OK. I'm gonna open up the gate.

All right.

Act natural, act casual.

Do not run up and hug the still.

How you want us to do this, Brent?

Let's grab that still and put it in back of the truck.

We'll strap it down, then we'll load the truck up.

All right, let's do this.

Man, that's pretty.

There you go. Yeah, I'm behind her.

- Got it? - Yeah.

- All right, we got everything? - - All right.

- Yeah. - - Can you sign that right here?

- All right. - - You guys heading to the scrap?

- Yeah. - - I'll be there in about 30 minutes.

- I'll meet you there. - 30 minutes?

- Yes, sir. - All right, man.

- Thank you. - We'll see you there.

Yeah. We got it.

We got it. That went good.

That went good.

Alright, guys. We got a problem.

Why?

He said he's gonna meet us there in 30 minutes.

- What? - Yeah.

What are we gonna do?

- He is? - Yeah.

We got to roll. We ain't got no time.

We don't have enough time to do what we gotta do.

Well, we're gonna do something.

We're gonna have to do it quick, that's for sure.

It's a little over a 20-minute drive there.

We're screwed.

- Yeah. - What are we gonna do?

Whatever we're doing, we gotta do it really quick.

240 gallons, that's a good order.

Well, hopefully it ain't the newspaper clippings because

we went to jail.

Hey, you know what I mean?

I'll have some of them 50 years from now.

I will.

I'll have some newspaper article clippings from where

I went to prison. - There's newspaper clippings?

- Where I went to damn prison? - Yeah.

Local moonshiner busted with a sawed-off shotgun.

Yeah, there was an article.

Yeah. It's a certified hand cannon.

Why not just have a pistol?

Well, if you're gonna do something illegal, make it

damn as illegal as possible.

Man, this ain't good, Josh.

Even if we do make this swap, there's no way what we made is

gonna pass for that one.

He knows what that thing looks like.

We was just trying to fool the guy at the scrapyard.

As luck would have it, as we're pulling out of the impound

yard, the officer says he's gonna meet us down there

in 30 minutes.

We only have a half an hour to meet Paige and Henry,

pull the swap, and get to the scrapyard before

the officer does.

One thing's for sure, if this cop gets here and he sees this

dummy still, we're going to jail because he's gonna know

instantly it's not the same still.

What are we gonna do here, Josh?

I know what we're gonna do. We're gonna go down here.

We're gonna swap a son-of-a-bitch out.

We're gonna go through with the plan because we've already

got it all planned out. We've already got on the gear.

We're on the road.

We're gonna make it happen,

and we're gonna get my still back.

Fast as possible. We've got to swap that out,

then we've got to get to the scrap yard and hopefully

get this still off and get it crushed before that cop

gets there.

That's the only, only way it's working.

- Henry. - 10-4.

We're fixing to pull on in.

Henry, the officer's gonna meet us down here,

so we really got to hurry up.

All right, we're ready for you, bud.

Let's get this thing done.

I'm 'bout as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof right now.

Serious, serious change of plans here.

What's this about the cops?

Oh, he said the cops is gonna be there?

Yeah, he said 30 minutes.

He'd see us at the darn scrap yard.

- Jeez. - - Dang, I hate these straps.

- Y'all got it? - Yeah.

- Sit him down easy. - Easy.

Come on, man. Let's go.

I'm trying to strap it down, Josh.

- I'm trying. - Tighten the knot.

I don't care what you got to do.

Give me a damn second.

I'm going. I'm going.

- Meet y'all back at the ranch. - She's good.

She's good.

All right. Let's roll, let's roll.

- Get in, get in, get in. - Let's roll.

Go, go, go, go.

Put the pedal to the metal, Brent.

Let's get her did.

We didn't even think about the cop gonna show up.

Do they normally come with y'all, Brent?

Man, every now and then they'll show up,

but something like this, it may be different.

Because it's a still-involved problem.

Yeah.

One way or another, we've got to pull this off, y'all.

Hopefully so.

It's on now. We're here.

All right, well, we're pulling in now.

All right, it's go time, y'all.

It's go time, y'all.

Let's get this still unstrapped, Josh.

Y'all got it unstrapped?

Yeah, yeah, we got it unstrapped.

She's ready to roll. He's got her.

Good to go. There we go.

- Bam. - - Just a pile of metal now, Josh.

We made it.

We made it before the cop got here, too, boss.

Before the cop got here.

All right, sign the line on this right here.

All right, man, ain't no problem.

Somehow or another, we were able to pull

this thing off. We got the dummy still crushed.

Henry and Paige drove off with my still into the sunset.

- What's going on? - We're good.

How we doing? Finally got this dealt with.

- Whoa, man. - Yeah, got her done.

Nobody went to jail. Man, it's a win-win.

Oh, my God, Mike. Look, there's blue lights.

They's cop cars through the trees, blue lights on

in front of the daggum speakeasy.

We need to go through that door tomorrow

and go get what's ours.

This is the damn ten sacks you've bought?

As much wheat as JB's been able to source, we could make a lot

of money with it.

We get JB running them whiskers through that mash,

it'll be some of the finest liquor you've ever seen

in your life.

A lot of liquor, boy.

The way we built this bed, it hides the liquor good.

Hang on!

Get out, Huck! Jump!