Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 4, Episode 9 - Shine Jacked - full transcript

The law is on the prowl. Moonshiners are going to extremes to protect themselves and their shine. Josh and Bill secure an underground stash spot with some serious horsepower, and Mark, Jeff, and Lance decide to bootleg this season's haul off-road.

[ keyboard playing ]

Narrator:
Tonight on "moonshiners"...

They broke into the place
and tried to burn it up.

...Skeletons in tim's closet...

It could be just in kentucky,
or they could be coming here.

...An uninvited guest...

...And a dirty deal.

Aw, man. No [bleep] way.
Get in, man.

Man: This is how
we make the moonshine!

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Narrator:
Hidden beneath the forest canopy
of the appalachian mountains,



A high-stakes game is underway.

[ siren wails ]

And the law has the upper hand.

In the smoky mountain
high country,

Three shiners are looking
over their shoulders.

We got to know
what we got to do.

We got to make a living.

Mark, jeff, and lance
have been running

Their 760-gallon still
around the clock,

Pumping out tens of thousands
of dollars worth of liquor.

Jeff: We're in flash mode now,
filling jugs.

Narrator: Now they're
running low on supplies,

And they need to quickly re-up.

Jeff's right to be paranoid.



Deputy sheriff chuck stewart
is building a case against them.

Lance waldroup --
he's the one I'll be looking at.

Narrator: Now other officers
have begun to take notice.

And buying 500 pounds of sugar
at a busy retail store

May be asking for trouble.

Yeah,
that sounds good to me.

Believe I see a law car.

[ siren wails ]

He's getting us.

Narrator:
Tracking bulk sugar buys
are a surefire way

For the authorities
to identify moonshiners.

Good.

Okay.

Okay.

Every time we get out and
we go somewhere, we get stopped.

Narrator: When the law
starts sniffing around,

Most shiners have no choice
but to go underground.

And some shiners
take going underground

To the extreme.

[ grunting ] all right.

You gonna get our pump working
first thing?

Yeah.

After some unwanted attention

From the local
police department...

If y'all messing
with the moonshine,

I'd advise you
different.

...Josh and bill needed
a safe place

To stash their shine.

Money in the ground, baby.

Narrator:
These underground tanks
can hold 600 gallons.

Right now,
they're sitting empty.

Josh: So, we're having
a little bit of trouble

Out of the motor on the pump.

We got everything all wired

And piped together
and ready to go.

And as luck would have it,
the motor didn't want to work.

So now we're gonna pour
some good old cooking oil in it,

Hit it with a hammer
a few times.

Hopefully,
we can get it back working.

All right, you ready?

Narrator:
The hydroxide molecules
in vegetable oil

Bond with the oxygen in rust,

Making it an ideal,
cheap lubricant

For loosening the seized pump.

[ motor clicking ]

[ motor whirs ]
hell, yeah.

Bill: There she goes.
There she goes.

I got to take my damn shirt off.
I am about to die.

This is gonna be bad
to the bone.

Yes, it is.

Josh: All we got to do now
is get this thing covered up,

Get it camouflaged good,
go make our moonshine,

Bring it back,
fill our stash house up,

And we'll have
a stockpile of moonshine.

That ain't nothing
but money in the ground.

[ imitates cash register
dinging ]

[ tool whirs ]

It's like there's not
even a hole there.

How about that?

You like it?

Think we ought to put a car
on top of it.

Put a car on top of it.

Do it -- like, what?

We're trying to camouflage it,
right?

When I mentioned
putting an old junk car

On top of our stash house
so we can get in and out easy,

Bill was definitely on board.

And then
we'll leave the hood

Right where we want to go
up and down.

Pop the hood open,

Then have like
a little ladder or something.

Or hell,
just crawl inside the car.

You see what I'm saying?

Bill: Might be taking
a couple extra steps.

In my thinking,
a pile of brush would be plenty.

Couple more things to figure out

If we're gonna throw a car
on top of that hole.

Narrator:
Moonshiners have long devised

Clever ways
to stash their shine.

Haystacks, false walls,
and trap doors

Have provided ways for
moonshiners to stay hidden.

But the most sophisticated
system

May have been at the "21" club
bar in new york city,

Which was custom built
to evade detection during raids.

Equipped with levers
that would ditch the bottles

And a liquor stash room hidden
behind a false brick wall,

This prohibition-era speakeasy
was frequently raided,

But never busted.

You feel me?

Yeah.

For today, I was just hoping
to get the thing painted.

Well, you can still paint it.
We can do that.

Bill: Throwing a junk car
on top of that thing,

It's gonna be
that much more work.

But we're gonna have pretty much
our retirement plan, our 401(k),

Down in there, in a hole.

Just one more layer of security

Just to keep people
away from our liquor --

That sounds good to me.

I think our first run,

We're gonna have to
damn sell something

Just so we can get some cash
back in the hole.

Cost-wise, I mean,

It's not a bottomless budget
we're working with

To get this still
up and running.

We got to get on the ball,
brother.

Narrator:
Moonshiners will move mountains
to make their whiskey,

A tradition tim smith preserved

Even after
leaving the woods behind.

I want to show you the platform
that the guys built --

Okay, good.

...To put
your massive tank on.

What I want to do is let's
be sure that this is gonna fit.

Even after applying
some backwoods ingenuity

To a state-of-the-art
commercial still...

Come on, come on,
come on, come on!
Get back up there.

...It couldn't match the classic
taste of tim's shine.

But it ain't my moonshine,
though.

We got the tank
right over here.

Narrator:
So he's going to bypass

The expensive column condensers

By installing
an old-school copper worm.

Hold on. Hold on!
You're going too fast!

All right.
Okay. I'm ready.

But there are no guarantees
the oversized worm condenser

Will even fit in the confines
of the distillery.

I got to get
on the other side.

Be careful.
I know.

Hold on.
Hold on.

So we decided to make like
a cylinder barrel round

Of cardboard to fit on it.

Move it that way.

My gosh, this --
look how big this is!

It's got to be big enough
to hold a worm.

How much room
is behind you there? Any?

Uh, maybe 6 inches, maybe.

Oh, my god.

You know, my condenser's taking

The place
of the existing condenser.

And so we have to put it in-line
with the other condenser

Because we want to make
the shortest distance

To get it connected
into the existing system.

This is way over
on these little beams,

Not even on the real beams.

This is too big.

You have any solutions?

Move that tank.

You're telling me
we got to move this tank,

Which weighs 2,000 pounds
by itself,

And it's got mash in it.

It's full of mash.
We can pump the mash out.

Ohh.

But I'm looking at it,

"hey, they put the tanks in here
in the beginning.

So, you know -- hey, if man
made it, man can move it."

It's got to come up here.
We building it now.

The guys
is building it now.

It's just a mash tank.

You can hook it up
and hook a hose to it
and suck the stuff out.

Outside in the woods,
we'd just cut a tree down

And move it over.

We'll get a pallet jack
or something

And just scoot it back
out of the way.

Do you know how much effort
there is in moving this?

Troy: That's a big job,
moving this tank,

'cause it's so heavy.

And all my guys, I have to pull
them off the bottling line

So that they can deal
with moving these tanks around.

It's real different
than being in the woods.

You got to figure out what
you want to do with this tank

'cause we're gonna move it.

[ groans ]
carl?

Would you be all right

With this sitting off the pad
down at the end?

Well, that may be
our only solution.

Narrator: In virginia,

Tickle has 80 gallons
of kentucky white lightning

Brewed
according to tim's recipe.

Making yet another trip,
make another delivery.

Narrator: Chico and tyler are
in charge of making the liquor,

And it was tickle's job
to sell it.

But he's fallen behind on sales,

And his partners
are taking notice.

This is a bigger delivery
than what I've been making.

It's about 7 gallons.

But I need to get to actually
making bigger deliveries.

[ dogs barking ]

Do this one more time.

How's it going?

What you is wanting
right there -- 7 gallons.

All right.

[ barking continues ]

Yes, sir.

Well, look.

I'm looking to get
a few buyers that's wanting,

You know, some quantity.

It don't hurt my feelings
to actually be running around

With 40, 50 gallons
of this stuff at at time.

You know,
I get in trouble for 7 gallons,

I get in just as much trouble
for 50 gallons.

You know,
trouble's trouble.

Right.

So, if you know anybody,
you just let me know.

I got plenty
of this stuff.

All right.

All right, well, look,
I appreciate it.

And you just let me know
about anybody wants more shine.

Tickle:
With the abc agency out looking,

I need to downsize
to just a few customers,

But ones that are buying it
in very large quantity.

Narrator: Coming up,
tennessee crackdown...

Armando:
You never know when someone
may be pushed to the edge

That they'll use lethal force.

[ police radio chatter ]

Narrator:
...Blazing new trails...

Jeff: If we keep hauling it
like we're hauling it,

Someone's gonna wind up
in jail...

...And a partnership
on the brink.

Chico: We got to get
some return on our investment,

That's for damn sure.

Narrator: In tennessee...

All right.

...Two master shiners
are on a mission

To perfect a time-honored
moonshine recipe.

Digger: I'll tell you,
I'm just amazed at it.

This thing blows my mind.

Mark and digger
are former still hands

Of moonshine icon
popcorn sutton.

And they're trying
to bring their mentor's legacy

Back to the woods.

This, it's a work of art.

After a successful first run,

They're looking to increase
their output a little further...

If that ain't 190-proof liquor,
I ain't standing here.

...With a piece
of moonshine history --

A shotgun condenser

Built by none other
than popcorn sutton himself.

Popcorn told me that it was
a ridiculous amount of money,

And I certainly see why.

It has all of these tubes.

Then it catches
the condensation,

Which is your liquor.

Our cold-water inlet
is here at the bottom,

So it circulates constantly
as the steam's coming in.

Our moonshine will come out
right out the spout.

We can crank the heat up
and still make good liquor.

Right.

Rather than
a single copper coil,

A shotgun-style condenser
has several straight tubes,

Which provide more surface area

For the alcohol vapors
to condense,

Increasing the proof
without sacrificing flavor.

A typical shotgun condenser
has five copper tubes,

But popcorn sutton's masterpiece
contains 184.

To make this model compatible
with their rig,

They'll add a custom-fit
copper collar.

Precious metal in my hand.

[ chuckles ]

Digger: Popcorn mastered
skills that a moonshiner needed.

His knack for fixing
something with nothing

Was second to none.

I mean, you would look at it,
scratch your head,

And wonder why it was working,
but it worked.

I'm gonna try to do this

Without modifying
this particular piece

Because ms. Sutton,

That's one of the few relics
of popcorn she's got left.

'course, he had another one,

But the damn revenuers took it
when they busted him.

They ain't got
no sense of humor.

A little gap right there.

I did become very good friends
with popcorn.

And learning the process
under popcorn,

He demanded high quality.

We want to make the best
moonshine that we possibly can.

You know, moonshine in this area

Was a way of life
for a lot of people.

Narrator:
Mark and digger have set up shop
in cocke county, tennessee,

One of appalachia's
most venerated shine regions.

Cocke county's history
with illegal shine

Stretches back
to the late 1800s

When poor farmers had to make
corn whiskey on the side

To make ends meet.

So during prohibition,
cocke county

And its generations-old network
of shiners

Were primed to meet the growing
demand of illegal booze.

Testament to the county's
capacity to produce liquor,

A 1921 moonshine raid busted up
a network of stillhouses

Holding 20,000 gallons of shine.

That history has produced
a legion of rivals --

The lawmen, trying
to put moonshiners behind bars.

Armando:
You do have people

That still are involved
in producing distilled liquor.

It's something
we're not gonna ignore.

Narrator: For cocke county
sheriff armando fontes,

Taking shiners down
on his home turf is personal.

I moved to this area
when I was 14 years old,

Grew up here as a teenager.

This region is made up
of what they call hillbillies,

People that lived
in the mountains

And survived off the land
and live a hard, rugged life.

The type of areas
that we're going into,

We're always very conscientious
about the suspect being armed.

You never know when someone
may be pushed to the edge

That they'll use lethal force

Against one of us
or one of our officers.

Just a couple of years ago,

We actually had a couple of
individuals that were prosecuted

As a result of an extensive
moonshine operation

Involving 18 stills.

It is problematic

Because of the dangers involved
in a clandestine operation.

[ police radio chatter ]

All right, man.

We've got to make sure

That we look out for the people.

We're called to enforce the law.

If you violate the law,
then we're gonna prosecute it.

Narrator:
A heavy police presence

On the roads of graham county,
north carolina,

Has three shiners at a dead end.

Yep.

Jeff and lance's buyer
in tennessee wants quantity,

But hauling shine
across state lines

Is a risk
they can't afford to take.

If we can get away
from using the bigger roads,

You know, I'm 100% for it.

Yep.

Where we gonna get a pontoon
to start with, though?

Well, if you think we can
get it done, we'll get it.

But while jeff maps out
a way to bootleg on the water,

Up north,
tickle is sticking to the roads.

This guy right here,

He could be the next big buyer
that I'm looking for.

He might love this shine
so much,

Turns all his friends on,

He might be looking
to make him some money.

That's what I need.

Narrator: He's moving shine
as fast as he can

In order to send chico and tyler
the rest of their cut.

But with local abc agents
on the hunt,

He needs to be on guard.

Tickle: All right.

I mean,
out in the middle of nowhere.

[ door opens ]

How's it going?

You must be the man
I'm looking for.

All right.

Ain't too many people
out this damn direction.

All right, 5 gallons, huh?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.

That'll work.

Yeah, we'll get you
loaded up, man.

Be glad to get rid
of them.

I mean, as long as you got
the money for it,

You can have it.

What you think about?
Do you want them?

All right. All right.

All right, all right.
No problem, no problem, man.

[ engine revs ]
aw, man.

[bleep] no.

Get in, man.
He stole the damn shine.

Narrator: Coming up...

Yeah, let's do it.

...Josh and bill's 2-ton decoy.

That's us right there, bill.

And old drills die hard.

[ gunshots ]

[ chuckles ]
nothing wrong with me.

Yeah.

Shh!

Narrator:
On a dusty virginia back road...

You must be the man
I'm looking for.

...Tickle's taking a chance
on a new client

To get his bankroll
in the black.

What you think about?
Do you want them?

All right.
All right.

But his big gamble backfires.

[bleep] no.

Get in, man.

Tickle: [bleep]

Oh [bleep]

[ engine revs ]

[bleep]

This is the last thing I needed
right now.

I don't know what to tell
tyler and chico.

I might not tell them anything.

Narrator:
Over the past few weeks,

The law in graham county
has come close

To what could be
the bust of the decade --

Taking down mark and jeff.

Morning, mark.
Hello, jeff.

They've got hundreds of gallons
of liquor to bootleg,

And the roads
are no longer safe.

But where they're going,
they don't need roads.

Well,
where's your plywood,

And we'll get started
on this thing.

Watch them fingers.

Mark: I just found an old
pontoon boat right in town.

Went and bought it,
just stripped it down.

Just build it back
the way I want it.

This whole thing
could go back a little bit

If it would help
make it run straighter.

We think it's gonna be
a little safer on us

To transport our moonshine
on this vessel.

They ain't out there
patrolling the lakes

Like they are on the road.

Pretty good.

[ tool whirring ]

[ grunts ]

[bleep]

That drill's about had it.

That's one way
to do it.

Been a good drill, though.
I've had that thing a long time.

Gave $11 for it.

That's the end of him.

How you gonna
lay this thing out up here?

Jeff: Yep.

Narrator:
Moonshiners all over appalachia
are feeling the heat.

Josh and bill's
recent run-in with the law

Has them scrambling
to hide their stash.

Bill: Damn. He got acres
down here, ain't he?

Oh, man. He's got the junk,
I'm telling you now.

Already got one picked out?

Yeah, we got
a black chevrolet truck

That don't have a motor

That I think's
gonna be perfect for us, dude.

Bill: As far as getting
our tanks covered up,

I just thought we were
gonna throw some brush on it.

But josh has got this great idea
that's gonna complicate things.

Once he starts getting
crazy ideas in his head,

It's hard to slow him down.

Should be around here
somewhere.

But the cops got our number.

I mean, that lawman hassling us

'cause we had some copper scraps
and some mason jar lids --

I mean,
we just got to be careful,

More careful, from here on out.

What's up?
Good to see you, man.

You ever met bill?

Yeah,
I met him a time or two.

Right on.

[ engine turns over ]

Josh:
I came up with this idea to
cover our hole with a junk car.

We got this old,
beat-up, piece-of-crap,

Two-wheel-drive truck laying
around with no motor in it.

That's us right there, bill.

All we got to do
is pop the hood,

Crawl down into our stash house.

It's perfect.

Now pick it up
and come over some.

Bill: Josh is really good
at coming up with ideas.

But it's usually up to me

To figure out
how we gonna make a plan.

Let's go to the house.

How we gonna get this thing
spanned across our hole?

We're not gonna
have a cave-in on our tanks.

Once we get
the transmission out

And we get
some steel runners in there

And we get the thing
in place,

I think it'll work great,
don't you?

I mean, I'm not saying
it's not a great idea,

But as far as how we're gonna
get the thing in there

And on top of our hole without
it falling through our hole

Is just --

I'm telling you,
the best way to do it

Will be two steel beams

About 2 or 3 foot longer
than the hole

That are strong enough
to hold this truck up

And just drive it out
on it.

I'm all the time coming up
with this idea and that idea.

And bill's more along the lines
of just simple.

He's a simple man.

It doesn't take much
to make bill happy.

Hell, rome wasn't built
in a day, man.

Trust me.
It's a good idea.

[ scoffs ]
yeah.

Trust me.
It's gonna be a good idea.

That wasn't the first time
I've heard you say that.

[ chuckling ] it might mean
something different to me.

We'll give it a shot.

If it don't work,
we'll figure out plan "b."

Narrator: Coming up...

Did you bring
a tape measure with you?

...A little dixie engineering...

Hold on to it.
[ grunts ]

...And a crossroads
in north carolina.

What makes you so paranoid?

They broke into the place
and tried to burn it up.

Is this for real?
How come you never told me this?

Narrator:
Two south carolina moonshiners

Need to safeguard
60-grand-worth of shine.

Bill:
How long we need to cut them?

Did you bring
your tape measure with you?

Got her.

So josh and bill are going big

With a subterranean
moonshine vault.

Trying to get this vehicle
on top of a trap door.

It seems like
the more we get into stuff,

More complicated it gets.

We're dragging out steel I-beams

That are probably
somewhere around,

I don't know, 50, 60 pounds
a linear foot.

I don't know. Maybe we can
get this thing to work out.

Go ahead and cut it.
Let's go and chop her off.

Narrator: Normally,
steel beams cost big bucks.

But josh and bill
called in a favor

From a friend
who owns a salvage yard.

Josh: Your average joe
probably couldn't

Come up with something like this
and actually make it happen.

And if they could
come up with it,

They damn sure ain't got
the initiative

And the motivation
to damn do it.

That's what sets me and bill
aside from everybody else.

When I come up with an idea,
I'm not gonna let "no" stop me.

I'm not gonna let
other people's opinions --

Think about this or that, or
"it's gonna cost you a fortune,"

Or "you've lost your mind,"
"are you crazy?"

I don't let those things
stop me.

Hold on to it.
[ grunts ]

All right.

Bill:
As far as finding a vehicle
to cover up our tanks out there,

This truck that we found...

There she goes, there she goes,
there she goes.

...It's got a lock in the door,
so we got a key to it

So we can get in
and pop the hood,

And it doesn't have
an engine in it,

So it looks like
it's gonna work out perfect.

We got to go this way
a little bit.

Yeah, you got to go
that way a bit.

We gonna have to go back
a couple more feet.

Bang, bang.

Right there.

That's it, right there.

Now we just got
to camouflage it all.

Sounds good to me.

Man, right on the hole.

Do you see what I mean?
This is perfect.

It is a little bit
more complicated

Than I originally
envisioned.

We're out here
with them steel beams.

But it'll work, man.
It's gonna work.

That's just money in the bank,
right there.

It's on like donkey kong.

See, I told you
it was a good idea.

[ laughing ] yeah.

Hey.

Bill: For now, it's safe.

But since lawman
been looking at us,

We've gonna have to figure out
some way

Just to stay under the radar.

Narrator:
A campaign of harassment

Has put two mountain moonshiners
in uncharted territory.

Couple more of those,
then we're happy.

To steer clear
of lawmen waiting in ambush,

Jeff and mark
are staying off he roads.

You want to work on this
trap door a little bit?

Yep.

Mark: This is gonna be the most
important thing about this boat.

If the law comes up on us,

We can drop our load,
be in good shape.

We can open that trap door
and get rid of it,

And nobody will never know.

We can do some fishing, too,
you know.

Narrator:
Mark and jeff's bootlegging boat

Is two 30-foot pontoons

That support an 8-foot-wide
by 8-foot-tall cabin.

Built light and strong,

The structure has windows
on all sides,

Allowing them a 360-degree view

While staying
safely hidden inside.

If the law approaches,

They have a built-in means
of avoiding arrest --

A secret trap door

Through which they can
quickly ditch their shine.

Jeff: I'll hold that as long as
you don't drill my thumb to it.

[ grunts ]

Oh, god.

I'll go get you a band-aid.
Okeydoke.

Jeff: Eh, I ran chainsaws
for 25 years.

I'm used to getting injured
on the job.

Here, I brought some extra.

God.
Pretty bad cut.

Nah, it ain't too bad.

As long as it's still on there,
it'll heal back.

Lot more to building one of
these things than you think.

Let's call it a day,

And we'll come back and work
on her some more tomorrow.

Narrator:
Just 100 miles away,

Tim smith's worm box
is nearly ready to install.

We got to have some kind
of security in here.

Narrator: To ensure his shine
makes it to the store shelves,

He's pulling out all the stops.

I got to rig up some cameras
or something.

I got to get some eyes --
eyes in the sky here, you know?

Back in kentucky, man,

They try to burn
your daggone distillery down.

[ police radio chatter ]

We don't know who started
the fire in lebanon.

And the guy could be really
trying to track me down.

He is still on the loose.

So I got to do something here
to protect this.

Troy: What in the world
are you doing?

Thinking about putting a camera
right here.

I'm gonna put it right here.

Then I was thinking about maybe
putting a camera right here

To look down that way
at that door.

Why are you wanting
to do this?

What? Put a camera up?

Yeah.

Everybody has cameras.

What makes you so paranoid?

If you a moonshiner,
you got to to paranoid.

Well, we're not moonshiners.
We're in a legal distillery.

Well, that's what I thought
when I was in kentucky.

What happened there?

Somebody came in and tried
to burn the place down.

They broke into the place
and tried to burn it up,

And I don't know who it is.

Is this for real?
Yeah.

Are you telling the truth?

How come
you never told me this?

[ stammers ]
come on.

No, I'm coming down.
We're talking about this.

You're trying to tell me

That y'all had a fire
at the distillery in kentucky?

Well, they didn't really
burn the place down.

They just tried to.

But it wasn't
just a natural fire,

Like, from the still.
No, no.

Somebody
broke into the place

And put, like, some gas
on a lot of pallets of stuff,

And then tried
to burn it up.

So it's a for-real
arson deal.

Yeah, that's why

The arson investigator
is involved and the atf.

So, here, have you made

A bunch of enemies
along the way or something, tim?

I mean, come on.

They never did catch
the guy.

See, that's what
I'm talking about.

It could be just in kentucky,
or they could be coming here.

If they was coming here,
we got to be ready.

I'm not --
I'm not up for that.

I'm not up for that.
You see all those barrels?

Troy: I mean, I have a whole
barrel room back there.

That's why we got to get
some cameras.

We got to put some cameras up.

We might need
more than cameras.

My distillery,
this is "troy & sons."

This is about me
and my children.

I don't need to have the threat
of a fire hanging over my head.

And I don't know
if tim is worth it.

Narrator: Coming up...
Oh [bleep]

...Two shiners are caught
off guard.

What do you got a worm for?

What's a worm?

That thing
right over there.

Dad and mark might just be
more accident-prone than me.

Ready.

No, wait, wait,
wait, wait.

Fingers.

[ laughter ]

[ grunts ] I got a piece
of metal in my eye.

Lance: They got hurt.
I didn't.

But I'll be sure to knock on
the next piece of wood I go by.

Climb up here
just a second lance.

Oh, god!
[ inhales sharply ]

[ laughs ]
what did you do?

[ coughs ]

A ball?

[ laughs ]

[ birds chirping ]

Narrator:
In the kentucky wilderness...

[ engine turns over ]

...Chico and tyler
are off the beaten path

And on the move.

Must be
"driving miss daisy."

Yeah. Right?

Where you want to go,
miss daisy?

You sure got
a lot to drink.

These kentucky shiners
have already sent

Two 60-gallon shipments of shine

To virginia for tickle to sell.

All right, man.
Y'all have a good one.

Have a safe trip.

She's pouring
out of there now.

After a series of successful
runs near tyler's farm,

They've stockpiled
over 50 more gallons of liquor.

Get this [bleep] off of here.

Now they're hiding their stash

In a blind they built
deep in the back woods.

[ grunts ]

That's weight
right there, son.

I can't never
get used to that.

We go right through here,

And I think we can get
right back there to it.

Chico:
When it comes to making liquor,

You don't want to keep nothing
on you,

You don't want to keep nothing
at your house,

And you sure as hell don't want
no liquor at your still site.

Whoa.

Let me go over here
and open the door.

If somebody comes in here
and finds all this,

It could be anybody's.

It ain't like we write our name
on the barrels.

[ grunts ] oh.

Narrator:
But while these kentucky shiners

Have been busy stocking up
for the next shipment,

There's been no word from their
partner across state lines.

Now let's go ahead
and give tickle a call

And see
what the hell's going on.

We sent 60 gallons of liquor
to virginia with tickle.

[ ringing ]

Tyler: He ain't called and said
that it's got there,

Hadn't told us he's got it sold
or nothing.

I ain't heard nothing from him.

That kind of makes me worry
a little bit

About what his intentions are.

What's going on, brother?

You been moving shine?

How much
have you got gone?

Well, we was starting to think
you'd got caught.

We ain't heard
nothing from you in a while.

Well, so, how long you reckon
it might be

Before you get rid
of all that?

Well, you just -- you just keep
in touch with us, buddy.

Just keep us in the loop,
let us know what is going on.

Well, we gonna wait
till this is gone here

Till we send any more.

We got to get some return
on our investment,

That's for damn sure.

Give us a call, brother.
Keep us in the loop.

All right, brother.
Take it easy, man.

Something about that
don't sit right with me.

60 gallon.
He can't move 60 gallon?

[ sighs ]

I don't know, man.

We dropped 60 gallons off
last year

[snaps fingers]
and got paid.

There's a big demand

For good moonshine
right here in kentucky,

And we're gonna try

To supply some of that
while we're waiting.

Get this thing covered up.

How's it look?
Looks good.

Let's get the hell
out of here.

Narrator: Deep in the blue ridge
mountains of tennessee...

When we gonna make a trip
to the scrap yard?

We got way too much scrap
laying around.

...Mark and digger
are putting the final touches

On retrofitting
the shotgun condenser

They inherited from
their mentor, popcorn sutton.

We can use that to make
an extension on thump arm.

Yeah.
It'll be good.

We'll just go ahead and make it
to length to start with.

This will be plenty good.

I believe it will.

This little bit of rain's
come up.

If it don't quit,
we'll move inside.

Oh [bleep]

Mark, look over yonder.
Mark!

Look over yonder.

That's the sheriff.

Get.
Boys, get that camera gear --

Get the hell out of here.
You can't be here.

Hey.

Armando:
Good, good, good.

Okay.

Armando: Okay.

Digger: All right.

That's okay.

Narrator:
Next time on "moonshiners"...

[ cutie pie barking ]

Josh:
Cutie pie, come here.

...Beware of dogs...

[ dog barks ]

...Full steam ahead...

Tim: Got to find out
what sensor's doing what here.

Narrator:
...And bootleggers go belly-up.

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