Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 5, Episode 16 - End of an Era - full transcript

I love being a moonshiner 'cause
Making moonshine is fascinating.

It's like an ultimate
Science project

That you get to get paid
From when you're done.

There's a thrill
From running from the law,

Hiding from the law,
Making moonshine in the woods.

You just can't get that feeling
From nothing else.

Daylight hours are fading,
Mercury levels are dropping,

And moonshine
Throughout appalachia

Is slowing to a trickle.

The time of year

For making
Artisanal outlaw whiskey



Is coming to a close,

But there are still
A few shiners

Who are pushing
On to the bitter end.

In tennessee...

Here it comes.

...Two titans of the trade
Can't escape the blade.

We've got to get the hell
Out of here.

You can't outrun
A helicopter.

In virginia,

One big liquor operation

Is stretched
Way past its limits.

Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.

Yeah, you got it over.

Turn the boiler down,
Chuck!



Oh, man.

And in north carolina,

Closing down for the season

Doesn't mean you're
Out of the woods.

Boys,
Get them cameras down.

Turn them lights off.
-there's blue lights.

There's blue lights
Everywhere.

♪ no one can hold me down ♪

♪ or make me change my ways ♪

♪ so don't waste your breath
Saying ♪

♪ crime never pays ♪

♪ we're going for a ride ♪

♪ running to survive ♪

♪ and living outside the law ♪

♪ we're living
Outside the law ♪

This is how
We make the moonshine!

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It's cold as *bleep*

It's a lot of work
To do this by yourself.

On an autumn morning
In south carolina,

The smell of cherries
Is in the air.

The leaves are falling off,
Wintertime's right on us,

And we're out here making shine.

Everything's ready to go.

We just got to fill
Our worm up with water.

After breaking up
With his best friend

And longtime partner, bill...

I just can't work with you
No more.

...Josh's moonshining
Season hit a desperate low.

Holy crap.

But from the chaos
Emerged clarity.

A generations-old family
Recipe using local cherries

And sourwood honey

Has become josh's only shot

At hitting
His 1,000-gallon season goal.

It's my heritage
To be making cherry bounce.

Me and cutie pie,

We're gonna reach
Our 1,000-gallon mark by spring

With or without bill.

I'm able
To make shine all winter long.

And it's because I was able
To make this room.

It's heated

And all because of
This little burner right here.

Typical moonshine
Season ends each fall

When temperatures drop
Below 50 degrees, the point

At which the yeast
And mash go dormant,

Halting fermentation.

Not one to be foiled
By mother nature, josh

Has insulated his mash room

To ensure the shine
Can keep flowing

Throughout the colder months.

Not having a partner --

It's kind of tough to do
All this stuff by yourself.

This is the one person right
Here that sticks by my side

No matter what I do

Or how much bitchin' I do.

You know, she don't have thumbs,

So I can't give her
A five-gallon bucket

And tell her
To run it up the hill.

Cutie pie keeps me a lot
Of company,

But it gets kind of
Boring to not have a partner.

It's a hell of a lot of work.

It's hard to find somebody
That you trust,

And there's not very many days

That go by that
I don't regret what happened.

You miss bill?

Hmm?

Hot dog.

This is my second
Successful runs

Of cherry bounce

Without jim tom or anybody else.

I got a big sale lined up.

You can taste that right there.

It makes all this heartache

And pain --
All this *bleep*

I've been going through
Makes it all worthwhile.

This run
Should produce 60 gallons,

Which can sell for $12,000.

I don't want
To drink too much more.

I won't be able
To damn carry this

*bleep* out of here. But...

Over in north carolina,
Temperatures are dropping

And jeff, mark,
And lance are coming to terms

With the end
Of moonshine season.

You might come out tomorrow
And it be cold all day.

It's been a rough season
For these mountain men.

Look out, boys!
Run! *bleep*

But they turned it all around

And were able
To distill their goal

Of 400 gallons

By focusing
On specialty liquors,

Including scotch,
Peach-infused whiskey,

And a president rye recipe
From george washington himself.

We've got go get everything
Out as quick as we can,

Make sure there's nothing
That can be traced back to us.

One little jar left,
Any kind of evidence,

They're gonna find out
That this was a moonshine setup.

Yeah, you know...

In the u.S.,

A combination of crop harvests

And immigrant populations

Have driven the appearance
Of regional liquor varieties.

Abundant corn crops
Made the american south famous

For sour mash whiskey.

And in the north

Where cold-resistant rye
Grew more readily,

Rye whiskey
Was a regional favorite.

Rum distillers were always
Near sea ports

Where shipments of molasses
Were received.

And the seasonal fruit harvests

That swept northward
And southward gave birth

To favorites like applejack,
Cherry bounce,

And persimmon brandy.

But in major cities
Like new york,

Where agriculture played
A smaller role,

It was immigrant groups
Who gave rise

To modern versions
Of old-world liquors.

During the 1870s,

The irish, who populated
The neighborhoods

Of the brooklyn waterfront

Brewed potato-based poitin,
Whiskey, and rum.

And in the eastern
European neighborhood

Of manhattan's lower east side,

Nearly every tenement building

Had a still pumping out
Homemade potato vodka.

It's kind of an unwritten rule
With moonshiners

That once you leave a site,

You've left it for good

Because people's gonna find it
And they're gonna come back

When summer hits just to see

What was going on during
The summer.

While the still
Site is simple to clean up,

There's one last piece
Of unfinished business.

I make moonshine --
My dad's recipe.

You know, it took many years
To make this.

Not the bottle,
But to make the moonshine in it.

In virginia,
Tim smith

Is 10 days and 2,000 cases
Of moonshine

Away from delivering
The order of a lifetime.

My dad -- he worked on this

Probably I'd say 60 years,
I guess.

And I've fooled around

And played with it
For probably 30 years,

I guess, myself.

It looks like it's big time.

We're still
Making it the same way

We did 100 years ago.

Tim teamed up with chuck

At his belmont farm distillery

To expand his output.

But he may have overstepped
Capacity

When he promised
10,000 cases of shine

To a european distributor
By the end of october.

We're gonna have
To 24 hours a day

Until we get
This initial run done.

Belmont farm has been running
Around the clock,

Stretching the small craft
Distillery to its limits.

Thank god
If we can keep things moving,

We can get 'er done.

We got this tank almost ready.

This tank is gonna be ready.

Tyler's on the other side

Grinding up some more corn
So we can mash it

And it'll come back
Into this tank.

That's
What it looks like

Before it turns
Into moonshine right there.

Just put a little sugar with it,
And you're ready to roll.

Well, right now,
We've made 8,000 cases.

We got 2,000 more cases
To make yet.

Never in my life I've ever,
Ever did anything like this.

We're gonna have
To continuous run 24 hours a day

For at least like
Six weeks straight.

You know, it's no days
Off, it's no time off.

You get off 12 and you work 12.

Chuck has two 3,000-gallon
Mash tanks

Feeding into
One 2,000-gallon pot.

If the overworked
Pot goes down now,

The entire operation
Will go kaput for weeks.

Okay.

We're coming
Right down to the wire

On this poland order,

And it's taken its toll.

I got to thinking
In the beginning, you know,

Is this equipment gonna be able
To take this kind of pressure,

But now I'm starting to wonder

If we'regonna be able to take
The pressure of it, 'cause

That'll wear on you
After a while

When you're really
Doing this more

Than you are sleeping.

Let's go see
What chuck's doing.

I think he's still asleep.

Chuck!

Got to watch the still.
-huh?

Just need to keep
Everything rolling.

Keep the still going.

It's around the clock rush,

And the hazards
Of working long hours.

A lot of time,
Tension gets built up.

If an accident
Happens off a mistake,

If something breaks down,

It's just gonna
Get us behind again.

Oh, man, that's tasting good.

We're running about 140 proof
Right there.

Yeah.
We need to save that.

Uh-oh, uh-oh.

Oh, man.

Coming up...

My guy called, and he wants
66 gallon of liquor.

You can't turn that away.

...Mark and digger
Press their luck.

We've got to get the hell
Out of here.

Two north carolina
Shiners are caught in a dragnet.

-uh-oh.
-oh, gosh, jeff.

Get them cameras down.

Alligator, fries,
Hush puppies, moonshine.

And moonshine season
Is drawing to a close.

I'm doing all the things
I wanted to do.

I just wish bill was here
To share it.

In virginia,

In order to meet
His poland deadline, tim

Has overworked himself
And belmont farm's equipment.

Yeah.

If anything happens right now,
It could be a disaster.

If I don't make this order,
You know,

The trust between me and
The international distributor --

You know, that could be lost.

We need to save that.

Uh-oh, uh-oh.

Let me see
What it looks like.

Yeah.

That's a couple gallons
Of moonshine

We done lost right there.

You put too much
Heat in it

And it kind
Pressurized the tanks.

That's probably
Why it blew that seal out, too.

A poorly circulating
Boiler has leaked mash.

It's only a small amount
Of liquor

But could mean bigger bumps
On the road ahead.

There's a whole
Lot going on here.

You know, I know the
Sheriff's found our other spot.

Damn, did you have
To pick us this far back?

Well, I wanted
To keep us hid.

In tennessee, mark
And digger are on the move

To avoid the long arm
Of the law.

That's where we need to be.

It's been a pretty tough year,

And we were deciding
To button up a little bit early.

And my guy called

And he wants
66 gallons of liquor.

You can't turn that away.

Can you just raise it up?

Tilt it
Towards you or something?

Yeah, I can bring her back
This way.

We got to get this thing done.

We're in for a long, long day.

After the sheriff came knocking,

Mark and digger
Thought their season was over.

What's that?

"Sorry I missed you guys.
I'll catch you later."

It says "Sheriff."

Let's get our ice
Out of here.

hello?

But a last-minute call
From a returning customer

Is promising them the biggest
Sale of the season...

...If they can make

A few more runs
Of corn whiskey.

66 gallons is a lot of work.

We're behind the 8 ball,

Thanks to the sheriff
And the message he sent us.

Let me see
If this'll slide in there.

We got our old faithful still.

We're doing straight corn run.

We're kind
Of against it time-wise,

But we feel good about it.

We're golden there, buddy.

We can get to cooking.

Let's get that mash pumped.

-you ready?
-yep.

I hear it coming.

There we go.

We're gonna pump the mash
Out of the fermenting barrels

Into the pot, light
This bad boy up,

And get this damn liquor made.

You got
The lighting utensil?

Yep.

Oh, yeah.
I believe we're dandy.

All the smells that are mixed
In here tonight --

You know, a good fire,
You can smell that mash.

You know, it's brought back
A lot of memories tonight.

When we got done years ago,

Making liquor
At popcorn's,

We'd go out front, build us
A little fire out there,

And sit around and have us
A beer after we got done.

Oh, that's pretty.

That's gonna
Be some of the finish liquor

That's ever been made
In the world.

You know,
You can still smell that mash

Still steaming in there
As the pot was cooling off.

That's what hit us in the crease
And it still kind of

Makes us feel
A little more reminiscent today.

Feel that paste --
How hard it's done set up.

Oh, we're hot,
Hot right here.

Ooh, damn.

We're liable to have liquor
Out of this thing.

Oh, I'd say we will.

Here it comes.

That's good, hot liquor.

Hell, yeah.

That's a hell of a stream
Of liquor coming out of there.

I feel really,
Really good about it.

Ready? Move.

It's just now 1:20
In the morning.

We're gonna be making liquor
All night long.

With 15 gallons down

And 51 to go,

Mark and digger

Will need to run
Into the wee hours

Of the morning
To meet their order.

I'm really happy right now.

We've worked really,
Really hard

To get this run together
In such a short period of time.

It's all about to come together
And pay off now.

That's what moonshining's
All about.

You want me to help
Your broke-down ass up?

Up, down.

Hell, me and digger --

We're not as good of shape

As we need to be
To work this hard,

But I think we've made
Some really good liquor.

You get to that big pile
Of bear *bleep* bear right.

Oh, hell, digger.

In north carolina,
Jeff and mark

Are transporting 60 gallons
Of illegal shine

Across the state line.

-yeah, yeah.
-it will.

There's a buyer
Waiting in tennessee,

And if if all goes as planned,

They'll hit
Their $100,000 season goal.

Yeah.

...It's actually
From his original recipe.

Transporting
And selling moonshine

Across the state line

Can earn the boys
Up to five years in prison

And $100,000 in fines.

It will.

Yeah.

Uh-oh.

Oh, gosh.

Boys, get them cameras down.

Turn them lights off.
-there's blue lights.

There's blue lights
Everywhere out here.

Boys,
Get them cameras down.

Turn them lights off.
-there's blue lights.

There's blue lights
Everywhere out here.

Across the state line
In tennessee,

Jeff and mark have hit
The end of the road.

There's 60 gallons

Of george washington rye
In the back,

Enough to put them behind bars

For the next five years.

Hang on just a second.

Lord have mercy.

Okay. I'll do it.

Okay.
We appreciate it.

Oh, god.

Talking about nervous.
Oh, lord.

Yeah.

-bring her around.
-okie doke.

-okay.
-thank you, boys.

Okay,
Let's get out of here.

We set a goal
For $100,000.

I think we're a little
Over $100,000.

I bet we can make it
All winter

And we got some
We can start back on next year.

Mark, he's a good partner.

We growed up together.

We've made
A lot of liquor together.

She's running, boy!

I got 60 gallons in the back
Of the truck right now.

We're going to meet my buddy
*bleep*

Who's gonna lift
The entire load off my hands

At one time.

In south carolina,

Josh's cherry bounce gamble
Is about to pay off.

This is the largest
Sale I've made,

And you know,
It's just kind of bittersweet.

It feels
Like something's missing.

But he's not the only shiner
Looking to make a sale.

We're gonna see
If we can't make a sale tonight.

The whole part
Of making and selling liquor,

The sale is pretty much
The riskiest part.

If I get pulled over,
I'm going to the penitentiary.

I'm not talking
About to the county slammer,

Get out next week.

I'm talking about years
Of my life down the drain.

Most of the stuff that you're
Gonna get away with is gonna

Be right up
Under people's noses.

As far as hiding,
You got to keep a low profile.

This is the perfect cover.

I've been waiting all season
To use this water truck.

This man
I'm gonna make a sale to --

I've known him for a while.

He's got the demand,
I got the supply.

When you go to making your shine
Out of local cherries, honey --

You want it flavored,

You're gonna pay a little bit
More money for it.

What's happening?
-good to see you, man.

Good to see you.

Man, I've been keeping
Things balanced, man.

It's not moving
Like it was?

There's a bunch of it.

A lot of times
After you get there,

People know that you don't want

To travel back
Home with the stuff,

So they'll try to negotiate,

Whittle you down that much more.

I trust it's all here.

Can't do $100 a gallon?

-$70?
-yeah.

I mean, you've always been
A dependable customer.

That'll work.
That'll work.

With everything's
That gone down,

There's no way
At all I'm gonna be able

To even come close to the money
I was hoping to make this year.

Bills keep on coming

Whether or not I'm making
100 gallons of liquor,

Whether or not I'm making
10 gallons of liquor,

So I'm gonna have
To do something.

We worked our asses
Off all season,

But we finally made some money.

After all
The slopping around

In the mud
And the fighting

And the damn sweatin'
In the sun and the bleeding...

...My operation just made me
Damn $12,000 in cash.

I got to go stash this money.

Pretty excited about that.

We almost there, tyler.

How you doing, tim?
You keeping up?

I'm doing pretty good.

A deadline
Is fast approaching in virginia,

And in order to finish
Tim's 10,000-case order,

The belmont distillery
Is firing on all cylinders.

Well, the truckers due
In here.

I know it is.

We ain't got
But one more run.

After six full weeks

Of nonstop shining, tim
Is down to his last 300 cases...

I got to check
On this mash tank, too.

You do -- yeah, I mean,
Who's doing the mash,

And who's the doing the cook,
And who's running the still?

...And a truck is on the way
To make the pickup.

-let me go check this tank.
-all right.

My dad always told me
"Work between your ears."

"If you work between your ears
Up there,

Use your brain," he says,
"That way, it's more efficient."

Your back
And your arms

And your legs
Doing it over again --

He said,
"That just gets your tired."

How many brains
You know get tired?

Uh, we're getting down
To about 140.

That thing rolling in it.

Oh, yeah.

As soon as they finish,
We make some more.

Tim! I'm out of whiskey!
What happened?

You shut down in there?

-I can't run anymore.
-it ain't running?

10 people on the line,

Bottles are moving,
Everything's going great.

All of sudden,
There's no more whiskey.

It goes from there
Into here and here.

I can hear it pouring
Into this tank right here,

So it's got to be
Right here.

I don't know what's going on.

All I know is that the tank
Is full of moonshine

And it's not coming
Out of the pipe.

There's got to be a blockage,
A stoppage.

No bottling's being done.

Everybody's standing around
Looking like,

"Oh, are we out of moonshine?"

There must be something
Stopped up, then, you know?

We're on a time factor here.

The truck is coming,

And if we can't figure out
What's going on, then, you know,

I may lose a distributor.

If I lose a distributor,

I'm gonna lose
A contract in poland

And the deal is gonna be off.

I'm shut down.
Ain't nothing I can do.

We got this big order to get out
And I can't get any whiskey!

In virginia,

Production at belmont farm

Is dead in the water...

I don't know
What's causing that.

...And a truck is on the way

To pick up the last 300 cases
Of climax moonshine.

Well, this is a holding
Tank, okay?

This is a holding tank
That stages it

Before it goes
Into the filtering process

To go into the bottling line.

And evidently, something
Got right there and stopped up.

This is a major problem.

We're on a time factor here.

The truck is coming,
But right now I can't bottle.

And that's all gonna
Back up to the distributors.

You know,
I'm gonna be looking bad,

And I may lose the contract.

Belmont farm distillery
Operates much the same way

As any backwoods operation,

Only on a much bigger scale.

Organic corn, water,

And sugar are cooked
In the boiler.

Once the mix is cooled,

It's combined
With yeast and pipe

To a large fermentation tank.

Once fermented,
The mash is pumped

To chuck's 2,000-gallon
Prohibition-era copper pot

Still for distillation.

The distilled alcohol
Is then sent to a storage tank

Where it awaits bottling
And shipping.

But a block in the pipe

From the storage tank
To the bottling machine

Has stopped progress dead
In its tracks.

Is there a way
To get it out, chuck?

I keep a piece of wire around.

Always keep a piece
Of wire around.

All right.
Now, I'm counting on you.

Tim's wiggling his wire here.

I got it, chuck.

He got it.
Oh, here it comes.

-I got it, chuck.
-unbelievable.

Whatever that is --
Look at that.

Oh, man,
That's a hose.

That's probably

What we used to put water
In there with the house.

A little thing like that

You wouldn't think
Would stop a big operation.

Here we are trying
To make 10,000 cases,

And a little thing like that
Could really slow you down.

All right,
Let's get that line rolling!

We got a truck to fill!

Just finding this thing
Was like a lot of pressure off.

One moment, I'm thinking --
"Wow, the truck is coming."

You know, if the distributor's
Mad, I'm gonna lose a contract,

And all of that within
Like two minutes

Went through my mind.

All right,
We got some more coming, tim.

Let's finish up
This order, man!

What a relief.

'cause this is the most
Moonshine

I've ever made in my life,

Especially in a six-week period.

To get it all done
With all the, you know,

Struggles and up and downs
And mechanical problems.

-last one, chuck.
-last one! Here it comes!

Last one.
This finishes the order.

We accomplished
What we set out to do.

That man's wrapped a pallet
Before.

I'm going down low
With it, you see?

Then I'm gonna go high.
-all right.

It felt so good

To put that plastic
On that pallet,

And I'm really happy
For tim 'cause

The way it looks,

There's gonna be a lot
Of happy polish people

With a lot of good moonshine
On the way.

Look at -- look at chuck.
Look at chuck.

The old-school -- look.

How you like that, huh?

All right. Let's get this thing
On the truck!

I want the show
On the road!

Yeah!

Just looking back at myself,

Coming from kind of a small-time
Illegal setup to international,

Going to poland...

All right, here we go.

This is it.
-all right.

...It's kind
Of a miracle, I guess, you know?

It's still kind of overwhelming.

What's it weigh? 2,000 pounds?
-last one!

But I really think my dad would
Be proud of my accomplishments.

I think we brought something
To the table

That they haven't actually
Tasted before.

This is american moonshine.

This is real-deal, american,
Homegrown moonshine.

Tyler, you open it.
I'll get a glass!

There you go, huh?

Look.
Chuck got professional.

Chuck done
Got sophisticated on us.

-yeah.
-yeah. Huh?

Thank you.
-here's to the next order.

Cheers to the next order,
Huh?

All right, guys.

Ahh.

Homegrown moonshine.

Homegrown moonshine.

Don't be running
Over the speed limit.

No, I don't want to draw
No attention to us at all.

If you see me getting
A little heavy-footed,

You slow my ass down.

Over in tennessee,

After running all night,

Mark and digger are on the way

To unload their last 66 gallons
Of the season.

We're headed out here
To meet my guy.

He's coming in his helicopter.

Mark doesn't know this.

Helicopters to us --
That's bad news.

That equals police.

Of course, I joke with mark
All the time,

So I'm just gonna
Let him be surprised.

You know,
He loves a good surprise.

Let's see how he handles it.

This is the damn
Payoff point.

It's a pretty dandy
Payoff, too.

Yes, it is.

66 gallons is a super-big sale
For us to make at one time.

Damn sure wasn't easy
To get to this point,

Though, was it?

I don't like to be on
No kind of schedule,

But for a damn sack
Full of money,

I'll make an exception.

I've always said,
"Go big or go home."

We're used to selling a jar
Here, a couple of cases here.

This much at one time, you know,
It's $10,000 payday.

This is it.

He said the corn
Fields down here.

I don't see nobody.

Do you see a vehicle?

No, I don't see nothing.

Let's see if he's down here
To the right.

I don't like that.

Well, you know him.

I mean, is he usually
Pretty on time?

He's either way.

He can be way early
Or way late.

Way late ain't gonna count
For us

With a truckload of liquor.

We're driving out
Into an open corn field,

And really nowhere to hide.

Digger, I'm gonna get over here
In these trees.

Yeah. We get in behind that,
Nobody can see us.

I mean, he might even
Come in behind us

Or we can come up
Through here.

Well, he's --
This is the only road in.

I'm a little bit
Uneasy about this.

I mean,
66 gallons of liquor

Is some serious, serious time.

Let's give him
About five more minutes,

And then we'll just have
To make another plan.

Well,
I'm good with that.

Oh, *bleep*

That's a damn helicopter.

We've got to get the hell
Out of here.

You can't outrun
A helicopter.

Oh *bleep*

Let's give him
About five more minutes,

And then we'll just have
To make another plan.

In tennessee,
Mark and digger

Are anxiously awaiting a buyer

To make their final sale
Of the season.

*bleep*

That's a damn helicopter.

We've got to get the hell
Out of here.

You can't outrun
A helicopter.

-calm down.
-calm down? Hell.

That's *bleep*
That's my guy.

That's him
In the helicopter?

In the helicopter.

So we're all right.

*bleep* damn.

My heart just jumped up
In my chest, out of my chest.

You're okay.

This helicopter
Just caused me to have

A *bleep* hemorrhage.

You know I'm gonna have to clean
My britches now, don't you?

It's about time you did
Anyhow.

Digger and I --

We have a wide range of people
That's buying our liquor --

Rich people, poor people,

But I've never bootlegged
In a helicopter before.

This is something new
To add to our damn things

We've done.

Hey, buddy.

You made mark
*bleep* all over himself.

damn, it's good to see you,

*bleep*
I thought it was the po-po.

That look good, digger?
Is that what we worked for?

Pretty good.

Check this and see
If it suits you.

Just wet your lips
With it.

See if it suits you.

Yeah, you probably
Don't get too deep in it

And take that damn helicopter
Back up.

No, helicopters
And alcohol don't mix.

Yeah, this is a bunch
Of liquor.

It ain't too much weight
For you, is it?

No.

how do you pull
An aircraft over?

I ain't figured that one out.

If we keep up with sales
Like this,

I may just buy me a helicopter
In a couple of years.

Well.

Hey, we appreciate you,
My brother.

-thank you, sir.
-thank you.

We're gonna get out of here.
Hope you enjoy it.

Well.

That's what it
All about right there,

Ain't it, buddy?
Merry christmas.

Let's see it.

Come on.

Ain't nothing pretty like
A stack of hundreds, are they?

That's our season.
We're done.

You know, it was a lot of bad
Things went wrong this season,

And to end our season
On a sale like this

And put this 10 grand
In our hand,

You know, it kind of makes
All those things

Not seem so severe
Or memorable anymore.

I say let's go take it easy
For the wintertime.

I say I'm with you.

Hey, I'll tell you.

When I heard that helicopter,
I didn't know whether to *bleep*

Or to go blind.

Did you know that he was coming
In a helicopter?

'cause you know,

When I said
That he said he's coming --

Boy, would you look
At the time?

You can tell me now.

You done proved your point.

But did you know it
And not tell me?

Do you hear that thunder?

Boy, you're
A sorry bastard.

Mark and digger

Aren't the only ones
Taking in a hard-won victory.

You know
What we're gonna do next?

What's that?

Asia!

Oh, tim.

I believe
We've exceeded our goal.

Less worry
About the moonshine

And getting caught --
Not till spring, anyway.

Moonshiners
Across appalachia

Are enjoying the fruits
Of their labor.

We're having alligator,
White perch, fries,

Hush puppies, moonshine.

Jalapeño moonshine.

This is what you try
To make it home for every day,

Is to be with your family.

Some are even
Celebrating new partnerships...

Ooh, perfect.

The bootlegging
This year was so smooth.

I know we've made
At least 200 gallons.

If me and her can do

What we've done
In five to six weeks,

I'd like to see

What me and her pull off
Through a whole season.

-we met our goal.
-yeah, that's right.

I'm really proud to be able
To say that we met our goal.

Let's cover this back up.

...And other come to terms
With going solo.

Me and bill are brothers.

I know what kind
Of heart this man has,

And I think that's
What makes him my best friend.

No matter what this old world
Throws at us,

My brother's always
Right there for me.

Not very many people
That got friends like that.

I'd say without josh,
I'd almost stagnate.

He keeps me on my toes.

Life would be boring
Without josh.

Unless something crazy happens,

I see us being brothers
Till the day we die.

I'm gonna try
To build an oak barrel,

Gonna try to age some whiskey.

It's gonna take a lot
More energy, a lot more effort,

And a lot more time to end up
With this aged liquor,

But I think it's gonna
Pay off in the end.

Moonshiners, I mean,

We're a pretty small
Tight-knit community.

You know, you won't never hear
Me go bad-mouthing about josh.

If he keeps on,

If he can get back up
And running,

He's gonna be making
And selling a lot more liquor

Than I'm capable of.

You know,
As long

As I can still
Sell enough just

To stay afloat
And pay my bills,

I really do wish him success.

I could really use another set
Of hands on this.

But it's just not gonna be
The two of us together, is all.

Well, I'm here.
I'm at my last stop.

But in the land of outlaws,

No moonshiner
Is every truly alone.

I'm here at bill's house.

This was part his operation,

And I feel responsible

That he's not here
Working with us now.

I got a stack of hundreds here
That I'm gonna give bill.

I bet you $100
He'll blow his motor

When he comes out in the morning

And he finds thousands
Of dollars in his mailbox.

Everything's looking up for me.

I'm making
A new moonshine,

I've upped my production,

I'm making it in
The winter.

I'm doing all the things
I wanted to do.

I just wish bill was here
To share it.