Moonshiners (2011–…): Season 8, Episode 1 - Legacy on the Line - full transcript

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Reporter:
It's been a busy year so far

For alcoholic beverage
Control agents.

He was busted by abc agents
For selling moonshine.

Reporter #2: 250 gallons,

An over $10,000
Illegal operation.

This is cased product here
And these glass jugs, as well.

This is a result of good,
Old-fashioned police work.

Reporter #3:
Abc agents dismantled

The moonshine still



And containers
Of the illegal hooch.

Reporter #2: investigators were
Unable to locate it until now.

[ police radio chatter ]

Tickle: as you can see,
It's bubbling away right now.

That means it's working.

Reporter #3: abc agents are
Warning the public...

Man: if you get into making it,

You're gonna
Be looking at a felony.

[ helicopter blades whirring ]

And eventually,
We're gonna get you.

[ glass breaking ]

It's not gonna be a good day.

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Law enforcement's
Stepping up their game



Against us.

Our legends are dying.

Their heritage
Is on the line.

If we're gonna live
Long enough free,

To carry this craft on
And share it

With the next generation,

It's time we fight to
Save our way of life

Before it's gone forever.

Narrator: on this episode
Of "Moonshiners,"

A high-speed wreck
Means a rough start

For one north carolina shiner.

Six punctured ribs
Are not cool at all.

There's what's on
That game camera.

Narrator:
Call to justice in tennessee.

We want mike in front of us.

How much rye you got?

Should be maybe
2,000 bushels.

Narrator: and betting
The farm in virginia.

What about later
Down the road,

If something happened,
And a storm comes

And destroys
Some of this stuff?

This stuff is like that.

You never really
Know what you got...

-until you can't get it back.
-exactly.

♪ no one can hold me down ♪

♪ or make me change my ways ♪

♪ goin' for a ride ♪

♪ runnin' to survive ♪

♪ when you're livin'
Outside the law ♪

♪ we're livin'
Outside the law ♪

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Man: this is how
We make the moonshine!

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Discovery communications

Narrator:
Under a shroud of secrecy,

A brotherhood of
Moonshiners bound by craft

And a commitment to tradition,

Gather in one place
For the very first time.

-what's that?
-there you go, boys.

Digger: that's a little bit
Of popcorn's liquor.

Jim tom: you know,
That's hard to come by,

What he made.

Yeah, yeah, it's
Hard to come by.

Well, I don't wear
A sport coat many times,

But we're here for
A humbling reason.

One of our own has
Left us once again.

I called y'all in here
So we can honor roy grooms,

A damn fine man in my book.

Ramsey: how long did you
Know roy, jim tom?

40 years at the least.

Me and him,
We stuck together.

Give me my utensils.

If I was a doctor, I'd
Hire you as my assistant.

Roy: and you say
It's the proper key.

I'll make you take
The honky-tonk.

Give me your money!

Or you're gonna
Pry me, huh?

If I were gonna rob a bank,

What would you put
Over your head?

I'd put panty hose.

They'd never know who
I was, would they?

As long as you kept
Your mouth shut.

Digger: kelly, set that
Chair up over there

I brought here.

That's roy grooms' chair.

Set that right over
There next to jim tom.

He might not be here physically,

But he's here spiritually.

Kelly, you're over
There at the chair,

Give roy a little drink
Over in his chair.

Give old roy a slug.

He shared a lot with
Each and every one of us

Around this table at some point.

But the sad fact remains,
Our legends are dying.

You know, law enforcement,

They're stepping
Up their game against us.

If we're gonna live
Long enough free

To carry this craft
On and share it

With the next generation,

We've gotta be ever mindful
To every corner we turn,

We gotta look behind every tree.

Do your level best
To conceal yourselves.

Our heritage is on the line.

Well, boys, I'm gonna
Call on my brother

By another mother,
Mark wayne ramsey,

To have a little prayer
Before we close this out.

Will you stand up,
Please?

Ramsey: you know, things are
Changing in our world.

We're under the gun
More and more.

Heavenly father,
We come to you today.

Show us how to do
More right by you.

Help our brother, fellow man.

We need to not get complacent.

We need to be vigilant, be safe,

Keep our eyes open,
And continue forward.

In your precious
Son's name, amen.

All: amen.

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I got a bad-ass bike.

[ motorcycle revving ]

[ crashing ]

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Right now, we're down
At daytona beach.

Come down here to race
Antique motorcycles.

And long story short,
I blew a tire out

Doing about somewhere between
80-100 miles an hour.

[ crashing ]

I went over the handlebars,

Pancaked the pavement,
And tumbled into the wall.

I'm broken six ways from sunday.

Here's my broken nose...

My black eyes.

I got some *bleep* on my chin.

And six punctured ribs
Are not cool at all.

I'm really in hell of a shape.

I'm gonna have a lot of
Doctor bills to pay for.

I really need to get
Home to make moonshine

And put money in my pocket.

I need every penny I can get
My hand on right now.

It's gonna be a while
Before I'm back to toting

50-gallon drums and
Setting up big still sacks.

But I will be making shine,
One way or another.

It's not gonna stop me,
It's just a bit of a...

Well, a bit of a roadblock
For a little while.

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It's springtime.
We gotta get started.

Our season's upon us.

We've got a little bit
Of manufacturing to do

And try to make sure that
All of our equipment's

In good working order,
And get some liquor

Generated here in the
Next coming weeks.

Narrator:
In the foothills of appalachia,

Two veteran outlaws are prepping

For their most
Challenging season yet.

Ramsey: well, here we are.

Our new location.

Hey, puss!

Digger: yo!

We're in mine and
Mark's headquarters,

If you will.

It's a laboratory,
It's a repair shop,

And it's a place
For us to hang out

And discuss our business.

I know it's starting
Of the season stuff,

And we got work to do,
But we're gonna have

To address the situation
With mike

Of blowing
That still up.

Before we can make
A drop of liquor this year,

We've got a situation
We've got to rectify.

Narrator:
Last season, in order to expand

Their moonshine empire,
Mark and digger hired

Their trusted friend kelly

To run straight corn liquor
At a separate site.

Boy, she's clear.

That's the flavor
We want, guys.

But when rival shiner mike

Began selling
In their territory...

Mike: I'm not trying
To step on nobody's toes.

I can show you 30-40 tombstones

With the words,
"I was born."

Narrator: ...Tempers flared.

That's our damn still.
What the hell's he done?

Ooh!

Damn,
That son of a bitch!

Really?

I don't really know how
To make contact with him.

Well, I think I do.

Daniel maynor, that's
Mike cochler's partner.

Daniel, that boy's raised
Around here.

Mike wasn't.

We'll talk to daniel,
And we'll tell him

Put mike in front of us.

He knows how this
Country code is

In these damn mountains.

That's right.

Ramsey: people that grow up
In this region,

That's in this
Culture, you know,

They understand it.

The way this happened
And went down

Was total disrespect of
Our rules and traditions.

It's up to us as
Traditional moonshiners

To try to instill in
Him the proper way

To do business.

If we approach him, though,
It might jitter him away.

I think we send kelly.

If kelly explains
To him the situation,

I think he's gonna
Understand where we stand.

[ cellphone ringing ]

Kelly: hey, my chief.

What are you doing
There, stud duck?

Covering up
A little bill line.

Well, good for you.

Well, you know where
The old john b. Allen

Feed store and grain
Store used to be?

I do.

Middle town, well, I
Seemed to have acquired

A little of it.

We need you to do
A little something.

-we need a favor.
-yeah, we need a little favor.

All right.

You guys gonna be there
Pretty much all day,

Or just drop in whenever I can?

Yeah, we're planning on
Working a full day down here.

[ laughing ]
All right, I'll see you.

See ya, bye.

Digger: we kind of figured
That we can pull kelly in.

I think he's acquainted
With this boy's partner,

Daniel, we'll send
Him out see if he'll

Come talk to us.

There comes old kelly ann.
-yeah.

-what's up, cousin?
-what up, hoodlums?

We no hoodlums,
We thugs.

We 100% ghetto thug.

Kelly:
What can I do for you?

We got a favor to ask.

That old maynor boy.

You acquainted
With him any at all?

Some degree, yeah.

Kelly seems to know
Cochler's partner,

Just a little bit,
That daniel maynor.

How about you
Fetch him to us?

The hell you say.

Doggone, I went
From helping yuns

Make a little liquor to now
I'm a damn kidnapper.

I hate putting you
In this situation,

I really do.
-I hate it, too.

Digger thinks,
And I agree,

If he sees that video and
What actually happened,

I don't think he
Will agree with that.

You know...

Kelly, we got to get
That boy in front of us

And we gotta get this
Situation over and done.

Well, I know, but...

Well, I know one of the
Stores that he comes in

And stops up there
At the bar

And gets him a beer
Every once in a while.

You talk to him.

I can talk to him
And, I mean, I'm loyal

To yuns...
-I know that.

...But I gotta be
Loyal to me, too.

So I'm gonna tell him
What's going on,

You know, I ain't --

Don't mislead him,
Don't mislead him.

I mean, if he goes
Along with getting

In the truck with me
And coming to see you...

I don't care
How it happens.

You worry about that.

[ laughing ]

I've got enough faith
In kelly, you know,

To believe he'll work this out.

He'll get him in front of us.

Could you not pick a place
With a circle drive

The next time
We gotta meet?

Yeah, next time we'll have
You a big tube of vagisil.

-that'll work.
-[ laughing ]

-try again.
-that ain't gonna do it.

Piece of *bleep*

Narrator:
Losing traction in tennessee.

Might as well go
Get a damn wrecker

To get this son of
A bitch out of here!

Ain't no way I...

Ain't no way
I can do this.

And frustration sets in
In north carolina.

This *bleep* sucks!

Look like you could all
Put a little bit more

In the bag.
Look at it.

We short a little bit.

Yes, but your price
Would go up.

Yeah.

Narrator:
It's rye delivery day

At belmont farms distillery.

And for the past couple years,

Tim and chuck have sourced
This necessary ingredient

For tim's climax moonshine
Recipe

From a grist mill
In west virginia.

Man #2: I've been telling you
For years,

You need to go
To 100% rye.

You think people
Would like that?

They want good rye.

Rye kind of adds
A more of a spicy touch.

It's kind of like
Scrambled eggs

And add a little touch
Of pepper.

You'll be able to
Taste that spice

And you'll know
It's rye whiskey.

We use rye in our
Climax moonshine,

But it's not
The main ingredient.

But last year, jt and tickle

Kind of accidentally made
The best rye moonshine

We ever tasted.

Narrator: last season,
Tim encouraged his son,

Jt, to concoct his own
Flavor of moonshine.

It's about ready.

With the help of tickle,

The duo set their
Sights on a rye mash.

Man, that's too much
Rye in that thing.

But what appeared
To be a mistake

In calculating
The proper amount of rye...

You all did good!

You all did really good!

...Ended in the creation
Of a tasty new liquor.

It might be something we need
To think about doing.

Tim: jt and tickle,
They actually proved

What it can taste like
In a small batch.

But we're talking about
Four times more rye

Than we're using in the
Original climax recipe.

Look at here.
He grinds the whole thing up.

I mean, nobody else
Out there has rye

That taste like this.

I know it's gonna work.

And I know it's gonna
Make my business boom.

So we got what?

1, 2, 3, 9,
10, 11, 12.

You got 12?

12 bags, 600 pounds,
That's 10 bushels.

You're looking at $39.50
A bushel, delivered.

If you going 1,000
Bushels we need,

At $39.50 a bushel,
I mean, that's $39,500.

There ain't no way we're
Gonna do a double rye recipe

With those kind of prices.

Rye --
It's very expensive.

When you start making
A moonshine out of that,

The price goes up.

The price goes up,
Then it makes it harder to sell.

There's no way
We can keep paying

Those high prices
And make this

A profitable business.

Can't do it, tim.

This is not gonna work.

We just trying to
Make a profit here.

Because if we're
Not making a profit,

Then it's no use of doing it.

If we can buy it cheaper,
We can make it cheaper,

And we can sell it cheaper.

So we gotta buy some rye.

Something like 1,000 bushels.

Right now, I don't
Know what to do.

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I'm gonna be very
Damn picky this year

About where we set up.

We don't want nobody
To know where we're at.

So we need to be
Way, way back.

Far enough back that
I can breathe easy.

Narrator: across the border

In eastern tennessee,
Moonshiners mike and daniel

Are kicking off their
Second season together

On the hunt for
A new still site.

There ain't been nobody in here
In a while, have they?

Don't look like it.

That's a good thing.

Everybody won't
Come down through here.

No, they won't.

Shoo down.

That's a long down drop
Down there is what it is.

-it's awful slick.
-yeah, it's slick.

It's getting narrower
And narrower and narrower.

Mike: we're driving down
Here in this spot

That daniel's got picked out.

There's a deep holler
On the left side

And a sheer cliff mountain
On the right side.

Yeah, this is sort
Of hard driving

Right through here.
-oh, yeah.

It's pretty hard to
Even get my truck

Back in here this far.

Let's see
What it looks like.

I mean, it's deep in
The woods, ain't it?

Yep.

Look at that waterfall.

Let's check it out.

Is it good and cold?

Yeah, man.

Whew, damn, that
Is cold, ain't it?

Tasty, too.

That's pure mountain
Water right there.

What do you think about
Setting the still

Up in here somewhere?

Yeah, right here's
What I had in mind.

I was thinking
Of putting the pot here,

And the thump,
Then have the worm

A little lower, you know.

That way we can get good water
Vape with the worm.

I mean,
The canopy will be good.

I know we'll be
Completely covered.

I'd say it's almost
Near perfect.

You know, everything
I went through

In the past, I don't
Want to get seen.

Narrator:
Last season, mike teamed up

With his old friend daniel.

I was gonna see if
You'd be interested

In helping me make
A couple runs.

Hell yeah,
I'll help you.

Together they cranked out

Hundreds of gallons
Of specialty shine.

Daniel: taste any good?

Taste the honey
Locust, danny.

But on the last run of liquor,

Mike's still was stolen.

Son of a bitch!

Narrator:
And he ended up short

Of the season goal.

Mike: things kind of
Went up in the air

With me last year.

I'm pretty paranoid
About all that.

But I'm real determined
To meet my goal

For this season -- 800 gallons.

So I've gotta get
As deep in the woods

As I can get, so nobody
Can find where I'm at.

Mike: I like this,
And it's a long way in here.

Looks like we got us
A damn good spot, buddy.

I'm pretty sure we found
Our spot for this year.

Let's see if we can
Get turned around.

The woods is also damn
Soft in here, daniel.

We ain't got enough room.

Come on back.
I got you over here.

Come on in.
We got it.

Come on.

God *bleep*

We're sliding.

There ain't no damn way
I can turn around

Right here
With the still here.

Come on back a little,
About four foot.

Come on back.

Son of a bitch!

Went back too far
And got in the water.

Hold it now.
Now go with it when you go.

Wait!

That ain't gonna do it,
Piece of *bleep*

God, almighty! *bleep*

I rolled my damn axle off.

It's so damn wet and slick.

My front axle's broke.

Now I'm sitting back down here
In this damn creek,

Can't get out.

Might as well go
Get a damn wrecker

To get this son of
A bitch out of here!

First day of the damn season

And already another day behind.

There's no way I can get
Out of this creek bed

In two-wheel drive.

We've got to walk out
Two or three miles

And get something to
Pull myself out with.

Hell, stuff happens,
Don't it?

I reckon.

Just another day
In paradise.

10,000 bushels.
$10,000?

$10 a bushel.

Narrator:
Tim gambles on a rye deal

In virginia.

What about
When a storm comes

And destroys
Some of this stuff?

This stuff is like that.

You never really
Know what you got.

Here he comes
Out of the store.

Narrator: and tracking down
A rival shiner in tennessee.

Daniel maynor!

What do you got on
Your mind, brother?

I need you to get
In the truck with me

And go
For a little ride.

♪♪

Let's hope
It'll do the job.

Probably when
We get down there,

We'll get it out.

If we don't, son,
We're in a bind.

Because I can't leave
That truck down there

In this holler.

Narrator:
In sevier county, tennessee,

After trekking out on
Foot, mike and daniel

Return with a new plan
To extract their truck.

Mike: yeah, we down here
With the rock crawler,

And it's getting dark on us.

We've got to hurry up and try
To get this truck out.

We got a strap
In the back of the truck,

And we have a wench
On the front.

And daniel seems
To think to hook

A pull strap up
And try to pull it

Out of there.

Back up and snatch it.
Come on, daniel.

We gotta get this son of a bitch
Out of here, man.

Daniel:
Get your tires spinning.

♪♪

Oh, my god!

♪♪

I'm falling deeper and deeper
Into this damn creek.

It's pouring rain now
And getting dark.

If that damn thing don't
Pull this truck out,

They can't nothing
Else get down in here

To hook to me to pull it out.

And if he don't get me out,

I'm just gonna have to
Leave the son of a bitch

Down here and bury it.

Oh, my god!
Come on!

We snatched and
Pulled several times

And it don't look like
It wanting to go nowhere.

It's looking pretty damn pitiful
Right now for me.

Back way up and snatch
The hell out of it!

♪♪

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[ laughing ]

Just as I
Was fixing to give up,

Go home, and cry
On my pillow, bam!

We made one more hard
Snatch and it come

Out of there, and we're
Headed up the road now.

If we ever get out
Of this holler,

I will not be back,
I promise you that.

All this crap that
Went on today.

That's just the
Moonshine gods telling me

To get the hell out of
Here and find somewhere

Else to run liquor.

I ain't gonna be
Back in this holler.

♪♪

Chuck: we are gonna
Go see todd.

Now, he's gonna
Meet us over here?

He said he'd be there.

Narrator:
Back in culpepper, virginia,

Determined to find
A cheaper supply of rye,

Tim and chuck head
Straight to the source.

I got a neighbor over here,
You know, farmer buddy.

Oh, yeah, there's some rye
Up on the hill over there.

Just by chance,
He planted rye this year.

Now we're getting more serious.

Looks like we might need some.

How are you doing, todd?

I'm doing good.

It's so great
To see you, huh?

Good to see you, too.

Tim:
How much rye you got?

Todd: should be
Maybe 2,000 bushel.

How much
You want to commit to?

Well, I'd like
To get 1,000 bushels,

If you can.

What kind of deal
You want to do?

$8.00 a bushel?

-you're close.
-it's close.

-you're close.
-something in that area.

How much
Do you sell it for?

-$12.
-okay.

Now, do you give
Neighbors discounts?

Yes, sir, that's in there.

That's already
Been calculated?

That's with the delivery.

Delivery comes with that.

Tim: just looking at the rye,
You know, myself,

Personally, it looks good.

How long is it gonna
Take till this is ready?

Five weeks.

Tim: it needs a little bit
More maturity to it

Before we can get down
To the grain and harvest.

Now, what about later
Down the road,

If something happen
And a storm comes

And destroys
Some of this stuff?

This stuff is like that.

This stuff's kind of,
You never really know

What you got.

Because you can't
Get it back, can you?

Tim: buying it directly
From a farmer,

You got to understand,
You're buying it

Before he actually harvests it.

You can lose the crop.

Weather affects it.

Also,
You got bugs and stuff.

If something happens,

It's costing a whole lot
Of money for nothing.

But high risk,
High gain, possibility.

You know, when you going
In this thing like this,

You don't know what
You getting into,

Don't want to spend
A whole lot of money.

Now, what about $10?

$10.

$10 a bushel.

1,000 bushels,
$10,000?

Yeah, yeah.
$10 a bushel.

-that's what I'm talking about.
-yes, sir.

All right, chuck,
You good with that?

Yeah, we can work with it.

Narrator: tim's rye speculation
Will save him $30,000.

But if bad weather
Wipes out his crop,

He'll lose $10,000
And have no rye

To make his recipe.

Tim: it's a great savings,

But it also takes
A lot of risk.

So what we gotta do, tim,
Is get us

A place to store it.

Now we'll need a silo.

And at the end of the day,
If I don't make a profit,

I'm not being
A good businessman.

Do you know
Any silos around?

Any used ones?

♪♪

Mike: look at this.

All that junk
Right there

Just broke
All to pieces.

Narrator:
On the western slope

Of the great smoky mountains,

Mike and daniel's
Shine season is stalled

Until they replace
The axle on mike's truck.

That's what
We gotta have.

All right,
Climb under there

And see if we
Can't stab it.

-well, I hope that'll work.
-we'll see.

There it is.

Couldn't have fit
No damn better.

I'm ready to go make liquor.

Damn this mechanic
*bleep*

Mike: well, now we got
The truck fixed,

We got the axle replaced.

It feels good just to
Be back in business

So we can get out there
And start looking.

Ready to get out of here?
-yeah.

We're gonna go
Over here and look

At this place.

As I remember correctly,
It had a good stream.

But who knows,
It could be dry.

We're on our way to
Check out this still site

That I've got picked out.

It's probably been 10 years
Or better

Since I've been down
In that part of the country.

Let's go in here and
See what we can find.

I have no idea what
I'm gonna find

When I walk
Back into this place.

You know, terrain can change,
Rockslides, mudslides.

All I can remember
That there was

A good water source
With some waterfalls.

Damn, it's a good way
Up in here, isn't it?

It's far, son.

There's a little water coming
Down these springs, ain't there?

Yeah, they are.

There's a good water
Spot up here somewhere.

This water's running too good
For there not to be.

There's a waterfall
Right up yonder.

Yeah, man.
It looks killer.

It looks
Just like I remember.

I believe that'll
Run all year long

Like that, don't you?
-oh, it will.

Look at that water,
How clean.

-that's pretty, ain't it?
-it's cold, too.

There ain't nothing
In it.

That's some good water
Right there, buddy.

There's just tiers
Of sheer rock.

And the higher you can get up
To the water source,

The better flow
You'll have downhill.

I think the best idea
Would be to set us

Up a reservoir,
A good, steady supply

We can depend on.

Right up there would
Be a perfect place

To put that barrel.

Yeah,
I think you're right.

Watch your hands up there,
They stinging weeds.

Them bastards hurt,
You hear me?

I want to kind of climb
These sheers up here

And scout out one
Of these platforms.

We might need to set
That barrel right yonder.

Lay us up high off
This shelf right here,

And it'd come over
And let it feed it.

I think
That'd be a good idea.

We set up down the holler
Down there somewhere,

It'll give us
A good gravity --

We gonna have volume,
I know that.

You dang right.

Let's get out of here
And go find us a spot

Now to set up.

I tell you what,
This spot looks good.

So we gonna go get
Some water pipes,

See if we can't
Get our water pipe

In down to our site.

Whoo,
Them rocks are slick.

Daniel: better watch it
Or you'll bust your ass.

Narrator: the shocking
Revelation in cocke county.

Digger: what we need out
Of you right now

Is we want mike in front of us.

Josh: just got back
Just the other day.

Only been home a day or so.

And with all those
Broken ribs, I was healed

Enough to get in a car
And ride home.

But I'm a long ways from making
Any liquor right now.

What's happening, dog?

Well, hey, man,
How you doing?

Narrator:
In columbus, north carolina,

After the 500-mile drive home,

Josh's financial road to
Recovery is just beginning.

How'd that wreck do you?

We was worried about you.

About killed me.

Josh's personality
Is such that he lives

On the edge.

How's them ribs?

About the same.

Takes a long time to
Get them back in shape.

I broke one or two on
This side, but this time,

I broke every one
On this side,

And I punctured
That lung.

Narrator: last season, josh
And still hand chuck

Operated on the property

Of josh's family friend,
Red dog.

Oh, man,
That's good *bleep*

Josh's season appeared
To be on track...

Josh: damn trailer load
Of whiskey.

[ horn blaring ]

[ josh yelling ]

Narrator: ...Until his trailer
Caught fire,

Incinerating 150 gallons
Of premium cherry bounce.

You need to be getting
At it if you can at all.

You able to?

I ain't able
To do anything.

Well, I can't use
This arm.

I can't be carrying
Sacks of feed

And 5-gallon buckets
Of shine and stuff.

Josh: right now, with all
These doctor bills,

If I don't start
Making some liquor,

I'm gonna start losing customers
To somebody else.

And I can't afford that,
Especially not now.

Well, I didn't want
To get involved

In all that again.

But what if I make
A run or two

And turn the money
Your direction?

Because I know you're
Gonna have a lot

Of expenses with
Your medical issues

And whatnot.

You just need to be there
Giving us the amounts

So it'll be exactly
Like you want it.

But I'll do
The heavy work.

Deal, buddy.

I appreciate
The hell out of that.

Yeah, man.

Well, we can go look
At the still,

See what we gotta do
To get it ready to go.

Even though I'm broke,
I got red dog.

Red dog's got a heart
The size of texas.

I love him to pieces.

Josh:
Well, my pipes washed away,

So we ain't got
No water source.

We had some heavy,
Heavy rain.

Look like the plastic's
All ripped up, too.

This ain't gonna be
As easy as I thought.

It's not something that
We can't just tackle,

But it's gonna be
A little more work.

But it is what it is.

You'll gonna get
A good bath in there.

♪♪

Golly, I'm getting soaked.
Oh.

Sit down
And take it easy, man.

The more and more I do, the
Worse my shoulder's hurting.

[ groans ]

Gosh, man, the worse
My shoulder's hurting,

The angrier I'm getting.

I'm very frustrated
That I can't do all the work.

We'll start getting
These barrels out of here

So we can clean up.

Red dog: okay.

[ groans ]

There ain't no way I...

There ain't no way
I can do this.

Why don't we call
Chuck in,

Let him get
These out of here?

Start cleaning it up.

*bleep* sucks,
I'm not used to not --

I'm used to being able to
Doing everything on my own.

Yeah, well,
You just can't anymore.

Kicking and raising hell
And getting mad

Is not gonna fix this.

Let's call chuck in,
And we'll get it done.

♪♪

Kelly: I'm looking
For mike's partner, daniel.

I'm gonna see if I can't
Talk a little bit of sense

Into him, take him back
To mark and digger's.

Narrator: across the border
In eastern tennessee,

Mark and digger's loyal friend
And contract shiner kelly

Is on a manhunt to
Settle an old score.

Kelly: mike blew their still up

And daniel
Is a pretty good old boy,

Grew up here.

If he knows the whole story
About what mike has done,

He'll know that's not
The mountain code

And the moonshiner code.

He'll know that we need
To do something about that.

There's a couple places
I know to look for him.

Don't look like he's here.

There's a bar right here.

Sometimes he stops in
And has a beer.

See if I see his truck.

Yeah, he's not there.

And he's not down there
At the hardware store.

I don't know how
He's gonna take this.

I'm nervous
As a whore in church.

Daniel's a pretty
Good-sized old boy

And he may not like being
Surprised, I don't know.

Bingo, I see his truck.

Bingo.

He's not sitting in his truck.

Oh, here he comes
Out of the store.

Daniel maynor.

What do you got on
Your mind, brother?

I need you to get into
The truck with me,

Go for a little ride.

We got something
We need to talk about?

Yeah, hop in.

I'm guessing
You've got a good idea

Of what I want to
Talk to you about.

You and mike have been
Partners for a spell now.

Yeah.

And there's a hell of
A damn problem here

With *bleep*
With mike.

I'm sure that you know
A little bit

About mike's issue
With me and mark and digger.

Mm-hmm.

But I bet you don't
Know the whole story.

You know, that's just it.

There's always two sides
To every story.

I agree.

I understand why he's mad,
Too, and everything.

I know for a fact he feels
That he was set up by you,

By you bringing him
To mark and digger.

He said, "Kelly has
Stabbed me in the back."

Yeah, well, we're gonna
Have to get it resolved

And I think that
You're the man

That can step in
And help.

In the moonshine world,
You can't file a police report.

We gotta be our own judge
And our own jury on things.

-here we go.
-hello there.

What you doing there,
Old buddy?

-what do you know, fellers?
-hello, daniel.

Digger: we're just standing here
Trying to hash through

All the world's problems.

I guess it's alright
If I sit down there.

We recommend it.

Here, we'll draw you up just
A little scoochie bit here.

What you got there?

Oh, just old corn liquor.

We could talk a whole
Big bunch, but, kelly,

Let me see your phone.

We'll let candid camera
Tell the story.

You be your own judge.

There's what's on
That game camera.

♪♪

Whew.

♪♪

[ horn honks ]

We're gonna talk about roy.

Huh?

I've known roy for
40 years at the least.

He's number one.

I ain't talking about
The number-two feller.

He's number one.

Me and him set and talk
For hours at a time.

Joking about things, you know.

I'm good.

I'm seeing if you
Had a temperature.

Wanted to see
What's wrong with you.

No, ain't a thing
Wrong with me.

I think he's went loco.

[ imitating duck ]

[ laughs ]

Oh, I called him every day
And every night.

Let's act like I'll knock
The hell out of you.

Well, you're a good boy.

Why, thank you, sir.

You're a good guy.

Just don't spread
That word around.

Digger: we could talk
A whole big bunch,

But, kelly,
Let me see your phone.

We'll let candid camera
Tell the story.

Ramsey:
You be your own judge.

There's what's on
That game camera.

Whew.

That's one hell of
A fire right there, boys.

You know how people
Do their business

In these tennessee hills.

Oh, yeah.

You ever hear of anybody,
No matter how bad pissed off

They got, go blow
Somebody's still up?

Well, you know,
I've --

Adults, they work things
Out in a rational manner.

Right, most of the time,
People from the mountains,

Yeah, did try
To work it out.

Usually people
Don't blow up stills.

Damn law blows up stills.

You're right, I mean,
This is why this went on.

You know, he knew
Kelly had set him up.

Within two weeks,
His still got stole.

-right.
-that we was running on.

So he thinks that
Kelly set him up

And stoled his still.

That's the reason
He done what he done.

We didn't steal
His still.

Kelly didn't take
His still.

We was trying to get him
To understand the rules.

And he wants to
Call it being set up.

What we kept from happening
Is probably somebody

That would have
Stopped his breathing.

Now, these boys over here,
In their neck of the woods,

They don't play.

But they respect us
And we told 'em

That mike had permission
To sell 30 gallons a week

In our county.

You know, and that was
The deal we had.

Right.

What we need out of you
Right now

Is we need him
Brought to us.

We want mike in front of us.

Do you think you
Can get him here?

♪♪

I don't want nothing
Bad to happen to him.

I'm not gonna bring him into
A slaughter so to speak.

I got no intentions
Of hurting mike.

I want to talk to him,
Digger speaks for himself.

Well, that's the
Direction we were going

Until somebody decided they
Were a damn powder monkey.

I'm gonna let him set the tone.

Some people they don't
Understand anything

But a damn head thump.

-[ laughs ]
-right, I hear you.

It's not profitable
To any of us

To end this badly.

We need to get
This problem solved

And worked out
Because we don't need

To be arguing and
Fighting and going on.

We got to talk to mike.

Right.

I'm ready to resolve
This whatever it takes,

But, now, I can't
Speak for digger.

Digger's a little
More inclined to go

The opposite way.

I ain't making no promises,
But he shows up

And he's running
That damn suck,

I'm gonna mash it
For him.

Mike is arrogant and cocky.

I just hope he don't
Come to this meeting

And let his mouth write a check

That his ass can't cash.

♪♪

Tim: what's all this over here,
Top secret?

-that's a rocket farm.
-a what?

A rocket farm?
-yeah.

Chuck: what they do
Is they bolt them

To the ground
And test them.

And you need all that?

Well,
But every now and then,

One of them rockets
Gets too strong

And they get
A loose rocket.

-oh, no.
-yeah.

You must have cheap
Housing around here.

Nobody wants to live
Over by the...

Nobody wants to live
Near the rocket farm.

[ laughs ]

Narrator: in culpepper,
Virginia, tim stands to save

$30,000 by speculating
On 1,000 bushels of rye.

This farm up here,
You see the tall silos.

I see the silos now.

And with the harvest
Only weeks away,

He's looking
For a storage solution.

Drive up in there,

Maybe somebody
Will come talk to us.

Maybe we can get
A deal on a silo.

Got a little one
Over there,

Wonder if he wants
To sell that.

I see they got
A "Beware of the dog" sign.

What about the owner?

I don't know.

You see any people around?

No, I see a horse
And some chickens.

Tim: these signs that
Say "No trespassing,"

You never know what
You're going to run into,

Next thing you know,

A double-barrel shotgun
Comes out.

Well, maybe we can
Get one of these.

We got
Different sizes here.

-we got different sizes.
-there's the little ones.

We're going out
Looking for silos.

There's three or four
Different types and sizes,

Kind of eyeball one of them.

I mean,
What size is this thing?

Chuck: I think it would hold
Our 1,000 bushels.

It was kind of weedy
Around the bottom,

But it looks like a nice silo.

Is this full of something?

There's a big hole.
You see that?

Yeah,
It could be repaired.

There's a ladder
Over here, chuck.

You think
This thing's safe?

Can I help you all, fellas?

I recognize the truck
Sitting out there.

It's tim and chuck.

I recognize you from
Across the river.

There you go, huh?

We're trying to make
A deal in buying some rye.

We ain't got nowhere to put it.
We need a silo.

It ain't been used
In a long time.

Yeah, it looks
A little rough, don't it?

Looks like some grain or
Something got left in it.

I'm sure we could let
It go pretty cheap.

So you think we could do
Something with it, chuck?

Yeah.

Looking at these silos,

New you're probably looking
At about $6,000, $7,000

For a silo this size.

Chuck: it's got a couple of
Feet of something in it.

Once I open the lid,
This odor comes out.

It's got a skeleton
Of some kind in it.

Damn stork or something,
I don't know, it's big.

Some kind of buzzard
Or something got in it.

Well, don't tell nobody
About the skeleton there.

Don't tell nobody
About the skeleton.

Hope it wasn't no people.

It must be one of
Them dinosaur birds.

-pterodactyl.
-it's a pterodactyl, man.

What do you think, tim?

I don't know.

All you gotta do
Is make an offer.

Make an offer?

We are getting
Short on time.

You gotta get this thing
Running in four weeks.

Can we move it, can
We get it out of here?

Take a crane pick it up

And lay it on its side
On a trailer.

That's more money, ain't it?

I mean, all that's gotta
Be figured in, chuck.

And what would it
Cost to fix it?

I don't know, well, I'm all
About trading and bargaining,

So if we could trade
Maybe 10 cases

Of moonshine for that.

Oh, lord.

If you got a little
Moonshine laying around,

It's almost like gold.

You know, maybe we could
Make a trade with him.

That's the way we
Work in these parts.

10 cases of moonshine
Is worth $1,000.

Sounds like a pretty
Good deal to me.

10 cases of moonshine, man.
Good.

We needed a grain bin,
You got some moonshine,

Okay, no problem.

I don't know

If she'll let me bring it
In the house, though.

That's the problem.

Moonshine I gotta
Keep in the garage,

I can't take it
In the house.

[ laughs ]

We did have to
Trade some moonshine,

Which that is of value.

But we didn't have to pull out
Any cash money on it.

We get a crane,
We'll be back.

Sounds good.

With the moonshine,
How's that for a deal?

Narrator:
Next time on "Moonshiners"...

What all kind of
Equipment they got now?

Atv's.

-they've got atv's?
-yeah.

Narrator: the temptation

Of a former law man
In north carolina.

Man #3: trying to make a living
Like a lot of people do,

Sometimes you have to
Do what you have to.

Narrator:
Facing the music in tennessee.

You're not gonna
Sit here and tell me

I'm smart-mouthing you
On my own damn property.

I don't give
A damn, brother.

You're on my turf, son.

Man #4: we think our place
Has been compromised.

Okay.

Does one of you want to
Make a few extra dollars?

Narrator:
And a dangerous mission

For one young
Moonshiner in virginia.

Jt:
I gotta get out of here.