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I think we can get a little closer on him.

And get a picture of him.

Maybe I ought to call Tim when we get out of here.

This time on "Moonshiners."

They burned down our stash site.

They burned down our still site.

- Confrontation is over. - It's over.

I think it's time for us to go in and kick some ass.

We know everything about them,

and we're gonna play them just like they played us.

We're gonna take care of business ourselves.

Look what I found.

- Ha, ha-- ah. - Whoo.

Old Mike, he's been a-messin' with us.

Had to get back at him.

Man, that is nasty.

That tastes like death.

This is how we make the moonshine.

How we doing, fellas?

Oh, man.

- Y'all doing all right? - Yeah.

- All right. - I guess you see why

we brought y'all here.

Mm-hmm-- hmm.

Taste that and see if it's familiar to you, buddy.

In Haywood County, North Carolina, a year after

making peace with rival shiners Mark and Huck, Mike and Jerry

confront their former enemy with evidence they may have

broken the truce agreement.

That's our liquor.

How'd it end up at a speakeasy over here?

I have no idea.

I didn't think we'd ever have to have this conversation

again, but here we are.

Have you sold any liquor on this side of the river?

- Nope. - Nope.

We sell to a lot of people, but I don't have any idea

how that liquor got over here.

Somebody ain't telling quite the whole truth here.

We're telling you one thing.

We ain't sold none on this side of the river.

You sell to bootleggers a lot?

Yeah, we sell to right smart of them.

- Yeah. - So y'all ain't been

coming over here selling no liquor to no man?

Ain't been over here in several years.

There's several good cases of liquor right there.

- All that's my liquor? - Every bit of it.

Well, how'd you end up with it?

We had a little, old biker bar get busted over here,

and y'all's happened to be there as well,

so we grabbed it, too. If y'all want it?

- You can have it. - Y'all can thank this man

right here that you're getting this liquor back,

because, if I had my way, I'd sell it right up from under you.

You know, they might have said they didn't bring that liquor

across the river, or they didn't sell to nobody

over here, but we had a pact. They broke their word.

They we need to get the heck out of here and go on

and leave us alone.

Well.

I'm gonna ask you something else, Mikey.

You ain't heard anything about a...

new cap showing up anywhere, have you?

We've got one a-missin'.

Lord God, don't tell me you're still at that ridiculous

still site, that old, ugly, blue tarp, are you?

- We're still right there. - What are y'all thinking?

Sounds like a rookie mistake to me.

No wonder you got something stole from you.

Well, if you see one floating around, holler at us.

We'll do our best. Yuns have a good one.

Same to you.

You hear what he said?

Last year, we had a brown and silver tarp.

How'd he know we had a blue tarp?

I'll tell you how he knew. The little weasel's been over there.

That tells me that he's lying right off the start

because he knowed it was a blue tarp.

- It's been him, he got our cap. - Yeah.

- He's got it. - Guaranteed.

I know he's lying about it, and I think he stole our cap.

And ain't nobody steals from me and Huck.

Let's go. We'll fix him.

Yeah, what exactly are we doing here, buddy?

Well, you know, my Canadian buyer.

Well, he gave me a call and he said

he's gonna be landing at this airport

and he want us to stop by.

He said, "Come around to the back,

come through this gate."

- There he is. - Well, somebody's waiting for us.

That's either a good or a bad sign.

- Are you--? - How are you gentlemen doing tonight?

- All right, doing good. - Hey, where you headed to?

- Hangar 36. - 36?

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Let me take a quick look around, and we'll get you

on your way, OK? - OK, all right.

In Culpeper County, Virginia,

after longtime legal distiller Tim Smith returned

to the outlaw side to chase big profits

smuggling tariff-free moonshine to Canada...

I do appreciate doing business with you, sir.

...he gets a call from his Ontario buyer to meet

at an unlikely location.

- I don't know. - Gentlemen, have a great night.

- OK, thank you, sir. - Thank you, sir.

All right.

- All right. - All right, sketchy.

Man, that Hangar 36 right there.

- All right. - All right.

I think that's the plane right there.

- That's a hell of a plane here. - Yeah.

- Hello? - Hey.

- Hey, guys. - Oh.

Come on in.

- Come on in, Tim. - How you doing, sir?

I appreciate you coming.

So I guess it's a good thing we come to see you, I guess.

It is a good thing.

So, you wouldn't believe how fast

the first 1,000 gallons went.

With-- with the issues that we're having with the tariffs,

we need more.

Problem is trying to get it to that boat,

that's the problem. - Well, we're not gonna use the boat.

So I come down every two weeks or so for business.

Then you guys can load me up.

I can take it back with me when I go.

- Now, we can't carry the 1,000 gallons that the boat did. - Right.

So, I need you guys to be as efficient as we can.

Well, you know, what we could do,

we could raise the proof up.

- OK. - So, you know,

instead of having a gallon at 100 proof,

you can have a gallon at 150 proof.

And then when you get it there,

then you add water to it to bring it down.

- That will help. - And then that allows us to move

more volume at a higher proof.

That will help with the weight.

So, you know, is this just like one more time?

No, this is not gonna be a one-more-time thing.

- This is gonna be something that I feel like... - And we can make a plan.

...every probably couple of weeks, two or three weeks,

we can make runs.

- We've got enough distribution. - Mm-hmm.

- Well, we'll let you know when we're ready. - Yeah.

- Good deal. - It's good to see you.

The tariffs between America and Canada has actually pushed

the prices real high.

Availability of product legally to sale, you know,

is kind of low. And then the price is high.

So that actually makes it kind of a rare commodity.

So this is not a one-time deal. I mean, it's just crazy.

You know, if he can haul moonshine on a jet,

I mean-- I mean, we're gonna, we're gonna bring it.

This barrel here, that should make a fine cap.

It'll make a good, little cap.

In Graham County, North Carolina, suspecting that

rival shiners Mike and Jerry stole the copper cap

from their moonshine still...

You got a piece of copper, that's how big

the top of the pot is.

...Mark and Huck have no choice but to build a new one

with materials they have on hand.

We ain't got enough copper to build a cap,

so the old-timers used to make them out of wood.

The plan is we're gonna use this small, wooden barrel

and we're gonna use what scrap copper we got to seal it

to the pot. - This will do it, won't it?

Should. I can measure it.

That's as big a piece as I got.

We're just gonna have to get the right dimensions cut out.

Lucky you had a piece that big, ain't it?

- That's all you got? - That's all we got.

Fold it down where it'll go over the pot

to where we can seal it.

- About right there. - Perfect.

You got a jigsaw?

Yeah.

Then we're gonna have to cut the bottom of the barrel out.

- How's that? - Ha, ha, ha.

That'll work.

Yeah, boy.

We'll make that runoff work.

If we can build us another cap,

that is-- it's just what's caused us a lot of trouble.

We could've already had our liquor run off.

Other people starts meddling in your business,

stuff starts going wrong.

Mike, he said, "blue tarp."

It was brown and silver last year,

last time he was there.

So I knowed we had him, then.

If you don't deal with somebody like that,

they just keep on doing stuff.

We'll deal with that though, once we get this.

He's gonna have to be answered to.

Ain't the prettiest little job, but it'll work.

- It will work. - Looky there.

When the hot steam hits, it makes the wood swell,

and the hotter and the more moisture it gets,

the tighter the wood gets.

Just works the same way as a thumper.

It seals itself off.

Just put some big rock on top of it and it'll be fine.

We're just gonna have to drill us a hole.

Yeah, boy.

And put our arm in, and once we get all that built,

we can run some shine. - There we go.

Set that down on top of old still and paste it up.

- Go to run. - Go to run liquor.

- Pretty damn good food. - Mm-hmm.

Mm, yeah.

So what do you think about that deal?

I mean, it sounds almost too good to be true, though, man.

I mean, but that guy is serious, man.

The Canadian buyer, he's explaining about

the tariffs, has actually pushed the prices real high.

So, you know, he's talking about how he wants some more

moonshine as fast as possible.

He's moving his stuff on jet airplanes.

But me and Howard, we got to come up with a plan.

I mean, it's like big money, big opportunity.

There's a ton of money, Tim. I mean, this is real big money.

I mean, while this tariff thing is going on, you see,

we can take advantage.

I don't want to lose that opportunity.

Because you know what? If we don't do it,

somebody else will. - Mm-hmm.

Right now, there might be more opportunity.

I think you ought to be going to Canada.

The hell do I need to go to Canada for?

You need to go to Canada and find out,

is there more opportunity?

This is just one fish.

There might be a whole lot of fish up there.

What, you want me to follow this guy around in Canada?

Ooh, go see what's selling.

See if it really is going off the shelves.

If he wants more moonshine,

it must be, you know, a good market.

I think Howard needs to go to Canada

to find out exactly what's going on.

If they want moonshine,

then we may have more opportunity.

There may be a bigger picture there.

We may have more buyers there, like him.

You know, we don't know...

I ain't been to Canada, but you got a passport.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean...

- You know? - You're right, because if we can

get this guy and pick up a few more like him...

I mean, this guy, you can see he's a businessman.

- Oh, yeah. - He's got money,

so he's looking at opportunities.

Yeah, I'm out, but if I go to Canada,

who's gonna help you make the shine?

Well, I'm gonna go call Henry and Tickle.

Maybe they got some help, too.

More money for them, more money for us.

I think we got a hell of a plan here.

I'm hoping that there's other big buyers out there,

some more big fish out there wanting moonshine.

So we're gonna have to get back, talk to Henry,

Tickle, and explain them the opportunity,

because this could be a really big deal for all of us.

All right, so we need to get out of here.

I book a ticket, and I'll brush up on my Canadian.

- Hey. - Hey.

There you go. That's all you need to know.

I'm in-- I'm in. Hey.

So, how good you know this fellow we're waiting on?

Oh, I've known him for a long time.

He just kind of called me out of the blue and said he had

something special he wanted, so...

It's funny how people just pop up out of so many years,

especially when they're thirsty. - Mm-hmm.

The other day, me and Mike were waiting on a buddy of mine.

His name's Jeff. I've never done anything

for him before as far as liquor goes,

so we're just to see what he's got in mind.

Now, don't be rude. Introduce me.

Oh, you know I will. Pfft.

- What's going on, buddy? - Hey, Jerry.

- So, what you got on your mind? - Well, I was wondering

if we could do a little business.

I got this family reunion coming up.

We usually have over 150 people at our reunions every year.

- Whoa. - My grandmother,

who just passed away about a month ago...

- Oh, sorry to hear that. - Sorry to hear that.

I appreciate that.

She used to make these pumpkin pies,

and she used to enter them in the county fair.

And every year, she'd always win first place.

So what I got to thinking was

maybe we could come up with something

to honor her at the reunion and you guys could make me

a pumpkin pie liquor.

Yeah, it would be a good time

to source some pumpkins and stuff this year.

Yeah, it's that time of the year.

I don't see why we couldn't make it happen.

The only thing is that she didn't use pumpkins

in her pumpkin pie.

You mean pumpkin pie without pumpkins?

How do you do that?

Well, she used to use what's called a candy roaster.

What is a candy roaster and how in the heck do you make

a pumpkin pie without pumpkins?

A candy roaster is a type of a squash.

It was first cultivated in this area

by the Cherokee Indians.

It's real sweet. It's real firm.

It doesn't break down like a pumpkin.

I mean, it's amazing.

So apparently the candy roaster squash tastes like

a pumpkin, but a lot sweeter and a lot better texture.

You got my answers to that.

We can be working with something here.

Well, the big thing is, like, how much of this stuff

are you gonna need? - Well, got a big family,

so I'm looking around maybe 30 gallons or more.

Just as much as you can get me.

- OK. - What are we talking about

on how much a gallon?

I don't know, Jerry, what you thinking, man?

Well, it's gonna be a lot of work, man.

You never know. We may get started on something

and have to eat it, you know?

- I get it. - I'm thinking probably

somewhere around $150 a gallon.

- Mmm. - That's just cause we're friends.

Yeah, and man's gotta get paid for his work.

You know, usually, you know, for a new ingredient,

something we've never done, and very custom recipes

like this, $150 is not out of the ballpark

to ask for this stuff.

Ah, guys, that's a little steep for me.

I don't know that I can do $150.

I was thinking more like in the 125 range, 120.

OK-- we can't go that low.

- Probably do $130. - Oh, man.

What do you think, Jerry? This is your friend now.

Yeah.

I mean, it is to honor his grandma.

- Let's do $130. - $130?

$130, man. We'll do it for you.

So, looks like me and Jerry are fixing to try to make

a pumpkin pie moonshine without the first pumpkin.

- Y'all take care. - All right.

I'll get in touch with you in a few days.

All right.

You know, Jerry, you said you would,

but you never introduced me.

Well, see if we can get this together, Huck,

and see if this is gonna work. - I hope it does.

Yeah, a week ago, my brakes failed in the truck,

and we lost a lot of jars of liquor...

Alrighty, I'm ready when you're ready.

Got her going now.

I hope we can get all this running delivered.

Oh, we're going to.

I believe there's enough in there now,

I'd fire her up, Huck.

It's hard to run the way I run.

It's the old, traditional way of the wood fire.

That's the way I like to do it.

It's a lot cheaper on me to do it that way.

I just feel more comfortable running with wood

than I do gas.

He's a-smoking today.

It's been a while since we fired this bugger off.

All righty, Huck, we're ready to cap her off, ain't we?

Yeah, it's getting warm.

We've made this wooden cap, but we sure hope it fits.

- Well, that looks good so far. - Oh, yeah.

Now, let's see if our pipes is gonna fit OK.

- Yeah. - That's good right there.

- Yeah. - Let me do this now, here.

Little more of this heated tape.

Looks like the cap fits good, but there ain't no guarantees.

We could get some leaks in it.

Paste that thing up.

Once the mash heats up, we could lose alcohol vapors

through the pores of the wood.

Right now, all we can do is paste it up,

seal it off, and hope for the best.

- Ha, how's that? - It worked just fine.

That still's already getting good and warm.

We're in business. All we gotta do now is wait.

The cap's working pretty good, it seems like.

It ain't steamed out a bit, has it? - No.

Yeah, that's a good, tight fit around that collar, too.

Yeah.

We're on the downhill drag now, unless something else

comes along and derails us.

Oh, it ain't much surprise me anymore.

And just one thing after another.

Them caps, the old bar coming in.

What about that truck?

I don't even want to think about that truck.

That's funny.

Some seasons, you go all the way through it

and don't have a bit of trouble. - I know.

And this one started out bad, and it's ended bad.

Just the way things is, I reckon.

I'm sure now that Mike's the one who got our cap,

and ain't nobody steals from me and Huck.

We'll get this still moved out of here, get this run.

- And we'll deal with them. - Gosh, Huck, we're running.

- We are, ain't we? - Ha, ha, boy.

I don't know just quite yet how I'll do it, but I'm gonna fix

old Mikey right up.

Boy, they's some alcohol

He's gonna have to be answered to.

The old lead goes on, we're done, I'm glad we got it.

Tickle, I tell you, man, I got a call from Tim,

and they got another big order for Canada.

When you got a good customer like that ordering

1,000 gallons at a time?

- Yeah. - That's one I want to keep.

And we're gonna have to try to help him fill

that order again. - Mm-hmm.

- Tickle, hold on. - What's that?

That's a damn liquor truck, man.

- Huh. - That's a liquor truck.

That's exactly what that is.

Coming out of the woods like that?

I'd say you're probably right.

I wonder what he's doing in this area.

I don't recognize that truck, man.

We should check that out, man.

Henry, he knows every moonshiner around here

in Franklin County.

Now, this truck, for one, it's coming out of the woods

really close to our still site. This is not a hunter.

Hunters don't drive up to their deer stands

and go hunting. You scare all the deer off.

That right there just looks like a still site truck to me.

Easy to brake quick and get out because

he may be going to get something to eat.

We get in here,

get out before this guy comes.

I'll tell you man, normally I wouldn't do anything like this,

but this is so close to our still site, and I didn't

recognize who was driving that truck and then they don't know

how to evade the law like we do.

- They can draw heat on us. - They'll draw heat on us.

- You're right. - That's the whole problem.

You're 100% right.

Look, they've been coming in and out.

They've been coming in and out.

Automobile tread, that can tell you a whole lot about

who's coming in and out.

I think just one time in and out if you look

at the tracks. - It's packed down, ain't it?

Uh-huh.

Maybe it was a hunter. I don't see anything.

I don't see nothing, but this path goes a long ways

down in here, Henry.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! It's a step ladder over yonder.

- Somebody's in there working. - Somebody's in there.

sneak up.

Be real quiet.

I think we can get a little closer on him.

I have no idea who it is.

Get a picture of him.

Can you zoom in any?

Do you know that feller?

I've never saw him before.

Maybe I ought to call Tim when we get out here,

send him this picture, see what he knows.

Yeah, absolutely.

I don't recognize this guy, myself.

Best thing we can figure to do, send this picture to Tim

and see if he recognizes this guy.

Whoo-hoo.

- Well, Jerry. - Mike.

Be my first rodeo on a candy roaster squash.

I'll tell you what, man.

When he ordered that pumpkin pie,

but wanted to use candy roasters,

I got a little confused.

It don't look nothing like a pumpkin, does it?

Not nothing like a pumpkin.

You know, me and Jerry got an order

for pumpkin pie moonshine from a customer.

I'm gonna go ahead and grab this water, Jerry.

This is a very big order, you know, for a family reunion.

This guy's got like over 150 people showing up.

I mean, how many kinfolks does this guy got?

We gotta fulfill this order. $130 a gallon?

That's a lot of money for a lot of liquor.

You know, this is a whole new process to us, but I've worked

with similar fruits or gourds before, so to speak.

Take that skin off of it for you.

Pretty much simple, just, you know,

bust this stuff up, break it down,

and cook it down, and mash it in.

Almost tastes like a green watermelon.

You know what that reminds me of?

- What? - Acorn or chestnut.

Yep, an acorn. It sure does.

Tell you what, these things are way different

than a pumpkin, in my opinion.

You know, the meat's a lot more dense, and it's got a lot more

flavor to it. - Boy, look at the meat.

You know, I can see why people would actually make

a pie out of them. They've just got a whole lot

different flavor to them.

Lay her to it.

And I figure that if we can get our water up to boil,

melt our sugar first, and then put our candy roasters in,

it's gonna be cooking all that flavor, all that sugar

into these-- into the meat of these candy roasters

and make it that much sweeter.

I can already tell you're gonna have too much fun with that.

I do, they got way less guts than a pumpkin does.

And the important thing is we gotta get these things

broke down so that the yeast can actually work

the sugars out of them. - You ready?

- Yep. - Don't let it scald you.

By boiling them, we're softening up that meat

where the yeast can get in there to it.

Oh, that's it!

Son, that right there's gonna make some good mash.

I just know it is.

What can we put in there to go good with pumpkin pie?

Well, I mean, I would, you know, do the pumpkin

spices, the allspice, nutmeg, little cinnamon.

I'm excited about this, man. See what it's gonna taste like.

- Oh, yeah. - Mike, I believe we're about

cooked down as far as we can go, man.

Go ahead and kill that fire.

I think we ought to try a piece of it.

I think you're right.

Well, golly.

Oh my gosh.

Mm.

- That is much better than a pumpkin. - That's delicious.

You know, they got a similar taste to a pumpkin,

but a lot more meatier.

They got a lot more flesh there to work with

and they surely taste better.

I guess we're ready for a little cold water now, ain't we?

That'll cool her down a little bit, won't it?

You know, it's very important

this candy roaster mash turns out right.

I mean, we're taking our time here today

doing this stuff right. We got 300 gallons of this mash.

That's a 30-gallon order of alcohol.

That ought to do it, shouldn't it?

Be some fine mash.

We've got to make it right.

I tell you what, that's some of the best-tasting mash

we've ever made, ain't it?

We ain't gonna know how it's gonna taste

till it comes out the end of that spout there.

Never know.

You won't never know, that's for sure.

But there's one thing about it. We'll find out in a few days.

Yeah, we've had a rough season, Huck.

I've about had it.

About as bad as it can get, ain't it?

Yeah, I don't see anything going any worser.

Yep.

Whoa, Huck. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What is it? What is it?

Roadkill, ha, ha, ha.

Whoo, look what I found.

- Ha, ha. - Whoo.

Ah-- yep, get in the Huck, truck, I've got an idea.

Ha, ha.

What have you got throwing that

old, nasty roadkill on the back of my truck for?

I just come up with the best idea that's ever been.

God, that's rotten.

Way to get old Mike and Jerry back.

I think we need to pick us up a bunch of roadkill.

What you got in mind?

Well, put it in their mash.

- What do you think? - Phew.

We'll have to track their still site down, but what do

you think filling their mash full with roadkill?

That'll ruin their mash, ruin their still site.

It'll ruin everything.

I never would run another pot with all that junk rotting in it.

All we gotta do is go find some more roadkill,

and then we'll go find their still site.

I like that idea.

Old Mike, he's a weasel, but an old raccoon,

it'll work too. - That'll fix him right there.

It will. Let's go find some roadkill.

Now, this will be funner than making liquor, Huck.

I'm pretty sure this is the area they in.

We can find them, I hope.

Well, we know one thing will help us.

- They'll be close to water. - Yeah.

We're on the hunt for Mike's still to get revenge

for stealing our cap.

Lucky for me, I've got a thermal drone.

If they run in the last two or three days,

I'll be able to spot it in a few minutes.

Let's see what we can do with this rig.

Once we find his still site, we're gonna sneak in and put

roadkill in his mash.

How you gonna see anything, Mark, with all that foliage?

Well, it's gonna have to pick

some heat up some way or another.

If they've run any bit, you know, should still show up.

I spent all my life hunting and fishing these mountains

and tracking everything at the hour,

and I know this country better than anybody.

There's something right there.

Tilt it back. There you go.

That's close to the creek right there, Huck.

Mm-hmm, it look like that.

I wonder if that's it.

It's got a little heat coming off of it.

- Whatever that is, is about a half a mile up there. - Mm-hmm.

We gonna land this thing and go in there and see what we can find?

That's gotta be something.

See, these animals I've been picking up's awful.

They've done been run over, guts smashed out of them.

You put that in the mash, soak two or three days,

all that hair come off.

It'll just get more rotten, more stinking.

Gonna be getting pretty close to where we's seeing that,

whatever it was.

Yeah.

I see something, Huck.

- I think we hit the jackpot. - I see the pot right there.

Yeah, boy, you don't see nobody nowhere, do you?

There ain't no fresh tracks in here.

I knowed he was in this cove.

Yeah, about had to be.

Oh, yeah.

Open that lid up and see what's in it.

- That's their mash right there. - Yeah, boy.

All right, Huck.

This right here is what I've been wanting to do for a long time.

He, he, he.

Ah, shew.

That's a stinkin'. Ah.

Yeah, I'd give anything to be

head up on the hill and watching.

Mountain oysters.

I just hope they don't notice nothing till

they run the liquor and get to drink

a little of it.

I'm gonna scare them to death.

Right on top of the cap, where the cap goes,

I'm gonna coil a copperhead right there

and lay the tarp back over it.

That should scare them right there.

Yeah, we may have a bad season, but it's getting better.

Ha, ha!

What's going on?

Hey, Tim, we just rolled up on

a fella down here at a still site.

Henry said he don't know who he is.

We got a picture. Can we send it to you?

Yeah, yeah, send me the picture.

All right, I just sent it on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen that guy before.

That's that guy was with them other guys

that stopped me on the side of the road

when they stopped me in the road about

hauling the grain and stuff.

Two months ago, Tim was stopped by a group

of religious vigilantes...

Y'all just ride up and down

the road all the time, and stop people?

...who warned him not to make liquor in their territory.

As the conflict escalated, the supposed teetotalers burned

his stash house and still site, forcing Tim to flee the region.

- Holy [bleep]. - God dang, Tim!

Well, I can't believe these guys is the one

that's talking about they don't like-- they don't like alcohol.

All it is, they're scared of competition.

- That's what it is. - Scared of good competition

is what it is.

They burned down our stash site.

They burned down our still site.

Turns out they're not religious at all.

They're just moonshiners like us.

You know what I say, Tim?

I say we come down here and we tear this still site

all to pieces, just like they did ours.

Let's give them some time.

Let's get together, make sure what they're doing, and then,

and then come up with a plan. Then we'll move in on them.

I hope this stuff is ready to run when we get up here, buddy.

Absolutely.

These candy roasters, I think, are gonna be good, man.

Well, that's another thing. I hope it tastes

as good as what it did when we was mashing it in.

Well, today's the day we head in

to run our pumpkin pie moonshine.

Besides, we used candy roaster squash

in place of these pumpkins.

This is a first for me and Jerry.

They taste really good when we was mashing them in.

They ought to make a daggum good alcohol.

Let's check the mash.

- Oh, God almighty! - Jeez-a-peek, man.

- A damn copperhead. - Is he alive?

You better check him and see.

- He's dead, ain't he? - He's stiff, yeah.

- Holy cow! - God.

You know, I mean, it has been getting kind of cool

of the nighttime out here in the woods.

Maybe that snake found a way to get up there to try to warm

its blood up, and the CO2 coming off of the mash

could have killed off the snake's oxygen and just

killed him, and he passed away right there on top

of the still. Who knows?

- Oh, God, yeah. - He's been there...

for a little while.

Let's get set up and get this stuff run off.

- Why, yeah. - Boy, it looks good.

Well, it's got a good cap in there, don't it?

Sure does, for it to all be at the bottom before.

Oh, dang!

- That's bitter! - That is certainly different.

It's got alcohol in it, but it's funky as all heck.

We ain't never done a candy roaster before, so we don't know

what to expect. Just like honey.

Honey tastes good before you mash it in.

- Yeah, true. - When you get done, it tastes like flowers.

- Yeah, it does. - Totally different.

So I'm assuming this is probably gonna be the same.

You know, sometimes the mash don't tell the whole story.

You know, we've run off liquor that tasted

really good in the mash

and kind of had, kind of, a bad taste on the alcohol

and vice versa, you know. - It's funky, but let's run it.

The run makes a big difference, you know.

Once we start separating that water from the alcohol,

I think it's gonna be fine.

- We'll get our jars loaded up. - Yep.

What all good spices did you bring us?

Well, we got a little bit of nutmeg, cinnamon.

You got the spices. You got the candy roasters,

which is gonna give you that authentic pumpkin flavor.

That smells like a pumpkin pie itself.

- Yeah, that's what I say. - Mm.

On the top and with all the spices, is gonna give

you the actual pie flavor with all the pumpkin spice flavors

that goes in a pumpkin pie.

Mike, we got the jars all filled up.

Yeah, buddy.

It's a-coming through there.

We got liquor coming out the money pipe.

- Oh, crap, we do already. - Yeah, buddy.

I'll tell you what, this short, little system didn't take long.

It didn't take long at all.

Yeah.

It smells like pumpkin pie with a...

I can smell the flavor from here.

With a funk in it.

That don't smell right.

You reckon it's just the heads?

I don't know, man.

You know, a lot of times, you know, your off flavors,

they come all out in the heads,

and we get into the hearts, we get into the good liquor.

Well, now we'll get the heads off here.

Well, now we can actually see what the--

what that flavor's gonna be like.

Well...

Man, that's pretty liquor.

It's as pretty as it could ever be.

That spicy smell's there, but so is that funk.

They's something.

Man, that is nasty.

There's something bad wrong with this liquor.

I think we need to shut this thing down.

Has anything else ever tasted that horrible?

- No. - That just tastes like death.

I'm killing the fire.

This is a very big order for me and Jerry.

We don't have time to redo it right now.

We've got to shut it down and find the source

of the problem and see what's going on.

- Dude, what is that? - What?

How are you standing over that, Jerry?

We got to get it out.

We got to get this, whatever it is in here, out.

Let me see your paddle.

I don't see nothing.

It's right there, man. It's right there.

Oh, my God. What is this?

You ever eaten thistle?

I love thistle. That stuff's good, son.

- Like a salad? - Yeah, you can chop it up

in a salad, eat it raw with

a little salt on it.

Stuff that's got a lot of good, you know, minerals and stuff in it.

There's a lot of stuff out here you can eat, man,

that people don't even think about.

The good Lord put stuff here for us to eat, and here it is

in an abundance that ain't never been touched by man.

Anytime you can introduce something good and new

and fresh to somebody else, it's a win-win.

Boy, butterflies sure are pretty.

But they ain't nothing but a bunch of doo-doo eaters.

That's all they are, nastiest things.

We've got to get this out of here.

That's what it is. , hey.

Well, come to find out, there's a freaking raccoon

in our mash barrel.

And I will tell you and everybody else,

if you ever drove by a mailbox and seen a turtle sitting

on top of a mailbox, you can bet your sweet butt

somebody put him there.

- Oh, we got to get rid of this. - You ready?

- Yep. - One, two, three.

They was something else come out right there.

Oh, my gosh! A squirrel!

- Look. - Oh, my god!

Make sure there ain't nothing else in here.

For real.

It's gonna be bad enough, you can smell it, ew.

What is that? Reach in there and grab that.

Yeah. Take the paddle away.

What is it? Oh, my God!

It's a big old set of hog balls from a boar cut out.

I know exactly who done this now.

Mark and Huck.

- You think Mark and Huck... - You know they did.

...come up here and put that in there?

I mean, we took their cap from them, man.

I told you.

- I told you. - Yeah.

Taking their cap and just gonna stir up a hornet's nest again.

Yeah, this ain't no time to be pointing no fingers and blaming me.

You know, me and Mark Rogers used to be partners.

I know how he operates.

I know how he likes to get even with folks.

Pulling all these animals out of here,

it's got Mark Rogers's name wrote all over it.

We can't do nothing else here today.

We might as well get the hell out of here.

Let's go make it right with the customer,

see what we can do with him first.

Damn right, let's go.

This really sucks. You know, this is a huge kick

in the gut, and this is money

out of my pocket as well, you know?

So I'm pretty pissed off right now.

Tickle, let me see this picture, man.

Yeah, that right there.

Yeah, that's one of them guys.

That's one of the guys that pulled you over.

- At nighttime. - At nighttime.

- Yeah. - Threatening you?

- Yeah. - Henry and I found the site of some rival shiners.

We snuck in, took a picture, and sent it to Tim.

Sure enough, Tim says these are the guys been giving

him such a terrible time all year.

- This is what's upsetting me. - Mm-hmm.

They done wrote Bible scripture and Bible verses on the stills,

and what they really didn't want was competition

of people who could make

real good liquor. - Real good liquor.

Yeah, I mean, that's the whole deal.

They trying to run us out of the territory because

they want it, you know? - That ain't gonna happen.

Well, I mean, look, I know an easy way to fix this.

Simple. Let's do to them

what they was doing to us.

You know, we don't know how many people they got involved

in this operation because word's gonna get out,

you know, and then it's gonna be like a war

between this one and that one.

Right now, I've got another big order for Canada.

I don't want to lose opportunity here,

and I can't get, you know, mistracked off on these guys.

Now, I don't want to have that.

Right now, I need to still concentrate

on my Canadian order. I need to make this money.

We don't want to come to a confrontation.

It's beyond confrontation. I'm with Tickle.

Confrontation is over.

I think it's time for us to go in and kick some ass.

But you've got to cool out about it, though.

So how are we gonna handle this, man?

Maybe we have them make the moonshine for us that

they took from us. - Are you serious?

Have them make the moonshine for us.

Go in there, make a deal with them, get them to help us,

because right now I need

an extra moonshiner now in the second order.

How are you gonna pull that off?

We'll tell them we'll buy what they make.

And then what are you gonna do, just

take the money? - I won't pay them.

- I love it. - Tell them we'll pay at the end.

As soon as you get this order filled to help us get

this order filled, we'll pay at the end.

- Then we don't ever pay nothing. - That's counterweight.

You know, the gloves is coming off now,

and I'm with Henry and Tickle.

We're gonna get them, but not right now.

We need to figure out the whole big picture,

and then we'll take them all down.

All right, so what are we gonna do?

We need to go back down into this site

and let's check it out.

We're not gonna mess with anything.

Just look at everything, leave a note, back out.

When we were down there, it was daytime.

The guy pulls out in the daytime.

We walk up, and we saw this other guy working daytime.

They're not working at night. They're not working at night.

I think if we go there now, we'll be good to go.

We're gonna go back out to that site, and we're gonna

leave a note. And we're gonna play them

just like they played us.

And we know everything about them.

So now I think we're gonna put them on edge.

All right, let's get it, Tickle.

It's on down in here.

Here's the still site right here.

- There it is. - All right, well.

So they got 800 gallons,

400, four and four is a 800-gallon still.

All right, so what's the deal here?

- We know what's going on here. - Tickle, you got a marker?

- I got a marker. - I got some paper right here.

Put it on the paper or write it on that worm right there.

I mean, whatever.

Somebody give me some light right over here.

I mean, do y'all think this note is even gonna work?

If it don't work, there ain't a big world of trouble

because we know who they are.

And evidently, they definitely know who we are.

Yeah.

Sometimes I guess you gotta play chess, not checkers.

I really think they're gonna call.

They may think about it for a little bit, but I think

they're gonna call. Because what's their options?

And then we tie this around.

We're gonna take care of business ourself.

Y'all stole our liquor's what you did.

We had 1,000 gallons.

I need them to make me that moonshine back

that they took from us.

I mean, you ain't gonna spend no money.

We're gonna furnish you everything.

You just gotta do the work.

I can get this Canadian order going, you know, then I can

work a plan how I can get my pay back.

I don't trust either one of y'all.

Hey, guys, we've had several complaints on you all.

We're watching y'all, OK?

Somebody's done ratted me out by anonymous calls

from a motel here in Cocke County.

The hell you say?

- Are you pulling in? - Yeah, there he comes.

- Look at that. - We know exactly who it is.

Son of a bitch.