[narrator] Previously on Moonshiners...
If you wanna borrow a still, take it, use it.
I feel like we're giving 'em a wedding present.
[officer] I'm gonna put you guys in jail, I'm telling ya.
We're as close as we've ever been to being caught.
Chris, we've got bad problems.
-[Tim] What in the world? -[Tickle] What'd you think of my new ride?
We're gonna make the very first mobile still site.
What if something happened in the back and it catches on fire?
Gives a whole new meaning to miles to the gallon.
[Richard] They done tore the damn still up.
That's our elbow right here.
The elbow that connects the keg to the cap, it's a crucial component.
-It's Mike and Jerry, right? -Damn it!
Can't take a damn hint.
You know what you need? You need to learn what a good ass whopping feels like.
Bring it.
[narrator] And now on the season finale...
[Tickle] It's not a school bus, it's a still bus.
We'll throw these heads out.
I knew it was gonna be a good idea to have a mobile still site
because I'm always on the road.
I got blue lights, I got blue lights.
Oh, my God.
[man on phone] Is there a way you could double the order?
Double the order?
It's a 20 grand day. How we're gonna pull that off, he won't tell me.
[Mark] Hey, Puss.
-[Beaz] Oh, my God. -[Digger] Here I am.
[Beaz] That's Mark Ramsey.
-[Jerry] Let's see what's going on up here. -[Mike] Holy [bleep].
Son of a bitch is slam full of liquor, ain't it?
Adios, Richard and Craig.
[man] This is how we make the moonshine.
[Digger] That's gonna be more than 60 gallons,
-I feel sure by the time we temper it up. -[Beaz] Yep.
We'll be ready to get this jarred up, out the door.
Today, our goal was 60 gallons, Beaz has got 60 sold.
This legacy liquor, we cannot hang on to it. I mean, it flies out the door.
-Well, I'm pumped up. -I noticed you look like you've been working out.
I did go the the gym.
We were there, like, 30 seconds.
I'm like, "Dang, honey, that made my forearm cramp."
-[chuckling] What was it? The doorknob? -[chuckling] Yeah.
[Digger] We need to kind of see where we're at in this run.
[Beaz] Yeah, that's slowing down.
Isn't that amazing?
[Digger] Yeah, that's stuff that dreams are made out of.
As far as grain liquor goes, this is the best that we've ever made in our career.
I'm telling ya, that nose sells it
and then that taste just locks it in.
This is something you work a lifetime to create.
Good job, man.
We keep this up, we'll be able to get our teeth fixed.
[chuckling] Yep.
I say we shut it down.
[Digger] We're about that point. Let's get to tempering.
[Beaz] All right, look at that.
So now, we gotta temper it up, get it jarred up, get it out the door to Beaz's buyer.
Grab us a couple cartons of lids and I'ma get us a couple of rags.
[Beaz] I can see the end of the journey.
I have never seen any spirits sell the way this triple malt has.
And we're jarring it up, so we are almost with money in hand.
You got your location set where you're gonna meet?
No, I've gotta touch base with him.
-Matter fact, I should do that. -I'll finish this up.
You know, this is a big deal for us.
Sixty gallon goes out the door and $10,000 comes back into our pockets.
That's astronomical.
-Make sure about the money. -I will.
[line ringing]
[man on phone] Mr. Beasley, just the man I wanted to talk to.
Look, I've got all 60 gallons jarred up for ya,
it'll be 10 grand.
So you're ready for that, yes?
Well, I was wondering...
is there a way you could double the order?
Double the order?
I've already got the 60 sold
and I've got people knocking down my door wanting more.
[Beaz] This buyer has been with me for years.
But we don't have 60 more gallons of the triple malt.
So you want 120 gallons?
Man, I'm selling this stuff like hotcakes.
Hang on one second. Hang on.
He's wanting another 60 gallons?
-Yeah. -All right. Tell him we got it.
Digger, we don't have 60 gallons.
You just tell him we'll be there.
We'll have it, but he'll have to buy jars.
-Hey, you there? -Yes.
-I can double the order, that's 20 grand. -Yep.
Now, lookit, it's gonna be in two plastic barrels.
I don't have jars for that. Is that gonna work?
-Yes. -All right, brother. We'll see ya in a little bit.
-Well, thank you. -All right. Bye.
Well, how do we have that?
It's easier for me to show ya then you tell ya.
We got this beast.
Have I ever lead you wrong?
[Tim] All right, let's do this, get this thing together.
I'll get the big piece, y'all get the rest.
-How 'bout that? -[Tickle] All right. I'll tell ya what.
I don't want you to feel bad, so I'll get the little one.
-All right, thank you. -[Tickle] Yeah.
[narrator] In Culpeper County, Virginia,
inspired to make money while commuting to Franklin County,
Tickle in enlisting help from Tim
to convert an old school bus into a mobile still site.
[Tickle] All I can say is, it don't look like a still yet.
I'm all the time traveling up to Culpeper to help Tim out,
and then back to Franklin County
working with Henry, Kenny, and Josh.
So between the two, I'm losing a lot of valuable liquor making time.
[Tim] That's the bottom.
That's the top. And that's the side.
Tickle can't have a traditional still
that where you put in a cooper cap and pasting it.
I mean, it could come apart. Plus, it looks like a still.
This'll be raised from there.
So there'll be 6-inches difference in this.
And this'll become the cap.
You see what I'm saying?
-No. -[chuckling]
No, I don't.
Really, it's gotta be solid, one-piece unit bolted down to the bus frame.
So we came up with the idea of just making a square box,
stainless steel tank that looks like a diesel fuel tank.
All right, that should heat our mash up.
We're gonna heat this with a heater coil inside of it
that's gonna be coming off of the engine's coolant.
We need to come out the left side from the back of the bus?
Yeah, 'cause that the side that the heater's on.
-Oh, okay. Okay. -Yeah.
-That where we're gonna tie into it. -Right.
-And use the coolant over the engine. -Right.
Pipe through there and heat that.
This is gonna heat up to about 190 degrees
and that should be plenty hot enough
for me to turn this mash into vapor
and then back down into liquor.
I never quite seen a still quite like this.
[Tim] I mean, I'm pretty sure if it's ever to be found
they gonna say, "What in the world?"
[Tickle] That's my hopes, they don't know what it is.
The next step to this...
Let's see what we got here.
...is making this a 100% closed system.
Well, if this ain't a closed system we're gonna lose vapor,
and a still that leaks is a still that don't make liquor.
We gotta make sure we get you a sticker that says diesel fuel only.
[Tickle] Diesel fuel only.
-[chuckling] Yeah. -[Art] Yeah.
[Jerry] What's up?
-Tired as hell. -[Jerry] What're ya tired for?
-[Mike] I stayed up all night. -Oh, yeah. Why's that?
They didn't come outta the woods till about 12:30 last night.
You know, yesterday I saw Richard and Craig
hauling a damn trailer full of mash barrels into the woods.
Holy [bleep]. There's Richard and Craig right there, Jerry.
So I got the bright ass idea to hang up a game camera
'cause if this huge batch of liquor hits the market, come spring,
me and Jerry won't have a damn market, we'll be toast.
Check this out, right here.
This is blurry as all hell.
-But you can tell right there. -Lookie there.
[Mike] That looks like two barrels under a tarp.
They're coming outta the woods after midnight
with a couple barrels covered up with a tarp,
that spells damn alcohol to me.
That could potentially be a hundred damn gallons of alcohol
on that back of that damn trailer.
We're sick of Richard and Craig stealing our customers,
stealing the market.
They come outta that wood to unload,
we need to know where it's going.
That thing'll tell us when they go back in, won't it?
-Won't it give you an alert? -Yeah, it'll tell us.
You know, me and Jerry,
we already got a stockpile of booze we've been trying to sell all season.
So we gotta stop them, we gotta destroy this liquor that they're making.
That phone pings again,
we're striking out, we going to set our asses up and wait on 'em.
I'm with ya, we gotta do something, man.
Till then, fix your damn heater 'cause I'm freezing to death.
-It's pretty damn cold, ain't it? -Yep.
You know, we're not too damn far away from where Richard and Craig is,
so the next time this damn thing dings
we'll find us a little spot to nest up in,
sit there and wait for the phone to go off again,
and track 'em down, and see where they're going.
[phone vibrating]
-[phone vibrating] -Hang on just a minute.
-What is it? -My phone's pinging, son.
-The camera pinged? -Yeah.
Let's see here. Pull this on like that. Play.
They're heading their asses back in there, baby.
[Jerry] With an empty trailer.
My phone dings, sure enough here's Richard and Craig, baby.
They was late last night when they bumped their asses out with two barrels.
Mmm-hmm.
But what I seen them have on the damn trailer to start with,
they're going back in there to run more alcohol.
We can't let 'em get outta here with another load of liquor.
Time we set our asses up on that road there.
Time to go sit and wait on them to come out.
I don't know how long they're gonna be there,
I don't care if it takes me two damn days,
I'm gonna sit in one spot and wait for 'em to come back out.
Let's go get their asses right now, come on.
[Richard] Light this thing up and we're gonna start rolling, man.
Maggie Valley's gonna be all ours after this is over with.
If we didn't have Mr. Kelly, we couldn't of pulled this off.
Good thing Mike has a lot of enemies.
We need to make sure it don't leak.
[Tim] I wanna make sure it is safe.
This thing, if it explode, and that would not be a nice day.
-[Tickle] We got some leaks. -[Tim] Oh, my God.
This is where they come. Right up through here, Jerry.
Richard and Craig, they're in the woods right now
running off all this mash, piling up a bunch of liquor.
Soon as they come out, I'll be on their tail to put an end to it.
We get up on one of these curves
and just sit on the side of the road and wait.
There's no point in going all the way up to where it turns into gravel.
We want to sit here and wait 'em out
and get on their trail when they come back out.
I'ma put it this way,
they gonna head towards town right there and run down the main highway.
They won't never see us.
All they gonna see is that little curve right there,
we can catch the tail end of 'em.
Don't know how long we gonna have to sit here.
But we know as soon as this phone pings, five minutes or less.
They're gonna be taking a left right there.
I am a man of very few damn patience,
my patience is about that long.
But I know in order to catch Richard and Craig in the act
I've gotta be patient today.
I mean to claim that damn liquor, son.
Once tonight's over with Maggie Valley be calling Mike and Jerry back.
Well, Tickle, you're getting ready to have an extra fuel tank
-in the back of your school bus. -[Tickle] Yes, sir.
Best kind of fuel tank.
-It'll fuel me with liquor and moonshine. -[Tim chuckles]
So we finished up the still, and then it comes to the condenser part.
So condenser also needs to be permanently mounted, solid, bolted down,
closed system, so nothing spills out.
Right now we gotta build a box, a water box.
This condenser's gonna be rather unique.
When we got it ready then we fill it with water.
-All right, sounds good. -Yeah, man.
I do not have the luxury of extra water.
Go ahead.
So what we're gonna do here is we're gonna make a sealed condensing unit,
and we're gonna continue to cool the water
that's already in this condenser.
-[Tim] All right. -All right.
There is a condenser.
[Tickle] Now all's left is the put the actual cooling coil in.
The second coil condenses your liquor,
patches into the air-conditioning system
that's already existing on this bus.
[Tim] That water gonna get cold.
It is, but, um, we need to make sure it don't leak.
If it leaks we'll have a problem.
Well, so I think the best way to figure that one out
is let's just put water in it and do a water test.
[Tim] Mmm-hmm.
And, uh, we'll mark the spots on the outside if we do spring a leak.
[Tim] Let's do that.
I can get the water hose.
This is not a normal still.
This is gonna be on a moving bus going down the road,
Tickle's driving, so it's gotta be almost automatic.
-All right, set it right there. -[Tickle] All right.
It's gotta be made in a way that the alcohol comes out where it should be,
the cooling coil works like it should be.
So I wanna make sure it is safe
because this thing could explode and that would not be a nice day.
-We got some leaks in it. -[Tim] You got holes everywhere.
Oh, my God.
I think we just do a pass on the outside, maybe.
Just as I expected, there are a few leaks in this condenser.
Well, you know what? I think this is gonna work.
We just have to go around the outside with a welder.
But once we get this thing fixed and all together in this bus,
only thing left is driving down the road, making a little bit of liquor.
You know, this could be a good apple bobbing table.
[all laughing]
-[Richard] Well, we gotta fire up again, man. -[Craig] Yeah.
-It's already cold out here. -[Richard] It's gonna be colder tonight.
We put a lot of work, a lot of effort into the set of runs we're doing right now.
Today, we're gonna finish off the rest of that mash.
We ran 400 gallons of mash yesterday.
Let's start pumping some mash.
Light this thing up and we're gonna start rolling, man.
We got 600 gallons of corn mash to run today.
-That's three big runs on this still. -All right, let 'er rip.
[Richard] We've been putting up with a lot from Mike and Jerry.
They coming into the still site, they messed with our stuff,
they stole from us.
So our plan is to flood the market with this liquor,
Maggie Valley is gonna be all ours after this is over with.
A thousand gallons.
If we didn't have Mr. Kelly, we couldn't of pulled this off.
Good thing Mike has a lot of enemies, right?
Or good thing we've got a lot of friends.
Sixty gallons that we're gonna get outta this run today,
already got a buyer lined up for it.
All right, all right. We're full.
I'll go ahead and cut off this pump.
Everything that comes outta this still today,
we're taking it straight to our bootlegger.
He's gonna put this out far and wide.
Every time we light this fire I still get a kick out of it.
This is awesome, I'm in heaven right here.
[Craig] Yeah, this old still been treating us right, man.
Let's name her ATM.
This is our savings account,
this is our high-yield checking account,
and that's the ATM machine we get it all out of, right there.
You know, the number one thing I have going for me
is all Mike's enemies are my friends.
And they're helping me every step of the way with this.
I can feel it way over here though, it's warm.
It's way up here, brother. It ain't gonna be but a second now.
The only reason why we went all-in on this corn liquor
is because corn liquor is, like, the number one selling this around here.
Yeah, that's about to start running now.
[Craig] Yeah, it's got a little drip. It's about to come through.
We'll be out here for another 12 hours or so.
Oh, look, it's running.
Gonna push out everything we have left tonight.
This still runs like a clock. This is a well-oiled machine right here.
This is a good jar, let's taste this one.
[Craig] All right, let's taste.
This is a really good mash we put together.
I mean, this is a simple recipe,
but it's producing some real good liquor.
-That's real corn liquor. -Ooh, and it's smooth too.
[Richard] It's good to go, right here.
We started from nothing around here
now we got 1,000s of gallons of mash we running,
100s of gallons of liquor we putting out,
bootleggers, customers.
We came to Maggie Valley, we didn't know anybody here.
I mean, I didn't know anybody at all.
We got friends here now, we have confidants here now,
we have customers here now.
We're on top, we're gonna take this place over.
Last bucket.
[Craig] That's probably it for this one here.
-Four buckets per run. -[Richard] Yep.
We got 20 gallons out this run. Some good liquor.
But we gotta break the pot down, start all over again.
First run down, two more to go.
[Tim] What? I got the heavy end or what?
No, we just gave you your part.
I had this vision of being able to make liquor while I'm going down the road.
And now, this vision is becoming reality.
-She's in. -[Art] Whoo.
[Tickle] We gotta get this heater outta here too.
[Tim grunting] One's coming loose.
But they both gotta come loose, Tim.
-[Tim] Hey! -[Tickle] Hey! There ya go.
There was a heater that run to the back of this bus,
we're gonna hook our pot right to those hoses
that would go to the rear heater in this school bus.
[Tim] All right.
These two pipes here, gonna connect to here,
and that's gonna heat it up to 200 degrees.
It's gonna run right through this coil we put it inside this box.
We've got a coil running the bottom of this tank,
and the hot engine coolant will flow through here,
that should heat the mash up
just enough where I don't have to watch it because there is no direct heat here.
Let's see what we got.
-Door shuts. -All right, let's put some screws in, lock it down.
[Tickle] Well, let's get the condenser out here and see what we working with.
Being as I'm going down the road,
I do not have the luxury of having running water here.
So I'm gonna have to just fill this tank up
and have to keep the water that's in it cool.
[Tim] Next thing, we gotta connect the cooling system.
We're gonna tap into the air-conditioning system on this bus.
I'm gonna run two high-pressure freon lines to these two connections.
Well, there we go.
-[Tim] All right, that's good right there. -[Tickle] All right.
When I cut the air-conditioning on,
the freon's gonna run through this coil that I have in the condenser
and that's gonna keep my cooling water cool.
This is the most advanced school bus on Earth.
You'll be looking like Ghostbusters.
-Now we gotta, what? Hook up out under the hood? -[Tim] Yeah.
[Art] Okay, Tickle, what'd you think?
Well, see if I can't feed these up to ya.
It looks like right over here is gonna be my easiest--
Oh, you done figured it all out,
how you gonna hook it all up, Tickle?
[Art] I'm gonna go ahead and take these other lines off first.
[Tickle] All right.
You got the small hose up there too?
-You got 'er? -[Art] Yep, got it.
I don't know. I ain't never seen such a rig like this before.
Tickle, that's all tightened up right there.
[Art] Now we just need freon.
Now I have seen mobile still sites before in my life.
But on those mobile still sites you're basically
camouflaging your still as a trailer or something like that,
pulling it to a location, stopping, and making your liquor there.
I'm actually making the liquor as I'm going down the road.
Matter of fact, if I turn this bus off I quit making liquor.
Are y'all clear there?
Hands clear, go ahead.
-Good. -Yep.
-[engine starts] -There we go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pulling on in there now.
[Art] It's on now.
-Hey, guys, the air's getting cold. -[Art] All right.
-Good deal. -All right, there we go.
Most people think about how many miles per gallon they're getting.
Well, I gotta start considering how many gallons per miles I'm gonna get.
And if anybody asks anything about it, this is my diesel fuel tank.
-I sleep over yonder, I go on long trips. -Yep.
And I pee in the other one.
That way I won't get no indecent exposure tickets. [laughing]
I guess my next step's to get some mash in this thing to get up the road.
[Mike] Tell ya what, man, my adrenaline is rolling right now, son.
[Jerry] They've got something on that trailer for sure.
[Mike] It looks like damn barrels of liquor they trucking off there.
They put their hands on it their last time.
[Richard] We gotta take everything outta here tonight, Craig.
We got 60 gallons to go deliver
and we gotta pack this still up in the stash house.
And then once this hits the streets,
people gonna start sucking this up.
First 40 gallons of liquor that we ran, we stashed that in the stash house.
This 60 gallons that we're gonna get outta this run today,
it's going straight to a bootlegger
and he's gonna take care of selling it all over Maggie Valley.
-That'll be running in a second, man. -Yeah, it's hot way over here.
-Oh, there we go. -[Richard] That's how she's supposed to run.
I'd love to keep running liquor out here all winter long, but it's cold.
I mean, it's brutally cold out here right now.
[Craig] I'ma toss these heads here.
So this here's gonna be our last run.
We gonna take everything outta here and we're gonna put everything up.
All right, come on, let's taste it, man.
It's crystal clear.
-That's good corn liquor. -It gets better and better with each run.
It's a little more flavorful. This is damn good.
[Richard] Yeah, that's good.
-One more time. -That's good corn liquor.
I mean, tasting this, this is a really good jar. I mean, I'm proud of this.
Everything's falling into place here, we got a real good product,
we got a buyer right now ready to get some of this liquor.
Last run of the reason.
-Last run of the season, we're done with it. -Okay.
Get a bucket ready, we gonna start dumping 'em in buckets soon
and that's it, now we can get outta here.
We got the last few barrels left to run.
I mean, this feels really good.
-Did you ever think we'd be at this point here? -No.
But we here now.
Think we did really well in Maggie Valley.
In just a few months we went from not even being able to sell a jar around here
to [scoffs] being the kingpin.
That's it, now we can get outta here.
Pop that cap, man.
So me and Richard are gonna pack up the still
and everything else at the site that we have to take out.
[Richard] We have 60 gallons right there, ready to go.
[Craig] We're gonna pass by the stash house,
stash our still.
Make sure it's safe and sound.
'Cause it's not for us. It's for Mark and Digger.
60 gallons in one day. Gotta be a record.
Everything is falling into place right now.
So in the end, we should be the big dogs of Maggie Valley.
[Richard] Let's go. [exhales]
That's 55 gal.
-[Richard] Ride one more? -Yeah, it's 60 gallons.
[Richard] So we're gonna put everything in storage
and come back next season real early and start it all over again.
[straining] Come on. Be careful, boys. It's Mark and Digger's still.
We've come here. We've risen to the top. We're not gonna stop. We're gonna keep going.
Cover this up.
[Craig] It's not just Mark and Digger's still. That's our baby now.
[Richard] With this still and the contacts that we have in Maggie Valley...
I mean, the future's looking real bright right now.
We got everything we need. Let's go.
[Craig] Let's hurry up, get to the stash house.
-[suspenseful music playing] -[crickets chirping]
[Mike] They been here a long damn time, makin'...
I know, we've been sitting here for a long damn time.
They're just in there, doing their thing, man.
They running damn liquor's what they doin'.
Is that what they're doin'?
[cell phone vibrates]
-Uh-oh. -[suspenseful music playing]
-What you got? -[Mike] Let's see.
Oh, there.
Look, they're heading down with the two barrels.
[Jerry] That's what it looks like.
They got that truck all loaded up,
and they comin' right through there, baby.
[Jerry] Let's get ready to pull on out of this place.
Jerry, buddy, we gotta stop this damn liquor from hitting the market.
-That's them right there, brother. -[Jerry] That's it.
-[Mike] That's them, baby. -[Jerry] Scoot.
[Mike] Let them get on down the road a little bit.
-[Jerry] Give them a little leeway there. -[Mike] Mmm-hmm.
[Jerry] This is it, man.
[Mike] Damn right, this is it.
[Jerry] The final straw.
[Mike] What are you up to now, and where are you going?
Damn, they're just... Flying like a...
I ain't gonna lose their asses, that's for sure.
Not this time.
Mmm-mmm.
I don't know where the hell they heading to, man.
[Jerry] Wherever it is, it's going in a hurry, son.
[Mike] I don't give a damn if we're going all the way back to Louisiana.
I'm following your ass.
I'll tell you what, man.
My adrenaline is rolling right now, son.
-[Jerry] Getting pumped up, are you? -Oh, yeah.
I just don't wanna lose their asses.
Damn, them sum bitches is flyin'.
What they don't know, we're gonna be right behind them.
Can't even see what the hell's on that trailer they're carrying.
They've got somethin'.
[Jerry] They got something on that trailer, for sure.
Damn right.
[Jerry] Gonna have to lift up that tarp.
[Mike] Gonna be damn more alcohol, I can tell ya.
-[Jerry] Where are they going, man? -[Mike] I don't know.
They just turned up in that damn road, right there.
Man, they're in that field right there.
[Mike] They're pulling in to that damn building, them son of a bitches.
Well, we'll pull over here. We'll just sneak around this field right here.
Get a better view.
[Mike] Killing the damn lights.
-Let's go check them out. -[car sounding]
[bleep]
Be quiet, will ya?
[intense music playing]
[Mike] What the hell they doin'?
[Jerry] Looks like they're lifting something here.
[Mike] Yeah, I believe they are.
[Jerry] It looks heavy, whatever it is. They're struggling with it.
[Mike] Looks like damn barrels of liquor they trucking off there.
[Jerry] Look, they're using a hand truck.
[Mike] That's what I'm sayin'. They rolling it.
As long as they keep their lights on, we're gonna see what they're doin'.
[Mike] That's right.
[Jerry] Whatever it is, they're leaving it.
[Mike] I guarantee, every bit of their damn liquor's in that freaking building.
If they put their hands on it, it's their last time.
Looks like they're getting ready to leave, though.
[Jerry] Let's get closer and see what's going on up here.
-[Mike] It's their damn van. -[Jerry] Don't be talking. Look at that barbed wire.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mike] They got 'er locked down tighter than Dick's hatband, don't they?
Holy [bleep].
Son of a bitch's slammed full of liquor right here.
[Jerry exclaims]
Hell, there's 100 gallons on the damn floor, not counting the barrel.
[Jerry] You still got that big tow strip in your truck?
I got tow strips. I got chains and every damn thing.
Well, let's throw that tow strip around this thing,
-and we'll just yank her to the damn ground. -[Mike] Suits me.
Let's do it.
They won't be selling no more liquor after tonight.
[tense music building]
[crickets chirping]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mike] Here we go, buddy.
-All right, let's get out and get it done. -[car sounding]
Put an end to their season like they have ours.
-[exclaims] I got it. -You got it.
-You wanna take that? -We're hooking that in.
-[Jerry] Hold on to that thing. -Take it. Go.
[intense music playing]
-[Jerry exclaims] -[Mike] You good?
[Jerry] Yeah. [exhaling]
-Stuff that there. -Right.
-You got it? -Got it.
-[Jerry] Hook 'er up. -[Mike exclaims]
-Stretch it. -[grunting]
-[Mike grunts] -[Jerry] Got it?
Yep. It's hooked.
Let's tear this son of a gun down.
[tense music playing]
[car sounding]
-[grunts] -[car starting]
[Jerry] Keep goin'. Keep goin'. Keep goin'. Keep goin'. Keep goin'...
[both laughing]
Whoo-hoo!
-[Jerry] My God, we got her on the ground. -[Mike] We sure did, man.
Look at that.
It's wet here, ain't it?
-That's liquor, baby. -Liquor?
[Mike] Adios, Richard and Craig.
-Hell yeah, buddy. -Let's get out of here, man.
[Mike] Let's go, man.
[low strumming music playing]
[mellow music playing]
[Tim] Is that thing full yet?
[Tickle] No, man. This thing holds 100 gallons.
Before I go trying to test this still out and really push its limits
for maybe some exotic flavors,
I'm just gonna use some of my own corn liquor mash.
It's a good base recipe.
It's inexpensive, and corn liquor's always in high demand.
[Art] We're getting down to the nitty-gritty here.
-[Tickle] That's the last of it? -[Art] That's the last of it.
[Tickle] Well... I say that's pretty good for the first run.
-Yeah. -Need to get some water in the condenser,
and I'm good to go.
[Tim] Tickle, I'll just stick it through the window.
All right. Crank it on up.
[Art] Look at that efficiency, will ya?
Man, you gotta just pop the window down and stick the hose in there,
-and you ready. -[Tim] Man, you got a rig.
I mean, think about it. This is, like, an easy operation.
No stand, no fire, no nothing.
It's not a school bus. It's a cool bus.
It's a still bus.
-[Art] I'm sold, Tickle. -[Tickle chuckles] All right.
I'm gonna hit down the road.
-[Art] You have a safe trip. -[Tickle] All right.
See what we can do about making some liquor.
You know, I knew it was gonna be a good idea to have a mobile still site.
Because I'm always on the road.
Right now, I'm heading back to Franklin County to hook up with Henry and Kenny.
And by the time I get there, this run should be done. It's genius.
How you doin'?
I'm gonna pull over right here and I'm gonna check the temperature of this still.
I'm starting to get up to normal operating temperature for this...
vehicle...
Which is at perfect...
temperature to be running this... mash shack.
Okay.
Pot is starting to get good and hot.
I probably oughta get ready to catch some liquor.
Maybe get on a back road here.
I feel a little safer.
I'll be dogged, this thing's working! All right!
Yes, sir.
I'm happy with this still and the way that it's running.
But it's gonna take me a while to just keep driving and keep running this liquor.
Throw these heads out right here.
Once I've dumped the heads,
on a normal basis, I would put all of my liquor in one big collection tank.
But I'm gonna run this off into individual jars on this first run,
just to make sure everything's working right.
Should be producing some good liquor now. This is beautiful.
[country music playing]
This is gonna be a trip, Baez. It's not at an easily accessible spot.
Where are we goin'? Can you tell me that?
[Digger] I cannot.
When you indiscreet in the way we are,
you just gotta keep everything on the down low as much as you can.
[Digger] It became evident sometime back
that David Robertson is trying his best to build a case against us.
What's going on, Cap?
Look like yous getting to no good today, are yous?
No, sir, we're not.
I'm gonna tell yous boys somethin'.
I might have been born at night, but I've been born damn wise enough.
Now, how far advanced he is in that case, I don't have any clue.
Feels weird not knowin' that we had that much liquor still at hand.
You know, you don't put all your eggs in one basket, Baez.
You gotta spread everything out.
[Baez] I get it.
I get it.
The next thing I know,
we've crossed the state line.
We're in the Carolinas,
going into the mountains.
[Digger] Enjoy the view. These stakes gonna be the last ever civilization
you see for a little bit.
Where we're goin', it's not on any Southern livin' tours.
You just keep your mind working the way it does,
and you won't remember where you're at.
[Baez laughs]
[Digger] I won't have to tranquilize you.
But you cannot say a word
of what you see up here, you know how it goes.
Okay.
Digger, I think this is the deepest in the woods you have ever taken me.
This is Sasquatch or somethin'.
Okay.
Wow.
I hope nobody comes out and starts shootin' at us.
[Digger] It would not be the first time right here.
It looks almost like one of those survivalist camps.
I'm expecting to see 'em training with bayonets and...
bow and axes and...
writing their congressman.
Only way you can find this place most times is with helicopter.
[Baez] Look at this.
I am nervous about this.
[Digger] Don't spook anybody.
[Baez] That's Kelly Williamson.
[Digger] You would be correct, sir.
-Okay. -[Digger] He's kind of been helping out.
What we got there gives 90 gallons of liquor down the road.
[Baez] Wow.
I mean, there's more than I have, and I'm the guy that's been running it.
-[Digger] I'll be back in a minute. [grunts] -[car sounding]
[door closes]
Can't be good news if you're around.
-[chuckles] -Well, I swore I'd stay away from up here, but...
I got no choice.
I need 60 more.
Ooh...
[Baez] So, what's going on with this? With Kelly?
I can't believe he was so secretive about that.
Hey, fellas.
-[Baez] Oh, my God. -Here I am.
[Baez] There's Mark Ramsey.
-Holy cow! -[music ending]
[theme music playing]
In my dream, we was in a store,
and Tickle was far away from me.
He was at the other end of the store,
like down the aisle.
Right.
And Tickle kept picking up stuff
saying he wants this and he wants that.
And I kept saying "No, Tickle. Put it down."
"Come on, Tickle. Leave it."
Just like a kid. Like a kid in a candy store.
Like a kid, right.
Like I was his father and he was my son.
And I was telling him "Come on, Tickle. Put it down and lets go."
You know? But he was like this.
And I dont know what he was getting,
and I don't know what kind of store.
but it was like store with long aisles.
It was like way out there.
Hoo, now. Was it like a big ol' liquor store?
Yeah. Must have been.
[laughing]
That would make sense.
At least it wasnt bad because most of the time
I'm dreaming I'm falling and dying.
Right.
So, I didn't fall no where, and I didn't die.
[laughing]
So, I was all good.
[suspenseful music playing]
-[Kelly] Can't be good news if you're around. -[Digger] I got no choice.
I need 60 more.
Hey, puss.
-[Baez] Oh, my God. -Here I am.
That's Mark Ramsey.
Holy cow.
-What part of "stay in the truck" don't you understand? -[chuckling]
No, no, but when I see my buddy... Hey, man, how the heck are ya?
-[laughs] -[Digger] Cat's out of the bag.
We've been running liquor here for months.
This liquor's too good to let up on, and we can't sell a lot of this
if we don't make it, so here we are.
We're big, as bad as ever.
[Baez] Wow, now mystery's solved.
Now it makes sense to me.
I did step away.
And, uh...
This is kind of what I stepped away to.
With all the heat that's been on me,
in order to keep everyone safe,
we felt that we just simply had to keep this operation a secret.
But now that it's end of the season,
and we're moving out of here,
you know, we finally felt that it's okay to reveal what we've been up to.
We're running three times a week.
Come next spring, we'll pick up somewhere else.
We're making a lot of liquor.
Triple multigrain liquor.
You know, we need you.
With your bootleggin' skills,
and your ability to sell mass quantities...
We knew I couldn't quit.
And speaking of your bootleggin' abilities,
I hear that you sold 60 more gallons than you actually have.
Correct.
Kelly?
Won't you show him?
[Kelly] Come up here, Baez, you're gonna love this place.
-[dynamic music playing] -[Baez] Holy cow.
They've got over 600 gallons of the triple malt,
tempered, ready to go, in their shed.
All right. Let's load this liquor, guys.
-[Baez] Wow. -Get 'er done.
[Baez] Amazing.
You know, anybody's ever made liquor on a big scale...
It gets in your blood.
You cannot get rid of it. It's like a disease. It's incurable.
So, that being said,
nothin' short of death is gonna keep Mark and Digger from running liquor.
[Mark] I always love seeing a truckload of liquor drive away.
[truck honking]
[ambient guitar music playing]
Everything looks like it's going good so far.
Goin' down the road...
Shine's coming out of this worm...
I'm filling jars up...
Everything is going just as smoothly as can be expected
with this still.
What the hell?
Oh, my God.
[exclaims]
Engine's cut.
Oh, no.
[exclaims] My God.
-Mmm... This ain't good. -[engine cranking]
Oh, this ain't good.
[keys clattering]
Let's see what I can do.
[tense music playing]
The engine is just dead-stopped on me.
The battery's working, you know, uh...
Nothing looks busted.
This is the worst possible case for me.
I've got a still in this bus. It's got mash in it.
I've got liquor that I've already made.
Quit midway through that jar right there.
Ah, shoot. It was running so good.
I don't see anything going on with these lines.
Nothing leaking back here going to the heater core on the pot.
Um-- God Almighty, she's hot.
[clicks tongue and exclaims]
[sighs] God, I don't know what to do now.
See if I can get this thing goin'.
[grunting]
[engine cranking]
[tense music playing]
Let me call Tim and see what I can do.
[dial tone ringing]
[sighs]
All the years that I've known Tim,
he's always lectured me on how risky some of the things that I'm doing is.
And I guess right now, I actually see his point.
[dial tone ringing]
-[Tim] Hey. -Hey.
Tim! Look, um...
-Uh, I got a problem. -[Tim] What do you mean, you got a problem?
[Tickle] Uh, the bus died on me.
-[Tim] What do you mean, it died? - It just quit runnin'.
I'm off on the side of the road now.
[Tim] Well, it'd be a couple hours, probably, before I can get there.
You know, but get me that address, and then I can find ya.
[Tickle] Uh-oh.
We got problems right here, Tim.
-Uh-- -[police sirens wailing]
[Tickle] [bleep] I got blue lights. I got blue lights.
Oh, my God.
Gotta try to handle the situation. Let me get off here.
[Tim] All right.
-[sighing] -[officer] How are you doing, sir?
[Tickle exclaims] Well, uh...
I guess I've had better days.
[officer] Oh. What's going on?
[Tickle] Uh, well, uh, she just cut off on me. I guess she got a little hot.
[officer] So, where you headed to?
I'm headed down to southern Virginia.
-[officer] Southern Virginia. -[Tickle] Yeah, yeah. I got a small farm down there.
[officer] Okay. Where are you coming from?
Uh, I was coming from a buddy of mine's farm, not far down your road here.
-[officer] Okay. -[Tickle] Yeah.
Just trying to head back, and this thing, it just conked out on me.
Sometimes, when it gets hot, she'll cut off.
[officer] You got your driver's license on you, by chance?
[Tickle] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I sure do. I sure do.
Yes, sir.
-[tense music playing] -[officer] You got a tow on the way, or?
What are you gonna--
[Tickle] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got my buddy on the way.
-[officer] You got someone? -[Tickle] Yeah, he's on the way.
[officer 2] What's this big, shiny thing you got here in the back?
[Tickle] The-- The tank?
It's a diesel tank.
[officer] All right, well, good luck to you.
Hopefully, you ain't sitting there too long. Luckily, it's a nice night for you.
[Tickle] All right. I appreciate it.
-[officer] Yep. You take care. -[Tickle] Thank you for your help.
[intense music playing]
[Tickle exhaling]
Oh, my God.
[exhaling in relief]
Can't believe I just got away with that.
[banjo music playing]
I am gonna check out on the mash heater.
See if that thing's working the way it's supposed to.
Maybe we can get one more run off this thing.
-[telephone ringing] -Get on back to damn business.
-[ringing continues] -The hell...
is Kelly Williamson doing calling here?
-[automated voice] Call from Kelly Williamson. -[ringing continues]
[phone beeps]
Hello?
[Kelly] Mike Cockrell?
What can I help you with, Kelly?
[Kelly] How about looking down your driveway?
What the hell are you talking about, dude?
[Kelly] There's something you need to see.
Look down-- What the hell are you talking about?
Look down my driveway?
[Kelly] You got a hunk of metal layin' down there?
[suspenseful music playing]
Yeah, I see a hunk of damn metal in the driveway. That's all I see.
[Kelly] Did you recognize what that is?
[Mike] I don't know what the hell that is, Kelly.
[Kelly] Well, that was a moonshine still,
and it belonged to Mark and Digger.
I have not been around nothin' that belongs to Mark and damn Digger.
[Kelly] Are you saying you didn't tear a building down?
I'm not saying what I did and what I didn't do.
I know I ain't been around Mark and Digger's still.
You decided you're losing out to Richard,
knocked his stuff up.
But you got Mark and Digger once again.
And they're gonna be pissed off.
You really messed up this time.
[phone beeps]
[exhaling] Oh, my God!
[dialing]
[dial tone ringing]
-[Jerry] Hey, buddy, what's goin' on? -Hey. Jerry...
We got a damn problem, son.
[tense music playing]