In North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing ki | dG1feF9MUklqX0RUVW8
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00:00 In Jackson County, North Carolina,
00:03 my family name meant something.
00:05 [tires screeching]
00:06 Outlawing was just a matter of blood,
00:09 of hair color, and height.
00:11 ♪ ♪
00:13 Methamphetamine was a living, breathing body
00:16 in Jackson County,
00:17 and Daddy was the heart.
00:19 Everyone knew he was not the man you wanted to cross.
00:23 - You're in McNeely.
00:25 We do not choose this life.
00:27 It shows us.
00:28 It'll be that way till we ain't breathing.
00:30 - You know you had goodness in your heart
00:32 the minute you came into this world.
00:34 You need to get out of this place,
00:36 away from your daddy.
00:38 - When I'm elected governor,
00:39 I aim to make this community a safer,
00:42 better place for all of us.
00:44 - Get the hell out of my county,
00:46 or I will nail your ass to the cross.
00:49 ♪ ♪
00:51 - You ain't never gonna change.
00:53 The devil's got you.
00:54 - And you've got life ahead of you.
00:57 - You lied to me.
00:59 Do you know what this means?
01:02 - Hands up.
01:03 Do like I tell you now.
01:06 - You have everything to me.
01:08 - Wish I could just get out of here.
01:10 - I've got money.
01:11 Just sitting there in Daddy's safe.
01:13 [both grunting]
01:16 - You're trash, boy!
01:17 No different to your daddy!
01:19 ♪ ♪
01:22 - It's you and me, son.
01:24 ♪ ♪
01:30 [tires screeching]
01:33 [gunshots]
01:35 - What you thinking about?
01:37 - How to fix this.
01:38 ♪ ♪