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00:00This time, on Moonshiners...

00:09Things ain't looking good right now.

00:12We just lost our still site.

00:15I'm so ready to recoup some of this money that we spent,

00:18but it just seems like we're starting over from square one.

00:21My finger! He broke my finger!

00:24It just keeps on getting more complicated.

00:26If these guys are pulling the bag of today,

00:28we're moving on to the next field.

00:30People always wondered, how do you do that?

00:32It's just as simple as eating a peanut butter sandwich.

00:35I've got a fellow moonshiner that's trying to help his brother.

00:39If I have to do a bad thing to do a good thing, I will.

00:42I got trouble.

00:46Fire!

00:48Moonshine is a part of our history.

00:50It exists, but it doesn't.

00:52Almost like a myth.

00:54I'm America's most wanted moonshiner.

00:58That's not a good feeling to want by the law.

01:03I live on the edge of anarchy.

01:07It's very hard to catch moonshiners.

01:09They're very smart.

01:12There can only be one chief.

01:14I'm wondering if we can pull this thing off.

01:16Uh-oh.

01:19Golly, that's good.

01:21We could supply the whole world with moonshine and everybody would be happy.

01:26If you really love your country,

01:28you're going to have to love moonshine.

01:33Grand County, North Carolina.

01:41Jeff and Mark were preparing to run two stills simultaneously

01:45for the first time this season.

01:47Jeff brought his wife Lynn and son Lance into the fold.

01:53But it's all gone south.

01:56Jeff and Mark's water source was choked off by soot,

01:59forcing them to use a loud motorized pump.

02:05But the noise blast could be an alarm to anyone in the vicinity

02:08that something's going down.

02:10Utilizing the bird calls they've established.

02:14You hear this wing bone, you answer me back,

02:16or it's like, fine.

02:20Mark wants Lynn and Lance to abandon their still site

02:23and get out of these woods.

02:26But there's no answer.

02:35Hey, lion, come out.

02:38Lion, let's get you out of here.

02:40Lion, come out.

02:42Lion, come out.

02:44Lion, come out.

02:46Lion, come out.

02:50Lion, come out.

02:52Lion, come out.

02:54Lion, no, leave it, leave it right there.

02:57Come on, get out of here.

02:59I had to make sure there ain't nobody coming in or anybody around.

03:02This better be safe than sorry.

03:17The law is just around the corner.

03:21Deputy Chuck has received key intelligence

03:24from a confidential informant about a moonshiner

03:27who's running multiple stills in the area.

03:31They are harder to find than they used to be.

03:33If they're moving a still, then they'll do that at night.

03:37We're going to get out on the lake tonight

03:39and see if we can see any lights up in the woods.

03:41Do a little surveillance down here on the lake

03:45and see what we can come up with.

03:50500km north in the mountains of Virginia...

03:58...Tickles got his work cut out for him.

04:01With his still hand, Howard, AWOL,

04:03he must forge ahead in preparing the mash for his first run.

04:07It's only me here right now.

04:09I don't even have my still hand here to help me.

04:12And right now, all I can do is just go with it.

04:18But he's not alone.

04:42What are you doing out in here?

04:45You know you own private land.

04:47No, I didn't. I didn't think anybody owned this.

04:51Well, you're looking like the one who owns it.

04:53So, um, can I rent the land from you?

04:56No, we're not going to do that.

04:58I don't want to wind up losing this farm

05:00on account of what you got piled over in them bushes.

05:03You're going to get that thing and you're going to get it out of here

05:06or we're going to have trouble.

05:08We're not going to have no trouble. I'll have it out of here.

05:15I got trouble.

05:17He owns this property.

05:20This is what goes along with the territory.

05:27He says he ain't going to call it a loan,

05:30but I ain't so sure of that.

05:38The pot's too big for me to move by myself.

05:41And I got to have it out of here by the time the damn sun goes down.

05:49Things ain't looking good right now.

05:51We just lost our still site.

05:59Just across the county in Climax, Virginia,

06:02making liquor isn't the only thing occupying Tim's time and energy.

06:08He's living a double life.

06:10In between moving his top-secret stash from one hidden location to the next

06:14and trying to build his dream of a distillery,

06:17he's also the town fire chief,

06:20a responsibility he takes seriously.

06:23When I was 16, my house caught on fire at Christmas night.

06:26I dragged my mother out of the house and my dog died in the house fire.

06:30So that's how I got started in the fire department.

06:35Some days are stressful.

06:37Some days are stressful.

06:41Climax has had its share of different calls.

06:46Plane crashes and shootings and murders.

06:49We actually had a moonshine still to blow up one time.

06:53It was the middle of the night,

06:55and some guys had a moonshine still up in a tobacco barn.

06:58The gas tank ruptured in there, and it blew up

07:01and got some guys burned real bad.

07:04You know, this is a place to have moonshine.

07:06I mean, everybody knows it, and everybody's in the business.

07:09But if something happens, I'm still the chief of the fire department.

07:12I'm still responsible for Munity itself.

07:16650 kilometers to the southwest.

07:21Not much has gone as planned for Josh and Bill.

07:25They completed their underground still, but not in time for the festival,

07:29and when they were finally ready to mash in,

07:32they discovered toxic black mold.

07:35Smells down here bad.

07:37We got black crud going on our framing.

07:39It's molded.

07:40It's over.

07:42The rookies may be down and out, but they're not done for.

07:46As luck would have it, they have access to the last site

07:49where Barney made liquor in the depths of a thick bamboo forest.

07:53You think we're gonna be able to drag the still up through this?

07:56Well, we might have to cut some damn bamboo out of the way, but yeah.

08:00So far, the worst part about it, it's hard to get to.

08:04And the best part about it, it's hard to get to.

08:14Man, that's a mess.

08:20This has been my home for the last year.

08:22Barney Barnwell was one of my best buddies.

08:25Making a run where we used to make moonshine,

08:28it made it all the more special.

08:30It's like carrying on a tradition.

08:32Barney always said, do the best you can.

08:35That's all that matters.

08:36That's what I'm doing.

08:38A victory ain't nothing more than the clearing of a battlefield

08:43so another one can begin.

08:49I tell you what, I'm gonna dread cleaning it out.

08:52I'm glad we're moving to one of Barney's last spots,

08:55but it just seems like we're starting over from square one.

09:02200 kilometres to the northeast.

09:08After getting Jeff's family to safety,

09:11Jeff and Mark survey the lake

09:13to determine what red flags they set off by using a loud water pump.

09:17That pump made a lot of racket.

09:20That sound really carries over this water.

09:23Yeah, that worries more than anything.

09:26The ramifications are serious.

09:28Could mean game over for these veteran shiners.

09:31We had to do what we had to do to get a run off, didn't we?

09:37It's a long ways out to the main channel there.

09:40The only way they would have heard the pump

09:42if they'd have been fishing around in here.

09:44It can't help being nervous about it.

09:46I know.

09:48Coming up...

09:49There's a spider on me.

09:51Oh, my God, it is!

09:52Spiders?

09:53Ah!

09:54I don't do spiders.

09:55Ah!

09:56You need some damn man skin.

09:58There's supposed to be steel down here on the lake.

10:01When I'm coming up the lake, a little bit of shine on me.

10:04A lot of things go wrong.

10:06We've got a boat over here.

10:08We can go check out this boat.

10:18Having a partner in the moonshining business

10:20is a thing of the past for Tim.

10:22At this point, he's lost track of Tickle completely.

10:25It's tough to be getting in over his head

10:27because if he gets down there and doesn't know what he's doing,

10:30he don't have any help.

10:31I don't know how he's going to get any help.

10:33If he does get some help, then he's going to have to train them.

10:36You know, it's not everybody that knows how to do this stuff.

10:39And if things get rough, then he's going to go down.

10:43He's going to get in trouble.

10:45He needs to stay focused on his mission.

10:49He has one last supply of shine hidden in a nearby tobacco field.

10:53On the black market, Tim's shine is so valuable

10:56that this last batch is worth an estimated $10,000.

11:02But the taco harvest is fast approaching,

11:04and he'll soon be in a race against the clock

11:06to transfer his shine to a safer location.

11:09I mean, I can see this trailer up ahead right now.

11:12I mean, I can see this trailer up ahead right now.

11:15These guys are pulling tobacco now.

11:17If these guys are pulling tobacco in another field today,

11:20they could be moving on to the next field.

11:22And I don't want to move the moonshine back onto my property again.

11:26I'm trying to, you know, hide this stuff.

11:29This keeps on getting more complicated.

11:31Tim has to be certain his supply hasn't been discovered.

11:35With tobacco harvesters all over the area

11:38and law enforcement all over him,

11:40he needs stealth and speed.

11:44Walking right up to a stockpile in broad daylight

11:47puts a bull's-eye on his back,

11:49so he surveys the area from afar

11:51to assess how long he has before he makes his move.

11:56It's starting to getting yellow.

11:58That's showing it's getting ripe.

12:00You can kind of feel it, too. It's getting sticky-like.

12:03That's when the guys are going to come in and start pulling it.

12:07Tim needs a plan right now.

12:22I got an idea now.

12:24I got a plan.

12:26We'll get us some hay. That's what I'm going to do.

12:30He isn't needing a steel,

12:32and I've had a steel head in this barn for several years.

12:37That's the first steel I ever put together.

12:40It's not too pretty, but it makes good moonshine.

12:43You know, it's got a lot of sentimental value to me

12:46because it's the first steel I ever built

12:48and the first one I ever run moonshine on.

12:51I told him I'd see if I could get it in working shape for him.

12:55About ten years ago, he had to have a kidney transplant,

12:59so we all sat in and made a bunch of moonshine, sold it.

13:03You know, to let him have the money,

13:05I'd have to help him through his transplant.

13:07Now his brothers are going through the same thing Mike did,

13:10so Mike's trying to help him like everybody helped Mike

13:13when he was going through it.

13:15You can raise money faster with moonshine

13:18than you can with, you know, doing, like, a benefit dinner.

13:21You know, people's got to eat,

13:23but they really like to drink better than they do eat.

13:26This stuff I used to clean copper with,

13:29the best stuff I've found.

13:32I mean, you can take old copper

13:35and make it look like brand-new copper.

13:38If your steel's dirty when you make liquor,

13:41liquor won't taste good.

13:43Plus, it could poison you, too.

13:47We try to take care of our fellow moonshiners,

13:50you know, just like he was a blood kin.

13:53Everybody thinks a moonshiner is somebody

13:56that's just breaking the law and don't care.

13:59We've got hearts, too, you know.

14:02We'll do anything we can do to help a neighbor

14:05or a fellow moonshiner either one.

14:09500 kilometers to the south.

14:12After the loud water pump may have compromised their still sight,

14:16Jeff and Mark decide to split up and lay low for a while.

14:20Now Jeff's on a new mission.

14:22An old friend and fellow moonshiner is in a bind,

14:25and Jeff stays true to the Shiner's Code.

14:28If one is in need, you'd never turn your back on him.

14:31The Shiner's Code.

14:34Jeff is going to lend him the first still he ever owned.

14:37I've got a fellow moonshiner that's trying to help his brother

14:41that's fixing to have a kidney transplant,

14:43and he's going to make a little moonshine

14:45to help him raise some money.

14:47Moonshiners are like a brotherhood, you know.

14:50One looks out for the other, help him if he's down.

14:53Hello, Mark.

14:54Yeah, how you doing?

14:56Oh, I'm doing good. How are you?

14:58I brought you a little something here.

15:01Mark's brother is in desperate straits.

15:03He's drowning in medical bills,

15:05and moonshining may be Mike's only chance to help him.

15:08I'm really honored that he brought me his first still.

15:11They take care of that thing.

15:13I mean, that's the one I learned on.

15:15You don't know how much I appreciate this.

15:17I'll treat it way better than I would one of my own.

15:20It's kind of like you're first born,

15:22you want to see them do good,

15:24but you hate to turn loose of them.

15:26Got you a little something here now.

15:28If you need a longer thumb post, I can build you one.

15:31Let me set this.

15:33I've got everything to build it with.

15:35My baby brother is facing diabetes and kidney failure.

15:39He'll soon be going on dialysis.

15:41I understand, you know.

15:43I know how it works.

15:45I had a son that went through a double lung transplant,

15:48and I know what the cost is of it.

15:50It's just about over $1,000.

15:54Yep, it looks pretty good to me.

15:57When legendary moonshiner Jim Tom isn't shining,

16:00he keeps busy with his lucrative side business,

16:03selling his one-of-a-kind copper stills,

16:05which go for an average of $2,000.

16:08Pretty good-sized chunk of copper.

16:11Back in 59, I think, 59.

16:13It's a good size.

16:15It's a good size.

16:17It's a good size.

16:20Pretty good-sized chunk of copper.

16:22Back in 59, I think, 59.

16:25Good thing it was a penitentiary for nothing.

16:27If you even looked at the law, man crooked.

16:2930 days, 30 days, hard labor.

16:32I laid in for a job in the kitchen.

16:35So, see, we had all the cooking supplies right in there.

16:38Cooking room, everything you needed.

16:40I said, I'll make me about a hundred-gallon home brew.

16:45Okay.

16:47Now, I want to cut that just as straight as I can.

16:52I made a full 60-gallon of the best.

16:55I mean, you talk about alcohol.

16:58They could not figure out.

17:00He said, that son of a gun right there,

17:02he's drunker than a bat.

17:03Said, I want it there drinking.

17:04Hey, here's me making that home brew.

17:06And never did get caught.

17:08Never did get caught.

17:10You have to get some pretty good finagling around on this.

17:14It's like some kind of a surgeon.

17:20That's the cape.

17:22And that whole area will be for the collar and the cape.

17:25People always wondered, how do you do that?

17:27It's just as simple as eating the peanut butter sandwich.

17:31It start looking like a steal here in a minute.

17:34But I like one that looks good.

17:37And if somebody comes through the woods to steal it,

17:39I want him to like it, you know, before he goes with it.

17:43Hurdy.

17:47Josh and Bill have a monster task ahead of them,

17:50cleaning up Barney's old still site.

17:54Smell like damn swamp down here.

17:57It may be a dump now,

17:58but this is their only hope to make moonshine

18:01before the season passes them by.

18:04I'll be glad to get all this done and make some liquor.

18:10There's a spider on me.

18:12You can pull him off. I think he's on my ear.

18:14Oh, my God, it is!

18:16You want to get him for me?

18:18No, hell no!

18:20I need some gloves.

18:23You need some man skin on your hands.

18:25I don't like spiders.

18:26You don't need gloves, you need some damn man skin.

18:32You see, it just ran off my boot.

18:34I'm out of here.

18:37It's an Olympic event on spider evasion.

18:40Damn, you bring home the gold every time.

18:43I'm a spider-a-phobe.

18:44I don't want to be within five miles of a spider.

18:47I can handle just about anything, bears, ticks,

18:51but spiders?

18:53I don't do spiders.

19:00We got a little ways to go

19:01before we can start bringing steel down here.

19:03A little ways?

19:04Well, got to bust through, get this hole up and running.

19:08We're this close to the end, man.

19:10Ain't no giving up now.

19:11We're going to keep on plugging through it.

19:18Coming up...

19:19Whoo!

19:20We fire with that.

19:21We both got a little bit of liquor in us, and...

19:24Ah!

19:25Yeah.

19:26Ah!

19:27Ah!

19:29Ah, my finger broke my finger!

19:31Ah!

19:32Ah!

19:34Cover here, mate.

19:35Damn!

19:36What?

19:47There's only one person in America

19:49who can call himself fire chief, entrepreneur and moonshiner.

19:54Tim has come up with a clever hiding spot

19:56for his secret stash of moonshine.

19:59Hay bales.

20:01Now with Tickle gone,

20:02Tim once again calls on his friend, Still Bill.

20:06Bill, he's always been there every time I call him.

20:09Whatever needs to be done, he goes along with it.

20:12We got to figure out how we're going to get one of these on the truck.

20:15You know, around here, everybody's got hay.

20:17Set off a bale of hay right by the mailbox,

20:19and it'd be no big thing,

20:20but actually, inside of it, we're going to put some moonshine in it.

20:23That's what we're going to do.

20:25Tim's got himself the mother of all hay bales.

20:28Measuring roughly 2 metres by 2 metres,

20:31the plan is to fit his entire 100-gallon stash in the bales,

20:3550 gallons in each one.

20:38He'll use a chainsaw to cut into the dense centre of the barrel

20:41and hollow it out.

20:43After filling them with jugs of shine,

20:45he'll conceal the open end by packing it with hay.

20:50See ya.

20:54All right, look, Bill, we got one shot at this.

20:57A miscalculation here could be disastrous.

21:00The 2-metre wheels of hay weigh up to 700 kilos.

21:04And when you're ready, we're going to push it on the truck.

21:06Tell me when you're ready. We'll push.

21:08Tim has no idea if his old trusty truck suspension

21:11can handle this massive amount of weight.

21:14One, two, three.

21:22There it goes.

21:25OK, I'll be darned.

21:28Now, we've got to get back home.

21:31We've got a little project to do.

21:43This is a pretty good way in and out right here.

21:46Yeah.

21:47Mike has enlisted an old friend, Tweedy,

21:50to help brew the moonshine he'll need to make

21:52for his brother's medical treats.

21:54But Tweedy's not your average moonshiner.

21:57A Vietnam vet and Special Forces operative,

22:00Tweedy's seen his fair share of difficult situations.

22:06My friend Tweedy, he's ex-military.

22:08He's a good friend of mine. He's with him a lot and stuff.

22:11He made a 400-mile one-way trip down here just to help me.

22:15All right, I've got to cut this out of the way down here now.

22:18Yeah.

22:19Mike called me and he wanted to raise a little money for his brother.

22:23I don't know if I can come down here and make a little quick money.

22:26I said, all right, I'll be there as soon as I can, sir.

22:29We're going to set the...

22:31Set her still in here?

22:32Yeah, put the pot right here, I guess.

22:34All right.

22:35Damn!

22:38Tweedy just scared off a deadly copperhead snake.

22:41Damn, that's awful loud.

22:43We don't need that much noise around here.

22:45Yeah, I didn't even think about that.

22:47That was a screw-up on my part, but anyway.

22:54As Tickle peels away from the still site,

22:57he's reeling from a major blow to his moonshine operation.

23:01It's good to be your own boss, you know,

23:04but also on the same boat.

23:06If something goes wrong, I'm the one that's got to handle it.

23:12I've tried to do the things I think Tim would have done,

23:15but I've seen Tim think different,

23:17so I hadn't done exactly those things.

23:19I've done exactly what I thought I'd do.

23:21Now, the road ahead ain't going to be easy.

23:24I've got a lot of work to do by myself,

23:27and it's a whole lot of work for one man, so...

23:33Mike and Tweedy waste no time dragging their materials to the site

23:37so they can start mashing in.

23:40I have been told that I've made some pretty good liquor before,

23:43so we'll see if we ain't too rusty and try and get back into it.

23:46This is the first time they've made shine in over 15 years,

23:50but moonshining is just like riding a bike, these veterans.

23:55We can do the whole bike, I guess.

23:57I hope we make some good liquor.

23:59My dad passed me his recipe down,

24:02and I was the only one to give it to him.

24:05He told me the secret to making good liquor.

24:07He said the main thing is don't be nervous.

24:10Good whiskey is a dying art.

24:12Plenty of whiskey, but good whiskey is a dying art.

24:15Also known as Mountain Dew, Corn Squeezings and Panther Pee,

24:20good whiskey is the end goal of Mike and Tweedy.

24:23Before it can start to ferment,

24:25the corn mash needs to be heated with water.

24:28It's a delicate process, and the mash could burn in an instant.

24:32It's scorching too bad.

24:35Check it. It's soft enough.

24:37It's soft enough. I'm going to cut it off

24:39because we're starting to get some black specks in it.

24:41Yeah, yeah. We'll just pour what we can out of it.

24:44Yeah, just leave what's stuck in there.

24:46Good job.

24:48Yeah, don't make it like you used to.

24:51While two veteran shiners struggle,

24:54two rookies back to square one.

24:57With Barney's old still site finally clean,

25:00Josh and Bill get to work on a platform

25:02to support their massive still set-up.

25:05It ain't Q5.

25:07Let's basically lay this out,

25:09see if we got some straight lines, man.

25:12But while Bill puts his nose to the grindstone,

25:15Josh is already on a break.

25:18Ooh, I can breathe fire with that.

25:23Well, I tell you, it's pretty frustrating

25:25that we've been working on this project for two years,

25:28and we haven't made the first run of liquor yet.

25:30I'm so ready to recoup some of this money that we've spent.

25:34It's gonna take some work to get the thing up and running

25:36to where we can get some liquor out of it.

25:38Oh, man.

25:40Come on, man.

25:42Oh, shit.

25:44Ain't no damn sitting log, damn it.

25:51I ain't playing, man. Put the damn lid on the thing.

26:05I can't kick your... ass, too.

26:07Aah!

26:08Relax, dude.

26:10Josh! Josh!

26:12Oh!

26:14Aah!

26:18Aah!

26:20Aah! My finger! You broke my finger!

26:23Aah!

26:25My finger, my finger, my finger!

26:27Oh! Oh!

26:30Please leave me alone.

26:32Oh, it's broke. Look at it. It's even crooked.

26:34You broke my...

26:36You broke my... finger.

26:38Today, we started drinking a little early.

26:41Aah!

26:43You broke my finger.

26:44One thing led to another.

26:46Next thing I know, we're wrestling around.

26:48Now I got a broke finger.

26:49Let me see it.

26:50Don't you touch my finger!

26:52I'm gonna put it back.

26:53Aah!

26:55Then we both got a little bit of liquor in us, and, uh...

26:58I feel a wrench in our production today, like,

27:01and you couldn't even imagine.

27:11The next day,

27:13Josh and Bill are suffering from the liquid flu.

27:18I can't believe you broke my finger.

27:21It made it tough, everything we're doing.

27:25It made it tough, everything we're doing.

27:27It's moving and bumping.

27:28Every bit of it, you know, you need your fingers for,

27:31so it's made it a little aggravating.

27:33They don't trust that yesterday's drunken attempt

27:36at building a platform will suffice,

27:38so they take it apart and start from scratch.

27:41But they're hurting and moving at half speed.

27:44I'm worthless as tents on a boar hog.

27:47Feeling that rough today?

27:49Pretty much.

27:51Every time we get so close we can taste it,

27:53something else comes along and knocks us three steps back.

27:56That liquor was supposed to motivate us yesterday, wasn't it?

27:59It did motivate me.

28:08Meanwhile, in North Carolina,

28:10Hick and Tweedy are setting up security measures at their site.

28:14They're not exactly in tip-top shape

28:16and could use all the help they can get

28:18as protection from intruders.

28:20Word of mouth is what gets you caught.

28:23The revenuers, game wardens, county sheriffs, state police,

28:27anything law enforcement can come in on you

28:30and take you right on away.

28:32What they lack in modern know-how

28:34they make up for in MacGyver-like ingenuity.

28:37Tweedy has a few tricks up his sleeve.

28:40I think right across here would be a...

28:42from that little tree right there to that one.

28:45With fishing wire and tin cans,

28:47they've assembled tripwires that act as an early warning system.

28:50A special forces commando is never short of defence procedures

28:54and Tweedy is no exception.

28:57We've done a few things over the water over there.

29:00We set trip lines for claymores and hand grenades

29:04and there, too, there's an early warning system.

29:07Set it right here on this hill.

29:09They position the tripwires methodically

29:11around the perimeter of the still site.

29:15Just hold it real tight right there for a minute.

29:18He's done this a lot more than I have,

29:20but I'm rusty at it.

29:22I'm still learning.

29:29Ready?

29:34That'll work right there.

29:38Every little thing counts if a man's coming in on you.

29:42How do you think we're going to go about putting this

29:45camouflage tarp and stuff up in that net?

29:47We'll just put it right there,

29:49kind of hide it around as far as the tarp will go.

29:52If we get busted, we can't make them Mike's brother,

29:56and that's what this is all about.

29:58To keep the site hidden, they put up a camouflage tarp,

30:01a hunter's best friend that will serve the moonshiners well.

30:05After all, getting caught with a working sill

30:08leads to serious consequences.

30:11I was up there in Franklin County

30:14when they busted that big 3,000-gallon deal.

30:18Yeah, I seen that on the news.

30:20Had all them submarine pots in it.

30:23Yeah.

30:26MUSIC

30:39A few counties away, Mark hits the lake

30:42to come up with alternative means of making some quick cash.

30:48I got out in my old canoe today to see who's on the lake

30:52and see if any kind of law around or who's around

30:55and sort of mapping it out

30:57and see if it's better to move by the highway or by the lake.

31:01There's one legendary gangster

31:04who used American waterways to transport his shine.

31:08Al Capone.

31:10He moved his liquor across the moonshine superhighway

31:13created by the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River.

31:16Even winter didn't slow him and his crew down.

31:21When the temperatures dropped, smugglers switched from boat to car

31:25and drove their shine across the frozen waterways.

31:30But nothing's foolproof every year.

31:32As the spring thaw would set in,

31:34a few unlucky drivers and their moonshine-laden cars

31:38would break through the ice and sink.

31:45Moving across the lake at night

31:47will give Mark protection from the law,

31:49but nothing is guaranteed when it comes to moonshining.

31:52He's willing to take the risk.

31:55Most of the time of the night,

31:57I can take a canoe and ease around the banks

32:00and I can move a lot of shine from one place to another.

32:03But you've got to be as careful as you can.

32:14Now that Tim has his hay bale, he'll make good use of it.

32:18He'll transform it into a vessel

32:20to carry over $10,000 worth of shine,

32:23turning Operation Burn Nest into a reality.

32:26You know, around here, everybody's got hay.

32:28Yeah, this is the ideal thing of hiding the moonshine right in plain sight.

32:32You know, you can set off a bale of hay right in front,

32:35front yard, right by the mailbox, it wouldn't be no big thing.

32:40It looks like it's going to work.

32:42We just got to look at it. It's going to take some time

32:44and just keep cutting and cutting and cutting

32:46until we get, you know, deep enough and big enough

32:48to how we're going to put as many jugs as we can get in this thing.

32:51I think it's going to be perfect right here.

32:55I'm thinking, like, right there, that tree right there.

32:57Right there?

32:58In the middle there. We can hook on there.

33:00That's a pretty good stout tree, probably.

33:02Tim's plan is to hide the hay bale in plain sight.

33:06He thinks he's found the ideal place along the side of the road.

33:09It's close enough to his house that he can drive by inconspicuously

33:13without anyone suspecting foul play.

33:16I got some straps and chains.

33:18If I wrap it around it and wrap it to a tree,

33:20I'm going to back up to these trees.

33:22And then I'm going to drive out and he's just going to jerk it at the truck.

33:25You're just going to try to do, like, the old tablecloth thing?

33:27Yeah, and it's going to land just like that.

33:29And we're going to keep him turning it over, right?

33:31Yeah, I want to turn it over cos I want to keep it upright

33:33cos I got the hole in the top. OK.

33:38Are you ready? Ready.

33:43Ha-ha!

33:47Are you sure you've not done this before?

33:50No!

33:52That's a good idea.

33:54It looks like it's just turned over a bale of hay.

33:56That's what it is.

33:58Yeah, it's just turned over a bale of hay.

34:00So let's go get an elevator.

34:02Let's do it. All right.

34:04I wish you'd get me back out seeing that.

34:06LAUGHTER

34:13We've got the still laid out right outside the bamboo patch.

34:16We've got to figure out a way we're going to squeeze through

34:18all this bamboo to get it down to our hole.

34:20Goddamn!

34:22Josh and Bill are chugging along sleep.

34:25The still they built weighs hundreds of kilos

34:27and having to move it through an obstacle course bamboo trees

34:30is tricky enough.

34:32These two are suffering from a pounding hangover.

34:36Agh!

34:40Son of a goddamn god almighty, it sucks!

34:48I feel extremely good about being ready to make some shine.

34:52My finger, my finger.

34:54I'm just ready to get it done and make some liquor.

34:57Looks good to me.

35:06MUSIC PLAYS

35:11Meanwhile, Deputy Sheriff Chuck is inching closer to victory

35:15on a season-long investigation.

35:17He's confident that somewhere along this lake

35:20he'll find evidence of a moonshine operation.

35:23We're going to get on a boat down here,

35:26and we're going to go out on the lake tonight.

35:31Checking out some leads down here.

35:34I had the CI tell me they're supposed to be still down here

35:37in this area, so we're going to see if we see any traffic

35:41down here on the lake, any boat traffic,

35:44and see if we can maybe see what they're doing.

35:53MUSIC PLAYS

36:05Chuck is zeroing in on an alleged moonshining operation

36:09on the lakeside.

36:11It's just a matter of time, and he knows it.

36:16This is a pretty good location.

36:19We're out here just checking on boat traffic

36:22or lights up in the woods or anything sounds out of the ordinary.

36:35I stashed this stuff earlier.

36:38I've been washing it all day.

36:40I'm going to try to get it loaded up and get it out of here.

36:43Mark uses the cover of night to deliver moonshine

36:46to a customer across the lake.

36:52I feel a lot better moving in the night like this on the lake.

36:56I think the air must change getting cold.

36:59Now it's time to move.

37:02MUSIC PLAYS

37:19One thing about this lake, it goes all over the county,

37:23so waterway is a good way to transport moonshine.

37:28With his hay bales hollowed out and in place,

37:31Tim has just one task remaining, and it's the most dangerous.

37:38I looked at it, and I just know they're going to pull it back anyway,

37:41and I've got to get this moonshine out of here.

37:44He needs to transfer his shine from the tobacco field to the hay bales.

37:48It's going to be a lot of work.

37:50It's going to be a lot of work.

37:52It's going to be a lot of work.

37:54He needs to transfer his shine from the tobacco field to the hay bales,

37:58steering clear of any eyes or road.

38:01When somebody comes up and sees me out here and they say something,

38:04I'm going to just tell them I was looking for some deer.

38:07I'm not hunting, I don't have no gun,

38:09so they can't get me for hunting, so I'm just looking at them.

38:12Incredibly, Tim has no trouble finding his stash in a tobacco field

38:16covering several acres.

38:19I got these blooms.

38:22If you can see that bloom right there, that's the tobacco bloom.

38:25Well, there's one at the end of this row, right in the same row,

38:28and that's where I got the moonshine, in between the two rows.

38:31The more time he lingers around this field,

38:34the greater the chance he has of getting busted.

38:43If you listen, you just hear animals and crickets and bugs

38:48and, you know, just normal nature making noise.

38:51That's good.

38:53See, if somebody comes out in the woods and everything quietens down,

38:56everything shuts off.

38:58So now, a lot of noise going on, a lot of things happening.

39:04So that's good.

39:07SIREN BLARES

39:19When I'm coming up a lake, a little bit of shine on me.

39:22A lot of things go wrong.

39:24You can turn over and drown or anything.

39:27But I still think it's safer to move it by water than it is by land

39:31whenever there's a lot of law on the road.

39:36SIREN BLARES

40:07We've got a boat over here. We're going to go check out this boat.

40:20Tim has successfully made an incognito run

40:23to retrieve his stash of shine from the tobacco farm.

40:26The last piece of the puzzle is almost in place.

40:29Now all that's left to do is tuck away the stash of shine

40:32into the pre-cut hay bales.

40:35The hay baler thing is the best trick ever.

40:38It's like eggs in a nest, ain't it?

40:41You know, no one's ever did this before,

40:43and these things are, like, sitting right on the side of the road.

40:52Get out of here.

40:55Damn, my truck won't crank.

40:59This is not good.

41:02This ain't good at all.

41:05We're going to go check out this boat.

41:08I don't know if it's...

41:10Don't see nobody on it or around it anywhere.

41:13Just going to take a closer look at it here.

41:20It could be a moonshiner's boat.

41:24This looks like one that's just, uh...

41:28somebody's done away with or has come untied.

41:31Probably come untied. I see some rope on it there.

41:34It looks like it's broke.

41:38We'll get the numbers off of it there.

41:40Got registration numbers on it.

41:54Now, what's up with this thing?

42:00Got a problem here.

42:03That's not good.

42:09Tailwhip.

42:11No.

42:24No.

42:30Get that light off.

42:34Anything can happen doing this stuff.

42:36It's time on moonshiners.

42:39Hear that? Them cops ain't stupid, man.

42:42I've got a hard drive in my skull.

42:44Got a brand-new 120-gigabyte right in there.

42:47And it never leaks.

42:49That is pure corn. No doubt about that.

42:52That's high-proof whiskey there, buddy.

42:54I think I got to get this pot out of here today.

42:56What the hell is this?

42:58Big hole in the side of it.

43:00Looked like somebody hit it with an ax and then beat it up pretty good.

43:02This could put me dead in the water.

43:06That sounded like gunfire.

43:08Bark, bark.

43:11There it was again.

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