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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.