Anyone attempting to make moonshine risks
serious life-threatening injury or time in prison.
So don't try this at home.
[narrator] This time on theMoonshiners' mid-season finale.
[Digger] Killer Beaz has got our first big load going out of here.
48 boxes of liquor headed west to Memphis.
There goes $10,800 worth of liquor.
Come on.
Henry tells me we're gonna go meet Perry.
We're hoping he can start supplying us with a little bit of liquor.
Ooh!
Look at you, boy.
There's these tunnels
under these buildings in downtown Hot Springs
that Al Capone and the famous gangsters would use.
Look at this!
You gotta be [bleep] me.
[cell phone ringing]
[Beaz] Digger, the liquor got stolen.
[Digger] We're gonna load him back up, but me and Mark are gonna
follow him along for a little while.
We're gonna see if anybody tries to jump our little buddy.
Oh, hell.
This black SUV, he's right with him, ain't he?
[man] This is how we make the moonshine.
[upbeat music playing]
Coming in hot, I smell brakes. Might not stop.
How about parking that bad boy right about here?
I'll put it wherever you want it.
-That's a little bit too hard, wasn't it? -That's all right.
-I don't want to jeopardize no jars. -Look at this.
You ever seen so much liquor in all your life?
[narrator] In Cocke County, Tennessee, with several teams
cranking out shine day and night
for Mark and Digger's growing empire,
the longtime partners struggle to keep pace
with their overstocked inventory of illegal liquor.
Man, that's fine liquor. Everybody we got out there
making liquor right now, they're on their game.
Our liquor empire is growing leaps and bounds.
I mean, we're sitting flush with liquor right now.
More liquor than we've ever had stockpiled in our lives.
You know, who would ever have thought that these things
were going to turn out liquor like this?
We're probably running between 500 and 600 gallons of liquor a week.
That's astronomical.
You know, the thing about it is, Buss, me and you,
our whole life, our liquor was sold as soon as we made it.
Yeah.
I mean, even if we built up 100 cases of popcorns,
it was gone the next day.
The sad fact is, half this much sent
the old man to federal court, and ultimately his own death.
I mean, ain't trying to be no Debbie Downer or anything.
Well, I damn sure hate to see if you's trying to cheer me up.
[Digger] You know, everything about this building,
it's got my name written all over it,
which makes it a bigger red X, a big bullseye.
Finding this much liquor in a building you own,
that's when they get your ass in the penitentiary.
Ain't no way hell, west, or crooked.
We can lie out of this.
If the law come in here, we're done.
100%.
-Maybe we can find a safe place in storage. -Yeah.
And then distribute it from there.
We've got to find a place to warehouse this liquor
as close to us as we can possibly get it.
It can be just a little warehouse
where things are coming in and out,
someplace where the owner guarantees us
nobody's going to be prowling around in our little area.
We just blend in and pretty much hide in plain sight.
Now we've got to concentrate on distribution.
That's where we're kind of sucking mud.
We need to be moving deeper into West Tennessee.
[Mark] That would be ideal.
We'll put Beaz into snooping around.
I mean, he's played shows out there. He's done gigs.
In the name of sense, Killer Beaz at the Grand Ole Opry.
70 bucks a gallon, $5,040.
When you get home, call us and let us know you made it safe.
-I will, and I'll get right on those jaws, man. -Drive slow.
Don't break your speed limit.
You know, Beaz, he's got contacts all over the country.
I mean, I don't think there's any doubt
that he knows someone in Memphis,
you know, probably several people.
So we're going to put him to checking on that.
Nothing I like better than, you know,
open up a whole new market.
Well, Hattie, before we go find Beaz,
you always say you like hearing bad news first.
I got to phone the doctor right before you got here.
Well, as most folks know, I've been worrying about
a diagnosis I'm facing.
They had told me several weeks ago
that I had chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Well, there ain't no bad news today.
What do you mean there ain't no bad news today?
Apparently, I've hit the leukemia lottery,
if there is such a thing.
She said, if you got leukemia, this is one you want.
Just something that aggravates the hell out of you
until something else kills you.
So you're stuck with me for a little bit longer.
As a matter of fact, I talked to a girl
the other day that her grandmother had
the same thing, lived to be 99, if that's any comfort to you.
Just so you know, you son of a bitch,
you've worried me to death.
It ain't done me no justice either.
Oh, my Lord, I couldn't ask for no better news than that.
Now that we know what we're facing,
me and Mark's gonna pick up where we left off,
and we're just gonna be stronger and better than ever.
Let's go get a plan together.
Let's call old Beaz and see if he's where he can get to us this week.
-All right. -We gotta move some liquor.
[country music playing]
Tickle.
Come on in.
Wow, what a place.
[narrator] In Pennsylvania County, Virginia,
with Josh away recuperating,
outlaw Shiner Tickle is cooking up
a whole new business venture.
Man, you told me you were opening a restaurant.
I'm impressed.
What do you think I was gonna do? Be making down
grilled cheeses out of the backyard or something?
Well, I figured, you know, maybe a little dew drop,
but nothing like this.
I'm opening up this restaurant because while I've made
real good money with my illegal activities,
it's time in my life I start thinking about
some legal investments.
You know, something long-term. And you know what?
I've always loved to cook, whether it's corn mash
or corned beef hash.
I'm impressed, man. You know, it looks good, Tickle.
-I got something on my mind, son. -What's on your mind?
It's not good.
What ain't good. What'd you do? You ruin a batch?
I mean, what's going on?
My brother Kenny, he's in the hospital.
Well, what's wrong with Kenny?
I took him last night to the emergency room,
and they run tests on him, and it looks like
it's gonna be several weeks, man, before he's able to get back with us.
-Several weeks. -I mean, well, they run some tests.
-What's going on? -I don't know yet.
He fell out.
We had to pick him up, literally pick him up
and take him to the hospital emergency room.
He couldn't even hardly walk.
Why you got me up here in this concrete jungle?
You know, Hot Springs is a legendary town,
the mecca of illegal activity back during the prohibition.
[narrator] In Hot Springs, Arkansas, outlaw shiners Big Chuk
and Joe Boy are on the hunt for historical clues
they could use to make their own moonshine
in the style of their prohibition era
predecessors in the Ozarks.
[Big Chuk] Growing up in Arkansas, you hear all these stories
about Hot Springs and how big of a place
it was during the prohibition times for gambling and drinking.
You know, this is a place where the Al Capones
and the Lucky Lucianos frequented.
When Capone and all those guys like that were here,
-they stayed at the Arlington Hotel, right? -Yeah.
Well, rumor has it that it had a tunnel system that
connected to what was called the Southern Club.
It's rumored to have a whole underground city down there.
This is why we're in Hot Springs today.
One thing I know for certain is if you're gonna get anywhere
in this business, you're gonna have to have something unique.
So we're heading to the basement of the building
adjacent from the Arlington Hotel.
I got a guy down here that does construction.
He says he can get us in.
It ain't nobody else got access to something
that makes us unique and creates a little bit of
desire for our product.
Maybe we can find some old steel parts,
maybe an old recipe. Who knows what we can find?
We're going back in time.
Let's get it.
Here you go. Right here.
Trying to lead me down here to my final destination?
Yeah, you go first, you son of a bitch.
-You don't laugh at me. -Hell, I'll send you head first.
-How about that? -Mm-hmm.
Oh, here we go. Here we go. Looks like plexiglass.
Now that we're here and I'm looking at this,
I don't really know if it's a real thing
or not myself,
'cause all it looks like I'm looking at is underneath the building.
This ain't nothing but just where people go to fix stuff, right?
There's steps going down to it right there. Look.
-Hmm. -See them steps?
The step down into there?
Hell, it's broke right there.
Look at you, boy.
I knew they had to be away.
Oh, now.
What are you doing?
Hell with it. I never had to do some kind of opening.
I don't see nothing in there but duct work.
I'm fixing to see what the hell it is. Come on.
We're going in there.
Hey, come on.
Get your ass through there. Let's go.
Slow and steady.
[Digger] Our stuff don't stand out in here any more
than anything else.
Ain't nothing to say this is liquor.
We don't write it on here.
-Nor will I. -Nor will I.
You know, there ain't no reason for anybody to suspect nothing here.
-No. -This is perfect.
I mean, we had to get it out of the headquarters.
-Yeah, that was... -I mean, that's stupid to start with.
This is a place where nobody would think twice about it.
The owner of this warehouse, he's a dear, dear friend.
And he loads and unloads all of the trucks himself.
So, you know, we're kind of like hiding in plain sight.
I'm excited about our first big sale
-in down West Tennessee. -I am too.
There's probably a few jars of ours
made its way down there in the past.
This is the first bona fide run that we're sending from
East Tennessee to West Tennessee.
Killer Beaz has got our first big load going out of here.
We got 48 boxes of liquor headed west to Memphis,
and that's where we want to get into.
-Boom. -Boom.
Beasley.
-Hey, buddy. -Hey, brother.
Great job on this deal in Memphis.
And this guy is well connected.
He'll have this moved in a week's time.
So we're looking at a repeat customer.
This is win-win for us.
Get up in there and get loading.
All right, let's do it, man. I'm itching to get this done.
See, watch what I do here. It's like a choo-choo train, Beaz.
Every time one comes in, it's choo-choo.
Woo!
[Mark] Killer Beaz has sold a lot of high-dollar liquor
for us in the past, and although he can run a still
and he does make fine liquor,
he's much more efficient as a bootlegger.
He's traveled everywhere doing his comedy gig.
Wherever he has shows, he has customers.
-All right. -We're down to the short rows here.
-Last one. -Careful.
All right.
Next time I talk to you guys...
I'll be counting money.
[Digger] All right, you should be there giving you
-plenty of pee stops, eight hours, so. -Okay.
Beaz has got an eight-hour drive,
best he can do, so he's got to get on down the road
in a safe manner and get this liquor delivered.
All right, see y'all in a little bit.
-Bring us back a load of money. -Be careful.
All right, brother, thanks.
There goes $10,800 worth of liquor to Memphis, Tennessee,
home of Elvis and Barbecue.
And soon to be Mark and Digger's spirits.
We hope. We hope.
We're going to have to take care of him.
He's going to have medical bills.
-He's going to have expenses. -Man, it's just the two of us.
We don't have enough money coming in right now.
It's been a tough season. You know, Josh got hurt.
Now Kenny is in hospital.
So here it is, just me and Tickle.
And we've been working hard for the past few years
to get the customer base that we've got.
But you can count on one thing.
If we don't get the liquor to them,
they will buy it from somebody else.
Let me tell you what I had in mind, actually.
I wanted to run it by you. You remember Perry.
-Yeah, I sure do. -You worked with him several years ago.
Plop them jars out and see what we got.
Ah. Ain't bad. Pretty good little bite.
Years ago, you know, we used to take care of each other.
When we didn't have liquor, they would supply me.
When they didn't have it, I would supply them.
I was talking about going up and seeing Perry.
Go up and go talk to him and see if
he can supply us a few hundred cases. You want to ride with me?
-I sure do. -If I can get in touch
with a couple of these guys that I know
and get them to supply us some extra liquor
that we need, we should be okay.
But you know what? That's a big if.
All right. We're ready to roll then.
[upbeat music playing]
[Big Chuk] Oh, my God.
So there's these tunnels under these buildings
in downtown Hot Springs that Al Capone
and the famous gangsters would use to transport shine.
So we're wanting to see if we can find
any evidence of these tunnels.
There's that scene out of the scary movie right over there.
Golly, cuz, what you getting me into?
[Big Chuk] This is kind of all the things that I don't like in life.
I don't like tight spaces, right?
I don't like spiders at all. I can't breathe good.
I don't see no tunnel system.
It feels like we're just going underneath there trying to fix a gas line.
[Joe Boy] Cuz, you got to see this.
It's a whole open room under here.
Oh, God. There's eight-foot-tall ceilings down here.
-Look at this. Come here. -Wow.
This is one of the underground tunnels, no doubt.
This is hand-laid stone in here.
Archways built.
Look at this door right here. Look how tall it is.
So that's at least nine foot.
And the old crown trim around it,
that's like Victorian-style stuff.
Then you walk in through the tunnel,
open the door, and bam, you're in a gambling casino, baby.
What's that on that wall over there?
Look, it's got names and numbers on it.
Dude, that's some old scoreboard.
This was the bowling alley, look.
Muzzy.
Nick Lunn. This is absolutely real and original.
[Big Chuk] This was not just a little sneak away spot.
This was a thriving, a lot of people were in and out,
traveling up and down, going by elevator
-to the famous Arlington Hotel. -What you got over there?
The elevator system.
This is where all of them stayed.
Any famous person in America around that time,
they were there, they were in that tunnel,
and they were in this room.
Look.
Oh, big spider eye looking back at you.
No, that's glass.
-Where? -Right there.
Look at my light.
Come right here.
Look, right there.
-[Big Chuk] That looks like it's underneath -That's glass.
the old stairway right there.
Get on in there, grunt, and see what you can see.
Man, I will.
[grunts]
You gotta be [bleep] me.
-Uh-uh. -Look at that, son.
No whiskey jug.
I see another one in there. Two more.
They're whole jugs. I don't know how I'm gonna get them.
[Big Chuk] Can you squeeze underneath there?
Ain't nothing but another.
There you go, baby.
Got my hands on one of them.
Oh, my God.
Son of a bitch.
It's empty, cuz.
I got something in this one.
Shut up.
You gotta be bull [bleep].
-Hold that out. -What?
I don't know how I'm gonna get out.
Hold on, while I--
Son of a bitch.
Cuz, that's liquor.
-Huh? -That's liquor.
I know this sounds almost unbelievable,
but it smells just like damn corn liquor.
Now, I ain't saying this is liquor
from back then, but I find it kind of peculiar
that it's buried deep underneath the wall system.
Oh, my God, cuz.
Is that from the days of Al Capone?
We might have just struck gold.
There ain't but one way to test this.
-Let's do it. -If I taste it, you taste it, right?
-Got it. -We ride together, we die together.
That's right.
That's our motto.
It's liquor, buddy.
We find gold, and with this gold right here,
I can go back and I can try to see what components
it was made out of.
We got something special here, and all I got to do is figure out
how they done it, and we're off to the races.
All right.
-Did you just fart on me? -Yeah.
God almighty, this ain't enough oxygen in here to breathe as is.
We'll get old Jeff and Joe some grain loaded up.
[Mark] You know, Digger and myself,
we're trying very hard to expand our operation
into West Tennessee and the Memphis area.
And, you know, in order to do that, we can't slow up at all.
We've got to keep the train rolling.
So we're loading up supplies to get to Jeff and Joe
where they can keep pumping out liquor.
Is that good?
Perfect!
And we got Beaz loaded up with a load of liquor.
He's more than likely to Memphis with it now.
So, you know, things are looking good for us.
[cell phone ringing]
Well, you know it.
-That's good. We got paid. -Go ahead, Beaz.
-Digger, Digger, the liquor got stolen. -Beaz?
-[all chuckling] -Digger, Digger, the liquor got stolen.
-Nice try. -Listen to me.
I stopped at a hotel between Jackson, Tennessee,
and Memphis last night. I was falling asleep driving.
It was either end up in a ditch or get a room.
I get up this morning, the liquor is gone out of the van.
Please tell me you're just, you're japing us.
[Beaz] Dude, I wish I was.
That's $11,000 worth of liquor.
-[Beaz] Oh, I know. -I mean.
You ain't seen anybody skulking around you?
[Beaz] I have no idea if somebody was following me.
I've been so keyed on watching traffic
and not speeding and not being in
the wrong lane.
You know, end to end with Interstate 40,
cargo theft has always been a big thing.
So, you know, when Beaz left this liquor unattended,
it just made it wide open game.
He's right off the interstate, people just circling through
looking for anything, walking around looking for anything.
But for me, I don't know whether this was just...
bad luck on Beaz' part, or if this was
a targeted theft.
Call your buyer and tell them it's gonna be a day
and a half, two days late, but you're gonna get there.
We all three know the importance of
this buyer, so we can't let him down, Beaz.
Beaz has gotta shag ass and get back to East Tennessee.
Gotta get him loaded back up with
48 more cases of liquor and send him back that way,
and we're gonna break even on this run.
But I've got to have that customer in our quiver.
[Beaz] Okay.
Dude, I'm sorry this happened, dude.
I'll give you an update in a little bit.
Yeah, just send us a text. We're going to be on the road.
-All right, bye. -Bye.
Son of a bitch.
You know, what in the hell was Beaz doing stopping at
a hotel to start with?
You know, Beaz is supposed to know better.
He broke one of the cardinal rules.
You never leave your liquor unattended.
And if he made this kind of a mistake,
what other mistakes may he be making?
We're gonna load him back up,
and we're gonna send him back west again,
but he ain't going by himself.
I'll get a vehicle he don't know, and we'll follow him.
I mean, he might have gotten drunk.
You never know about Beaz.
[Henry] We got to come up with another plan.
I'm hoping we can work something out down here today.
[Tickle] We've got us a good game plan.
Henry says he wants to meet up with Perry Whitlock.
Now, this is old Moonshiner we've known
from way back in the day.
We're going to see if we can convince old Perry
to start supplying us with a little bit of liquor.
Perry, sure, he manages this kid
out of Rocky Mountain, Rick Reeves.
He's managed him.
-Managed him doing what? -You're going to love it.
[thudding]
[man] Ah! Come here!
Come on!
[yells]
-Hey, what's up, boy? Good to see you. -That's Rick.
-That's Rick right there. -All right.
-You remember Perry over there. -Yeah.
-Yeah, I remember Perry. -Ooh.
Yeah, he didn't look good, but I saw the boy.
I thought, man, like...
-That boy's been taking some licks, man. -Taking some licks.
[Tickle] Henry tells me we're gonna go meet Perry.
I figure we might meet him at his house,
someplace, a quiet location.
Well, that is not the case.
Evidently, Perry's got his hands
in more than what we thought.
-Exactly. -Ooh!
-That's right!
-That's what he gets. -Perry got his ass.
That's what he did!
You gonna get up in the ring?
Go ahead, you know.
-I'll bet $20 on it. -$20?
We'll take the $1,000 and get him out of the hospital.
[both laugh]
-Two, three! -[all cheering]
All right! There you go!
-There you go. -[all cheering]
Perry.
We've been friends for years and years and years.
And here in Franklin County, we've always had
a moonshiner's code with the other moonshiners in the area.
If they need liquor, they can call us up.
If we've got extra liquor, we'll give it to them.
That way, everybody can keep their customers.
And we take care of each other like that.
What was that you grabbed a man's jerseys feet off him on him like that?
Heard you talking junk about the country, boys.
Didn't turn out too good for him, didn't it?
It didn't turn out too good for him.
But you know, with that said...
You know how we used to take care of each other years ago?
It's gotten to the point where we need some liquor, man.
We got more customers than what we can supply.
We could handle probably 100 cases a week
-[whistles] -for the next several months.
So can you put us at the top of the list?
Well...
Mmm, I can probably find it.
Old times, eh?
-Well, there you go. -That's what we're looking for.
A regular thing would be better for me anyway.
That way I know where it's going.
If Perry can keep supplying us on a steady basis,
I think that's the little bit of boost that we're gonna need
until Kenny and Josh both get better.
But now we need a stash site.
Well, I've got the perfect stash site.
My restaurant, this building used to be a truck stop.
It has a huge shop on one side of it.
Now, what I think we can do is we can start using that
as a stash site.
There's another section on back here
that everybody don't really see, Henry.
-And all this is yours? -Yes, sir.
-[laughs] -What do you think, Henry?
Wow.
It's not really readily seen by the main road.
Yeah, we could come right around.
-You could come around. -Back up here and get outside.
You could back in here and get it out,
or you could go through that back door.
What I feel like we can do with this shop
is it's big enough to pull any vehicle in.
We can fill a car full of liquor,
and they can drive right out another door.
It's kind of like having a fast-food drive-through,
except this is a drive-through for bootleg.
You know, for a stash site, you can't get
-any much better than this. -Can't get any better.
I don't know. I mean, it feels sort of wrong
sending another $11,000 worth of liquor down the road.
Well, at least we're going to watch it this time.
[Digger] You know, we finally got a big load of liquor
and got a big outlet in Shelby County, Memphis, Tennessee,
and sent Beaz on his way with it,
and he let down his guard, and our load of liquor got stolen.
We got 48 boxes here to go back down the road.
So this is just going to be like the first run Beaz took down the road.
We're going to load him back up,
send him down to Memphis.
But we're going to put cameras on board this time,
just for a little extra security.
Make sure you're doing what he's supposed to be doing.
And in addition, me and Mark are going
to follow him along for a little while.
We're going to see if anybody tries to jump our little buddy.
[Mark] I know he's tore up.
I know he's disgusted in himself.
But, you know, I'm disappointed that the liquor's gone.
Our customer don't have the product.
Well, not only am I disappointed,
I'm worried about, is this gonna happen again?
We can't say, certainly, the way whether this is
a targeted theft or if this is just a theft of opportunity.
But either way, we gotta make sure it don't happen again.
Guys, I am so sorry that happened.
I have run over a million shoulda, coulda, wouldas.
Well, the thing about it is that, you know,
that don't matter if the liquor's gone,
You ain't in jail, but the buyers ain't got their product either.
So ain't no need to bitching and moaning about it.
We got to make good on our promise.
We are in what is called recovery mode.
Have you talked to the guy going to buy this liquor?
Yeah, right after I talked to Digger, as a matter of fact.
But I'm spooked about it.
I don't know if it's going to happen again.
Well, I'm going to be honest.
I can't see it being much of anything but a targeted theft.
[Mark] I don't know.
It's odd that it even happens.
I mean, there's no way anybody could have known
what was in this van.
People look for crimes of opportunity.
Well, you don't know what crime is right now.
I mean, it's so a man can't make an honest dollar.
Yeah, or a dishonest one either.
You know, I trust Beaz wholeheartedly,
but a lot of times we make mistakes simply because we don't think.
And if there's ever a business that you need to be thinking
on your feet all the time, it's the illegal liquor business.
[Beaz] All right, see you all in a little bit.
[Digger] No stopping.
If you sleep, you sleep on them damn boxes.
[Mark] There he goes again.
All right, let's go put a tail on his ass.
[Tickle] I believe that's old Perry right yonder.
Over around the back. Yeah, going around.
Going around.
You know, with Kenny being in the hospital and Josh
being in the state of injury he's in, still in recovery,
We've got more customers than we can supply the orders for,
but keep on, keep on.
We've got a deal with Perry that every couple of days,
he's gonna bring us a load of liquor.
I just brought you, like, 20 just for this time, anyway.
[Tickle] All right, that'll do right yonder, Perry.
That will do.
Keep bringing loads like this, and, uh...
We're gonna have us a good time together, you know?
That's exactly what I'm here for.
This couldn't be working out better.
Truck fits right in here.
There's plenty of room to unload this liquor.
Nobody can see what we're doing.
I think this is gonna work out perfect.
Hey.
Is that somebody knocking on the door?
If it ain't, I think it might be.
Give me a second. Give me a second.
What in the hell?
Damn, somebody's out there.
Who?
Hey.
-[man] Hey, how you doin'? -Doing all right.
-[speaking indistinctly] -No, no.
That business closed up a few years ago.
I just got in the building.
I ain't doing any trailer repair.
-Okay. -Appreciate it.
[grunts]
Perry, if you know anything about working on locked-up
trailer wheels, I could have got you a little extra money.
No, that's all right. I don't need no extra money like that.
-Well, that's too much like work, ain't it? -Yeah, I know.
That's too much like work.
Let's get these last few gallons out.
-Yeah. -You know what?
I'm going to get up in here and slide them on back to you.
Yeah, we can slide them on back.
You know, uh, that casino's coming in.
You know, law's gonna be everywhere.
They'll be, you know, looking for drunk drivers
or speeders coming from that casino.
[Tickle] Yeah, I guess you're right.
A casino is gonna really up the police presence
-around town, ain't it? -A lot.
You know, it's one thing, Perry,
bringing in a load that fits under the tonneau cover
of his pickup truck.
How far are you taking this stuff up and down the roads?
I'll be honest, we're taking it all over the darn place.
This is just kind of a hub to be moving stuff from.
But now when we go to transport this stuff,
we're going to be wanting to transport much larger loads.
I'll tell you what, I guess I'm going to have to
talk to Henry and see what we can't figure out.
That might start looking a little bit suspicious.
So we're going to have to find some creative way
to try to get this shine out of this building and transport it.
I appreciate you bringing this load.
I got you covered right here.
You say you can have me another in a couple of days?
-Yeah. -All right.
Sounds good to me.
I'll give you a buzz before I start down the road.
-All right. Sounds good. -All right.
[Big Chuk] Well, I'm gonna do something you like to do today.
We're gonna drink. You found this beautiful relic here.
As I've been tasting it, there was something
about this liquor that was different.
I think I might have figured it out,
but I want to make sure we both agree on this, all right?
I got a few different jars out here for Joe Boy
to taste from, so we can hone in on this recipe.
Mm-hmm.
Now, what's that?
Man, it's just good corn liquor.
It's a traditional corn liquor with a little bit of peach in it.
Down here in the South, everybody likes it.
Now, hold on.
Damn, don't waste a drop of this.
Mm-hmm.
All right.
I'm gonna taste this.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
It's definitely similar to our own recipe.
I can taste a little bit of peach in it,
but it's smoother, it's better.
That leads us to this last jar you're gonna taste.
You ready for this right here, this high proof?
It ain't even got a nose on it. It's so fire.
It's water.
Really good water, right? Yeah.
That's Hot Springs water in that jar.
This water that Joe Boy just tasted ain't just no average water.
This is Hot Springs mineral water.
It's world-renowned.
They say it's got healing properties.
Native Americans were using it.
They claim that it healed wounds and stuff.
People to this day still go to these ancient bathhouses
and go in here and soak in this water.
So I'm telling you, I think all we're missing here...
-Is this Hot Springs water. -That's it.
I don't see any other vehicles trying to keep up with him, so.
No, there's nothing suspicious at this point for sure.
[Mark] Killer Beaz, he don't know we're following him.
He don't know what we're driving,
so we're just going to watch out over him
and be an extra line of defense for him
if something goes south.
He could slow down just a little bit out there.
Yeah, he's getting a little speedy there.
We're in a 50 zone.
He's probably running 55 or 60.
[Digger] When you're hauling liquor, that's when you're at
your most vulnerable.
All it takes is a small accident
or you running a red light or not using your turn signal.
That gets you caught.
Oh, hell.
I don't like the idea of this police car behind him.
Yeah.
I hate to pass that cop car, but we may need
to get up there in case he does decide to speed
and take the pressure off of him.
Well, if that cop acts like he's going to pull him over,
I'll get in the turning lane and just fly.
He really needs to turn up here.
If he does and that police car goes on, he's good.
Yep.
All right.
-Yeah, he's good. -He's good.
Do you ever rode with him? He can't drive a sled.
Oh, he can't drive a sled.
I told him once upon a time, he drives like
old folks make love, all speed and no control.
[Mark] We've been on the road a couple hours now,
and Beaz pulls over into a gas station.
We just keep our distance and observe him.
He'll hide behind these dumpsters.
Yeah, right here.
There we go.
You know, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out
that Beaz is hauling liquor around for us.
I mean, all it takes is just a little bit of common knowledge
of the liquor business, and you know who's doing what.
Here he goes, updating his Facebook status.
He's going, on my way to Memphis, a load of liquor.
[Mark] Oh, Lord.
He's going outside.
Well, I think I'm going to walk up through there
and check them doors and see if he locked them.
Don't let him catch you.
Oh, I don't aim to get caught.
Either way, I'm going to get over there.
I'll be back in a minute.
He left that door unlocked.
That's how easy it is for anybody to go out in that van.
Lo and behold, the back door opens,
and Digger crawls in it.
And I'm thinking, "What's he doing?"
[Digger] I guess the prankster in me comes alive again.
I can't help it.
And Beaz just going to get a little bit of a surprise
when we get out on the road.
I hope Digger don't scare him to death going down the road.
But because he actually left that door unlocked,
this is a damn good lesson for him.
[dramatic music playing]
-Hey, Beaz. -God. Crap.
Digger, what the hell?
Gee, what in the hell?
Been hiding back there in one of these boxes.
Dang.
[Mark] Damn.
There was a big swerve.
That's probably Digger jumping out.
Beaz having a stroke.
Dude, you scared the crap out of me.
I didn't think it all the way through
because Beaz is a heart patient.
I could have very well killed us both.
-You had to poop, did you? -Not anymore.
We need to pull you over and change you.
We're your security right now.
We're gonna follow you a little bit further
just to make sure that there ain't nobody targeting you.
Well, I got mixed emotions right now.
A little bit pissed because you scared the crap out of me.
[Tickle] I mean, what do you think?
I like it a lot. Where's that camera go to?
I'll get rid of that.
[Tickle] Henry does not like surveillance cameras.
They're like the man's kryptonite.
He sees one in my shop, and he's not happy about it.
Taken care of, bossman.
Ain't no camera on your wall no damn more.
You're crazy.
-All right. -We're ready to roll, then.
I'm game for anything to get out of this building.
Your wife's been working me like a darn renting mule.
I mean, really.
I'm not so much worried about Beaz and his activity.
I'm worried about somebody else watching him.
You know, we had $11,000 worth of liquor stolen yesterday.
It's not going to happen two days in a row.
If this was a random theft, then so be it.
As long as I know for sure it was,
-Yeah. -because the chances of that
happening twice in a lifetime...
[both] Is slim to none.
You know, we're going to keep following Beaz
because, you know, we can't slack up.
We got to stop this. We can't stand losses like this.
I hope that we can prove to ourselves this round
it was just random.
[Digger] Oh, yeah.
What the hell?
That SUV right there, he ain't making no notion
-of passing him, is he? -Uh-uh.
We noticed something really strange.
There was an SUV there. He goes right behind him.
[Mark] He's right with him, ain't he?
[Digger] Something about this ain't right.
He ain't real smart if he's tailing him,
because he's right on his ass.
Son of a bitch.
-Hey, Beaz. -Hey, buddy.
Listen, there's a car between you and us.
We think that he may be tailing you.
Wow. Okay.
It may just be...
my paranoia and Digger's, but I'm a little suspicious of
the Pope right now.
We just had $11,000 worth of liquor stolen.
I mean, maybe coincidence, may not.
Who knows?
Hey, there's a rest area up here about
three or four miles on the right.
-[Mark] Pull in there and park. -Okay.
We're going to lag back. Pull in there behind you.
-Okay. -Yeah.
We learn at an early age in this business,
trust your instincts, trust your gut.
Try to speed up and see what he does.
-That rest area's coming up on you. -Okay.
[Mark] This will tell the tale.
If he pulls this rest area with you,
there's something hinky here.
[Beaz] He sped right back up with me.
All right, just pull in there somewhere.
We're gonna ease over here in the truck parking lot.
Crap.
Okay, he's pulled in almost right beside me.
The SUV follows him right in, parks a couple of spots
beside of him.
All right, I'm headed inside.
I'm keeping this phone line open.
Okay.
Yeah, we see you on the move.
[Beaz] Dang, man.
This is spooky on a lot of levels.
He's not gotten out of that vehicle yet.
All right, I'm fixing to go in the front door now.
[Mark] Okay.
He's getting out.
He's getting out of that vehicle, Beaz.
Can you know if he's coming my direction?
He is not.
[Mark] He's walking around to the passenger side.
He's walking up towards your van.
Oh, okay.
I can't help but think that this guy knows that Beaz
got another load of liquor, and he's gonna jack him again.
I mean, this guy's got plenty enough real estate in
the back of that SUV that he can haul this liquor off.
-Hey, Beaz, he's coming inside. -Oh.
Just hang around in there and keep an eye on him, see what he does.
Okay.
I'll tell you what we need to do.
We need to give him a little message just
to let him know that we're on to him.
All right, Beaz, he's coming in
the front door in a white hoodie.
By any chance, if this is the damn liquor thief
in this SUV, he's not going to get
another load of our liquor. I promise you that.
[Beaz] He is going into the men's room here.
This is the time for us to make our move.
We just can't let this happen.
[Beaz] If he comes out and starts heading back that way, I'll start talking.
Okay.
We've got to intervene at this point.
I'm going to move quick.
You let me know if he comes out of the bathroom.
Okay, you got it, man.
All right, buddy. Here we go.
I'll keep an eye on the doors.
[narrator] WhenMoonshiners returns.
-Damn, Josh. -You're not supposed
to be walking for a year and a half or something.
I'm getting there.
-Now that Josh is back. -Right on around to the back, boss.
We can really amp up our own moonshine production.
Shine bomb.
Five bucks a pod.
That's the highest price of any liquor
that we've ever sold.
Oh. Is it dissolved? Man, it's not going good.
That ain't what I need to hear right now.
We ain't got no water.
What the hell are we gonna do now?
Let me show you what I got in mind.
Jerry, he's always been good about coming up with cool ideas,
but condensing down my alcohol without water?
-Oh, [bleep], we got steam. -Oh, we got steam.
If this fails, I don't know what we're gonna do.
[Mark] I'm thinking about my first wife.
She used one of these on me.
It's a lot easier than stomping them with your feet, right?
You ain't kidding. Very cool.
-[bell dings] -Order up.
I'm trying to open a restaurant up with my wife.
Honey, that is not how you do it.
What are you talking about?
It's the perfect stash site.
We done got this one full.
Fire in the hole.
There is flavor in these stalks, son.
Corn stalk, molasses, backwoods, rum.
Here we come.
Howard, you may be on to something.
Whoa!
Man, we could get America drunk with all these apples.
Oh, [bleep]. What the... Son of a bitch.
The luck I'm having this year.
Unreal!
Where's the damn still at, man?
I can't believe in this [bleep], man.
Better not be trying to pull one over my damn eyes right now.
-Why the [bleep] would I be doing all this? -I don't know.
You shove it up your [bleep] ass.
We got red, white, and blue.
I mean, look at there. That's just the American flag.
This right here smells like bad decisions
on a Friday night.
Somebody's getting pregnant tonight.
-Cheers. -All right.
You've made me proud to be making liquor again.
[man] This is how we make the moonshine.