White Lightning

Ben Fairfield says that County records may be placed under... 379 00:35:54,069 --> 00:35:56,238 Thank you for taking care of the matter I told you about. 380 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,282 That's my pleasure, Judge Tenney. 381 00:35:58,365 --> 00:35:59,408 He says what? 382 00:35:59,491 --> 00:36:02,494 That the County records may be placed in investigative custody 383 00:36:02,578 --> 00:36:04,413 by the State Bureau of Fiscal Review, 384 00:36:04,454 --> 00:36:07,916 in which case prior investigative function may be retained 385 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,878 by state or local authorities over federal jurisdiction. 386 00:36:10,919 --> 00:36:13,380 Bogan County's still Bogan County. 387 00:36:13,422 --> 00:36:16,550 That's what I'm trying to tell you, J.C. It's not the same. 388 00:36:16,592 --> 00:36:19,928 - It can't be the same! - Harvey, that's a bunch of stuff. 389 00:36:19,970 --> 00:36:22,723 Ben Fairfield played football with Howie Duncan and me. 390 00:36:22,764 --> 00:36:23,765 He puts his pants on... 391 00:36:23,849 --> 00:36:26,935 - Still coming over to the house for dinner? - Fried chicken. 392 00:36:28,187 --> 00:36:32,649 Benjamin Fairfield is now a U.S. Senator, and I'm down here in Bogan County, 393 00:36:32,733 --> 00:36:35,986 doing the same thing his daddy did when he was sheriff here. 394 00:36:36,069 --> 00:36:38,864 I had myself one of them cells downstairs 395 00:36:38,947 --> 00:36:41,575 'cause I burned down the outhouse on the Fourth of July. 396 00:36:41,617 --> 00:36:43,243 That was 25 years ago, J.C. 397 00:36:43,285 --> 00:36:45,120 Federal law and state law is not what it was. 398 00:36:45,204 --> 00:36:46,830 Damn it, Harv... 399 00:36:47,372 --> 00:36:49,082 Excuse me, Miss Martha. 400 00:36:49,124 --> 00:36:50,959 You don't believe everything you hear, do you? 401 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:52,961 No, sir, not working around here. 402 00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:56,840 Now look, J.C., let me explain it to you one more time. 403 00:36:56,965 --> 00:37:00,385 Federal law and state law is not what it was 25... 404 00:37:00,469 --> 00:37:03,138 Harvey! You know, you need a haircut. 405 00:37:04,139 --> 00:37:08,435 Now, what's it the business of any income tax federal revenuer, anyway? 406 00:37:08,810 --> 00:37:12,648 If Pot Willoughby, any other old moonshiner, wants to come in this office, 407 00:37:12,731 --> 00:37:16,485 put down his paper sack full of money, like he's been doing for years, 408 00:37:16,526 --> 00:37:20,948 and I take that money and I spread it around among 25 men in my department 409 00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:22,824 who do not make enough off the taxpayer 410 00:37:22,866 --> 00:37:24,993 to buy their wives a washer and a dryer machine 411 00:37:25,035 --> 00:37:29,081 and all them things that every American family's supposed to have. 412 00:37:29,831 --> 00:37:32,084 Now, you tell me, Harvey, you tell me, 413 00:37:32,167 --> 00:37:34,795 is it better if a man pays $7 a fifth 414 00:37:34,836 --> 00:37:37,547 for government drinking liquor in a dry county, 415 00:37:37,631 --> 00:37:39,841 or six bits a pint for shine? 416 00:37:39,925 --> 00:37:41,843 Don't argue with me, J.C. 417 00:37:42,344 --> 00:37:44,972 I'm with you. Hell, everybody in the department is. 418 00:37:45,013 --> 00:37:47,474 - But you got to pull in your horns. - Bull. 419 00:37:48,725 --> 00:37:52,771 Now, you listen to me. If Ben Fairfield says that Washington's sending a man 420 00:37:52,854 --> 00:37:55,607 down here snooping around, he knows what he's talking about. 421 00:37:55,691 --> 00:37:58,026 And maybe he's already here. 422 00:38:15,836 --> 00:38:18,380 If that ain't a whiskey runner, <i>I'll</i> spit. 423 00:38:18,422 --> 00:38:21,008 Hunkered down the springs like that. 424 00:38:23,051 --> 00:38:26,013 - Shall we get him? - Let's go. Kill the tape. 425 00:38:29,224 --> 00:38:30,350 Shit! 426 00:39:05,302 --> 00:39:07,095 What the hell have we got here? 427 00:39:49,137 --> 00:39:52,265 We got a whiskey transporter and a blocker car running east 428 00:39:52,307 --> 00:39:55,394 in pursuit on Farrell Road. 429 00:41:34,075 --> 00:41:35,619 Son of a bitch! 430 00:42:56,157 --> 00:42:57,701 Well, I'll be damned. 431 00:43:17,679 --> 00:43:19,014 Hey, Gator? 432 00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:21,224 The guy over in the body shop wants to know 433 00:43:21,308 --> 00:43:24,686 what the hell you ever did to the undercarriage on that car. 434 00:43:24,728 --> 00:43:27,689 - I told you, I just dinged it up a little bit. - Dinged it? 435 00:43:27,731 --> 00:43:31,359 Shoot, it's gonna ding your pocketbook when you pick it up tomorrow. 436 00:43:31,401 --> 00:43:34,029 Hey, that's her. The one in the yellow dress up there. 437 00:43:44,998 --> 00:43:46,041 Hi. 438 00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:48,877 The courthouse closed? 439 00:43:48,918 --> 00:43:53,131 Well, the Sheriff's office is open, but that court is closed for the day. 440 00:43:53,214 --> 00:43:55,550 How