"What's up?" Bo asked Jesse as they made their way to the hidden trap door to the cellar that was in the barn.
"I was thinking of going legal." Bo stopped walking and just looked at Jesse for a minute before he spoke.
"What?"
"I can't risk getting caught. Neither can you two." Bo opened the trap door and shown the flashlight down the hole.
"What about tradition?"
"Still be making 'shine. Just legal." Bo made his way down with two bottles.
"What do you want me to do?" Bo asked as he put the bottles in the cellar.
"Can you go up to Atlanta tomorrow to get the distilled spirits permit?"
"Can I bring Luke along?" He asked as Jesse handed him the other two bottles.
"Sure."
"Can I tell him what we're doing?"
"Yeah. Also, I have the money to pay off the mortage. You take it to the Atlanta bank and get the deed in our name. While you are there get the permits from the court house." Bo nodded as he climbed out of the cellar.
"What do you want to do about the new buyer?"
"Not selling to him anymore. We didn't sign a contract with him, so we don't have to continue to sell to him. Well Bo, lets get to bed." Bo closed the trap door and covered it up with the hay bales. The next day Jon and Ezra came back from the cabin, where they had spent the night after they got done cleaning it.
"Where were you last night?" Bo asked Jon as Ezra and Jon walked into the kitchen.
"With Ezra. Why?"
"Find it alittle strange that you're not here when the revenuers show up." Bo finished his coffee and set the cup down.
"Dad, what is Bo talkin' about?"
"Revenuers stopped by last night, looking for 'shine."
"And you think I made the call?" Jon asked Jesse.
"Didn't say that."
"You didn't have to, Bo already did." Bo gave a sly smile and walked outside. He knew that Jon didn't make the call but he just wanted to mess with him.
"Sir, I would never turn in a friend or his family. Your boys saved my sister's life. I can never repay them for that. I would never betray your trust or friendship."
"Dad. I was with him all day. I never saw him use the phone, here or anywhere else."
"I know it wasn't him."
"How?"
"I talked to Maybelle. No calls were made from anywhere in Hazzard to the Treasury Department. I think they're watchin' us."
"What should we do?"
"Don't know, Ez." Jesse replied as he poured himself a cup of coffee. He looked at Jon and started to laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"Bo knows you didn't make that call. He's just messin' with you."
"Why?"
"He's bored." Jesse continued to laugh as he walked outside to find Bo. He found Bo in the barn feeding the horses with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth.
"Best not let ma catch ya smokin'." Bo turned and gave Jesse a sly smile. "When are you two leavin'?"
"In a few minutes. Got to explain to Joey that he can't go with. Unless you want us to take him."
"That's up to you two." Bo finished feeding the horses than he put the pitch fork away.
"I'll go get Luke."