bonet, a lifelong alaskan, lives in fairbanks, a former gold rush boomtown that prides itself on itsral beauty. while covering local crime stories in 2003, bonet learns that fairbanks police are using taser guns as a crime-fighting tool. his curiosity is piqued when a police officer makes an offhand comment. >> they were talking about tasers and their effectiveness and he jokingly said you should do it. it's a lot of fun. and i said, yeah, sure, why not. fateful statement. >> fateful, indeed. a self-described risk taker, bonet decides to try it and capture it all on camera. >> when i told my co-workers what i was planning to do, i was met with a lot of blank stares. and i don't think they really believed me. >> have you ever seen thomas pace before? i never have. >> i became more and more nervous. you know, i was trying to play it off like, i'm not afraid at all, but that was absolutely not true. >> bonet decides, despite his fear, that he should not only go through with the plan, he should make the experience as real as possible. >> i figured if i'm going to do this, i'm going to go