Dan Bruner was an FBI special agent for 20 years. He retired last year. He was based out of the FBI's

Newark Division, where he spent much of his career investigating gangs. I was very comfortable in the

gang world. I was very comfortable walking the streets of New Jersey in the bad neighborhoods. I was very

comfortable in that.

Because I was aware, I had self-awareness.

I had a great team of task force officers who are police officers assigned to the FBI.

And I had great agents who I could sit right next to and I trusted my life with them.

When Bruner says he trusted his life with other agents, he's not exaggerating.

There were two potential death threats against my life and both obviously were, you know,

unsuccessful.

He found out about one gang's threat after the fact.

They were discussing doing a drive-by on me.

While I was coming in and out of one of our federal buildings,

they were going to have a motorcycle drive up and take a shot at me.

At the end of the day, like I said, obviously I'm a lot safer now.

My wife is a lot happier now that I'm no longer, you know, wearing the vest and going down, you know, investigating these bad guys.

But at the end of the day, it's just a part of your life. I'm Dan Heath, and this is what it's like to be.

In every episode of the show, we walk in the shoes of someone from a different profession,

a criminal defense attorney, a nurse, a forensic accountant.

We want to know what they do all day at work.

Today, we ask Dan Bruner what it's

like to be an FBI special agent. We'll talk about what it's like to catch one of the FBI's

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