Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• Rod Blake : [narrating]  It was just a normal guest ranch wardrobe and the sheriff's men had been over it all. I don't know what I expected to find... I didn't need to look at what my fingers were touching in that pocket. It started a lot of bells ringing and one of them was the "all clear" signal in the state prison gas chamber.

• [first lines] 

  Rod Blake : Hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. You know, Lake Tahoe is just a short drive from my office - miles of blue water, fishing, big trees and the good ship Dixie. You may have seen the Dixie, she's a midget showboat tied up on Amundsen's boat landing on the southeast shore. I spent quite an evening on her not too long ago and the owner sent me this bell as a souvenir. Folks around the lake said they never heard it rung so loud as the night I rang it - with my head. Be back in a minute to tell you about a story we called, "One Way to Tahoe".

• [Rod is posing as a private detective] 

  Arness Blackmore : Maybe you'd like to report to me once in a while for what they're doin'.

  Rod Blake : That wouldn't be ethical and my fee's pretty high for being unethical.

• Arness Blackmore : Don't shoot!

  Rod Blake : I wouldn't shoot you for the world, Blackmore. I'm givin' the newspapers their daily laugh.