Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. I know a lot of you have read this book and I'm sure all of you have at least heard of it - it's 'Joe Miller's Joke Book'. Well, in this case we have a joke - a morbid one. It isn't in this book, but in our books it's called "This One'll Kill Ya".

• Johnny Garth : There's a reservation for you in my name at the door.

  Lt. Rod Blake : Well, thanks.

  Johnny Garth : Oh, Lieutenant, check your gun. I tell some pretty stale jokes. You may be tempted.

  Kay Wallace : You'll die laughing, Major... I hope.

• [Jill Benton has been found murdered] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : Do you have any idea who did kill her?

  Kay Wallace : Meaning besides myself, of course?

  Lt. Rod Blake : Yes, of course.

  Kay Wallace : You're the cop, sergeant, I'm just a chorus girl. You stay out of my racket and I promise not to muscle into yours.

• Lt. Rod Blake : [narrating]  Five days after Jill Benton's murder I went to Sheriff Anderson with a new twist to my plan. Anderson bawked; he called it dangerous. I called it a calculated risk, which was probably just another way of saying the same thing.