Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

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• [first lines] 

  Rod Blake : Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. You know, you'll probably never pull the trigger on a rifle like this but if you do, look out - it's got a jolt in both ends. It's a .375 Magnum. That end could slap down a running rhinocerous. This is part of my personal collection and, ordinarily, I'd keep it home, but this stopped a killer for me once, so now I keep it in that cabinet - it's sort of earned its badge. One of the boys in the Bureau tabbed this case, "What Price Gloria". As you'll see in a minute, he had a point.

• Rod Blake : [narrating]  The landing attendant said he'd found the boat floating bottom up in the middle of the lake. There wasn't much to be told by the hole in the side of the boat. It could have happened in a hundred different ways and the one person who knew exactly how it happened was probably at the bottom of the lake. There's a legend about Lake Tahoe. It's bottomless in spots and it never gives up its victims.

• Rod Blake : [narrating]  The sheriff was right - there wasn't anything to see out where they'd found the boat. There wasn't anything to place Herndon at that spot, either... out in the boat with Gloria DiNeen last night, make it on shore this morning unless he was a channel swimmer as well as an artist. Of course, murders aren't always committed to make it easy for the police. The boat could have been towed to where it was found.

• Rod Blake : What exactly did happen?

  Gloria DiNeen : I was going along at, oh, trolling speed. This other speed boat whizzed out of the dark and hit me broadside.

  Rod Blake : Did you see who was in it?

  Gloria DiNeen : One minute I saw the boat and the next minute I was in the water. It could have been an accident.

  Rod Blake : Yeah, or a practical joke. That's why the other boat didn't stop to pick you up. Was it Herndon?

  Gloria DiNeen : I don't want to say it was Jim.

  Rod Blake : Would you want to say it wasn't?

• Rod Blake : [narrating]  I didn't want to alarm Herndon, but I didn't like Gloria's reaction to the good news - stunned shock and then a happy day at the lake. Marriages have to end in one of two ways - divorce or 'death do us part'.

• [last lines] 

  Mary Herndon : Why? Why did she do it?

  Rod Blake : She wanted your husband - alimony free.

  Mary Herndon : You and Jim?

  Gloria DiNeen : That's his story!

  Rod Blake : No, not Jim. He didn't suspect it until he added all his troubles together and they came out "Gloria".

  Gloria DiNeen : You can't prove any of it.

  Rod Blake : I can prove the false accident report and I can try to prove attempted murder.

  Gloria DiNeen : But that's silly! Mary's my best friend.

  Rod Blake : I think she scratched you off her list out there on the lake. You're too expensive, Gloria.