Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Rod Blake : Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. You know, the state of Nevada loves its tourists and I like any tourist when it comes to photographing our historic buildings. This is the museum down the street with the Virginia & Truckee locomotive pastured out front. This is Piper's Opera House in Virginia City and St. Mary's of the Mountains in Virginia City. Yes, we encourage the tourists to shoot all the film they like, but that's about the only kind of shooting we approve of.

• [Blake is interrogating a prisoner in the Goldfield jail] 

  Johnny Bledsoe : Where's my wife?

  Rod Blake : I wish I knew. We have a vacancy here she could have.

• Rod Blake : [to Bledsoe]  How lucky can you get? Gordo is going to live and we had the gas chamber all scrubbed out for you.

• Rod Blake : You get smart and tell me where that money is. You don't think they tore that Tonopah jail apart just to help you break out on a 25-day rap do you? They'll afraid you're going to talk and they want that money. Now what does that add up to?

  Johnny Bledsoe : I've got friends.

  Rod Blake : You've got one less! Fred Carr's on a slab and he wanted that money!

• [last lines] 

  [Rod holds a cup of poison Bledsoe's wife planned to give Johnny] 

  Johnny Bledsoe : Oh, my head!

  Rod Blake : Don't tempt me, Johnny.