Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. You know, every occupation has its specialized tools. This is a pike pole, part of a lumberman's equipment. Made of hardwood, it has this long steel spike in the end. It's an extremely useful tool when you're wrangling logs... it's also a very dangerous weapon in a fight. You'll meet the pike pole again in a story called, "Excitement at Milltown".

• Myrna Carlson : Would you like one of my sandwiches?

  Lt. Rod Blake : No thanks.

  Myrna Carlson : Oh, but I insist! It you don't, I'll tell my father.

  Lt. Rod Blake : You'll get me fired, I suppose

  Myrna Carlson : It's a perfectly wonderful arrangement... Father runs the mill and *I* run Father.

• [discussing Loomis' daughter, Myrna] 

  Mr. Carlson : I don't know what to do with her.

  Lt. Rod Blake : How long has it been since she's had a good spanking?

• Lt. Rod Blake : You want the truth?

  Myrna Carlson : Sure. Who's afraid of the big, bad truth?

• [Rod has just given Myrna the benefit of his amateur psychoanalytical abilities] 

  Myrna Carlson : Do you read palms, too?

  Lt. Rod Blake : I read faces better.

• [last lines] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : [narrating]  Byron once said that "Hatred is the madness of the heart." Ella Westover wasn't out of her mind, but it was a thin line that separated insanity from the acts of a woman ignored.