- [first lines]
- Lt. Rod Blake: Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. Now every once in a while a case comes up that has a history - the point of origin sometimes goes back a long way. We just closed the files on the granddaddy of them all. This case goes back 250 years to the town of Cromona, Italy where a man named Antonio Stradivari started making violins for which he would be forever famous. You'll hear about it in a case called, "Fiddle Dee Dead".
- [De Vol's car was stolen with a Stradivarius violin in the backseat]
- Lt. Rod Blake: If the newspapers make a big thing out of this, then this guy is going to figure the Strad is so hot, he'd better burn it before it burns him.
- Frank De Vol: What do you think, Andy?
- Sheriff Andy Anderson: I don't think the guy that stole the car would know a Stradivarius from a pastrami sandwich.
- [Rex proposes to sell the stolen Stradiavarius]
- Ben Slausen: I wouldn't touch that fiddle with a ten-foot pole and a fifty-foot extension!