Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. These are the blueprints for a new house out in the Bear Valley district - not mine... not a policeman's salary. This is a memento. Ordinarily, a blueprint is a blueprint, but this one had a built-in feature that I hope you never find in your new home. It was a design for murder - mine. You'll see it in a case called, "The Last Waltz".

• [Blake, working undercover as a carpenter, is ordered to assist the sheriff by moving a pile of bricks] 

  Chauncey Potter : Look, if you're going to give him a hand, you better get started. I'm paying you three dollars an hour!

  Sheriff Andy Anderson : [to Rod]  No kiddin'? They payin' you three dollars an hour?

  Lt. Rod Blake : Told you I was a good carpenter.

  Sheriff Andy Anderson : You think they could use another man? I made a broom closet for my wife once.

• [Ernie, the only member of the Potter family without a criminal record, was just shot] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : Make another call on your phone Andy. Put a guard on Ernie and no visitors.

  Sheriff Andy Anderson : He's not going to run away.

  Lt. Rod Blake : This is not to keep Ernie in... someone tries to make a vital statistic out of him.