- [first lines]
- Lt. Rod Blake: Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. Here, boy!
- [a German Shepherd leaps onto Rod's lap]
- Lt. Rod Blake: You know, man's best friend can also be a specialist in crime detection. This is Speed, a German Shepherd, who gets credit for solving a murder and for halting one of the biggest shakedown operations in Nevada. You'll meet Speed again in a case we call, "The Sound of Death".
- Lt. Rod Blake: [narrating] I was convinced that the old Indian had been silenced because he knew something that the rest of us didn't. Nothing can hold a secret like death.