Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : The case you are watching has been dramatized from the files of the law enforcement agencies of the state of Nevada. Names have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. This is the headquarters of the Nevada state police in Carson City. As a state, we rank sixth in size, 48th in population. This suits our citizens just fine. They like room to breathe but, as cops, it gives us a lot of wild, wide-open territory to cover.

• [demonstrating a technique for disarming a criminal] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : I turn and drop my left arm at the same time, knocking the gun to one side so the shot goes over there. I go into an ordinary wrist lock and take the gun away from him... and you finish it like this.

  [tosses his "assailant" to the floor] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : Think you can do it now?

  Gym Deputy : Well, I don't know. What if you miss a wrist lock?

  Lt. Rod Blake : That's why we have a widows and orphans fund.

• [indicating plaster casts of horseshoe prints found near the site of a murder] 

  Sheriff Grundy : We got these out by the side of the road.

  Lt. Rod Blake : Well, now all we need is a horse that fits 'em.

  Sheriff Grundy : Yeah... and the fellow that fits the horse.