Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Lt. Rod Blake : Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. Are you a fatalist? A peace officer becomes very conscious of time and place. Here's a woman who was killed by a truck at an intersection. You'll probably say if she left home a minute sooner or a minute later, she'd still be alive. Well, a fatalist would argue the point. He's say a minute sooner or a minute later and the truck would have kept the appointment - it was just the time and the place for her to go. Now here's a deputy sheriff who walked into a bank to deposit his paycheck. Now, generally, his wife did it, but this day he did it and a minute later he was dead from a bandit's bullet. Fate? You'll have a chance to decide in a case we call, "The Winnemucca Weskit". A dude in the ballistics department said it was a 'weskit'. I call it a vest.

• [discussing a new bulletproof vest that Johnny has been demonstrating] 

  Millie Marvin : Must he wear it when you shoot at him?

  Lt. Rod Blake : Well, I ruled that out - I made him hang it on a chair.

  Johnny Marvin : Well, his ribs are black and blue. Now he wants to demonstrate it to every member of the police association at the convention. That's his idea of a floor show for the policeman's ball.

  Lt. Rod Blake : Listen, no police officer is going to buy thing until he's seen it work on somebody. A written guarantee on a bulletproof vest doesn't mean very much if it only promises the widow should get her money back.