Rod Cameron: Lt. Rod Blake

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Rod Blake : Oh, hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. The title of this particular case may be misleading. It's called "The Only Girl on Boot Hill". Now every town in the old West had a Boot Hill. It got its name because a good portion of its clientele died with their boots on, but you didn't have to wearing boots to gain admission.

• Mr. Ormsby : You see Greg is obsessed with the idea that he brings death to everyone around him - people he loves.

  Rod Blake : Well, the secretary mentioned your wife - his mother... no one else.

  Mr. Ormsby : Yes, his mother died the day before Greg graduated from college. Before that, his roommate when he was a sophomore - train wreck. I thought he'd gotten over his mother's death. Married a beautiful girl. They went off the end of ferry landing in Greg's sports car. She drowned. They'd only been married a month.

  Rod Blake : It would take time to get over a thing like that.

  Mr. Ormsby : I don't think we have time, Lieutenant.

• Rod Blake : He's a sick man

  Mrs. Willoughby : What was he sick of?

  Rod Blake : He had enough trouble to break a man.

• Rod Blake : I asked the old timer about the McGill family, Betty McGill in particular and got a shock. "Up in the cemetary," he said. "She's the only girl on Boot Hill." Then he added, "She's the only girl *alive* on Boot Hill."

• [last lines] 

  [Greg's wife died when he drove their car intentionally off a ferry ramp and she couldn't open her seat belt] 

  Rod Blake : There were hammer marks on that seat belt buckle. He told you, didn't he?

  Betty McGill : Yes. She couldn't get out.

  Gregg Ormsby : I'm only sorry about one thing. I wonder what she thought about when she was strapped in. I wanted to know that. I wanted to know that!

  Rod Blake : Well, don't give up hope. You may find out what it's like to be strapped in.