Converted back to a boy, Eustace apologized for being "such a sop" - "I think I was a better dragon than I was a boy, really.Rudd." To warn off the police, Pieter and other thugs (dressed in black ski masks) entered the Murtaugh home in North Hollywood, threatened Roger and his wife Trish (Darlene Love) in their bed after duct-taping their mouths and hands: "After this, it gets bloody.He is first seen through the window of his cramped and confining space.He uses many "Rube Goldberg"-like mechanical contrivances in a choreographed set of actions to save space - a rope tugs his bed up out of the way, and a shelf folds up to make a table...John! John...Jane! Mary...John! John...Mary!...Come on, Romeo! Save something for the moonlight!To escape the confines of the city, they ride on the op of a double-decker bus, taking the spiraling accessway up the back of the bus to get there (with a few tasteless gags about peering up their dates"" dresses).But after various screen tests, Lugosi refused the part, and Universal chose Britisher James Whale to direct.