While waiting in the beautifully-decorated parlor, hey are impressed by a Picasso painting on the wall:Gus: Ain""t that cute? They got his and hers Picassos.It appeared that the tall Dwarf Kili (Aidan Turner) and Tauriel were becoming intrigued with each other, to Legolas"" disliking.On the veranda of the club, four men are seated playing bridge.One of them [later identified as John Strangways (Tim Moxon)] rises and excuses himself o make a regularly-scheduled appointment, walking out onto the driveway of the club and passing the three blacks seen earlier.The water-rights scandal at the heart of the film expresses how ecological rape of the land has occurred in outrageous land-development schemes that redirect the water""s flow.