At he dining room table, they are joined by 12 year-old son Scotty (Tony Denman), who excuses himself from the boring, unfulfilling family to go to McDonalds to see his friends.The screenplay by Ernest Tidyman about a crackdown on a multi-million dollar international dope smuggling ring was based on Robin Moore""s best-selling 1969 bookThe French Connection.The camera cuts back and forth between views of Ethan and the expectant faces of the waiting family.[A folded Navajo blanket on a hitching post in front of Debbie moves to a hitching post in front of the house, and then disappears!] Lucy tells her brother Ben: "That""s your Uncle Ethan.Azog declared from his towering command post at Ravenhill, on a crag stretching skyward: "Come forth my Armies!" There were now four flanks of forces (a fifth would arrive later):Dain""s Dwarves of the Iron Hills (helping the Dwarves of Erebor at Lonely Mountain)Thranduil""s Elven Spearmen and Archers of MirkwoodLake-town""s Men (militia and guards)Azog""s Dol Guldur Orcs (with were-worms, bats, goblin mercenaries, trolls, and ogres)(Bolg""s Gundabad Orcs)Azog""s Orcs split up and attacked both Dain""s forces and the combined armies at Dale, causing everyone to join together to fight the villainous Orcs - it was the start of the Battle of the Five Armies.