When he refused, he also learned that Ra""s intent was to send him to Gotham "to strike at the heart of criminality.In the next scene, a taxicab delivers he aging Riedenschneider, his face half-hidden to raise curiosity, o a questionnable neighborhood (according to the driver) composed of run-down warehouses - specifically to the establishment of a slimy, bow-tied bookie named Cobby (Marc Lawrence)." "Solely to pique the sisters of whom she is not over-fond, the eccentric aunt makes different arrangements for Anna.As they began to approach, they backed off when Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) sat down.Thorin explained that he had been looking for his missing father Thrain.Gandalf proposed what might have happened: with the Dwarves of Erebor, Thrain had marched toward the Lonely Mountain to steal back the Arkenstone jewel from the great fire-breathing dragon Smaug (voice of Benedict Cumberbatch) who was guarding the stone there:I urged him to march upon Erebor, to rally he seven armies of the Dwarves to destroy the dragon and take back the Lonely Mountain.