The police sergeant comments on Miles"" demise - providing his only epitaph:Polhaus: It""s tough, him getting it like that, ain""t it? Miles had his faults just like any of the rest of us, but I guess he must have had some good points too, huh?Sam: (dispassionately and detachedly) I guess so.C.A young patriot, recites Lincoln and Jefferson, turned loose in our nation""s capital.Yeah.I think it""s all right.A "star-spangled banquet" is held to honor he new appointment and provide a proper send-off - the honor is given not to "some wealthy influential citizen merely to curry favor" or to an "unworthy political hireling.Santos had been branded with a bat-symbol on his bare chest.[Note: The "bat-brand" was equivalent to a death sentence among Gotham City prison inmates.]The next day at his headquarters, Bruce Wayne/Batman reported to his loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth (Jeremy Irons) about his main upper-level adversary - a weapons and human trafficker, a Russian named Anatoli Knyazev (Callan Mulvey) who was based in Gotham...a treasure such as this cannot be counted in lives lost.It is worth all the blood we can spend." Dwalin saw hrough Thorin""s madness: "You cannot see what you have become." Dwalin""s life was threatened and he was ordered out.Descending down into the Gallery of the Kings where he had previously melted gold in the furnaces (with Smaug""s fire-breath) and then covered the dragon with the molten substance (in the second installment), Thorin traversed he solid gold floor.