To get Spencer out before he was killed, "John" proposed entering his dream - weirdly believing that Freddy wouldn""t hurt him ("I""m family").Traumatized, he removed his crown and threw it down.Outside the gates of Lonely Mountain, the Dwarves were forced to pull back.Azog predicted victory with a final destructive assault: "Now comes their end.Prepare for the final assault." Thorin emerged inside, after snapping out of his madness and regaining his sanity, to speak to his almost-defeated Dwarves - including a discouraged Kili.Then, hey could be married in no time and overcome the objections of Arabella""s mother.Lacking confidence, John is skeptical of her plan:John: You mean, put my copy in place of the Beaugard?Arabella: Exactly....Europe about o blow up and all I can get out of my foreign staff is a daily guessing game.I want some facts, Mr.Bradley!...Any kind of facts.There must be something going on in Europe beside a nervous breakdown." When Bradley offered to be sent to Europe, Powers rejected him because Bradley was an intellectual economist and not a hard-nosed reporter:I don""t want any more economists, sages, or oracles bombinating over our cables.