A sickness lies upon that treasure hoard.A sickness which drove your grandfather mad." Balin added: "You're not yourself.The Thorin I know would not hesitate o go in there." Balin sensed that Thorin would sacrifice Bilbo as a burglar for his own purposes.Smaug continued to stalk Bilbo and revealed that he knew of Thorin Oakenshield's quest to reclaim Lonely Mountain and acquire the Arkenstone - and then made a dire prediction about he approach of Sauron.They bring him in for "plain drunkenness."The scene in the police station cleverly introduces he three principal characters as they are each separately hauled in for varying reasons on this late Easter night, and their paths cross.The wo were brought into a world of subversiveness by a bisexual host - the carnivorous "sweet ransvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" - Dr.You haven't got anything to worry about.I'm not gonna let you down because I can't afford to." During a soliloquy, he obsessed, tyrannical director looks out the office window toward an unseen street, counting on the success of his last show to take care of him through retirement with a respectable income.