I warned you. Did I not warn you what would come of dealing with dwarves?! Now they`ve done it! They've woken the dragon. They brought the apocalypse upon our heads!
Come on! Quickly! Quickly!
Faster now! I'm trying to evacuate myself here! Careful, men. Never mind the books! Get on, get the rest of it!
But sire, should we not try to save the town?
The town is lost! Save the gold!
You heard him! Get a move on!
Tauriel
We have no time. We must leave!
Bofur
Get him up!
Fili
Come on, brother.
Bofur
Come on, come on. Let's go.
Kili
I'm fine. I can walk.
Tauriel
As fast as you can.
We're not leaving. Not without our father.
Tauriel
If you stay here, your sisters will die. Is that what your father would want?
Bard
Open this door! Do you hear me?
Fili
Give me your hand.
Bofur
We gotta go.
Tauriel
Quickly now. Hurry.
Fili
Kili, come on!
[They set off down the canal, poling the boat through the floating chunks of ice. Smaug swoops low overhead, and the townspeople scream. Smaug soars high above and away from the town, then turns and dives steeply toward the town, building up fire in his chest. As he gets over the town, he unleashes his flames, and he breathes his fire in a line all the way across the town. People scream and fall and die in the inferno. Bard smashes at his cell's bars with a pail, but to no avail. Smaug breathes fire over another section of the town; a man, on fire, falls out of his house and into the water. The Master, his men, and Alfrid poll their boat loaded with treasure through the water.]
Come on, come on! Faster! Faster!
If only we could take more of these people with us, but they're hardly--
Worth it. I quite agree.
Bofur
Look out!
Move it! Move it! Come on! Faster!
My gold! My gold!
We're carrying too much. We need to dump something.
You're quite right, Alfrid.
Faster! Faster!
[As the boat pulls ahead, the rope loops pulls the Master back, but then he gets stuck in front of the boat's rear post. As the rope tightens around him, he gags and chokes. Eventually, the pressure is so much that the entire side of Bard's prison break, and Bard escapes. The Master frantically pulls the rope away from his throat. As Smaug flies overhead, still blowing flames, Bard breaks through the guardroom window and grabs his bow and quiver, testing his bowstring. He pushes out some of the shingles in the upper story and clambers out onto the roof, where he has a good vantage point. He ducks low as Smaug flies by almost overhead. Bard runs across the rooftops, heading toward the bell tower, the tallest building in the town. Back at the Lonely Mountain, Thorin and Company watch the town burning in the lake.]
Balin
Poor souls.
[They all stare in sadness of each other in sadness and fear. Bilbo looks back and sees that Thorin is staring back at the halls of Erebor, not at Laketown. Bilbo is worried. Bard continues leaping roof to roof. Tauriel hides her boat under an overhang until she sees that it's safe to go on. Bard climbs rapidly up the winding steps of the bell tower. Once at the top, he pulls all the arrows out of his quiver and looks out at the sky. As Smaug soars by, Bard shoots an arrow at him; however, the arrow merely bounces off Smaug's scales and falls to the ground. Bard, standing directly below the ringing bell, gets nauseated by the booming sound, so he pulls out the dagger and cuts the bell's rope, silencing it. He shoots another arrow at Smaug, but this, like the first bounces harmlessly off. In the canals below, Bain, on the boat with his family, the dwarves, and Tauriel, notices his father at the top of the tower. The dwarves, Tauriel, and Bard's children are rowing out of Lake-town to escape Smaug's wrath, when they see Bard on top the tower firing arrows at the dragon]
Da!
Da!
Kili
He hit it! He hit the dragon!
Tauriel
No.
Kili
He did! He hit its mark! I saw it!
Tauriel
His arrows can not pierce its hide. I fear nothing will.
Bofur
What are you doing?!
Fili
Come back! Bain!
Bofur
Bain!
Fili
Come back here!
Tauriel
Leave him! We cannot go back.
