Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (15 page)

SCENE 76

INT. NEWT’S CASE, ZOUWU ENCLOSURE—AFTERNOON

A wild Chinese habitat. NEWT is curled up in dense undergrowth. The Zouwu picks him up and dangles him from a claw.

SCENE 77

INT. FLAMEL HOUSE—AFTERNOON

JACOB enters and sees TINA watching the case. She hastily looks back at the book.

JACOB

(calling into case)

Hey, Newt, buddy. Tina’s up here. She’s all by her lonesome and maybe you want to come up and keep her company?

(beat)

I’ve been looking for food, and I ain’t found any. I guess I’m gonna go upstairs and try my luck in the—I dunno—the attic!

SCENE 78

INT. NEWT’S CASE, ZOUWU ENCLOSURE—AFTERNOON

Still dangling from the Zouwu’s claw, NEWT soothes and coaxes her until he can reach her harness and remove it. The Zouwu is finally freed from her chains.

NEWT

You’re all right.

JACOB (O.S.)

Okay!

SCENE 79

INT. FLAMEL HOUSE—AFTERNOON

JACOB is about to leave when NEWT clambers back out of the case.

NEWT

She’s responded well to the Dittany. She was born to run, you see. I think she’s just lacking in confidence—

He glances at TINA. She pockets
The Predictions of Tycho Dodonus
and speaks, not quite looking at NEWT.

TINA

Mr. Scamander, have you got anything in your case that might help revive this man? I need to question him. I think he knows who Credence really is. The scars on his hand suggest
an unbreakable vow—

NEWT

(eager, overlapping)

—unbreakable vow. Yeah, I noticed that too—

They examine the unconscious KAMA.

NEWT

Lumos
.

NEWT’S and TINA’S hands brush as NEWT advances his lit wand-tip to look in KAMA’S eye. Both jump. NEWT stares into KAMA’S eye. The tiny flicker of a
tentacle, swiftly withdrawn—

TINA

(gasps)

What was that?

NEWT

(serious)

There must be a water dragon in that sewer—they carry these parasites, you see. They . . . Jacob?

JACOB

Yeah?

NEWT

In my case, in the pocket there, you’ll find a pair of tweezers.

JACOB

Tweezers?

NEWT

They’re thin and pointy—

TINA

Thin, little pointy things.

JACOB

Yes, I know what tweezers are.

NEWT

(to TINA)

You might not want to watch this . . .

TINA

I can handle it.

NEWT succeeds in catching and pulling at the tentacle in KAMA’S eye.

NEWT

Come on. You’re all right. Jacob, will you take that for me?

He has extracted something like a spindly, waterborne spider, which he hands to JACOB.

JACOB

Ew! Calamari.

KAMA has started muttering, distraught, semiconscious.

KAMA

I must kill him . . .

TINA

Who? Credence? Who—?

NEWT

It may take him a few hours to recover. The parasite’s poison is quite strong.

TINA

I’ll have to go to the Ministry with what I’ve got.

(a wobble in her voice)

It was nice to see you again, Mr. Scamander.

She strides from the room, leaving NEWT perplexed and upset.

SCENE 80

INT. FLAMEL HOUSE, HALLWAY—AFTERNOON

JACOB follows TINA into the hall.

JACOB

Hey, hold on one second, will you? Well, hold on! Wait! Tina!

She leaves. As the front door closes, NEWT appears at the drawing room door.

JACOB

(to NEWT)

You didn’t mention salamanders, did you?

NEWT

No, she just—ran. I don’t know . . .

JACOB

(firm)

So you chase after her!

NEWT grabs his case. He leaves.

SCENE 81

EXT. RUE DE MONTMORENCY—END OF DAY

TINA is hurrying up the road. NEWT hastens to catch up.

NEWT

Tina. Please, just listen to me—

TINA

Mr. Scamander, I need to go talk to the Ministry—and I know how you feel about Aurors—

NEWT

I may have been a little strong in the way that I expressed myself in that letter—

TINA

What was the exact phrase? “A bunch of careerist hypocrites”?

NEWT

I’m sorry, but I can’t admire people whose answer to everything that they fear or misunderstand is “kill it”!

TINA

I’m an Auror and I don’t—

NEWT

Yes, and that’s because you’ve gone middle head!

TINA

(stopping)

Excuse me?

NEWT

It’s an expression derived from the three heads of the Runespoor. The middle one is the visionary. Every Auror in Europe wants Credence dead—except you. You’ve
gone middle head.

A beat.

TINA

Who else uses that expression, Mr. Scamander?

NEWT considers.

NEWT

I think it might just be me.

All lights are extinguished as every building is wrapped in black banners.

Muggles pass, totally immune, but a YOUNG RED-HAIRED WITCH nearby is walking along. She, like NEWT and TINA, can see the banners.

TINA steps into the middle of the road, watching the black silk fall out of the sky to shroud the surrounding buildings in darkness.

TINA

It’s Grindelwald. He’s calling his followers.

We pan up one length of flowing black silk until we achieve an aerial view of Paris. The entire city is being covered in GRINDELWALD’S dark banners.

SCENE 82

EXT. WIZARDING CAFÉ—END OF DAY

Witches and wizards hurrying outside to see what is invisible to Muggle passersby.

SCENE 83

EXT. PARISIAN STREET—END OF DAY

QUEENIE reaches out to the nearest black banner, and an emblem of a white raven appears beneath her touch.