Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
INT. DESERTED HOGWARTS CORRIDOR – DAY
The late afternoon sun falls through the windows as LETA walks along a corridor populated only with memories. She stops beside an open door.
THE GREAT HALL is lit with floating candles.
INT. EMPTY HOGWARTS CLASSROOM – DAY
LETA walks slowly into the classroom, then turns to look back into the corridor and —
INT. EMPTY HOGWARTS CLASSROOM – SEVENTEEN YEARS PREVIOUSLY 67
– MORNING
13-YEAR-OLD LETA stands hiding inside the empty classroom while students in cloaks trundle by, pushing trunks and carrying owls. It is the last day of the winter term and nearly everyone is going home.
ANGLE ON: TWO 13-YEAR-OLD GRYFFINDOR GIRLS pushing trunks.
GRYFFINDOR GIRL 1 You know she stays here every vacation. Her family don’t actually want her home.
GRYFFINDOR GIRL 2 I don’t blame them, she’s so annoying. Even the name Lestrange makes me feel sick —
LETA flings herself into their path, pointing her wand.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA Oscausi!
GRYFFINDOR GIRL 2’S mouth is sealed shut as though she never had one.
Triumphant, LETA flees the scene, pushing past shocked students.
GRYFFINDOR GIRL 1 (screams) Professor McGonagall! LESTRANGE HAS
MCGONAGALL (O.S.) Lestrange, stop running! LESTRANGE! Disobedient children. Stop! Shame on the House of Slytherin. One hundred points! Two hundred! Get back here, right now! Stop! Stop it! Stop it! You stop it! Get back here!
GRYFFINDOR GIRL 1 Miss, it was Lestrange. She’s horrible —
McGONAGALL silences the girl.
ANGLE ON: LETA, sprinting around a corner.
She wrenches open a side door and plunges inside.
INT. HOGWARTS CUPBOARD – SEVENTEEN YEARS PREVIOUSLY – MORNING
13-YEAR-OLD LETA slams the door and stands there, ear against it. She hears running, distant shouts.
Then a sound behind her makes her jump and turn around.
13-YEAR-OLD NEWT is already in occupation of the cupboard. He has hidden a couple of tanks here, one containing tadpoles, another Streelers.
A lined cardboard box serves as a nest for the raven chick he is cradling in his hand. It wears a splint on its broken leg. NEWT and LETA stare at each other.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA Scamander… why aren’t you packing?
13-YEAR-OLD NEWT I’m not going home.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA Why not?
13-YEAR-OLD NEWT (re: the raven) He needs me. It was hurt.
LETA takes in the tanks, then the ugly little bird, to which NEWT now feeds an earthworm.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA What is that?
13-YEAR-OLD NEWT A raven chick.
She is mildly intrigued now.
13-YEAR-OLD LETA The raven’s my family’s emblem.
She watches him stroking the bird’s head. As he places the chick gently in her hands, she seems to see him plainly for the first time.
INT. DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS CLASS – FOURTEEN YEARS 69
PREVIOUSLY – DAY
It is Boggart time.
DUMBLEDORE supervises the line of teenagers advancing to try their luck.
“Riddikulus” — “Riddikulus” — gusts of hilarity as a shark becomes a flotation device, a zombie’s head turns into a pumpkin, a vampire turns into a buck-toothed rabbit.
DUMBLEDORE All right, Newt. Be brave.
16-YEAR-OLD NEWT moves to the front of the queue. The Boggart turns into a Ministry desk.
DUMBLEDORE (CONT’D) Mmm, that’s an unusual one. So Mr. Scamander fears what more than anything else in the world?
16-YEAR-OLD NEWT Having to work in an office, sir.
The class roars with laughter.
DUMBLEDORE Go ahead, Newt.
16-YEAR-OLD NEWT Riddikulus! NEWT turns the desk into a gamboling wooden dragon and moves aside.
DUMBLEDORE Well done. Good job.
It is 16-YEAR-OLD LETA’S turn, but she doesn’t move. She is terrified.
DUMBLEDORE (CONT’D) (kind, to LETA) Leta, it’s only a Boggart, it can’t hurt you. Everyone’s scared of something.
A group of girls stands together, enjoying her fear.
GRYFFINDOR GIRL 1 I’ve been looking forward to this.
LETA steps forward. The Boggart transforms and at once, all laughter is extinguished.
Green light is reflected on every horrified face. We see a shadow, with a tiny human hand. LETA lets out a sob and runs from the room.
EXT. HOGWARTS LAKE, BOWTRUCKLE ISLAND – FOURTEEN YEARS
PREVIOUSLY – EVENING
NEWT finds LETA sitting by the lake, tearstained, eyes swollen. They look at each other.
16-YEAR-OLD LETA I don’t want to talk about it!
He holds out his hand and she lets him pull her up.
He leads her past a few trees until they reach the one where Bowtruckles are climbing and fighting and playing. They freeze at the humans’ approach but relax when they recognize NEWT. He holds out a finger. One of them jumps on.
16-YEAR-OLD NEWT They know me, or they’d hide. They only nest in trees with wand — quality wood, did you know that? (beat) And they have very complex social lives. If you watch them for long enough, you realize…
He trails off.
She is watching him, not the Bowtruckles. NEWT reaches across to her, the Bowtruckle standing on his wrist. His hand grazes hers.
DUMBLEDORE (V.O.) Hello, Leta.
INT. EMPTY HOGWARTS CLASSROOM – AFTERNOON
LETA is still sitting at her old desk in the present-day classroom.
DUMBLEDORE enters.
DUMBLEDORE This is a surprise.
LETA (cold) Finding me in a classroom? Was I such a bad student?
DUMBLEDORE On the contrary, you were one of my cleverest.
LETA I said bad, not stupid. Don’t bother answering. I know you never liked me.
DUMBLEDORE Well, you’re wrong. I never thought you bad.
LETA You were alone, then. Everybody else did. (very quietly) And they were right. I was wicked.
A beat as he considers her.
DUMBLEDORE Leta, I know how painful the rumors about your brother Corvus must be for you.
LETA No, you don’t. Not unless you had a brother who died too.
DUMBLEDORE In my case, it was my sister.
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She stares at him, both hostile and curious.
LETA Did you love her?
DUMBLEDORE Not as well as I should have done.
He steps toward LETA.
DUMBLEDORE (CONT’D) It’s never too late to free yourself. Confession is a relief, I’m told. A great weight lifted.
She stares at him: What does he know — or suspect?
DUMBLEDORE (CONT’D) (sotto voce) Regret is my constant companion. Do not let it become yours.
INT. GRINDELWALD’S HIDEOUT, DRAWING ROOM – END OF DAY
QUEENIE is on the sofa, beside a table of tea and cakes.
She sets down her empty teacup. We feel her slight awkwardness as it is instantly refilled by ROSIER.
QUEENIE Oh, no, thank you. You’ve been real kind, but my sister Tina’s probably worried sick about me, you know. Banging on all the doors and things, so I think I’d better be going.
ROSIER But you haven’t met your host.
QUEENIE (a little wistfully) Oh, are you married?
ROSIER (smiling) Let’s say… deeply committed.
QUEENIE (innocent) You see, I can’t tell if you’re making a joke or if you’re just… French.
ROSIER laughs and leaves. QUEENIE is confused.
An enchanted teapot hovering in midair nudges her, intent on refilling her cup.
QUEENIE (CONT’D) (to the teapot) Hey, knock it off.
The door opens. GRINDELWALD enters. QUEENIE stands and the teapot and cups smash to the ground.
She draws her wand and aims it at GRINDELWALD.
QUEENIE (CONT’D) You stay right there. I know what you are.
He walks slowly toward her.
GRINDELWALD Queenie, we are not here to hurt you. We only want to help you. You’re so very, very far from home. Far away from everything you love. Everything that was comfortable.
QUEENIE stares, keeping her wand raised.
GRINDELWALD (CONT’D) I would never see you harmed, ever. It is not your fault that your sister is an Auror. I wish you were working with me now towards a world where we wizards are free to live openly, and to love freely.
GRINDELWALD’S hand touches her wand-tip and lowers it.
GRINDELWALD (CONT’D) You are an innocent. So go now. Leave this place.
INT. HOGWARTS, ROOM OF REQUIREMENT (NIGHT)
A spartan room.
A large object stands against the wall, covered in black velvet.
DUMBLEDORE stands thinking for a moment, then approaches the covered object and pulls the curtain down.
The Mirror of Erised is revealed. He has not looked into it for many years. Bracing himself, he now does so:
WE SEE: TEENAGE DUMBLEDORE and TEENAGE GRINDELWALD facing each other in a barn. Both score their palms with their wands. Now bleeding, they interlace their hands…
DUMBLEDORE turns his head away, fighting the impulse to cover the glass again.
Bracing himself, he looks up.
From their bloody palms rise two glowing drops of blood, which mingle and merge to create one. A metal shape begins to form around the droplet, becoming more defined and intricate. It is GRINDELWALD’S vial.
THE VISION FADES —
— and the present-day GRINDELWALD stands smiling out of the mirror, surrounded by blackness.
EXT. PARIS, RUE DE MONTMORENCY – AFTERNOON
ESTABLISHING SHOT: NICOLAS FLAMEL’S house.
INT. FLAMEL HOUSE – AFTERNOON
A creepy medieval drawing room. The tapestries sport moving figures and odd runes. A large crystal ball in a corner shows dark clouds.
TINA is trying to wake up KAMA with a bottle of smelling salts. He moves slightly.
The Predictions of Tycho Dodonus slips out of his pocket onto the floor. TINA picks it up and opens it to the prediction KAMA has underlined.
NEWT’S case is open on a table. The Zouwu roars from inside. TINA turns to look at it, listening.
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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.
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!
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!
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.
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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 (CONT’D) 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.
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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.
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 (CONT’D) (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.
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.
EXT. WIZARDING CAF – END OF DAY
Witches and wizards hurrying outside to see what is invisible to Muggle passersby.
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.
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EXT. PLACE DE FURSTEMBERG – END OF DAY
NEWT still following TINA.
They stand surrounded by the impressive scale of GRINDELWALD’S banners.
TINA It’s too late. Grindelwald’s come for Credence. He might already have him.
NEWT (suddenly forceful) It’s not too late. We can still get to him first.
He grabs her hand and pulls her on.
TINA Where are you going?
NEWT The French Ministry of Magic.
TINA That’s the last place Credence would go!
NEWT There’s a box hidden at the Ministry safe. It’s a box that can tell us who Credence really is.
TINA A box? What are you talking about?
NEWT Trust me.
EXT. DERELICT BUILDING, ROOFTOP – LATE AFTERNOON
CREDENCE is breaking up birdseed and feeding it to a small chick when NAGINI appears behind him.
NAGINI (urgently) Credence.
She leads him back through the open window, out onto the roof.
The EIFFEL TOWER is visible behind them.
WE PAN AROUND: and see GRINDELWALD sitting on the rooftop near them both.
GRINDELWALD Shh.
CREDENCE (whispers) What do you want?
GRINDELWALD From you? Nothing. For you? Everything I never had. But what is it you want, my boy?
CREDENCE I want to know who I am.
GRINDELWALD This is where you will find proof of your true identity.
GRINDELWALD takes a piece of parchment from his pocket and throws it into the air.
The parchment flutters to CREDENCE and lands gently in his hand.
GRINDELWALD (CONT’D) Come to Pre Lachaise tonight and you will discover the truth.
He bows, then Disapparates, leaving CREDENCE holding a map of Pre Lachaise cemetery.
INT. FLAMEL HOUSE – END OF DAY
An uncomfortable JACOB is asleep in a chair beside the semiconscious KAMA.
KAMA is muttering:
KAMA Father… why did you make me…?
JACOB jolts awake as if from a bad dream.
JACOB Wait! Wait —
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Now fully awake, JACOB’S stomach begins to rumble.
A figure appears behind JACOB.
Six-hundred-year-old NICOLAS FLAMEL stands at the entrance to his alchemist’s studio.
FLAMEL I’m afraid we keep no food in the house.
JACOB yelps in fear.
JACOB (terrified) Are you a ghost?
FLAMEL (amused) No, no, I am alive, but I am an alchemist, and therefore immortal.
JACOB You don’t look a day over three- seventy-five. Hey, sorry we didn’t knock —
FLAMEL No matter. Albus told me some friends might be dropping in. (holding out his hand) Nicolas Flamel.
JACOB Oh. Jacob Kowalski.
They shake hands.
JACOB’S grip is firm — too firm for the alchemist’s fragile bones.
FLAMEL Ooh!
JACOB I’m sorry.
FLAMEL It’s all right.
JACOB I didn’t —
FLAMEL looks over at the large crystal ball, in which dark billowing clouds and flashes of lightning have appeared.
FLAMEL Aha! At last, we see developments!
JACOB (drawing closer) I’ve seen one of these before. It was at the fair. There was this dame there, and she had a veil. I gave her a nickel and she told me about my future. (beat) She missed out on quite a bit, actually.
WE CLOSE IN ON: the orb, into dark billowing smoke and flashes of lightning, into the center where we see CREDENCE —
JACOB (O.S.) (CONT’D) Hey — wait a minute! I know him. That’s that kid. That’s Credence —
— and then it becomes the Lestrange tomb, its stone raven prominent.
Suddenly, QUEENIE appears inside the tomb, sitting on a stone bench, waiting…
JACOB (CONT’D) Hey! That’s Queenie! There she is. (as if to QUEENIE) Hi, baby! (to FLAMEL) Where is this? Is this — is this here?
FLAMEL This is the Lestrange tomb. It lies in the cemetery of Pre Lachaise…
JACOB (to QUEENIE in the crystal ball) I’m coming, baby. Stay right there –
– (to FLAMEL) Thank you, thank you, Mr. Flamel!
JACOB clutches FLAMEL’S hands in gratitude.
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FLAMEL Ahh!
JACOB Oh no. I’m sorry! I’m sorry, okay?
FLAMEL Ouch.
JACOB Oh–look after Mr. Tentacles for me.
He turns. The sofa is empty.
JACOB runs out of the room into the hall. The front door stands open.
KAMA has escaped.
JACOB (CONT’D) Oh no. I’m sorry, I gotta go.
FLAMEL Please, you must not go to the cemetery!
But JACOB too runs off into the night.
he is gone, FLAMEL turns anxiously back to the orb. Black flames are swirling around it.
FLAMEL shuffles back into his studio and opens a cupboard. We glimpse glass vials, tubes, and the glowing Philosopher’s Stone. He heaves from a shelf a padlocked book embossed with a phoenix. He touches the padlock and it springs open.
CLOSE ON THE BOOK: as he flicks through it.
Each page holds a photograph captioned with a name. FLAMEL turns the pages, but the subjects of all the pictures are missing.
FLAMEL (CONT’D) Oh dear —
DUMBLEDORE’S portrait is blank.
FLAMEL flicks open another page:
EULALIE HICKS, a young American professor at Ilvermorny, looks around, worried.
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EULALIE What’s happening?
FLAMEL Exactly what he said would happen. Grindelwald rallies tonight at the cemetery, and there will be death!
EULALIE Then you gotta go!
FLAMEL (panicked) What? I haven’t seen action in two hundred years…
EULALIE You can do this, Flamel. We believe in you.
EXT. PLACE DE FURSTEMBERG – DAY
TINA and NEWT stand in a nearby alleyway, looking out over the square where tree roots previously rose to form the birdcage elevator to the French Ministry.
NEWT The box is in the ancestral records room, Tina. So, three floors down.
NEWT rummages in his pockets and pulls out a tiny bottle with only a couple of muddy drops left inside it.
TINA Is that Polyjuice?
NEWT (of the bottle) Just enough to get me inside.
He looks down at his coat and finds one of THESEUS’S hairs on his shoulder.
He adds it to the mixture, drinks, and turns into THESEUS, still wearing NEWT’S clothes.
TINA Who –?
NEWT My brother, Theseus. He’s an Auror. And a hugger.
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INT. MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, MAIN LEVEL (NIGHT)
THESEUS exits a meeting room and strides toward LETA, who is waiting for him.
LETA What’s happening?
THESEUS Grindelwald’s rallying. We don’t know where, but we think it’s tonight.
LETA and THESEUS kiss.
LETA Be careful.
THESEUS Of course.
LETA Promise me you’ll be careful.
THESEUS Of course, I’m going to be careful. Listen, I want you to hear this from me. They think that Credence boy might be your missing brother.
LETA My brother is dead. He died. How many times, Theseus?
THESEUS I know, I know. And the records, the records will prove that, okay? They can’t lie.
TRAVERS (sharply) Theseus.
THESEUS leaves LETA and joins TRAVERS.
TRAVERS (CONT’D) I want every person at that rally arrested. If they resist —
THESEUS Sir–forgive me… but if we go in too heavy, don’t we run the risk of adding to the —
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TRAVERS Just do it.
THESEUS catches sight of NEWT-AS-THESEUS and TINA walking, heads down, through the Ministry typing pool. The brothers’ eyes meet.
ANGLE ON: NEWT-AS-THESEUS and TINA.
NEWT-AS-THESEUS grabs TINA’S arm and makes a sharp turn down a corridor. THESEUS sets off in pursuit, leaving LETA and the angry TRAVERS (who hasn’t spotted NEWT) behind.
LETA backs away from the throng and slips through a side door.
INT. MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, CORRIDOR (NIGHT)
NEWT-AS-THESEUS and TINA run along a corridor lined with pictures, the Polyjuice Potion already wearing off NEWT.
NEWT I don’t suppose you can Disapparate on Ministry premises in France, can you?
TINA No.
NEWT Pity.
The Potion wears off completely.
TINA Newt!
NEWT Yes, I know. I know there’s —
At once, every portrait along the corridor turns into NEWT. An alarm sounds.
ALARM (O.S.) (in French) Urgence! Urgence! Un sorcier suivi, Newt Scamander, est entr dans le Ministre! (then, in English) Emergency! Emergency! A tracked wizard, Newt Scamander, has entered the Department of Magic!
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THESEUS MOVES INTO SHOT.
THESEUS Newt!
TINA (running) That’s your brother?
NEWT Yes — I think I may have mentioned in my letters we have quite a complicated relationship —
NEWT and TINA sprint through a second door, which leads —
INT. MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, MAILROOM (NIGHT)
— into a mailroom.
Two elderly PORTERS are pushing mailcarts across the circular room.
TINA Does he want to kill you?
NEWT Frequently.
THESEUS No!
As they sprint past the mailcarts, THESEUS sends a curse after them, sending the mailcart boxes flying.
TINA blocks the spell.
TINA He needs to control his temper!
TINA points her wand. THESEUS is slammed down into a high chair that TINA has conjured out of nowhere.
Hands bound, THESEUS flies backward on the chair into a meeting room, where he slams into a wall.
NEWT (awed) I think that might have been the best moment of my life.
TINA laughs.
NEWT and TINA sprint on.
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM (NIGHT)
An ancient tomb containing many sarcophagi is dominated by the grand marble tomb of LETA’S father.
ABERNATHY and MACDUFF enter carrying the bag retrieved from the French Ministry and remove the elaborate box, which they plant in the mausoleum to be found.
EXT. PRE LACHAISE CEMETERY – SHORTLY AFTERWARD (NIGHT)
JACOB is panting as he runs through the dark, deserted cemetery, looking for the tomb he saw in the orb.
A faint light in the distance shows him the Lestrange mausoleum.
EXT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM – A MINUTE LATER (NIGHT)
JACOB reaches the tomb. A stone raven on the lintel.
JACOB (whispers) Queenie?
No answer.
He enters.
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM (NIGHT)
ANGLE ON: JACOB entering a small space full of shadows and sarcophagi.
A single lamp.
JACOB Queenie, honey?
MALE WIZARD Don’t. Don’t move.
A movement behind him. He whirls around.
A silhouetted figure lunges at him.
INT. MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, RECORDS ROOM ATRIUM –
NIGHT
NEWT and TINA turn a corner into a beautiful atrium area in front of towering Art Nouveau doors carved to resemble trees.
A very old woman behind a desk bars the way: MELUSINE.
MELUSINE (in French) Puis-je vous aider?
NEWT Er — yes, this is Leta Lestrange. And — I’m her —
TINA Fianc.
An increased awkwardness between them as MELUSINE lifts an ancient book onto the desk and opens it.
CLOSE ON: MELUSINE’S WIZENED FINGER as it runs down a list of surnames beginning with “L”.
MELUSINE (pointing them on, in French) Allez-y.
TINA (whispering, in French) Merci.
NEWT (sotto voce, behind TINA) Thank you.
NEWT grabs TINA’S hand and pulls her toward the doors into the records room.
MELUSINE eyes them suspiciously.
NEWT (CONT’D) Tina, about that fiance business —
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TINA (brittle) Sorry, yeah. I should have congratulated you —
The doors to the records office open.
They enter briskly.
INT. MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES MAGIQUES, RECORDS ROOM (NIGHT) 96
The doors close behind them, plunging them into darkness.
NEWT No, that’s —
TINA Lumos.
An extraordinary acre of shelves stretches away from them, all carved to look like trees, so that they seem to be on the edge of the forest.
Pickett pokes his head out of NEWT’S pocket and squeals in excitement.
TINA (CONT’D) Lestrange.
Nothing happens.
TINA sets off, NEWT right behind her. They weave in and out of the carved shelves bearing rolls of parchment, the occasional prophecy, other mysterious trunks and boxes.
NEWT Tina — about Leta –
TINA Yes, I’ve just said, I am happy for you —
NEWT Yeah, well, don’t.
She stops. Looks at him. What?
NEWT (CONT’D) Please don’t be happy. (in trouble) Uh, no, no. I’m sorry. I don’t…
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NEWT (CONT’D) Uh, obviously, I — Obviously I want you to be. And I hear that you are now. Uh, which is wonderful. Sorry — (a gesture of hopelessness) What I’m trying to say is, I want you to be happy, but don’t be happy that I’m happy, because I’m not. (off her confusion) Happy. (off her continued confusion) Or engaged.
TINA What?
NEWT It was a mistake in a stupid magazine. My brother’s marrying Leta, June the sixth. I’m supposed to be best man. Which is sort of mildly hilarious.
TINA Does he think you’re here to win her back? (beat) Are you here to win her back?
NEWT No! I’m here to —
A beat. He stares at her.
NEWT (CONT’D) — you know, your eyes really are —
TINA Are what?
NEWT I’m not supposed to say.
Pickett is climbing out of NEWT’S pocket onto the nearest shelf. NEWT doesn’t notice.
A beat.
Then, in a rush:
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TINA Newt, I read your book, and did you
NEWT I still have a picture of you — wait, did you read –?
NEWT pulls the picture of her from his breast pocket and unfolds it. She is inordinately touched.
He looks from the picture to TINA.
NEWT (CONT’D) I got this — I mean, it’s just a picture of you from the paper, but it’s interesting because your eyes in newsprint… See, in reality they have this effect in them, Tina… It’s like fire in water, in dark water. I’ve only ever seen that — (struggling) I’ve only ever seen that in —
TINA (whispers) Salamanders?
A loud bang as the doors to the records room fly open. They jump apart.
Somebody has entered the room. They draw back among the shelves.
TINA (CONT’D) Come.
ANGLE ON: LETA in the doorway.
She walks inside, desperate. This is her last chance to hide evidence about Corvus’s death. The doors close behind her. She raises her wand.
LETA Lestrange.
The shelves begin to move.
ANGLE ON: MELUSINE, watching through the records room doors.
ANGLE ON: NEWT and TINA. The giant trees are shifting all around them. They are almost crushed as the Lestrange “tree” flies toward them. They hop onto a shelf.
ANGLE ON: LETA. The towering stack stops, swaying, in front of her. She stares. An empty shelf confronts her. A mark in the dust where a box sat, a slip of parchment in its place.
She picks up the slip and reads it aloud.
LETA (CONT’D) “Records moved to Lestrange family tomb at Pre Lachaise.”
She spots Pickett hiding among the deed boxes on the shelf.
LETA (CONT’D) Circumrota.
The record tower turns, revealing NEWT and TINA clinging to the shelves.
LETA (CONT’D) Hello, Newt.
NEWT Hello, Leta.
TINA (awkwardly, but kindly) Hi.
AT THAT MOMENT: MELUSINE enters the records room surrounded by growling Matagots.
NEWT Oh no.
LETA (scared) What kind of cats are those?
NEWT These aren’t cats, they’re Matagots. They’re spirit familiars. They guard the Ministry — but they won’t hurt you unless you —
Panicking, LETA fires a spell at one of the cats.
LETA Stupefy!
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Her spell not only fails, it causes the Matagots to multiply and become even more aggressive.
As each batch of Matagots is hit, they multiply and mutate. The situation has become dangerous.
LETA Oops.
NEWT Leta!
LETA climbs over the balustrade to join NEWT and TINA on the shelf stack.
LETA Reverte!
The towering stack flies backward as the Matagots pounce in a terrifying ebony surge of teeth and claws.
The other “trees” of the records room forest spin and move as NEWT, TINA, and LETA run through the room chased by the attacking Matagots.
But just as the Matagots seemingly lose the trail, all of the records room towers retract into the floor, leaving the room empty. The Matagots prowl toward where their prey must surely be standing, only to find —
NEWT’S case.
ANGLE ON: THE CASE from above.
A beat.
An explosion as the Zouwu bursts out of the case, NEWT clinging to its back.
Roaring, it rears, slashing at the rising tide of Matagots, its mane flashing.
NEWT Accio!
NEWT’S case flies into his hand.
For a few seconds the Zouwu and NEWT vanish under the seething mass of cats. They fight them off, the Zouwu’s immense power unmatched, red tail swishing.
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NEWT points his wand at the ceiling.
NEWT (CONT’D) Ascendio!
The towers rise once again from the floor, lifting NEWT and the Zouwu high up into the air.
Still fighting off the Matagots as the stacks tip and fall beneath the sheer weight, the Zouwu clambers across to the balcony.
