SCENE 86
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—
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.)
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
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 Père 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.
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
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.
BACK TO FLAMEL.
He has shuffled after JACOB, but on realizing 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
Oh dear—
DUMBLEDORE’S portrait is blank.
FLAMEL flicks open another page. EULALIE HICKS, a young American professor at Ilvermorny, looks around, worried.
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.
SCENE 87
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.
SCENE 88
INT. MINISTÈRE 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
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—
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.
SCENE 89
INT. MINISTÈRE 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.)
Urgence! Urgence! Un sorcier suivi, Newt Scamander, est entré dans le Ministère! Emergency! Emergency! A tracked wizard, Newt Scamander, has entered the Department of Magic!
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—
THESEUS
NEWT, STOP!
NEWT and TINA sprint through a second door, which leads—
SCENE 90
INT. MINISTÈRE 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.