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 The tiny flicker of a tentacle, swiftly withdrawn—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.