Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

As she talks, we see the penny dropping. An Obscurus fits everything she knows about the perpetrator of the New York attacks.

TINA

(to Newt)

Obscurials can’t survive long, can they?

NEWT

There’s no documented case of any Obscurial surviving past the age of ten. The one I met in Africa was eight when she—she was eight when she died.

JACOB

What are you telling me here—that Senator Shaw was killed by a—by a kid?

Newt’s look says yes.

SCENE 62

INT. SECOND SALEM CHURCH, MAIN HALL—MONTAGE—DAY

Modesty approaches the long table at which many orphan children sit hungrily eating.

MODESTY

(continuing her chant)

. . . My momma, your momma,
flying on a switch,
My momma, your momma,
witches never cry,
My momma, your momma,
witches gonna die!

Modesty gathers several of the children’s leaflets from the table.

MODESTY

Witch number one, drown in
a river!
Witch number two, gotta
noose to give her!
Witch number three . . .

TIME CUT:

The children, having finished their meal, leave the table with their leaflets and head for the door.

CHASTITY

(calling after them)

Hand out your leaflets! I’ll know if you dump ’em. Tell me if you see anything suspicious.

CLOSE ON CREDENCE—he’s washing dishes, but watching the children intently.

Modesty follows the last of the children out of the church.

SCENE 63

EXT. STREET OUTSIDE SECOND SALEM CHURCH—DAY

Modesty stands in the middle of the busy street. She throws her leaflets high into the air, watching with glee as they fall around her.

SCENE 64

INT. MACUSA CELL/CORRIDOR—DAY

Two executioners in white coats lead a shackled Newt and Tina down to a dark basement, away from the cell.

Newt turns to look back.

NEWT

(over his shoulder)

It was good to make your acquaintance, Jacob, and I hope you get your bakery.

ANGLE ON JACOB, scared, left behind, clutching at the bars of the cell. He waves forlornly after Newt.

SCENE 65

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM—DAY

A small, bare room, black-walled and windowless.

Graves sits opposite Newt at an interrogation desk, a file open in front of him. Newt squints forward, a bright light shining into his eyes.

Tina stands behind, flanked by the two executioners.

GRAVES

You’re an interesting man, Mr. Scamander.

TINA

(stepping forward)

Mr. Graves—

Graves holds a finger to his lips, signaling for Tina to be silent. The gesture is patronizing, but authoritative. Tina looks kowtowed—she obeys, stepping back into the shadows.

Graves examines the file on his desk.

GRAVES

You were thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life—

NEWT

That was an accident!

GRAVES

—with a beast. Yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion. Now, what makes Albus Dumbledore so fond of you?

NEWT

I really couldn’t say.

GRAVES

So setting a pack of dangerous creatures loose here was just another accident, is that right?

NEWT

Why would I do it deliberately?

GRAVES

To expose wizardkind. To provoke war between the magical and non-magical worlds.

NEWT

Mass slaughter for the greater good, you mean?

GRAVES

Yes. Quite.

NEWT

I’m not one of Grindelwald’s fanatics, Mr. Graves.