Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

BACK TO JACOB: In trying to climb a tree, Jacob has ended up hanging precariously upside down from a branch.

JACOB

(bellowing, terrified)

Newt!

We see the Erumpent below him. She lies on her back, wiggling her legs in the air invitingly.

ANGLE BACK ON NEWT: The baboon shakes Newt’s wand.

NEWT

No, no, no, don’t!

Newt looks worried—BANG—the wand “goes off,” the spell knocking the baboon backward. The wand flies back to Newt.

NEWT

I’m so sorry—

ANGLE ON JACOB: The Erumpent is now on her feet. She charges toward the tree, digging her horn deep into the trunk. The tree bubbles with glowing liquid before exploding and crashing to the ground.

Jacob is thrown off, rolling down a steep, snowy hill, and onto the frozen lake below.

The Erumpent charges after him, hits the ice, and skids. Newt comes careering down the hill, also hitting the ice. He performs an athletic slide, his case open—the Erumpent is mere feet from Jacob when the case swallows her.

NEWT

Good show, Mr. Kowalski!

Jacob holds out his hand to shake.

JACOB

Call me Jacob.

They shake hands.

THIRD-PERSON POV—Someone watches as Newt hauls Jacob up and they slip and slide across the frozen lake as fast as they can.

NEWT

Well, two down—one to go.

HOLD ON TINA as she hides on the bridge above them, peeking down.

NEWT (O.S.)

(to Jacob)

In you hop.

We see the case sitting alone below the bridge.

Tina quickly appears around the corner and hurriedly sits on the case. She closes the catches, looking shocked but determined.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

Ladies and gentlemen . . .

SCENE 55

INT. CITY HALL—NIGHT

A large, ornately decorated hall, covered in patriotic emblems. Hundreds of glamorously dressed people sit at round tables, looking toward a stage at the far end. Over this stage hangs a large poster of Senator Shaw with a slogan reading AMERICA’S FUTURE.

An announcer stands behind the microphone.

ANNOUNCER

. . . now, tonight’s keynote speaker needs no introduction from me. He’s been mentioned as a future president—and if you don’t believe me, just read his daddy’s newspapers—

Indulgent laughter from the crowd. We see Shaw Sr. and Langdon seated at a table surrounded by the crème de la crème of New York society.

ANNOUNCER

—ladies and gentlemen, I give you the senator for New York, Henry Shaw!

Tumultuous applause. Senator Shaw bounds forward, acknowledging the cheers, pointing and winking at intimates in the crowd, and mounts the steps.

SCENE 56

EXT. DARK STREET—NIGHT

Something is streaking through the streets, too large and fast for a human. Strange, labored breathing and snarling—it is inhuman, beast-like.

SCENE 57

EXT. STREET NEAR CITY HALL—NIGHT