Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (16 page)

SCENE 84

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.

SCENE 85

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

Come to Père Lachaise tonight and you will discover the truth.

He bows, then Disapparates, leaving CREDENCE holding a map of Père Lachaise cemetery.

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.