Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Tina finds this explanation dubious. They round a corner to find a crowd gathered in front of a crumbling building. People are shouting, others are hurriedly evacuating the building. A policeman is standing at the center of the crowd, being harassed by disgruntled tenement dwellers.

JUMP CUT TO:

Newt and Tina move around the outskirts of the crowd. At the back, a tipsy hobo is trying to attract the policeman’s attention.

POLICEMAN

Hey . . . Hey—quiet down—I’m trying to get a statement . . .

HOUSEWIFE

. . . I’m telling you it’s a gas explosion again, I ain’t taking the kids back up there until it’s safe.

POLICEMAN

Sorry, ma’am—There ain’t no smell of gas.

HOBO

(drunk)

It warn’t gas—hey, Officer, I seen it!—it wuzza—a gigantic—a huge hippopotto—

Tina is looking up at the ruined building, and misses Newt sliding his wand from his sleeve and pointing it at the hobo.

HOBO

—gas. It was gas.

The others in the crowd around him agree.

CROWD

Gas . . . It was gas!

Tina again catches sight of the Billywig. Taking advantage of this distraction, Newt runs up the metal steps and inside the ruined tenement building.

SCENE 32

INT. JACOB’S ROOM—AFTERNOON

Newt enters Jacob’s room and stops, staring: The room is completely destroyed. Footprints, broken furniture, shattered glass. Even worse: A massive hole in the opposite wall—something huge has blasted its way out. We can hear Jacob groaning from the corner.

SCENE 33

EXT. TENEMENT STREET—AFTERNOON

CUT BACK TO TINA as she looks around and realizes that Newt has disappeared from the crowd.

SCENE 34

INT. JACOB’S ROOM—AFTERNOON

Newt crouches beside Jacob, who lies on his back, eyes closed and moaning. Newt tries to examine a small red bite on Jacob’s neck, but Jacob keeps unconsciously batting him away.

TINA (O.S.)

Mr. Scamander!

CUT TO TINA, running with purpose up the staircase of Jacob’s building.

CUT BACK TO NEWT, who desperately performs a Repairing Charm. The room is righted, the wall repaired, just in time before Tina enters the room.

SCENE 35

INT. JACOB’S ROOM—AFTERNOON

Tina hurries inside to find Newt, trying to look innocent and composed, sitting on the bed. He calmly seals the latches on his case.

TINA

It was open?

NEWT

Just a smidge . . .

TINA

That crazy Niffler thing’s on the loose again?

NEWT

Er—it might be—

TINA

Then look for it! Look!

Jacob moans.

Tina drops Jacob’s case and makes straight for the injured Jacob.

TINA

(about Jacob, worried)

His neck’s bleeding, he’s hurt! Wake up, Mr. No-Maj . . .

With Tina’s back turned, Newt makes toward the door. Suddenly Tina emits a guttural scream as the Murtlap comes scuttling out from under a cabinet and latches onto her arm. Newt spins, catching the creature by the tail and grappling it into the case.

TINA

Mercy Lewis, what is that?

NEWT

Nothing to worry about. That is a Murtlap.