Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

by J.K. Rowling

SCENE 1 EXT. SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE—1926—NIGHT

Nice to get a solid date for when this movie occurs.

NEWT Ah, that’s definitely the Murtlap. You must be particularly susceptible. See, you’re a Muggle. So our physiologies are subtly different.

Is it possible a bite from a Murtlap could interfere with obliviation? May explain the final scene when Jacob touches his neck.

NEWT Finestra. The window glass shatters

Finestra is Italian for “window”

NEWT My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

GRAVES You were thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life—

The place is destroyed—moonlight filters through gaps in the roof, and Chastity lies dead amid debris from the attack.

Chastity dies too? Missed that in the film.

A further massive explosion in the distance. Jacob tightens his grip on Queenie. She reads his mind and her expression changes to one of wonderment and tenderness as she sees what he went through in the war. Queenie is moved and appalled. Very slowly, she raises a hand and touches his cheek.

Wow. Nice to know what Queenie saw in Jacob’s mind!

Inside the Obscurus, Credence reaches out to Tina, the only person who has ever done him an uncomplicated kindness. He looks at Tina, desperate and afraid. He has dreamed of her ever since she saved him from a beating.

As Newt follows Madam Picquery’s gaze, he sees a tendril of black matter, a small part of the Obscurus, floating down through the roof. Unnoticed by anyone else, it eventually floats up and away, trying to reconnect with its host.

Trying to reconnect with its host?

Jacob looks up and is thunderstruck all over again: It’s Queenie. They stare at each other—Queenie beams, radiant. Jacob, quizzical and totally enchanted, touches his neck—a flicker of memory. He smiles back.