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including CREDENCE’S AUNT, but not BABY CORVUS . . . CREDENCE’S

AUNT pulls off her life jacket so she can dive too . . .

She does not reemerge. We close in through the surface of the water, past the
drowning woman, and see the dark shape of a drowning baby trailing bubbles of

magical light as he sinks . . . and his figure becomes . . .

SCENE 110
INT. LESTRANGE MAUSOLEUM—NIGHT

. . . the drowning baby falling through sea-green light, hanging in the air in the
mausoleum. LETA has conjured it. It has haunted her all her life and now she
shows it to them.

The orchid representing LETA on the Lestrange family tree twists around the
branch labeled CORVUS LESTRANGE until the leaves wither and die.
NEWT

You didn’t mean to do it, Leta. So it wasn’t your fault.
LETA

Oh, Newt. You never met a monster you couldn’t love.

A long look between them, a look full of memories.
TINA

Leta, do you know who Credence really is? Did you know, when
you swapped them?
LETA

No.

CREDENCE reacts.

An opening suddenly appears in the wall of the mausoleum. All stare at the steps

leading down into the earth. The sound of a gigantic crowd rumbles beneath
them.
JACOB