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The moment has come to share my vision of the future that awaits if
we do not rise up and take our rightful place in the world.
ROSIER appears onstage. Bowing, she presents the skull-hookah to
GRINDELWALD.
Total silence falls in the auditorium. GRINDELWALD is illuminated by the
skull’s golden light. He inhales deeply through the tube. His eyes roll up into his
head. He exhales . . .
. . . and it is extraordinary. A gigantic Technicolor cloak seems to unfurl from
his lips across the high stone ceiling, bearing moving images—the crowd gasps
—
Thousands of marching, booted feet . . . explosions, men running with guns . . .
CLOSE ON THE FACES OF THE CROWD, mesmerized and afraid, the light of
the vision playing across their faces.
CLOSE ON NEWT, stunned.
The vision of a nuclear blast rocks the amphitheater. It is horrifying. The crowd
feels it, is terrified. Screams, until the vision subsides, leaving murmurs of
panic . . .
CLOSE ON JACOB, horrified.
JACOB
Not another war . . .
The vision fades. All eyes return to GRINDELWALD.
GRINDELWALD
That is what we are fighting! That is the enemy—their arrogance,
their power lust, their barbarity. How long will it take before they
turn their weapons on us?
We pan around the exits and see AURORS, unnoticed, entering the auditorium,
fanning out among the crowd.
CLOSE ON THESEUS, who is worried: The situation is volatile and could go
