Page 180 - [2]Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald - the Original Screenplay

badly wrong.

The crowd settles, agitated, expectant. They are waiting for some new,
extraordinary revelation.

GRINDELWALD
Do nothing when I speak of this. You must remain calm and contain
your emotions.
(beat)

There are Aurors here among us.

Gasps. Heads turn. We see the AURORS looking around in panic. They are
wildly outnumbered. The crowd is hostile.

GRINDELWALD

(to the AURORS who have just entered)
Come closer, brother wizards! Join us.

To mounting hisses and angry jeers, the AURORS know they have no choice but
to walk forward and show themselves.

ANGLE ON LETA, turning to look.

She spots THESEUS. A long, charged look between them.

THESEUS
(to the other AURORS)
Do nothing. No force.

But one of the jumpiest young AURORS has made eye contact with the YOUNG
RED-HAIRED WITCH. She is angry, as twitchy as he is, fingering her wand.
GRINDELWALD

They have killed many of my followers, it is true. They caught and

tortured me in New York. They had struck down their fellow
witches and wizards for the simple crime of seeking truth, for
wanting freedom . . .

He is deliberately playing on the unstable YOUNG RED-HAIRED WITCH’S
feelings. The YOUNG AUROR raises his wand a few inches. He can sense her
desire for violence—
GRINDELWALD