Page 41 - [2]Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald - the Original Screenplay

SCENE 28
EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE—EVENING

DUMBLEDORE and NEWT Apparate and walk on past the great stone
Landseer lions. The darkening sky is becoming increasingly ominous. A flock of
pigeons rises into the air at their approach.
DUMBLEDORE

How was it?
NEWT

They’re still convinced that you sent me to New York.
DUMBLEDORE

You told them I didn’t?
NEWT

Yes. Even though you did.

A beat. DUMBLEDORE inscrutable, NEWT wanting answers.
NEWT

You told me where to find that trafficked Thunderbird, Dumbledore.
You knew that I would take him home and you knew I’d have to
take him through a Muggle port.
DUMBLEDORE

Well, I’ve always felt an affinity with the great magical birds.
There’s a story in my family that a phoenix will come to any

Dumbledore who is in desperate need. They say my great-great-
grandfather had one, but that it took flight when he died, never to
return.
NEWT

With all due respect, I don’t believe for a minute that’s why you told
me about the Thunderbird.

A noise behind them. The silhouette of a man appears out of shadows. They

Disapparate—