Finding Tina

SCENE 58

EXT. PARISIAN CAFÉ—EVENING

A pair of lovers sit over coffee. NEWT is scanning every man who leaves the

café, checking the reaction of the feather trapped beneath the glass. JACOB

stares at the lovers.

JACOB

You know what I miss about Queenie? Everything. I even miss the

stuff that drove me nuts. Like the mind reading . . .

(he notices NEWT'S inattention)

. . . I was lucky to have someone like her even interested in anything I thought. You know what I mean?

Queenie looked at the man next to her with total love, his Jacob could think any less of himself was baffling, most men when they find out she can read minds run for the hills, and yes she knows that the mind reading does annoy him sometimes yet he still loves her.

Throughout her teenage and into adulthood men have always gawked at her, but have never taken the chance to get to know her, yet Jacob is different, even if she turned old and grey the very next day , she was confident that Jacob would still love her.

Queenie would not trade Jacob for anything in the world no quidditch star, minister or auror.

A beat.

NEWT

Sorry?

JACOB

I was saying, you're sure the guy is here that we're looking for?

NEWT

Definitely. The feather says so.

SCENE 59

INT. PARISIAN CAFÉ, BATHROOM—EVENING

A cramped and dirty bathroom. KAMA stares into the mirror, his featherless

fedora perched on the tap. Suddenly his face twitches. He raises his bandaged

hand to his eye and rubs it, shaking his head. He removes his hand and stares at

his reflection. We close in. A tiny tentacle is visible at the corner of his eye. He

whimpers in distress and gropes in his suit pocket for a small bottle of bright

green liquid, which he drops into his eye with a dropper.

Another whimper of pain as the tentacle withdraws. He looks at his reflection. It

seems normal. He puts his hat back on and leaves.

There were a few shudders at the tentacle

SCENE 60

INT. PARISIAN CAFÉ—EVENING

KAMA leaves the café. The feather points at him. NEWT lets it out and it flies to

KAMA'S hat.

JACOB

Is that the guy we're looking for?

NEWT

Yes.

NEWT and JACOB jump up to confront him.

NEWT

(to KAMA)

Er—bonjour. Bonjour, monsieur.

KAMA makes to carry on walking, ignoring NEWT.

NEWT

Oh wait, no, sorry. We were . . . we were actually just wondering if you'd come across a friend of ours?

JACOB

Tina Goldstein.

KAMA

Monsieur, Paris is a large city.

NEWT

She's an Auror. When Aurors go missing, the Ministry tend to come looking, so . . . No, now I suppose it would probably be better if we

just report her absence—

"That's very Slytherin of you mr Scamander."

Albus Dumbledore with a twinkle in his eye sends newt a wink.

KAMA

(deciding)

She is tall? Dark? Rather—

JACOB

—intense?

NEWT

—beautiful—

The females in the room awww.

Tina blushes to her roots.

Theseus playfully nudges newt.

JACOB

(hasty, off NEWT'S look)

—Yeah, what I meant to say—she's very—very pretty—

NEWT

She's intense too.

KAMA

I think I saw someone like this last night. Perhaps if I showed you where?

NEWT

If you wouldn't mind. That would be lovely.

KAMA

Sure.

"Is anyone else getting weird vibes from this."

Everyone looked to Jacob.

"No just me... okay."

SCENE 61

INT. KAMA'S HIDEOUT—EVENING

The interior of KAMA'S hideout is pitch black. The sound of water dripping. A

brief shaft of sunlight reveals TINA, sleeping lightly on the floor in her coat.

"Ha!, Knew it!"

Jacob noticing the looks he receiving quickly sinks back into his chair.

Queenie lets out a small laugh.

NEWT

Tina?

She wakes. A moment as NEWT and TINA stare at each other. Each has thought

of the other daily for a year. With no sign of KAMA, it seems she has been

rescued.

TINA

(joyful, disbelieving)

Newt!

TINA notices KAMA entering in the background and raising his wand. Her

expression changes.

KAMA

Expelliarmus!

NEWT'S wand flies out of his hand into KAMA'S. Bars form across the door,

imprisoning them.

KAMA

(through the door)

My apologies, Mr. Scamander! I shall return and release you when Credence is dead!

Credence slowly sinks in on himself, just realising the man who wants to kill him is in this very room.

Kama turns to credence

Fearing what will happen, nagini now I snake form hisses at Kama daring in to try anything.

Albus, newt, Tina, Queenie, all three Weasleys and surprisingly Leta grab there wands ready to intervene if a fight was to break out.

"Kama you will not hurt credence!" The vioce in the air was back.

Kama understanding he was outnumbered took his hand away from his wand.

TINA

Kama, wait!

KAMA

You see, either he dies . . . or I do.

Heads turned to Kama

"What do you mean."

Leta Suddenly gasps.

"An unbreakable vow."

The silence that follows confirms her statement.

The room is once again filled with an uncomfortable silence, no one knows what to say.

Even the ones who are still new to the wizarding world keep quite, subconsciously sensing that what ever an unbreakable vow is was serious.

He claps a hand to his eye.

KAMA

No, no, no, no. Oh no. No, no, no.

He jerks convulsively and slides to the floor, unconscious.

NEWT

Well, that's not the best start to a rescue attempt.

A few chuckles

TINA

This was a rescue attempt? You've just lost me my only lead.

People sends Tina looks, it's clear she likes newt so why is she being so mean.

JACOB launches for the door, trying to break it down.

NEWT

(innocent)

Well, how was the interrogation going before we turned up?

TINA throws him a dark look. She strides to the back of the cave.

People look at the pair.

Both Tina and newt stare at the screen in question.

Why are they like that ?

Pickett, who, unnoticed, has hopped out of NEWT'S pocket, successfully picks

the lock, and the bars swing open.

JACOB

Newt!

NEWT

Well done, Pick.

(to TINA)

You need this man, you say?

TINA

Yeah. I think this man knows where Credence is, Mr. Scamander.

As they bend over the unconscious KAMA, they hear an earth-shattering roar

from somewhere above them. They look at each other.

"Well, that'll be the Zouwu." Newt states.

NEWT

Well, that'll be the Zouwu.

People laugh, newt looks down in embarrassment.

He knows that they are laughing with him and not at him, yet there's still a part of him that is still weary from his school days of being teased for his love of creatures.

NEWT grabs his wand and Disapparates.

SCENE 62

EXT. PARISIAN BRIDGE—NIGHT

In the middle of the bridge is the Zouwu, terrified and lethal. It is too badly hurt

to keep running, but it is swiping at passersby, who are screaming and running

out of the way. Cars screech to a halt.

Newt looks at the injured zouwu, assessing the damage done, thankfully it's not something that can't be undone in fact he could fix that up in no time.

NEWT Apparates in the middle of the bridge, fifty yards from the Zouwu, holding

his case. A second later, TINA Apparates too, holding JACOB'S arm. JACOB is

sagging under the weight of the unconscious KAMA.

JACOB

(calls)

Newt, get out of there!

NEWT stoops down slowly and opens his case. The Zouwu snarls, crouches, and

begins to advance on NEWT.

Very slowly, so as not to alarm the Zouwu, NEWT lowers his arm into the case,

feeling for something. It takes him longer than he expected. Frowning, he

reaches deeper inside. The Zouwu advances. It bares its teeth.

Theseus once agin worrying for him brothers safety reaches out to place a hand in his arm, just to reassure himself that his brother is night next to him.

NEWT has found what he was looking for. He raises his arm. He is holding a

fluffy toy bird on a stick and rope.

Okay

Not what they had been expecting.

A beat. The Zouwu's eyes start to follow the bird.

The Zouwu's tail twitches. It crouches lower than ever. Then, with a sudden

bound, it soars through the air toward NEWT. Screams from the onlookers—

NEWT will surely be crushed—

But at the last moment he lets the bird fall into the case and the Zouwu sails after

it in a flash of rainbow color, python tail flailing and—WHAM—NEWT slams the

lid shut.

Signs of relief can be heard.

Now that creature is out of public view and probably the best place he can be.

Uproar from the crowd, sirens approaching, police cars converging on the

bridge. FLAMEL'S card flies up out of NEWT'S pocket.

Said man pats close attention to the screen.

TINA and JACOB, still carrying KAMA, run toward NEWT, and all four Disapparate.