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GRINDELWALD onstage.
    GRINDELWALD
    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 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
    Your anger—your desire for revenge—is natural.
    And it happens. She raises her wand, but the YOUNG AUROR curses first. To the horror of her companions, she falls, dead.
    GRINDELWALD
    No!
    Screams fill the auditorium. GRINDELWALD ascends into the crowd, which parts for him. He kneels and pulls the YOUNG RED-HAIRED WITCH’S limp body into his
arms.
    GRINDELWALD
    (to her friends)
    Take this young warrior back to her family.
    The Niffler, unnoticed, wriggles out from beneath GRINDELWALD’S boot and disappears into the crowd.
    GRINDELWALD
    Disapparate. Leave. Go forth from this place and spread the word: It is not we who are violent.
    They take the body and Disapparate, as does most of the crowd. THESEUS and the AURORS watch the purebloods leave. THESEUS ushers his AURORS forward.
    THESEUS
    (looking at GRINDELWALD)
    Let’s take him.
    They start to descend the amphitheater steps. GRINDELWALD turns his back on the advancing AURORS, relishing the fight to come.
    GRINDELWALD
    Protego diabolica.
    He spins and draws a protective circle of black fire around himself. The exits close.
    ABERNATHY, CARROW, KRAFFT, MACDUFF, NAGEL, and ROSIER walk through the flames into the circle.
    ANGLE ON KRALL, hesitating.
    Then he decides the circle is the better