The doors open onto a cramped, airless, windowless basement room. A painful contrast to the floor above. Clearly the place where utter no-hopers work.

INT. BASEMENT -- DAY

Tina leads Newt past a hundred typewriters clacking away unmanned with a tangle of glass pipes hanging down from the ceiling above them.

Tina walks toward a dingy corner of the room. A sign: WAND PERMIT OFFICE.

As each memo or form is completed by a typewriter, it folds itself into an origami rat, which scurries up the appropriate tube to the offices above. Two rats collide and fight, tearing each other apart.

Newt ducks under it.

The elevator descends rapidly through the long elevator shaft.