TINA: "I'm not supposed to go near the Second Salemers!"

TINA: "What was that?"

NEWT: "So why would you be finished? I'm the one that's --"

CLOSE ON A BILLYWIG -- a small blue creature with helicopter-like wings on its head -- flying high above the street.

The Billywig zooms over their heads. Newt spins, horrified, watching it.

EXT. BUSY STREET ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE -- AFTERNOON

Tina and Newt walk along the street, Tina carrying the case.

NEWT: "Er -- moth, I think. Big moth."

Tina finds this explanation dubious. They round a corner to find a crowd gathered in front of a crumbling building. People are shouting, others are hurriedly evacuating the building. A policeman is standing at the center of the crowd, being harassed by disgruntled tenement dwellers.

JUMP CUT TO: Newt and Tina move around the outskirts of the crowd. At the back, a tipsy hobo is trying to attract the policeman's attention.

TINA (on the verge of tears): "I can't believe you didn't Obliviate that man! If there's an inquiry, I'm finished!"

The others in the crowd around him agree.

Tina is looking up at the ruined building, and misses Newt sliding his wand from his sleeve and pointing it at the hobo.

POLICEMAN: "Hey… Hey -- quiet down -- I'm trying to get a statement…"

HOUSEWIFE: "… I'm telling you it's a gas explosion again, I ain't taking the kids back up there until it's safe."

POLICEMAN: "Sorry, ma'am -- There ain't no smell of gas."

HOBO (drunk): "It warn't gas -- hey, Officer, I seen it!-- it wuzza -- a gigantic -- a huge hippopotto --"

HOBO: "-- gas. It was gas."

CROWD: "Gas… It was gas!"

Tina again catches sight of the Billywig. Taking advantage of this distraction, Newt runs up the metal steps and inside the ruined tenement building.