Graves examines the file on his desk.

NEWT: "I really couldn't say."

GRAVES: "-- with a beast. Yet one of your teachers argued strongly against your expulsion. Now, what makes Albus Dumbledore so fond of you?"

GRAVES: "To expose wizardkind. To provoke war between the magical and non-magical worlds."

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM -- DAY

GRAVES: "You were thrown out of Hogwarts for endangering human life --"

Graves holds a finger to his lips, signaling for Tina to be silent. The gesture is patronizing, but authoritative. Tina looks kowtowed -- she obeys, stepping back into the shadows.

A small, bare room, black-walled and windowless.

Tina stands behind, flanked by the two executioners.

Graves sits opposite Newt at an interrogation desk, a file open in front of him. Newt squints forward, a bright light shining into his eyes.

NEWT: "That was an accident!"

NEWT: "Why would I do it deliberately?"

TINA (stepping forward): "Mr. Graves --"

GRAVES: "So setting a pack of dangerous creatures loose here was just another accident, is that right?"

GRAVES: "You're an interesting man, Mr. Scamander."

GRAVES: "Yes. Quite."

NEWT: "Mass slaughter for the greater good, you mean?"

A tiny change of expression tells us that Newt has scored a hit. Graves is looking more menacing.

GRAVES: "I wonder what you can tell me about this, Mr. Scamander?"

NEWT: "I'm not one of Grindelwald's fanatics, Mr. Graves."

CLOSE ON TINA as she stares, disbelieving.

With a slow move of his hand, Graves raises up the Obscurus from Newt's case. He brings it onto the desk -- it is pulsing, swirling, and hissing.

Newt turns instinctively to Tina. Without fully realizing why, it is she whom he wants to convince.

NEWT: "It's an Obscurus --" (off her look) "But it's not what you think. I managed to separate it from the Sudanese girl as I tried to save her -- I wanted to take it home, to study it --" (off Tina's shock) "But it cannot survive outside that box, it could not hurt anyone, Tina!"

Graves reaches a hand toward the Obscurus -- he's utterly fascinated. At his sudden close proximity, the Obscurus swirls faster, bubbling and shrinking backward.

NEWT: "'Useless?' 'Useless?' That is a parasitical magical force that killed a child. What on earth would you use it for?"

GRAVES: "So it's useless without the host?"

Newt, anger finally boiling within him, stares at Graves. Tina, reacting to the atmosphere, also looks to Graves -- concern and trepidation written across her face.

Graves realizes his mistake. He stands, brushing off the questions, turning the blame back onto Newt.

GRAVES: "You fool nobody, Mr. Scamander. You brought this Obscurus into the city of New York in the hope of causing mass disruption -- breaking the Statute of Secrecy and revealing the magical world --"

NEWT: "You know that can't hurt anyone, you know that!"

GRAVES: "-- you are therefore guilty of a treasonous betrayal of your fellow wizards and are sentenced to death. Miss Goldstein, who has aided and abetted you --"

GRAVES: "-- she receives the same sentence."

The two executioners step forward. They calmly, intrusively, press the tips of their wands into Newt's and Tina's necks.

NEWT: "No, she's done nothing of the kind --"

Tina is so overcome with shock and fear that she can barely speak.

NEWT: "Tina."

GRAVES (to the executioners): "Just do it immediately. I will inform President Picquery myself."

GRAVES: "Shh." (waving to the executioners) "Please."

Graves again places a finger to his lips.