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CUSTOMS OFFICIAL (O.S.)

Next.

NEWT stands at the Customs – a long row of desks by the shipyard, manned by serious-looking American officials. A CUSTOMS OFFICIAL examines NEWT’S very tattered British passport.

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

British, huh?

NEWT

Yes.

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

First trip to New York?

NEWT

Yes.

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

(gesturing to NEWT’S case)

Anything edible in there?

NEWT

(placing a hand over his breast pocket)

No.

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

Livestock?

The catch on NEWT’S case flicks open again. NEWT looks down and hastily closes it.

NEWT

Must get that fixed – ah, no.

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

(suspicious)

Let me take a look.

NEWT places the case on the desk between them and discreetly flicks a brass dial to ‘Muggleworthy’.

The CUSTOMS OFFICIAL spins the case towards him and pops the catches, lifting the lid to reveal pyjamas, various maps, a journal, an alarm clock, a magnifying glass and a Hufflepuff scarf. Finally satisfied, he closes the case.

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

Welcome to New York.

NEWT

Thank you.

NEWT gathers his passport and case.

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

Next!

NEWT exits through Customs.

EXT. STREET NEAR CITY HALL SUBWAY – DUSK

A long street of identical brownstone houses, one of which has been reduced to rubble. A gaggle of reporters and photographers mills around in the vague hope of something happening, but without much enthusiasm. One REPORTER is interviewing an excitable middle-aged man as they move through the rubble.

WITNESS

– and it was like a – like a wind or like a – like a ghost – but dark – and I saw its eyes – shinin’ white eyes—

REPORTER

(expressionless – notebook in his hand)

– a dark wind – with eyes.

WITNESS

– like a dark mass, and it dove down there, down underground – I swear to God… into the earth right in front of me.

CLOSE ON PERCIVAL GRAVES as he walks towards the destroyed building.

GRAVES: smart clothing, very handsome, early middle-age, his demeanour differs from those around him. He is watchful, tightly coiled, an air of intense confidence.

PHOTOGRAPHER