style="font-size:15px;"> ANGLE ON NEWT, who hears the coins and turns to see small paws hastily gathering them up.
ANGLE ON the Niffler sitting under the bench looking fat and smug. Not yet satisfied, its attention is caught by the shiny tag hanging around the neck of a small dog. The Niffler moves slowly, cheekily, forwards – little paw outstretched to grab the tag. The dog snarls and barks.
NEWT starts forwards and dives under the bench – the Niffler runs, scuttling over the bank counter screens and out of NEWT’S reach.
SCENE 11
JACOB opens his case with great pride. Inside is displayed a selection of his home-made pastries.
JACOB (O.S.)
All right.
BINGLEY
Mr Kowalski—
JACOB
– you gotta try the paczki, okay, it’s my grandmother’s recipe, the orange zest – just—
JACOB holds out a paczki. BINGLEY is not distracted.
BINGLEY
Mr Kowalski, what do you propose to offer the bank as collateral?
JACOB
Collateral?
BINGLEY
Collateral.
JACOB gestures hopefully towards his pastries.
BINGLEY
There are machines now that can produce hundreds of doughnuts an hour—
JACOB
I know, I know, but they’re nothing like what I can do—
BINGLEY
The bank must be protected, Mr Kowalski. Good day to you.
BINGLEY dismissively rings a bell on his desk.
SCENE 12
The Niffler sits on a trolley covered in money bags, which it greedily empties into its pouch. As NEWT watches through the security bars, aghast, a guard pushes the trolley away down a corridor.
SCENE 13
JACOB, downcast, exits BINGLEY’S office. His bulging pocket vibrates. Alarmed, he pulls out the egg and looks around.
ANGLE ON the Niffler, still sitting on the trolley, which is now being pushed into an elevator.
ANGLE ON JACOB, who sees NEWT in the distance.
JACOB
Hey, Mr English guy! I think your egg is hatching.
NEWT looks hurriedly between JACOB and the shutting elevator doors before making a decision: he points his wand at JACOB. JACOB and the egg are pulled magically across the bank atrium towards NEWT. In a split second, they Disapparate.
TINA stares, incredulous, from behind a pillar.
SCENE 14
NEWT and JACOB Apparate into a narrow stairwell leading to the bank’s vaults, suddenly past the tellers and security guards.
NEWT gently takes the egg back from JACOB as it hatches, revealing a small blue, snake-like bird – an Occamy. NEWT, his face full of wonder, looks to JACOB as though expecting a similar reaction from him.
Slowly, NEWT carries the baby creature down the stairs.
JACOB
Excuse me.
JACOB, very confused, looks back up the stairs towards the main bank atrium. On seeing BINGLEY approaching, he ducks down the stairs, out of sight.
JACOB
(to himself)
I was – over there. I was – over there?
SCENE 15
JACOB’S POV: NEWT is crouched down, opening his case. He carefully places the hatched Occamy inside, whispering tenderly:
NEWT
In you hop.
JACOB (O.S.)
Hello?
NEWT
No. Everyone settle down – stay. Dougal, don’t make me come in there.
JACOB moves along the corridor, staring at NEWT.
We see a strange green creature, part stick insect, part plant, poke its head out of NEWT’S breast pocket, intrigued. This is PICKETT, a Bowtruckle.
NEWT
Don’t make me come down there.
NEWT looks up to see the Niffler squeezing itself through locked doors, into the central vault.
NEWT
Absolutely not!
NEWT takes out his wand and points it at the vault.
NEWT
Alohomora.
We watch the locks and cogs of the vault door turn.
BINGLEY comes round the corner, just as the vault door starts to open.
BINGLEY
(to JACOB)
Oh,
