Summary

In a prologue, visual narration reveals the growing menace of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. The final image of the Prologue includes the Statue of Liberty …

… which is the first image as the screenplay begins, the Statue in the background as a passenger ship arrives in New York in the mid-1920’s. On the boat is wizard Newt Scamander, who carries a battered brown suitcase. As he passes through Customs, Scamander magically transforms the case into something that will appear as fully “normal” to those who cannot use magic. Narration reveals that among the items the Customs Inspector sees when he looks into the suitcase: a scarf that indicates Scamander was in Hufflepuff House when he was at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Customs Agent lets him through.

The confident and powerful Percival Graves appears at the site of a mysterious...