Carmen Ejogo: Seraphina Picquery
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Seraphina Picquery : He was responsible for the death of a No-Maj. He risked the exposure of our community. He has broken one of our most sacred laws...
Percival Graves : A law that has us scuttling like rats in the gutter! A law that demands we conceal our true nature! A law that directs those under its dominion to cower in fear lest we risk discovery! I ask you, Madam President, I ask all of you... Who does this law protect? Us? Or them?
[smiles bitterly]
Percival Graves : I refuse to bow down any longer.
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Porpentina Goldstein : Madam President, I'm sorry to interrupt, but this is critical...
[looks around to all the people in the room]
Seraphina Picquery : You better have an excellent excuse for this intrusion, Ms. Goldstein.
Porpentina Goldstein : Yes. I do. Ma'am, yesterday a wizard entered New York with a case, this case, full of magical creatures. And, unfortunately, some have escaped.
Seraphina Picquery : He arrived yesterday?
[Tina nods]
Seraphina Picquery : You've known for twenty-four hours that an unregistered wizard set magical beasts loose in New York, and you see fit to tell us only when a man has been killed?
Porpentina Goldstein : Who's been killed?
Seraphina Picquery : Where is this man?
[Tina sets the case down, unlatches it and then knocks]
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Grindelwald : [mockingly] Do you think you can hold *me*?
Seraphina Picquery : We'll do our best, Mr. Grindelwald.
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Percival Graves : [after Credence and his Obscurus has been seemingly killed by President Picquery and other Aurors] Credence. You fools. Do you realize what you've done?
Seraphina Picquery : The Obscurial was killed on my orders, Mr. Graves.
Percival Graves : Yes. And history will surely note that, Madam President. What was done here tonight was not right.
Seraphina Picquery : He was responsible for the death of a No-Maj. He risked the exposure of our community. He has broken one of our most sacred laws...
Percival Graves : A law that has us scuttling like rats in the gutter. A law that demands that we conceal our true nature. A law that directs those under its dominion to cower in fear, lest we risk discovery. I ask you, Madam President. I ask all of you... who does this law protect? Us?
[gesturing above to represent the No-Majs]
Percival Graves : Or them? I refuse to bow down any longer.
[attempts to leave]
Seraphina Picquery : Aurors, I'd like you to relieve Mr. Graves of his wand, and escort him back...
[a shield goes up in front of Graves, making him unable to leave]
Seraphina Picquery : [Graves uses his magic to disable the shield and block and cast spells at Aurors; though outnumbered, he takes them out one by one]
[Newt sends out his Swooping Evil, which manages to subdue Graves and hold him hostage]
Porpentina Goldstein : Accio!
[Graves's wand comes to her]
Newt Scamander : [points his wand at Graves] Revelio.
[slowly, Graves's face transforms into Gellert Grindelwald's, proving he is actually Grindelwald in disguise]
Grindelwald : [as Picquery approaches him] Do you think you can hold me?
Seraphina Picquery : We'll do our best, Mr. Grindelwald.
Grindelwald : [as he's being escorted out by Aurors; to Newt] Will we die, just a little?
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Seraphina Picquery : I will not be lectured by the man who let Gellert Grindelwald slip through his fingers.
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Seraphina Picquery : I made your position here quite clear, Ms. Goldestein.
Porpentina Goldstein : Yes, Madam President. But I...
Seraphina Picquery : You're no longer an Auror.
Porpentina Goldstein : No, Madam President, but...
Seraphina Picquery : Goldstein.
Porpentina Goldstein : There's been a minor...
Seraphina Picquery : This office is currently concerned with very major incidents. Get out.
Porpentina Goldstein : Yes, ma'am.
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Newt Scamander : Merlin's beard.
Madam Ya Zhou : You know which of your creatures was responsible, Mr. Scamander?
Newt Scamander : No creature did this. Don't pretend. You must know what that was. Look at the marks. That was an Obscurus.
Seraphina Picquery : You go too far, Mr. Scamander. There is no Obscurial in America. Impound that case, Graves.
Newt Scamander : [Graves summons his case] Wait, no. Give that back.
Seraphina Picquery : Arrest them.
Newt Scamander : [he, Tina, and Jacob are magically restrained] Don't hurt those creatures. Please. You don't understand. Nothing in there's dangerous. Nothing.
Seraphina Picquery : We'll be the judges of that. Take them to the cells.
Newt Scamander : [being taken away] Don't hurt those creatures. There's no... nothing in there is dangerous. Please don't hurt my creatures. They aren't dangerous! P-Please! They're not dangerous! They're not dangerous!
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Seraphina Picquery : [with a copy of the New York Ghost] The International Confederation is threatening to send a delegation. They think that this is related to Grindelwald's attacks in Europe.
Percival Graves : I was there. This is a beast. No human could do what this thing is capable of, Madam President.
Seraphina Picquery : Whatever it is, one thing is clear: it must be stopped. It's terrorizing No-Majs. And when No-Majs are afraid, they attack. This could mean exposure. It could mean war.
