Newt rushes to try to save Credence before he is destroyed by his own Obscurus.Ĭlimactic Moment: The story’s scattered throughlines reveal themselves in its scattered Climactic Moments. He sees the problem and rushes to try to help, but it isn’t a personal battle in any sense.Ĭlimax: MACUSA shows up to kill Credence before he can reveal their presence to the No-Mag world. He loses control, turns back into the Obscurus, and begins wreaking havoc on the city.Īlthough a fine Third Plot Point for the external plot, this fails to have much of anything to do directly with Newt. Credence, feeling betrayed by Graves (who promised to teach him magic, only to reveal he believes Credence is a squib-or magic-less). Third Plot Point: Graves seeks out the Obscurus, only to discover it is really a teenage boy named Credence. Again, this scene has little to do with the external conflict-which gets its own pinch when the prejudiced leader of the anti-magic “New Salemer” movement is murdered by the Obscurus, which appears to reside in her adopted daughter. Second Pinch Point: Newt, Jacob, Tina, and Queenie track down the last of his missing creatures-a huge snake-like occamy. Just as Tina is about to be executed, they escape with Queenie’s help. While in prison, Newt reveals he knows what the dark force is-an Obscurus, resulting from a child’s suppressed magic. He sentences all three of them to execution. Midpoint: Tina snags Newt’s case while he and Jacob are inside and delivers them to MACUSA, only to have Graves decide the dark force must be one of Newt’s creatures. the Obscurus) with that of its protagonist, Newt, and his quest to find his escaped animals. Of all the structural beats here, the pinch points are notably weak and reveal the overall lack of a solid throughline harmonizing the story’s external conflict (MACUSA vs. Meanwhile, the dark magical force kills a senatorial hopeful-the son of a powerful newspaper magnate.

He learns which of his animals escaped previously, during the disturbance that got him arrested, and he introduces Jacob to Frank-the thunderbird whom Newt has come to American to return to its home in Arizona.įirst Pinch Point: Newt and Jacob chase through Central Park after his lost animals, barely capturing a particularly dangerous erumpent. As a result, he is released by Graves and the head of MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States), who have bigger fish to fry, thanks to strange magical disturbance that is destroying buildings in New York City.įirst Plot Point: While spending the night at the apartment of Tina and her sister Queenie, Newt shows Jacob the inside of his case-which is a huge zoo, containing dozens of fantastic beasts. Inciting Event: When Newt is arrested by disgraced investigative officer Tina, his magical case is accidentally exchanged for the case full of donuts, belonging to the “No-Mag” Jacob Kowalski.

Fantastic beast and to find them