Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Ben and Robby digest Marty's gutsy first-day call to sue the Church, and Ben reveals Baron wants to meet with them both.

Scene 12 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Robby
Ben
Mike

Act two

Begins 13 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 12

The Boston Globe's Spotlight team pries open the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up of child abuse — one sealed record, one silenced victim at a time.

Scenes 4–10
Robby's Spotlight team operates comfortably inside its own routine, prospecting a modest police-corruption story under a departing editor's cover.
Just before
Scene 9
Marty sits mostly silent through his first 10:30 editors' meeting while Helen Donovan runs introductions around the table.
Scene 10
Mike needles veteran reporter Kurkjian about why Eileen McNamara is in the editors' meeting, and gets brushed off.
Scene 11
Marty asks about Eileen McNamara's Geoghan column and proposes suing the Church to unseal Garabedian's documents, stunning the room.
Scene 12
This scene

12INT. GLOBE, BEN’S OFFICE - LATER

Ben and Robby walk into Ben’s office.

ROBBY

Gutsy call for the first day.

BEN

That’s one word for it.

ROBBY

How do you think it’s gonna play

down front?

BEN

I think Gilman’s gonna shit a brick.

Knock. Knock. Mike’s at the door.

MIKE

Hey.

BEN

Door.

Mike shuts the door, looks at Robby.

MIKE

How’d it go?

ROBBY

Baron wants to sue for the sealed

docs in the Geoghan case.

MIKE

He wants to sue the church? That’s

great.

BEN

We covered Geoghan when the story

broke three years ago. Baron was

still in Miami.

ROBBY

(needling Ben)

I think he was at the Times then.

BEN

He wasn’t here.

MIKE

You think the suit has a chance?

ROBBY

Depends on the judge.

BEN

And what parish he belongs to.

Ben’s phone RINGS. Ben picks it up.

BEN (CONT’D)

Bradlee. Yeah. Okay.

(hanging up, to Robby)

Baron wants to talk to us.

ROBBY

Us?

Off Robby, surprised --