Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Marty tells Ben and Robby he wants Spotlight to drop its current story and dig into whether Cardinal Law knew about Geoghan.

Scene 13 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Marty
Ben
Robby

Act two

Begins 14 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 13

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 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
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 13
This scene

13INT. GLOBE, MARTY’S OFFICE - MOMENTS LATER

Ben and Robby enter. Marty’s on the phone.

MARTY (INTO PHONE)

Okay, thank you. Yes. Okay, thanks.

Marty hangs up as they sit.

MARTY (CONT’D)

I set up a meeting for tomorrow with

outside counsel...

BEN

Jon Albano?

MARTY

Yeah.

BEN

Who’s the Judge on this case?

MARTY

Uh, Constance Sweeney.

BEN

Tough.

MARTY

Why’s that?

BEN

Good Catholic girl.

Marty pushes on.

MARTY

Judging from what I’ve read, it

doesn’t seem like we’ve done a

thorough investigation of the

Geoghan case. Is that right?

BEN

No it’s not. We looked hard at

Geoghan. David Armstrong for Metro

and Michael Paulson for Religion.

Marty isn’t impressed.

MARTY

Okay, but, uh, just so I understand,

beyond our daily coverage, we

haven’t committed any long term

investigative resources to the

question of whether or not Cardinal

Law knew about this?

BEN

No, we haven’t.

MARTY

(to Robby)

And that’s the kind of thing your

team does?

ROBBY

Spotlight? Well, yeah, but we’re

still prospecting the Boston PD

story I told you about.

MARTY

Could you set it aside?

ROBBY

We could.

BEN

Marty, in the past, Spotlight has