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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 15 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · First scene of act two
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.
Robby's Spotlight team operates comfortably inside its own routine, prospecting a modest police-corruption story under a departing editor's cover.
Baron's outsider question exposes what the paper has never done: investigate whether Cardinal Law knowingly protected an abusive priest.
Ben and Robby digest Marty's gutsy first-day call to sue the Church, and Ben reveals Baron wants to meet with them both.
Marty tells Ben and Robby he wants Spotlight to drop its current story and dig into whether Cardinal Law knew about Geoghan.
Robby relays Baron's ask to the team; they debate dropping the PD-numbers story, and Robby assigns Mike to Garabedian and Sacha/Matt to MacLeish and the Porter case.
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The quiet street dips down, disappearing into the harbour. Sacha and Hansi get out of their car, cross the street.