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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 17 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · 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.
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.
Sacha and her husband Hansi arrive at her grandmother's house in Southie for dinner.
Over dinner, Sacha's grandmother describes an upcoming church bus trip, oblivious to what her granddaughter is about to investigate.
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Hansi and Sacha wash dishes. They talk quietly.
HANSI
You gonna tell her?
SACHA
We don’t even know if there’s a
story yet.
HANSI
“Globe sues church?” There’s gonna
be a story.
Sacha continues rinsing, glances at the small, porcelain Virgin Mary on the window sill above the sink.