Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Marty gets lost trying to find the Publisher's office in the Globe's unfamiliar executive wing.

Scene 18 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Marty

Act two

Begins 17 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 18

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.
Scenes 11–14
Baron's outsider question exposes what the paper has never done: investigate whether Cardinal Law knowingly protected an abusive priest.
Just before
Scene 15
Sacha and her husband Hansi arrive at her grandmother's house in Southie for dinner.
Scene 16
Over dinner, Sacha's grandmother describes an upcoming church bus trip, oblivious to what her granddaughter is about to investigate.
Scene 17
Washing dishes, Hansi asks if Sacha will tell her grandmother about the looming Church story; Sacha isn't sure there's a story yet.
Scene 18
This scene

18INT. GLOBE, LARGE PUBLISHER’S FOYER - DAY

Marty ascends a large, open air staircase in the upscale business side of the building. He steps off, heads down the hall then stops, looks around. Lost in his own building.

A YOUNG EMPLOYEE walks past.

MARTY

Excuse me, do you know where the

Publisher’s office is?

The employee points. Marty heads that direction.