Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Marty tells Publisher Richard Gilman he intends to sue the Church to unseal the Geoghan documents, over Gilman's warning about the paper's Catholic subscriber base.

Scene 19 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Gilman
Marty
Matt
Lisa

Act two

Begins 18 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 19

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.
Scene 15
Sacha's grandmother and her weekly Mass become the story's throughline for what belief costs the people closest to the reporters.
Just before
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
Marty gets lost trying to find the Publisher's office in the Globe's unfamiliar executive wing.
Scene 19
This scene

19INT. GLOBE, PUBLISHER’S OFFICE - DAY

RICHARD GILMAN, 50s, Brooks Brothers suit, finishes a call. Marty is sitting on a couch in large, plush office opposite.

GILMAN (INTO PHONE)

Thanks, Tom. Will do.

(hangs up, to Marty)

How are you, Marty? Settling in?

MARTY

Yes, I think so.

GILMAN

Good. What can I do for you?

MARTY

I’d like to challenge the protective

order in the Geoghan case.

GILMAN

You want to sue the Catholic Church?

MARTY

We’re just filing a motion. But yes.

GILMAN

You think it’s that important?

MARTY

Yes. I do.

GILMAN

Because, obviously, the Church will

fight us very hard on this. Which

won’t go unnoticed by our subscriber

base. 53% of them are Catholic.

MARTY

Uh, I think they’ll be interested.

Gilman considers for a long moment, looks unsettled.

GILMAN

Okay.

Marty nods, gets up to go.

GILMAN (CONT’D)

Marty? Lake Street will probably

contact you about a face to face

with the Cardinal. It’s customary.

MARTY

They already have. It’s set up for

next week.

GILMAN

I wouldn’t mention this.

24A INT. GLOBE - DAY

Matt walks down a row of cubicles, disappears down a spiral staircase.

24B INT. BOSTON GLOBE LIBRARY - CONTINUOUS

Matt descends the staircase and arrives at the front desk.

MATT

Hey Lisa. Could you pull all the

relevant clips on that for me?