Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

A Bishop assures Sheila, mother of the two boys Geoghan molested, that he will pull Father from the parish and this will never happen again.

Scene 2 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Bishop
Burke

Act two

Begins 1 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 2

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.

Just before
Scene 1
Assistant DA Burke arrives at a 1976 Boston police station to quietly handle Father Geoghan's arrest, telling the desk cop to keep the press away.
Scene 2
This scene

2INT. POLICE STATION, INTERVIEW ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

A BISHOP, 50s, talks in hushed tones with SHEILA, 33. TWO BOYS, 7 and 9, sit coloring.

BISHOP

Sheila, you know what good work the

church does in the community. I

give you my personal guarantee that

I’m going to take Father out of the

parish and this will never happen

again.

Burke enters, eyes Sheila nervously fingering ROSARY BEADS.

BISHOP (CONT’D)

We’ll just be another moment, Paul.

BURKE

Of course, Father.

The Bishop turns back to Sheila. Burke eyes the kids.

BISHOP (O.C.)

Now Sheila, I’m going to give you my

personal card...