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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 23 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.
Sacha's grandmother and her weekly Mass become the story's throughline for what belief costs the people closest to the reporters.
Mike arrives at Mitchell Garabedian's cluttered office and waits while the lawyer yells behind a closed door.
Robby and Sacha cross the marble lobby of One International Place to meet attorney Eric MacLeish, a contrast to Garabedian's shabby office.
MacLeish tells Robby and Sacha that Garabedian's claims against Cardinal Law are likely bluster to leverage a settlement, since victims rarely want to go public.
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Mike, still waiting, checks his watch. He hears more YELLING behind the door. Suddenly the door opens. A SHORT MAN exits.
Mike looks at the paralegal, points: “Is that him?” She shakes her head, walks off screen. Mike watches her go. Then, impatient, he stands, walks into --