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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 26 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.
The team sets aside its own project and enters unfamiliar territory: survivor networks, a hostile plaintiff's lawyer, and a legal fight to unseal church records.
Mike watches a yelling match end behind Garabedian's door before pushing his way into the lawyer's conference room.
Garabedian brushes off Mike's questions about Geoghan, refuses to be recorded, and reluctantly agrees to think about letting Mike talk to victims.
The Globe library pulls old newspaper clips and archival materials on the Porter and Geoghan cases for the Spotlight team.
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CLOSE ON the same file. Moving.
REVEAL the folder is now one of many on a METAL CART that an intern (WANDA) wheels down the hall.