Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Sifting the clips, Matt spots a second abusive priest, Liam Barrett, whose transfers mirror Geoghan's pattern, and notes Jim Sullivan's name on the case.

Scene 27 of 143 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Wanda
Matt
Sacha
Robby

Act two

Begins 25 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 27

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.
Scenes 15–24
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.
Just before
Scene 24
Garabedian brushes off Mike's questions about Geoghan, refuses to be recorded, and reluctantly agrees to think about letting Mike talk to victims.
Scene 25
The Globe library pulls old newspaper clips and archival materials on the Porter and Geoghan cases for the Spotlight team.
Scene 26
An intern wheels a cart of library clip files down the hall to the Spotlight office.
Scene 27
This scene

27INT. GLOBE, SPOTLIGHT OFFICE - LATER

A desk covered with old newspaper clips, Matt and Sacha read. A knock... Wanda in the door. With the metal cart.

WANDA

I got more clips from the library.

MATT

Leave ‘em right there.

Wanda the intern unloads them beside Matt’s desk.

WANDA

You guys doing a story on the

Church?

MATT

No. We are not doing a story on the

Church.

Wanda blanches, leaves. Robby pours some coffee.

SACHA

Matt, you find anything on this guy

Phil Saviano?

MATT

No. Who is he?

SACHA

He’s part of a victims’

organization. Kurkjian ran a story

on him just after the Porter case.

ROBBY

There’s a victims’ organization?

SACHA

Yeah, it’s called SNAP, Survivors

Network of those Abused by Priests.

MATT

Crummy acronym.

SACHA

You want me to track him down?

ROBBY

Yeah. Bring him in. How much longer

do you need to get through the

clips?

SACHA

A few days. There’s a lot and

Lisa’s still sending stuff up. Most

of it is on Porter.

MATT

Hey guys... I think I got another

priest.

Robby and Sacha turn. Matt stares down at a clip.

MATT (CONT’D)

Liam Barrett. Molested some kids in

Philly then was moved to Boston, did

the same thing then was moved again.

SACHA

Really? Sounds like Geoghan.

ROBBY

Is that one of our clips?