Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

At a Red Sox night game, Ben presses Mike and Kurkjian on whether the Church story has real legs, and Mike names Barrett and Phil Saviano as new leads.

Scene 28 of 143 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Ben
Matt
Mike
Kurkjian

Act two

Begins 27 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 28

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 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
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 28
This scene

28EXT. FENWAY PARK - NIGHT

Establishing. From up above, a game in progress.

34A INT. FENWAY PARK - NIGHT

Mike and Matt sit with Ben and Steve Kurkjian at the game. A called third strike and the crowd groans.

BEN

Jesus. Has anybody but Manny gotten

the ball out of the infield?

Matt, who’s been scoring the game, checks.

MATT

Nope.

MIKE

I don’t know why you bother with

that thing.

MATT

It distracts me from the game.

KURKJIAN

Know what else is good for that?

Kurkjian holds up an empty beer cup. Matt stands.

MATT

Good idea. My round. I’ll be back.

Anybody want food?

MIKE

Hot dog.

Matt heads off. Ben grabs some peanuts, turns to Mike.

BEN

You guys making any progress?

MIKE

Absolutely. It’s a good story.

BEN

Why? Cause you’re another lapsed

Catholic pissed off at the Church?

MIKE

We’ve got some good stuff.

BEN

Like what?

Mike glances over at Kurkjian.

KURKJIAN

I’m just watching the game. Omerta.

MIKE

We got another priest, Liam Barrett.

KURKJIAN

We reported on him.

(off Mike’s look)

We did, I’m just saying.

MIKE

Okay, but the guy was shuffled from

parish to parish every few years,

just like Geoghan and Porter. I

think there’s a pattern.

Ben looks at Kurkjian, who’s not impressed.

BEN

Sounds thin. What else you got?