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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 29 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.
An intern wheels a cart of library clip files down the hall to the Spotlight office.
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.
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.
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JIM SULLIVAN, 50s, lines up a tee shot. Smacks it. ROBBY and TWO OTHER GOLFERS watch as Jim talks to his ball...
JIM
Stay away from that trap.
ROBBY
You couldn’t reach that trap in a
million years, partner.
One of the other golfers (PAUL) tees up his ball.
JIM
I’ve reached that trap before.
ROBBY
Yeah. Now Paul, maybe.
The group laughs.