Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

The young cop watches the Bishop drive Geoghan away from the station in a town car, processing what he's just seen swept under.

Scene 3 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Act two

Begins 2 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 3

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.

Just before
Scene 1
Assistant DA Burke arrives at a 1976 Boston police station to quietly handle Father Geoghan's arrest, telling the desk cop to keep the press away.
Scene 2
A Bishop assures Sheila, mother of the two boys Geoghan molested, that he will pull Father from the parish and this will never happen again.
Scene 3
This scene

3EXT. POLICE STATION - LATER

The Young Cop stands outside smoking. He watches as the Bishop and Father Geoghan exit the police station and get into a TOWN CAR, a DRIVER behind the wheel. As they drive away, we HOLD ON the cop. PROCESSING.

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SPOTLIGHT

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