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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 31 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.
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.
On the first tee at Wollaston, Jim Sullivan and Robby needle each other over golf while their foursome looks on.
Walking the fairway, Jim probes Robby about new editor Marty Baron, then goes cold when Robby raises Father Barrett and the sealed lawsuit.
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Robby gets in. She pulls off.
BARBARA
How’d you play?
ROBBY
Not too bad. Shoulda left my putter
at home.
BARBARA
How’s Jimmy?
ROBBY
Good. He brought up the suit.
BARBARA
Really? What’d he say?
ROBBY
He was thrilled about it.
BARBARA
It’s not a surprise, Robby. The
Church does a lot a good in this
town.
Robby nods, but something about that doesn’t sit right.