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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 32 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.
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.
In the car after golf, Robby tells his wife Barbara that Jim Sullivan seemed thrilled about the Church lawsuit, and it doesn't sit right with him.
This scene
Matt, in coat and tie, shepherds his family out the door and into a minivan. His wife and daughter wear DRESSES, his sons are in BLUE BLAZERS and KHAKIS -- clearly en route to church.
PRIEST (PRELAP)
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