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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 33 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.
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.
Matt shepherds his family, dressed for church, out to the minivan on a Sunday morning.
This scene
Sunday mass. Full house. A PRIEST mid homily. In back, FIND Sacha, her husband, HANSI, and her GRANDMOTHER.
PRIEST
Now as a priest, I admit, this makes
me a little nervous. Should I be
worried about job security?
Sacha watches her grandmother laugh with the congregation.