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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 34 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.
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.
Sacha sits through Sunday mass with her grandmother and Hansi as a priest jokes about job security in the internet age.
This scene
CONGREGANTS milling outside a church.
PRIEST (O.C.)
I don’t think so. You see knowledge
is one thing. But faith is another.
FIND Marty, sitting in a diner across the street, eating breakfast and reading. He glances at the church.
42A EXT. OLD HARBOR, DORCHESTER - DAY
Mike, in running gear, runs along the water.
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