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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 35 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.
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.
Marty eats breakfast alone in a diner across from the church, watching the congregation from a distance, as Mike separately runs along the Dorchester waterfront.
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Mike walks through the mostly empty newsroom.