Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Robby tells Mike that Baron and Ben want him to drop Saviano as a dead end, but Robby decides they should bring Saviano in anyway.

Scene 37 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Mike
Robby

Act two

Begins 33 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 37

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.

Scenes 4–10
Robby's Spotlight team operates comfortably inside its own routine, prospecting a modest police-corruption story under a departing editor's cover.
Scenes 11–14
Baron's outsider question exposes what the paper has never done: investigate whether Cardinal Law knowingly protected an abusive priest.
Scenes 15–24
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.
Just before
Scene 34
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.
Scene 35
Mike walks through the nearly empty Sunday newsroom.
Scene 36
Mike grabs his gym bag in the Spotlight office and notices Robby working at his desk on a weekend.
Scene 37
This scene

37INT. GLOBE, ROBBY’S OFFICE - MOMENTS LATER

Robby’s looking over some of the clips Matt pulled.

MIKE

Hey. Shouldn’t you be golfing?

Robby looks up. Mike’s in the door, towel around his neck.

ROBBY

Golfing’s not a verb. And I

couldn’t get a tee time today.

MIKE

Is that what they call it? A tee

time?

ROBBY

They also call it a leisure

activity. You should try it, Mike.

MIKE

I run.

ROBBY

You run to work.

Mike shrugs, true. He eyes the clips on Robby’s desk.

MIKE

So what are you doing here today?

ROBBY

Looking at clips. On Saviano.

MIKE

Ben and Steve think he’s a dead end.

They gave me a bunch of crap about

it at the game.

ROBBY

Yeah, Ben emailed me.

MIKE

He did?

ROBBY

Yeah. He said we should let it go.

MIKE

What do you wanna do?

ROBBY

Bring Saviano in.

MIKE

So just ignore those guys?

ROBBY

I think we have to start ignoring

everybody on this one.

MIKE

I’m good with that.

(then)

You think Baron has any idea what’s

coming down the Pike?

ROBBY

No. I don’t think he cares either.

MIKE

That’s refreshing.

ROBBY

Yeah. Unless he’s wrong.

Mike registers this.