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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 43 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.
Alone in his car, Marty unwraps Law's parting gift to find a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as Phil Saviano arrives at the Globe lobby carrying a box of files.
Phil Saviano tells the Spotlight team about surviving abuse by Father Holley, describes grooming and church cover-ups, and claims thirteen abusive priests in Boston that he'd reported to the Globe years earlier and was ignored.
Mike falls in step with Garabedian on State Street, pressing him again to let him interview victims.
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A shitty lobby, Mike follows Mitch in, continues --
MIKE
I get that but I don’t need to name
names, Mitch.
GARABEDIAN
I don’t believe you, Mr. Rezendes.
Mitch walks to the elevator, presses the button.
MIKE
Yeah, I’m sure you don’t.
GARABEDIAN
I don’t.
The elevator opens. Mitch walks on. Mike follows him into --