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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 45 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.
Mike falls in step with Garabedian on State Street, pressing him again to let him interview victims.
Garabedian rebuffs Mike in the lobby of his building, insisting his clients don't want press exposure.
In the elevator, Mike reveals he's digging for Spotlight, not a profile, and Garabedian agrees to let him meet a victim the next morning.
This scene
A small, bohemian cafe, mostly men. JOE CROWLEY, 42, heavy, boyish face, sits alone WATCHING the door. NERVOUS as shit. The door opens. Sacha walks in, pauses, looking around...
JOE CROWLEY
Ms. Pfeiffer?
SACHA
Joe?
He stands, almost knocking over his coffee. He starts to straighten the messy table, clean the crumbs all over it.
JOE CROWLEY SACHA
Shoot. Sorry. No, that’s okay, no problem.
JOE CROWLEY
Uh... please sit. Is this table
okay? I had a muffin while I was
waiting. Two actually. I eat when
I’m nervous.
SACHA
I do that too.
(then)
I hope I’m not late. Phil said one.
JOE CROWLEY
No, you’re fine. I got here early.
About an hour.
SACHA
Would you mind if I took some of
notes? Would that be alright?