Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

In Garabedian's conference room, Mike interviews victim Patrick McSorley, who describes Geoghan targeting him after his father's suicide and his mother's breakdown.

Scene 46 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Mike
Patrick Mcsorely
Garabedian
Patrick Mcsorley

Act two

Begins 43 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 46

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 43
Garabedian rebuffs Mike in the lobby of his building, insisting his clients don't want press exposure.
Scene 44
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.
Scene 45
Sacha meets nervous victim Joe Crowley at a South End cafe as he settles in and agrees to let her take notes.
Scene 46
This scene

46INT. GARABEDIAN’S OFFICE, CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY

Mike and Garabedian sit with 25-year-old PATRICK MCSORLEY. McSorley is good looking but ragged. Not outwardly nervous, but he’s got a high-pitched voice and an ADDICT’S ITCH.

MIKE

You don’t mind if I take some notes,

do you?

PATRICK MCSORELY

You gonna use my name?

GARABEDIAN

No.

MIKE

Not if you don’t want me to.

PATRICK MCSORLEY

I just had a kid. He’s only one but

I’m not sure I want him to know

about this.

MIKE

Yeah. I get it.

GARABEDIAN

You can stop this interview any time

you want, Patrick.

PATRICK MCSORLEY

Okay. Go ‘head with your notes.

MIKE

Where did you live when it first

happened?

PATRICK MCSORLEY

In the projects, over in Hyde Park.

MIKE

Over by the Stop & Shop?

PATRICK MCSORLEY

Yeah, you know it?

MIKE

Yeah, I drove a cab for years. Opens

early, bad coffee, right?

PATRICK MCSORLEY

Yeah, I guess.

McSorley isn’t having it.

MIKE

How old were you? When it happened.

PATRICK MCSORLEY

I was twelve. My dad had just

killed himself.

MIKE

Jeez.

PATRICK MCSORLEY

He was a real piece of shit. And my

mom, she wasn’t so stable to begin

with.

MIKE

What do mean?

PATRICK MCSORLEY I mean she was nuts. GARABEDIAN