Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Crowley tells Sacha that Sister Barbara introduced him to Father Shanley, who used a mobile with sexual words to test whether he was gay before molesting him during a game of strip poker.

Scene 47 of 143 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Joe Crowley
Sacha
Sasha

Act two

Begins 45 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 47

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 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
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 47
This scene

47INT. CAFE FRANCESCA, SOUTH END - DAY

Joe talks very fast. He takes a big gulp of water.

JOE CROWLEY

...and there was this nun, Sister

Barbara, she ran this group for kids

from troubled families.

SACHA

Where was that?

JOE CROWLEY

St. Ambrose in Dorchester. She’s

the one who introduced me to Father

Shanley. He was a street priest,

long hair, very hip. He invited me

to his apartment in Back Bay.

SACHA

Where in Back Bay?

JOE CROWLEY

Beacon Street. Are you from here?

SACHA

I grew up in Ohio but my mom’s from

Southie.

JOE CROWLEY

So you get it. I’d never even been

to Back Bay.

SACHA

What happened on that first visit?

JOE CROWLEY

Well, he was very nice at first,

very casual, very funny. And I

think he could tell I was gay

because he showed me this mobile he

had, like over a baby’s crib? But

with different words. Homosexual,

bisexual, transsexual...

SACHA

Did you know you were gay at the

time, Joe?

JOE CROWLEY

Yes, but that wasn’t information I

was sharing with anybody. Not in

Dorchester.

SACHA

Right. So, what happened when he

showed you the mobile?

JOE CROWLEY

Well, I was a little freaked out and

I guess he could tell so he said,

you know what will help is if we

play strip poker. Of course I lost.

And things went on from there.

SACHA