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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 5 of 143 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one
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.
1976: a police station quietly disappears a molestation case against Father Geoghan, a Bishop, and a hushed young cop watching it happen.
A Bishop assures Sheila, mother of the two boys Geoghan molested, that he will pull Father from the parish and this will never happen again.
The young cop watches the Bishop drive Geoghan away from the station in a town car, processing what he's just seen swept under.
Twenty-five years later, Ben Bradlee Jr. toasts Stewart's retirement at the Globe and hands the room to Robby Robinson for a round of ribbing.
This scene
SACHA PFEIFFER, 28, wholesome, no bullshit, and MATT CARROLL, mid 40s, mustache, family man, walk down the hall, into a stairwell and down a set of stairs, both carrying cake.
7A INT. GLOBE, HALL OUTSIDE SPOTLIGHT - MOMENTS LATER
They emerge on the floor below, Sacha eating her cake.
MATT
How’s the cake?
SACHA
It’s really good. Saving yours?
MATT
Nah, it’s for Mike. I can never eat
at those things. They kind of
depress me.
SACHA
I know.
(taking a bite)
You see the numbers from Washington?
MATT
Yeah. Very interesting.
SACHA
I think so too.
They walk into --