Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

McSorley leaves Garabedian's office late at night, offering his real name; Garabedian calls him 'one of the lucky ones' since he's still alive. Sacha then calls Crowley, learns his old lawyer was MacLeish, and calls Robby to confirm Shanley as their fourth priest.

Scene 50 of 143 · ≈ 4 min on screen · Act two

Patrick Mcsorley
Garabedian
Mike
Sacha’S Grandmother
Sacha
Joe Crowley
Matt
Robby

Act two

Begins 49 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 50

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.
Scene 45
Phil Saviano tells the team abuse this systemic isn't just physical, it's spiritual: 'if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.'
Just before
Scene 47
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 48
McSorley describes Geoghan taking him for ice cream and molesting him in the car, the memory undercut by his visible heroin tracks.
Scene 49
Sacha and Crowley walk through Titus Sparrow Park as he describes escalating abuse by Shanley, tearfully explaining why he never told anyone.
Scene 50
This scene

50INT. GARABEDIAN’S OFFICE, CONFERENCE ROOM - NIGHT

It’s dark now. Mike’s writing up some notes as McSorley puts on his coat. Mike stands as McSorley heads for the door.

PATRICK MCSORLEY

Can I use your phone?

GARABEDIAN

Yeah, you know where it is.

McSorley nods in thanks. Then turns to Mike.

PATRICK MCSORLEY

You can use my name if you want.

MIKE

Thanks, Patrick.

PATRICK MCSORLEY

Don’t thank me, just get that

asshole, will you?

He exits. Mike lets out a breath. It’s a lot, even for him.

GARABEDIAN

He’s one of the lucky ones.

(off Mike’s look)

He’s still alive.

61A INT. KITCHEN, SACHA’S GRANDMOTHER’S APARTMENT - DAY

Sacha sits at the table looking through her notes. Her grandmother is at the stove cooking.

Sacha notices something in her notes, stands and takes out her cell. She walks out while she dials.

SACHA’S GRANDMOTHER

Would you like a cup of tea, Sacha?

SACHA

I’m fine, Nana. Thanks.

Sacha walks into --

61B INT. DINING ROOM, SACHA’S GRANDMOTHER’S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS61B

Sacha on her phone, looking over her notes.

JOE CROWLEY (OVER THE PHONE)

Hello?

SACHA (INTO PHONE)

Hi Joe, it’s Sacha Pfeiffer.

JOE CROWLEY (OVER THE PHONE)

Hi Sacha. How are you?

SACHA (INTO PHONE)

I’m good, thanks. Listen, Joe,

there’s one thing that I wanted to

follow up on. You talked to Phil

Saviano about all this, right?

JOE CROWLEY (OVER THE PHONE)

Yeah. I went to a couple SNAP

meetings.

SACHA (INTO PHONE)