Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015

Robby meets incoming editor Marty Baron for the first time over lunch and briefs him on how Spotlight works, sensing Marty is quietly sizing up the team.

Scene 7 of 143 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act one

Robby
Marty

Act two

Begins 7 min into a 2:19 film

The story so farBefore scene 7

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.

Scene 1
1976: a police station quietly disappears a molestation case against Father Geoghan, a Bishop, and a hushed young cop watching it happen.
Just before
Scene 4
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.
Scene 5
Sacha Pfeiffer and Matt Carroll carry cake down to the newsroom, trading small talk about a numbers story out of Washington.
Scene 6
Mike Rezendes badgers a DOJ source over the police-numbers story while Robby overhears the team dismiss it as thin, not really a Spotlight story.
Scene 7
This scene

7INT. FOUR SEASONS HOTEL, RESTAURANT - LATER

Marty sits at a table reading “The Curse of the Bambino,” a NOTEPAD beside him.

ROBBY

Mr. Baron.

Marty looks up and rises to greet Robby.

ROBBY (CONT’D)

Walter Robinson. Robby.

MARTY

Thanks for taking time out of your

weekend, Robby.

ROBBY

My pleasure.

(they sit)

What are you reading?

Marty holds up a book.

MARTY

‘The Curse of the Bambino.’

ROBBY

(sitting)

That’s a great book. The Globe has

season tickets at Fenway, once you

settle in.

MARTY

Thank you. Uh, to be honest, I’m

not much of a baseball fan. I’m

just trying to get a feel for city.

Are you originally from Boston?

ROBBY

I am, born and raised. A lot of the

newsroom is from here. It really

feels like a local paper in that

way.

MARTY

And did that change at all after the

paper was sold to the Times?

ROBBY

No. I don’t think that had a big

impact.

MARTY

Good.

(then)

So, you’re an editor for, uh, the

Spotlight team?

ROBBY

I prefer to think of myself as more

of a player-coach. But yes. Are

you familiar with Spotlight?

MARTY

No. Not particularly.

ROBBY

Well, we’re a four person

investigative team. We report to

Ben Bradlee Jr. and we keep our work