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Spotlight · written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy · 2015
Scene 8 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.
Sacha Pfeiffer and Matt Carroll carry cake down to the newsroom, trading small talk about a numbers story out of Washington.
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.
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.
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Ben strides across the newsroom. Robby falls in.
ROBBY
Mr. Bradlee.
BEN
Hey. Saw the email on the PD
numbers. Looks interesting.
ROBBY
Yeah. There’s something there.
BEN
How much longer you need?
ROBBY
Another week.
BEN
(realizing)
Where are you going?
ROBBY
To the 10:30.
BEN
You? Since when?
ROBBY
Technically, I am an editor.
BEN
Technically. Your sit-down with
Baron go that well?
ROBBY
I couldn’t get a read on him.
BEN
That’s a first.
ROBBY
How ‘bout you?
BEN
(shrugs)
He’s a barrel of laughs.