Spotlight Page #5

11/26/14 27.

SACHA:

You want me to track him down?

ROBBY:

Yeah. Bring him in. How much longer

do you need to get through the

clips?

SACHA:

A few days. There’s a lot and

Lisa’s still sending stuff up. Most

of it is on Porter.

MATT:

Hey guys... I think I got another

priest.

Robby and Sacha turn. Matt stares down at a clip.

MATT (CONT’D)

Liam Barrett. Molested some kids in

Philly then was moved to Boston, did

the same thing then was moved again.

SACHA:

Really? Sounds like Geoghan.

ROBBY:

Is that one of our clips?

MATT:

Yeah. Byline’s Diego Ribadeneira,

1997. Must’ve been back when he was

working religion.

ROBBY:

Was there any folo?

MATT:

Not much. One short piece. Looks

like the Church settled the case.

(then)

Don’t you know Jim Sullivan?

ROBBY:

Yeah, why?

MATT:

Looks like the Church brought him in

to help out.

Matt shows Robby the clip. Robby reads, surprised.

11/26/14 28.

34 EXT. FENWAY PARK - NIGHT 34

Establishing. From up above, a game in progress.

34A INT. FENWAY PARK - NIGHT 34A

Mike and Matt sit with Ben and Steve Kurkjian at the game. A

called third strike and the crowd groans.

BEN:

Jesus. Has anybody but Manny gotten

the ball out of the infield?

Matt, who’s been scoring the game, checks.

MATT:

Nope.

MIKE:

I don’t know why you bother with

that thing.

MATT:

It distracts me from the game.

KURKJIAN:

Know what else is good for that?

Kurkjian holds up an empty beer cup. Matt stands.

MATT:

Good idea. My round. I’ll be back.

Anybody want food?

MIKE:

Hot dog.

Matt heads off. Ben grabs some peanuts, turns to Mike.

BEN:

You guys making any progress?

MIKE:

Absolutely. It’s a good story.

BEN:

Why? Cause you’re another lapsed

Catholic pissed off at the Church?

MIKE:

We’ve got some good stuff.

BEN:

Like what?

11/26/14 29.

Mike glances over at Kurkjian.

KURKJIAN:

I’m just watching the game. Omerta.

MIKE:

We got another priest, Liam Barrett.

KURKJIAN:

We reported on him.

(off Mike’s look)

We did, I’m just saying.

MIKE:

Okay, but the guy was shuffled from

parish to parish every few years,

just like Geoghan and Porter. I

think there’s a pattern.

Ben looks at Kurkjian, who’s not impressed.

BEN:

Sounds thin. What else you got?

MIKE:

Sacha found this guy from a victims’

organization, Phil Saviano.

KURKJIAN:

From SNAP? Oh boy. We reported on

him too.

MIKE:

I thought you were watching the

game, Steve?

KURKJIAN:

That guy’s pretty banged up, Mike.

BEN:

We ran a couple stories on him, the

guy would not stop writing letters.

KURKJIAN:

He wants a holy war.

MIKE:

So he’s not worth taking to?

BEN:

Where are you on Garabedian?

MIKE:

I’m working on it.

11/26/14 30.

BEN:

Robby said MacLeish thinks he’s

bluffing.

MIKE:

I think there’s something there,

Ben.

BEN:

Get me something solid or I'm taking

you off it. I don’t want us chasing

our tails on this.

Off Mike --

37 EXT. WOLLASTON GOLF CLUB, 8TH TEE, MILTON, MA - DAY 37

JIM SULLIVAN, 50s, lines up a tee shot. Smacks it. ROBBY

and TWO OTHER GOLFERS watch as Jim talks to his ball...

JIM:

Stay away from that trap.

ROBBY:

You couldn’t reach that trap in a

million years, partner.

One of the other golfers (PAUL) tees up his ball.

JIM:

I’ve reached that trap before.

ROBBY:

Yeah. Now Paul, maybe.

The group laughs.

38 EXT. WOLLASTON GOLF CLUB, 8TH HOLE FAIRWAY - DAY 38

Robby and Jim walk down the fairway. Robby checks the card.

JIM:

How we doing?

ROBBY:

We’re good. We’re two up.

JIM:

Good.

(then)

How’s the new editor working out?

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ROBBY:

Well, he doesn’t like baseball. But

he seems like a smart guy.

JIM:

Yeah, I just read an article about

him. Said he’s the first Jewish

editor at the Globe.

ROBBY:

Must have been a slow news day.

JIM:

He got a family?

ROBBY:

No, he’s not married.

JIM:

Divorced?

ROBBY:

Don’t think so.

JIM:

So the new editor of the Boston

Globe is an unmarried man of the

Jewish faith who hates baseball?

Robby half smiles, shrugs.

JIM (CONT’D)

They should have given it to Ben.

He’s a Bradlee for crying out loud.

ROBBY:

He didn’t raise his hand fast

enough.

(then)

By the way, I was reading about this

priest, Father Barrett. Said you

were involved in the case.

Jim reacts, surprised.

JIM:

Barrett, yeah. Bad egg. Lake

Street asked for help, I pitched in.

ROBBY:

The victim said Cardinal Law knew

about Barrett when he came from

Philly.

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JIM:

You know I can’t talk about the

case, Robby.

ROBBY:

Off the record?

JIM:

Off the record, I can’t talk about

it. Is this related to the lawsuit?

Now Robby hides his surprise. He stops.

ROBBY:

You heard about that?

JIM:

Look, I don’t know this guy Baron or

what his agenda is and frankly I

don’t care, I just don’t want you

taking a bullet for him.

Jim heads off toward his ball. Off Robby, processing.

39 INT. BARBARA’S CAR, WOLLASTON PARKING LOT - LATER 39

Robby gets in. She pulls off.

BARBARA:

How’d you play?

ROBBY:

Not too bad. Shoulda left my putter

at home.

BARBARA:

How’s Jimmy?

ROBBY:

Good. He brought up the suit.

BARBARA:

Really? What’d he say?

ROBBY:

He was thrilled about it.

BARBARA:

It’s not a surprise, Robby. The

Church does a lot a good in this

town.

Robby nods, but something about that doesn’t sit right.

11/26/14 33.

40 EXT. MATT CARROLL’S HOUSE, WEST ROXBURY - SUNDAY MORNING 40

Matt, in coat and tie, shepherds his family out the door and

into a minivan. His wife and daughter wear DRESSES, his sons

are in BLUE BLAZERS and KHAKIS -- clearly en route to church.

PRIEST (PRELAP)

The other day I was on the world

wide web. Anything you want to

know. It’s right there.

41 INT. CHURCH, SOUTHIE - DAY 41

Sunday mass. Full house. A PRIEST mid homily. In back, FIND

Sacha, her husband, HANSI, and her GRANDMOTHER.

PRIEST:

Now as a priest, I admit, this makes

me a little nervous. Should I be

worried about job security?

Sacha watches her grandmother laugh with the congregation.

42 EXT. CHURCH/INT. DINER, SOUTH BOSTON - DAY 42

CONGREGANTS milling outside a church.

PRIEST (O.C.)

I don’t think so. You see knowledge

is one thing. But faith is another.

FIND Marty, sitting in a diner across the street, eating

breakfast and reading. He glances at the church.

42A EXT. OLD HARBOR, DORCHESTER - DAY 42A

Mike, in running gear, runs along the water.

43 OMITTED 43

44 INT. GLOBE, NEWSROOM - LATER 44

Mike walks through the mostly empty newsroom.

45 INT. GLOBE, SPOTLIGHT OFFICE - DAY 45

Mike walks in, grabs a gym bag by his desk, pulls out a towel

when he spots... Robby. Sitting in his office. Working.

46 INT. GLOBE, ROBBY’S OFFICE - MOMENTS LATER 46

Robby’s looking over some of the clips Matt pulled.

11/26/14 34.

MIKE:

Hey. Shouldn’t you be golfing?

Robby looks up. Mike’s in the door, towel around his neck.

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