Spotlight Page #2

story’s for us.

MATT:

Ben likes it.

MIKE:

Yeah, it’s not bad, it’s just not

Spotlight.

Robby enters.

ROBBY:

What’s just not Spotlight?

SACHA *

The PD numbers. *

MIKE:

The numbers story. It feels

thin.

ROBBY (CONT’D)

Oh. You got Cahill to talk?

MIKE:

(busted)

No. But I will.

11/26/14 5.

ROBBY:

Good. Then we’ll know if it’s thin.

Robby goes into his office, bit of an edge to him.

MIKE:

How’d it go upstairs?

MATT:

Okay. Robby gave a good speech.

SACHA:

I heard Lubin and Connor are going

to the Times.

MATTY:

Come on, really?

MIKE:

Yeah, I heard the same thing.

MATT:

They’re leeching us.

MIKE:

At least they’re sending us a guy

from Miami to run things. That

should help.

MATT:

Has Baron even spent time in Boston?

MIKE:

I don’t think he’s ever been here

before. Maybe we should buy him a

map.

SACHA:

I have a friend down at the Herald,

said Baron cut 15% of the staff.

MATT:

Great.

Mike rolls his chair back, calls out to Robby in his office.

MIKE:

Hey Robby, the new boss coming in to

make cuts?

ROBBY:

I have no idea.

MIKE:

Aren’t you sitting down with him?

Robby looks up, f***ing Rezendes, always snooping.

11/26/14 6.

ROBBY:

Yes, I am.

MIKE:

You think it’s about Spotlight?

ROBBY:

I don’t know, Mike, but I do know

Ben needs an answer on the crime

numbers story.

MIKE:

I’m telling you, I really don’t

think that story’s for us.

ROBBY:

So you did get Cahill to talk then?

Mike, annoyed, wheels back to his desk, picks up his phone...

10 INT. FOUR SEASONS HOTEL, RESTAURANT - LATER 10

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.

11/26/14 7.

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?

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