Spotlight Page #4

been scheduled for early August...

Marty makes notes. Off Ben and Robby, trading a look.

15 INT. GLOBE, NEWSROOM - LATER 15

Mike, cuppa coffee, walks over to STEVE KURKJIAN’s desk. 60s.

MIKE:

Hey Steve. Crappy game last night.

KURKJIAN:

They can’t hit worth a nickle.

Mike looks toward the conference room of editors.

MIKE:

What’s Eileen McNamara doing in the

10:
30?

KURKJIAN:

Do you need something, Mike?

MIKE:

No. Just curious.

KURKJIAN:

I got work to do. Go be curious

somewhere else, will you?

16 INT. GLOBE, LARGE CONFERENCE ROOM - LATER 16

The meeting is wrapping up.

11/26/14 11.

SPORTS EDITOR:

...and it looks like Pedro’s gonna

be out until September 1st. Jimmy

says he’ll be back this year, but

the doc didn’t seem so sure.

BEN:

When’s the Pats opener?

Laughter. Except Marty.

MARTY:

Is that everyone?

HELEN:

Yes, that’s it.

MARTY:

Great, thank you. Uh, did everyone

read Eileen McNamara’s column this

weekend?

The room reacts. Huh? Editors look at EILEEN MCNAMARA, 50s.

HELEN:

That’s the Geoghan case?

MARTY:

Yes, what’s the folo on that?

BEN:

It’s a column, what kind of folo

were you thinking?

MARTY:

Well, apparently this priest

molested kids in six different

parishes over the last thirty years

and the attorney for the victims,

Mr...

EILEEN:

Garabedian.

MARTY:

Thanks, Eileen. Mr. Garabedian says

Cardinal Law found out about it

fifteen years ago and did nothing.

CANELLOS:

I think that attorney’s a bit of a

crank. And the Church dismissed the

claim.

11/26/14 12.

EILEEN:

He said, she said.

MARTY:

Whether Mr. Garabedian is a crank or

not, he says he has documents that

prove the Cardinal knew.

BEN:

As I understand it, those documents

are under seal.

Silence. No one knows what to do. Robby watches.

MARTY:

Okay, but the fact remains, we have

a Boston priest abused 80 kids,

we’ve got a lawyer who says he has

proof Law knew about it, and we’ve

written all of...

(checking his notes)

...two stories on this in the last

six months?

(then)

This strikes me as an essential

story for a local paper. At the

very least, we should be going after

those documents.

CANELLOS:

How would you like to do that?

MARTY:

Well, I don’t know what the laws are

here, but in Florida we would go to

court.

Robby raises an eyebrow. In fact, the whole room does.

BEN:

You want to sue the church?

MARTY:

Technically we wouldn’t sue the

Church. We would file a motion to

lift the seal on those documents.

BEN:

The church will read that as us

suing them. So will everybody else.

MARTY:

Good to know.

11/26/14 13.

Off Robby, intrigued --

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