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.

1. Scenes 4–10

   Robby's Spotlight team operates comfortably inside its own routine, prospecting a modest police-corruption story under a departing editor's cover.

2. Scenes 11–14

   Baron's outsider question exposes what the paper has never done: investigate whether Cardinal Law knowingly protected an abusive priest.

3. Scenes 15–24

   The team sets aside its own project and enters unfamiliar territory: survivor networks, a hostile plaintiff's lawyer, and a legal fight to unseal church records.

4. Scenes 25–65

   The team pays the cost of the work — hearing survivor testimony, chasing MacLeish's stonewalling, and combing church directories for a hidden pattern of reassigned priests.

5. Scenes 66–76

   The directory search and Sipe's estimate deliver what they set out for: confirmation that the abuse spans dozens, then eighty-seven, priests across Boston.

6. Just before
7. Scene 106

   The next morning, Clerk O'Brian finds Mike waiting outside the locked records room and finally lets him in.

8. Scene 107

   Mike fills out a records request for the Geoghan exhibits, but O'Brian tells him the records are sealed and directs him upstairs to a judge when Mike pushes back that the motion is public.

9. Scene 108

   Mike asks a receptionist to see Judge Volterra immediately about accessing the sealed exhibits.

10. Scene 109

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