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 110

   Walking back from BC High, Robby tells Sacha that everyone around them, even his own alma mater's PR men, already seems to know the story they're still chasing.

8. Scene 111

   Mike finally gets face time with Judge Volterra to ask about accessing the sealed exhibits.

9. Scene 112

   Judge Volterra questions the editorial responsibility of publishing sensitive abuse records; Mike counters that withholding them raises the same question.

10. Scene 113

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