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 112

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

8. Scene 113

   Clerk O'Brian finally hands Mike the file, and Mike bribes him eighty-three dollars to use the courthouse copier after hours.

9. Scene 114

   Mike races out of the courthouse and jumps in a cab, already reading the newly obtained letters aloud over the phone to Robby, revealing a mother's letter to Law about her abused sons.

10. Scene 115

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