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 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.

8. Scene 115

   Mike's cab cuts past King's Chapel and the Cathedral as he keeps reading, and Patrick McSorley plays with his own child on a playground nearby.

9. Scene 116

   The cab crosses the West 4th Street Bridge into Dorchester as Mike continues reading the mother's letter describing the family's pressured silence.

10. Scene 117

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