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. Scenes 77–120

   The cost comes due: 9/11 steals six weeks, Saviano accuses them of abandoning survivors, sources go quiet, and even finding Law's damning letters isn't enough to end the fight over when to publish.

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8. Scene 118

   The cab pulls up to the Globe and Mike jumps out, still reading the letter about Geoghan's history of abuse.

9. Scene 119

   Mike races through the lobby and up the escalator, still reading the letter's warning about Geoghan's departure from Saint Brendan's.

10. Scene 120

    Mike finishes reading Bishop D'Arcy's 1984 letter to the stunned team, and Robby refuses to rush the Law story to press before nailing the full scope of ninety priests, triggering a furious blowup from Mike who storms out.

11. Scene 121

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