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.

7. Just before
8. Scene 127

   Ben tells Robby to get a draft to Mike before Christmas and press the Cardinal's office for comment through new PR contact Donna Morrisey, as a deadline countdown montage of the team's grinding writing and editing process begins.

9. Scene 128

   Robby knocks unannounced on Jim Sullivan's door on a Sunday night, surprising Jim's wife Karen.

10. Scene 129

    Robby tells Jim he's out of time and needs him to confirm the list of seventy priests; Jim, furious, orders him out of the house but takes the list.

11. Scene 130

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