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. Scene 129

   Jim Sullivan hands back the priest list with every name circled, then asks Robby the question that indicts the whole town and the paper itself: 'where were you?'

8. Just before
9. Scene 130

   Outside, Jim confronts Robby for laying this on him at home and asks the question that indicts them both, where were you, what took you so long, then silently marks up the entire list before walking away.

10. Scene 131

    Mike and Matt work the phones chasing a comment from the Cardinal's office through PR contacts Donna Morrisey and Larry Rasky, until Donna finally calls back.

11. Scene 132

    Marty edits the draft as Donna Morrisey's stonewalling quote comes in, and Robby reveals Sacha found an old buried 1993 clip proving the Globe itself had the twenty-priest tip from MacLeish and let it go without a follow-up.

12. Scene 133

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