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 133

   Marty tells Ben that Cardinal Law personally called to say he won't comment, and Ben and Marty resolve to run the story anyway as the presses start.

10. Scene 134

    Sacha's grandmother reads the early edition of the story in stunned silence as Sacha watches, unable to feel anything left.

11. Scene 135

    Mike hands Garabedian an early copy of the published story; Garabedian folds it up and goes back to work, same as ever.

12. Scene 136

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