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. Scenes 121–137

   The team returns to its own newsroom and its own history, forced to admit the Globe buried MacLeish's 1993 tip and could have run this story years earlier.

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9. Scene 135

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

10. Scene 136

    Leaving Garabedian's office, Mike hears children laughing in the hallway and looks toward the sound.

11. Scene 137

    Garabedian tells Mike about two more boys abused in Jamaica Plain just two weeks earlier, urging him to keep doing his work, as Robby sits alone in his car watching the trucks roll out at dawn.

12. Scene 138

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