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.

8. Just before
9. Scene 138

   At dawn, a copy of the Globe lands on a West Roxbury doorstep with the headline 'Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years,' outside the very treatment center near Matt's house.

10. Scene 139

    Sacha unlocks the Spotlight office before dawn and finds Matt, admitting neither of them has slept, as the tip line starts ringing with the first call.

11. Scene 140

    In the empty Sunday parking lot, Mike and Robby arrive to a quiet, picketer-free entrance and walk in together like warriors returning home.

12. Scene 141

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