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.

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5. Scene 22

   MacLeish tells Robby and Sacha that Garabedian's claims against Cardinal Law are likely bluster to leverage a settlement, since victims rarely want to go public.

6. Scene 23

   Mike watches a yelling match end behind Garabedian's door before pushing his way into the lawyer's conference room.

7. Scene 24

   Garabedian brushes off Mike's questions about Geoghan, refuses to be recorded, and reluctantly agrees to think about letting Mike talk to victims.

8. Scene 25

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