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. Just before
5. Scene 35

   Mike walks through the nearly empty Sunday newsroom.

6. Scene 36

   Mike grabs his gym bag in the Spotlight office and notices Robby working at his desk on a weekend.

7. Scene 37

   Robby tells Mike that Baron and Ben want him to drop Saviano as a dead end, but Robby decides they should bring Saviano in anyway.

8. Scene 38

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