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 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.

6. Scene 38

   Marty arrives at Cardinal Law's massive Lake Street residence for a personal audience with the Cardinal.

7. Scene 39

   Cardinal Law charms Marty with stories of his own newspaper past and offers his help, but reacts with surprise when Marty insists the paper must stand alone.

8. Scene 40

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