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 41

   Phil Saviano tells the Spotlight team about surviving abuse by Father Holley, describes grooming and church cover-ups, and claims thirteen abusive priests in Boston that he'd reported to the Globe years earlier and was ignored.

6. Scene 42

   Mike falls in step with Garabedian on State Street, pressing him again to let him interview victims.

7. Scene 43

   Garabedian rebuffs Mike in the lobby of his building, insisting his clients don't want press exposure.

8. Scene 44

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