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. Scene 45

   Phil Saviano tells the team abuse this systemic isn't just physical, it's spiritual: 'if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.'

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6. Scene 48

   McSorley describes Geoghan taking him for ice cream and molesting him in the car, the memory undercut by his visible heroin tracks.

7. Scene 49

   Sacha and Crowley walk through Titus Sparrow Park as he describes escalating abuse by Shanley, tearfully explaining why he never told anyone.

8. Scene 50

   McSorley leaves Garabedian's office late at night, offering his real name; Garabedian calls him 'one of the lucky ones' since he's still alive. Sacha then calls Crowley, learns his old lawyer was MacLeish, and calls Robby to confirm Shanley as their fourth priest.

9. Scene 51

   This scene