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.'

5. Just before
6. Scene 53

   Richard Sipe, a former priest turned researcher, calls Mike at home and tells him pedophile priests are a recognized psychiatric phenomenon that the Church has known about for decades.

7. Scene 54

   Eileen McNamara and Kurkjian grow suspicious in the cafeteria when Matt fishes for archival help on an unnamed priest.

8. Scene 55

   Librarian Lisa Tuite hands Matt the Archdiocese's annual priest directory, explaining it tracks every priest's parish assignment back decades.

9. Scene 56

   This scene