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 59

   At the courthouse records room, Sacha finds no filed cases against Shanley despite MacLeish's known settlements, and tells Robby by phone something's not right.

7. Scene 60

   Robby and Sacha confront MacLeish about the missing court records, and he begins to unravel, describing years of private, off-the-books settlements with the Church.

8. Scene 61

   Sacha reports to Ben and the team that MacLeish's settlements left no paper trail, arguing his practice effectively kept the abuse buried under confidentiality deals; Ben agrees to keep going on the thirteen priests.

9. Scene 62

   This scene