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 62

   At a black-tie charity gala, Marty is coldly vetted by Pete Conley of Catholic Charities, then Robby finds him alone and recounts how Cardinal Law once 'called down the power of God' on the Globe during the Porter investigation.

7. Scene 63

   Over dinner, Garabedian tells Mike that friends of the Church sealed a criminal case's records, and needles him about being Portuguese in an Irish Catholic town where outsiders finally see what insiders ignore.

8. Scene 64

   At the gala bar, Robby confronts Jim Sullivan about defending abusive priests, and Jim warns him he's talking about the Church, good people who've done a lot for the city.

9. Scene 65

   This scene