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. Scenes 25–65

   The team pays the cost of the work — hearing survivor testimony, chasing MacLeish's stonewalling, and combing church directories for a hidden pattern of reassigned priests.

5. Just before
6. Scene 66

   The team huddles around a speakerphone as Sipe tells them fifty percent of clergy aren't celibate and that a 1985 Church report warning of a billion-dollar pedophile-priest liability was buried, then estimates the true number could be ninety priests in Boston.

7. Scene 67

   Ben, stunned by Sipe's estimate, presses Robby and Mike for harder proof than one researcher's metric before he'll believe ninety.

8. Scene 68

   Robby proposes working the directories backward, searching by suspicious designation to identify abusive priests instead of confirming known ones.

9. Scene 69

   This scene