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. Scene 68

   Sipe's phone call reframes the scope: his 6% estimate implies ninety abusive priests in Boston, not thirteen, and Robby proposes working the directories backwards to find them.

6. Just before
7. Scene 69

   The team fans out cross-referencing hundreds of directory entries, circling priests marked 'sick leave' or 'unassigned' and logging them into a growing spreadsheet late into the night.

8. Scene 70

   Across pizzerias, T-stops, libraries and cafeterias, the whole team keeps grinding through directories, building the growing list of suspect priests.

9. Scene 71

   Matt finds a directory entry placing a treatment center just steps from his own house, and pales before leaving to check it in person.

10. Scene 72

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