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. Scenes 66–76

   The directory search and Sipe's estimate deliver what they set out for: confirmation that the abuse spans dozens, then eighty-seven, priests across Boston.

6. Just before
7. Scene 74

   Matt confirms priest after priest against the growing directory list until the tally lands on eighty-seven, three off Sipe's own estimate, and Robby says he wants to talk to MacLeish.

8. Scene 75

   In his office, Robby calls Jim Sullivan and asks point blank if the number could really be ninety; Jim tells him to stop this before hanging up, and Robby learns MacLeish is stonewalling a meeting.

9. Scene 76

   Robby and Sacha corner MacLeish in his lobby and threaten to write about lawyers profiting from abuse settlements unless he confirms the numbers; he admits he sent the Globe a list of twenty priests years ago that was buried.

10. Scene 77

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