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.

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7. Scene 77

   Over hot dogs, Mike tells Sipe on the phone he still considers himself Catholic despite his estrangement from the institution; after the call drops, Ben arrives with pizza and Mike admits they have eighty-seven names, then presses Ben on whether Saviano's old warnings were ever followed up.

8. Scene 78

   MacLeish's emailed list confirms forty-five priests, and Marty, realizing Law's outsized reaction to the Porter story means he already knew about others, pushes the team to focus on the institution rather than individual predators.

9. Scene 79

   A Dorchester victim tells Sacha his mother served the visiting Bishop cookies rather than press charges after learning about the abuse, and Maryetta Dussourd separately describes the pressure to stay silent.

10. Scene 80

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