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 82

   Sacha confronts retired priest Ronald Paquin at his door, and he casually admits to molesting boys while insisting he 'never got any pleasure' from it, until his sister slams the door on her.

8. Scene 83

   In a nearly empty Springfield courtroom, Mike watches the Globe's lawyer Albano argue for unsealing the Geoghan documents while a Herald reporter fishes for a quote.

9. Scene 84

   Sacha shows Robby a map of Boston tracking priests and victims by neighborhood, and Robby recognizes Father Talbot's name from his own BC High days.

10. Scene 85

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