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 86

   On the courthouse steps, Garabedian tells Mike off the record about ex-priest Benzevich's buried 1962 warning about Geoghan, and reveals fourteen damning sealed documents he attached to a public motion Wilson Rogers unknowingly forced him to file.

8. Scene 87

   Mike sprints from his car across the street toward the courthouse.

9. Scene 88

   Mike rushes to the Suffolk County records room only to find the exhibit folder Garabedian described is empty.

10. Scene 89

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