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 93

   The newsroom watches Cardinal Law address the public after 9/11 as Ben pulls the Spotlight team off the Church story to cover the terrorist attack and its Massport fallout.

8. Scene 94

   Garabedian answers his phone at his desk.

9. Scene 95

   Mike, racing down I-95 toward Providence for a flight-school lead, gets Garabedian on the phone and begs him to hold off refiling the newly public documents; Garabedian refuses and hangs up.

10. Scene 96

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