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 94

   Garabedian answers his phone at his desk.

8. 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.

9. Scene 96

   Weeks later, Sacha emerges from the T-stop as autumn sets in over Boston.

10. Scene 97

    This scene