Hello, I’m looking for a movie and hope I’m right asking here. I can only remember one scene, seen it a long, long time ago as a teen, of this movie and it is driving me crazy that I can not find it.

It is an investigative/ action movie I think, a bit like mercury rising. So a cop dude taking care of a kid.

The scene: the kid is sorting paper on the floor of a room, seemingly random letters on them. Then the cop dude and maybe a woman go up some stairs, talking about the kid and they see that the paper is sorted to resemble the face of a woman.

I apologize for the lack of other information or if this is the wrong place to ask. Is anybody able to help me?

  • ScrollerBall@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Was it this episode of the X-files?

    https://90sflashback.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/the-x-files-1-4-conduit-sister-sister/

    Mulder and Scully are investigating a girl’s alien abduction. Her little brother is watching static on TV and writing out binary on sheets of paper. Later, the pages are laid out on the floor in a big square. Scully goes up the stairs and looks down, revealing the pages were and image of the kid’s abducted sister.

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      13 hours ago

      Thank you! That was it! You have no idea how long I was looking for that! Was like an itch in my brain that I could not scratch cause i had so little to go on. Thank you really!

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      17 hours ago

      This for sure was X-Files. My partner got into it recently and that’s one of the episodes I saw. Kid was getting messages in the static.