(Help) What is this movie?

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?

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ScrollerBall@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

KraBa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

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!

profgrumpypants@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
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Blaze@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 1y

Hello,

Feel free to crosspost to !movies@piefed.social for wider reach

geekwithsoul@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Not sure, but your description reminds me of Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/

KraBa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

For the longest time I thought it was this. Then I watched it recently and it wasn't. That is how the topic came up. Thanks though!

tkw8@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Maybe Silent Fall (1994) with Richard Dreyfuss?

KraBa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

That's not it but thank you!