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It has been a very long time coming but after years of cataloging various gadgets in TV and flicks, we finally got our own starring role at the small screen. Our HTML code stood in for the standard computer gibberish pretending to be a harmful hacking program on an episode of the French / Canadian TV series XIII and was spotted by a keen-eyed (and HDTV-equipped) reader as seen above. US viewers might recognize the title because it was also the source of a videogame in 2003 and a miniseries that aired on NBC in 2009; in its current iteration, the story of a conspiracy within the US government airs strictly outside our borders. A clip of the scene is included after the break, check for the “5 years old, highly encrypted source code” at about 1:29. Nice job Prodigy Pictures but next time we predict a speaking role, two scenes with co-star Aisha Tyler , a trailer and a bowl of M&Ms — but only the fairway ones. Have your people consult with our people, we’ve been seeking a brand new career .
[Thanks, Dennis]
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