# Need mc to communicate with parent

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-mc-to-communicate-with-parent/69695>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 7, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-mc-to-communicate-with-parent/69695 "2004-11-07T01:19:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mortypants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@mortypants](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mortypants)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-mc-to-communicate-with-parent/69695/1 "2004-11-07T01:19:09Z")

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I’m stuck. How do I get a targeted mc to communicate with the parent timeline? I’m not using levels but targeted mc.

I need the playback head to go from the targeted movie clip (this is called nested, correct?) to the parent timeline and stop at a particular movie instance or frame label. I have been unsucessfully using this:

gotoAndPlay(\_parent.instancename);

i appreciate any help.