Quick question - Timelines

Right straight to it, i will try and explain the best i can.

I have a movie clip, and inside it i have some masking animation.

Now when it has finished playing all the masking animations and that i want it to goto and play frame 2 on the main timeline.

when i use the normal code

 gotoandplay("scene1","2") ;

or whatever it is, it dosnt load frame 2 on the main timeline? is that cos its still inside the movie clip timeline?

well thats my problem is there a cure?

thanks for any help.