ShouldBeEzScriptProb

Ok, my friend wanted me to look at his script in his game he is creating. So i looked at it. The movement script works and so does the wall collision. His only problem is a script where the char MC collides with the MC that should bring it to the next scene. His hitTest script says it should go to the next scene when the goodguy mc touchs the next scene MC. Here is what he has.
if (_root.goodguy, hitTest(_root.nextarea)){
nextScene();
}else{
stop();
}
It looks like it should work and I have tried different things, but some reason it still wont work. Any ideas. The file is attached if you want to try to figure it out.