Hello — I’m trying to track down an English-language thriller I saw on TV, probably from the 1980s. My memory is of these three scenes:
• A young man gets an urgent phone call and is told to write down a very long string of digits (I think ~20 digits).
• On a suburban street a newspaper van throws out bundles; the man kicks them in anger; a paperboy on a bike shows up and he helps gather the papers.
• The man wakes/lying in bed, watches a digital alarm clock flip between time and date, notices the date matches part of the numbers, and starts decoding them.