Nice to know I’m not the only one going back and saying, “Wait, what?” Thanks!
It is a really young Julia Stiles. It’s from the TV series “Ghostwriter,” about a group of kids that make friends with a ghost. The ghost can only communicate with them by reading written things and rearranging the letters to make his own messages. Together, Ghostwriter and the kids solve various crimes that seemed, when I was younger, to be a lot more impressive than they are now. Still, it was one of my earliest influences- they all had black and white composition notebooks they called “casebooks,” and even today, those composition books are semi-sacred to me.