diff --git a/docs/RUGNUX_REPORT.md b/docs/RUGNUX_REPORT.md
index e5e0c1523..76e0cefcd 100644
--- a/docs/RUGNUX_REPORT.md
+++ b/docs/RUGNUX_REPORT.md
@@ -622,7 +622,9 @@ the correction surfaces and the error model it was judged on were all fitted wit
 merge that may be written and removes one takes its frames' reflections out — they are in no later merge
 and in no file written from the integrated reflections — and makes itself again from the start without
 them; the run's own batches are then judged again on what is left, which can remove more. The stretch
-stays in this table at the scale, CC and ΔCC1/2 it was removed on.
+stays in this table at the scale, CC and ΔCC1/2 it was removed on. Its warning names it as the frames to process
+on their own (`-s <first> -e <last + 1>`, file images): it may be another crystal, radiation-damaged or
+dead data.
 
 **What ΔCC1/2 cannot do**, because the report must not imply otherwise:
 
diff --git a/rugnux/ResultReport.cpp b/rugnux/ResultReport.cpp
index bb5a96391..de84cfdab 100644
--- a/rugnux/ResultReport.cpp
+++ b/rugnux/ResultReport.cpp
@@ -2700,6 +2700,20 @@ ReportDocument BuildReportDocument(const std::string &output_prefix,
                         cost = fmt::format(" - kept at their own reduced weight; removing them would change "
                                            "CC1/2 by {:+.4f} +/- {:.4f} over the reflections they touch",
                                            -r.delta_cc_half, r.delta_cc_half_se);
+                    // A stretch the merge removed whole (RotationScaleMerge::TakenOut) is out of the data, and
+                    // may still be data of its own: named as the frames to process alone. Stretches removed one
+                    // after the other can overlap; the range is all of them that this one touches.
+                    int s0 = r.last_image + 1, s1 = r.first_image - 1;
+                    for (const auto &[f0, f1] : sq.removed_stretches)
+                        if (rejected && f0 <= r.last_image && r.first_image <= f1) {
+                            s0 = std::min(s0, f0);
+                            s1 = std::max(s1, f1);
+                        }
+                    if (s0 <= s1)
+                        cost += fmt::format(". The stretch removed whole may be another crystal, radiation-damaged "
+                                            "or dead data; -s {} -e {} processes it on its own",
+                                            result.first_image + s0 * result.image_stride,
+                                            result.first_image + s1 * result.image_stride + 1);
                     Warn(doc, PathologyCode::SWEEP_GAPS, fmt::format(
                             "Frames {}-{} {} ({:.1f} deg, scale {:.2f} and CC {:.2f} of the run, {:.0f}% scaled){}",
                             r.first_image, r.last_image, SweepQualityReasonText(r.reason),
diff --git a/rugnux/Rugnux.h b/rugnux/Rugnux.h
index 3773244c0..7b14d00e8 100644
--- a/rugnux/Rugnux.h
+++ b/rugnux/Rugnux.h
@@ -565,6 +565,9 @@ struct RugnuxOutputs {
 struct ProcessResult {
     bool cancelled = false;
     uint64_t images_processed = 0;
+    // The file image of processed-image ordinal f is first_image + f * image_stride (-s, --stride).
+    int first_image = 0;
+    int image_stride = 1;
     double processing_time_s = 0.0;
     // Wall time of the per-image loop alone; processing_time_s additionally covers the first-pass
     // indexing and the scaling/merging around it, which no per-stage timer sees.
diff --git a/rugnux/RugnuxImagePass.cpp b/rugnux/RugnuxImagePass.cpp
index 268acd068..af8a6d07f 100644
--- a/rugnux/RugnuxImagePass.cpp
+++ b/rugnux/RugnuxImagePass.cpp
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ void Rugnux::ImagePass(PipelineLocals &p) {
             std::chrono::steady_clock::now() - image_loop_start).count();
 
     result.images_processed = finished_count.load();
+    result.first_image = start_image;
+    result.image_stride = config_.stride;
     // fast_live: a cut inside the canonical pass's image loop ends its sweep at the images read so far, and
     // the pass merges those, a partial sweep, as a pre-pass merges its share. Any other pass a cut stops.
     const bool partial_sweep = config_.fast_live && cancelled_ && p.write_output && !geometry_prepass
diff --git a/tests/ResultReportTest.cpp b/tests/ResultReportTest.cpp
index 9f1d5d3a3..6764a6be9 100644
--- a/tests/ResultReportTest.cpp
+++ b/tests/ResultReportTest.cpp
@@ -163,6 +163,29 @@ TEST_CASE("ResultReport_Render", "[Diagnostics]") {
           != std::string::npos);
 }
 
+// A rejected range the merge removed whole (RotationScaleMerge::TakenOut) names the frames to process on
+// their own, as -s / -e give them: file images, the end exclusive, through the run's own -s and stride.
+TEST_CASE("ResultReport_RemovedStretchFramesToProcessAlone", "[Diagnostics]") {
+    DiffractionExperiment x(DetJF(1));
+    x.ImagesPerTrigger(1210);
+    ProcessResult result;
+    result.images_processed = 600;
+    result.first_image = 10;
+    result.image_stride = 2;
+    result.consensus_cell = UnitCell{.a = 79.0f, .b = 79.0f, .c = 38.0f,
+                                     .alpha = 90.0f, .beta = 90.0f, .gamma = 90.0f};
+    result.space_group = *gemmi::find_spacegroup_by_number(96);
+    result.has_merge_statistics = true;
+    result.merge_statistics.sweep_quality = TestSweepQuality();
+    CHECK(RenderResultReport("prefix", "in.h5", x, result).find("processes it on its own") == std::string::npos);
+
+    // Removed one after the other, the two overlap: the range is both.
+    result.merge_statistics.sweep_quality.removed_stretches = {{120, 149}, {100, 130}};
+    const auto text = RenderResultReport("prefix", "in.h5", x, result);
+    CHECK(text.find("over the reflections they touch. The stretch removed whole may be another crystal, "
+                    "radiation-damaged or dead data; -s 210 -e 309 processes it on its own") != std::string::npos);
+}
+
 // The reference-range table: REFRES_* keys beside the run's own, the shells past the run's own limit
 // reported as not merged rather than as zeros, and no REFRES_ key at all when no range was given.
 TEST_CASE("ResultReport_ReferenceRangeTable", "[Diagnostics]") {