The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing finds Menzies in his ransacked flat and the hidden decrypts. Menzies says Joan has been detained; Turing names Cairncross, and Menzies confirms he placed him at Bletchley.

Scene 101 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Alan Turing
Stewart Menzies

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:37 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 101

At Bletchley Park, Alan Turing must persuade a skeptical team to build a machine that can break Enigma before the war is lost, while concealing the self the law condemns.

Scenes 1–12
Turing is investigated as a guarded outsider in 1951, then enters Bletchley in 1939 looking for the puzzle he can solve.
Scenes 13–30
He sees the scale of Enigma, believes a machine can solve it, and grows isolated from colleagues who make little progress.
Scenes 31–50
Churchill’s order gives Turing authority and his half-built machine advances toward sustained work.
Scenes 51–88
Joan joins the project; the team builds and tests the machine while Turing learns to rely on collaborators.
Scenes 89–91
A first decrypt proves the machine works, and the team immediately faces the choice to let the Carlisle convoy be attacked.
Just before
Scene 98
Hugh feeds intercepted messages into Christopher and reads the day’s Enigma settings from its output.
Scene 99
The team records decrypted messages in Ultra booklets; Peter knocks Turing’s papers to the floor, and Turing finds Cairncross’s Bible open to the verse used as the earlier cipher key, exposing John as the Soviet spy; John threatens to reveal Turing’s homosexuality if he reports him.
Scene 100
Turing calls Menzies from the central mansion but hangs up when he cannot get the response he wants.
Scene 101
This scene

101INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - JOAN’S FLAT - DAY

Alan bursts into Joan’s flat to tell her what he’s found.

ALAN TURING

Joan! Joan! Are you there?

It’s dark. He FLICKS ON THE LIGHT...

REVEAL: The room has been ransacked.

Clothes, books, papers scattered everywhere.

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

— Joan?!?

He quickly moves through the flat: What happened here?

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

Joan, are you okay? Where are you?

Runs to the back bedroom, where he finds...

... Stewart Menzies. Calmly looking over some papers.

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

Where’s Joan?

STEWART MENZIES

Military prison.

ALAN TURING

What have you done?

STEWART MENZIES

(holding up papers)

Decoded Enigma intercepts. A stack

of them under her nightstand.

ON ALAN: Fuck.

ALAN TURING

I gave those to her. A year ago.

When she was with the clerks I was—

STEWART MENZIES

— Yes yes yes, I’m sure. But

Denniston has been looking for a

Soviet spy, and he’s been looking

for one inside Hut 8.

ALAN TURING

I know who the Soviet agent is.

It’s not Joan.

Menzies looks at Alan: Who is it if not her?

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

... I found the bible... The spy is

John Cairncross.

Menzies SMILES. As if he’s impressed.

STEWART MENZIES

... God, how I wish you’d been the

spy. You’re so much better at this

than he is.

ALAN TURING

You knew Cairncross was the spy?

STEWART MENZIES

Well of course Cairncross was the