The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Cairncross leaves copied Enigma intercepts in a mailbox; MI-6 agents secretly remove some and replace them with selected material before resealing it.

Scene 106 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Stewart Menzies

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:39 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 106

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 103
Turing asks Menzies whether he placed a Soviet agent at Bletchley; Menzies says controlled leaks to Stalin serve Britain’s interests.
Scene 104
In an earlier flashback, Cairncross leaves Bletchley carrying a suitcase as Menzies explains Churchill’s refusal to share intelligence with the Soviets.
Scene 105
Cairncross carries the suitcase through Bletchley village while Menzies describes the secrecy surrounding British intelligence.
Scene 106
This scene

106EXT. BLETCHLEY VILLAGE - STREET - NIGHT - FLASHBACK

Cairncross comes to a MAILBOX, where under cover of night he OPENS HIS CASE —

— Removing A FOLDER OF COPIED ENIGMA INTERCEPTS —

— Which he then places in the mailbox.

STEWART MENZIES (V.O.)

Cairncross has no idea we know, of

course. Really not the brightest

bulb.

Cairncross WALKS AWAY into the night.

After he leaves, two MI-6 AGENTS come and UNLOCK THE MAILBOX—

— Removing his FOLDER —

— The Agents take SOME MESSAGES OUT, and put other NEW ONES BACK IN —

— Before re-sealing the folder and putting it back in the mailbox —

— And RE-LOCKING the mailbox lid.

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