The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Menzies asks Turing to help choose what Cairncross should leak; he reveals Joan was never imprisoned and takes the decrypts, leaving Turing trapped in the arrangement.

Scene 107 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Plot Point II
Stewart Menzies
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:39 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 107

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 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
Cairncross leaves copied Enigma intercepts in a mailbox; MI-6 agents secretly remove some and replace them with selected material before resealing it.
Scene 107
This scene

107INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - JOAN’S FLAT - CONTINUED

STEWART MENZIES

That’s why I’ll need your help now

to work out what to leak to John.

What to feed the Soviets, as well

as the British.

ON ALAN: Flustered. Terrified.

ALAN TURING

I’m not a spy. I’m just a

mathematician.

STEWART MENZIES

I know a lot of spies, Alan. You’re

holding on to more secrets than the

best of them.

Menzies holds up the stolen decrypts. The threat is palpable.

ALAN TURING

You must promise to get Joan out of

prison.

STEWART MENZIES

She’s at the market. She’ll be back

in an hour. I lied.

(puts the decrypts into his pocket)

I’d better hold on to these. If

anyone finds out about them, prison

will be the least of her worries.

ON ALAN: What choice does he have? He looks down.

STEWART MENZIES (CONT’D)

Oh Alan. We’re going to have such a

wonderful war together.