The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing tries to end his engagement and confesses he is homosexual; Joan says their unusual partnership can still work, but when he cruelly claims he never cared for her, she refuses to leave and throws her ring at him.

Scene 109 of 130 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Last scene of act two

Save the Cat: All Is Lost
Alan Turing
Joan Clarke

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:41 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 109

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 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
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 108
Joan approaches Hut 8 through new security while Turing waits, preparing to tell her she must leave.
Scene 109
This scene

109EXT. BLETCHLEY PARK - BEHIND HUT 8 - MOMENTS LATER

Alan and Joan talk behind Hut 8.

ALAN TURING

... I need you to leave Bletchley.

JOAN CLARKE

(annoyed)

What?

ALAN TURING

Menzies. I don’t trust...

ON ALAN: He wants to tell her, but he can’t. It’s too dangerous.

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

... I don’t think it’s safe here.

JOAN CLARKE

You think it’s safe somewhere else?

ALAN TURING

You need to leave, and you need to

get very far away from me.

JOAN CLARKE

Alan. What’s happened?

ON ALAN: This isn’t working. He’s going to have to try a different approach.

ALAN TURING

... We can’t be engaged anymore.

Your parents will have to take you

back and find you a husband

elsewhere.

JOAN CLARKE

What is wrong with you?

ALAN TURING

... There’s something I have to

tell you. I’m... I’m a homosexual.

JOAN CLARKE

Alright.

ON ALAN: What?

ALAN TURING

Men, Joan. Not women.

JOAN CLARKE

So what?

ALAN TURING

I just said —

JOAN CLARKE

— So what? I had my suspicions. I

always did. But we’re not like

other people. We love each other in

our own way, and we can still live

the life together that we want. You

won’t be the perfect husband? I can

promise you I harboured no

intention of being the perfect

wife. I’ll not be fixing your lamb