The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Young Alan learns from the headmaster that Christopher died after concealing his illness; Alan denies their closeness and leaves stunned.

Scene 110 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · First scene of act three

Young Alan
Headmaster

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Begins 1:43 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 110

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 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
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 110
This scene

110INT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - HEADMASTER’S OFFICE - 1927

Young Alan enters the HEADMASTER’S OFFICE.

YOUNG ALAN

You wanted to see me, Sir?

HEADMASTER

Turing. Sit down.

YOUNG ALAN

Is something the matter?

HEADMASTER

You and Christopher Morcom are

quite close.

YOUNG ALAN

I wouldn’t say that.

HEADMASTER

Your mathematics teacher says you

two are positively inseparable.

YOUNG ALAN

We’re the best students in the

class.

HEADMASTER

He caught you passing notes the

other day.

YOUNG ALAN

Cryptography. To pass the time. The

class is too simple.

HEADMASTER

You and your friend solve maths

problems during maths class because

maths class is too dull?

YOUNG ALAN

He’s not my friend.

HEADMASTER

I’ve been told he’s your only

friend.

YOUNG ALAN

Who said that?

HEADMASTER

Something has come up. About

Morcom.

YOUNG ALAN

Why am I here?

HEADMASTER

Christopher is dead.

YOUNG ALAN

... I don’t understand.

HEADMASTER

His mother sent word this morning.

The family was on holiday, you see.

YOUNG ALAN

I don’t understand.

HEADMASTER

He had bovine tuberculosis, as I’m

sure he told you. This mustn’t be a

shock, but all the same, I’m sorry.

YOUNG ALAN