The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Menzies orders the team to destroy every record; Turing explains that future wars make the secrecy necessary, and the group prepares to erase its work.

Scene 121 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Hugh Alexander
Stewart Menzies
John Cairncross
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:47 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 121

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.
Scenes 92–120
The team applies Ultra selectively, accepts wartime losses, and carries the burdens of secrecy through the end of the war.
Just before
Scene 118
At Hut 8, Hugh makes a pillow for sleeping Peter and John prepares tea for Joan, as Turing describes the small group behind the war’s hidden work.
Scene 119
Archival scenes show public celebrations on V-E Day as Turing claims the victory for the codebreakers’ secret work.
Scene 120
Bletchley celebrates the end of the war outside, while the team gathers inside the mansion.
Scene 121
This scene

121INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - CENTRAL MANSION - CONTINUOUS

Alan and his team are assembled before Stewart Menzies.

HUGH ALEXANDER

... What happens now? Back to the

university for us?

STEWART MENZIES

Yes. You’ve only one thing left to

do before your service to your

government is concluded.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

What’s that?

STEWART MENZIES

Burn everything.

HUGH ALEXANDER

What?

STEWART MENZIES

We told you when you started that

this was a top secret program. Did

you think we were joking?

HUGH ALEXANDER

But the war is over.

ALAN TURING

This war is over. But there will be

more. And we know how to break a

code that everyone else thinks is

unbreakable.

STEWART MENZIES

(with a smile at Alan)

Alright. Tear it down, light it up,

sweep away the ashes. None of you

have ever met before. None of you

have ever even heard the word

Enigma. Have a safe trip home.

Behave, and with a bit of luck none

of you will ever see me — or one

another — again in your lives.

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