The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing finishes his account of Bletchley and asks Nock to judge whether he is a person, machine, war hero, or criminal; Nock cannot give him a verdict.

Scene 122 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Save the Cat: Theme Stated
Save the Cat: Break into Three
Detective Nock
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:48 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 122

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 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
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 122
This scene

122INT. MANCHESTER POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - 1951

Alan Turing finishes telling his story to Detective Nock.

DETECTIVE NOCK

That’s... Unbelievable.

ALAN TURING

That’s the Imitation Game.

DETECTIVE NOCK

I don’t know what to do now.

ALAN TURING

Now, Detective, you get to judge.

That’s how the game works. I

answered your questions. You know

my story. That’s the point of the

game. We are all pretending to be

something. Imitating something.

Someone. And we are no more, and no

less, than what we can convince

other people that we are. So tell

me: What am I? Am I a person? Am I

a machine? Am I a war hero? Am I a

criminal?

DETECTIVE NOCK

I can’t judge you.

ALAN TURING

Well then you’re no help to me at

all.

ON ALAN: Turning away. He’s done with Nock.

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