The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing, visibly weakened and limping, struggles over his newer machine until Joan arrives after learning of his conviction from the newspaper.

Scene 124 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Joan Clarke

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Begins 1:49 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 124

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.
Scenes 121–123
At Bletchley’s closing wartime order, the story returns to the 1951 interview where Turing asks Nock to judge him and then shows the conviction Nock failed to prevent.
Just before
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
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 123
Nock reads the newspaper report of Turing’s indecency conviction and feels sick rather than triumphant.
Scene 124
This scene

124INT. ALAN TURING’S HOUSE - DAY

We find Alan in his study. He’s gained weight since last we saw him — he’s grown paler as well. Haggard. And the place is a horrible mess.

He compares his half-built NEW MACHINE to the plans on his desk — his work progresses. Slowly.

(This is the machine we saw in the opening scene, which appears different but related to the Bletchley machine — like a newer model of the same basic concept.)

The doorbell RINGS. Alan ignores it, focused on his work.

It RINGS again. Irritated, he gets up and shuffles through his house —

— He’s walking with an odd limp, like it’s hard for him to move his legs normally —

— And as the bell keeps RINGING insistently he reaches the front door, opening it to find:

JOAN CLARKE

I had to find out from the bloody

newspapers.

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