The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing tells Joan the judge offered prison or hormonal therapy and that he chose the treatment. He clings to Christopher as a machine, cannot solve a crossword, and hears Joan affirm that the world is better because he was different.

Scene 125 of 130 · ≈ 4 min on screen · Act three

Joan Clarke
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:50 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 125

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 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
Turing, visibly weakened and limping, struggles over his newer machine until Joan arrives after learning of his conviction from the newspaper.
Scene 125
This scene

125INT. ALAN TURING’S HOUSE - SITTING ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

Joan takes a seat while Alan fusses, embarrassed at the state of the place and trying to clean up for her.

JOAN CLARKE

... You never responded to my

letters.

(silence from Alan)

I would have come. I would have

testified.

ALAN TURING

And what would you have said? That

I wasn’t a homosexual?

JOAN CLARKE

I would have said something. This

is serious. They could send you to

jail —

Alan tries to move a glass of water...

... Which he DROPS, shattering it.

ALAN TURING

Damn it...

JOAN CLARKE

Your hands... You’re twitching.

ALAN TURING

No I’m not.

He is.

JOAN CLARKE

Alan.

ALAN TURING

... It’s the medication.

JOAN CLARKE

The medication?

ALAN TURING

I have to go in for weekly

oestrogen treatments. At the

hospital.

JOAN CLARKE

What are you talking about?

ALAN TURING

The judge gave me a choice. Prison.

Or “hormonal therapy.”

JOAN CLARKE

Oh my god. Oh my god. That’s —

ALAN TURING

— Chemical castration. Yes. To cure

my homosexual predilections. Of

course I chose that. I wouldn’t be

able to work from prison.

Joan is HORRIFIED.

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

Well how would I even have got

parts in jail? It just makes no

sense.

JOAN CLARKE