The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Nock recognizes the cyanide at Turing’s bedside and realizes that his actions helped condemn the man whose work changed the world.

Scene 129 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three

Climax
Constable
Detective Nock

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:55 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 129

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 126
Young Alan sits beneath Christopher’s tree with the book Christopher gave him and cries alone.
Scene 127
In 1954, Turing reviews his papers, looks toward Christopher, switches off the light, and walks away down the hall.
Scene 128
Police return to Turing’s home, and Nock arrives, remembering his first visit to the house.
Scene 129
This scene

129INT. ALAN TURING’S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

A CONSTABLE leads Detective Nock upstairs, gesturing into the open BEDROOM door.

In the doorway, we see a team of COPS tending to something on the bed. There’s an APPLE on the nightstand.

CONSTABLE

Suicide, looks like. Half-eaten

apple next to the bed. Some sort of

white powder all over it.

DETECTIVE NOCK

Cyanide.

(off the Constable’s look)

You’ll find a tub of it downstairs.

The Constable makes a curious face: How can you know that?

Nock approaches the bed, and stares into the lifeless face of Alan Turing.

ON NOCK: Alan Turing made the world a better place... And Nock killed him for it.

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