The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

At Sherborne, boys play cricket as Turing’s voice begins the memory of how his story started with carrots.

Scene 14 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Alan Turing

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Begins 17 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 14

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.
Just before
Scene 11
At the guarded gates of Bletchley Park, armed naval officers reveal the secrecy surrounding the estate Turing has reached.
Scene 12
In his interview, Turing tells Denniston he has identified Bletchley’s Enigma mission and insists he can attack the supposedly unbreakable code; Denniston lets him try.
Scene 13
Denniston introduces the Enigma machine and the new codebreakers; Turing calculates its enormous daily settings, while Menzies stresses that servicemen are dying and Hugh is named unit lead.
Scene 14
This scene

14EXT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - DAY - 1927

TEENAGE BOYS play cricket in the green front gardens of a boys boarding school. Behind them looms the school’s stately central manor house.

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

The problem began, of course, with

the carrots.