The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Young Alan’s strict separation of food draws a cruel prank from older boys, who dump vegetables on him and leave him shaking on the floor.

Scene 15 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Alan Turing
Young Alan
Boy #1

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Begins 17 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 15

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 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
At Sherborne, boys play cricket as Turing’s voice begins the memory of how his story started with carrots.
Scene 15
This scene

15INT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - DAY

YOUNG ALAN TURING, 15, sits alone in the dining hall. Other BOYS joke and laugh and tell animated stories at nearby tables, but Alan sits alone, staring intently at his food.

ON ALAN’S PLATE: Boiled steak. Potatoes. Peas. And carrots.

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

Carrots are orange. Peas are green.

They mustn’t touch.

Alan carefully tries to separate the carrots from the peas. It’s like he’s performing brain surgery.

BEHIND ALAN, a group of BIGGER BOYS approach quietly. One of them holds a TRAY OF BOILED VEGETABLES —

— The Boys try to MUFFLE THEIR GIGGLES so Alan can’t hear them approach —

— The Boys DUMP THE TRAY OF VEGETABLES ALL OVER ALAN.

Alan SCREAMS.

The Boys LAUGH as Alan SCREAMS and SHAKES and tries to get the peas and carrots and everything else off of him. He’s in hell.

Alan FALLS DOWN. Still shaking, still screaming.

YOUNG ALAN

Carrots are orange! Carrots are

orange! Carrots are orange!

BOY #1

What a bloody weirdo!

Alan CURLS UP INTO A BALL as he shivers.

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