The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Christopher helps the injured Alan walk and explains that bullying comes from difference; he urges Alan to blend in while affirming that unexpected people can do unimaginable things.

Scene 17 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Young Alan
Christopher
Alan Turing

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Begins 19 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 17

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 14
At Sherborne, boys play cricket as Turing’s voice begins the memory of how his story started with carrots.
Scene 15
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 16
The boys nail Alan into a makeshift coffin; after waiting them out, he is pulled free by Christopher Morcom, who risks entering to rescue him.
Scene 17
This scene

17EXT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - SECONDS LATER

Walking away from the half-finished school room, Christopher helps Alan as he hobbles.

YOUNG ALAN

... It’s not my fault. The carrots

got in with the peas.

(off Christopher’s look)

I’m sorry. I won’t let them do it

again.

CHRISTOPHER

They’re getting worse.

YOUNG ALAN

They only beat me up because I’m

smarter than they are.

CHRISTOPHER

No. They beat you up because you’re

different. So you’ll have to try a

little harder to blend in.

YOUNG ALAN

Mother says I’m just an odd duck.

CHRISTOPHER

And she’s right.

Alan STUMBLES and Christopher grabs his hand, steadying him.

CHRISTOPHER (CONT’D)

But you know, sometimes it is the

very people who no one imagines

anything of who do the things that

no one can imagine.

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

Christopher helped.

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