The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Nock learns that Turing’s military records are classified and recruits Staehl to help him investigate further.

Scene 18 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Detective Nock

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Begins 20 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 18

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 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
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 18
This scene

18INT. POLICE STATION - MANCHESTER - DAY - 1951

Detective Nock sits at his desk, yelling incredulously into his telephone.

DETECTIVE NOCK

... What do you mean, “classified”?

(beat)

... Yes, I am aware of the literal

meaning of the word “classified,”

what I’m asking is why would a

maths professor have his military

records classified?

(beat)

... Well then I will come down

there and...

Nock HANGS UP, frustrated.

He notices Sergeant Staehl walking past.

DETECTIVE NOCK (CONT’D)

Come with me.