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The Imitation Game scene 2: INT. POLICE HEADQUATERS - DAY · The Reading Room

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The Imitation Game
Scene 2

The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

A radio clerk receives the report of a robbery at Turing’s house and passes it along for police attention.

Scene 2 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 2

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.

Just before
Scene 1
Police find Turing’s Manchester home ransacked, with cyanide, chemical work, and an unexplained machine among the evidence as his voice insists he controls the story.
Scene 2
This scene

2INT. POLICE HEADQUATERS - DAY

— At headquarters, a RADIO GIRL RECEIVES the information and passes it to an assistant for delivery to the detectives on duty —

← Scene 1INT. ALAN TURING’S HOUSE - DAY - 1951 Read the screenplay from here Scene 3 →INT. MI-6 - RADIO OPERATORS’ ROOM/HALLWAYS - DAY