The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Using the forged letter, Nock asks the Admiralty records clerk for Turing’s service records.

Scene 21 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Detective Nock

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Begins 23 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 21

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 18
Nock learns that Turing’s military records are classified and recruits Staehl to help him investigate further.
Scene 19
Nock realizes he is being followed, stages a fight with Staehl, and steals the follower’s billfold; they discover the man carries Nock’s details and a Foreign Office letter granting access to his records.
Scene 20
Nock alters the stolen access letter, replacing his own name with Alan Turing’s.
Scene 21
This scene

21INT. ADMIRALTY RECORDS OFFICE - DAY - LATER

Detective Nock walks up to a SECRETARY.

DETECTIVE NOCK

(to Secretary)

Pardon me. I’d like to see some

documents, if I may. Service

records of a Mr. Turing. Alan.

He FLASHES THE FORGED LETTER.

DETECTIVE NOCK (CONT’D)

Foreign Office sent me.

Off of Nock’s SMILE we

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