The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

A German spy plane spots a British convoy and sends its location by encrypted Morse as Turing explains the game’s apparent simplicity.

Scene 22 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Alan Turing

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Begins 23 min into a 1:57 film

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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 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
Using the forged letter, Nock asks the Admiralty records clerk for Turing’s service records.
Scene 22
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22EXT. ATLANTIC OCEAN - GERMAN PLANE - DAY — 1940

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

The game was quite a simple one.

ON THE ATLANTIC:

— A GERMAN SPYPLANE spots a BRITISH CONVOY travelling across the ocean, far away. We hear the BEEP BEEP of Morse Code as the SPYPLANE SENDS OUT AN ENCRYPTED MESSAGE and we cut to —