The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

A German submarine receives the convoy coordinates and turns toward the ships as Turing explains that intercepted signals carry attacks and orders through the air.

Scene 24 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Alan Turing

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Begins 24 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 24

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 21
Using the forged letter, Nock asks the Admiralty records clerk for Turing’s service records.
Scene 22
A German spy plane spots a British convoy and sends its location by encrypted Morse as Turing explains the game’s apparent simplicity.
Scene 23
A sailor shares his last cigarette with two shipmates while the convoy crosses the sea, unaware of the message sent about them.
Scene 24
This scene

24INT/EXT. GERMAN SUBMARINE - DAY

— As underwater, a GERMAN SUBMARINE receives the BEEP BEEP of the Morse message about the convoy’s location. The sub CHANGES COURSE —

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

Every single German message. Every

surprise attack. Every bombing run.

Every imminent U-boat assault. They

were all floating through the air,

radio signals that any schoolboy

with an AM kit could intercept.