The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

A WREN intercepts the submarine-related message at Bletchley, writes down gibberish, and adds it to the growing pile of encrypted traffic.

Scene 25 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 25

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 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
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 25
This scene

25INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 14 - DAY

AT BLETCHLEY PARK:

— Inside HUT 14: ROW after ROW of RADIO STATIONS, all staffed by the smartly dressed young ladies of the Women’s Royal Navy. One WREN, listening to Morse code on her headphones, intercepts the very same BEEP BEEP of the MESSAGE —

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

The trick was that they were

encrypted.

— She takes it down by hand: It’s GIBBERISH. Encrypted. She places the messages in a PILE —

— A FEMALE ASSISTANT picks up the pile of encrypted messages-