The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

An assistant carries the intercept through the crowded Bletchley grounds while Turing describes the immense number of possible Enigma settings.

Scene 26 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 26

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 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
A WREN intercepts the submarine-related message at Bletchley, writes down gibberish, and adds it to the growing pile of encrypted traffic.
Scene 26
This scene

26EXT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 14 - DAY

— And carries it through Bletchley —

— The grounds surrounding the mansion at Bletchley Park are now littered with 18 WOODEN “HUTS” — hastily constructed structures that contain all of Britain’s top secret cryptography operations —

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

One hundred and fifty nine million

million million possible Enigma

settings. All we had to do was try

each one.