The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

The German submarine attacks the British convoy with a torpedo while Turing notes the impossible time available to stop it.

Scene 29 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Alan Turing

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Begins 26 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 29

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 26
An assistant carries the intercept through the crowded Bletchley grounds while Turing describes the immense number of possible Enigma settings.
Scene 27
The assistant passes armed guards and security checkpoints on her way to the cryptanalysis huts.
Scene 28
The assistant delivers the message to Hut 8, where four codebreakers work through immense stacks; the team cannot reach the urgent intercept before the settings change.
Scene 29
This scene

29EXT. ATLANTIC OCEAN - BRITISH SHIP - DECK - DAY

BACK IN THE ATLANTIC:

— The deck of the British ship. The sailors SMOKE as we —

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

To stop a coming attack, we would

have to check 20 million years

worth of settings... In 20 minutes.

— Move DOWN INTO THE WATER to see that the German submarine has arrived. It FIRES A TORPEDO at the helpless convoy and we cut—