The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

As another convoy is lost, the team discusses its limited progress; Turing reveals he is designing a machine to test every message, but the others leave him alone before he asks to join them for soup.

Scene 30 of 130 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act one

Peter Hilton
Hugh Alexander
John Cairncross
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 26 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 30

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 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
The German submarine attacks the British convoy with a torpedo while Turing notes the impossible time available to stop it.
Scene 30
This scene

30INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 8 - DAY

BACK TO HUT 8:

The team is still buried in pile after pile of undecrypted messages. Another convoy has been lost because they couldn’t move fast enough, and they’re so far behind they don’t even know it yet.

PETER HILTON

... I’m famished.

Hugh stretches, staring out the window, where he sees a WREN passing by.

HUGH ALEXANDER

(re: the WREN)

Good God, what is it with women in

little hats?

John, Peter, Keith and Charles all look as well — there is in fact something strangely sexy about women in little hats.

John Cairncross gets up and walks into the next room, where he finds Alan, working alone.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

The boys... We were going to get

some lunch?

(Alan ignores him)

Alan?

ALAN TURING

Yes.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

I said we were going to get some

lunch?

(Alan keeps ignoring him)

Alan?

ALAN TURING

Yes.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

Can you hear me?

ALAN TURING

Yes.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

I said we’re off to get some lunch.

(silence)

This is starting to get a bit

repetitive.

ALAN TURING

What is?

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

I had asked if you wanted to have

lunch with us.

ALAN TURING

No you didn’t. You told me you were

getting lunch.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

Have I offended you in some way?

ALAN TURING