The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

At the main gate, Turing asks Menzies to carry his letter to Winston Churchill.

Scene 35 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Alan Turing
Stewart Menzies

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 31 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 35

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.
Scenes 13–30
He sees the scale of Enigma, believes a machine can solve it, and grows isolated from colleagues who make little progress.
Just before
Scene 32
Turing runs along Bletchley’s outskirts to focus his thoughts.
Scene 33
Intercut with his run, Turing fills sheets with designs for a large codebreaking machine.
Scene 34
Turing asks Denniston to fund his machine after Hugh rejects the requisition; Denniston insists on the chain of command, so Turing decides to appeal to Churchill.
Scene 35
This scene

35EXT. BLETCHLEY PARK - MAIN GATE - LATER

Stewart Menzies walks out of the Bletchley’s MAIN GATE, through security, when’s he’s approached by:

ALAN TURING

Mr. Menzies! You’re headed back to

London, yes?

STEWART MENZIES

Possibly.

ALAN TURING

Will you deliver a letter for me?

Alan hands Menzies a letter:

It’s addressed to “WINSTON CHURCHILL. 10 DOWNING ST. LONDON.”

ON MENZIES: Well, this should be interesting...