The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

A newspaper reader finds Turing’s crossword advertisement offering a secret job to anyone who solves the puzzle quickly.

Scene 38 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 33 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 38

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 35
At the main gate, Turing asks Menzies to carry his letter to Winston Churchill.
Scene 36
Churchill’s order places Turing in charge; Turing immediately fires Keith and Charles, angering the remaining team and Denniston.
Scene 37
Back in Hut 8, Turing answers the team’s staffing problem by posting a crossword puzzle as a recruitment test.
Scene 38
This scene

38INT. FAMILY HOME - MORNING - 1940

A MAN opens up that morning’s Daily Telegraph, and flipping through the paper, he sees an advertisement.

ON THE AD: It’s a crossword puzzle. Below it, the ad copy says — “If you can solve this puzzle in under ten minutes please call STO-6264 for an exciting career opportunity.”